skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fresh out of college it probably took me several years to reach 700. You have no credit history. I applied for a card in college and coupled with no income, all I qualified for was a secured card. Got denied from the usual suspects of cash back cards for a while. Then once I got cards my limit would only be like $500 per card so you would max it frequently if you used it as a normal person would unless you remembered to pay it off every week. It probably took four or five years for a credit card company to give me a reasonable limit in the thousands, and that came from the bank that I had an account with for 15 years prior.
Just to take the bank example: the bank should block any attempts to remove money from the account once it goes negative and then put a hold on it until the owner contacts them. Charging negative and continuously charging fees should just be illegal.
You have both the direction and timeline backwards. It was Apple who reached out to Google, and it happened in 2005, two years before this [1].

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2014-03-24-emails-reveal-that-steve...
Very cool. Will give it a look, I am about to start my taxes.

Last year I used http://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/

It did the job, mostly, but had some quirks and didn't quite get everything right with the rounding when I set it to use whole dollar amounts, so I had to correct a few totals that ended up being $1 off, which was annoying. Probably won't use that one again.
my advice is if you get lonely join 3-6 concurrent games of dominions 5 (kind of like civilization except has active competitive/multiplayer scene)

https://illwiki.com/dom5/discord-servers

for me it's not so click heavy it gives you arthritis and also a perfectly comfortable level of socialization (games typically last months and a big part of the game is negotiating with other players)
I'm not talking about my family discussions. Just turn on the local news and you'll see them discuss it, including the annual segment about the lines at the post office.
Hold up. Downed a plane is different from grounded a plane. I don't know the Belarusian case, but either you misused the word or they are very different.
Actually mate they try pass economics of as a science so regularly they use it to influence policy. Which if the title of this article is correct. It's been part of the reason our environmental policiea globally have been so woeful ("you can't do that you'll ruin the economy"). It's the case here in aus and most of the western world, your telling yourself porky pies if you think it's not happening. Economics places be all and end all weight on growth and dollars. When for the most of us that results in detrimental outcomes. For example as I write this I'm currently in a motel because my house is flooded out by a 1 in 100 year flood, the 2nd time this month....
React is pretty terrible in terms of both performance and size compared to something a bit closer to the platform like lit.dev
Darn, not sure why that's happening for a couple people. I just pushed a fix to at least prevent it from crashing. If you're still curious, it should have saved your results locally before it crashed, so if you reload the page you can see what you would have gotten without retaking the whole thing.
I would argue that most of your complaints aren’t actually about education, but about the increasing specialization of the world. The more people there are, the more pressure there is for each individual to do something that can’t be commoditized. Universities seek students with high scores and unique motivation. Companies seek employees from great schools and with unique skills+training+motivation.

> There are many very successful self-educated people in the world.

How is this relevant? There always have been and always will be. The education system wasn’t designed for auto-didacts. They will thrive no matter the system. It is for the average worker bee to make sure they aren’t stuck with limited capability/mobility, which is bad for society. The question nowadays is related to whether the education system is too old to train the average worker for modern jobs as opposed to the old Prussian factory style education.

Education reform through technology hit a plateau early. MOOCs seem to have bad engagement metrics, so they suffer from the same problems that the worst in-person schools have. Few companies use online certificates as a stronger signal than branded, accredited 4-year university degrees.

I would argue that YouTube has been as much of a curse as a blessing. For those individuals with any non-trivial amount of gullibility, they can easily fall down a rabbit hole of false facts. Finding rigorously verified facts is more difficult, but still possible. I would have a really hard time hiring someone who believed the world was flat because they learned it dozens of videos on YouTube; that is a signal of high motivation but an inability to filter signal from the noise.

I agree that really reforming education will involve all of the tough things in your last paragraph. But you didn’t once mention parents in your comment, which is really interesting. I haven’t seen a movement of homeschooling which is much different from the anti-secular Christians have been pushing for decades.

Charter schools seem to be a mixed bag. Their biggest feature seems to be that they select their pupils/families (selective admissions, expulsion, etc). It will be interesting to see if any charter companies can grow to a national scale and keep high quality teaching results.
So punish them for not verifying?

We're already very familiar with the concept that ignorance of the law isn't a valid reason for violating the law. What's wrong with that in this scenario?
This isn't healthy in any relationship.

Eventually you're going to want or need to move, and the landlord is going to be pissed to discover on move-out inspection that you haven't been keeping them apprised of the condition of the property.

A simple "hey, this happened; I'm not worried about it if you're not" email suffices.
I would like to gently rebut some of your points.

If you care about your coworkers, find them other jobs or help them in doing so. You’re not changing corporate culture nor your colleagues’ day to day experience with an exit interview. More so if they're underpaid.

With regards to references, have a network of colleagues you can rely on regardless of your current role or org. Everything is temporary.

Exit interviews aren’t a trap, but they have no value to the person leaving nor will the org take any lessons from it. It’s theater, the illusion of concern. The only metrics valued by the business are hiring difficulty and attrition rates, and even then, as long as revenue is maintained, those metrics can go fairly sideways before the business makes changes (to the detriment of employees).
A simple web application on the FBI's end that takes requests from verified parties and then forwards them to companies would be enough. No need for PGP or anything like that.

Real subpoenas would also work.
Financially. I personally know one person who pissed away their rent money on a F2P and got evicted. I also know of several other stories of people (not who I know personally) where they spend a lot of money they don't have, to the point of ruin. (Not being able to financially recover is a very high bar - you can financially recover from a bankruptcy for instance.)

I mean, sometimes they are kids (or the developmentally challenged)[1] but adults [2] too. There are more sad stories. One I recall was a developer who invited their superwhales to a launch of the new beta expansion in person. (All expenses paid) They sent one a plane ticket, but the the player never showed because they couldn't afford to get to the airport. I wish I could find that story online.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48925623

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2014/03/01/why-its-s...

> losing your time, while sad, is not within the scope of this discussion

I very clearly and explicitly said "money they didn't have" in my first post and was talking about financial costs.
Mt Gox was a place to buy MTGO cards, but had been closed for years before the owner reused the domain name to host the bitcoin exchange.
I grew up in the 1980's USSR and it was anything but colorful.
I see your point about the possibility for a student getting an A to have perhaps gamed the system.

Are you saying the same is true for (some of, all of) the C students? Are you saying that C students may in some cases be superior to the students who got As (including the “didn’t game the system” ones)?
You should post that to HN if you're still working on it!

Email hn@ycombinator.com if you want and we can help.
AI Chains really takes it to the next level.
Much of my experience may have been shaped by my experiences with Chicago. I vividly remember how painful it was to have to call them up every month in order to pay them. It was 2016, and I forget exactly what the reason was. But autopay was somehow sufficiently painful to set up that the path of least resistance was to set a reminder in my phone of "Pay taxes to city" and deal with sitting on hold.

If it sounds unbelievable, I don't blame you at all. I wouldn't have believed it myself until seeing just how Kafkaesque "dealing with the government" can be. Especially when penalties are involved.

For the rest of my family, it's a little awkward to find out. It's mostly on my wife's side; my father was always very fastidious about taxes, as most families of most HN readers probably are. I only wanted to point out that there's a large number of people where this isn't true.

I'll try to dig up direct answers for you. Thankfully most of this pain has been not-mine for many years now.
Wasn't there some blog article a few years ago which showed how glibc's implementation was faster than fsin ?
US Historical Income Tax Rates
The amount collected is less than the cost of building/maintaining roads, thus it must come from other sources.
And that's why I think average kinda sucks here. Who is the average person renting? Maybe they are low income, maybe they are fresh out of college with no credit history at all, but in either case its probably a different makeup of financial backgrounds than what you see in homeowners and therefore the population on aggregate. Lumping these groups into the general population which includes homeowners who have been paying off credit cards for decades makes no sense. Consider the context when determining what these numbers should be, otherwise you are misrepresenting the shape of your data.
Bitcoin’s energy use faces $5M shame campaign from environmental groups
> via a lottery system, not armed competition

You’re proposing to reassign millions of dollars of property based on various levels of evidence for whether someone was physically present? That’s basically the 90s in Russia.

It’s certainly a neat fictional universe. I imagine everyone who can afford to would live in a hotel, leaving the scramble of defending your property to those who can’t. Also, fraud. Lots of fraud.
for good or for bad, one of the things amazon does is focus on providing benefits that can apply to ALL employees, i.e. the six figure devs all the way down to the fc employees.
Related:

New documents for the Okta breach - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30841413 - March 2022 (61 comments)
It's been an amazing decade watching high voltage mosfets show up on mouser.com, get better & cheaper. There's so many amazing 1kV+ chips out there now!

I also love 1A being >1HP power delivery, at these high voltage ranges.
Hmm, I'm not seeing that. Mind letting me know what browser/OS you're on?
Related:

I have been terminated from Zoom for refusing to remove the following tweets - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30842186 - March 2022 (123 comments)
Amazon would notice because paying their whole workforce $100 extra per year would cost them significant money whereas that sum of all those discounts would work out to a small fraction of that amount.
My sense is that it's because it happened about when Intel's litho progress began stalling out. It was designed for a world the uarch folks were expecting with smaller transistors than they ended up getting.
Then make it their problem with regulators or legislation. KYC is law of the land when dealing with private individuals, same logic should apply to verifying court orders or law enforcement requests.
Not really a button but yes, the list: https://news.ycombinator.com/launches.
> responsibly wielded HTML

That would be fantastic, but there are no available solutions that meet the specs I listed, including long-term preservation and annotation (what annotation subsystems are there for HTML?). ePub is 'responsibly wielded HTML', but it lacks annotation and long-term preservation is iffy.

I much prefer PDFs to blog posts, personally - they are mine, I can annotate them, etc. Also, I find much more thought is put into a PDF than a blog post (which both beat Twitter!).
It's basically your uber rider rating but in terms of debts and shared with banks and other financial agencies.
It's not necessary to come up with a cost function. Instead, come up with a sustainable amount of CO2 emissions. Then, keep raising the carbon tax until emissions drop to that amount.
> Not all people use the Twitter interface

If I had to make a guess, I'd say the overwhelming majority does, and the number of third-party client users is negligible.
I've heard of team strategy and working agreements, but never unilateral demands.
Sure, I assume anything that is not UV safe could be a problem. In institutional environments, this could be planned for. A lot of plastics are coated with UV treatments already.
Kids roaming around on bikes was the norm in the U.S. for a long time. It started changing sometime in the mid-nineties and has been getting progressively worse since then.

There are some glimmers of sanity emerging though, but it's very nascent. This org in particular is doing some good work: https://letgrow.org/ - there are also some stories on the site that explain things much more eloquently than I have.
>you will be graded based on how well you are able to do the work that is required from you

I can assure you, very few jobs actually promote people this way.
Absolutely, yeah the project has a loose group of contributor volunteers but longer term we would probably have to have a larger, more formal structure.

Right now, we're focusing on tooling to make onboarding new tax forms simpler and require a lower threshold of project understanding to allow a larger, less technical group of people to contribute
I prefer to skip the mocking frameworks and rely on Interfaces instead. My unit tests create anonymous inner classes that are passed to the constructors.

If it takes too much effort to write that anonymous inner class, then the Interface may be too big and need broken up. Or maybe you're hiding too much state and need to rethink the API.
It’s not like Java is the first or only language with types…
In the economic model, cost of the externality should go to reverse the damage, or compensate those harmed.

This breaks down if the government taxes a good due to externality, but spends the proceeds on something else.

Raising government revenues is arguably a social good, but does not benefit or compensate those harmed. Without targeted mitigation or compensation, such policies are simply sin taxes.

I don't think this is a problem with economists, who understand this well. you can not "set a tax precisely at the rate of the externality" without finding the cost of the externality to those impacted.
You seem to be implying that there is no value in a student who just barely meets the standard trying any harder or going any further. I hear you about stress. You seem to be saying though that even when stress isn’t an issue, there is no value in that student doing anything further (at that time). Am I mistaken?
I agree that we could collectively be more mindful about why we're doing things and what we're getting out of them, but this seems like a strange example to emphasize the point.

Do many people claim that they're intrinsically motivated to do their jobs independent of compensation?

My answer to "would you still do the job you do if they no longer gave you money for it?" has been an emphatic NO for every day of my working life and I assumed that was the common perspective.
No they haven't. Rent an apartment. You need paystubs to prove your income. You need two references to vouch for your moral character or whatever references are supposed to do for a landlord. You have to throw down a security deposit equal to x months rent. Then you also get that credit check hit. The credit check is saving you from none of that crap, it is just more crap on top of all that other crap that hasn't gone anywhere.
Having access to basic finance and the ability of storing money safely, should be a right.

There are place in the world where these things don't exist because society doesn't get along.

Should decentralized and anonymous communication, like TOR tries to be, exist? Should a decentralized currency exist? Should and open, free and decentralized internet exist?

For some of us the answer is clear but complex. Between black and white there are many shades of grey
Intelligence is not positively correlated with anxiety. That's just a meme.
getrandom(GRND_INSECURE) is this
Norway actively took a bet that long term, oil lying under their shelf might not appreciate in value quite as much as most would expect and opted for faster extraction than others. They might have had a certain hunch that scarcity might not be the only possible end game for oil?
Ah.

For what it's worth -- and it's possible I'm living in a bubble, but -- the only family member I know that watches the news is my dad. Everyone else quietly switched to netflix long ago. The news mostly comes from the drama of the day; things that show up on facebook. (The recent Chris Rock drama, and other nonsense like that.)

I recently followed CBS on TikTok though, to my surprise. They had some of the best coverage of the Ukraine war I've seen. I even joked to my wife that the circle of life was complete: not only have I never watched the news in years, and not only does my dad have no clue what tiktok is, but now I'm watching the news on tiktok.

Thanks for pointing out that the news is sometimes a valuable thing to keep on one's radar.
This doesn't match my experience, but your mileage might vary
If you’re gonna be mad at the IRS, at least be mad about something real.

https://www.cnbc.com/select/what-to-do-with-late-tax-return-...

> A long-standing law requires the IRS to pay interest to those who received their tax refunds late — notably 45 days after the typical filing date of April 15. Just as taxpayers must pay interest on any outstanding obligations they owe to the IRS, the rule works both ways if the IRS is late on the money they owe back.

They pay 3% interest currently, which is pretty nice.
Thank you for pointing out the difference. I went and reread about transformers; previously I thought they were a kind of RNN. (I am not an ML engineer.)
Here we go again. While these things have been enabled by cryptocurrency, especially ransomware, all these human activities predate it. For those of us old enough to remember the drama of the crypto wars, it all sounds eerily familiar.

> In fact, it's the proponents of widespread unbreakable encryption who want to create a brave new world, one in which all of us – crooks included – have a guarantee that the government can't tap our phones. Yet these proponents have done nothing to show us that the new world they seek will really be a better one.

> In fact, even a civil libertarian might prefer a world where wiretaps are possible. If we want to catch and convict the leaders of criminal organizations, there are usually only two good ways to do it. We can "turn" a gang member – get him to testify against his leaders. Or we can wiretap the leaders as they plan the crime.

> ...

> If unescrowed encryption becomes ubiquitous, there will be many more stories like this. We can't afford as a society to protect pedophiles and criminals today just to keep alive the far-fetched notion that some future tyrant will be brought down by guerrillas wearing bandoleers and pocket protectors and sending PGP-encrypted messages to each other across cyberspace.

> ...

> As encryption technology gets cheaper and more common, though, we face the real prospect that the federal government's own research, its own standards, its own purchases will help create the future I described earlier – one in which criminals use ubiquitous encryption to hide their activities. How can anyone expect the standard-setting arms of government to use their power to destroy the capabilities of law enforcement – especially at a time when the threat of crime and terror seems to be rising dramatically?

https://www.wired.com/1994/06/nsa-clipper/

My take on it as an outsider is that these are bridging technologies that will probably die off once the rest of the world moves to a secure private digital currency system analogous to cash, since we will no longer need these "wildcat cryptocurrencies" any longer. Like how modern banking progressively evolved from distributed roots.
Related:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.39...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/turbotax-maker-s... (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30846884, but we've merged the threads)
Did you say, awful "Cop Rock"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cop_Rock
You're dangerously closing to blaming voters for electing these people. I don't want it to be my fault...
There is usually no way to quantify how much value each developer is contributing. I mean, if your job for 6 months is to go through your company’s software and update to a new API since an old one is getting deprecated, how much business value did you produce? Yet you did something that needed to be done.

There are people who take on big, flashy projects that generate a lot of measurable value, and there are people who do the boring stuff that needs to be done too. Without one, you don’t get the other.
The article uses a game movement function as a possible motivation for needing the cosine. If object.rotation is constant as the spiral animation seems to suggest, there is an important optimization for rapidly computing the sequence: cos(theta), cos(theta + delta), cos(theta + 2delta), cos(theta + 3delta), ...

This comes up in movement under constant rate of rotation as well as Fourier transforms. See [1] for details, but the basic idea uses the simple trig identities:

cos(theta + delta) = cos(theta) - (a*cos(theta) + b*sin(theta))
sin(theta + delta) = sin(theta) - (a*sin(theta) - b*cos(theta))

The values for a and b must be calculated, but only once if delta is constant:

a = 2 sin^2(delta/2)
b = sin(delta)

By using these relationships, it is only necessary to calculate cos(theta) and sin(theta) once for the first term in the series in order to calculate the entire series (until accumulated errors become a problem).

[1] Press, William H. et. al., Numerical Recipes, Third Edition, Cambridge University Press, p. 219
I was confused by GP's post, as well! I have only seen quadratic voting used to decide amongst non-binary questions: positions with at least 3 (or more) possible outcomes. It seems weird to mix voting across a bunch of different issues.