skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point is that hardware manufactures should not close the software door on the way out to market.
Supersized AIs: Are truly intelligent machines just a matter of scale?
The IRS option Free File Fillable Forms has online forms that compute internal arithmetic and self-efile. This eliminates many hand math errors.

However this system isnt good at telling you which forms you need to file. You could miss an important one. For example sometimes you need a Schedule D and sometimes you dont. If you income reaches six figures you have to calculate the AMT and NIT forms to see whether they apply or not.
Embodied carbon is amortised over time, and is not considered for the Spanish grid comparison, as noted in the article, unless I missed it later on?
Honestly I don't expect it to happen. It's depressing, but I just don't think humanity collectively can take action on a scale like this without direct personal incentives, and I don't think there are any. I think we're going to drown in our waste products like yeast in a fermentation tank due to the tragedy of the commons.
I don't understand how "not having to file a tax return" can work. How does it account for all the information a government might not reasonably have about your wealth and economic activities? How do you apply for tax credits?
The taxation system is not particularly intricate here in Switzerland but there's absolutely no way a government that is not an orwelian surveillance state would have the required information about each person to pre-file their tax return.
The article makes a passing reference to "Google Fibers" and "a new API for cooperative scheduling in user space."

There seems to be a Phoronix article with some more info and a link to a preparatory patchset that's public: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-F...
Sorry, reading back I definitely come across as disagreeing - I would kill someone for task tracking software which supports giving the degree of uncertainty on an estimate.
Fully agree. The monopoly that is apple payments needs to be stopped. It's kind of shocking how many apple fanboys there are on HN that see nothing wrong with this.
This. I think I would actually give up on reddit without apollo, the official app and website are user-hostile. I wonder if they will tighten the API up and eventually kill third-party clients.
What about other creatures stuck in that same piece of amber? Are they from more recent times?
While all social media has issues that are valid to criticise, this is an astroturfed load of crap. Designed to facilitate more state control over what is ‘truth’ and promoting the state and powers that be messaging whilst squelching dissent. Twitter far more toxic. But it’s got the better censorship and messaging for the current state ideology. The right also has no corner on the conspiracy market nor trying to influence people through these outlets. Just looking at the automatic immediate pile on by the usual left promoting media sources is enough to smell the dung.
I remember I struggled to wrap my head around this in my microeconomics class when we first explored information asymmetry.
Regular people should talk to each other. But that is different than clicking 'like' button on a deluge of information nobody has the time to validate for accuracy or relevance. Worse, what actually gets propagated is not decided by regular people, rather by opaque algorithms controlled by a handful of mega-entities, Facebook / Twitter / Youtube; clicking the 'like' button is merely a loose signal.

Democracy needs healthy competition in the news space.
Facebook just needs to look at itself from a complex interacting systems point of view.

It is the structural incentives in the system that cause the problems.

So yes, evil and discrimination can be an emergent problem even though no individual intends harm.

Then you might also have bad actors who exploit those structural incentives/weaknesses.
Your fears are completely founded.
Reddit pushes the official client hard from the mobile website. I'm sure its marketshare is huge.
Once you rustle the feathers of traditional power centers (finance and law), expect them to hit back to keep the power hierarchy in place.
And not to forget https://github.com/rsta2/circle
Sounds like a pretty run-of-the-mill politician, maybe he'll hack it in D.C. after all. There's nothing wrong with giving your time to improving your community, but if you're devoting any part of your life to a politician, you're begging to be taken advantage of.
High School Musical
I do throw things into various priority lists and categories, but it still makes me sad that I won't get around to some of them for months or years
That's the thing when you deal with exponents. Everything seems low until suddenly it isn't anymore. That's part of the reason why we handled the Covid pandemic so badly also, humans tend to be shit at exponential thinking[1][2].

Hyperinflation tends to work in an exponential fashion. Perhaps we aren't at the bottom of an exponential curve for this period of inflation, perhaps it can be prevented from going too high like it has in the past for the US (I still want to believe that's the case, but I'm converting my fiat into assets just in case that's wrong). But it's far from a guarantee.

There's many countries suffering from hyperinflation out there in the world today that probably acted similarly when they were at the same stage as we are right now.

[1]: https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/07/16/Exponential-Growth-Pr...

[2]: https://purposefocuscommitment.medium.com/the-rice-and-the-c...
I meant for hosting the server. After searching around I found the wiki which shows how to install on linux.
Original source:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-onea...
First malaria vaccine approved by WHO
I moved to duckduckgo because of how AMP breaks moat sites on iOS .. I too would like one of those AMP blockers
Presumably entry_number is unique_together with blog_id. Otherwise the original code is also not handling the MultipleObjectsReturned exception.

Generally speaking, I tend toward the cleanest code being:

blog = Blog.objects.get(id=1)
entry = blog.entry_set.filter(entry_number=1).first()
if entry is None:
handle_missing_entry()
handle_entry(entry)

But it does suffer from having the extra DB query in there, which may or may not be helpful, depending on the surrounding code (and whether or not you'll be using the blog instance anywhere else).
Lazarus – The Professional Free Pascal Rad IDE
AT&T wants to own & create two sides of the same coin. Not surprising.
Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart) Mission
You have to be remarkably misinformed about Western Philosophy to think that epistemic relativism is somehow unique to the Chinese and that any (exaggerated) trend towards it can be blamed on the Chinese.
I have nothing substantive to add, but: here’s the clip of the quote referenced [0] and a larger clip containing most of that Treehouse of Horror skit [1]. Classic Simpsons is the “soul food” of American TV IMHO.

[0]: https://youtu.be/HqjhHVUzl8o

[1]: https://youtu.be/sGvTzIOSFyc
Like many other Borges' stories they reach a point where it is no other thing but a different way to tell about the world. The Lottery finds that deliver money it's not enough, it will deliver joy, pain, enlightenment, suffering, tragedy and hapiness too. So one bought a ticket not just to gain some gold, but to play.
an impact will drive a 3" phillips no problem as long as its a decent quality screw. torx seem higher quality which usually eliminates the problem
This is what is called "controlled opposition"
Also, don't use spaces and don't use any special characters, only "[0-9a-z_-]". Diacritic characters in polish are handled wrong by so many apps, which is a shame, because "user" in polish is "użytkownik".
So if the masks will be here forever then this guys complaining they can't use face recognition anymore in public places do not know this or they are betting that masks will be gone soon.
Is it your assertion that at 5-10% inflation, the US economy would fall to third world status? I’m not sure what your intended connotation is here, but it would seem that the equation of mildly elevated inflation with “third world levels” is that these numbers foretell some sort of impending doom rather than some mild challenges for investors and supply chain managers.
Can't wait for the Android app. This is genius. Firefox user BTW.
I try to pick 10 or so things a day I can actually get done. That does help me feel like I accomplished at least a little bit.
How can he possibly be worth only $600K? That doesn't even seem possible. What did he do with all the money he made?
What about rights like the right to freedom from slavery or torture which, on the one hand, are about things not being done to you, but on the other may depend on third parties (for instance a government) from preventing people from doing these things to you?

The declaration on human rights is not really government-centric, so the US-style free speech comparison makes little sense.

> what do they really mean?

They're a yardstick to measure how well we as humanity, and, more specifically particular regions or systems, measure up to what we, as humanity, consider to be the things that every human should (expect to) have. (Sorry for the bombasity.)

For instance, if we lived in a libertarian/anarchist utopia, with no government, it would still make sense to ask whether people's human rights were being met.
Suggestion for title correction: AT&T, Which Owns Far-Left CNN, Helped Build Far-Right One America News
> The only thing worse than startup leadership quarrels is watching one of the founder exit the company and air all of their dirty laundry on the way out. If there were any engineers or managers still working at Wasmer and hoping to turn the ship around, this blog post may have destroyed any chance of that.

What is the alternative though? I mean this developer, at least from their telling of it, had held almost every role in the company up to and including co-founder (at least in title, it sounds like the founder continued to hold him at arms length), if that's all true then what else could this person do other than air out the dirty laundry? They, by their own admission, tried everything they could from within the company and so now they are leaving and letting their truth be known. At worst nothing changes at Wasmer, at best it's a wake-up call that gives the remaining engineers/mangers the opportunity to make the needed changes (if that's even possible).
> There was no blue in the Odyssey or the Iliad because the Greeks didn't have a word for it yet.

That's not true. From the description of Alcinoos' palace in Odyssey 7.87: περὶ δὲ θριγκὸς κυάνοιο ("around was a cornice of blue enamel"). κύανος is dark blue, and it is used later in Greek to describe the color of lapis lazuli. In the Iliad it's used of blue enamel on armor, as at Iliad 11.24: τοῦ δ' ἤτοι δέκα οἶμοι ἔσαν μέλανος κυάνοιο ("there were ten stripes of dark blue enamel") on the breastplate of Agamemnon, and κυάνεοι δράκοντες ("blue enamel snakes") two lines later.
My reading of the article suggest the "co-founder" title was a late addition to the author's responsibilities, and not a co-founder in the "starting a company together" sense.
Amazon could embrace the sourcecode leak and make Twitch opensource.
This is perfect for me, I recently made the project OS for Nand to Tetris and have been learning systems programming with Rust. I wish there was a way to find resources like this more easily than scouring HN or trying to sort through google searches.
If Apollo is the interface, what is Reddit besides a JSON document store and object storage for media? Once Apollo is big enough (network effects, critical mass, whatevs), it could spin off of Reddit as the backend (Cloudflare R2 for objects, workers and KV for comments). You can even backfill from the numerous Reddit archives (Internet Archive, Pushshift, etc) out there.

(Apollo user with an interest in a distributed web platform)
Twitch Confirms Breach
It is sometimes hard to imagine the scale of Google. If you can implement a task-switching mechanism with lower overhead and save 0.1% of CPU cycles across the fleet you can save many millions of dollars a year. So they have their own thread-switching mechanism which their binaries that can't run without. If you can improve process isolation in a way that allows you to pack 10% more tasks (by RAM or CPU) onto a single machine without affecting performance significantly you have just saved billions. So they have different isolation interfaces that Borg can't run without.

Both of these are completely feasible savings and make custom binaries and a custom kernel completely with it.
He has been arguing mostly the same points for the past decade, but at least he's been consistent. The old saying comes to mind, "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can stay solvent."

I wanted to believe in MMT; it sounded at first like it could be something completely counterintuitive that just works, and some time later a rational quantity of math would explain it.

At the present, I think that was too wishful. The US seems to be able to print unlimitedly because of its unique status as the reserve currency. Once other countries opt out, and some are making concrete steps towards doing so, our dollar will quickly collapse, and it'll take the rest of our lives to experience a quality of living akin to today's.
They should just hire the guy. I wouldn’t mind Apollo with ads from Reddit official.
The issue I've always had with Monte Carl simulation in this context is that it takes more knowledge, expertise, time, and care to accurately perform a Monte Carlo Simulation than to prepare an accurate estimate. It's like saying you can avoid building (yet another) barely functional go-kart by instead building a four-wheel drive. Monte Carlo Simulation sometimes cloaks that the assumptions behind the simulation largely determine the output and are just as (if not more) prone to error as the usual assumptions.

If the burden of accurately estimating an average duration for a blog post is too much for your planner, what are the odds they're going to accurately develop a probability distribution for the duration of a blog post?

In simple estimates there's no need to use a stochastic approach at all. For instance, the example in the post - if you know a blog post takes between 1-10 days (uniformly distributed) and that you need to get one out every ~6 days to get 60 out in a year, you already know the probability is ~60%. If you know there's a skew to the higher end and guess a distribution (as in the example), again you can directly work out that the odds of success are ~35%.

There is value when the estimate is not corrupted by other priorities (rare), when the expertise to accurately develop distributions for activities exists (also rare, particularly for work that isn't easy to sample and re-forecast), and when the plan is complex enough that it's hard to directly predict the impact of your statistical assumptions.
Screws are a terrible way to build something still though compared to a properly fitted mortise & tenon.
> nefarious

That's bit harsh don't you think?

It's a bit like Ford selling a v6 Mustang with 4 functional cylinders and a switch on the dashboard that enables the other two but you're not allowed to flip the switch unless you send Ford $$$.

Nintendo could have easily prevented copying tags by writing a signature based on the tag's MAC to the data on the tag itself. The Switch would just read the tag, generate a signature and compare it to the data read.
As a HN reader from Argentina, I thank ColinWright to share this with the community. Here in Argentina we are very proud of Borges and his works - and it is always nice to see people from around the world discovering or revisiting him.
That’s a good point. However, I suspect that a lot of people are not working on a scale that would qualify as “large”. I am just working on a project where the infrastructure guys planned for massive scaling but so far the highest we ever got was 3 pods and we easily could have handled this with one server. I think I would wait for logging to become a problem before reducing it. If that ever happens.
That's some good news, hopefully a change will follow.

Note that Apple Pay also has a very low limit on the number of cards that you can add, presumably because each card occupies an actual hardware slot. In the original iPhone SE, that's only 8 cards, and Apple Cash (the debit card) gets counted as one of those (unless you're remove it manually), then if you have Apple Card (the credit card), presumably it takes another slot, so you're only left with just 6 slots for any other contactless credit or debit card.

How's such a low limit good for the consumer? If you only have 6 cards in total, might as well simply carry all of them in your wallet anyways; I do that already.

Android Pay and Google Pay don't have such tiny, restrictive and anticompetitive limits. I have like 20 different credit cards as contactless in Google Pay without any issues, which is very convenient if you care about bonus categories; same was for Android Pay before it got rebranded as Google Pay.

Plus, in Android, you can even select a third party app to be used for contactless in the "Default apps" — "Tap & pay" settings instead of Google Pay; I know Wells Fargo used to have contactless support in their own app at one point, for example, and was selectable there.
That's most likely an upper limit, as random character strings are not necessarily language.
lol CNN far-left. please
Bullet Train (https://bullettrain.co/) is a good Rails saas starter kit. Their licensing is pretty reasonable (you can choose an annual $500/year plan or pay $1.5k upfront to get unlimited access forever). They also have a great community with a very active and responsive Slack group.
Facebook's own data is not conclusive about teens and mental health
When it was just text, Reddit was cheap enough to run that it was kind of questionable why they needed so much VC funding.
Not sure the problem is just wear. The SD card seems unusually likely to be destroyed by power cycles or brownouts.

I don't feel on especially solid ground saying that - although I've experienced dead (micro) SD cards myself. It's a controversial topic, and no doubt some people are confused by what's just filesystem corruption. There are flamewars.
The DART spacecraft launch window begins November 24, 2021.

DART will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

After separation from the launch vehicle and over a year of cruise it will intercept Didymos’ moonlet in late September 2022, when the Didymos system is within 11 million kilometers of Earth, enabling observations by ground-based telescopes and planetary radar to measure the change in momentum imparted to the moonlet.
I don't really get the image it redirects to, but the website does have information on leaks.

https://sizeof.cat/post/twitch-leaks/
You are probably my least favourite poster on here, but I agree with you here.
A self-parking car in 500 lines of code
Iron battery breakthrough could eat lithium’s lunch
It might help to know these names are formed systematically.

URIs can also look inscrutable, but make more sense once you know how to break them down into scheme://user@host:port/path

Chemical names (mostly) work the same way. There are a fair number of rules and concepts, but once you understand them, the endless names map onto structures pretty cleanly[0]. Here are some of them: http://www.chem.uiuc.edu/GenChemReferences/nomenclature_rule...

[0] Mostly. There are some historical exceptions. Acetone should be called something like 2-propanone, for example, but...it isn't.
Most of the rules seem reasonable, but what's the justification for this?

Rule_L031: Avoid table aliases in from clauses and join conditions.

I can't see what makes aliases clarifying in `select` or `where` but not in `join`. Also, inlined subqueries in a join must be given an alias, so there are cases where this rule can't be applied consistently.
Its funny, lot of the responses for this thread are investing my retirement money and profiting off it is fine, using products/services of such companies is fine, but working there, that's where I draw the line, that's just morally wrong. Its a lot of I'll draw the line where I want to and belittle others who do it differently.
MacMillian could very well win a second nobel prize for photoredox chemistry somewhere down the line too.
Who moved my 99th percentile latency?
Of course 4chan is not just /pol/ but it is the biggest board, and together with /b/ contribute to plenty of hateful content as I mentioned. The culture between boards is different but /pol/ refugees in particular have been spreading to other boards for several years now and it's very annoying because even if a small group of them decide to visit a board regularly then they can ruin the culture because of relative sizes between the boards. Reddit and Twitter have their own problems, particularly with echo chambers but the biggest subreddit on reddit isn't spewing anywhere near the same kind of shit as the biggest board on 4chan does.
I have iPhone 11. But anyway I figured it out. The message does not show unless you have bluetooth turned on.
Yes. My bank offers NFC payments through their own app instead of Google Pay.
I've seen several projects like this pop up recently and all of them were mostly focused on a particular coffee roast. The problem with that is that it gets outdated very fast - typical roast exists for a month or so. What I like here is the focus on roasters and coffee shops, as they last longer.
Only if they start onboarding people.

I'm pretty sure R2 is what I was looking for to solve a specific problem.
Telegram says it added 70m new users during Facebook outage
CVE-2021-26420: Remote Code Execution in SharePoint via Workflow Compilation
If you think CNN is the far left, you’re in for a huge surprise.
You're quite wrong. GDPR can apply to citizens in the US, and the link I posted shows the ICO enforcing it in their favour. SCL Elections Ltd was taken to court and then fined £15,000 for not complying with that US resident's request.https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-bl...
I expect that US resident could also have brought a civil lawsuit, at least in UK courts, for damages.

The EU and UK GDPRs can also apply to companies in the US, or elsewhere. That's because location of the business (including subsidiaries) OR location of the individuals, are hooks under the GDPR's territoriality tests in Article 3. You usually need one or the other though; the way GDPR Article 3 works, it's pretty hard to imagine it applying to a US-only business in respect of US resident-individuals.
I'm glad the article pointed out Q1 as the next opportunity
CNN is not far left. Here’s one study to demonstrate how centrist it is. Refer to page 9. https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/media/sites/media/files/Justin... .
Steelcase Work Tents
Lol so AT&T let’s them broadcast and thought it would bring in revenue? And an exec from AT&T started the station?

That’s really most of this. So what? Isn’t that the point of commerce?
What about P0?
While morbid to some, pet crematoriums are potentially great business for 3 reasons:

* service that humans require in perpetuity
* luxury status good
* no one wants to own/operate such a business (few competitors)

https://twitter.com/brentbeshore/status/901908518675947520?l...
As an EU citizen. I think EU antitrust is fighting good fight for the people.

European Union antitrust enforcement has support of may civil liberty and privacy organizations and political parties. Their main complaint is that they are not doing enough.
Most of the Dutch banks have their own payment apps that work with NFC and traditional pin machines.
learning from that mistake was the entire point of the preamble to their current views on hiring.