skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have been a G Suite legacy free user for over 10 years now, given my usage it costs them basically nothing, especially with the revenue they've made from my usage, purchasing via adverts etc.

Fairly recently Google suddenly remembered ~$15 in adwords spend from just over 7 years ago, for a now defunct business I worked at where I had (presumably by accident) used my personal adwords account as a quick test.

The problem is this was the first I'd heard about it, and in the UK it exceeds the statutory limitation period for debt recovery. I stated very clearly that what they were attempting to do is illegal in my jurisdiction and I'm more than happy to take them to the small claims court to recover costs and damages related to dealing with alleged non-payment and any subsequent account closure etc.

While the fee eventually got waived, it was impossible to talk to anybody on the phone (as I had been advised) and I kept going in loops until finally being able to 'chat' to somebody who was more useful than a chocolate teapot. It seemed they wanted me to input some billing details so they could auto-upgrade me when the time comes.

I won't be paying $6/mo, due to a spotty history I've had to rely on paying for domains for years in advance and relying on free services because the absolute last thing I want is one of my most important daily tools (e.g. account recovery, 2FA) being turned off because something unexpected happened - the amount of hassle that would cause is immense and could have some very serious knock-on effects that effectively lock me out of many other things.

I know, Google can decide to block and terminate your account across the board, so far they haven't, but it has been on my mind for a while now.

It's time to step-up my de-googling to the next level, and work on better continuity plans.
Even then, crisis is hyperbolic, given evictions have been standard practice for centuries.

Crisis:

An unstable or crucial time or state of affairs in which a decisive change is impending
especially : one with the distinct possibility of a highly undesirable outcome.

Assuming housing is a human right, which I disagree with, surely people are not entitled to any house of their choosing. You would have to separate those forced to downsize from those actually leading to homelessness.
> The current geopolitical conflict is about preventing the shifting of trade routes back to land from Western controlled waterways.

The "One Belt One Road" initiative is literally being marketed as an attempt to re-establish those same land-based trade routes. Though it's also criticized by some since it's perceived as coming with too many strings attached.
Florida has a statewide sales tax. I assume you mean that Florida has no income tax.
There's something to this. I love featurefull type systems, but I've seen engineers try to parse JSON the "right" way in Scala, get frustrated, and blame the entire concept of statically typed languages. Elm manages to make this user friendly so perhaps it's "only" a matter of compiler messages and API design?
"I want burning man to grow up" is basically saying you don't understand the point of burning man. I think you just don't like burning man, which is fine! Not everything is for everybody. But just because you don't get it and its not for you doesn't mean you should try and change it.
Upright antennas will yield higher coverage with less antenas.

Slanted antennas will limit the amount of non useful RF escaping upwards into airplanes' radomes but will have a range limited by the slanting + beamforming angles.

An analogy is having public lighting with the bulb focused horizontally versus focused downwards. If it is facing horizontally the light will illuminate farther but a fraction of the light will be light pollution pointed at the night sky. If the light is facing downwards it will be limited by the aperture of the lamp post holder.
> not the actual identity matching AFAIK

I know they've used id.me for a while so this might not have been an option back then, but it now looks like login.gov also does identity verification (and my profile on the site does have my SSN and everything).

https://login.gov/what-is-login/#:~:text=Some%20agencies%20r... "Some agencies require you to verify who you are"
There are hundreds (maybe thousands) of IRS offices across the nation where you can go and deal with them in person. Most towns of any significant size have one. You probably need to make an appointment, etc. but it is still possible to deal with them face-to-face, and once you get in there you are talking to someone who has back-office access not available to the public and are able to deal with a lot of problems (e.g. a mistake on some form, or a missing document) immediately.
What the heck is 'bar' and 'baz'?

So there's no docstring? And the actual variables are that random and indecipherable?

Sounds like the problem is that you're tasked with looking at code written by someone who is either inexperienced or fundamentally careless. When dealing with reasonably maintained codebases, this kind of situation would seem pretty rare. In modern python we now have type hints of course, which have helped quite a lot.
Ironically, Google's reluctance to provide tools for advertisors to make sure their ads perform means that Google also has no competence at making sure its own ads perform.
const Json = union(enum) {
null,
number: f64,
bool: bool,
string: []const u8,
array: []const Json,
object: HashMap([]const u8, Json),
};

Usually it's a tagged union of the base JSON types which can easily be consumed by most statically typed languages or a variant of it.

EDIT: added "tagged"
Read the article. The idea is about batteries and motors on each car.

Apparently this attacks the inefficiencies in joining/splitting up cars at their destinations.
WeCrashed
Or a lack of effective metrics tracking and performance management. Maybe those metrics would show the offices were operating at tip-top efficiency and were deserving of additional budget to better serve their constituents. Or maybe it would show something else entirely, but either way the data would be useful.
It depends on the company. My day job can reduce required headcount for the work we handle. Some companies use that excuse to lower headcount, but in cases where valuable employees are involved they get moved to other jobs where their knowledge can add value while not doing the boring and repetitive tasks.
I guess you're not in California? Which requires online payment. Note that paying estimated tax doesn't today require a login, so I am pretty sure this won't change that. It's just like signing up for a service -- super one click easy. It's the cancelling that's hard.
The marketing is over the top, too. "David Lynch teaches creativity." Really? The segment I watched had some tips and tools that he uses as a creator, but "teaches creativity" is a major stretch.
Not at all, they actually would be happy to get rid of all these low value accounts. They don’t want to maintain separate SKU, and given that this option is not available for 10 years, any potential revenue is so tiny, they just don’t want to bother.
It's funny you mention WAF because that's exactly what kept me away from 1password.

I loved almost everything about 1P but their reluctance to authenticate with keychain means it's a PITA for me, and an absolute deal breaker for my wife.

Has this changed or do you still have to enter your 1P password every time you log in or your session times out?
This stood out:

Someone who works for himself and can walk 2-3 dogs at once can make $100k. And if they’re really good, they can make $200k+.

Hiring additional walkers can exponentially increase these figures: Stewart knows a few dog walkers with small operations who reel in $500k+ after expenses.

Surely it's a textbook case of linear growth? That was literally annoying.
Hm. I should have said “why it might matter” because not everyone ends up with a baby surprisingly uninterested in nursing…
On a long tangent: now that Apple is pushing Atmos, is it possible to somehow package quality stems in an Atmos track that sounds mastered?
Hyper-capitalist Singapore provides public housing to about 80% of citizens. It’s a pretty functional system. You can have landlords and private land owners but they need to provide more value than a default.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Singapore
> Isn't this a basic requirement of any ID system?

And now you understand my core opposition to government run ID system.

Think of it like SSH keys: you want them to allow access, and therefore one-way verification. You don't want a bijective system that would allow you to be uniquely identified. So you can have 1 key per system you access.

Most uses of ID are compatible with that usecase: one ID to allow you to pay taxes, one ID to allow you to travel, one ID to prove you have a license to drive, etc.

There's absolutely no need to merge them - except for the convenience of tracking you and adding new usecases easily, without the government shouldering the burden of rolling a new ID AND having people use it.
I first encountered scripting DDOSing, rainbow tables, and other sketchy content while playing (and cheating at) RuneScape.
FOKs (feeling-of-knowing states like when you know it when you hear it or you know it but you can't get it off the tip of your tongue) are supposedly the perception of "certainty" encoded in cannabinoids and our brains have more cannabinoid receptors than any other kind (stuggling to find a source for this atm, I read it somewhere on the internet)
It’s a little disingenuous to paint this as “both parties are only motivated by what would help them get more votes” if one of those parties advocates policies to increase voter participation and the other advocates policies to decrease it.
Apple's WeWork drama 'WeCrashed' premieres March 18th
At first I thought this was just a white label of one of the many discounts-as-a-service platforms out there... but no, the code makes it clear that this platform was developed specifically for id.me, with all assets in their S3 bucket and specific homegrown analytics code where it would otherwise make no sense to hardcode IdMe in an event name. This definitely feels like an unfocused company that just obtained a massive contract. I'd be very curious to dig into the RFP process here and who else bid on the opportunity.
People are so good at evaluating evidence for themselves that we can't end the pandemic due to antivaxers, and there are millions of people who believe the words of Q.
To be fair, in recent years I've worked on a number of Typescript projects and it was common for developers to use `any`, `Object`, `() -> Promise<void>`, etc. Not super helpful.

Though in my experience, sane code structure and informative comments trump everything else when it comes to understanding big and unknown codebase. I still shudder when I think about working years ago on various Java codebases (mostly business IT systems). What a convoluted mess of n-levels deep interface hierarchies. Types? Yeah, but good luck unraveling what exactly is happening in the runtime.
Yeah, I always say that python is an amazing language to prototype and terrible language to scale precisely because it lets people write the usual terrible code and then gives you the freedom to make it even worse.
The comment section here is pretty negative, and while I tend even to agree with a lot of it, as a school administrator working in the early childhood space, I can shed light on one important element that a lot of folks here are missing:

The demand for stuff like this is ABSOLUTELY real, and growing. Lots of folks here have made very thoughtful posts about why this is not an ideal way to motivate a child/teach them habits/etc., and lots of the responses counter with some wonderful practice that commenters do at home and works for them.

I, too, have delivered that spiel about a gazillion time for parents. More specifically, when talking about internet safety, or healthy device use, my mantra is always about how ineffective the notion that "some tool" can solve this for them is, and that honest, deep, meaningful communication with their children is the only real way to address these things. You know... parenting.

But 100% of the time, as soon as I am done, I get asked for all sorts of recommendations for things that I JUST told them are actually suboptimal and, ultimately, ineffective. I tend to work with mostly very high-earning families, who either by choice or circumstance, spend usually not that much time with their children and look at this stuff as another one of their many problems that they can outsource a solution to.

It seems that OP here has developed a tool that can sell well to the parents (you are developing good habits!) while also appealing to the kids (its just a game!), and has high production value. The thing I'd argue most of you are missing is that the educational value of this, IF THEY ARE TO SUCCEED AS A BUSINESS, actually takes a backseat to the perceived value that this has for the parents and the kids. Those are not one and the same... at all.

One commenter here said that they were surprised, as a parent, that YC would fund something like this. I chuckled, because I think something like this is exactly what following "make something people want" leads you towards, especially in contrast to "make something people need." I fully agree that no family needs this, and that frankly they are missing out on a lot thinking that this is a healthy thing to bring into their home. But I promise you that loads, and loads of family with lots of money WANT this.
Altos bursts out of stealth with $3B to reverse disease
If you sign up here I will let you know :)

https://forms.gle/tNcCcYrNBu5nWKgJ9
Make IDs free _and_ do not tie them to an address. The address requirement needlessly disenfranchises some 500k people from a litany of opportunities.
Mercedes Applies Neuromorphic Computing in EV Concept Car
> As of December 6, 2012, Google stopped offering the free edition to new customers.

10 years of a free product is not bad
I'm sorry if this has been your experience. But I think at least in larger cities the situation is not nearly as bad as you make it out to be (Among other reasons because in a city like Zurich, the definition of what qualifies as "Swiss culture" is extremely fuzzy; there are people with all graduations of skin color, cultural background, and immigration status to be found).
From my understanding, many uses of this are extra walks during the day while the human companion is at work, not as a substitute for morning and evening walks, but I might be wrong. I'm sure elderly people may have other exceptions, for example.
'Google kills' is the information technology equivalent of 'Florida man'. Always a fount of disappointed amusement.
Yep you’re correct, it reminds me of old Microsoft doing sneaky things to attain monopoly status and kill competition. Hopefully ARM will not implement Pluton but I have a suspicion they will too if nvidia acquisition fails
That would make sense on a federal level. But not in NJ which is solid Democrat, and definitely not with their among the highest in the nation taxes.

Again, I am giving quite a bit of leeway. At 14 months with no response, that is not understaffing. That is deliberate sabotage by leaders to prevent people from getting benefits.
Same.

I'm a systems engineer. I will always automate if it makes sense. And depending on how the environment is, I may or may not tell others about it.

I think of automation like a box of tools. On journeyman jobs, the tools are yours. You paid for them, and you have use of them as you see fit. I think of automation the same.

You're not buying my tools - you're buying my skills that bring my tools. You quit paying, you quit getting work. In no world do you get my tools.
How is this any better than static types?
I made ~$1000 in earnings in a weekend selling algorithmically generated posters of my art:
https://spacefiller.space/prints

This was a test run that went surprisingly well. I paused sales so that I can focus on reworking my process (it was very manual, hoping to make it completely automated) and design more posters.
Google is really on a killing spree lately. Can any insiders give us insight into whether the people at the top of Google are aware that they have a strong reputation in the community for killing things off?
Not sure if this applies: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/27441
> There are legal processes for the US gov't to request that data legally.

Only legally for the US. Those processes aren't legal for the EU, so the transfer is illegal (for an EU web site).
In California alone, at least 20 Billion dollars (over 10%) in pandemic relief funds were fraudulently given away. Quite a bit of it went to felons in jail! This is surely an underestimate. The Netherlands are not comparable to the US. Americans don't trust our institutions because by and large, they aren't trust worthy.
Well, you could put the types on these days.

But also, there’s nothing stopping the code from being much clearer about its intention than this weirdly contrived example (I have a lot of code and most the function names are pretty unique). And surely you want to search for ‘foo(‘ to find invocations.
A Better Git Flow
Generally, if you saw conservatives proposing policies that made ID available to everyone for no cost (like a free copy of their birth certificate and free passport card for every citizen), their opposition would look silly on this.

Instead, conservatives focus on the ID mandate, ahead of fixing the inherent supply issues. Indeed, while I still have objections after this issue is fixed, they're largely irrelevant to the political mainstream.

Generally I'm opposed to anything that smacks of 'papers place', and the government has a higher bar to need to confirm and record identity than John Q. Public (also I'd note, the examples you cited, generally do not record anything, they just verify age of purchaser).

It all boils down to some form of absurd partisanship.
now there are TV shows and movies that only have message concerns. quality content no longer really exists. netflix has lowered the quality bar a lot
Facebook’s Unglamorous Mistakes
Litmus Is an Open-Source Chaos Engineering Platform
OBS Studio is absolutely fantastic for flexible recording, and Openshot is decent for editing - though I highly advise using the AppImage instead of installing through a package manager.
> In modern python we now have type hints of course, which have helped quite a lot.

I had to laugh, hard.

If your Python program uses any library whatsoever, chances are that library won't have types, so you can't really use them.

Even super widely used libraries like numpy don't have good support for types, much less any library that consumes numpy for obvious reasons.
The Vsauce originals were/are really good. Only decent Original series I could find when I first got Red.
I feel like my YouTube Watch hours get less and less over time. Not sure, but I think the recommendation algorithm has become very bad. Back in the days I used to find new and interesting stuff, but these days it just keeps recommending the same thing over and over.

Interestingly, those hours just go to TikTok now.
Newly Declassified Video Shows U.S. Killing of 10 Civilians in Drone Strike
Voting fraud and election fraud are distinctly different things; the former gets all the attention despite the latter being the real concern: https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/analysis/B...

One of the 2 parties is more incentivized to discourage voting, and that's worthy of discussion.

I am strongly anti-partisan but am compelled to vote in alignment with what I consider to be the least-worst option.

It's beyond frustrating to try to discuss these issues without it becoming a tribal war, even here on HN where one would hope for a higher level of discourse.
J. Leto and A. Hathaway star in new Apple Original limited series “WeCrashed”
>"pay enough taxes to staff government agencies at sufficient levels"

Our government already runs at a tremendous deficit. They can keep borrowing longer than we can remain on the run from the law.

Edit: I had actually completely misread the GP's comment. I had somehow thought they meant that we should do a tax-strike in order to force the government to reform. My cynical counterargument was that they would just borrow to make up for the missed revenue until the protestors gave-in or were arrested.
Passports do not require an address.
and the aqueducts, sanitation, education, and the wine…
Nice, solving the demo challenge gets you rickrolled!
How is asking whether you can actually spend a currency moving the goal posts?

I think a better example of moving the goal posts would be how Bitcoin has gone from “currency", to "store of value", to "digital asset".
Spherical Text Embedding
https://www.fdot.gov/docs/default-source/comptroller/pdf/GAO...

Flrodia's roads are mostly funded from taxes on fuel and motor vehicle fees.

Flordia has the 11th highest tax on gas in the nation - https://taxfoundation.org/state-gas-tax-rates-2021/

From https://taxfoundation.org/state-infrastructure-spending/ State breakdown is 50% from gas taxes, 20% from licensing fees, and 30% from toll roads.

Back to the first pdf - 52% of the total funding for the road is from the state, 26% is from federal and the other sources are use turnpike (15%), local (3%), and bonds (4%).
Does it count as a side project if I have been in grad school full time while I proposed and developed this application?: Environmental flow monitoring application: https://dkhydrotech.com/entry/11/. I wish I could share more info / visuals but alas.
Yep. Copy the executable (plus another file which is a big blob containing the dictionary, examples, etc.), and then just do `systemctl restart`.

There's nothing extra running on the server; no reverse proxy (the app itself automatically fetches/renews the HTTPS cert), no database, nothing. Just the app, the SSH server and the default system services.
It's funny you'd say this because this is a classic tale in the BOFH genre.

Scripting your way out of stuff to do is a time-honored IP pastime. The old tradition was to hit the boss key (F10 for you youngins), now with remote there's no need.
they have no personal state income tax. there is still a corporate income tax, and they still get all their revenue from taxes. most if it is from much more regressive kinds of taxation like sales tax.
Are Fake Covid Testing Sites Harvesting Data?
This is some kind of joke, right?
The example is entirely ridiculous. Types are names too. Does foo(bar: baz) solve the issue? Languages are there to convey meaning.
True, the parent commenter's concern is about the returns on their investment though.
Programming language evolution: with all that, we are still flying
I've been a coder in Switzerland and now I run a tech recruitment agency: https://coderfit.com - I focus solely on Zurich and surrounding regions.

1. Engineers are similarly in demand as everywhere in Europe

2. I'd say the "cost of living" to "after tax salaries" ratio is unbeatably good

3. 100% remote work: not that popular; why would I pay you 130k CHF remote when I can get someone in Ukraine for $50k?

I had cases where firms wanted a Swiss (German speaking) person and they paid 140k CHF for fully remote but this was an exception.

Ping me for any further questions: iwan@coderfit.com or better just cold call me: +41 77 986 9000 (I am on any messenger app like Signal, Whatsapp etc.)
> Your example doesn’t really make sense - someone living paycheck to paycheck would default on a mortgage even if they got one. It’s for those people that renting makes the most sense.

you just made my point for me — there is a class of the population that is forced into spending a third (often more!) of their income on housing, which is being hoarded by another class. no different from a feudal serf being forced to turn over their hard-won harvest to the nobility. but sure, they can go find another manor to live on, they’re under no obligation to give their labor to this particular lord...