skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made this search engine: https://www.gigablast.com/ that seems to fit that bill. As I am really the only programmer on it, my budget is essentially non-existent, therefore not allowing for many of the fancy additions you mentioned. The two biggest problems are 1) small index (need more servers) and 2) synonyms. The synonyms get pretty wonky sometimes, and often I miss good synonyms that I should be getting. But I don't have query logs like Google to use for synonym generation.

Also, I probably should have quit developing this years ago, I know, but it is an obsession. :)
Turbotax sucks ass unless you have a simple situation with a w2 and maybe a couple of 1099s, beyond that it's a nightmare to use (for me).
Took an excel course while in college because it met a requirement.

I had a manager come up to me and show me his spreadsheet has spent a week building. (He was very proud)

I asked him why he didn’t use a pivot table and in a few seconds I had re-create it is exact report from the same source data.

I was involved in pretty much every high-level decision and a major corporation for several years there after because of that.
France has a notoriously complex taxation system and yet somehow manages to pre-file it for almost everybody.
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To this day I still don't understand why messages are routed through dbus-daemon instead of just using FD-passing to establish the p2p connection directly. I remember we were using D-Bus on WebOS @ Palm & a coworker rewrote the DBus internals (keeping the same API) to do just that & the performance win was significant (at least 10 years ago).
You're right, but shorts don't _cause_ a stock to be low (in normal/retail circumstances). They're a bet on a stock being overvalued to begin with.

- yes, shorting involves selling stock which nominally pushes prices lower, etc etc hat tip illegal S&D
In short, no, not that I've seen. However, there also hasn't particularly been much of a reason to yet--there haven't been any motions that need argumentation, and the defense (Robinhood) hasn't responded yet to the cases.
You're quoting trashy publications like The Sun and Newsweek, but discounting a team of experts assembled by the WHO.
That Americans self sabotage (and ignore obvious counter examples) doesn’t change the fact that filing taxes can and should be simplified and made less costly to the average citizen.
How can you look at a system you had to constantly gamify and say that it was a positive experience?
That's one big ask :)
The same people also “invest” into Bitcoin, that’s whole existence is built around wasting electricity and producing tons of e-waste.

I’m not questioning economical imbalance. But it’s really about free money, as stonks only go up.
Or IRS could let me know what they expect my taxes to be, and I could *choose* to agree to IRS's calculation, or provide my own.
> The problem is containers.

Even this makes little sense unless your containers are really poorly sized. I used to run a mini Kubernetes cluster on my desktop with 6 nodes. Some of them running big Java projects, Postgres, Elastisearch, and Ruby. And I still had enough memory to run Rubymine or IntelliJ along with Slack and whatever other local stuff I needed.
It claims there's no documented proof of it being isolated and purified.
I've seen something like this used to get live feedback from an audience during a speech or demo. It's pretty nice for leveling the playing field for introverts. Of course, it's easy for one person to kill it with spam.
The thing that makes Snopes interesting is when they investigate the flow of (mis|dis)information through the right-wing ecosystem.

Some of my conservative friends have enough intellectual curiosity that they're willing put their disdain of Snopes aside and still engage.

The ones that won't do that are usually engaging from a posture of shallow cynicism.

However, these people are still my friends (in some cases they're my relatives), and I want to understand their views.

So yes, discussions of this type tend to resolve themselves in prosaic ways. It doesn't mean they aren't worth having.
If you block fonts, this is not a surprise.

Using a fresh in stall of Firefox, the linked page displays the icons correctly.
This isn't how most file.

Also, the way it works is that you still have the option of doing it yourself. But by default, done for you.
I'll actually give a response that is not Turbotax specific.

The forms I get every year from the ~10 banks I have accounts with and the ~2 companies I earned a salary from are essentially just copies of forms that they also had to send to the IRS. So in principle the IRS already has the same information I do when it comes to how much tax I paid and on what income.

It is not clear to me why I have to share:

- My name

- My address

- My _social security number_

- My spouse's name

- The names of my children

- All their social security numbers, too

- How much money I made

with a for-profit company. This is information that the IRS already has. To me, this is totally unnecessary. I would much rather the government increase the IRS's budget so that they can implement services that provide any help I might need directly, rather than through a totally unrelated corporation. The IRS's job is to make sure you paid the tax you owed. They don't dictate how much tax you pay. I truly believe that with the right financial resources they can make it easier to make that payment (and correctly) for: 1) us; and 2) them.

For folks with very simple tax situations, this seems like a no-brainer. For folks with complicated situations, you are still more than welcome to talk to a tax professional for advice. But a company _doing your taxes_ for you seems unnecessary.

Wouldn't it be lovely if instead I went to www.irs.gov to file my taxes, and I was presented with a very similar interface to what for-profit companies are providing, but with the information already filled out because they already have it? Essentially, all I'd be doing is sanity-checking the inputs.
I'm married. I'm just capable of sympathizing with single young men and, even more importantly, of seeing the negative effects the end of monogamy is going to have on our society.
Rocky Linux: First release is coming in Q2 2021
Reply All ep 144: Dark Pattern
https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/6nhgol
I started out wanting the best deal for the UK but now I hope the EU cut the ties. It's Trump level insanity!
This is good feedback and a good test. That should have absolutely returned something of relevance, so I agree with you here.

The search provider is constantly working to improve its search results, and I believe that feedback like this is of great importance to catabolize this.

Thanks again for the feedback, it's well noted.
Integrated Haskell Platform: v0.9 is out
> Bitcoin remains popular despite the fact that it costs $10 or more per transaction.

Indeed. In precisely the same way that the $10 service charge ATM’s in the lobby of a casino remain popular.
It’s really not surprising. You’re almost sure to be eating pesticides or weird chemicals even if you go fully organic. You can’t get it off by rinsing or washing. Plus, as has just become clear recently, carbohydrates are highly inflammatory, and inflammation plays a key role in cancer, heart disease, psychiatric disease and almost every other modern malady. It turns out that when you go from eating few carbs to zero carbs, tons of health problems, all centered around inflammation, go away. Carnivore is a miracle for allergies and skin problems. It’s really one of the biggest medical/diet revolutions that’s currently in the pipes. Certainly so when it comes to bang for buck.
Probably because I’m new to it (about a year), it’s hard, and I’m imperfect.

Cutting milk I think would be easy (decent alternatives), but losing cheese would make things a lot more difficult.
well we've built a national cybernetic state of drug prohibition, parallel construction dragnets, security cameras, and omnipresent militarized police, so nobody can party.

we've retarded emotional development so nobody knows how to be interesting, and censored/surveilled all media that young people use so nobody can talk to each other.

we've normalized excessive parental control into adulthood and crippled everyone economically, so there's no place to go.

now nobody can fuck except rich people and broke ass queers who never gave a damn anyway.

the straights really done it to themselves
I think people have problem with assesing concepts that can only improve with time.

For some reason people seem to think that all things behave like a runner "he can run fast now but he'll have to slow down and stop" kind of thinking. As if those concepts have possibility of reverting to become worse than what they are.

You could hear similar voices around wikipedia, saying it'll never compete with professionally edited encyclopedia, you can hear similar voices around AI etc.

People don't seem to understand that a) things will keep changing and b) the only reasonable change is in direction of improvement.

I'm not saying that crash is not possible - it is, but underlying concept will not crash, it'll only improve, which means with time the system will be better than it is at the moment and there is no reason for it to perform worse than today.
Good example.

> t turns out there may only be a couple thousand people in the world really that interested in that content,

As evidenced by the success of SummoningSalt's youtube channel
File permissions are completely insufficient to achieve the kind of design that PipeWire is aiming for. None of the problems outlined in the article regarding PulseAudio (e.g. the ability of applications to interfere or snoop on each other, or requesting code being loaded into a shared address space that have unlimited access) can be easily handled with file permissions at all. The model is simply not expressive enough; no amount of hand-wringing about context switching will change that. This is one of the first things addressed in the article and it's very simple to see how file permissions aren't good enough to solve it.
Fair enough. I probably should have dialed down the snark.

I suppose if we're looking for a Randall Munroe / "What If?" style explanation of why powering consumer equipment with plutonium is a bad idea, then it was the right question to ask.
You encouraged me to create a Medium account :)

How's this?
https://mikemorgenstern.medium.com/awss-faulty-ux-cost-our-b...
If all you have is binary notation...
It doesn't use native elements, and instead goes from React Components -> HTML Text -> Native Elements. So then the moment you have two elements interacting it falls on its face. Like forms.
>Maybe foreign countries should learn why America continues to create superstar firms in every industry.

I must have missed those American high speed rail or 5G companies, and if I take a look at global construction firms I see a lot of Japanese, German, French, Spanish, Chinese and South Korean names, but barely an American one. The US has really been great at putting apps on our phones, but the country kind of forgot how to built things in the actual world. Which by the way at this point manifests in a very physical way in the infrastructure of large American cities.

The US might be the first country where affluent upper middle-class people get their groceries delivered by drone within the same day, but it seems to be forgetting how to built roads and subways for everyone else.
My issues is not the runtime dependency but the development dependancy. As the production apps I am responsible for keep getting older and older my opinions on ruthlessly cutting decencies get stronger and stronger.

Somewhere there's probably an optimal expected lifespan of a program where the line between preferring a better language and fewer development dependencies is crossed, but I'm also starting to learn that software stays around years longer than I ever anticipated.
Just to be clear, 3 tx/sec is just incorrect and easily disproved by dividing the total transactions per day (readily available online) by the total seconds in a day.

Also the btc main layer is a major settlement layer. It doesnt even compare to ACH or wires in frequency. The fees going up if its tried to be used in that way will force it, and that is a good thing.

A chain cannot grow so fast with high tx so that it bloats and exceeds hard drive capabilities for distributed nodes or it becomes centralized. Its performing exactly the way it should. L2 solutions will take care of coffee transactions.
Regenerative braking is a major saving in energy cost, and it's something that requires a battery component to store the recovered joules, and electric motors to put those joules to use. If you need a battery and electric motor anyway, the simplest solution is pure electric.
OmniSci launches free edition of platform for interactive visual analytics
Does short selling encourage a business to fail though?

Perhaps seeing a stock being heavily shorted would encourage others to sell their shares, but think that might be stretching it a little.
To me the "So What’s the Problem?" section has a lot of irrelevant stuff.

The problem with "multiplication is repeated addition" is that the concept breaks down once you move on from integers.

2 X 3: "add 2 together, three times" - works well

½ X ½: oof. You can sorta do it, like "add ½ a half time", but the concept is an impediment that isn't helping anymore.

I can see why teachers who aren't that comfortable with math might be getting confused about this though. Repeated addition is a reasonable algorithm when you've got one operand that is a relatively small integer.

If you spend a long time teaching small integer multiplication you may forget that "You can solve these multiplication problems with repeated addition" does not mean "Multiplication is repeated addition."
Lack of product awareness among consumers is far more of a suppressing force to profits than converting every last bit of interest in your product to monetary value is a boost to profits.

This is likely less true for certain AAA titles, but on the whole, most people who buy things are busy and not avidly following any one brand in particularly. Fanboys (despite their clamor) are rarer than casual purchasers for most everything. In an absolute sense, there may be "lost sales" due to piracy, but that comparison misses any potential additional sales due to piracy helping to spread awareness of a product.
I think the issue is more about:

3 * pi = pi + pi + pi

but how do you represent the other distribution, where 3 is added together pi times?
Isn't that the Human Instrumentality Project that Seele was after?
I love this idea. Maybe someone has already done that?
That's like saying someone in Google is analyzing your web searches in order to show you ads.
"A pop-up player on PornHub?" was my reaction.
Compared to Google & Facebook, the neutral third party's business model would be to process payments as opposed to advertising, thus they won't have any incentives to collect/misuse personal data beyond what's necessary to provide the service.
Norway is running on a natural resources boom. They're basically Saudi Arabia but with lighter skin and more human rights (and arguably are more homogeneous culture, no 1000yo religious disagreements or 100yo arbitrarily drawn map lines to create issues like the middle east oil states have).

They openly admit they're boned if the wells run dry or oil goes out of fashion so they hedge by investing in everything else with the game of making enough money in a short enough time (off oil) that they can fund themselves with the appreciation on the nest egg after oil is no longer a money printer. (Saudi Arabia and other wealthy oil funded states are doing similar things to diversify/hedge against future income reduction)
It's all artificial value.

If the actual money people paid was destroyed/transferred into Bitcoin instead of just transferred to whomever you bought it from, then the value would be real - but it's not.
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When you start adding tiny tiny tiny fractions to a multi-million dollar project because, come on it is a tiny tiny tiny fraction, and everybody in the team starts doing it in their module/subsystem because, it is a tiny tiny tiny fraction, it starts adding up... that is really what my rhetorical question was.
Do less AI training, so less AI could be a valid alternative.
The explanation I heard was not that the shorting itself causes the company to tank, but that hedge funds are incentivised to do whatever they can to cause companies to tank once they hold large short positions - via disinformation campaigns, for example. I seem to remember Toys'R'Us suffered a somewhat similar fate not so long ago?
Experian subsidiary might have leaked PII of 220M Brazilians
It doesn't make sense to say:

2 apples + 3 apples = 5 apples

This confuses a lot of people when they later learn algebra and believe that it is equivalent to:

2a + 3a = 5a

Both of these equations look correct at face value but the critical difference is that an apple is not a variable. Do we mean the weight of the apple? Or the price of the apple? Or its energy content? Apple is too concrete to be used as a variable and it's not quantifiable. The word 'apples' invites people to think of the variable as a concrete object instead of a placeholder for a quantifiable property of an object.
I think both Rocket Lab and Relativity Space realize that even with 3d printing they can't compete on price without reusability. If SpaceX is even close to hitting their costs per launch with Starship/Superheavy they can undercut everyone, even to launch small satellites. SpaceX is shooting for $2 million per launch with Starship, that's cheaper than Electron today and Relativity Space's Terran 1 is planned to cost. Heck for small sats SpaceX could probably put them into orbit with just Starship and a kicker stage and not even have to fire up Superheavy.
I guess that there's a principled argument against strong typing, but I can't think of one against bound parameters. :D
That's fine. I'm quite happy with roam, I have the exports if I ever need them.
The academic evidence is overwhelmingly against this hypothesis[1]. Short sellers make money by identifying companies that are unhealthy, overvalued, or even outright fraudulent. Almost all the time these conditions precede the short selling activity. The evidence shows that short selling improves corporate governance, reduces fraud, improves price efficiency, and slows the formation of speculative bubbles.

Even the lay notion that short sellers hurt companies by taking capital away misses the bigger picture. Virtually all short selling takes place in a long/short portfolio. (Dedicated short sellers make up less than 1% of hedge fund assets.) The proceeds from short sales are reinvested in other companies. Even if you think short selling "destroys jobs" at the shorted companies, then the converse is that it must also create jobs at other, better companies.

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/la88gv/shor...
I have used TaxAct successfully for the last several years and they're great. (just a happy customer)
Ooh ToS/privacy policy diffing service alerts as a service ha
Naming other wastes of electricity doesn’t make them all okay. Multiple wrongs don’t make them all write.

The narrative about central banks eroding life savings is greatly exaggerated by people who want us all to buy Bitcoin. Inflation raises the price of assets in general (virtually the definition of inflation), meaning virtually any non-cash investment will be buoyed by inflation. The idea that Bitcoin is the only way (or even a particular good way) to avoid inflation is a myth.
Killer, thank you! Appreciate the feedback. Do you work in copywriting by chance? We're mostly eng so could always use help in this arena :)

To answer your question, yes we are stripe for student loans. Automating every aspect of student loan repayment for fintechs and workplace benefits providers.
> JavaScript is spectacular and has reshaped our world for the better.

It made popular language design even worse. It also can't be implemented efficiently or quickly, and on its own more than likely contributes to a sizeable portion of world carbon emissions.

> but he pioneered this movement.

What movement? The "worse languages than R6RS" movement? That's been going on for a long time; he didn't start it, he'll be long-gone before it's finished.

> This deserves respect.

There are plenty of people who have made programming languages. Few people have created as bad a language as Javascript. It deserves no respect.

> when has there ever been something awesome that simply was always awesome without bumps along the way?

CHIP-8. Plan 9. Inferno. Anything that Chuck Moore touched for the first forty years of his career. Gopher, up until the organization that owned Gopher decided to make it proprietary. Most of the things Alan Kay has released. VAX.

> during Brendan Eich's tenure, I assure you we all loved it.

You're speaking collectively but your perspective is flawed and easy to prove as wrong. I didn't, for example. Nor did anyone who actually cared about freedom: Mozilla allowing DRM into Web standards permanently was incredibly close if not during Eich's tenure, and Mozilla had already been doing most of everything wrong before that.

> I salute the little guy taking on the big guy.

The little guy is Ekioh. Not someone repackaging Chromium with a few half-working extensions and a new UI.
It is 30% to 50% slower than a 1050ti according to https://ikarios.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/comparing-a-macbook...

That dovetails with my own experiences. I installed tomb raider on my m1 air, and while it was playable i was not impressed with its graphical abilities. The m1 is great for integrated graphics, but not on par with dedicated graphics. CPU-wise it is the fastest computer I have though, noticeably faster than the i5 9600K in my desktop.
Most people have minimal to fear from an audit. If your taxes are complex enough that you’re concerned then use a professional not TurboTax.
Who even said it would be software. In Germany I have the option of letting the government do my taxes for me. At the end of the year I can choose to dispute the charges.
I agree with you 100%.
But depending on the country in which you live, the hard reality is (unfortunately) unfair.