skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, you could replace "crypto" with "internet", "computers" or "collectible sidechain NFTs" depending on how big the tribe you want to attack is. Or for example

> This is exactly why the cloud is such a disaster. Every week there is yet another scam where people losing their money. The feedback from cloud hosting enthusiasts is well look at those idiots for putting their money into some scheme <insert unintelligible jargon filled insanity statement here> or you are not smart enough use this thing. Look "nobody" understands what you are talking about. These technical systems are inscrutable and the problem is getting worse. You are building systems that are ruining peoples lives and making things worse for everyone. Please think about what you are doing and create system of value and meaning which improves humankind.

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This line of reasoning is what may very well lead to a ban on end-to-end encryption and public access to non-backdoored general computing.
That’s a lot of talk about guns considering - which you pointed out - there weren’t guns (that we know of) used by the insurrectionists.

Do you acknowledge it was violent?
I haven't experienced the electron process crashing but I have many times seen an electron app 'reload' by surprise; I suspect this is a default exception handler catching something that wasn't otherwise caught and would consider this 'an electron app crashing'.
I'm getting deja vu to when I was told Russian's continued invasion of Ukraine was just propaganda by the West [1]

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1494006204896620548
> their best interests are served by casting a ballot which doesn't reflect that is exactly the problem!

You may be interested to hear about the Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem then. Any non-dictatorial system with more than two alternatives is subject to tactical voting. Whoops!
A tenant can easily pay rent two or three times, and then stretch out the eviction proceedings for 6 to 18 months depending on the state .

Wow that's insane. If I was renting out a property I owned I'd expect to be able to throw someone out within a day after an active refusal to pay rent.
I like the idea of understanding opposing viewpoints in a way that doesn't sensationalize them. I would prefer to have the opposing viewpoints represented by intelligent, polite, respectful individuals - not summarized by an editorial team.
What's your evidence behind the statement that "the minority" is assured a majority of votes? Both Democrats and Republicans have won the electoral college and each of them throw a big rhetorical fit any time the other wins with it. At some point you have to accept that being equal doesn't always look fair in a micro vs macro sense of time. In the moment it doesn't look fair, when you look at the longer timeline they've had their share of elections. The system seems to be working as intended.

It would be more helpful to describe what a state of affairs looks like that doesn't result in large population states, who already maintain the gift/grift of cultural hegemony, running the country.
You've described my situation too, though it's not a rent increase I'm worried about, it's the installation of a mandatory smart lock that I've somehow avoided for a few months now.
Maybe look how other countries do it?

Like with your health system, a lot of us are slightly baffled by how broken things are in the US.
This one time I watched my COO say that he isn't signing the Facebook visitor NDA without getting a lawyer's approval on it first, and if they're not cool with that they can try to reschedule our meeting to happen outside the building. It worked, never signed.
> Most parts of basically every part of Tokyo are quite grey and plain.

I wouldn't call it plain, plenty of beauty all around.

Definitely not neon colored though. :)
Somewhat of an aside, but as a non-American, I find it quite weird that it seems to be common to pay rent with a monthly check. Every place I've rented, I've paid automatically by standing order. (Oh, except in a couple of third-world countries, where cash was the norm.)
Also not to forget the worries about the ozone hole.
There are currently 900 blogs in the index. Every blog is manually reviewed, so this number will grow slowly and steadily over time, until I maybe automate things.

https://blogsurf.io/about
Right, so when an agency like the FTC flexes their muscle, I’m a little bit cynical.

Are they reminding BigTech that hey, they have political power and some palms needs to be greased.
Well it's good for making machines. As for the rest, yes, less good.
Yeah, currently the user would print out the PDF generated by the site and mail it in to the IRS. E-filing is on the roadmap, but registering as an E-file provider is a pretty complex process. One of the options we were thinking about is scraping and automatically filling in fields on the free fillable forms site https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...
This is great feedback, thanks a lot!

I'll ensure we display the "extract_upstream" more prominently in the docs, we've been getting this feedback a couple times now :)

Re: the Jupyter extension injects the cell when the file you're opening is declared in the pipeline.yaml file. You can turn off the extension if you prefer.

Feel free to join our community, this feedback helps us make Ploomber better!

https://ploomber.io/community
Yes, here's the list -> https://apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile/browse-all-offers/

However, those options aren't advertised and these companies like to do "Free" but then upgrade you as you fill out options.
Almost all older architectures, except the very low-end CPUs like the 8-bit microprocessors, had integer overflow exceptions, not only divide-by-zero exceptions, so they did not need any instruction like INTO.

Other architectures, like IBM POWER, have much more powerful conditional trap instructions.

The 64-bit ARM ISA is the only other important architecture where integer overflow must also be done by combining a conditional jump either with a function call or with a supervisor call (i.e. the equivalent of INT).

It is true that if INTO would have never been defined in 8086, it would not have been a great loss, because it can be emulated, as you say.

Nevertheless, its deprecation by AMD cannot be a reason for praise. At the same time, they have also deprecated a few other instructions, which were a good choice, because they were much less useful. On the other hand there were a very large number of other instructions that could have been deprecated instead of INTO, which were much less useful than INTO, but they have been kept nevertheless.

It was pretty clear that INTO and BOUND were not included on the deprecated list based on their degree of usefulness but mainly because it was obvious that the CPU designers will be able to get away with this, because all the important software companies were habituated to compile their release versions by choosing to disable all run-time checks, so they will not complain about this omission.

If the software vendors would have ever been punished for choosing to omit the error checks, then they would have requested CPUs that still have good performance when the checks are enabled and the CPU designers would have been prodded to improve such features.

Nowadays, due to the hype about security flaws, the CPU vendors are introducing a large number of run-time checks, but most of them seem rather misguided, because in the attempt to protect against programming errors some of the methods used e.g. for limiting the targets of jumps also prevent the use of certain good implementation techniques for some programming language features.

Instead of the many dubious new "security" features of Intel/AMD and ARM CPUs, I would much prefer to see improvements in the efficiency of overflow checking and bounds checking, because these are checks that are required in any program, no matter how well it is written, while most of the new "security" features are mostly useful to avoid problems created by programmer mistakes.
I'm happy these women were out there, but is it fair to say that they were unsung? After all, they themselves call it the most glamorous job available?
Just as a side note, people give Starbuck literally billions every year. Not sure what would happend if starbucks get hacked and lost people money.
Yet UIs are too often services increasingly necessary to live and excel in life. So all these rare and beautiful designs keep out users with vision problems, or at minimum push them to use more tooling to work around that shit.
> 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.

Congratulations, you just independently invented the concept of a Political Action Committee.
Humoral and cellular immune memory to four Covid-19 vaccines
Exactly,I seriously can't wait until our modern UIs are made illegal by a modification to the disabilities act. I'll probably throw a party.
You check the court records. These are easy to find with a digital records search, or you call the court clerk. The phone number is listed on the warrant. This is not hard, but it's not an automated process by design.
Everyone should listen to this Planet Money episode [0] going into some of the politics surrounding making taxes easier.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/03/709656642/epis...
If a good is taxed at its true, global, long-term rate of externality, then the externality, the damage being done, is precisely being paid for.

If a little bit of CO2 pollution causes fairly quantifiable harm we can live with but a lot of CO2 pollution causes runaway global warming ending life on earth, what is it's "true, global, long-term rate of externality"? Me, with an actual degree in economics, would say there is none. Many damage effects simply can't be easily put into a simple cost function. But even if there somehow is such a rate, it seems quite likely that bureaucracies and markets "working together" can't be counted on adjust fast to be certain that price is paid.
Big discussion, currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30844334
Hipchat yes, but Mattermost didn’t really leave that bad of an impression. A bland SaaS chat.

Teams however… the search functionality where you can find the message but can’t jump to it so that you can see the rest of the conversation.

I actually scrolled up for some 5 minutes non-stop once trying to get to the conversation like that
> I left, found a much simpler, straightforward service with which I filed legitimately free, and have never looked back.

Which service is that? I haven't filed my taxes this year and am willing to spend some time switching to an app that's less scummy than Intuit's offerings.
> When push comes to shove, the vast majority of people I've met and worked with have no qualms looking the other way for more compensation.

When push comes to shove, those people would have no power to change things anyway in the vast majority of cases. You can either live in a terrible world rich, or poor - in both cases the world wouldn't change but at least your life will be better.

A lot of problems are big enough that only governments can deal with them by the use of laws and appropriate enforcement (eventually escalating to violence if needed). But if the governments themselves benefit from the problem, or are owned by the corporations (corruption, or "lobbying" as it's called in the US), there's no chance for a few individuals to make a difference.
This is what I started doing. Bottle has user auth plugin called cork that is handy too. All very simple to understand.
I did start using jinja instead of the built in template engine though.
Ah yes, casual misogyny masquerading as sound military strategy.
Then do your part regardless. Use Firefox everywhere, and eventually, it'll have enough users to prevent that one company from fully owning the web and the standards.
How well respected is The Economist when it comes to covering the global economy truthfully ?

I’ve noticed there is a growing anti China sentiment from The Economist in recent years.
I was thinking that Sky Mavis owns Axie Infinity. Is that wrong?
Unification discussed on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30373351 (62 comments)
Not a how to guide, but an outline in a poem.

If--- by Rudyard Kipling
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if---

For more concrete guides, I'd say Jordan Peterson. I haven't read his books, but his youtube videos and interviews help.
ah ok, so reddit is known for lazy comments?
Is carbon tax really effective? Ultimately effective in this context means "removes the least valuable carbon emissions". I don't think a carbon tax can accomplish that. We need political decisions to make that distinction. The market does not cut it in this case.
The linked Mozilla bug report provides an excellent reason to drop P-521.

If you look at the telemetry for last actual Firefox release, only 8 (yes, eight!) out of 1.67 BILLION handshakes used a P-521 curve. This is a good indication that P-521 isn't needed, at least for certificates verified by web browsers.
That's really neat and I'm glad you're doing it. That said I worked on tax software once and the amount of changes each year are huge and often require expert analysis. Sometimes they get dropped on you with very little notice.

How does the project plan to keep up with that? Will it require volunteers?
I’m getting deja vu to “WMDs”, “moderate rebels,” “dictators,” and “national security.” Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
That is called the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullock_paradox .
call it transfer learning
> the problem is you think the price is being estimated wrong, in which case you shouldn't be complaining about there being a tax, you should complain that the rate it is set at is incorrect

If there is no way of setting an appropriate price and fairly deploying the money gathered, then the policy is unworkable to begin with. From what process could an appropriate price for the externalities of global warming emerge? And by what process would climate refugees receive their share of compensatory value from the tax?

In short, even if the theory checks out, it's no use unless we have a political process capable of implementing it. Otherwise it's about as useful as a policy of us all concentrating on breathing in CO2 and shitting diamonds -- a brilliant idea if we could do it.
I completely agree that politicians are not cheap at all. The reality is that so much of the money that's invested in influencing politicians is through means other than campaign contributions.

It's through season tickets to the network of friends that know the politician, it's through donations to the university that gets their child into college, it's through pacs and issue groups, it's through lining up and bundling donors to max out their individual donations to a politician's preferred presidential candidate, it's through flying them out to special events, it's through hiring their best friend, it's through investing in their brother in law's new business, it's through buying things at their husband or wife's charity auction, it's through arranging a job for them after they retire from politics, it's through finding them a buyer for their investment property, it's through an entire network of investments one or two degrees removed from the politician.

The only sliver of that that people typically cite is the amount directly spent on campaign contributions which (1) mistakenly makes it seem like politicians are cheap and (2) is underwhelming, to people who cite those numbers sincerely believing that that's the only economic dimension to political influence.
Do you have evidence that this happens due to outside or government interference in the company's release process? If not, this is just a conspiracy theory.
I work at a company pulling real cash, built mostly on Flask. Flask is one of the things I like the most about the stack.
makes me wonder how many phishing site operators are taking copies/examples of this for their own design needs, when making fake federal government webpages.
Cool! Autofilling those forms sounds like an awesome thing if you can manage it! Best of luck! And thanks for doing this!
I use FreeTaxUsa.com. It's free for federal filing.
Denied! Instead you can have 50 variously deficient ad/malware vehicles with no way to even file a bug.
Vomit.
Bitterns boom as Britain's loudest bird makes comeback
This is quite true, even excluding service workers. Every tax season I have conversations with bright, well-to-do, college-educated people who seem to live in terminal fear of the IRS. They're absolutely terrified that if they get one tiny thing wrong during the tax filing process, they will immediately be arrested and shipped off to prison. So they always pay someone to file their taxes, even if they're simple. It's mind-boggling.

The irony is that -- as you said -- the IRS hits people of modest income harder, because the IRS doesn't have the resources to take on many battles with wealthy people who can afford lawyers. This means the IRS mostly goes after easy targets who won't fight back. Yet another tax on being poor.
I’m not fundamentally opposed to pigovian taxes, they are the best option in many cases. For climate change, definitely not the best option. I personally advocate for cap and trade.
Is there a CLA? If so, does anything prevent the rights holder(s) from closing the project and pivoting it towards a for-profit business?

I'd like to contribute, but don't feel like building someone's business for free.
You're seeing an idealized fantasy version of the 80s. What a lot of people remember of the 80s was childhood so they lacked awareness of the things that would cause adults stress, and so that's the view shows set in the 80s reflect.

For many people the 80s were not good - the CIA was introducing crack to finance itself (and arguably targeting destabilizing black america), AIDS was killing thousands while significant portions of the world were celebrating the "gay plague" or GRID (Gay Related Immune Disorder), Police still routinely targeted LGBT clubs, being fired for being gay or trans was legal, etc
The less-healthy forms of comparison build on a platform of inner poverty. You can say the outer world is naturally built up in one's mind as an emergent effect which must yield the hallucinated opposite, in order to relieve the strain on the inner tools, which aren't yielding enough traction.

So a good book for this would be anything that builds up the inner world/personal resources, and particularly the inner world as a deep and consistent problem-solving resource. Such books would cover:

- Journaling (Tristine Rainer is a good author here)

- Planning (appropriate to the compared aspects, e.g. retirement planning if you have friends who are retiring, etc.)

- Scheduling (i.e. self-programming for performative self-help)

- Therapeutic Tools (from self-hypnosis to e.g. personal testing and measurement like in David Burns' TDTSE)

This way, to the degree that one is left to "themselves vs. the others" thinking patterns, they also have parallel access to a variety of solutions, both to the issue of comparison itself and to the specific areas raising the stress as well.

In addition, classes and things like certification courses can be really helpful.

I'd also recommend _Please Understand Me_ 1st ed. by Keirsey to contextualize subjective vs. objective needs. Keirsey provides a platform on which to make one's subjective perspective on self & others more objective.

Some think they need to need money in boundless amounts, when they later find they are happier prioritizing ongoing learning, for example, and establishing a minimum security & contingency budget.

As you work on this pathway of yours in depth, you'll naturally build a firmer identity as well. You'll become less comparable in the sense that you'll feel like more like a fractal than a set of dimensions of comparability, and that will be more obvious to both you and others.

Good luck & hang in there...
Whatever motive force drives cars around is necessarily energetic and transmissible. It wants to dissipate, badly, and we've managed to trick it into doing useful work for us in the process. If we're going to have our mode of transport integrated into the human environment, enormous care has to be put into ensure that potential energy does not find it's way into humans, animals, buildings, etc.

Electricity is no different. Enough current (or exploding gasoline) to move a car is concerning enough to be around in the enclosed package of an engine. Enough current to move a road's worth of cars just hanging around on a third rail, or pantograph, or whatever is downright terrifying.
>> encryption has many, many actually useful and productive applications

> So does crypto [...]

I'd wager that this is a lie. Please name one.

These systems are self referential. Great if all to do is speculate with value changes inside the system.

Other use cases? In short: no one has come up with any solution to the oracle problem.

As soon as you want to exchange anything crypto with anything but crypto (e.g. USD or a physical asset like a loaf of bread) you need trust.[1]

[1] https://youtu.be/MiLnDe_bX6Y
> What is the crypto killer?

Time.
is a record for how quick someone can turned to whataboutism?
I mean a good argument against Facebook (and by proxy Zuckerberg) is that Facebook designs the product in a way that benefits them rather than the psychological well being of their users.
We get regular HN threads about "company X auto-terminated my account and there's no way to get a human involved". Is that really a better way to run society?

Maybe local bank managers having connections to the local community, and actually knowing their customers, rather than sitting behind opaque algorithms and data brokers, wasn't entirely a bad thing after all.
>Full democracy is what allowed Hitler to...

What election are you referring to where the Germans democratically gave Hitler power? His best "fair" election results saw his party get ~35% of the vote, and he only got the largely ceremonial chancellorship through backdoor deals. By the time he became president nobody could consider the elections fair.
"I think the argument being made here is one of those "we can't make a perfect solution so no solution works", which is nonsense."

I have seen this type of "argument" countless times reading HN. I always wondered if I was the only one who noticed. Thank you for calling it out. It is indeed nonsense.

IMO, if "tech" companies cannot exercise due care, then they are at fault. There is no exception based on some idea that "our company must be large and serve millions of people in order to make money therefore we should not be held to the same standard as a smaller company." If necessary "scale" and nonexistent or grossly reduced customer service comes at a cost (e.g., fraud), then "tech" companies should have to pay that cost, not anyone else.

"The current situation with fraudulent EDRs illustrates the dangers of relying solely on email to process legal requests for highly sensitive subscriber data."

IMHO, the amount of important stuff today that depends on the presumed integrity of an email address is astounding.
I think the hope is that we bootstrap the renewable capable complex society on top of fossil fuels and then it can continue to function with the renewables it builds.
DOJ to Congress: Thumbs up for big tech antitrust bill
That makes a lot more sense; thanks :)
I know, I know, there’s so many dark patterns in TurboTax that it’s cliche to point them out…

…but man, this was a particularly egregious example I came across this year.

https://imgur.com/ojpLvRW

You can pay for TurboTax using your refund…with an additional $39 processing fee. That is just wild.
Wind dispersal of battery-free wireless devices