skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess is that each such page is constructed dynamically, that is, for one specific user from a recommendation engine based on the most recent data YouTube has on that user. When I mentioned elsewhere in this thread "If click around enough at YouTube ...", that was very short for something like a guess that if a YouTube user watches a few movies and that is mostly what they do watch at YouTube, then some YouTube recommendation engine constructs for that user then a page of just movies. But that page and its URL may be valid only for a short time: So, saving the URL for later or giving it to someone else won't be useful.

Can imagine a horror movie: Joe frequently goes to the university library for applied math books but today happens to want a certain book on ancient Greek history. So, as Joe walks down an isle in the history section, the books notice that it is Joe and all change themselves to applied math! Poor Joe can't find his book on ancient Greek history!
It could be posited that the huge jump in salaries in tech that started happening in the mid-to-late 2010's came about due to the discovery and removal of this illegal collaboration(google,apple etc) to fight attrition and bring down wages. It would be very interesting to see if there is a direct correlation to that event. I know my salary and salaries of my peers(at fangish companies) started going to the moon around 2016 onwards.

the trial awards and verdict happened in 2014 - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-google-lawsuit-excl...
> If you believe that human society cannot afford to continue relying on fossil fuels, because they are an existential threat to civilisation, then it follows that the tax on those fuels also needs to become unaffordable.

Why bother with taxes? Just outlaw fossil fuel altogether. If you like to go around punching people in the face there is no super high tax you can pay for the privilege to "offset the externalities." You just aren't allowed to do it.
These days, calling mobile usually costs the same as calling landlines, but I do remember when calling mobile cost more. But even then, at least the caller gets to decide whether to call or not. And mobile phone numbers look different from landline numbers, so you know what you're calling.

The only thing is when the mobile phone is abroad and there are roaming charges; in that case, the callee still pays, because the caller has no way of knowing. But these days, roaming charges have been banned within the EU, so that problem has also disappeared.
Could it be the other way around? You read about cookies online, which prompts you read about them offline too, and causes the ads.

I.e. both your offline activity and ads are caused by preceding online activity?
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That is like saying if I steal a dollar from your pocket do you really care about that but I can steal a dollar from millions of people and get rich.
As I said to another respondent, my post was tongue-in-cheek. I meant no offense to anyone.
I think the objection is not that they're charging a fee, it's that the fee is $39. TurboTax (just the basic federal edition) is what, $30? And yes, this is essentially credit, extended for what, a month? So ($39/$30 * 12) is yearly rate of like 1,560% for that credit, aka., highway robbery — that, I think, is the parent's point.

(I might be a bit off on the price, but not enough to change the result. TurboTax's loss if the debtor here "defaults" somehow is … what, even?)
Screenhax: The obvious bug that led to the creation of Phi
Don't break userspace!
I hadn't seen this. Wow, what a fail. Like not only factually wrong but parrots Putin's now quite obviously false narrative about the motivation, which I don't remember seeing anyone else outside of the Kremlin doing.
Because the creator of crypto concept never understood why there are centralized institutions in the first place. It was so naive to think the problem was the correctness of the records and thus everyone should keep a copy of the global ledger!! I hardly if not never heard of any fraud that actually altered records held by the authority institutions and in fact, in all the fraud cases I know the records held by the authority institutions indeed correctly reflects what happened. So the problem was never about records but rather how to ensure the transaction happen as expected without having to know or trust the counter party. Of course in most of the cases the parties in a transaction don't know or trust each other and neither should they. So here come the neutral authority institutions which provides the instruments to allow the transactions to complete. So you can see that cryto is actually barking at the wrong tree and thus we again see authority institutions, exchanges or in this Ronin, emerged. Traditional institutions are heavily regulated and there is almost nothing for those so called exchanges.
Ontario has the carbon tax setup. 90% is revenue neutral. You get a standard amount on your tax return every year, if you happened to pollute little (not spending much on gaz) then you're net positive. If you're average, you get back what you spent. If you're a big polluter, then you spent more on tax than what you got back.

Issue is that most people don't understand those taxes. I tried to explain to a few friend that the increased in gas cost was offset by the carbon tax return, but they just don't understand it. They see the gas being more expensive as "bad" and they think they lost money. They don't understand likely because they don't do their own tax return.
People who complain about housing costing too much maybe haven't looked into how much materials and labor cost to build something. You aren't going to see a bunch of cheap houses being built because it simply costs too much money.
As others have noted, the IRS doesn't know everything, and some things may be to your advantage to report to them. They could send you a bill and ask you to fix it, but many people wouldn't know where to look to find mistakes.

For example: RSUs and NQSOs (employee stock grants) are in my experience handled extremely poorly by default. If I have RSUs vest when the stock is worth $10 a share, then I pay income tax that year based on income of ($10 x share-count). If I sell those shares later on, my brokerage reports to the IRS either: unknown basis value or $0 basis value. The correct basis value is $10 per share. There's a spot in the tax forms where you can tell the IRS that you have the corrected basis, but if you don't do this, you will pay extra tax, and it's an easy one to miss, especially if you're just importing the 1099-B.

At tax time my brokerage does send me additional forms beyond the 1099-B that include the corrected basis values, so its not that they don't know the right value, they just don't give it to the IRS directly. I assume this is due to IRS/congress rules and not my brokerage being obnoxious.
I wouldn't say I usually get excited about something a federal regulator does but I'll make an exception for this one.
Seems like you should combine forces with ustaxes.org?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30848936
GPT-3 always gives an output after a certain amount of time. What should GPT-3 return when running:

print("A");
potentiallyHalts();
print("B");
Modeling PlusCal in Haskell Using Cartesian Products of NFAs
Are you sure?

So much phishing potential in the links below. I know every GP surgery in the UK that uses a windows server is accessible online and Shodan can give away so much information, lets hope people like Cisco and netgear dont have any zero days.

https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2010/02/micro...
https://cyberlaw.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/microsoft...

https://info.publicintelligence.net/MSN-Compliance.pdf

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/gi...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/ho...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/law...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/us-...

https://leportal.microsoft.com/home

https://sendersupport.olc.protection.outlook.com/pm/policies...

https://undisputedlegal.com/how-to-serve-legal-papers-on-mic...

https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/843015-nep-uk-po...
https://www.transformation.police.uk/
https://www.transformation.police.uk/what-we-do/national-man...
https://www.transformation.police.uk/what-we-do/identity-acc...
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252493673/UK-police-unla...

RING.com LEO portal support page.
https://support.ring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360031595491-How-...
https://help.publicsafety.ring.com/hc/en-us

Facebook LEO portal
https://www.facebook.com/records/login/

Yahoo
https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/social_network/yahoo_sn_l...
Lisp is absolutely not well known. Some programmers may know the word Lisp and that it refers to some kind of programming language, the same way that they might know about Fortran, and possibly Algol, PL/I or Snobol. People talking about it today are not average programmers.

I agree that there is no better time than now, but at the same time, the ratio of Lisp experts to total developers may also be at an all-time low.
You have to remember who this is being designed for - citizens wanting to use government services, who may not necessarily have great eyesight, great computer literacy or even literacy in general.

The last thing you should ever want is for someone to fail to apply for welfare benefits because they were overwhelmed by the website design.

I agree that the cookie banner could be smaller though.
Should have bought WhatsApp, and fitted it with Gmail search features.
Either I'm being far less clear than I think or you're being deliberately obtuse.

Everyone has a primary residence. I'm saying, if the only goal is to force landlords to rent out houses, simply have any residential property without at least one person identifying it as their primary residence given away by the state, ideally in a lottery. It would only change things for landlords. And I don't know what "fraud" would be engaged in. I suppose a couple could rent two apartments only needing one, but I don't see why a landlord would do that as opposed to renting to someone who presumably wants it and would pay money.
Yes, but they’re also not extensible as far as I know, which is the much bigger issue with them. If you don’t find yourself needing extensions that’s just fine but I rely on several to make my web browsing experience better or more useful.
National Security means there is no law!
Absent a reason, the only path to WHICH thing fixes some problem in food is to do ALL OF THEM, maybe suffer some nutritional deficiency from washing the good stuff out with the polysacceride poison, and then very carefully experiment with removing one treatment at a time.

Which would butt hurt if it took BOTH heat AND acid to do the thing (tm)

Survival guides for 'crashed in the rainforest' have instructions which pretty much is "do all of it. pound it, wash it, drain it, look at the bubbles, if fish die in the water its pretty toxic, dry it, cook it, taste a tiny bit, wait until the dysentery passes, try again..."
No clear right or wrong answer, sure.

But do you not take any sort of measure both before and after the feature launch to evaluate what effect it had? How much “more right” (or not) you got?

How do you know that all the talk with the customers led to a feature that made a difference?
That’s not property testing. Yes there is a property being checked but you the user are selecting the inputs by hand which lumps in whatever biases you might bring to the test. Property testing is a property to validate, randomized search over the input space and, ideally, shrinking of inputs that fail the property. The benefit is you get to search over more of the input space that a human would normally do with an explicit table of inputs and with hopefully less bias toward inputs that don’t fail the property.
The fact that you still have the energy to reply to all these "isn't Redux bad/old/dead?" comments is a testament to the patience it must have taken to get this release out. Thanks for all your efforts.
What mouse? You haven't finished booting yet. You don't know if you're a laptop, a router or a lightbulb.
I tried searching for "saashub", and non of the results had a single mention of that term. Do you know what is the reason? Some stemming?
You're just casually glossing over the fact that the server-rendered + jquery approach was already a distributed system, just with less explicit boundaries and more ad-hoc patterns for managing and updating that state.

It all just depends on the product though, if the client-side interactions are minimal enough than I agree the server-rendered approach can be better. I was just saying I don't see this as the inherently better way, there are pros and cons to each approach.
> a housing market where landlords can pick and choose tenants should not be permitted to exist

1. That implies that home owners would not be permitted to rent only to family members (or friends), because that constitutes picking and choosing tenants.

2. Not being able to pick and choose tenants literally means you cannot evict existing tenants for any reason, like years of non-payment of rent, or damage to the unit or whatever. Such a move can be interpreted as trying to replace tenants with a better choice of tenants; i.e. picking and choosing tenants.

3. Only a complete fool or someone desperate would rent their home out under such a rule. (Even in a housing market in which you can screen tenants, you can still get awful tenants. Imagine if you had tenants foisted upon you by some rules. Yikes!) The result would be fewer rental units on the market.

4. But, in this imaginary world, banks would likewise not be allowed to pick and choose to whom they give money to buy a house, so there would be a lot less renting.
For a physicist sin(x) ~= x if x^3/6 << x
Looks like a typical case of Baader–Meinhof phenomenon* to me.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
Most Linux systems don't even have a mouse, and even those that do, users tend not to fiddle with them in early boot, so no signal there, even if you've gotten around to initializing it already.
It seems like one of the main issues is that writes to /dev/urandom aren't counted towards the entropy count.

> Torvalds's suggestion would help much. Ted Ts'o, the other kernel RNG maintainer, cautioned that writing to /dev/urandom is not a privileged operation, so a malicious user-space program could write specific values to it; that is the reason why inputs to the device are not used "until there is a chance for it to be mixed in with other entropy which is hopefully not under the control of malicious userspace".

> "we can haphazardly mix whatever any user wants, without too much concern" as long as it is not given entropy credit.

What's the attack here? An attacker can't lower the security of a system by writing data to urandom if the data gets hashed and there's any other entropy in the system. If there isn't entropy in the system, how is it a regression?

> The Android system writes its kernel command line to /dev/urandom early in the boot process with the expectation that it will not count as entropy, "given that the command line might not contain much entropy, or any at all".

So I assume the problem here is that if you write low entropy data here and then the system counts it, the threshold to reach 256bit is lowered?

Can a crypto-person explain? Is the issue basically that an attacker would be able to make the system look like it had more entropy than it does?
Web App (WIP) to help refugees fleeing Ukraine find free meals
He could be implying google engineers are fickle. Ie they might leave if there is bad weather. Small exaggeration.
The current color contrast algorithm used by WCAG is sorely in need of an update, it outright fails for certain color combinations.
> Lots of research shows that it's hard to go against your natural state.

How do you define 'natural state'? For example, my natural state is to be attracted to food when I'm hungry, to certain humans who I find sexually appealing, etc., but I don't grab those things when they pass by; it's not hard. My natural state is to be angry or upset when my client says certain things, but I don't punch them or cry. My natural state is to be an illiterate, innumerate nomadic hunter-gatherer, like 200,000+ years of ancestors, yet here I am on my fat ass in front of a computer.

People process their emotions in many ways, healthy and unhealthy. It's our choice what we each do with them. Emotions are exceptionally valuable to judgement, intuition, and to your experience of the world. They are your experience of the world, for the most part.

> your comment came off as condescending

I'm not the commenter, but for another POV, that wasn't my impression.
> . My initial viewpoint was why would scammers bother to fish for bitcoin when bank transfers/gift cards are a lower barrier

Because bank transfers at least are inherently traceable. It just requires a sufficiently motivated government agency or prosecutor to go after them. On Gift cards, there's a lot publicity regarding scams and stores are increasingly flagging scams.

Crypto for now at least is far safer from a scmer POV as it requires far higher level of investment and expertise to trace and unmask, so only the ultra big fish seem to get chased
That's got nothing to do with Musl per se, that's just the SunPro code that basically every C library uses. I'm sure the polynomials themselves (there's another one for the "crest" of the sin curve, and still more for log and exp and the rest of the family) date from somewhere in computing pre-history. Optimizing polynomial fits to analytic functions was something you could do on extremely early computers.
That's not exactly true. Free filing is also opposed by influential conservatives. The argument goes that if paying taxes were easier, then people wouldn't pay as much attention and oppose taxes as much. (I'm paraphrasing as best I can.)

Here's an old article from 2013 on it, for example, and a letter from Grover Norquist (sponsor of the Taxpayer Protection Pledge) and others.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax...

https://www.atr.org/taxpayer-advocates-issue-joint-free-file...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Tax_Reform#Taxpa...
Yeah, it sounds pretty bad, but at least it's somewhat decentralized so that power is diffuse. One way to make it worse would be to connect all those agencies to a central aggregator that acts on their behalf. I'm surprised to see so many comments in this thread advocating for exactly that kind of centralization of power.
Yeah, I'm a bit confused about modern time versus the (unscientific) past. Because people trying stuff and keeping what works is not far from scientific process. It's blind and primitive but structurally too similar to ignore.

There's also something nicer about the past, they could only focus on important ideas to share and save. People had direct interactions with life critical knowledge. I find that better than the current system where science is a far away field that people only see materialize as shiny devices.
It’s an old article, so… guess I won’t beat a dead horse as much.

* The range reduction is, well, probably worse than acos. Look for Payne–Hanek–Corbett. Not an issue for games, I assume.

* The LERP is nice and all, but Qt actually has an even better one: instead of doing a LERP, you use the local derivative also available from the lookup table. https://stackoverflow.com/a/52841086

Others have already mentioned the Remez and the Horner stuff. Won’t repeat here.
Your experience mirrors mine. I have become a dialyzer evangelist though.
Anecdotal, but the FTC has teeth.

I noticed I was getting billed by AT&T for South Carolina taxes when I'd been living in Oregon for 3 years. Literally hadn't left the state of Oregon since I'd arrived.

I added up the fees in a spreadsheet and it came out to $51. I called AT&T and fought with their customer support who offered me "as a one time courtesy refund $25" and escalating to a manager wouldn't change that.

I submitted a complaint to the FTC, and not long after I got multiple calls and voicemails from AT&T "Executive Customer Service" or something, and when I finally took the call they breathlessly offered me a full refund for the exact amount right up front with no haggling.

It was remarkable.

Can you believe they called ME to fix their fuckup? And then paid me?

Could you imagine if that was the level of customer service you always got?

So out of sheer loyalty I immediately switched to Ting and have saved thousands of dollars since.
ooh never thought of this, 3 balls! like foosball
Vietnam's Vinfast to build $2 bln electric vehicle factory in U.S.
I think mall culture came down to two things: fewer ways to communicate, so the mall was an obvious central gathering location, and secondly fewer things to do, so the mall was where bored teens hung out.
There's always a tradeoff between making it easy for legitimate customers to try out the product, and making it hard to abuse. If you bias for preventing fraud, you have less customers, and vice versa. This was written about a bunch in the context of PayPal in Jimmy Soni's excellent history of PayPal [0], as this is basically why companies like PayPal/Stripe exist: banks optimize for reducing fraud, and not for making it easy to become a customer. So they have very little fraud, but correspondingly few customers (compared to Stripe/PayPal).

[0]: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Founders/Jimmy-So...
I'm not the person you are replying to, but I would definitely interpret that negatively. First of all, I'm not going to take your word for it on the details. I don't know you and everyone convicted of a a crime insists they are innocent or otherwise in the right. I'd actually feel better about someone who expressed remorse over the situation. Even if I believed you, you are still telling me that you are a generally difficult person to deal with. I would not want to rent to a tenant who goes out of their way to unnecessarily flex their rights because in my state a tenant can make their landlord's life hell that way. I'd want reasonable tenants who I can be sure will pay their rent and leave when their lease is up.
Anybody can sue anybody. Winning though...
> Many people do though, that's why we exist :)

Are you sure?

> Our approach is very specific: We focus on Google users (which is why there is only a Google login) who communicate mainly through email and put every IRL meeting in their calendar.

That describes exactly _zero_ of my friends/acquaintances, and perhaps low single digit percent of my professional connections.

Even at work, where we use Suite and Google Calendar, internally an overwhelming percentage of our communication is via Slack, video calls, and Jira/Trello tickets. Email is mostly a customer comms channel here (most of who are not Google Calendar users)
>That's probably too expensive right now

Understatement of the decade. This is functionally the same as hefty, punitive fines for burning any fossil fuel at all. The simple math is that closing the carbon cycle will always take as much energy as you got from burning it plus some extra, so it's never going to be economical to put the CO2 in the atmosphere and then take it out again.
The percentage of people making that amount of money is still pretty low. I'm more worried about what happens when those people making 300-400k a year automate those jobs. As far as sustainability, cost of living will be consistent with the middle class.
> AD-IPA

I'm not sure, and you undoubtedly know more and are more up to date than I, but I don't believe any of these things existed in 2005, when I was on the aforementioned team. Or, maybe they did exist but management decided an internal implementation was better.

Getting Windows to accept the user profile in an AFS path I recall being particularly vexing.