skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The energy consumption issue is silly. It's like saying that Google won't be successful because they consume so much energy. It's not a major issue, it's just a silly talking point for those who oppose or don't understand cryptocurrencies.

Also, there is no such popular narrative. Your argument is like saying, "so we're supposed to buy stocks until we're all rich, that's a scam". Everyone makes their own investment decisions based on the available information. Brushing off good investment opportunities as a pump scheme is not very wise.
I'm 10x more likely to buy a print copy of a book if I get a hold of a full copy of it in PDF form first.
The IRS doesn’t have your deductions, but at the same time most people don’t have enough to itemize anyway, especially since Trump increased the standard deduction for individuals and families.

I think simplifying the tax code first requires trading in our deduction system for a flat tax or lower taxes across the board. Then you could get to a simple postcard bill every year. Too many special interests to let that happen though.
it's important to remember that google's goal isn't to track you, it's to make money. So finding something that works better isn't necessarily a better way to track you, just a better way to make money.

tracking, including the costs of collecting and storing all that data as well as the PR cost of people being creeped out by all that data you store, is expensive. Given how accurately i'm targeted by most advertising (not very) it seems perfectly reasonable to assume that ads will be just as effective and just as revenue-generating if their tracking becomes a bit less granular.
... says billionaire.

Piracy is relatively harmless to those who are selling tons of something. In fact it may help them due to increased virality. It could be thought of as deferred revenue or "unintentional marketing spend" if you've got something viral that piracy is helping spread.

It can be extremely harmful to small creators and smaller/startup companies who are attempting to make a living or get a business off the ground.

It sort of boils down to the diminishing marginal value of money. A small creator losing 20% of barely enough sales to make a living could find themselves in real financial hardship, while a large creator or corporation losing 20% of sales of something high-margin like software or media may not even notice.

Edit: Then there's perverse incentives...

Piracy is a driver for so much software becoming a "service" with components (or even the whole app) that live only in the cloud. The cloud is the ultimate DRM; you can't pirate it if you don't have it at all. This is creating a generation of software that can't be downloaded or run independently at all. I can run old DOS apps in a VM, but when this stuff goes obsolete or fails it will vanish forever and often take your data with it. It's also a privacy nightmare.

Piracy can also create a dumbing down effect if it requires skill. It results in older and/or more educated people pirating and therefore reducing the revenue outcome for the more sophisticated and higher-brow content they consume. I've wondered if this might not be a hidden reason behind the horrid state of pop music. Cheap catchy low-brow pop aims at a younger and less educated audience that doesn't know how to pirate.
It's not inconsistent to say that they care about Europeans who are interested in visiting their locations, while also punting on GDPR compliance.

Realistically, most Europeans interested in going to an Alamo Drafthouse are already in the US, so they won't see that message.

edit: I'm unsmart
Many states offer online filing systems, might even be the majority now. You just have to visit the state’s tax department website.
> I struggle to understand how I disregarded animal minds for decades, but I suspect it can be reduced to arrogance, convenience, and gluttony.

I don't think that cephalopods are arrogant when they eat other creatures, although I suppose they may be gluttonous. Why hold yourself to a higher standard than you hold the animals you refrain from eating?
BTC is the energy saviour to the USD. USD is the largest energy suck of any currency ever known when you actually start adding up the system to keep it's value in place (i.e. militaries, central banking system, wars, oil, etc.)
Could AI redefine advertising in near future?
> Apart from HN UI, pretty much every website and desktop app has wastage of space.

By HN, do you mean Hacker News? Because it has whitespace on the sides (since the <table> element has width of 85%). It still looks fine if you change it to 90 or 95, so one could argue there's wasted space there too.

But I'm not that one. I recognize empty space has its place in design. And it's not a fad either. Pick up a book - any book - and you will notice plenty of negative space there. Borders are used sparingly, if at all.
Gebru and Mitchell were both previously employed by MSR in the same context without issue.

Google didn't allow the team to make revisions. They stated the paper couldn't be published, period. The difference here is very clearly the management, not the researchers.
They only have theaters in the US so I would imagine the ROI is very low (a couple of tourists might hit it up at some point?)
The USA has payroll deduction, but the tax code is complicated enough that that's only a rough estimate of what you actually owe. What you actually owe cannot be determined and deducted ahead of time, because a person's true tax obligation depends on information and events that may not be available until up to ~105 days after the end of the tax year.

So, every year, you have to do a bunch of paperwork (it took me over 4 hours this year) to calculate your actual tax obligation, and then either you send the government a check or they send you a check to settle the difference.
I normally hate this kind of animations on websites, but in this case they look really good. (Only on the first page though, when I click on later pages, for instance "Bot Service", waiting for content to show is annoying.)
fuchsia was never anunced but have more devs now than befor is not easy make a fucking os, i think you can test in some laptop, if they want somthing usfull need at least 5 to 10 more years of development. I think the first we can see whit fuchsia will be iot device.
What's popular (dictated by the powers that be, the corporations etc, via marketing etc) is justified by calling it "right". And everything else is justified by calling it "free".

That sums the present conversation I think.
Trophy Hunter Kills Giraffe and Cuts Out Its Heart to Pose with It
Just in case someone else is not familiar with the term "four walling".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_wall_distribution
Sigh. I wish Apple would just release these drivers as a sign of goodwill to the rest of the community. I think these machines could make decent development workstations if they had an M.2 port and native Linux support on day 1. It really feels like the least they can do considering their transgressions against the open source community over the past few years...
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/04/online-conduct-leaves...

Salient paragraph (the article has linked references for those who want them):

"Since becoming a billionaire, Persson has earned something of a bad reputation. He made such family-friendly tweets as 'I'd rather be a fascist cunt than have a feminine dick' (though this was subsequently deleted), and he has tweeted endorsements of both the Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracy theories. He has propagated the false claim that people face fines for 'using the wrong pronouns' to refer to trans people. Persson has also tweeted right-wing slogans such as 'It's OK to be white,' and he's said that anyone who recognizes systemic racial biases and imbalance within Western society is racist. In 2017, he tweeted, 'If you're against the concept of a #HeterosexualPrideDay, you're a complete fucking cunt and deserve to be shot,' though this, too, was subsequently deleted."

While I appreciate seph-reed's eloquent reply about cognitive shortcomings, hoo boy, there are a lot of shortcomings happening there.
I think your comparison misses the fact that COVID measures are largely decentralized because they require the agreement and participation of everyday people to be effective whereas the PATRIOT act centralized authority and control. As a result, the COVID measures basically lack enforcement mechanisms that could continue to exists after the pandemic ends.
The US's system of tax deductions makes it impossible for your employer to know how much to remove from your paycheck except in the simplest of scenarios. They may not know how many children you have or how much money your spouse makes if you file jointly or how much you pay in rent or whether you're a first-time home buyer or what your deductible medical expenses were for the year or whether you had education expenses and so on...
I did the same thing. Following since before MT GOX. Never purchased because of that TPS issue which i felt killed the system. Was interested in SOL because they supposedly solved that problem, still havent purchased. Feel smuuckish now.. But there you go
Here's mine: it doesn't seem socially useful if everyone holds a small amount of bitcoin and does nothing with it, particularly if all of those holdings are centralized on a small number of exchanges. I have no idea whether that is the true use for most BTC, but (mod exchanges vs private wallets) it's been the case for every single person I've talked to that owns some.

I just don't get it - we're all holding pieces of this stuff because it keeps going up in value because we're all holding pieces of it? And that's somehow worth the enormous computing cost to maintain the network?

Yeah, I'm sure that BTC is great if you're a Syrian refugee or a billionaire evading capital controls but it feels like the majority of the stuff is just... sitting there...

I'm actually really thankful that exchanges are in the picture because ledger-only transactions aren't nearly as wasteful as on-chain transactions, but still don't understand why people want it. A cryptocurrency seems useful to me, inflationary crypto-assets seem like their only use is to reward early adopters?

The value proposition of BTC seems more-or-less like "there is a limited supply and more people will want some in the future because it has made some people rich".
> Did you ever stop to wonder why commercial entities don't have a credit system?

Isn't that what Dun and Bradstreet is for smallish businesses and Fitch, Moody's and S&P do for businesses issuing bonds?

Yes, not every business is in D&B, and it takes effort to get a record there, but it's not as if there isn't a commercial credit system, it's just not so engrained into everything like the consumer one.
Should I incorporate my app in order to charge users?
I built an app in the past year, I gave it to a few friends to try and I would like to release it publicly. I added some term and conditions (created with some online tools) but I'm afraid of potential liabilities if I release it publicly, especially since I would like to start charging users soon.

How do I protect myself legally and limit responsibility? (though not sure what are the actual risks)
Thanks for the clarifications
Pre-university mathematics is mostly like this.

But there is a way to teach mathematics from axioms that is intuitive: geometry. Euclid's Elements was the key mathematics textbook for about 2000 years.

Of course, you simply can't cover as much ground if you must derive everything.

But I do wonder if the collapse in public discourse is partly because of faith-based mathematics. i.e. taught as: it's true because we tell you it's true, not because you can see for yourself that it's true.
Am I missing something about duckduckgo? I was under the impression it already serves the function of providing privacy-focused search. Is it not as private as I thought it was?
Font Awesome’s product has long been destined for commoditization. Which is probably why they have diversified to offering custom icons and other differentiating behavior.

I suspect google won’t be the only one to offer icon sets like this, so in general I agree this will continue to erode FA’s market share.

Fwiw, It has felt like FA’s most recent release fell far behind schedule.
This is correct I feel. The other part of the attitude is that the financial sector doesn't actually provide any value to anyone except the financial sector, it's seen a wealth horde for those who manipulate systems causing far reaching consequences. It's not respected and often not understood by the people. Short selling is seen as especially malicious as it causes a preemptive destruction of something in a time when everything is getting destroyed anyway, and doing so to make those who are already rich richer when people are literally starving due to unemployment isn't a good look.
I will personally contribute money to them if I have to. One of my favorite businesses.
I appreciate the reply. I didn't feel too terribly off-base, but seeing the discourse here gave me cause to question.
Be careful with jokes on HN.
It is quite bizarre that any criticism of modern sexual economics is immediately met with "ha, bet you're not getting any!" I have become convinced that these people do not have a great deal of insight into the true private lives of the people they know, and that shallow understanding of their cohort forms a platform of belief with which they're repeating their platitudes and banalities.
I think the most interesting idea here is that of Goggles, filters like

- trusted product reviews - left biased media/right biased media - my cooking sites.

This is something we've been doing for a while in Insight (YC W19) (https://insightbrowser.com/) and our users really like creating and sharing them. They work on top of Google, DDG or whatever your search engine is. We suggest useful filters as well.

It's cool to see that idea proliferate — it could be a part of every search/browsing experience soon. All modern search engines try and guess intent that that's an increasingly difficult guess to get right.
The sentence that you said in reply to the other poster, "Automating every aspect of student loan repayment for fintechs and workplace benefits providers." explained to me what the product does more than 95% of the sites landing copy.

A sentence approximately like this, or a problem statement, followed by a sentence like this, should be at the very top of the landing page. The stuff about student loan superpowers, was confusing to me and some of the material sounded like it was possibly written by someone who wasn't a native speaker.
You seem to be confusing these Google Font icons with app icons (Google services, macOS dock icons). The former are meant to be simple, resizeable, used by other apps, work in dark/light mode, and able to be part of any design language. Compare them with Apple's SF Symbols.
Groups of people can communicate more effectively if they agree upon common terminologies and definitions.
Given GitHub's Code Spaces use VSCode rather than Atom, that writing is definitely on the wall, it seems. (Arguably the feature was built for Azure and then rehomed to GitHub where it seems to fit better, but still a stronger indicator brand-wise than most of the other comparative statistics in Atom versus VSCode commit histories and GitHub/Microsoft employee contributions there to, which also seem to indicate that Atom is in maintenance mode.)
The real problem with ethics is that it's not a science nor a rigorous discipline: it's a trend. It's whatever is trendy to say and think at the moment. You certainly don't have to understand the tech to practice "ethics" (if any technical knowledge was required the field would be pretty much empty).

The way it works is you basically shame people and tech. You don't need to make a strong or valid case against a behavior or a tech, like a law would, because it's not legally binding. It's not real engineering regulations like a building or fire code. At best it's a mob made of folks who convinced other ethics PhDs to grant them a PhD that will rally against you and shame you [0].

Great move from Google to stop feeding the ethics racket.

[0] https://syncedreview.com/2020/06/30/yann-lecun-quits-twitter...
I just tried it. It has a good interface, but a massive downside in that it doesn't have any automated importing/parsing of W-2's, 1099's, and other forms, unlike TurboTax. You have to type in every single number, leaving room for fat finger errors that TurboTax largely eliminates. This removes much of the advantage of doing your taxes online in the first place. TurboTax will smoothly import these, sometimes directly from your bank's website (you don't have to download and upload the PDF). If FreeTaxUSA built a robust tax form PDF parser it would be a real TurboTax competitor. Right now, it's just a cleaner interface to filling out the IRS PDF's on your own. It's good if you don't mind a more manual approach to your taxes.
> Orchestrating bad PR to boost your short option earnings is bad.

So legit question, lets flip this around. Lets pretend that I am super confident, and have strong evidence to believe, that company $ABC, currently trading at $100/share, has been committing fraud and is drastically over-valued because of it. Lets say, I don't know, it was intentionally skipping numbers during the day to give the appearance of higher volume[0]. I've determined this by investing a bunch of resources in research to determine that reported numbers don't line up with the actual number of customers, or don't line up with other available data from other sources.

So I take a short position. But I'm not allowed to say anything about it. I keep silent.

Now 3 years later, the fraud is uncovered elsewhere, I make a killing, and my only response is "Ya, I knew they were fraudulent years ago, and here is all of my proof. But I didn't say anything for 3 years."

Would you argue that I'm not complicit in that fraud for all the years I knew about it?

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-29/luckin-co...
Agreed. The Alamo in the SF Mission has completely spoiled me and my SO. We are not interested in going out to other theaters but love going specifically to that one.
Where I work our internal code names are all Star Wars/Trek or Hitchhiker through the Galaxy. I always push for something like "flowers" or "trees" to no avail.

Be interesting to collect data on how these trends change over time.
Curious what other languages AWS uses
A search funnel would be an interesting thing (does this exist?) whereby you whitelist "only give me results from these resources" - and where 'resources' can include the whitelists of others that you trust or have subscribed to.

Basically you could have a search engine that only replies with information from whom are also of the same interest as you - or people you congenially follow etc...

So you could say " show me everything about X" and the results are only from those who are actually connected to X in some way - based on the interest subscription graph as opposed to a keyword graph...

I may be a moron on this subject - but I do recog that there is room for improvement...

I added the following to a previous comment:

*"A cool way of implementing this would be instead of CTRL+SHIFT+N would be CTRL+SHIFT+N[1-9] to shift to VIEW and would take me to that tab-stack... and there would be a page that would allow me to manage each tab-stack around [TOPIC] - Meta Book marks..."*
>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.

Alamo getting priced out of Austin? Thanks Joe Rogan!
Yes, a couple of days ago there was a story of the guy who made the "dark themes" package and how he got to $100k USD. One thing that got my attention in his article was the purchases chart he showed. When he originally released his product he got pretty high sales; he could not reach those levels of sales after that.
Adding a perspective from Germany, where the tax code is definitely not simple, a major difference I see is that filing is optional for the simple cases because you can only ever get money back. There are some default deductibles already applied to your payroll tax so the tax office doesn't have to deal with super small cases. The big advantage is that Joe Average won't risk getting into a lot of trouble for not filing.

Just to illustrate, let's go through your examples and how it'd work in Germany:

> side-hustle contracting (IRS doesn't know what expenditures are for the business)

You'll have to mandatory file income taxes since the income from contracting is not salary and there are no payroll taxes deducted from it. Not sure how common it is in the US but in Germany the vast majority of people don't have side hustles like this (for a variety of reasons; certainly a bad thing)

> stock sales (your broker may not know your basis)

There's a default tax rate on capital gains (25%) with a 800€ allowance. You assign how you want to split the allowance between your various banks and other capital gains generating accounts (you're responsibility to not exceed them) and the banks will report your cap gains with your tax ID to the tax office. If you did pay taxes it's often worth filing to make sure the allowance evens out. Also, if you want to carry forward a loss you have to file (but you got 5 years to do so)

> home improvements eligible for tax deductions

You'll probably want to file but you don't _have to_. You just won't get the deduction.

> sold a home (IRS won't know your basis or selling price)

If it was the home you lived in, you don't have to file (it's tax free). If it was a house you rented you'll have to file but you'll have to do that anyway for the rental income.

> did you move for a job? IRS won't know whether you are eligible for tax deductions.

Same as with the other deductions, it's in your best interest to file but you don't have to. No (legal) consequences if you don't.

> crypto gains/losses

This gets tricky but if you owned the coins for more than a year (to the day) they're tax free and you don't have to report them. But you better have documentation on this if you ever get audited.

> inheritances (basis again)

This one is actually interesting as it's a completely separate tax and thus separate process from income tax.
There's an allowance based on your relationship to the deceased (500k€ for spouses, 400k€ for children, etc.), if the inheritance exceeds that you'll get a letter from the tax office asking you to file a declaration for inheritance tax. At that point there's not much software that'll help you and you'll better hire a tax advisor :)
> what women say they want vs. what they actually want

Not particularly gender-specific, people say what makes them comfortable, which isn't always the truth.
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1040-EZ and 1040-A were eliminated in 2018, so pretty much everyone uses 1040 now (which was probably simplified, I haven't compared). There's also 1040-SR for seniors.

> And still can still compare turbo tax for free to see if you got the same numbers, and send it in for free.

That's what I do for state, since my state has a relatively simple tax structure and offers free online e-file. For federal my situation is similar, I'm happy to pay someone < $100 to deal with all the schedules and calculations and make sure things are consistent. An accountant would be much more, and inertia keeps me with TurboTax, for better or worse.
From suspicious to malicious: the never-ending story of shady apps funding
The comment history of this username really checks out!

I take zero offense and thank you for the correction, but it's somewhat amusing to think that someone presumably has two accounts and switches between them to make comments when a post is inadequately proofed.