skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Is it supposed to be secret? My point is that it should be public!"

If I have a list of all the agency numbers, then I can look for organizations that disbanded and use those numbers. Since they could still exist in the book (because it wasn't updated instantly), the other party could think you're legitimate.

"There is simply no reason for a newly-started/merged police department to be able to unilaterally issue an Emergency Data Request, and I say this as a father of three young kids."

How so? For the first year of existence they can't issue anything because they have to wait for the next book to be publish. That's sounds dumb. There's no reason they shouldn't be able to issue anything they have the lawful authority to do so. Have any support/logic for your claim that they have no reason?

"some new and/or newly-merged and/or micro police force must surely have their local, regional and national-level police forces on speed dial on all their phones. If someone is missing and needs to be found quickly, all they need to do is pick up the phone and reach out to "higher authority" (who can be quickly authenticated, because they definitely have been around for decades), not start acting like the local heroes."

Um... so how does this higher level authority authenticate this lower level authority if they aren't in the book we are using for authentication? In some cases, jurisdiction can get in the way of the scenario you just described. And again, how long are you going to prevent a department from doing what they are lawfully allowed to do?

"This isn't a technical problem, folks"

Ok, then how do you solve the authentication issues in my previous comment? So far your system hasn't addressed them.
Your work is needed.
I have used this several times, and I have to say I really like the lightweight setup of the V1 version of this and can't stand the V2 version they now support.

The V1, which you can still download, just works so well out of the box it is amazing. It adds styles to the base tags and is easy to just drop into an html site you are already working on. You only have to add classes when you need to do something different than the defaults.

V2 makes you add classes everywhere, which means content managed by HTML editors like CKedit won't work without extra pain.
>How do you determine the need for iteration unless you get some sort of feedback ( aka grade ).

Did you not read the article, where the author describes how taking grades off of her own plate allowed her to "[write] meaningful comments, [suggest] improvements, [ask] questions and [enter] into a dialogue with my students that felt more productive – that felt, in short, more like an extension of the classroom."
How are states prioritized? Population and complexity? Or personal priorities of contributors?
Exactly. Even just one AVX512 ALU instead of the typical two would be an option (which in fact Intel has used on some *lake variants).
I worked at Amazon, too. People look down on Amazon, especially relatively to Google. But Amazon had their priorities straight when it comes to frontend. I worked on the team that made shares UI widgets, and it was forking off of Bootstrap.

Yes, people may remember Amazon retail being bloated, still kind of is sometimes, but those are product design decisions separate from the ui components. AWS wise, there is just so many products and maybe not enough users / page where it doesn’t make enough business sense to invest more resources.

Actually, Amazon had the most practical designers I ever met. They were also closer to the metal in the terms of being considerate about CSS bloat.

> interactions don't ever feel "solid" - basically the experience is always like using a buggy webapp where you're thinking you need to open the dev panel to see if it's erroring silently

Funny you mentioned AWS. This is exactly the problem with the GCP web console, even though it had a better overall visual hierarchy than AWS.

Disclaimer: I also worked on the frontend for GCP
How do you know which money funds what?
I'm pretty sure fmt.Println("HELLO", str, len(str), len(result), n) isn't supposed to be in the final solution? :)
This is just a strawman. No one is claiming economics is a science with ground truth. That being said, people on the aggregate do generally act rationally, and they absolutely respond to incentives, which is pretty much all you need for economics to be useful.
Google sea that openvms is still used. Talk about inertia…
Agree 100%.
Economic theory is more moral philosophy and religion than science. To begin with, its fundamental motivation rests on utilitarianism. But then it also fails to accomplish that goal because it values the utility of a rich person buying something expensive more than it values ten poor persons buying something essential. That's also why a carbon tax does not work.
Annoying "well actually" counterexample: my rent hasn't kept up with inflation, and I'm doing everything possible to avoid coming to the notice of my landlord. A call about a leaky faucet could cost me an additional six thousand dollars a year.
I may have missed it, but this needs to be more than email. for many personal connections I need text, whatsapp, signal integration etc. and now you are in the world of accessing encrypted data. but without all the messaging protocols, the data is misleading.

I dont manage my network through email.
I visually/manually looked for the union between a list of companies using Elm[0] and a list of Fortune 500 companies[1]. I saw IBM and Microsoft in such a union.

I didn't have time right now, but another approach would be to use this list of engineering blogs[2] and scrape each one for mentions of "elm" "elm lang" "elm architecture" etc.

Sources:
[0] https://github.com/jah2488/elm-companies
[1] https://pastebin.com/2FY5fTS1
[2] https://github.com/jah2488/elm-companies
Politicians are surprisingly cheap, so long as you're talking about topics that don't get a lot of press.

And thanks to Citizens United and similar decisions that have driven up the cost of US elections, US pols are very expensive compared to their counterparts in other countries.

It does make me wonder about the efficacy of standing up a lobbying fund to lobby to Do The Right Thing about something. This would be a prime example - I would happily pay $100 to compete with Intuit's lobbying here. I'm also certain there are 31,999 other people in the US who feel the same way.

I just don't have the energy to do the work of learning how to set up the corporate structure around that to make it legal.
> Nowadays we have enough compute power in a laptop with connected SDR to render this moot security by obscurity.

Can you provide some sort of example of how a laptop+SDR was used to discriminate something equivalent to a military-grade DSSS signal (i.e. one in which the pseudo noise function and its parameters are classified)?

If you know the PN function, I agree that it is trivial to detect/recover the transmission.
Problems emerge for a unified /dev/*random
> the ORM is hot garbage

It really is not.
> what William James called the "Moral Equivalent of War", not as mere National Service, but as Global Service. Literally pay people salaries to fight climate change.

I see what you’re going for with this, and I imagine I could be persuaded to a more workable version of this. What’s hanging me up is - how do you avoid these salaried people being captured by incentives to sustain their salary rather than be incentivized to ultimately solve the problem?

We’ve tried this with the war on drugs, war on terror, war on homelessness... haven’t we? Is your suggestion different somehow?
Does this invalidate the author's point, given that she still delivers a GPA-compatible grade at the end of the course?
> That doesn't happen with a debit card.

Citation needed.

The scenario you described will absolutely fall under most card networks' transaction dispute rules. In day-to-day spending a debit card is just as safe as a credit card when it comes to fraud or malicious merchants.

The only time a credit card will be better is grey areas where a card network dispute doesn't succeed, in which case the law in most countries forces the credit card provider to eat the loss. In some of those cases, the reason why a credit card chargeback succeeds is not necessarily because you are right (if you were, the dispute process would've succeeded anyway) but because the amount is too low for the issuer to care so they just eat it to not have to investigate and/or litigate the issue.
I do think some form of collaboration between small search engines would be very beneficial. I've been thinking about how to make that happen. So far I've added a public API to my search engine, and published some data.

Not sure what is a good way of creating a space for collaboration...
> the fact that you would often find `merchant`, `account`, `invoice`, etc used as method parameters that represented the _ID_ of the resource rather than the resource itself

I've encountered a few Rails projects in the wild that do this. One solution is to make liberal use of the `to_param` method. This method converts objects to strings that are intended for use in URLs. Of particular note, it's the identity function for strings and numbers, but returns `.id.to_s` for ActiveRecord models. Using this within definitions makes your function polymorphic for whether it accepts a model or an id.

If you do this widely, would probably be best to monkey-patch in your own `to_id` method.
> But the people you're telling to "Just do this" have already been trained to be terrified of the IRS. Many of them are currently paying huge fines due to missing their returns in prior years. Any small mistake can hang you when you're impoverished, precisely because you don't have any room for error.

Why do you say that? I've never encountered people who were terrified nor have I read about it. How many people are paying "huge fines"? AFAIK, the IRS's audit capacity is greatly underfunded.
It's a misuse of tools indeed. It's something to do on the phone, not in a (supposedly) asynchronous communication tool. But hey, some people even use email synchronously.

I tried to punish the naked hello senders, by simply not responding at all. If you can't be bothered to tell me why you need me, I can't be bothered to respond.

Unfortunately, empathy broke it. I work with a lot of remote workers in India. They make long hours and I know they need something from me, I just don't know what. By intentionally not responding, I feel bad about effectively sabotaging progress.
it's true, I would choose modern civilization over the wild west
Yes, I used to file taxes with paper forms from the IRS years ago and this is free. There isn't even an income limit to do it this way as far as I know. But of course it's more of a hassle than doing it online as you have to buy stamps, go to the post office, etc.
Currently, it's states that contributors live in because our resources are limited
The security practice here is even worse than what you're describing, the company servers had been authorized to sign on behalf of the DAO, so only one compromise was required to get 5/9 validators.
"Weasel words from which my immediate instinct is to recoil."

Obviously is not engaging with an argument, idea or evidence and isn't much more than abuse. Also completely wrong in every way as I politely outlined.
> So now that I know about these records, I better think twice before asserting my rights as a tenant.

Yes, I'm sure that is the point.
Even the tokenization is wonky. Imagine if you had no concept of math characters and instead has a lookup table of common-ngrams (BPE encoding). For example, the binary addition function “a+b” may be tokenized as a unary “3+b” because “3+b” occurs commonly. That tokenization is vastly different from “3.00000001+b”. GPT has to invert this tokenization artifact with finite training data.
I'm considering starting a 501(c)(4) to advocate for state level legislation, but I wonder if something like a PAC might be more effective.
For me, Minecraft was amazing. I started on real logic with its redstone logic system. I started getting familiar with server management & Linux while trying to create a multiplayer server. I wrote my first code by writing plugins in have and interfacing with existing plugins. I learned how to solve problems by combining different components that other people made. It was truly amazing.

I don't know if it is still that great. I think the technical community is definitely smaller now, and the game itself is more of a game than it was back then. However, I still think it is really cool, and definitely different from all of the shooter games.
A Firefox/Chrome extension that blocks video codecs you have chosen on YouTube
> So does crypto

It doesn't. Everyone who claims otherwise can't come up with a single credible example.
War Among the Ruins
Not an audit, but they corrected a mistake I made in my favor once. It was a trivial amount, like $30 or something, but they sent me a little packet explaining what they did, why, and a check.
When I say "statistics are on my side", I don't just mean that the odds are in my favor on a 50/50 basis; I simply mean that I don't feel I have to be as aggressive in my behavior modification to make sure my car doesn't go in flames.

The questions you ask about what would be the case IF the car actually went up in flames are extremely valid, and underpin why I probably won't be waiting longer than the end of this calendar year to get the battery swapped.
Heck I’m a high skilled, non-essential employee and I fell for this trap for years. Next year I’m using Cash App. But it’s wild what brand recognition can do.
Grammar Zoo
> Allowing either of those circumstances to void a contract would fundamentally undermine the whole concept.

I don't think it would.

> The whole point of contract is that it is a bargain; each side does something they would rather not do in order to gain something they wouldn't have otherwise.

Right, the core of contracts is making a bargain, which isn't happening here.

> I don't want to pay rent; it's just something I have to do because otherwise I would have no place to live.

The part under discussion here isn't the payment, it's the everything else.
I disagree on many points here, but I don't think either of us is going to convince the other.

Instead, I'll just apologize: I'm sorry if my comment came across as an attack. I didn't mean it as such. I've seen too many flamewars over trivialities.
That's a very interesting point, but make sure to do it with profit, and not revenue. Revenue is meaningless on this context.

(If it's a sub-dollar fine over revenue, it will probably be around $20 on profits, what just moves the needle from the cost of home-made coffee to an airport coffee.)
> The current low-density north american way of living is a historical anomaly outside of agrarian lifestyles (farms are just open air biological farms).

Most of what we do today is a historical anomaly, because our times are very unique. However, it is the dense city living that's historical anomaly. As recently as 100 years ago, majority of Americans lived in rural places. Before 1900, only a small minority of people globally lived in urban environments, and before 1700, it was a very minuscule minority indeed.
Everyone uses Google. How many more people see TurboTax's ads vs. government "tax related communications?"
My experience has been that the people opposed to types won't be convinced to start liking them by anything you can tell them or have them read. In all of the cases where I've seen Sorbet be adopted, the process looked like this:

1. Ambitious team who wants types does work to get the initial version passing in CI. Importantly, it's only checking at `# typed: false`, which basically only checks for missing constants and syntax errors.

2. That initial version sits silently in the codebase over a period of days or weeks. If new errors are introduced, it pings the enthusiastic Sorbet adoption team; they figure out whether it caught a real bug or whether the tooling could be improved. It does not ping the unsuspecting user yet.

3. Repeat until the pings are only high-signal pings

4. Turn Sorbet on in enforcing mode in CI. It's still only checking at `# typed: false` everywhere, but now individual teams can start to put `# typed: true` or higher in the files they care about.

5. Double check that at this point it's easy to configure whatever editor(s) your team uses to have Sorbet in the editor. Sorbet exposes an LSP server behind the `--lsp` flag, and publishes a VS Code extension for people who want a one-click solution.

6. Now the important part: show them how good Sorbet is, don't tell them. Fire up Sorbet on your codebase, delete something, and watch as the error list populates instantly. Jump to definition on a constant. Try autocompleting something.

In my experience trying to bring static types to Ruby users, seeing is really believing, and I've seen the same story play out in just about every case.

One final note: be supportive. Advertise one place for people to ask questions and get quick responses. Admit that you will likely be overworked for a bit until it takes off. But in the long run as it spreads, other teammates will start to help out with the evangelism as the benefits spread outward.
The all-time record for housing under construction is far from a positive indicator. It is caused by taking longer to complete them.
I’m sometimes slow in expressing what I really feel

I sometimes write messages when we should be talking instead. I know that’s not ideal, I’m working on it. In the meantime, please point it out to me.

I have two small kids at home.

Those are literally the only three useful sentences in that entire document. Everything else are the basic virtues of professional cooperation.
This is fantastic. I'm curious if you have any tax lawyers or accountants involved with this effort. Doing some amount of pro bono work is standard in the legal profession, and I can't think of too many services that would be more impactful to the average American than this one.
This sounds awesome. How does the user handle the actual filing? I assume you don't have any way to provide e-filing, so would people have to print this out and mail it?
> To me the shining failure of modern economics environmentally is the inability to enact a carbon tax in the last 30 years

Every single economist has been shouting for a carbon tax for around this time frame. It's a political problem, not an econ one. There are many valid complaints about academic econ. I think you're right that many of them stem from a pro-business cultural bias, but it really doesn't seem like you know enough economics to have much of an opinion on them. Claiming that externalities are a bolt on when they're taught in every single econ 101 class is certainly puzzling.
Research the village constables in Alaska. There are also small towns that have only part time police forces. This sort of stuff really isn't uncommon.
> And you'll be surprised how tricky it is to find local/state courts as someone with non-regular contact with the legal system.

Name one court that signs warrants to service providers that can't be verified by spending 5 minutes doing some basic research, or that has a LEO office serving such warrants that also can't be verified.
I didn't say I was going to delay it forever - especially because I am not putting enough miles on the car during the pandemic and no regular car commute to achieve the "alpha" you describe.

I'll probably take care of it before the end of the calendar year - and I think I've benefited from learning from the early adopters of the battery swap; especially around some reported instances of coolant not being adequately taken care of after the swap and even more issues resulting from it. I at least know of one thing to keep an eye out for after the swap happens.
I've heard that too. And the idea is disgusting to me. I assume those who genuinely espouse this idea are those who are rich enough to have an accountant do all their taxes for them.

Is it really necessary to "encourage" me to dislike taxes? Is not the money leaving my pocket sufficient?

I've also heard Republicans claiming that IRS-provided tax bills/refunds is equivalent to a tax. I guess the implication is that the government is going to intentionally charge you more.

Having to use TurboTax or someting like it is equivalent to a tax, but it's paid to a corporation instead of the government. If I had to choose between my money going to the government and Intuit, I'd choose the government.
What matters is the succession of factors that are in founders or companies control. The objection is that most of Google's success is luck - uncontrollable good fortune. It's precisely the motivation towards gaining fortune that leads to conscientious decision-making in principling the action of one's mind to will the body into organizing itself with others in the future society - positively.
> We can, but none of that is verifiable. We can come up with hypotheses and test them. We can look at literature which observed things in the past or make truth claims and evaluate them based on evidence.

Verifiability isn't really the goal of those suggesting limitations of the past based on scientific analysis of the present, as like I said, it's impossible, and scientists that would suggest otherwise should in fact be laughed out of the room. Science is in fact based on verifiability, or at least we can take it as an axiom for this conversation, but the suggestion that we should take evidence of something that is a testimony of the supernatural, when all we have is the natural to see around us, is where I get confused. The point isn't that scientists have to be correct about the past, but they at least can show their reasoning based on something that we can see, their "faith as you call it" is in fact not blind, because the processes behave consistently right in front of their eyes in the lab or in the field. The evidence you mention is well established for most studies as to the age of the earth, what isn't established is any kind of visible evidence to an alternative. Literature is certainly an observation, but if we're suggesting that the supernatural claims made in that literature have evidence, it needs to be substantiated, and I'm ignorant of any major work showing evidence of the supernatural. Doesn't mean it doesn't exist, but it certainly hasn't crossed my desk, and I actively search for it.

> I am not aware of any particular claims which argue the veracity of relative measurements (say, maybe river erosion, since I'm not familiar with that).

I'm not sure what relative means here, would you mean something akin to river erosion in a given setting is something that would in fact be subject to change depending on environmental factors?

> My issue really has more to do with the scientists which demand you accept their theories and laugh off "supernatural intervention" when at the end of the day the vast majority of what they believe is based not on fact but on conjecture (blind faith?). They laugh off one religion and replace it with another.

I think to call it religion is a touch dubious, as they aren't creating a focus of worship. Historically the supernatural is intended when using the word religion, I think ideology or philosophy would be more accurate, and that's only those making positive claims as opposed to pragmatists. It is conjecture, just conjecture that is founded upon evidence that is readily demonstrable, rather than accounts of the supernatural that don't seem to be replicable.
if you want to see something amazing watch the CPU usage when somebody posts a high-framerate animated GIF into a slack channel, it can suck down 70% CPU usage and a massive amount of battery on almost any laptop. The idea that a primarily text based chat client can consume 70% CPU on a quad-core, 10th gen core i7 is amazing.
Seems like one could setup an org/corp and get funding from those states to implement tax filing code.
This is US only - you should say that somewhere.