skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
^ This. It's so obnoxious that the _only way_ to e-file is to go through one of these companies, unless your income falls below a certain (not-very-generous) threshold.
I recently had Intuit delete all my personal data, across all their products. Doing this was exhausting. Their online process for deleting an account did not work. Contacting customer support resulted in unhelpful back and forth. Finally, I gave up and filed a complaint with the CA Attorney General. Within two weeks, I got a call from someone at Intuit who quickly resolved the issue and promised to delete all my Intuit-owned accounts (it seems to have worked).

I tell the story because I think it illustrates a lot of reasons companies can get away with bad behavior:

1. Only a subset of consumers recognize the bad behavior and know who to contact.

2. Most consumers are not motivated to complain. In the above story, most people would probably stop when the Intuit website doesn't work (I usually give up too). There is a free-rider problem. My complaint could benefit lots of people if a company changes its behavior, but I alone incur the cost of complaining.

3. When a consumer successfully complains, companies can sometimes quietly make the problem go away for the one consumer and avoid regulatory action. Intuit called me, resolved the issue only for me, and we both move on. With the issue resolved, the regulator has less reason to continue investigating.

4. Even when regulators get enough complaints and go after bad behavior, they are up against powerful attorneys and lobbyists. And even if the regulators win, the company probably has lots of substitute ways of achieving the same goals that weren't contemplated or prohibited by the settlement/law/etc.
The paper/portability/digitisation conundrum is one I can never break. I agree UX of paper is miles ahead of any app. But it’s not indexable or searchable.

So what?

- scan paper notes... still don’t have it searchable. Plus notebooks are not that easy to scan

- pay someone to transcribe it: probably not cheap, plus privacy issues

- something like remarkable: quite a lot more expensive than pen and paper

Anyone have any suggestions on this front?
For me it was the fact that I wanted to manage myself better and be more organized/structured. I couldn't do this with notebooks as there is a lack of "something" for me that doesn't quite allow me to be as disciplined as I am with the device right now. Templates are awesome, you get 50 different notebooks by just using a different template, and you can create your own in a couple of minutes (a png image with preset dimensions).

Regarding it being another gizmo by adding news, I think that since I didn't get it for the "disconnection" it doesn't feel like corrupting it. Especially in this format (clean, no images, just information at glance). At least imho.
I think thats the _only_ way to interpret that phrasing.
In addition to the cost angle, they're also incentivized to push you towards exclusives. Things you can watch on other services (assuming you subscribe and know they're there) are much less of a hook to keep you on Netflix.
So cool, I love this!

I’d love to play around with it, but I don’t see a license at a glance. If I were to make a variation of this, would I be allowed to share it with attribution to this version?
I had ,,backup and sync’’ for Google working OKish for me for accessing my Google Drive files in the past. I’ve got an upgrade called ,,Google Drive’’ which took down backup and sync, and then installed the software. After that it told me that it wants to sync everything on my disk, and there’s not enough space on my Google Drive to do it, and I can’t use backup and sync anymore.

I could pay for more storage for Google, but I don’t want it to have all my data with all the problems that I see here, and I honestly don’t know what to do now to sync with my mobile, as Google Drive was great for me in the past.

I see some people suggesting E2E solutions, but I’m not sure how great is the mobile experience for those, and how well they integrate with Google docs, which I love to use.
I see. So it can operate in-process? Could in theory be much faster than nginx out-of-process model.
"with little complaint from consumers" -- how do you know there isn't a great deal of complaint?

"I don’t understand why consumers are not more frustrated." -- they are extremely frustrated, why do you think they're not frustrated?
The difference is that claiming consciousness may kill the entire field of ML research when non-experts decide to wade in and start lobbying for regulation. You don't want misguided groups like PETA meddling with regulating neural network research. FAANG won't be affected much either way but your average university will.
If you retired the email because the domain expired, maybe don't let it reset existing accounts. It's dead.
shhh, it's a secret!!!
That gist seems like a simplified version of https://github.com/mhagger/git-imerge, so check that out if you haven't. (I haven't looked at git-imerge in a long time, so I should read about it again myself.)
I have been afraid of sharing my ideas, post history, etc. in a way that could be easily traced back to my identity for years. I made sure my accounts and usernames bore no personally identifiable tid-bits. I use a VPN religiously (that won't change).

I've since decided that I am done with all that.

I was afraid my employer might question my Reddit posting history (they wouldn't.) I was worried someone who Googled me would think my past self was dumb (who cares).

Now my ideas are almost all public and growing more so by the day. I am working up the energy to start a personal blog, if anything just to document my ideas over time. I am adding my real name and email to my Github, HN, (not Reddit, yet, though it would not be hard to connect), IH, etc.

I want someone to be able to Google me and find my best work.

On the other hand, there are clearly cases and types of info/accounts that should remain private. I self-host as much as possible. I encrypt personal files before uploading. I have multiple Protonmail accounts. I use custom DNS, etc.

Ideas should be public. Information is a case by case basis, but I generally care a lot less than I used to.
Looks like you are getting downvoted, but it's true. Defining exactly what it is to be "conscious" is a nearly impossible problem to solve, even having spent your life studying it. I'm not personally even convinced that "cogito, ergo sum" is even correct.
Photos easily pinpoint you too, any pictures you upload + user name is pretty much game over
LOL. I mean, if it existed Reversr is potentially a really interesting business, like they presumably have some very sophisticated language analysis stuff and they've got a bunch of different reverses they can do, for example maybe there are cases where (020) 6543 2109 should be reversed as 9012 3456 (020) notice the parentheses swapped there to still make sense. Or they can reverse "black cat named Noir" to "white cat named Blanc" or a whole bunch of interesting work.

But, I'm guessing Reversr don't want me to write some awful slice swapping algorithm that disrespects their hard won knowledge about human writing systems.
That's shipped via road though isn't it? Barging would be immensely cheaper for long distances
The entire us tax system is a legislative dark pattern that funnels people into accounting outfits like TurboTax.
> If what you really want is sovereignty, which is what most people confuse anonymity with, the goal is to be like what Ernst Jünger called the anarch (in contrast to the anarchist), which is someone who complies and renders herself indifferent to authority, rather than standing out and drawing attention.

This works right up until the thing you want to do - or the person you find yourself to be - is something authority is not indifferent to.
How does the App Store manage to be so trigger-happy with banning apps that it seems like every week there's a story of a legitimate developer being unjustly banned from it, while simultaneously so lax that apps like this one get approved?
Actually I just thought of the single problem that I have with it - it doesn't support multiple identities.

https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/2320

Other than that it works great though.
Maybe OpenGL?

Nowadays to draw a triangle you have to write, compile and attach two shaders written in it's own separate language that interface with the main code
The Mysterious Island - is this the one where they invent civilization from scratch after baloon incident ?
If yes then I loved it as a child (it was one of my first "serious" fiction books that I read and somehow I imagine that it sparked my intrest in technology)
You really think those regulations won’t be heavily lobbied by Nintendo and DRM loving lawyers, and somehow end up even worse for consumers or more importantly small developers?

Maybe I’m cynical but I highly doubt it’s going to be “make your app stores completely replaceable without DRM/billing/taxation/etc schemes and allow unrestricted sideloading”.
Is the Plural of Anecdote Data?
I heard a joke when I was in Ukraine in 1996:
A Russian and a Ukrainian find $100. The Russian says, “come, brother, let’s split this like family.”

The Ukrainian says, “no, let’s split it 50-50.”

I think both sides are fully aware of what Russia’s “warm brotherly embrace” will be like.
... not J Evan's?
Aside from the fact that some of your statements are plainly incorrect, you're claiming that the U.S. is fomenting war simply because it wants "unchallenged superpower status".

That is obviously quite vague and unrevealing. A very elementary assertion that elides calls for verifiable facts.

Worse, Russia has rolled tanks in the region, annexed territory, and continues to fight a separatist war. The idea that they are somehow not the aggressor completely defies all reason and observable reality.

Likewise, the idea that they are somehow keeping stability and prosperity in the region through their overtly imperialistic military aggression in an otherwise peaceful context is directly contrary to the reality. Ukraine simply wishes to remain a free and sovereign democratic nation. If Russia were not invading and threatening them, there would be no conflict.

Three comments later, and you have still failed to explain how the West is the aggressor.
Very nice. One nitpick: it would be nice if the outlines turned from red to green (in addition to the other feedback already provided) to indicate a match.
I ended up doing some math on a theoretical DAWG, based on: https://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/dweiss/site/publications/downlo...

With 12,822 nodes, you need 57,387 bits for the labels and the Huffman table (I'm sure you could make the Huffman table more efficient, but it's only 50 bytes, so that's not helping much).

Then, to mimic their edge reordering technique but without having to actually implement all the logic, I ordered the edges by frequency and used variable length integer encoding of size 3 (this performed the best on the data set) which required 95,988 bits.

Variable length integer encoding breaks the number into 3 bit chunks, each prefixed by 1 bit to indicate if there is another 4 bit chunk to read for that number. Since the distribution of offsets is heavily skewed, optimizing the most frequent offsets into a small package is better even if rarer ones suffer from multiple prefix bits.

This is 19,171 bytes total, or substantially worse than both the original article and Huffman tries do. This isn't even counting the flag bits needed for actually traversing the graph. So even cheating, it's not clear I can get a DAWG to be within striking distance of either other approach.

I hypothesize that the reason tries and other methods perform so well here is the relatively shallow depth. All words are only length 5, so the trie doesn't ever get really deep. This also means that suffixes generally don't actually take up that much space given common ones will also pack small with Huffman coding. The size of offsets appears to be just too great relative to how much you can save by removing shared suffixes from 5 letter words.

Would love to know if there is some trick to DAWG that I'm missing that would let me get it even smaller.
First, you can still e-file for free. You just don't get any guidance on filling out the forms.

Second, the reason it's this way...is because of the excessive lobbying to keep it this way, of which Intuit is one of the largest players. In fact, there is no reason for the IRS not to just tell you "here is what we think you owe/should be refunded", and for you to say "Nope, here's why (and e-file relevant forms)", or "Yep, that's correct", except that lobbying has prevented it (well, and the last time it came up one of the two political parties was against it ostensibly because 'big government')
This would be pretty easy to counter by having a tool that would analyze any comment you post and strip all the identifying marks out of it; no punctuation other than periods, no complex or compound sentences, all words replaced by equivalents from the list of the most common thousand English words, all voices and tenses normalized, no paragraphs, no capitalization, etc.
This looks really cool, awesome job! We desperately need something like this at my day job, but unfortunately we use MySQL and Django.
I don’t see a consumer movement urging legislators to make reforms on this issue. I don’t see a great deal of resentment on social media. If we don’t collectively take action, this situation will never improve.
There are probably two main segments of customer for this service. Customer A cares about convenience, and customer B cares about saving time (also logistics). One could argue that they are the same thing, but there is a difference in degree.

Customer B can arguably save an hour of their time by having a large order of groceries delivered. How much is that time worth? Ten dollars/euros is an easy minimum value to set. That will probably turn away most prospective customers but the remaining customers that do use the service will be buying a lot more groceries per trip.
I wish it showed you the right answer when you lose. A few times I have sworn there are no matches ;_;
Because the Intel 8080 instruction set was octal, right?

This is cool: https://dercuano.github.io/notes/8080-opcode-map.html
Forget Digital Computing, You Need an Analog Computer (2021)
> I'm not really seeing how regulation would really fix the scenario in the OP. What regulations that are likely to pass would prevent Apple and Google from removing apps arbitrarily?

Regulate the markets by letting other stores compete, not by regulating the current monopolistic stores. Force OS developers to make it easy and practical to use alternative app stores, and able to compete fairly with the first-party ones. On iOS, you can't do so at all without jailbreaking, and on Android, there's tons of scary warnings, and there's some stuff like automatic background updates that are impossible for anything but the Play Store unless you root.
To be fair he never lived in a rain forest. He was always around people and often managed to upset many of them.
Many anonymity tools have the k-anonymity property. It’s really unfortunate for k to be 1.
There's a middle ground somewhere here, in between "Don't be a criminal" and "Don't be stupid."

I don't think the lesson we should take from AlphaBay is "Take better privacy safeguards" but "Don't set up an illegal dark web operation."
Just one little note, not to disprove your argument or anything, but there's this little paragraph in the middle of the report:

> In de open antwoorden wordt door gebruikers meerdere keren aangegeven dat het openbaar vervoer wordt gemeden vanwege besmettingsgevaar.

("In the open answers, multiple users indicate public transport is being avoided due to the contagion risk.")

So it's also partially a covid thing, but yeah I don't expect that this will be the majority. Personal transport is favored over mass transport by virtually everyone after all, everything else being equal.

Also interesting in relation to sibling comments is this part:

> Fout en hinderlijk parkeren is een vast onderwerp op de reguliere overleggen tussen gemeente en aanbieder. In de vergunnings-uitvraag is specifiek gevraagd
om een klachtenafhandelingsplan. De vergunning verplicht de aanbieders om binnen een bepaalde tijd klachten af te handelen, waarbij beide aanbieders in hun klachtenafhandelingsplan hebben aangegeven dit nog sneller dan de gemeentelijke criteria te doen. In de eerste voortgangsrapportage (15 januari 2021)
werd duidelijk dat dit door aanbieders is gehaald.

Loosely translated: incorrect parking is always an item on the agenda between municipalities and service providers. The permit to operate the service requires a complaint procedure to be in place and the processing speed requirements from the municipality were more than met in the first evaluation.

People seem to keep bringing this up, saying the scooters are a curse that would be eradicated from their city if it were up to them, not even considering that there could possibly be a fix for this. Well...
I mean, whatever the comments say here, it doesn't change the fact that news outlets pick up these kind of tweets and proclaim them as gospel.
Discussions of “Consciousness” in the context of ML or AI research always seem to devolve into navel-gazing futurist pseudointellectualism. I don’t think it’s possible to have a meaningful conversation about something as ill defined as consciousness. This isn’t to malign the OpenAI researcher behind the original tweet - I just feel that AI researchers bringing up consciousnesses is a good signal to tune the conversation out.

Bonus points if psychedelics are somehow brought up.
Note that TA is old, and often these days subject to game-theory like flukes because everybody knows what everybody is trying to see.
I just remembered the Game Boy Color had infrared support that was used by a few games:

https://forum.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?155041-Whi...
This is a bit different. It sounds like with US civil forfeiture you can just seize any and all assets merely because someone is accused of something unrelated. This I agree is awful.

Bank KYC is a bit different. A bank, certainly at this level, is supposed to know who you are and where your money is coming from ahead of setting up the account. They have to satisfy themselves it’s a legal source. If they become suspicious, they should tip off authorities who can investigate etc.

At no point here can the bank judiciously freeze your assets. All this should mostly happen before the bank even touches your money.
At least on their basic plan there is also little to no indication of how often this is triggering. Leading to having know idea what the various settings are.
It did, when it turned out you could game the system to move eyeballs from reality, to fiction that confirmed peoples biases. (both search engines and other content ranking systems).
> The greatest scam of Google and Apple is convincing millions of developers to learn Swift and Kotlin to make apps on their stores that can be swiftly (pun intended) removed from their stores

I certainly won't defend Apple and Google's app store monopolies and control. However, Kotlin was actually a case of Google listening to the developer community. Google could have, and wanted to, push Dart (see Flutter) on Android. But the Android development community was already adopting JetBrain's Kotlin. Google listened and embraced Kotlin instead of pushing their own thing. It was not a hostile act.
> But over time we needed to customize things in ways that were difficult to do within Nginx's architecture (either in Lua or in C),

Yup. Eventually a configuration language becomes a shitty programming language, so why don't we just use a programming language?
Aside from the "you only use it once a year" answer that's already been mentioned - there are ways to get out of the dark patterns, if you're alert enough. It's the same reason there isn't more of an outcry against abusive practices in the credit card industry - the most affluent and educated CC users, those who would be likely to lead an effective campaign for change, always pay off their bill in full and never deal with the CC industry's abusive practices. So it goes with TurboTax - if you give consumers an out, their much more likely to blame themselves (or blame the people caught up in it) when they're taken advantage of.
I viewed the Instagram created by one of the residents and based on what I can see from photos of “the problems,” this seems like a classic case of NIMBYism and perhaps racism.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220218092254/https://www.washi...
AWS has announced an upcoming carbon footprint calculator that I'm excited to play with that will help to optimize this sort of thing.

https://www.inc.com/kevin-j-ryan/amazon-carbon-footprint-too...
These clocks depend dilute gasses of atoms. Usually the process for preparing and probing the atoms takes at least a few hundred milliseconds, and usually in the seconds range. There's a bunch of reasons for this, probably two main reasons IMO:

1. Generally for precision clocks you need "cold" or "ultracold" atoms (essentially random doppler shifts of hot atoms kill your accuracy). This means something like microkelvins - this is hard to prepare quickly. And atoms are constantly lost/heated due to collisions with stray gas molecules, even though the pressure is usually something like a quadrillion times lower than atmosphere. There's research into continuous ultracold atom sources, and you could prepare way more than you need and siphon a few off at a time, but both are technically challenging.

2. The way these clocks work is essentially you have some laser, and an atom that only reacts to laser light of a very specific frequency. If the laser frequency is off from the exact frequency you can tell. A variety of effects means that the measurement process takes some time. It's like trying to accurately measure your heart rate in 1s vs 10s - a lot easier to do in the latter case.

Nothing fundamental, just technically quite painful.
Why would regulation result in more permissiveness? From my reading most implemented regulation has resulted in more restrictiveness, and things like DRM.

If that happened I'd love it though, as the precedent would presumably allow for all stores, like game consoles, appliances, etc. to open up their operating systems to allow any arbitrary software to be installed.

Even if there were more app stores I bet it would result in all apps having to be signed by Google, in the same way anyone can purchase their own domain but are still limited in that DNS is centralized.
Actually the worst dark pattern is implemented by the IRS. No doubt lobbying keeps it this way.

The process for online filing with the IRS is a hot mess, and extremely difficult to navigate. For example, it is impossible for me to file 1099-NEC for my contractors without first obtaining a special ID delivered via mail in 45 days. I can't print and mail from the IRS website either -- I have to first request the form. Check out this cryptic mess

https://fire.irs.gov/
Ah, good to know! I'm barely C#-literate, so the Socket docs[0] aren't totally intelligible to me. Somewhere under the hood, though, there must be a common abstraction sitting in front of the relevant Windows and Linux syscalls - did the libuv stuff just move down a few layers, or is this using something completely different?

Either way, I'd be shocked if this weren't designed top-to-bottom to have excellent performance on Windows.

[0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.net.socke...