skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We have that. It's called a "tax return".

I believe GP's point is that a tax return only lists a small subset of the taxes being collected from a citizen, giving the impression that the amount is smaller than it is.

Social Security taxes are a great example of this - for W2 employees they don't show up on their tax return at all. And even if the employee looks at the box labeled "social security tax" on their W2, that's still only half of it, because the other half is a "payroll tax" that the employee never sees, even in their "gross income".

When you add consumption taxes, making sure to include both the ones that show up as "sales tax" on a receipt and the ones that get baked into the price (e.g. gas taxes), it becomes extremely difficult to come up with an individual's fully-loaded tax rate.
I am not that concerned with these opaque URLs as they are basically unguessable (and you will need the URLs to download the data if you are destroying your Google profile, so no other authentication is possible)

But for how long are they retained? Are they generated during the takeout process or do they exist since the photo was uploaded?
I'm confused about how this is on the front page. The title says they've raised a Series B at a big valuation but the link is just their marketing page, with no mention whatsoever of a raise.
Kashmir would like a word.
It’s also really hard to audit, so if Google shares it and people access it, Google won’t know.

This is not cool for me because I don’t want my photos available to people other than me, even if they have my magic url with a token I didn’t create and can’t revoke.
http://lemmy.ml is a federated libre source link aggegator built on Rust ( https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy )
Googler, opinions are my own.

Google has been doing this for a while, as can be seen when the reporters wrote about it 2 years ago: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/17/18629789/google-purchase-.... HN discussed it at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19942219

You can see the information it has already collected if you use Google, by visiting: https://myaccount.google.com/purchases

Though oddly my list is empty. I wonder if I disabled this feature at some point?

The help docs: https://support.google.com/accounts?p=orders&hl=en, explain how you can delete this data if you want to.
Neural networks are decades and decades old.
I resonate with the article, though there are probably more precise ways to frame the phenomenon. It's not that students don't/can't understand the filesystem, but that it's not a central part of their mental model for working with a computing device. After all, it doesn't really need to be when I have an app-centric view of computing.

I teach an intro to networks once or twice a year with a heavy emphasis on Linux networking, and for the last three or four years, I've started the class with a brief primer on file system organization, home directories, and a few other topics that were never an issue for previous groups of students.

I don't think the main obstacle is conceptual as much as helping them understand that folder hierarchies, path variables, and related concepts are important details of the work so that they'll take the time to learn to use and navigate them effectively.
Wow that Stage0 project is amazing, didn't realize anyone went that far, thanks for the reference!

A more direct link for other interested readers:
https://bootstrapping.miraheze.org/wiki/Stage0
wow, nobody thought of that, you are a genius and a scholar, perceiving so many variables simultaneously!

(the article mentions this)
So forgive me for just being a slave to the downvotes, but this is the daily reminder to think critically. What I'd like to know from this user to clarify what's happening here is whether they are a Google Pay user, and if they have "Show bills & receipts from Gmail" enabled in Google Pay. It defaults to off, for what it's worth, but if you enable the feature it might have the effect of pinning this data even if the source emails are deleted.
I'm on high speed Internet and the loading animation was slowly spinning long enough for me to close the tab without seeing anything else.
I'm not sure it's such a bad idea. You can take it too far of course.

I for one love passive cooling. I select my (no Apple hardware in my house) hardware for silent operation where possible. Started with selecting the right fans and sound proofing my desktop PCs back when and now I'm only buying laptops that do well with the cooling noise. Meaning, if all I do is browsing HN, you better not turn on any fans on me. And when a fan is turned on, it has to be silent and have the right "sound profile". There's just some noise that's very very irritating and the decibels are just one aspect of it.

So if someone does everything they can to do without active cooling, I support that. Now if they can't, put the right kind of fan in there, sure. E.g. on a GPU I'm fine with some cooling noise, but it better only happen when I'm likely not to notice because I'm loudly slaying aliens or something like that.
Be nice if a service like this allowed us to keep all the responses as meta data so that we can auto-fill every recruiters and job application site's fields automatically with our pre-existing answers.

I'm sure there is a browser extension somewhere that does this.

"Thanks for uploading your resume! Now forget we ever asked and fill all the same details out for us again!"
I wish they would send useful emails to non @gmail.com addresses though
Yeah - I think Apple's 30% cut is a racket and a bad incentive for them. They should make money by shipping incredible products, not taxing everyone who builds for them.

That said, I like the app store rules they can enforce like IAP - I just don't think they should be taking a cut. If they want to charge a flat one time fee of like $100 to publish then fine, but profit sharing seems wrong to me.

My worry is their aggressiveness in defending their tax will cause blow back that damages their ability to leverage their rules. A worse outcome is one where they keep the tax, but app devs are allowed around the rules. This is starting to happen (an admittedly tiny bit) by them being forced to allow links out to sign up off of the phone.

If they just forced people to use IAP for their user's benefit (easy cancellation, easy account subscription tracking and privacy, easy payment), but didn't take a cut that would be the best outcome for their users and it'd be an easier argument to win in the public eye.
If I was white, I would definitely put my photo on my resume. But I'm not.

I'm a senior executive with impeccable credentials: top 1 bank, top 3 engineering school, ivy league undergrad, executive at Series A firm. top notch names on my resume.

Except on LinkedIn, the majority of inbounds i get are recruiters trying to get me to join in as entry level. I'm not speaking about mass-mailings, i'm speaking about entire screening conversations where they are telling me about this "promising" entry level role. Occasionally, i'll get a good recruiter pitching me a VP or CTO role (as I would expect) but these are rare.

My white friends say they are constantly pitched with VP and Director roles.
Thanks for this. I am most interested in mathematical comparisons. That is to say, ways in which optimal analog computation (idealizing away from noise propagation, among other things) might be sometimes better than its digital counterpart. Your last point about diff equations is directly relevant to this.
I believe in the Facebook dispute Apple only disabled their Enterprise account because that's the one they were abusing.

Losing the Enterprise account wouldn't prevent Facebook from pushing their apps on to the store, but they would not longer be able to distribute internal apps outside the App store.
Pihole just includes some well known lists.. and what they've included by default has changed over time.

I think it's currently this:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/h...
It benefits them in many ways. Good luck figuring out where a random Amazon box was ordered from if there are multiple buyers in your household.
Didn't Google X try out something similar, and then decided it was uneconomical?

https://x.company/projects/foghorn/
That's interesting, thanks you for the explanation, makes sense to me!
By the way, besides the wacky keyboard blind people also have another, erhm, ‘perk’ in their use of phones: they, pretty obviously, keep the brightness at zero. Gonna last a long time on a charge.

I keep thinking occasionally that some things that I do with the phone could be done with a small one-handed wireless remote/controller and audio output—so I could trigger them while doing something else, e.g. walking outside. For example, Anki already supports either a specific remote or bluetooth remotes in general, and has TTS. Also, there are games using audio as output, which might work in a similar manner—may be interesting to try, if not very engrossing.
Absolutely not, rather than just _close_ their access, FB and Insta are clearly already a honeypot. The governments and tech should use it to roll up every trafficking operation until the slave traders find another place, then they should get them there.
Perfect! Then we could just ask people their local noon offset. You don't want it to be too granular, so your city or town holding an event at 1:00PM is not equal to 1:05 for your offset, let's round it to an hour per offset. To make these easy to identify, we could agree on noon offset names and then take these into account when you are coordinating with the person with a different noon offset than your own.

I call it "The Internationally Mandated Earthly-Zoned Offset from Noon-Epoch System" or TIMEZONES for short and I think it's really gonna catch on.
Edison [1] (who was acquired [2] today by a company that sells your data to hedge funds) does precisely this too, except they sell all your data to third parties. Google at least keeps it in-house I guess?

Privacy is such an illusion.

[1] https://mail.edison.tech/

[2] https://www.edison.tech/blog/edison-acquired-by-yipit
or short sold so many futures that they need people buying enough so there is liquidity for them to get out of the contracts.
Decimate means to kill 1 in 10, thus the 'deci' part.
No, but I'd jump at the opportunity to build my startup around your tech
Another Elizabeth Holmes?
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it's only a matter of time until evolution kicks in and gives us the capability to digest them
California unemployment claims rocket higher, worst in five months
You are describing Google Workspace
> overestimated the value of this sort of information.

What do you estimate is the value of a dossier of all purchases I make over my lifetime? Or at least the ones Google knows about.

It seems to me that this is very useful and valuable.
Facebook's various unofficial marketplaces like on Instagram and Whatsapp would be much safer if Facebook itself was involved and acting as escrow.

Safer for the buyers and sellers I mean, not the slaves.

Too many scammers out there, advertising slaves - in this context, but really any market - but are in fact without said goods.
But you were born in an echo chamber.

There is no "exit from" echo chambers.

There is no outside.

Your echo chamber is the source all of the stories and symbols that you use to make sense of the world.
I believe Gamestop has that kind of deal where they get a cut of digital store purchases for the consoles.
There will be a difference between a hovering helicopter and one travelling at cruising speed. I assume you experience more of the latter while I the former.
https://ergodox-ez.com/
The factories and equipment absolutely went away in the UK.

Torn down for imaginary stock market money that vanished in a few years anyway. Can thank the likes of Jim Slater[1] for that.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Slater_(accountant)
Well, read their data retention policy closely. They may discard the raw data after some time but the learning model they trained with it (a model all about you) they keep and continue to use.
Grass-finished. Think about what that means. Most (all besides veal?) eat grass. They finish them (fatten them before slaughter) with grain. That 99% isn't 100% grain. It consists of lots of grass.
To the past, in Europe.
Very interesting -- sadly, it doesn't look like he finished. By episode 6, it looks like he got OR running -- but his overview in the first video is spot on!
split boards like an ergodox are really quite good, especially in this regard for us broad-shouldered folks.
Oh yeah. Added to $ARKK and the whole nine yards.
The Web After Tomorrow beckons: https://tonsky.me/blog/the-web-after-tomorrow/

Well done, @dustingetz!
I'd expect nothing less, if I ask Google assistant about my last purchases, I expect it's going to show me the data. It's bad enough that Amazon doesn't include what you are purchasing in the email and that you have to open the site to see...
How I patched Python to include this great Ruby feature
I sometimes joke that I am going to build a VM that runs a docker container inside which there is only an electron wrapper around Facebook.com as an art project.
not sure about smartphones but Windows 11 will require a TPM, presumably for remote attestation
> I think you have overestimated the value of this sort of information.

Google's an advertising company. How is having a complete list of all the products I've purchased online not valuable? Seems like a great indication on what kinds of products Google can turn around and advertise back to me.
I still feel like that's better than Gemini, which doesn't work with any of the web.

Text over HTTP:

- Easy to write browsers
- Viewable by those browsers
- Can use other browsers
- Viewable by everyone else
- Can only see some other websites

Text over Gemini:

- Easy to write browsers
- Viewable by those browsers
- Cannot use other browsers
- Not viewable by everyone else
- Cannot see any other websites

What's the advantage of Gemini again?
How many colors do you need? What about bold, cursive, underline? Another font?
This is really similar to the Kinesis freestyle keyboard. https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/freestyle2-for-pc-us/ I really like it.
This is now off-topic, but ...

> It's not quite difficult to leave. It's actually very easy. The process of getting citizenship elsewhere can take a while. But if you leave and renounce US citizenship, there are many countries that will allow you to stay until you get citizenship there.

With a US passport, you can go many places and stay for a short time. You cannot, however, stay indefinitely. If you try, you will face many obstacles and quite possibly fail and be ejected.

Also, renouncing US citizenship is not like sending a letter or walking into an embassy and handing your passport back. There's an interview process and some financial preparation required.

Lastly, even if you did renounce, and you're somehow allowed to live in another country while you go through the (lengthy) process to get a new passport, you are now stuck in that one place. You cannot go anywhere. This is certainly not something you would do unless you were really desperate.

> It's not quite difficult to leave. It's actually very easy. The process of getting citizenship elsewhere can take a while. But if you leave and renounce US citizenship, there are many countries that will allow you to stay until you get citizenship there.

I was speaking of value to humanity, not value to FB execs and investors. This is not a money matter.

Finally, pointing out other bad things does not make this a not-bad thing. By this logic, you could excuse anything because you could always point to something worse.
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> Also, once you've got per-user encryption on ~/.ssh/authorized_keys you'll need some other mechanism for users to log in.

OpenSSH supports this through the AuthorizedKeysFile directive - it'd be quite simple for the homedir mounting tool to sync that file from the user's authorized_keys file on unmount.

You could also use SSH certificates, but that requires a CA - not ideal for the home user.
I've had a similar experience. A few hours into every workday I'd end up with shoulder pain. I ended up building my own split keyboard, and keeping each half spaced out roughly as wide as my shoulders entirely solved the problem. In hindsight the shoulder/arm position for a normal keyboard is just outright terrible... if you're even moderately broad you're so bunched up to type.
This is a cynical take, but it's an honest good faith effort on my part. I post a thorough comment in hopes that people can build on top of or destruct where it's wrong.

> The Federal Reserve has two mandates: maintaining maximum employment and maintaining stable prices and moderate long-term interest rates.

This seems fine at first glance, until you see that maximum employment does not mean maximum employment, and in fact you can have more than maximum employment. Last decade we had more than maximum employment and the Fed was expecting inflation that did not come. "Struggling to reach 2%".

Why was the Fed expecting inflation? Because when you have more than full employment, it converts the labor market from a buyer's market to a seller's market. This ties in with the other side of it's mandate: stable prices. Why would prices rise? If you read my water analogy comment[0], you could see that there are only two real ways. The rivers are higher, or the reservoirs are leaking. We have not seen any signs of reservoirs leaking.

So then the rivers are higher. What is the CPI really tracking? What is the Fed trying to keep under control? The ability for labor to negotiate. Why did we not get inflation even though we had above maximum employment? Wealth inequality. Monopolies. The business owners have all but shut down a perfect competition in the economy and can without discussing openly, act like a cabal.

Until CO-VID, until unemployment checks, until stimulus going out to people. Suddenly labor has an opportunity to negotiate. People are leaving their jobs and moving to higher paying ones. Work from Home is having companies compete from all over the nation, now you are not limited by your building size, you can employ as much as you can handle. Wages are being negotiated. Suddenly it's a seller's market.

So the rivers are rising. The Fed has to react according to their mandate. What will they do? The same thing they have done the last 8 times since the 70's, they rise rates. It's a proven strategy that when the Fed funds rate rises above the 30 year treasury rate[1], it de-stabalizes the economy. As a result within short order we get a recession. Recessions mean job losses, which means the market moves back to a buyer's market. Labor is happy to have any job at all. The rivers fall. Inflation is back off the table. Once the goal has been reached and the market has switched, they go ahead and drop the interest rates back down to 0. Let the free money be free once again.

So long as it does not cause disruptions? Disruptions for whom? To me it looks like the system is working exactly as it was designed.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25646585

[1]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=ENDs
You're welcome! And, to be clear, I share many of the concerns that you pointed out in your comment - plastic going into landfills and older, unclean incinerators is a problem, and it can be really hard (if not impossible) to tell its final destination. I just wanted to clarify that (the right) incinerators are a solution for disposal - but it'd be better to not use plastic in the first place (or, at least, not in disposable packaging - long-lived goods like phone cases and Legos are slightly better than one-time-use things like plastic bottles for sodas).
I haven't tried it but it looks amazing. Well done.
Sounds like the status quo with corporate cartels.
I think it's more talking about gmail purchase records, which can be viewed here: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/category%3Apurchase...
What if that IR is not radiated in the orbital plane of our Galaxy, but up and dow
I don't think that's what was intended. I think the idea is "Set your admissions bar to the minimum level, then admit however many students meet it."

Or, if you have only 800 possible seats, "Set your admissions bar, then pick 800 of them randomly". The more you "raise" the bar, the more your definition of "raise" matters. It will tend to select people who can afford (in time, money, connections, etc) to meet your specific criteria. And you run the risk of accidentally setting your criteria to be "more like me" (in looks, patterns of thought, etc.)

If you assume that your school can benefit anybody smart enough to meet your criteria, why not take as many as you can? And why not aim to get more people who couldn't focus on your criteria? Randomness won't seek them out, but it at least won't prefer a 1500 SAT by a student who does nothing but take SAT tests to a 1460 SAT by a student who has to work two part time jobs.
Flying very high and very fast poses timing challenges, in order to shoot it down you have to see it, make the decision to shoot it down, and then have an interceptor which is fast enough to make up for the detection lag, get to altitude, and get to location.

For something that could cross the continental US in a half hour or less, you can imagine there is not a lot of room for delay.
more important is to use ortholinear keyboard
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Sky is blue.
Could also be that they just want you back on their site because some ab test at some point decided you're more likely to be buy from them again if they can get you back onto amazon.com
As in function composition, a great idea from math but one that is hard to use for anything that isn't a functions with domain and range in R or N.
I remember windows 3.1.

Back in those days, the way they shipped - mmm it was a thing of beauty. I had to reinstall it every 2-3 months it was that good.
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The mistrust in Facebook's self-policing comes from the times they have buried internal studies which show that they're doing a poor job, or from intentionally making it difficult for outsiders to illustrate that they're doing a bad job.

It's one thing to say, "this is hard and we're not good at it yet". It's another to hide evidence and pretend to be doing a good job, especially when you're talking about human lives.
I would purchase it if it was one time only, outside of App Store distribution. But otherwise amazing notes app!
Well long as you click on the order link in chrome browser guess it's fair game :P
Feasibility aside, this is exactly what people want to hear today. Eliminate CO2 from the atmosphere and sell gasoline. You have to give them credit for the pitch, regardless of what is or isn't delivered.
This looks really awesome!

I always find myself looking for a mobile companion for these types of apps, though (it's what made me stop using Roam). Do you have any plans for a mobile app in the future? I assume the files could probably sync over iCloud as an optional feature.
Google has been offering that for years. It attracts the opposite complaint: a lot of the features you get with a gmail.com account don't work with the fancier accounts.
I don't think resistant bacteria is going to be an issue if you switch to other antibiotics. People have been using these antibiotics in media for decades and decades in cell culture already and this hasn't been a huge issue in this setting at least.
PHP doesn't reactively and selectively propagate changes between client and server, nor would it be feasible to write such a library in PHP itself. You could maybe achieve something similar with code generation of PHP and JS.
What an amazing (accidental?) troll. Part of me wants to head over to 4chan and watch the heads explode like popcorn.
Can't you get @yourdomain.com pointed to a gmail address? Businesses hosted using the Google suite as well.
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