skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it these people's full time job just to rant about tech, or do they actually produce anything of value?

Use PHP if you want. Use Electron if you want. Use an established http server, or write your own. Host on AWS or a Raspberry Pi in your closet. Write plain HTML in notepad. No one gives a shit.

The only people complaining are the ones not actually coding.

> Also, if you found any of the content on this website useful consider supporting me on Patreon ;)

Or maybe this was the reason for this strawman-laden rant all along.
No, this is definitely a much more widespread issue than that. Every single person that has tried to screenshare in my Google Meet meetings the past week has experienced the same problem.
Why do you believe that, the NSA had access to Cisco PIX systems for years and it was only disclosed once those systems started to be replaced with ASA and other newer hardware.

I dont believe the NSA, CIA or even the FBI really have any actual legal limits.
Like on Windows where you can't tell where on the top of the window you have to click to drag, where lets you resize the window, and where does nothing at all.
There was lots of reporting in 2020 about Democratic voters who preferred another candidate throwing their support behind Biden based on the idea that he was best positioned to win in the general election.
Yeah, I'm a fan of my electric blower too. I don't generally use it in situations where I'd use a rake, but it's great for things like blowing debris out of the garage or cleaning off a patio. Also drying cars after washing, if you want to avoid water spots.
The $1K christmas bonus started no later than 2002.

You say those times are gone, but have you seen what FAANG pays people now?
last time I checked Edge was running in chromium as well

and if you wanna do yourself service use Vivaldi instead Edge
Even dirtier secret - the government is legally required to publish all the forms in an accessible manner. You can just download them without ever even installing any Intuit software.

Just to back this up with facts - here are the braille and spanish language offerings which took all of two seconds of googling:

https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/irs-tax-forms-in-braille-and-...

https://apps.irs.gov/app/picklist/list/formsPublications.htm...
The only way to verify that something is send by certain perosn to contact that person over “secure line” and ask them about it.

The “secure line” can be just a phone call to police department and ask for officer with badge number xyz.
User-Agent Reduction Origin Trial and Dates (2021)
HTMX is a middle ground - using it involves not having "full-page reloads" like traditional server rendered apps, but still having the productivity of server only apps.

The main advantage I see with this approach is you'll have only one set of models/actions in the server, instead of models in server + models in client. The logic won't be spread between client and server, which make for easier testing among other benefits. For larger apps, this is a significant win.
Very far from an expert on ML, but isn't GPT-3 trivially not Turing Complete since it halts deterministically?
Kaspersky consciously, under no pressure chose to be chekist. That is absolutely all You need to know about this person and his deeds, consequentially. The numerous ruminations on "coercion" are just deeply naive. He is a member of kremlin gang. Anything else falls into bottomless category of whitewashing.
I love it, we need everyone to have poverty wages and be insecure in case the poor multinational corporations might have difficulty underpaying people
I'm not surprised since a large percentage of crypto buyers are millennials that grew up during the great meme boom of the 2000's.
If you got an offer from Facebook they would beat it. I did this in 2012 and instantly had 10x the RSUs. Some Googlers thought it was immoral to do this. It was at this time that comp for engineers radically changed.
Ah yes, the good old "just make crime illegal"

Do people honestly think that's a deterrent for people already committing felonies?
I find the small, label-less, monochrome icons undistracting, personally. If they tack on a few more I might start grousing, though.

On the other hand, for some reason I cannot get myself over Firefox's default UI cruft in comparison.
No need to be insulted; I was just trying to get clarification, since as I mentioned, I wasn't aware of gas engines that could be stored on their side. Your link shows they do appear to exist though!
Logic only produces correct results when your starting assumptions are correct. Since you're just making things up, and logic resting on that foundation is pointless.
xsane doesn't do any actual color calibration, just some heuristics for color correction. There's also no fancy hardware involved for scanner calibration (that's required for calibrating printers, though) - all you need is to purchase a "known good" color chart printout off of the web (or eBay) and scan it then process the resulting TIFF w/ Argyll to generate an ICC (assuming its one of the charts that Argyll has the "correct" color values for, otherwise you'll need to buy a chart that comes with a "correct" model on a CD/USB alongside it or else use a "good enough" color values chart that someone uploaded).
Instead of me pointing to random other authorities (which you could find yourself), let me ask you this:

Why do you hear about McCullough often? Why among the millions of doctors is he one of the only doctors that can be found holding his position, instead of the outweighed-by-millions-of-doctors position that vaccines are a much better idea?

And why, of all subfields, a cardiologist?

Is it more likely that he's the only guy in the world who figured it out, or is it more likely that he is making shit up for money and fame?

I'll leave the answer as an exercise to the reader.
For most folks, CashApp Tax works fine. Its 100% Free. I have used it since it came out (originally Credit Karma Tax).
Yes. The FTC, BigLaw, and tech are highly interconnected.

> Public Citizen found that just over 75 percent of top FTC officials (31 out of 41) over the past two decades have either left the agency to serve corporate interests confronting FTC issues, joined the agency after serving corporate interests on these issues, or both.

https://www.citizen.org/article/ftc-big-tech-revolving-door-...
Ya that Win 3.11 setup is quite wild. I need to add it perhaps...

http://assets.metacade.com/emulators/win311vr.html
How would you contrast this library with what EdgeDB is doing on top of Postgres?
I'm working with other contributors on https://ustaxes.org, an open source tax filing webapp https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes.

Currently, many Federal tax forms are supported, as well as tax filing for the state of Illinois. Filing for Oregon and California is under development!
Early chrome was a breath of fresh air. Design was light, it was fast, and it felt like the promise of the web will soon pay off.

Unfortunately, it helped kill the hated IE6/7 dragon only to take it's place. If you value the free internet and open standards, use Firefox. It is not important how's good chrome is or how beautiful it is (it actually isn't, early design was way better), because, after the demise of Opera, Firefox is the last alternative browser engine we have. We don't want one company decide the standards, it'll end badly.
The thing is, they didn't. If you check the tx history most of it went to Huobi and some to FTX and Crypto.com
What mechanism would a flash drive use to infect a modern version of Windows by only being plugged in?
Right now the "random interesting posts" are a random selection from the top 1000 of all time.

However, if you want fresher content, you can use the date range selector and set it to "Past Week" for the best posts of the week.
It is not typical. The average commute is closer to half an hour.
Chromium: Rust and C++ Interoperability (2020)
> The first step has to be repealing Citizen's United.

Citizen's United was a group that made a political-advocacy movie and the FEC wanted to treat it as regulated political activity.
Indeed, and it's really absurd. Just compare Fox News and MSNBC. They might be both state run, but certainly not the same state.
It might be worth reading this alongside:

"Does altruism exist?" by David Sloan Wilsom: https://www.amazon.com/Does-Altruism-Exist-Foundational-Ques...

"The evolution of trust" by Nicky case : https://ncase.me/trust/
I mean, I agree. Especially in the US. I was forced to hire a CPA because of some complicated international stuff. Until then I filed it myself. I have used TaxAct and Credit Karma taxes (which is now Cash app tax). TaxAct is cheap and fully functional. Credit Karma was also straightforward, easy to use and accurate.

CPA can also be useful beyond just tax filing. My CPA does a half year evaluation to see if I'd owe any additional tax and plan accordingly. They also makes sure I get all the deductions I can.
I would argue that Opera were better than Chrome feature-wise.
It's not just sub-normal numbers. As https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/intel-underesti... shows, fsin only uses 66 bits of pi, which means you have roughly no precision whenever abs(sin(x))<10^-16 which is way bigger than the biggest subnormal (10^-307 or so)
>> It's so nice having a separation of concerns where that the backend doesn't deal with any view/presentation/styling concerns and only exposes an API

You’re just casually glossing over the fact that now you’ve created a distributed system - state still exists server side but now there’s a distributed eventually consistent subset of state living in the user’s browser (i don’t mean trivial UI state like is the dark theme enabled, i mean application state).

And you’ve opened this can of worms only for the trade off that you get to move view templating from the server side to the client side.

There’s one case where there’s obvious clear benefits of choosing the client side rendering trade off and it’s if you’re building a client side app. Something that should be an intensive desktop app but you choose to deploy via browser instead. Maybe a music mixing or live DJ’ing app or a photo or video editor. Delivering these apps via web has some neat benefits in app distribution and cross platform accommodations. It wouldn’t be possible to build them without client side rendering so it’s a clear win.

Most web apps are not that though. Most are like you describe, a UI to some APIs. The state really lives server side - my bank account UI, my blog posts, my … etc etc For these cases, you can reduce complexity by ditching the client side rendering.
the team is called Costin Raiu
Yeah, exactly. Perhaps the handle just stacked 'vertically' above the mower body. Or maybe the body somehow folded in half with the motor perched above it or something. As it turns out it does indeed just store on its end with the engine sideways, but I didn't think the question was unreasonable.
We didn't want a big hubbub around a "1.0" release, since we realized React was effectively already stable at that point and the changes from 14 to 15 were no more dramatic than from 13 to 14 or 12 to 13.
I can't tell you how much I love that your first example of contrast failure is HN.

> Our favorite orange website isn't leading by example, either. Some comments are almost unreadable
How is "quad floating point" implemented on x86? Is it software emulation?
I have taken classes that combine both. Work during the course count as points on the final exam and/or let you skip parts of the final exam.

I think it's because different people have different learning styles.
If you made under $100,000 from salary and don't otherwise have any complications (like dependents), a form 1040EZ really is simple. There's no reason to use software for that. It's quite straightforward.

If you have deductions, stock sales, a nanny, a business, etc then you need the regular 1040 and various schedules, and those are all complex enough that you'd probably benefit from software. It's not absolutely required, but there are enough ways to do it wrong (like adding up the wrong lines) that the peace of mind alone is probably worth it to you.
Feels like many are stuck in this dichotomy between choosing stable rates or venturing out on your own where more middle ground should probably exist. Employee incentives should probably align more
My mowers getting on 10 years old now. It's probably gonna do another ten. I don't like waste. I'll probably try convert it to run off ethanol. I'd buy more battery gear if it wasn't designed to be so wasteful and the market wasn't full of so much lock in. Getting stuck in one brands battery goes against alot of my ethics re. Tech purchases. I hate vendor lock in.
> But is the problem of power any different? If anything, it seems like there are more ways that power is limited in current America than 16th century Europe or the USSR.

I certainly think so. I think many of the way in which modern institutions exert power over individuals are of a fundamentally different nature compared to, say, slave economies, or the pre-reformation Catholic church, or the Aztec empire, or whatever. In particular:

> If anything, it seems like there are more ways that power is limited in current America than 16th century Europe or the USSR.

I half-agree here. I don't really think "power" is a one-dimensional scale where you can strictly order societies in terms of the degree to which it exists. Take, for instance, the way in which advertising companies are able to leverage their understanding of psychology and their fine-grained control over media content to directly shape our desires and emotions; these are tools which flat out didn't exist 100 years ago, and represent a mode of control which seems orthogonal to, say, a monarch ordering a summary execution of one of their subjects. These aren't theoretical distinctions, either: recognizing them can help point us in the right direction when trying to imagine what a better world looks like, and is useful for understanding what the available avenues of resistance and change even are.
He answers is own question at the end:

> A company may save both time and money in the beginning because, yes you can get something running quickly, but they always pay the price in the long run when they are faced with all the issues their bad decision has caused.

So, you'll get cleaner and more robust software when the economic incentives do not richly reward moving fast and cheap at the beginning of product life cycles.

(This comports with my experience. Mostly, over the last 15 years, during the explosion of the online economy and the associated great economic dislocations, you could avoid the madness by avoiding web programming.)
Well, I live in a representative democracy, and it mostly works. I don't think the vote is only way to express political power, just the most 'sacred' and extreme of all. The one of removing your ruler (or ruling party) from power.

And making people vote on issues they're interested in just makes me think only extremes will be heard and counted, and I would have to give my opinion on a bunch of things I don't really care about, or am not quite competent enough. To me, the democratic vote should be a precious rare thing, to elect a representative or a bunch of them, and trust them to do a non-too-shitty job of it.

Referendums, IMO are among the worst democratic moments in my republic, and I feel my concitoyens (from talking to some, and reading what they say in polls or public forums) don't really vote on the specific subject but on a global policy rant. It's a place to vent, not to decide ; when your elected ruler throws up his hands and gives you back the wheel at the last moment, with little context, FSD-style.
I was once on an IRS payment plan, and a) the interest rate was remarkably low and b) the folks I talked to when I needed to adjust it were the nicest customer service reps I think I've ever encountered.
A pro and con I haven't seen discussed too much so far:

Huge Pro - since there is no active heat source unless there is pan, nothing happens if the controls get accidentally turned on. With older parents I'm very happy they have an induction stove - my dad always hits the controls when cleaning and he can't hear the beeps. Luckily after a few seconds, without a pan, the cooktop just turns itself off again.

A significant con - matching pan to hob (burner) size. The more mismatched, the louder/more high frequency squealing you get. It drove me crazy enough I'm seriously considering something like a Gaggenau 400 Series that will auto detect the pan size and location.
No grocery store has my personal details...and yes I also have a big problem with grocery stores employing that tactic against children. Its psychological abuse and I will never, have never, taken a child in these places.

Horrible behaviour is not acceptable because other companies do it. What kind of argument is that?

Calling customers a User, is calling them a human being with a certain behaviour attached (using your app/service).

Naming your customers animals is a reflection of attitudes towards these customers. A hostile attitude I have tackled multiple times and every time I have called out, walked out, or changed the company. Its hard, not for everyone and I cant recommend it. I am just too aware of the tragic social impact of these tactics, and I have to try and not make the world a worse place.
I just disable javascript via ublock whenever I hit that sort of thing. 90% of the time things are hidden client side and that stops it. The other 10% I have to decide if i really want to go find an archive link to use.
> Filing taxes should be free and easy.

Or, ideally, not needed at all. In the UK having an average financial situation like a job (one that doesn’t pay megabucks, anyway), a pension, a tax-efficient savings account and a student doesn’t require any filing at all. Everything happens through payroll. If you do earn a lot or have other things that trigger the need to file it’s free and not overly onerous — certainly within the grasp of a mere mortal.

(And before someone chimes in with “how do you know the government gets the figures right?!”: because the tax code, or at least the parts that face most people, is straightforward and most people have a bog-standard default configuration that is easy to verify.)
I found out from a friend that she paid $600 to have her taxes done because (presumably) she falls for the dark patterns that TurboTax uses. She's a low paid service worker whose tax return can probably be done for free. And it is a sizable portion of her income because of things like Earned income tax credits, child tax credits, etc.

Fuck these companies.
Housing bought by landlords looking to rent is the most relevent, as it increases competition among landlords putting pressure on them to be less selective.
This is not a business, and I would like to open source it, but it would probably be better for everyone if I wait until I clean up my garbage code, which will take some time.
It sounds like the component that was compromised was a bridge controlled by the same validators. I'm glossing over the different components of the system for simplicity.
So just because the harm "feels small" to you personally, that means it's not really harm?
curious - “can your blockchain be validated with regular hardware” - why is this a point you call out?

is it that specialized equipment is not easily accessible and thus not truly decentralized?
Like many others I don't love the idea of a "How to work with me" manual because -- like much of this one -- they can come off as a one-way directive. However, context matters.

If a random person on my team or the manager of some other team handed this to me? No, no, and no. Huge red flag. But if I was joining a team for the first time and my manager handed me a manual of expectations and made it clear what they value, what they expect, and how they see the world, that would be a treasure trove for my career. After all, managing my career is essentially managing my manager.

That being said, this document... isn't that. I appreciate the intent, but like many have said, it can be a little self-indulgent :)
TurboTax and H&R Block aren't part of Free File as of 2021, so the supported software under the program are now things most Americans wouldn't recognize, either.

The problem truly is advertising, like you said. The government just cannot out-advertise companies that are doing $9 billion in revenue.
My point wasn't about how you were timing the code, what I meant is in the real world, I don't think there are programs where this will be an issue because if they are thrashing their caches too much, they won't be bottlenecked on trig. The advantage of table based functions is that they are really fast if you are calling a lot of them at once, but that's also the only case where they need to be fast. If only 1/10000 instructions is trig, it's OK if the trig is a little slower.
Another episode of "old man screams at the cloud"?

All points in this rant boil down to gatekeeping.

Sure, Electron, React-Native, PHP, and whatnot might not have maximum performance. But they allow people to build things that couldn't do it in the past. Now we get apps from different demographics than the author belongs to, which is a great win in my book.
What parent is referring to is not just lack of pushing for it, but active campaigning against automatic filing. Not a "think of the jobs" but "automatic filing is intrinsically bad."

See e.g. http://reason.org/files/ba148cd5babdda39f9ebb43b336b01d4.pdf
I would go with something simple.

Quote from Stack Overflow:

“Simple answer - No matter what scheme you use it can be cracked.

Don’t punish honest customers with a system meant to prevent hackers, as hackers will crack it regardless.

A simple hashed code tied to their email or similar is probably good enough.”

https://stackoverflow.com/a/599841
A Plastic Bag’s 2k-Mile Journey Shows the Messy Truth About Recycling
netty uses jni https://github.com/netty/netty-tcnative for example
I don't get how "layers and layers of abstraction/concepts that are hard to grasp for a newcomer" is your critique here? The literal entirety of tech is layers and layers of abstraction. Also, just because the improvements or new concepts are going to be difficult for newcomers to grasp doesn't mean they are objectively bad. The fact that things are going to be difficult for newcomers should not be an impeding factor on whether or not to build upon existing features. There are ways for newcomers to build up their way to eventually learn the advance concepts. Newcomers are not forced to go from 0-100 on day 1
The API for loading web pages, yes, so it's not running Blink or V8, but people choose to use (or not to use) Chrome nowadays for its integration with Google services and sync across devices. The only difference is that you don't get the wide compatibility Chrome affords via its engine, but IMO Apple's control over blocking JIT-compiled code allows them to maintain enough global browser marketshare to ensure developers at least test against two browser engines and not just one.
That was it! (I regret I have only one upvote to give.) I was thinking "Videotron", but I knew that wasn't it.
It's up but whenever I try to make a page it internal-server-errors me.

I'm not unappreciative I was just hoping maybe the author would say, hey I saw your booboo in my log and fixed it for you or something.

Instead cometh the downvote army... also, boo.
Not all beep crazily like that - and not as many as I like have physical controls. I loathe the obsession with capacitive touch dominating design these days :p