skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The figures I’ve seen have around 80% of taxpayers taking the standard deduction:

https://taxfoundation.org/standard-deduction-itemized-deduct...
Ford, Argo AI to deploy autonomous vehicles on Lyft network
Meta-Learning Student Feedback to 16,000 Solutions
The better market does always win in the market! Now, define "better."
I wish there was something akin to TI-Basic for smartphones. A built-in IDE with an interpreted language, with easy path to compilation.

It’s easier to program a TI-89 calculator than an iPhone. Why can’t this be better?
Anecdotally, I have found l-theanine supplementation at night to work very well for insomnia and restful sleep.
Google Maps will show you how packed your train to avoid crowds on your commute
Switzerland’s unusual geography, population distribution, and history have given them an unusual set of skills. :)

I’d venture that American rail could have looked similar if the North American continent was made up of dozens of countries instead of just one, forcing at least one of those countries to use the Rockies more comprehensively.
You really don’t need a lot of social and monetary capital to be creative in the modern world.

But you do need time.
I have used a Yubikey for years. Nothing is perfect, but as you mentioned, the only hacks of them have been with persistent physical access, or somehow getting the end user to hit the activate button tens of thousands of times.

On any system, if you give an attacker physical access to the device, you are done. Just assume that. If your Yubikey lives in your wallet, or on your key chain, and you only activate it when you need it, it is highly unlikely that anyone is going to crack it.

As far as physical device access, my last employer maintained a 'garage' of laptops and phones for employees traveling to about a half dozen countries. If you were going there, you left your corporate laptop and phone in the US, and borrowed one of these 'travel' devices with you for your trip. Back home, those devices were never allowed to connect to the corporate network. When you handed them in, they were wiped and inspected, but IT assumed that they were still compromised.

Lastly, Yubikey, as a second factor, is supposed to be part of a layered defense. Basically forcing the attacker to hack both you password and your Yubikey.

It bugs me that people don't understand how important two factor auth is, and also how crazy weak SMS access codes are.
The government and the ruling party when questioned on Covid -- how dare you ask questions based on numbers they are very inaccurate and terrible in case we collected them, mostly we didnt and we have no data.

The same government and the ruling party on their claimed achievements -- how dare you question our rock solid reliable numbers. You must be a traitor, unpatriotic, anti-national, tukde-tukde-gang-urban-naxal-protest-jeevi, why dont you go to Pakistan.

For amusement (not exactly sure why those close to the ruling party is so focused on increasing tourism in Pakistan. I wish they paid as much attention to Indian concerns):
https://www.google.com/search?q=BJP+go+to+Pakistan
It's not really apples to apples since you can get adapters for these chargers.
+1 reason not to upgrade.
> If all restaurants doubled their prices, but, at the same time, paid their employees a proper wage (and made that public) and removed tipping, they could effectively raise their prices 20% (the expected tip) without any impact on the customers.

If they doubled they prices, they could increase them by 20%? Huh?
That's cool, it's good that there is some convergence on a standard.

The only unfortunate thing, then, is that Tesla had 79% of the EV market share in the US in 2020 (cf. https://electrek.co/2021/07/14/tesla-tsla-leads-95-increase-...).

And they are not using CCS.

(edit: CCS... not CSS)
I'd use discord over slack if they had account switching, but there's no way I'm going to cross pollinate my leisure communications platform with work.
Overnight charging will likely be a type 2 connector, and that's a small adapter that fits in a pocket, and is easy to keep in the center console when needed. Edit: this adapter already ships with every Tesla in the charger bag.

A lot of places also put both type2 and tesla chargers right next to each other. The expense with chargers is mostly running the wires to the parking spots, the end points are cheap in comparison.
That’s a bit like saying everyone will drop IPhone once USB-C is standard on other phones. It just doesn’t work like that, cars are a status symbol for a lot of people where as VCRs are pure functionality, there will be more to the decision making process than just “other charging networks catching up”.

I get your analogy but it’s not a good one
Could go the opposite way and welcome everyone and everything in, and have situations like your ports being bought by China, as is happening in African nations.
The Pegasus Project Podcast
If you want random book suggestions online: https://recommendmeabook.com/

Or you can just search a few random words on Google/Amazon/whatever, then pick a random title.

The article's other point seems to be that modern literature is too curated and bland. I don't know if the author's joking or if they're just not very well-read.
Heroku has a good use case as being the quick default way to deploy Salesforce platform applications, so there’s definitely some synergy there, but the Heroku for everybody else is languishing a bit.

Slack, don’t know, maybe it’s going to be the default communications platforms for Salesforce products and integrations.
That's what I see it as - Salesforce defending their core product against encroachment by the Office 365 suite - if your company is already on that and Microsoft begins offering Salesforce-like products, selling Salesforce itself becomes a harder prospect.
Roblox CEO Launches Podcast About the Technology That Powers the Metaverse
It does makes sense; Salesforce has been trying to be the operating system for work and real time communication was lacking.

When I was there, we used Chatter in org62 and it was awful. Yet a lot of time and money was invested into trying to make it work.

With Slack, they have a very easy upsell for their enterprise customers to keep them away from Teams; as well as inheriting a huge userbase that is very familiar with Slack – imagine getting feeds from Marketing and Sales Cloud on a slack channel, taking customer requests directly on Slack via Service Cloud, etc

Note that these are mostly things you can do today, but by bundling it into the Salesforce suite of products they will greatly increase adoption by cross-selling.
I didn't realize people were still using Heroku. Aren't there at least 3-4 cheaper and better alternatives?
Zoom Apps
I disagree. Without monitoring from satellites for example we would not have nearly the volumes of evidence we currently have of climate change, deforestation and pollution etc. If we did not have this data these issues would be ignored and swept under the rug even more so than they currently are. Finding ways to make this less expensive is a good thing.
Link's broken because you need the www. It's one of those sites that doesn't auto-forward to it. (Again, not helping with the impression of the site.)
So you built an abstraction layer for an abstraction layer for an abstraction layer?
Correct link:
https://www.freefilefillableforms.com/

Yours doesn't load. For those wondering, you can find the link to this site on IRS's website. https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...

Reading some more, that site was created by Intuit. Checking the ToS:

> These Terms of Service ("Agreement") is a legal agreement between you ("you", "your", "licensee"), and Intuit Inc. ("we", "our" or "us").
Here is the code : https://github.com/cbh123/shlinked

Built with Elixir, Phoenix Liveview and Tailwind
There are two plays you can make by listing a side project. For example, if the project is in some way commensurate to the role. For example, if you are applying for a VP of engineering job at a large technology company and your side project is co-author and commit rights to a major open source project, say Python or a well known and use library and you're actively involved.

Or, if it's on the resume to demonstrate you're still actively hands on and you believe that is valuable to the role.

However, if you wouldn't talk about it in an interview, don't put it on your resume. If it wouldn't help you get the job, I wouldn't talk about it in the interview.
I didn't mean using a CPU for rendering. I meant building a GPU without graphics-specific functions. Imagine a 3D graphics driver/engine which takes a normal GPU of today and uses its CUDA/OpenCL functions to calculate everything it needs to render graphics without using the GPU's OpenGL/Direct3D functions. I wonder if such an engine could be viable and if we could design a GPU which would have no actual graphics-specific functions (only implementing e.g OpenCL) and still empower the graphics engine in a reasonable degree.
This is the problem in many emerging economies in SE Asia. Just because many people are struggling to arrange their daily meals, Governments get into socialist mode and taxes anything which does not classify as bare necessity.
Sadly, it is a vicious loop and these economies are not modernizing enough at a rapid pace despite so much talent waiting for an opportunity.
How do these volunteers get to their station, suited, and on the way in time for an emergency? Seems to me that a fire crew would be at work in different parts of the city and could take precious time to get equipped and on the way.

There are volunteer crews here in Canada, but they are almost exclusively for smaller towns less than 10k. Not much distance to travel to their station, however a house on my street burned pretty much to the ground waiting for the volunteer crew to arrive.
You say ‘sadly’, but that is vastly better than the equipment I had when I learned these skills in 80’s and 90s.
> The US military stopped using pennies on most foreign military bases decades ago.

They would also dump unwanted currency on the military, like $2 bills, Susan B Anthony dollars, etc.
This is run by Intuit (and requires the www, https://www.freefilefillableforms.com/ )

Looks like their AppDynamics RUM js config is leaking their internal hostnames in the page source too.
The counter is if you hold cash when other assets crash your cash will likely retain its worth (currency depending). That said right now cash is not a great asset to be holding - with inflation on the rise.
It's the other way around: The criticism of these tech companies and surveillance practices often comes from developers. Organisations like the EFF or the whole crypto anarchist thing is carried by developers. In Germany, data privacy and security is a core topic of the CCC, which is originally a hacker organization. When I refused to get a ID card with a chip in it, the women at the other side of the table asked me why all the people refusing them are computer scientists like me ("Because we know how the systems are made").
This is a utopian fantasy. Humans have been making tools for killing people since we were living in caves.
Not really - we are an _optional_ abstraction layer for infra-as-code. Terraform isn't really abstracting away infrastructure, it's a one-to-one mapping of every resource. A bit like assembly langugage.

We are a compiler of higher-level concepts into Terraform, with an option to just go and write Terraform if you need smth very custom.
Careful, that domain is shadowbanned from submissions at HN...
Wow, well they had some pretty fundamental design problems that the author points out. Infinite recursion due to back linking is a pretty easy way to max out your bill. I'm glad that Google forgave the bill at least.
Other way round, they want to disincentive people who want to come and live and work in Germany from applying on the grounds of seeking asylum.
Assessing an asylum application is an lengthy, arduous process, there are plenty of people who would take the chance.
There are already adapters for J1772 to Tesla, and the Teslas sold in Europe already have CCS ports because the EU mandated this. IMO it's not as big of a problem as people imagine.

What likely will end up happening, long term, is that Tesla will switch to CCS plugs in the US as well, and retrofit their older cars.
Literally everybody other than Tesla is using the J1772 connector with CCS for fast charging. CHAdeMO was around for a while but nobody is using it on new vehicles anymore.
> Elegant syntax. Crystal is highly inspired by Ruby and it has a lovely elegant syntax.

Agree 100%. I still haven't written any Crystal, but I read through parts of the code-base, out of curiosity, and it is some of the most pleasant compiler code I've ever read.
Should be, perhaps, but nothing requires the voters in a democracy to think so, or even to put that very high on their priority list.

Viewed from my armchair, the American voters appear to really want some kind of health system that does not involve any form of the word "social". Given that constraint, what they have seems to be quite good.
Book Release Announcement: “Diagnosis”
Discord is used heavily by OSS communities and other such projects; but I've yet to see it used by companies.

It really doesn't target the enterprise customer, or even SMEs
Very impressive. keep it up. Nepal has a thriving developer scene and we should do everything to nurture it.

If you are looking for Python freelance gigs then please ping me through email in my profile.
Perhaps the scope of "Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses" should be expanded, or similar legislation
GPU Programming in Julia
So is it fair to say that with tea relative to coffee, you get all the cognitive benefits and none of the arousal downsides (e.g, anxiety)?
In germany, policies in the 60ies and 70ies were designed to increase car ownership. People didn’t want cars. They wanted transportation from A to B and public policies made cars the most attractive option.
Like what? Nothing I’ve seen comes close to the ease of use and developer experience. My only gripe is that they’re US and EU only, would like an APAC region.

Fly.io is a leap ahead, probably move there next. But what’s a better Heroku than Heroku?
This isn't part of the evaluation, but it's a useful item to include for conversation starters. Whether these are useful conversation starters in a particular company is up to your judgement.

If you are interviewing for an Alcohol friendly company then the calculator might be a fun side project that shows you know Android development. Raytheon would probably love the ballistic energy calculator. If your interviewing with the quaker church then both items will probably have you rejected for culture fit.
The Audi e-tron GT charges at 270KW. Pretty close already. A standard petrol/gas pump pushes 22MW, or ~7MW equivalent when taking into account ICE efficiency.
Thanks! And yes, it's unbelievable how hard it become. It all started with 2-3 basic concepts to abstract away servers; now it's like its own maze
Generating Microservices Boilerplate with CookieCutter
I think if this happened an Bezos has such a revelation, then this whole thing might have been worth it. However, given that his ex-wife seems to be spreading her wealth around and he hasn't caught the "bug" yet, I think this seems like a very remote possibility.
> Their servers do not magically mean you can stream things from their servers to your client as if you had a fast internet connection if you do not.

Nobody is arguing that they did. The point is that you don't stream things from the server that require a fast internet connection, just video of the server.
They may be, if in fact the people sitting on the boards of both are the same...
It takes dozens of lines of code to draw a triangle in modern OpenGL. You were presumably using immediate mode, which is ancient and deprecated because it has horrible performance on modern hardware. Given that the whole point of an API for hardware accelerated graphics is better performance, that's a big problem.

Immediate mode OpenGL not even a particularly friendly API, either. I found its implicit global mutable state for things like the matrix stack to be deeply confusing. There's much better drawing libraries out there if what you're looking for is ease-of-use.
If this figure is true, do you see the symbolism of it as I do? It's not 49%, where the individual will still work mostly for themselves but 51%, where the state owns the majority of the labor for each individual. I find this number chilling.
Into the Borg – SSRF inside Google's production network
Unpopular opinion: We would've been better off keeping web plugins and isolating those in a "click to play"-container rather than turning the web browser into an operating system.
Spreadsheet.com raises $5.5m to create the all-in-one spreadsheet for teams
Although this appears the be the case with the broader community, in the development space of bitcoin itself the community there appears very serious about tackling privacy, scalability and censorship resistance of bitcoin.

Over time, most of the people shilling "coin go up" memes have lost interest in bitcoin and have moved to other coins, leaving space for this kind of thing to develop in bitcoin.
> It’s easier to program a TI-89 calculator than an iPhone.

This is just false. Have a look at Pythonista or one of the numerous JavaScript idea. Hell, there’s even an ocaml environment on iPhone.

It could be a lot better, I agree, but it’s already vastly superior to a ti calculator.
> Because not everyone can charge at home and in cities people will rely on curbside charging, for which Tesla has no answer.

Sorry, totally disagree that EVs (electric only, not hybrids) will be viable for more than a teeny percentage of apartment dwellers if their building doesn't support charging. Curbside charging just won't cut it for most people, for the simple fact that the most common time when people want to charge their cars at night, when the car is in their garage.
When I say "zinc and copper lobby" I'm referring to Jarden Zinc products, the sole supplier of penny blanks. The penny business means a whole lot to them.

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary...
An Update from Urbit
I think this is a very rude feedback and lazy on your part to use this on iphone when it is clearly not intended for mobile use. I think it is very clear what's in it for the site owners.

> host it on their own domain

You can embed it in full page in your site. Little hacky I know.
Sorry, I don't. It's not something I follow, and with access to campuses still restricted, I've only the occasional stumbled-on gossip to go on. That last "Monster submarine surfacing" sentence was excessive. And calling $30M failure, given the difference in payload mass, was just silly. I was tired, and should have punted or pruned the comment.
Exploring the Intersection of Fitness and Gaming
On the utility of crisis-gaming AI risks
I always ask candidates if they have anything to show off. I am _always_ more interested in what people do as a side project than I am of what they have done professionally.

Hyperbole time but I think it conveys the message: People do side projects for better reaons than they do professionally. At worst it's because they want to quickly learn/achieve something for their next job. Compared to professional experience, where at best it's because they were paid to do it and any fun or whatever altruism is a byproduct.

There are lashings upon lashings of caveats and nuance of course. For a senior role I will still be looking for interpersonal skills not just technical achievement. Part of being a senior is managing yourself, selling your ideas/concerns, mentoring and managing peers, and to some extent managing your managers.

FWIW your side projects are great examples and I'd would be impressed.
Comparison of the life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of combustion and EV cars
The anti-melt laws are to protect against:

1. Government spends 1.2 cents to buy metal for a penny.
2. Government makes a penny and sells it to you for a cent.
3. You melt it and sell the metal back to the market for 1.2 cents

Rinse, lather, repeat.
The scarcity of an item like a 25 year old Nintendo game will only increase with time, I think was the authors intention
There is that concept that people are comfortable with surveillance, even want it. A maybe somewhat fringe pop cultural reference to that is in Deus Ex (2000), the best video game made so far:

> JC Denton: "Some people just don't understand the dangers of indiscriminate surveillance."

> Morpheus: "The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms."

> JC Denton: "Electronic surveillance hardly inspires reverence. Perhaps fear and obedience, but not reverence."

> Morpheus: "God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment and punishment. Other sentiments towards them were secondary."

> JC Denton: "No one will ever worship a software entity peering at them through a camera."

> Morpheus: "The human organism always worships. First, it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment."

One can watch it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b-bijO3uEw, but it's stronger when experienced as part of the game.
Not everyone can charge at home, and access to charging infrastructure is a selling point for those people.
https://www.rfi.fr/en/europe/20190919-airbus-probed-over-all...

https://www.thelocal.se/20120525/41042/ (not quite a smoking gun, there)
Honestly, a smartphone is more powerful than any of the computers I used to learn HTML, JS or CSS. Better screen resolution too. The main problem is screen size.

Also, TIL you can buy screen magnifiers for under $20. e.g.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=screen+magnifier
I hate that Netbooks died. I think they were just too good for too cheap of a price. A full environment (who cares if it’s slower) often costs far more now. It fell victim to market segmentation. We got locked down tablets (whose OSes were end-of-lifed soon after release) that were optimized for passive consumption instead of boundless creation.
You don't see an issue with non-Indians making millions off the memory of Sitting Bull miles away from a reservation that is one of the poorest areas in America?
It's ~90% copied from their CSS, I had to make a few adjustments sometimes. I used my own tool (CSS Scan - https://getcssscan.com) to copy the CSS.

The only buttons made from inspiration were the ones from the macOS Big Sur (number 10, 11, and 12).

Also, a few buttons used JS to change styles according to the cursor and I had to remove this part.
Do a lot of $50,000+ cars get sold in third world countries? I'm not sure those markets are a priority for Tesla.