skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't define more than 8. The API allows only 3 bit input. I also tinkered with the lookup table, and was able to create a lot of different gray shades, but I was not able to produce ~40-60% gray.
I agree. I don't think the description necessarily means someone is lying.
That’s how Ray Dalio thinks about it, and I agree.
How do we know that this is actually Intuit itself & not the IRS trying to reduce CTC payouts. After all, their enforcement budget keeps getting squeezed & they keep struggling to prosecute high dollar issues. Reducing their tax credits is a good way to improve the balance of the federal government.
The condescending, passive aggressive reply, filled with “you must look within” tropes and topped off with a smiley face. Is there anything more irritating?
This. So much this. Young professionals need to learn the difference between friends and colleagues. When working from home it's hard to blur that line.

As far as chatter goes, nobody wants that. It's distracting to those around you. When we were at the office we were chatting over IM to cut down on the noise. Guess what? We're still chatting over IM while WFH.

Besides, many companies are adopting a hybrid plan anyway. My team, which includes many young professionals, wants to go to the office once per month. Make good use of that time to build your network.
Is that like the Arizona audit which couldn't find any issues and has now been sent off for impartial review by a floridaman who's into conspiracies?
It's not really an entirely new market, but definitely a "second wave" attempt to capture that market.

Back in the Web 1.0 boom, seemingly dozens of online brokerages (ETrade, Ameritrade, Scottrade, etc) sprang up overnight to fuel easy consumer access to the "meme stocks" of the day (Pets.com, Yahoo, etc).

Those are the new legacy players and I guess Robinhood is the new generation.
Thank you so much for this response. Completely agree with everything you're saying.

I was getting quite sad about the other responses. It feels a lot like survivorship bias to me. Kinda like "I suffered through this, so others should also be able to suffer through it".

I don't see why everyone else here seems to think it's fine to put students through this hell.
"scumbag prosecutor" is not fair.

They reneged on the deal, and a conviction with a prison sentence was the result. I thought "scumbag" was the more polite option, frankly, but what word would you prefer? Not that I'll not stick with "scumbag", but I'm always open to new, perhaps more creative options.
One thing that I have seen as a trend on some websites that I hate is when they first show you the Email field, and you have to press next, and then they ask you for the password.

That is done by evernote IIRC. Why? Just show me both fields.
This headline is the Feds mea culpa for allowing that..
There was a story I read in the 1970s where a guy woke up in the transit and had a plan to "unfreeze" the females one by one and basically do bad things to each for one year then off them to pass the time.

Spoiler...

The second woman he unfreezes offs him.

It was both representative of the male dominated era of science fiction, and a big progressive.
Yeah I know I can be a bit too much on that side which is why I need to meditate to get rid of the anxiety
> I could go on: the point is, there are many situations where an estimate is required.

Please do! I'd find it really valuable. (Not necessarily OP. I'm happy to hear from others as well.)
Why would you need to design anything? Just copy official Windows headers and use copilot to implement individual functions.

Maybe if the signature matches perfectly, copilot will even pull in the exact implementation from the Windows source code.
Oh, ok. Thanks for the clarification.
Pretty sure if revolution breaks out in the western world... it won't be started by overcompensated engineers upset that they have to go back to attending an office with free snacks/food and on-site massages.
Agreed, haven’t heard of that until I read about it (I’m 48, living and working in Sweden)
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Scumbag prosecutor. The greatest threat to civil Liberty is not the police, it is the prosecutors who are immune from liability even if they break the law and put an innocent person in jail. We must remove immunity from both prosecutors and judges.
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They're a corrupt, profiteering company that does everything it legally can to stop people from filing taxes for free.

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...
I have to admit that I'm puzzled why people are loosing their shit when an operating system that is built to run on an ARM device turns out to run on one of the most popular ARM devices in existence. Why?
That definitely feels like the equivalent of gambling for huge corporations.

Spend a few millions on lawyers, either you lose it or win some millions
In the programming I do, this kind of low-level detail hardly ever matters. When I do multi-threading, I only use it in the most simple, stereotypical ways possible, and I use locking very diligently; so far I have run into threading-related problems very, very rarely.

But it is very interesting, nevertheless, to get an idea of what is going on under the hood. And given that the subject matter is pretty dry and complex, this article is very well written so someone like me can roughly understand what is going on.
Nope, before the modern approach to shipping stuff you simply couldn't get many different things unless you were in a big city. There weren't humans doing the route planning, there was no one because it wasn't worth doing at all.
Don't come in here with your common sense
If that standard were applied there would be almost no rape or sexual molestation convictions at all. There is usually very little evidence.
To go on a bit of a tangent, I’m somewhat pessimistic that western societies will plateau and hit a “technofeudalism” in the next century or two. Combine what you mention with other aspects of capital efficiency. It’s not a unique idea, and is played out in a lot of “classic” sci-fi like Diamond Age.

Now it’s also not necessarily that bad of a state. That’s depending on ensuring a few ground elements are in place like people being able to grow their own food (or supplemental food) or still being free to design and build things on their own. If corporations restrict that then people will be at their mercy for all the essentials of life. My take from history is that I’d prefer to have been a peasant during much of the Middle Ages than a factory worker during the industrial revolution. [1] Then again Chinese people have been willing (seemingly) to leave farms in droves for the last decades to accept the modern version of factory life so perhaps farming peasant life isn’t as idyllic as it’d sound. [2]

1: https://www.lovemoney.com/galleries/84600/how-many-hours-did...
2: https://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0123/p08s01-woap.html
It’s not the government doing the restricting.
The whole blog is a fantastic exercise in documenting the history of CRPGs, describing and evaluating each game, and analyzing how they all influence each other. He'll often put extra effort into tracking down copies of obscure games and contacting authors.

In some ways it reminds me of Jon Peterson's "Playing at the World", which thoroughly documents the origins and early history of D&D, which started the genre.
God bless the people who write emulators. All of these lost forever - quite the tragedy.

Oubliette looks interesting and so raw!
That's an interesting take, and getting that context is valuable, but it seems like there really should be a way to do that that's less disruptive and destructive to "actually being able to deliver new features" than a full rewrite that stops the world for months or longer...
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Since before anyone on this board was born companies, have adjusted pay based on location using charts like this;

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/05/25/us-dollar-ho...

To think this time is different is to be ignorant.
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My own personal anecdote:

I worked for a company that produced reports for insurance adjusters. Sometimes the reports were small enough to take an hour, and some large enough to take a week to produce.

For some reason the company was obsessed with the "month-end" cycle- people on the last day of the month would work overtime until midnight and occasionally skip usual quality control checks to get things out the door. (And then take the next day off or come in at noon or whatever.)

For reasons I will never understand, with three days left in the month a certain director would spend the whole day running around with a spreadsheet of all the reports that were open and ask people for a red/yellow/green estimate of whether they would be done. The next day and the next he'd repeat the process to get his most accurate estimate of the monthly revenue.

Then two days later, the controller would just hand him the actual revenue numbers for the month ended.
The legal system moves swiftly now that we've abolished all lawyers!
Well, quite distantly I believe, I mean Slavic vs. Latin/Romance languages.
"60mm square package", I read that as 60mm×60mm.
Perhaps I wasn't clear: I believe that anthropocentric climate change is real.

I just don't have anything to suggest that all this recent freak weather is related to it. It's entirely possible that it is! It's also entirely possible that it isn't.

Freak weather is not, itself, some irrefutable proof of anthropocentric climate change. (We have plenty of that already.)

It could be that all the warming and sea ice loss that humans have caused (which no doubt has a bunch of cataclysmic stuff waiting in the wings for us, likely related to oceans and centered on plankton and other such planet-scale bio processes) is unrelated to the fact that we've had a bunch of bad weather lately, and that we've just been somewhat unlucky.
They screwed up, but did they deserve the "largest penalty ever?" Established brokerage houses have gotten away with worse and paid less. Sounds an awful lot like another true real-life example of the very same r/WSB David/Goliath narrative the "established" part of the industry wishes it could discredit.
You could decide to have 5 floors of garages from the ground floor up, and have 5 floors of roads to drive on (especially easy if you make it electric only for most vehicles - maybe confine heavy diesel vehicles to the ground floor with appropiate ventilation)

Then on the 6th floor have a pedestrian/cycle floor that's sheltered from the elements, and the 7th floor have open parks, with 30 stories of housing and offices above.
Accepting the impermanence of all things is an important lesson, but it is not an excuse for nihilism, because even impermanent things can have value, however finite, and the impossibility of true permanence doesn’t have to distract from realising finite value while it lasts.
Also the base cluster cost of $0.10 an hour really hurts for test and experimentation.
Does ARM do cache snooping? That used to be how they kept coherency but I don't recall what the more modern techniques were to maintain coherency across CPUs in a NUMA architecture(IIRC snooping doesn't scale well, but maybe they still do a variant).
In the US a CV is a comprehensive list of all previous work in the field, while a resume includes only the most recent/relevant experience. The term is primarily used for academic positions, where it includes a listing of all publications.
Yeah, it's frustrating to get that push-back when it's like, those clarifying questions are just the tip of the iceberg and are required simply to get started -- basically the whole rest of the project is going to be resolving "nitpicky" details like that until it's done.
Or the FDA could put alternative-health scammers in jail.

Back in the 1950s they put Wilhem Reich in jail, where he died. L. Ron Hubbard got the hint and left the country and when no country was safe he went to sea.

Today people like Dr. Oz run alt-health scams continuously and nobody seems to go to jail or even get a fine.
Is GitHub’s Copilot potentially infringing copyright?
Yes, but to come full circle, can you run Doom on Windows 11 running on a Rasberry Pi 4?
That warning is terrifying.

> Do NOT use this online form if you're required to file a tax return. Use of this online form creates a simplified 2020 tax return. If you're required to file a tax return but file a simplified return instead, you won't be able to e-file your 2020 Form 1040 or 1040-SR tax return. This will delay the IRS processing your return and issuing any tax refund.

So... what?

Do not use this site if I'm required to do the thing that this site does? If I use this I won't be able to e-file Form xyz? No information what those are, or why it would matter?
The future price of the stock has nothing to do with anything. If I want a $400 stock, and you agree to sell it to me for $400, it is a done deal, is it not? The order is filled, regardless of settlement time or future price changes.
There's a lot of crazy in here, but I can relate in a way.

When I was young (a teenager), I really wanted to be a video game designer. Well, more than a designer, I wanted to be a full on creator, a rock star like Sid Meier or John Carmack.

So I started making a game engine. I didn't really know exactly what I was making, I just had various ideas that I was collecting and coming up with and attaching to this game engine. At first it was pretty impressive, I had written a 3d first person shooter game engine from scratch at like 13 years old. I had made all the art myself (badly). I made a few demos for competitions, even won some of them and got some prizes. At a certain point though, I was just too attached to all this work I had put into this game engine, but I had no idea what I really wanted to make with it, because I honestly kind of sucked at game design and writing and never really put in the time to learn those disciplines. So I became weirdly attached to my "game", even though it wasn't really much of anything concrete. And realistically my game engine was "impressive for a 14 year old" but not impressive overall.

Luckily, I didn't fall into crazy mental illness like this guy. At some point after tinkering with it for a few years I realized it was a lost cause because I didn't know what to do with it.

The trap a lot of creatives or potential-creatives fall into is falling in love with a project that isn't going anywhere. If you want to be a creative person, you need to know how to spin a lot of plates and let go of something if it has just run out of steam. I think in Bob's case, it's clear that this project was always attached to his identity rather than simply being a project. (I mean, it's in the name). That's really dangerous. You aren't your work. You should never let a project, an art piece, even a company, become your identity.

Bob locking himself in a room as a protest is obviously crazy; but I think in a way it becomes more understandable when you realize that this wasn't just a project to him, it was his entire identity. Nintendo was essentially denying him what he thought to be his existence. That's totally bananas on his part, but I think that covers why someone would do something like that.
Full disclosure is the most responsible disclosure.
Any suggestions of a good accountant/tax person familiar with the nuances?
TBH there's no reason for them to recommend this, from a strictly rational public health perspective.
I couldn't agree with you more.

> Some of those displaced people have been revealed as frauds: they don't actually contribute value that is commensurate with their position in the hierarchy. And some of those who report to them have had just about enough of their shit.

Oh boy, I could share quite a few relevant stories (as I think many of here could too) that'd make your head spin. It's crazy to think of the number of these fraudsters out there and how awful it is for those who are forced to be stuck dealing with them/their actions day in day out. Been in that situation with a few managers in the past, and it's an understatement to say my time was stolen by them.
With respect, I don't think those are the types of people Apple looks for.
This low-level of detail is extremely important to anyone working with atomic variables which can come up in higher-performance code/optimizing, especially since ARM gives you fine-grained knobs for working with atomics than you have on X86 (better performance if you can exploit it, which you usually can). That being said, most people do overestimate the need for atomics in practice.
Why is the disparity bad?
I would love hybrid. Going in a day a week would be great. Enough time to plan things and then get to working on it remotely. Unfortunately my company is going full 100% back in the office citing that's where everyone will be in a couple years.
How do you propose to garner support to fix the system without drawing attention to the bad actors? "A multi-billion dollar company has been lobbying the IRS so it can steal money from the most vulnerable taxpayers" is far more compelling than "poor people pay more taxes than they have to".
I once worked one summer as a laborer in a pipe epoxy powder-coating facility. The building was bigger than a football field. 40-60 foot long pipes were off-loaded from trucks and manually sequestered through a series of ramps to an epoxy-powder oven. From there the painted (and very hot) pipe was manually moved to cooling racks to be cooled, tested, and was thence loaded onto trucks and shipped out.

Moving the pipe required that we use a ~4-foot-long lever with two pegs at the end to manually roll the pipe from ramp to ramp. We had to stand right next to the hot pipe. The work required strength and endurance.

The factory was located in riverside lowlands near the border of Louisiana and Texas. The daytime temperature varied from 80-100 degrees Fahrenheit with very high humidity. We sometimes were lucky enough to have a breeze blowing through the largely-open metal building structure. Nonetheless the heat from the oven and hot pipe was relentless.

Most of us were uneducated laborers: I was the only one who had completed high school or attended college. They were a very funny group and my remembrance of their personal stories, ramblings and jokes still makes me smile.

A week into the routine, a shift of us found ourselves in our morning break sitting under the stairs of the only AC-cooled room in the facility (where a small group of managers toiled) commiserating about our lives after working hours. To a man we were completely exhausted by evening and would go home, eat dinner, take a bath, collapse into bed and sleep until dawn. We weren't even watching TV!

Slumped against the stairwell beams, I looked up to my right and suddenly noticed (for I must have seen it many times before) a salt table dispenser. It was full of salt tablets and had explicit instructions on it. It was like a "Hail Mary!" pass from the previous inhabitants of the factory telling us what to do. It described the symptoms we were displaying, how many salt tablets to take, and warned and gave explicit instructions of overdose. I read the instructions to them and said "this may be what we're missing." We all took two tablets and went back to work.

What a dramatic shift followed! The next day when we got together again we compared notes. For the first time we had a normal evening, slept well, and woke refreshed and ready to work again. The difference in our energy level was like night and day.

Today, decades later, people worry a great deal about getting too much salt. But let us remember that sometimes, in extreme heat and humidity, we may need extra salt.
It’s clearly ambiguous. Retail investors were screwed over by someone, and there are thousands of people still following the situation, demanding answers.

Take a read of that article I linked, it gives an excellent and impartial summary of many of the conflicts of interests affecting all parties involved. It also brings up numerous issues I never see discussed here, given most people are only aware of the “mainstream narrative” — there is much more evidence being uncovered than most people are aware of.
HTTP/unsigned patches are frighteningly common in the video game world.

One of the major MMOs doesn't do either and has some other nasty stuff like easily stealable login tokens over the network.
I agree wholeheartedly and I think health insurance companies should receive the same treatment, they act in the same way and cause the same problems. The incentives of these companies are at odds with the interests of society and they should be run by society, not for private profit.
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At that point, if you have the land for it, why not just go for an "efficiently sized" home. Like 500-700 sqft.
Human social sensing is an untapped resource for computational social science
There isn’t much info before signing up about how this works. Is it a substack clone? Is there more to it?
But listen to my argument, I’m willing to pay to have an easier time filing my taxes. I’m not going to use IRS’s tool if it doesn’t make it a painless process like TurboTax.

So I ask again, will the IRS make a painless tool? If the answer is yes, but Intuit is lobbying them not to, then I understand your point.

If it’s just about free vs non-free, I could care less. Filing taxes or filling out anything for the government is usually an awful experience and I’m willing to pay to not have to deal with it.
I have also canceled after nearly 15 years of being a customer. I cannot trust what they’ll ship me will be a legit product and not a knockoff.
The sad/hopeful thing is that if this were to occur today, they'd likely have a much easier chance to publish on the Switch (or PS4/5 or Xbox). The big platforms have really loosened up access to their stores and SDKs.
Their software is not very good and a legit accountant costs about $200 if your taxes are relatively simple. Said acccountant will save you more than $200 over TurboTax because TurboTax is not very good — this goes double if you’re in a more complex tax situation. And the accountant is even more seamless since all you do is hand over your paperwork and let them do everything else.

And the great irony is that said accountant is likely using an Intuit product anyway. So it’s not like they don’t have the ability to make good products for the consumer market, they choose not to.
Not only that, he tried forcing a position on me that I never stated in his bet. I countered with a real bet that does align with my views, but of course, it was all an act of microaggression. Not a person you can take seriously. As I received no response. I'm eager to drain that kid dry, and then publicly humiliate him in 10 years with a signed and sealed, notarized agreement.
Yet another case where letting the free market handle things results in bad outcomes.
Companies will find other uses for at-home robots.

As a hypothetical somebody could help their parents better deal with dementia by purchasing a puzzle playing robot (or giving the person instructions to carry out themselves, Task Rabbit style) from a "trustworthy" company. Which gets sold to another company.

Suddenly your puzzle robot is recommending Centrum Silver.

Innocent enough. Company gets a new CEO.

The robot is now recommending Centrum Silver and suggesting you hang out in this clique to "encourage social exercise and extend long-term health." Yay! Dinner Parties!

New management, new features. The robot recommends against this path to the grocery store to avoid bad areas. You know how those areas are.

And on and on.