skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. The government including the IRS allowed them to prohibit this. They also allowed them to scam the United States citizens into paying to have your taxes done when they were supposed to provide a free means for most people to do them. Intuit and the others like them should be banned from providing tax services to anyone for life.
looks expensive
The list monad is simple but not a representative example of monads in general. Teaching it to beginners tends to create major misconceptions like thinking all monads are collections or collection-like or "have values in".
This is pretty much how tax works in New Zealand.

I received a tax return this year, which surprised me because I hadn’t filled anything out.

Turns out they just use the details provided by your employer, tax paid and send you your return.

I assume you can request a revaluation to submit additional expenses, etc.

Note: this is for standard employment. I’ve been contracting since then and have an app/service handling taxes for me now.
Dunno why you got downvoted. Some FOSS projects have zero server resources, and GitLab updates are... well... let's just say I had to turn off automatic updates for our instance at work because of how frequently they broke it, meaning I have to manually update it every few weeks.
Take it a piece at a time.
Solaris 2.6 on QEMU part 2: wget
The University of Waterloo has the Centre for Education in Mathematics and computing. They have some good material for grades 7 & 8 as well as high school.

https://cemc.uwaterloo.ca/resources/courseware/courseware.ht...
>There is absolutely no way either political party will allow a multi-party system to ever exist.

I've suspected for a while that the real secret to getting PR/MMP (=> multiparty) in the US is getting the Catholics on board. They're sick of the Trumpists and libertarians in the Republican Party but they'll never support the vehemently pro-choice Democrats. They should be obvious fans of a multiparty movement, and they have the political and media heft to move the needle.

Alas, I'm not Christian and my views are quite a bit left of theirs, so I don't think they'll listen to me. And most PR advocates have more in common with me than with the modal Catholic American.
> I think they are shell shocked from vista and will never make drastic changes again.

Did you ever use Windows 8? Because that released in 2012, just 5 years after Vista. Drastic, un-asked for changes that ruined the user experience; hideous tablet/touch interface that was mostly unusable; sub-par touch/app development model that no one adopted.

Basically it was another Vista-like release all over again.
Seriously, as someone who does not use Facebook because I think it is harmful, I think we should put ourselves in his shoes for a second. There is no right way to answer Facebook scale questions, seriously.

What would you do?
Good riddance. Like any tech company, the topic has nuance. FB provides utility, no doubt about it. It's also a massive double-edged sword with nasty trade-offs.

What is finally coming to light through this is the anger that's existed forever with individuals who want to opt out, but can't. Individuals who do not want this moralizing, tone-deaf inevitability projected by Zuck/Sandberg/supporters. Every parent that's had to fight their PTA, citizen that's fought their community group, or parent even countering own parents about wanting to participate in those critical aspects of civic life, but not doing it on Facebook - "no, you can't post a picture of my kid on there." This is putting aside the Q, the DJT, the absurd Hurricane Maria VR tour Zuck took, the "Lean In" paired with insta body shaming....the everything of the last 4+ years.

FB is not some corner of the internet, it's not like privacy/encryption/crypto types you can sort of ignore and leave it at that. It wormed its way into so many aspects of life, and the only way to live a "normal" life and avoid it is to be sort of an abrasive a-hole to people you love. I'm so glad this anger is finally getting a voice. If this turns south, the company has what's coming to it.
Stratospheric aerosol injections are the logical stopgap measure until carbon scrubbing tech reaches maturity.

Stratospheric aerosols are extremely well understood and the tech is mature today. We know from historical volcanoes exactly how the climate respond to dosage. The cost is dirt cheap, $10 billion/year, a rounding error for the US military budget. Moreover it requires no exotic tech, simply pre-existing missile delivery systems.

The only downside is that the aerosols have to be refreshed semi-annually. So if civilization breaks down for some reason we get a sudden slingshot heating effect. For that reason, it’s not a long-long term solution. But it will more than suffice for 50-100 years to get carbon scrubbing tech enough time to mature.
And they're really good at it! If somebody only sees one, or if somebody sees them so infrequently that they forget in the meantime, it's very plausible. Which is of course their purpose. And Facebook itself is practically a machine for making people forget about long-term patterns.
Seems like you more than anyone would see that solving the types of problems FB is trying to solve eg: freedom of speech vs user safety / harm reduction is not some super simple problem, no? I wouldn't call Reddit evil despite the fact that many powermods are both amazing contributors doing free labor and curating great communities while also simultaneously abusing their power every day to silence people they disagree with, shaping narratives in human culture, automating blanket unappealable bans on users for participating in unrelated subreddits (even if you were participating in that subreddit in order to combat its views), making snap judgments on content moderation that might ruin someone's day when they make a bad call on a ban or delete, or unilaterally self appointing themselves as mouthpieces for their broader communities via subreddit blackouts or preachy pinned posts.

It's unfortunate that when you build a product so close to the ground of human communication and human nature you're never going to be able to get everything right, and you're no longer solving technology problems alone but trying to basically combat basic human moral failing itself. We don't ask that of the telephone company.

^ That being said, we can only excuse some of their failures with the above line of thinking. Others we can blame on greed or recklessness, or ignoring the social costs of something like ML recommenders optimizing for engagement. Not sure if those things deserve to be called evil, but I'd still hold back personally. Misguided, overcome by greed, or reckless, perhaps.
Has anyone had a problem accurately measuring ads performance for a SaaS product?
I certainly did with my own business, and it's an incredibly painful problem to solve!

I almost gave up running ads because I was getting very confusing results!
In a SaaS, conversions are much harder to track:
* because of long sales funnels
* LTV can be very different for customers coming from ads
* churn can be higher
* so much more...
It's a mess and it's difficult to decide which ad you should spend more money on if you don't have a clear picture of what's happening.

Tracking it down to each visitor makes it super clear.

I'm looking for a few more fellow founders or their marketing team to add to our Beta program. Want in?
Those are valid points. But you don't need to add the square footage of the Amazon, what also happens is that forests become more dense per square foot. But not only forests, grassland sequesters about 343 gigatons and that rate has been growing at half a gigaton/year as the grassland gets taller/denser due to increasing carbon in the air. Biomass in topsoil itself sequestors twice as much carbon as biomass in trees, but this covers only 3% of the earth's surface. This paper has a nice overview[1]

[1] https://innovate-eco.com/storing-carbon-in-plants-and-trees-...
The complexity of the system is too great. It’s similar to how the economy runs, there are many very intentioned, intelligent (event brilliant) people who study and focus on it. The problem is it is so complex that no one can fully understand all the components. Not to mention the amount of people in Facebook and in the economy who are intentional bad actors.

I’m not saying they are blameless I just always have a tough time laying all the blame on a couple people.
It's always been a little overwhelming but in the past few years it's definitely increased.

I stick to learning only what is sensibly required for the project, which can be complicated enough if that means React, redux, GraphQL, Angular, NgRx, etc.

The time to learn comes when there is an actual need to build something on a reliable, widely adopted tool/framework.

You learned this much and you won't forget how to learn. Trying to learn everything on the rapidly expanding edge is not necessary.

If you still feel compelled to learn something on the frontier pick a small area to make it scale.

Otherwise yeah Javascript has become only more insanely complicated lately.
How is giving access to user data for "research" is better than that whole data privacy scandal with Cambridge Analytica.

these days research comes with a set of politically charged assumptions, for example the definitions of "hate speech" and "misinformation" are different based on which political camp you ask

So giving access to Cambridge Analytica is bad but to some other partisan "think tank" is fine? who would make those decisions?
I don't remember him communicating with much remorse ever since Facebook started. His communication style seems very similar to how I think it's been over the years.

Does it seem different to you?
I've heard this so much from my grandmother, who is turning 90 this month in fact. That's 1920s but that kind of thinking was still around. I remember when I was really young how my great grandmother used to talk and act. She was super funny sometimes.
Intel tries to bash Apple again with a terrible ‘social experiment’ ad
at this point i'd just expect any exchange to be breached at some stage.

if you want to be be safe you should store your crypto in cold storage rather than online
sorry Mark, I won't read your non-sense.
> Each individual can have a unique identifier that is not linked to their identity.

If that idenifier is unlinked to their identity, how do they cryptographically prove their identity when voting? How do you audit voter rolls?

This is a red herring anyway since I was specifically talking about cryptocurrency. In a purely decentralized cryptocurrency economy, taxation becomes impossible. You can't prevent pseudonymous economic transactions and the existence of privacy orriented cryptocurrenciesean that transactions can always route through that layer to turn that pseudonymity into anonymity.

The entire current use case for cryptocurrencies is literally evading the rule of law (and speculation.)

I have sympathies with anarchic ideals and issues with democratic processes, but please don't try to pass one off as the other.
I don't know of any PC fan which draws more than 0.2A, apart from server fans.
I can't believe his PR handlers let that get out.

As someone else said in the comments already, today's testimony wasn't about whether or not Facebook does research, it was about them hiding the results when they didn't support whatever drivel FB marketing puts out about changing the world for the good of all mankind.

This is so incredibly on brand for Zuckerberg (and Sandberg). This sort of gaslighting FUD is exactly what they always do when they get caught lying. They just lie more.
Breaking the Spell: Social Experiment – Intel
There is a phenomenon I have witnessed working both in high growth startups and traditional Fortune 500s. At some point, the company starts attracting Dark Triad personality types that cement themselves in upper management positions, usually starting at Director level. These people are extremely dangerous, one of them had access to my corporate laptop (as was standard policy for that company) and would torment me by screwing with me on a daily basis.

When an organization becomes too large or bureaucratic, these Dark Triad types hide and typically exert their influence and power and will behind the scenes. This is why these companies seem “evil”, but it’s usually not the founders’ fault, a lot of times they’re unaware of it, or one of the founders is also a sociopath and will protect the evil cabal. That’s my two cents about it anyway.
This message is written for everyone but certainly to shore up employees.
> The whistleblower allegations and hearings were mostly about the impact facebook products have on kids.

So where's the strong evidence? Is 15% of teens reporting bad feelings the big headliner? Surveys showing weak correlations with depression? What evidence do you have to even mention Facebook in the same breath as other strictly controlled products? You keep pointing to whistleblower allegations and hearings like that's evidence of anything except perhaps Congress' apparently infinite appetite for political grandstanding and an ex-employee's apparently infinite appetite for authoritarian regulation. Nicotine didn't become a controlled substance because 15% of teen smokers reported feeling bad about themselves or tended to be more depressed on average. The bar should be even higher when you consider that Facebook is a platform for speech which has more protections for good reason.

> I believe some form of expanded COPPA laws for children under 16 wouldn't hurt.

Yes it would hurt, it would hurt business and it would hurt the choice of children under 16. COPPA is already extremely onerous and in practice amounts to a ban for most services. What's your industry, I wonder? I'm sure there are plenty of laws I can think of that "wouldn't hurt". Unsurprisingly, "wouldn't hurt" is not the standard by which a free society legislates.
The FPGA vendor provided soft cores have about the same amount of engineering rigor as a hard core.

I'm not sure what you mean by engineering rigor, but there is indeed plenty of engineering to get from a soft core to a hard core, let alone a fabricated, working chip: synthesis, layout, place and route, timing closure, pads, PLL/DLL, clock tree insertion, BIST, thermal, packaging, etc...
That's correct, Firetable is now Rowy. We are the original creators of the Firetable open-source project and now rebranded to Rowy with tons of new features added in our latest v2.0 launch.

I was the Head of Technology/Global Partner at Antler and I have left recently to build this company.

Check out our github: https://github.com/rowyio/rowy
At peak power the M1 is also struggling to achieve 1/2 the performance of the 5950x, if that. The peak power draw is for the multi threaded workloads, where the m1's 4+4 obviously loses badly to the all the big 16c/32t 5950x
I absolutely detest the polarization happening right now. I will however say that I deleted Facebook and Instagram about a year ago because I found myself comparing myself to my female peers to the point I was insecure, feeling inadequate, and becoming materialistic despite my highly successful medical career, stable personal life and abundance of positive happenings in my life. I think it can definitely affect women especially but anyone is at risk. Once I deleted I have felt much more secure and less preoccupied with these issues.
I worked with a guy who was an amateur pilot, and he had an opinion about dual engine planes. He said the purpose of the second engine was to get you to the scene of the crash.
> I’m not a fb apologist by any means, but maybe we should stop blaming these websites for everything and invest in education instead.

Even educated people are susceptible to content that is specifically designed to incite outrage and divide us. Facebook (and other sites) optimize for that type of content because it maximizes engagement. Teenage girls developing body image issues also apparently maximizes engagement.

If there's any framing here that absolves Facebook of culpability, it's that everyone else is doing it too, and that there are no laws/regulations in place to prevent it... But even then, it's still obviously immoral to anyone paying attention, and the employees responsible for it at Facebook have no excuse for not realizing that. They chose to act immorally.
This was the cynic's response to Snowden, too. Hard to argue he didn't make a large and positive impact in the end, so I'm willing to give this a chance too.
Hey, I’m one of the engineers working on Rowy. We use react-data-grid [1], which has built-in support for virtualized lists rendering. They have demo of a table with 1000 rows and the scrolling stays smooth [2]

[1] https://github.com/adazzle/react-data-grid/
[2] https://adazzle.github.io/react-data-grid/#/common-features
OT: Why is every company's response to "deceptive ads that sneak in via programmatic ad exchanges" (AKA: every ad ever) to review some subset of them, after they're already displaying them, instead of ads requiring approval before they are ever displayed like they should?
I wonder how Facebook’s algorithm works.

I know YouTube’s just recommends based on what you just watched/search (you can disable this aspect by clearing or disabling your histories), channels you have subscribed to, (I believe) videos you have “Like” or commented on, and videos you have marked as “Not interested -> I do not like this video”.

Is Facebook’s as “viewer driven”? Or does it recommend based other criteria? e.g. like what’s generally popular.
I'm optimistic but not particularly bothered as long as X86 goes the way of the dodo i.e. people have argued that ARM could be the better ISA for the processor in your laptop.

One thing that we will have to see about is whether the extension model they have now actually holds in the future e.g. will we see a high performance fork of RISCV in the future, or simply (say) a chinese-only company who don't particularly care using parts of the instruction encoding space for their own purposes.
What's sad about this is the scam site is still up and running.
In fact, almost all numbers are transcendental (algebraic numbers have measure zero).
Where have all the truck parts gone?
You will see with time that Microsoft has not really changed. They go through cycles when they're behind, they're nice, when they're ahead, they're jerks. The problem is people keep getting fooled by the "embrace" aspect of their embrace, extend, extinguish tactic, because it seems like, "oh hey, Microsoft's here! They're helping out! This is great!".

A lot of times, the folks responsible for welcoming the embrace part of the cycle either move on to actually work at Microsoft or elsewhere, and then the following two steps usually take place after they're gone.

Microsoft has also been really good at seeding standards organizations or pushing out sock puppet companies/representatives to advocate for positions that undermine their competitors.

There's really no long-term good practices. The short term niceties are all just to get the foot in the door to finish their cycle.
> stop falling for authoritarian claptrap

If only it were so easy.
Great list.

The statement “causation does not imply correlation”, while true in some contrived settings, is obstructive as a heuristic in my opinion. It is an anti-productive and unimportant diversion in any setting I can imagine it coming up.

Causation does indeed imply correlation, by tautology, using a very reasonable definition causation in the context of linear correlations.
I disagree! As a novice speaker of French I know that literal translations are no good, but to take such liberties is too much! Yes, the intent is correct but it is harsh when reconciling what you are hearing with what you are reading.
No that's of girls who have thoughts of suicide, 13.5% say it makes it worse. Ok, is that good or bad? The number is meaningless without a control.
Same, I would much rather have no audio. Or, better yet... just record it yourself, or find a friend willing to.
Shouldn't it then be possible to account for and correct for the emergent evil? That's the point of government regulation is it not? Maybe then an appropriate, self-critical response from Facebook would be, "Yeah, our system is broken. How can we help?" instead of immediately going on the defensive. If they claim to care about the bigger picture, they need to acknowledge it without excuses.
I’m saddened by the fact that I have to login to Facebook to see the statement, but I think that says a lot.
I actually think this analogy is the very opposite of what you may be trying to explain.

A lot of people that work at slaughterhouses do so because they have no other choice. It is the best opportunity that's afforded to them. It is a job that causes trauma for many, often has long, grueling hours, and doesn't pay well.

Working at Facebook couldn't be further from that situation. Never mind the obvious perks (the tech, the white collar work, the gourmet food, I hear there's also a wood shop where you can go do woodworking on your break, the half a million dollar salary, etc etc etc). But the overwhelming majority of these people have the whole world of job opportunities to choose from, if they're willing to take a pay cut from an INSANELY HIGH salary to just a VERY HIGH salary.

So in that sense, they couldn't be further away from working at a slaughterhouse. The fact is, they could quite literally work anywhere else (any other company or any other city/country with remote work now), and they choose not to. It's not desperation but the textbook case of golden handcuffs.

It's very, very difficult to say no to 500k a year. I'm not even sure I could say no if I were in that position. I'd probably tell myself "Just coast for two more years and both my kids won't have to pay for college" or something like that, and keep going.
both Apple and Intel deserve all the bashing they can get...
18/12 = 1.5 > sqrt(2) = 1.4..
Unless I'm missing something, I want a "Save DOM as file"
The Zeppelin NT is great. I got to ride on one of their last California flights. One of the best things was being right there with the pilots. They showed us how the controls work and were happy to take little detours if we wanted to see something.

Here's a comment from a couple of years ago with links to some Zeppelin information and my photos from the flight:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21662645
Yes, it does seem different to me. I remember him often publicly apologizing after big controversies caused by Facebook's actions.

If you search the web for "timeline of zuckerberg apologies" you'll find articles enumerating his public apologies over the years.
The engine itself is in C++, but it calls in to TensorFlow via Python as a portability/distribution vs. performance trade-off.

Next steps could be using one of Lc0's backends for GPU scenarios, or taking the other side of the trade and using the C++ API for TPU.

There's also your typical CPU and memory optimizations that could be made - some baseline work there but not targeted.
murdoch
> Mostly on the Mac.

iOS 11 and 13 were both pretty crappy, not to mention weird misses like the Podcasts app. I can't see those releasing when Steve Jobs was at the helm, unless the situation was desperate. (An example of a desperate situation would be when you’re current products run Mac OS 9).
Monty Hall is there, albeit inside the answer to a stack overflow question linked in Misc #33
The fact that people such as Peter Turchin predicted a peak in US political polarization starting in around 2020 (a prediction made in a published paper in an academic journal in 2010) shows that surely FB is not the immediate cause. But that's kind of like how gasoline doesn't start fires. It doesn't, but it accelerates them, and makes the consequences worse.