skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m surprised there aren’t lower tech ways of detecting thin branches besides doing real-time analysis of the live video feed. Like some kind of primitive proximity detection using radar to augment the image based approach, and if there is any doubt, taking quick evasive maneuvers.
> It’s pretty simple to do your own taxes

So why do people complain about it so much? To the point where they're writing their own custom software (?!) to do it?
Alamo is a movie theater chain based mostly in the US South and CA that is known for adding food, bars, distributing both major studio and indie movies and really enhancing the "in-theater" experience. They're a very exposed casualty to Covid unfortunately.

While I'm sure European visitors are "important" it's mostly a US Brick and Mortar business so it's not that "important" to meet GDPR requirements apparently.
This is an ambiguous, and therefore bad, title.
Now it's the same company unfortunately. Intuit completed their acquisition of Credit Karma in Dec, 2020.

https://investors.intuit.com/news/news-details/2020/Intuit-C...
Good question. And there is also the freedom of (dis)association.
Cool to see more open software in this space. Curious to know if there are any plans/efforts in leveraging the work done in http://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/ to handle more use cases. Maybe ustaxes can be a nice frontend to some of the tax logic in opentaxsolver?
You can't FOIA the data they use for your taxes. They have your W2 data, and it was sent to you, but they won't give it to you.
because it helps someone elses narrative!
I believe that J.K. Rowling would fall under the macro planner category, I saw a picture once of an outline she had prepared for the entire series on a single sheet of notebook paper, before starting her first book.
The IRS Cashed Her Check. Then the Late Notices Started Coming
Along with what allturtles said, I don't think it's right to call it a lie, which, to me, implies moving someone's model away from the truth (on the basis of them trusting you to convey the correct one). An oversimplified, "wrong" model doesn't do that; it moves them from ignorance toward the correct model (i.e. increases their prediction accuracy).

And yes, even when I'm in the learner's shoes, I prefer that a teacher start with an approximate model, and then refine it as they go further. Starting with the full thing is barely comprehensible.
Firefox sends telemetry to Google servers: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1165858896176660480.html
> only the likes of Unilever could afford to run ads on TV and Newspaper

Yes, but there were plenty of other advertising opportunities for smaller businesses. Local papers. Specialist magazines. Local radio.
Just had a look at what the IRS has to say about open-source software:

https://www.irs.gov/privacy-disclosure/use-of-federal-tax-in...

lots of vague stuff, but looking at the Google result, I noticed some differences. Ah, the meta description of the page reads:

Open source software, while it can be useful in many instances and appear to be cost effective, may present a security risk because open source developers don’t typically follow security best practices when developing their software.

Well, there ya have it! :D
> population can grow as e^n

Population growth is slowing worldwide and is below replacement in all major developed countries. Thus, your e^n is only applicable if n is between 0 and 1!

Sure, desirable cities can grow faster than the overall average, so let's put that at somewhere between linear and quadratic -- heavily towards the linear.

Even so, the ability to build at I^3 can easily outstrip that demand with the right policies.

Furthermore, remote work can spread out demand. We are seeing that right now with the pandemic. I believe that the pandemic will be one of the greatest accelerators of globalization due to it's enabling remote work.

As further proof of the slow pace of population growth in developed countries eventually causing an impact on the housing market, look at Japan.

"Government statistics as of 2018 consider 13.6 percent of properties in the country to be ghost houses. Put another way: By 2040, the total size of abandoned properties in Japan is estimated to equal the land size of Austria." [1]

[1] https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/japanese-ghost-houses
You're not required to pay anything if your taxes are 'dead simple' you can fill out 1040EZ for free. And still can still compare turbo tax for free to see if you got the same numbers, and send it in for free. Nobody forces you to pay. I did that when I was single.

Nowadays, its complicated. Mortgage deductions, rental income and depreciation, independent contractor, children, jointly filing. I could attempt to do that on my own but it would take hours and I likely would leave money on the table. In my use case I am more than happy to pay a hundred bucks. It's actually less if you file early too, and its deductible in your next years tax liability... I don't understand why everyone here wants to kill Turbo Tax. It makes my life easier and less stressful around tax season.
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Yes, my calculations used far more time than DM, with the caveat that my jobs ran on CPUs while most of their training is on accelerators.

I believe we reported that Exacycle provided 700K high speed Xeon cores for over a year, and the actual number is far higher (I can't share it because you'd be able to make a reasonable estimate on how many computers Google has).
> I think humans for a long time have regarded animal intelligence in an inferior light.

Well, it is objectively inferior. That doesn't mean that it's not intelligence.
Right. I don't even know what is a Drafthouse? And now I may never know.
This is a total gem. Entertaining and absolutely packed with the most lucid explanations of the Apollo systems I've ever heard.
Every time I hear about a cryptocurrency's "market cap" I think of https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-....

> 37signals is now a $100 billion dollar company, according to a group of investors who have agreed to purchase 0.000000001% of the company in exchange for $1.
I don't know, this kind of makes sense. You've presumably rented apartments before. The process is shady as shit. I've been shaken down by several landlords for prepayments, and intrusively interviewed. It must be much worse for Black renters.

And it's how most purchasing works! I go to rent a car, they have to rent me the car if it's available; they can't wait to see if a safer-looking driver is right behind me. Renting an apartment isn't a job interview.
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The IRS is a US federal agency, though. They can claim no copyright on the code. It should be be public domain.
That was the narrative a month ago before Melvin announced losing billions, so much they actually required billions in emergency capital. "We've closed our positions. Now please sell GME."

'The hedge funds are smarter' is as stupid as 'the VCs know better.' It's a narrative they have to push to stay relevant. Otherwise they'd just point towards their balance sheets to shut people up.

It's theoretically impossible for hedge funds, in aggregate, to outperform the market.

https://web.stanford.edu/~wfsharpe/art/active/active.htm
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Not the zero matrix, or any non-invertible matrix over a field with 0 characteristic.

The Jordan-Chevalley decomposition makes the difference precise -- the nilpotent part (off diagonal 1's in the jordan normal form)
TurboTax Deluxe comes in a version that includes a state filing, and one that doesn't. There is a $10 price difference, but if you get the Federal only one, the price to add a state filing is much more than $10. Last year, the listings on Amazon were very hard to distinguish, and my father, who is pretty tech savvy for his generation, bought the Federal only one by accident, so state filing cost him much more. It seems like the Amazon listings are a bit more clear this year, but the whole thing put a sour taste in my mouth last year, and I switched away from TurboTax.
The higher cost of administration is the part that makes me bug-eyed.

Auto-filing and simplification would be so much cheaper.
RIP Alamo Ritz:

As part of this bankruptcy, Alamo Drafthouse will close down underperforming locations, including the flagship Alamo Drafthouse Ritz location in downtown Austin on Sixth Street.

I've been there for a lot of special Alamo shows, including Master Pancake shows. It will be sorely missed.
How could they be worth it? Vendor lock-in has a huge cost IMO. You're going to have to keep paying for these insanely expensive licenses for years, maybe decades?
What if it's actually someone else that discovered this and is just publicly posting and acting as Schnorr, in an attempt to prove their point? ;)
Taxes when you were a kid were probably a lot harder than they are now. There are not nearly as many deductions to try to figure out.
I suspect that the problem isn't introducing a given model, rather the problem is then not moving on to additional models.

Or putting it another way, I doubt that considering repeated addition gets in the way of understanding scaling.
What are the quick pro/cons here? Assuming creditors take the loss (they assumed the risk), debtor loses the debt and what else? Do the debtors lose much besides their creditworthiness? The main con I assume is the moral hazard?
This will further marginalize AI ethics and
can only be seen as a good thing.

I don't think marginalizing AI ethics 'can only' be seen as a good thing. Surely a few people don't want to be turned into paperclips.
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If you are making web sites for public use, the law disagrees with you.
That's not true. It was never replacing links in webpages. It was redirecting if you typed the URL. Which, I would honestly be okay with. It's at no cost to me, and I understand Brave needs to make money. I could see how Binance would be upset, but not me myself. Virtually all browsers make money by search referrals, and I don't see how that would be different from my point-of-view. That seems extremely mild to me.

Also, when people got upset, Brave changed it too. It's not like they promised to never make money. I don't see that as a reason to trust Brave any less. It seems like a good influence on the web.
You're assuming the myriad petty government tyrants will give up the control over our lives that they've seized. Let me know how that works out for you - history shows that never happens without violence.
>Someone that owned GME shares could argue that by restricting buying but not selling shares, Robinhood was acting to lower the value of this asset. They might argue that in this situation the only fair thing to do is to restrict buying and selling altogether.

Whether that's fair is debatable. If you held GME shares and wanted to get out, but couldn't because robinhood restricted sells for no reason (ie. they couldn't execute buys because they couldn't put up the collateral, but they can still process sells because they don't need collateral for that), that can also be construed as unfair.
Considering they've been showing this message ever since GDPR went into effect, it's clear that European visitors aren't important to them at all.
Something I never understood about us taxes - from reading discussions online, it seems like everyone needs to file taxes at the end of every year? Here it's only self employed, or people with rental or investment income. In a normal employer-employee relationship, the employer has to take care of it for you, they deduct taxes before sending the money to your account. This seems to be the way it works in most places, but not the us?
I don't see how sidechains isn't doing exactly this.
Most markets only work because people don't sell their share at the same time.
If everybody would sell their house at the same time, the values would tumble. Same for the stock market, same for gold. I don't get why this is a criticism of cryptocurrencies.
> (e.g. `9 x N` is initially taught as `10 x N - N`)

That isn't a crutch, that is how large numbers can be multiplied in one's head!

90 * 21 is (90 * 20) + 90

Right after removing that extra 90, now you have 9 * 2 * 10 * 10 + 90, which is easy to do mentally.

Heck if you ask me what 9 * 14 is, I'm going to do 10 * 14 - 14.

Did I have to memorize 0x0 through 12x12? Yup. But now days I have a few key mid points memorized and I'll add my way from there. I don't remember 7 * 6 but I know its 7 * 7 - 7.
If you read the full text it appears this is an attempt to create some kind of social-media court you are required to go through before suing an internet company in regular state court.

This bill:

Creates a Digital communications commission,
If you encounter "UNFAIR AND DISCRIMINATORY DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS PRACTICES" by an internet company with more then 100k users, you can make a case with the commision.

The commision reviews your case and if you prevail, the commision can then grant "Equitable Relief" which is a legal term of art meaning non-monetary relief. Ie, government forces you to stop doing whatever it was that aggrieved the plaintiff.

Examples of unfair practices: "hate speech; undermine election integrity; disseminate intentional disinformation, conspiracy theories, or fake news; or authorize, encourage, or carry out violations of users' privacy"

My take:

Some terms like "conspiracy theory" are conspicuously absent from the definitions section. The specifics of user privacy violations are much better defined. This bill is a curious mix that simultaneously encourages user privacy and social media censorship. I think it would be worthwhile to split this into a censorship bill and a user privacy bill and then put both as ballot referendums.
Well, if they’re out of prison, then it’s been decided that they’re no longer a threat to society. Because, in a lot of prisons, you can be kept past your date on certain conditions. So why not let them man a register?

I’m not saying you can’t keep a close eye on them. I’m sure a manager would be doing that. What I’m saying is: in America, society has decided that you’re worthless if you go to prison. We try so hard to keep people from reintegrating into the real world, it’s no wonder our recidivism rate is so high.
I have used TurboTax pretty much my entire working life and never have been audited. The one time I decided to use a professional due to "complex" tax issues that year, I was audited, which became a huge pain in the ass.
Alamo Drafthouse is home to some of my favorite memories - from live riffs by Master Pancake (with a wide array of guest stars including Mary Jo Pehl, the Mads - Frank Conniff and Trace Beaulieu, Doug Benson, Sam "Jerry" Jones [Flash, AhAAAH], and many others) to Fantastic Fest to Sing Alongs to Movie Parties to Classic and Genre Movies.

I know they'll survive in some form, but this is tough, y'all.
Square owns Credit Karma Tax, not Intuit.
> It is always fun to get a peek into people working out ideas in fields I have no experience in.

Phew. I'm not alone.

I understood _some_ of the words used in the HN comments in this thread.
Way back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and comp.compression on Usenet was a place to be, usually we went beyond the pigeonhole principle by asking people to grab a megabyte from random.org, compress it, and then get back to us.

Nobody ever did.
Alamo Drafthouse is a fancy theater that has limited seating, a VERY strict cell phone/talking policy, craft beer, and pretty good food.
How much dairy protein is in such a diet? A lot of the curries I enjoy have yogurt and I love the cheese and cream in palak and saag paneer. But those may not be normal dishes?
I love writing Lambdas in Go. I would also love to be able to do that in Rust. I wonder if AWS will ever support that?
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Actually they sound some what underwhelming.
It's happened in the US in the past after previous crisis.

I don't understand the line of thinking that goes that the government WANTS to destroy businesses and economic activity and reduce their own tax base, income, and ability to operate...
They must pay well from all the money companies are throwing at them.
They're also managing the business side of things directly, which can be very time consuming when you're getting started.
In this case, the chicken is the current job from the vantage point of which you see similar jobs to your own that also require a specific skill in addition to what you already know

The egg would be the effort you expend on that skill to meet the basic requirements of the interview for such jobs

The new chicken borne out of this would be you learning on the job and carrying on from the fundamentals you've learned to get the job
Heh, true. Thanks.
Corporations are inherently stupid. The social & political mechanisms within make the employees stupid as well (while acting as employees), so they turn to rules & folksy truisms as a heuristic to wrangle that stupidity and get the mob to advance the corporation's interests.
The way to deal with Covid-19 "properly" was simply to do nothing at all and let the virus run its course, like the flu or any other communicable disease. This has been a disaster for all concerned, and the lockdowns have killed far, far, more people than would have been killed by the Wuhan virus just being allowed to run amok...
Seems like not a fault of the construction of RSA or anything else that relies on the cost of factoring, but a fault of appropriately anticipating the costs to break it. Useable quantum will also make crypto security more expensive and complicated.

Another thing that often bothers me are claims and emphasis of how fast constructions are. This just makes it easier to brute force.
Criminals are writing new Malware in Go
From ACM Newsletter:

Criminals Are Jumping on This Niche Programming Language to Write the Latest Malware
TechRadar
Mayank Sharma
March 1, 2021

Cybersecurity company Intezer warns that Google's open source Go programming language has become a popular tool for malware authors, having identified nearly 2,000% growth in new Go-based malware strains in the wild. Intezer's analysis noted that the TIOBE programming community index named Go 2016's Programming Language of the Year, which may have drawn malware writers' interest. Intezer also cited both state-sponsored and non-state sponsored threat actors as Go users, using it to create bots for direct denial-of-service attacks or installing cryptominers that constitute a large portion of current Linux malware written in Go. Intezer suggests Go's networking stack is favored by malefactors because it is a preferred language for writing cloud-native applications.
> Instead, Google says its ad-buying tools will use new technologies it has been developing with others in what it calls a “privacy sandbox” to target ads without collecting information about individuals from multiple websites. One such technology analyzes users’ browsing habits on their own devices, and allows advertisers to target aggregated groups of users with similar interests, or “cohorts,” rather than individual users.

Oh, turns out you're in a cohort of 1. Privacy sandboxed.
Does anyone know if PipeWire can do audio streaming like PulseAudio can? I had a rather nice setup using a raspberry pi and an old stereo system a while back that I'd like to replicate.
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This is purely anecdotal, but my own experience backs this up.

I have known at least a dozen people who pirate software and entertainment purely because it's cheaper than paying for it. These are other software engineers, they all make plenty of money to afford this kind of stuff. I doubt they would stop watching TV or playing video games if piracy suddenly stopped being an option.
I remember one consultant in 2009 describing how they had a toy chicken that they used to sacrifice by chopping off its head before VMware upgrades back when VMWare was new.

(They would then sew the head back on so the sacrificial chicken would be ready for next time.)

My point is: I guess this is nothing new.
Amazon usually lowballs compared to other FAANG orgs.
Contracts do not override a broker's fiduciary duty to its clients. A fiduciary duty is the highest standard of care recognized by law and requires the agent to act in the best interest of the principal.

Once the evidence is presented, a plaintiff may find that Robinhood did not act with the highest standard of care, did not do everything it could have done to prepare for and handle the situation.

We don't know because the evidence hasn't been disclosed, a major part of any lawsuit is to give plaintiffs an opportunity to assess the evidence produced by the defendant to determine if any wrongdoing took place.
I’m suspicious that it might not be the mixing itself that the machine is doing that’s the problem, if it’s causing that, but dirty lines adding bacteria and poisonous chemicals (not talking about HFCS, think motor oil) to the mix.
Part of this is that game companies are notorious for re-implementing standard libraries for "performance". I suspect both shitty implementations of sscanf and the not-a-hashmap stem from this.
Thanks for the response.

Is this client side encryption the same regular TLS encryption that I would normally (no proxy involved) send to the search engine or is there some kind of buy-in from the search engine to handle it a different way?
Even besides the risk of pecuniary damage, the problem with an audit is that it can take a long time. It's a time sink for you where the best outcome is usually nothing different happens.
Chapter 11 generally involves a payment plan to debtors.
Separating presentation by subdomain feels like a relic from the 2000s or earlier. Wikipedia is one site that could do to be modernised with dynamic formatting or whatever it's called. Even BBC moved news.bbc.co.uk to bbc.co.uk/news although that is not quite the same thing.
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Yeah, chimps, bonobos (contrary to the popular conception), and humans all practice scapegoating, applying collective frustration/anxiety to a vulnerable member of the group).

In the case of bonobos, there's an Attenborough doc where he literally narrates a scene of a young Bonobo after being mobbed on though I understand it appears fallacious since I can't recall which.

But yeah, social hierarchy is endemic to, at the least, great apes like us, the difference just lies in how we deal with it. The most sexually successful Gorilla males appear to have figured out that you also have to show females that you're willing to give attention to kids even when they're not yours to demostrate real value as a mate, so our part of the animal family tree isn't without its improvements.