skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd pay for a self-hosted version of this, although I'm in Canada and it would require a bunch of different integrations and tax calculations. I imagine there are plenty of folks like me in the states.

Heck, I'd pay for a secure little RPi in a box running this software.

I can't give my financial passwords to anyone else at all - most of my accounts specifically disclaim any responsibility for losses if I give my passwords out.
When I was growing up in Serbia, we were going to school alone in about second half of first grade, so about 7 and a half years. Some parents wait till second grade.

It also depends whether you need to hop on a bus, then it’s definitely at second grade.
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> This is not attempting to preserve privacy. This is attempting to give a pretense of preserving privacy, while completely deanonymizing the web.

Cookies uniquely identify me without additional data. Cohorts do not uniquely identify me without additional data.

This is not privacy, but it is more privacy than third-party cookies.
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But your tax basis in the other paintings is still $1M. If you donate them claiming they're worth $1M, you don't get a $20M deduction. If you claim they're worth $20M then transferring them is a realization event and you owe capital gains on $19M. Then you get a $20M deduction which cancels out the capital gains and leaves you with just the original $1M deduction for what you actually paid, right?

What people really do this for is insurance fraud. Buy some paintings for $1M each, get them appraised and insured for $20M each, then somebody "steals" them or you have a convenient structure fire and make the N*$20M insurance claim.
Surprised people here even know who snoop dog is!
How does FPGA fabric solve the bw bottleneck exactly?
What solves it is putting the compute power closer to the CPU (or memory). But you can do that with an FPGA or a GPU, or a CPU matrix etc. Compared to FPGA, the others will have much more compute power(especially for HPC) in the same die size/heat envelope.
That’s why people are trying to push for us to stop calling them accidents and call them crashes.
I am not a huge fan of the KDE desktop experience, but KDE Connect among others is something that provides an amazing value.
> Torvalds seems to have done OK for himself, for reasonable values of "rich".

My guess: VHNWI (very high net worth individual), defined by Investopedia https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/hnwi.asp as the range $5m to $30m. Maybe he's even in the ultra HNWI range.

He doesn't "look" rich, but then, what does rich look like anyway?
Yes, that's roughtly what I am doing in my post-receive hook:

export GIT_DIR=/path/repo
export GIT_WORK_TREE=/path/working-directory
git checkout -f
Change is progress! And progress is good! Please don't ask what we're progressing towards though. That's just rude.
I'm curious what company tunes locally to this level of driving characteristics (not for different laws which is sometimes necessary, but for different expected aggressiveness and situational awareness like you mention)

I work in this space and am not aware of what you're describing. M/L calibration is tuned where it's legally allowed to run on the streets as well as where there's interesting problems to practice against (bridges, tunnels, etc.)
The Wikipedia article on Jet ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Jet_Database_Engine ) talks a bit about the backwards compat strategy.

This is case where they broke backwards compatibility. At the time, they had an upgrade strategy, though I wouldn't be surprised to learn the tools that handle the upgrade are no longer supported at this point.

My understanding from the outside is it was an attempt to bring Jet Red (the desktop database, what Access used) and Jet Blue (the server database, used by things like Exchange) closer to be compatible with each other on some level, along with making Jet Red less of a "toy" database.
You appear to be in a low risk group, and you've clearly not done the math on your risk of dying from getting a vaccine. You've also neglected to consider your risk of long term negative side effects from COVID, as well as the risk you could pose to other, high risk individuals by not being vaccinated.

> depends on your criteria

Yes, well, if your only criterion is the risk of death to someone under 30, then the necessity of vaccines might be low ("only" 1 in 500 young people). But even with that one narrow-minded criterion, the risk of vaccines is orders of magnitude lower than getting COVID.
How is this risk any different from that of a Makefile?
> Is it the kind of society we want to create where you are essentially "locked in" to your parents' social position?

No, that is why interviews should look more like the ones Google performs and less like "please describe yourself, hobbies and life experiences"
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It echoes, but - while I don't know the details of either situation - they could be different enough that it would still be handled in the same way today. For example, I imagine it would depend on how quickly the people involved made the board and HR aware of their relationship. The CEO can then recuse themselves from converstaions about and with their partner.

Also, it seems like the knives were already out for Krzanich, and there are some for whom this would be a useful pretext.
It's a joke that's also a pyramid scheme.
The new Siemens offshore turbines put out up to 16MW. This has blown me away. Tho, they are scary machines and I get uncomfortable looking at them (like single balcony on a huge wall kind of uncomfortable). Aesthetically the vertical ones are much, much better IMO. Especially if they can be placed in an symmetrical pattern, not this super optimized complex mess traditional ones show.
How is data hoarding evil? Data lets us improve things, know what services need to be made, connect everything better. There's potential for abuse as in anything but we don't call cough syrup evil.
Your post is formulated as if there's difference.
They may never have DIMMs. Apple is crazy enough to solder 256GB and call it a day. People would complain... and then they'd still buy it.
>In a typical transaction, no value is created

This claim isn't true - it completely ignores producer and consumer surplus. It adds nothing to the economy, but it adds value to both sides of the transaction.

Suppose A and B trade items a and b. This happens because A values item b more than B does, and B values item a more than A does. So by trading both sides have more value to them than originally.

Almost zero trades happen right at the margin.
What a garbage site. I can’t read it so I’ll keep killing the ants.
Did you try the recipes as presented? I can understand that an introductory cookbook shortcuts recipes for the sake of simplicity; and I wouldn't find it fair to recommend a more advanced resource unless the intro recipes give results so bad that they're offputting.
This is really well done. First, I've been using the same Excel spreadsheet since 1992 to create a one-panel view of financial modeling and you've captured everything I've put into it over the years. Second, there is a lot of state information in this website, I'm impressed: its nontrivial to get right. That said, I didn't fuzz it, but I'm sure you've got it down.

Lastly I like how it eases the user in: it asks basics, then funnels to specifics. That makes it less intimidating.

Sorry to be "that guy" but I've been using my Excel for ~30 years and it has been solid so I doubt I would use this, but I think it might be a great starting point for youngin's who haven't thought about this yet.
Access is not just a database, it allows for custom VBA code and controls. I can see why supporting old versions would be a burden (are you really going to ship all VBA engines ever shipped for 20 years, with all the inevitable security holes they likely still have...?)
I wonder how often they're the same person
Exactly. I'm curious how many sales were sales and how many were part of a PC bundle with other MS software. This is how we had it as well, with a Gateway 2000 PC purchase in 1995 (and I similarly enjoyed customizing my house in it).
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I hope these researchers don't stop with just writing papers, and actually see if they can convert their theory into practice. If it's true that there's a far more efficient way to run wind farms, it seems like it could be a huge profit opportunity.
If you think tech / digital transformation consulting is all about the PowerPoint slides you’re missing the point.
Totally -- if the government passes some law that says, for example, credit card companies can't give out 5% rewards, but only if the prices of goods drops 5%, I would be 100% in support of that.

Until that happens, I'll take the 5% cash back, since it is preferable to 0% cash back while paying the same price.
I'm assuming if you build the kernel yourself, you may be able to strip out features you don't want.
> Every single dollar of compensation paid out is done transactionally: it is used to purchase labor.

This is my gripe whenever I hear about my employer "covering" part of my health insurance or other benefit etc... No, I pay for EVERYTHING with my labor.
Sure I get it, but clearly it's not working. It seems like it's just showing an ad that pays more. The OP seems annoyed, so that part isn't happening.
The deeper in your stack you fix the consistency problem, the simpler the rest of your system needs to be. If you use S3 as a canonical store for some use case, that's pretty deep in the stack.

> Thus, once you've built a distributed system that is able to handle a phased rollout of software/config versions (and rollback), then having cache inconsistency in S3 is no big deal.

But this would also mean you can't use S3 as your source of truth for config, which is precisely what a lot of people want to do.
Not sure about your personal experience but it was only a matter of time until I started receiving promotional offers from various credit card companies based on my spending habits via snail mail. I could directly tie them to Mint.com becuase I was shown the exact same offers on their portal. What other proof do you need?
They can also provide some sort of "financing", like selling the build project at a loss and then recover it on the operation/maintenance phase.
Well, I know someone who wrote a bot to play his game and watch the ad at the end. This person made about 4 dollars in one or two nights letting the bot run. When pay day came, Google marked half of the revenue as invalid, and only paid 1,75 dollars.

This person knew the risks of being caught and let it go. My point is, I think Google warns you first about doing that.
I had the same thought, the service is quite different but the name is too similar
I didn't see anyone giving Apple a pass, but yeah I'm OK with backwards compatiblity not being a thing for 20 year old desktop software.
> I know in the EU we have protections under GDPR which allow us to request an explanation for an automated action, but I don't believe we have anyway to request human review.

There is, with limitations. The relevant part of GDPR is Article 22, "Automated individual decision-making, including profiling" (Full text: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-22-gdpr/)

This is probably the most restricted of the rights granted under GDPR. You have the right to manual review of algorithmic decisions, only when those decisions result in "legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her."

Whether it applies to Google depends on how you interpret "similarly significantly affects," and that's something likely to vary from country to country and well beyond my experience with GDPR. If this were the US, I would expect that to include housing and employment. There's a much stronger argument that this right applies to a Google account if it represents a significant fraction of your business income.
It can run client side and store data in secure cookies. Maybe that's what was meant? And then export to a file for backup.
>And if you’re a new college grad, associate positions can be fast ways to learn engineering on the job and get exposure to large scale systems that you wouldn’t otherwise work with.

Not sure about this part. when i was younger, i used to work for Avanade. Accenture joint venture with Microsoft. the only coding project that i ever done while i was there is porting an outdated Microsoft Outlook add-on to Visual Studio Office Tool (.Net based). Most of time you just sit on the side line and study for Microsoft cert. while going to event where you might meet Project Manager with project that might fit you.
This says it all:
https://www.consulting.us/news/2197/accenture-sued-for-32-mi...
Brick and mortar bookstores I’ve seen that have done well usually have something to keep patrons coming in the door regularly, like live events for the community or a cafe that sells coffee and snacks to consume while leafing through a book.

Or they diversify into other fields like stationery where people actually prefer buying them in person sometimes.
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> That sounds good in theory but it never works in practice, historically speaking.

That’s because people in practice don’t do the “and also” part, but instead do something like the tax-the-rich theater of “‘taxing the rich’ via progressive income taxes, but making capital gains taxed at a lower top marginal rate with a less-progressive structure and labor income subject to special additional taxes.”

Because, in practice, the wealthy write the laws, and use control of the mechanisms of mass communication to focus attention on the parts that sound good favorable to the common man (progressive structure) and then distract from the impact of the bits that let the rich off and soak the working and middle class (preferential treatment of capital, gifts, and inheritances and anti-preferential treatment of labor income.)

Hence my focus and the “and also” bits that need to be part of a progressive income tax system for it to work properly.
> When people say value is created for shareholders

From the Bezos letter:

"Summarizing:

Shareholders $21B

Employees $91B

3P Sellers $25B

Customers $164B

Total $301B"

This article is criticizing "employee value" and "customer value", not shareholder value.
Pharo started as a Squeak fork, but I think they diverged quite a bit by now though.
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Exactly, type erasure has always been a giant pain for Swift but the team has short term plans for obviating it soon.

I think sometimes people forget that Swift is still a relatively new (late 2014, ~7 years old) language. Given its scope and sizable feature set, it's no surprise there are many kinks to work through. Fortunately the team has been cruising and it gets more solid every year.

Right now it's a de facto for iOS and there's a nascent but passionate server community, give it a few more years and I think it'll be a much more attractive for things outside of iOS.
The main claim is it's almost as bad a fiat currencies; in which case you're buying stock in a company that produces nothing, has no assets, is being constantly inflated, and has a bunch of rules about who you can give it to and how.
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I know, I thought that was weird: "Here's a personal finance website, first things first: what's your favorite web scheme out of these 16..." ¿Como?
Since C doesn't have first-class functions, if you needed to dynamically pick between values of OP_NAME you'd be glad it was a parameter. Imagine ten options parameters, which your program needs to choose between depending on the circumstances. That's a huge branch tree. Imagine choosing between two options - you'd need to keep track of function pointers, or at least write your own enum. C makes it far nicer to handle enum values than it is to handle functions, because ints are first-class. I agree that there's no difference between a symbol in the name and a value in the args when your program always needs the same value, but sometimes it needs dynamism.
So you'd prefer a phone without a warranty if it would be cheaper?
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Every once in a while I try to imagine a world where Linux never existed. Some software feels sort-of inevitable. For instance, even if Microsoft and Apple's desktop operating systems had failed, it seems almost certain that there would have been a dominant desktop graphical operating system (OS/2, etc.) so the landscape would have looked fairly similar to today.

Linux just feels different. There have been other open source operating systems, but to me it doesn't feel like they would have inherently taken over the same market that Linux has now if it had never existed. Like, do I really think my phone, my VM server, and my cloud computing infrastructure would be running FreeBSD in this parallel universe? Maybe, but I suspect they would have more likely ended up using separate, more-closed, operating systems.
Works great on Gnome as well, with this extension: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1319/gsconnect/
I don't know what your point is.

I was making a distinction between "average employee" which can be distorted by having vastly wealthier individuals amongst their number, and "median employee,' which is not. I hope Amazon does have a large cadre of well-paid employees but they're vastly outnumbered by the warehouse workers, delivery staff, etc.

I was responding to someone speculating that because a lot of Amazon stock is presumably held by pensions and other institutional investors, the value of those stocks goes to very average people who are not wealthy (by U.S. standards). I think that even if a lot of Amazon stock is held that way, if you have a job for which you receive a pension or contribute to a retirement fund that's worth a damn, you're not wealthy but you're probably wealthier than the bottom half of Amazon employees.
There's a lot of research showing that yes, it does.

Here's a quote: "Long-term, heavy drinking can actually alter the brain’s chemistry, re-setting what is “normal.” It causes the release of higher amounts of cortisol and adrenocorticotropic hormone. When this hormonal balance is shifted, it impacts the way the body perceives stress and how it responds to it.21,22 For example, a long-term heavy drinker may experience higher levels of anxiety when faced with a stressful situation than someone who never drank or who drank only moderately" from https://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/AA85/AA85.htm

You can search for alcohol's impact on GABA, cortisol, or just stress in general and find plenty of science showing that there are significant negative impacts to how the body responds to stress or various key hormones due to damage from alcohol.
> Seems pretty easy to sanction Iran, just ban the use of those same coins.

Seems pretty easy for Iran to unsanction itself, just remove the "official miner" requirement.
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I like the impression of your tool, but I share Frost1x’s reluctance. However, I was pleasantly surprised to read this up front:

> Free planning and projection tools that will never ask to link your financial accounts

If it were followed up by convincing me that my data is stored in LocalStorage and doesn’t leave my browser, I’d be sold :). I know I’d still have to trust you that you’re actually implementing what you claim, but I think I’d be willing to. After all, the same would be true for an application running natively: those, too, can submit my data “to the internet.”

For me personally, having an Electron app would not make much of a difference. Do I run your code in my Firefox or in a separate process? I’m still running your code on my machine. Maybe browser-based even has some advantage because it is sandboxed filesystem-wise. Not sure whether this holds true for Electron.

Import/export as CSV or whatever format would also be a huge plus for me.

As a last point, I’m not sure I understand the status quo: you are saying all caluclations are done client-side – but the results are stored server-side?

Nice work!
I agree. The trend of handing over all your data (especially your financial data) to some nebulous service isn't exactly my favourite. Which is why I built https://ufincs.com, a nebulous service where you hand over all your financial data!

Yes, that was a joke.

In reality, uFincs is more of a stop-gap between what you seek (native app where you own the data) and what the status quo is (web-based app where your data ownage is dubious). Yes, uFincs is a web app, but we take the extra step to do client-side encryption so that the only financial data being stored in our database is a jumble of base64; I don't want to touch your actual financial data with a 10-foot pole.

Of course, like some other people in this thread have mentioned, having a completely client-side app is also pretty important. Well, we have exactly that: https://ufincs.com/noaccount. You can use uFincs right away, without any account, and the app works completely client-side, completely offline. You can even export your data and then re-import it later if you so prefer!

Of course, the tech that enables this 'no account' option is also what makes the logged-in app work offline-first, so I think it's pretty cool :)

And if anyone asks "Well, why a web app at all then?", it's because I wanted a web app. Yes, I do enjoy accessing my finances on all my devices, thank you very much. But we do have plans to build out standalone desktop/mobile apps in the future.
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I think you could always take the image again at another angle or with different backgrounds. Very hard to say for sure it’s same image.
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Technically they're both min/maxing, you're just optimizing for profit/effort vs profit.
It's impossible, there are layers and layers of management that need to see Accenture fails before trying a more rational alternative.

I'm not sure why, but we have consultants explaining us how an if/else business workflow is in fact an "AI robot employee" that we even need to give a human name to, before we switch to normal/cheaper if/else-enabled languages, once it fails to do if/else properly.
Yeah, I second this.
Would be nice if there were alimony and child support expense categories.
I am not sure what you are implying. I am not an expert in this field but based upon the article and comments here it seems that this is something you have to do unless you want to be banned, even nowadays?
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The study is an Australian study on Pediatric Quality of Life and has determined that children aged 11-12 years can benefit from extra sleep and exercise.

It was not about how "Useless American Children are" Many kids in America get up everyday and dutifully and independently handle the process of attending school. There was even a term called "Latch Key Kid", where a child had a key and basically locked the door on the way out and opened when they got home.
I like that it is a literal "back door" in that there's an opening in the barrier at the back of the brain.
Having served on a grand jury, one of the first things we did was delegate the management of documents (including subpoenas) to the court staff. We didn't issue our own subpoenas; that would have been thousands of documents we didn't have the time to manage.

> Grand juries historically result in a 95%+ chance of indictment so this isn't a fishing expedition.

There were cases presented to us which did not result in any indictment vote as new information was discovered or persons involved made deals with the prosecutors. The prosecutors didn't have us vote on things they weren't sure about, but that doesn't mean they never made mistakes.