skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Government: You owe us money. It’s called taxes.

Me: How much do I owe?

Gov’t: You have to figure that out.

Me: I just pay what I want?

Gov’t: Oh, no we know exactly how much you owe. But you have to guess that number too.

Me: What if I get it wrong?

Gov’t: You go to prison

Source: https://twitter.com/jordan_stratton/status/11181414550616719...

I dig this one up every April.
I read your "Why can’t we agree on the (non)existence of biolabs in Ukraine?" article and to me there seemed like one glaring omission: Is the allegation by the Russians that there are US funded biolabs in Ukraine even true? Actually, I think we can break it down further:

1) Are there biolabs in Ukraine?
2) Are they funded (at all) by the US?

Addressing 1 and breaking it down even further: How does one define a biolab? By many definitions a yogurt factory could be called a "biolab" as could a factory that manufactures antibiotics or vaccines.

The implication of the Russian allegation is that there are biolabs in Ukraine creating biological weapons. Is this true? (probably not) and if so how much has the US contributed to these biolabs? (again, doesn't seem very likely that the US is funding the development of biological weapons in Ukraine, this is the sort of thing you tend to keep close to home)

Ok, then how about the more broad definition of a biolab - are there biolabs in Ukraine that study diseases? Most likely there are Universities in Ukraine that have labs where diseases are studied. Are these kinds of biolabs a danger? Generally not unless they have very poor lab discipline (this starts to get into your article which suggests that those more on the left side of the spectrum think that studying diseases is a good thing, but I would suggest that anyone with a science background regardless of their political affiliation would agree that we should be studying pathogens in order to defend against them ).

How about, are there other kinds of labs that could be very broadly defined as biolabs in Ukraine? - yes, there very likely are. As I said above, a yogurt factory could be broadly defined as a biolab. But a yogurt factory poses no danger to anyone (except for perhaps the lactose intolerant, and even then...). Calling it a 'biolab', while broadly true, is done to give it a sort of dangerous implication. (same would apply to labs manufacturing medicines - an antibiotic manufacturing facility could be called a biolab, but it's manufacturing essential medicines) Essentially it's a propaganda move to instill FUD.

Your article read more like "Both sides have a point", but as I've outlined above, that really depends on how you define the terms and on the veracity of the original claim.
Polymath surely has to be on here as well
> The grass may be greener

I think one thing that people don't realize is that with high levels of empathy you risk enmeshment with others, and a loss of your own self boundary. You don't know where there thoughts and pains end and where yours begin.

It leads to desperately wanting to fix those around you, because you suffer as long as they suffer. And when you discover you can't fix everything, you either detach from everyone, or begin the process of numbing yourself. (Most of these are unconscious reactions to painful stimuli.)

So I guess: be careful what you wish for!

I still want empathy, I just wish I could tune it down by like 50% without numbing.
Does government allocation of funds make a difference when competing with China? It would seem that the Chinese government would simply match/re-up the industrial policy to be more competitive.

If we're concerned about over reliance on Chinese manufacture, why not create a tariff?
you could try rowhammering yourself maybe? aren't the bitflips both spatially and temporally random, depending on em conditions?

i never knew that any user could write into the entropy sources by writing to the random block devices... that's sketch.
It is often negative.
While you’re focused on labor, equity is a stronger driver of wealth inequality than labor wages. Yes, there are engineers clearing half a million dollars a year. That’s nothing compared to how the movement in equity prices affect wealth. For example, Microsoft’s CEO was given 2.5M in base salary vs 33M in stock [1]. A 10% movement in the price of Microsoft stock dwarfs his base salary. In the past 5 years, Microsoft is up over 300%. It’s owner’s equity, not salary, that drives inequality. Many front line workers don’t even quality for equity grants.

[1] https://www.geekwire.com/2021/report-card-microsofts-board-b...
ZK rollups are not anywhere near 14 years old
This strategy is similar to margin borrowing. He thinks bitcoin is on its way up so he is leveraging his position. I saw one of his videos on youtube and he expects the uptrend to continue for a while.

Other's talk about bitcoin going up but he's one of the few who has put money on his prediction.
It's probably wrong for landlords to be able to hold suing a previous landlord and winning against a prospective tenant. The winning part implies the tenant was correct and asserted their rights.

Of course, tenants being afraid to assert their rights is in the unethical self-interest of a landlord. A society that's attempting to be just should not want that.
Most other countries are comparable to US states rather than all of US. The US is incredibly diverse (in humans and govermental systems) in a lot of ways. So using one system is not easy as in other countries.
I've never been audited, but several times I've had the IRS just tell me I did my return wrong and give me a bigger refund.
Reading all this makes me almost suspect that real world security for most people would be to just use the RDRAND from the cpu.
> I mean you have massive, massive mountains that preclude you from doing that fast or in an energy efficient way.

Water goes up and takes energy. Water goes down and releases energy. Sure, there's loss to inefficiencies, but it's not like the energy used to pump the water uphill is completely lost. You can also pump it uphill when you have excess renewable energy and reclaim most of that energy when you do not.

> Its far, far simpler and cheaper and effective to increase dwell time of rain water.

Sure, but focusing on any single solution, including a national water grid, isn't going to solve the problem.
That's an interesting way to look at it. And a very good example, because that drive through scenario is literally the type of thing I feel almost constantly. I laughed out loud when I read it, because it perfectly describes how I react to almost everything in life that involves other people.
Thank you!

Your concern is shared by many users and realistically speaking there is not much we can do, but hope to survive long enough to build trust.

It is somewhat ironic that the only business model that has hope of not being interested in private information, does require an account. While there is nothing inherently bad with accounts, all the other services we are competing with, that have been exploiting user data for years also made accounts have bad reputation.

User choice at this moment is really - use a free service that you know is doing absolutely everything it can to track your behavior (directly or indirectly contributing to ad-tech, even without you logging in), or use a paid service that aligns the incentives with the user (also requiring a leap of faith because other services before it burned the trust bridge).

I hope enough users will make that leap of faith with Kagi.
On Ethereum you can you decentralized tumblers like Tornado Cash
Anyone can make anything which supposedly “works better as cash”.

How will they create confidence in the money, though?

In addition, please bear in mind aluminium and copper are more _generally useful_ than gold.

We cannot state, therefore, a money’s usefulness is more important than the hardness of the money: i.e. its scarcity and resistance to fundamental change.

This is likely why most competing currencies these days claim to be “decentralized”. It’s really just their way of claiming hardness without openly admitting to such.
Whether it has types or not isn't the only differentiating factor between languages
In my case, I blame the habit of mimicking Beavis and Butt-Head as a teenager.

Sounds like a way around the problems you describe might be to use shorter sentences and engage in small conversations as you follow the STAR [1] format -- not to attempt to answer it all in one go.

Also, asking for verification that your listener understands the same thing as you thought you said as you go will increase your confidence, and likely reduce the occurrence of these stumblings.

I blame the isolation of pandemic for people getting out of the habit of these interactions, and causing such stumblings to be more noticable.

I am not a doctor and this is just my opinion, etc

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situation,_task,_action,_resul...
Your counter to is that the politicians in a different country with an entirely different governmental evolution didn't arrive at the same thing?
1.5 million housing units != 1.5 million housing units for affordable rent

London literally has tens of thousands of dwellings sitting empty. Many are investment properties and will be sold multiple times without ever being lived in.

It's easy to make money at the high end from rising property values without the hassle of dealing with tenants.

It's easy to make money at the low end by packing as many tenants as possible into small properties and spending as little as possible on maintenance. There's occasionally some legal hassle with evictions, but generally for landlords it's a seller's market, with minimal regulation and enforcement.
Wealth inequality is indeed unsustainable. You can see some of the output of that manifesting today.

In the short term basic income and better social safety nets are a stop gap.

In the medium term we can invest so much more in humans on planet earth. Just about anyone can learn to code. People still gatekeep it and say it's only for a special few. People used to say that about reading too. What coding even means gets simpler and simpler all the time. Some people argue excel is coding.

So we teach people to make anything and encourage way more startups, research, art, and culture (each wealth in their own way).
I'm 61 and not interviewing. But I have started working with seniors online in Brisbane helping Mac users with their lived experience online. These are otherwise smart people, who just don't have the depth of keyboard time we do, and are drowning in the online world. "My daughter gave me this mac. how do I drive it and why do I have so many pole-dancers as friends in facebook..." conversations.

I have exactly this problem you describe. I have a sold causal chain of reasoning why I want them to learn to use keyboard accellerator commands and not the touchpad (which they look at, because they lack confidence) and I have solid reasons why I want them to run backups, and not just yank the USB disk, and when it comes to explaining it, I get tongue tied. And I hasten to add I am anything BUT tonguetied most of the time.

Something about the situation demands I try harder: present real, understandable, plain english reasoning why I think they should do these things. It's hard. I can't just jargon my way out. I am reaching for the word-expressions of the brilliant Ideas I have "inside"

Overall I find adjectives and adverbs don't help. "its better" isn't a good reason to do something. "It will interfere less with your real goal" is closer, but I stumble over the fact "this is just how I do it, and so I can help you better if you do it the way I do it" is sometimes the key drive.

(not the USB unplugging. They need to learn that)

Stress can cause a breakdown in the functions like sentence construction. You need to practice, so you don't need to use so much of the awesome brain power you have, to emit the words. You know what helps? Talking to yourself, and reading aloud. Become more fluent, by speaking. Learn the cadence of your own voice. Write things down, and read them back and then try writing NOTES and reading back the expanded version.

You will (ok, you may) find it gets easier with practice.

IF you watch any true crime, people in police interview do not speak fluently usually. They're maximally stressed. it shows in how they articulate. Every word has to be judged for its future probitive impact. if I say "I don't THINK I stabbed him " what is the value of THINK in that sentence...
Google knows:

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+amex+doing+wrt+russi...

American Express Suspends Operations in Russia and Belarus
I find that hard to believe because they can verify my identify when I sign up for an online bank, or apply for an apartment, or do anything else with the same information. I'm more inclined to believe it's not a priority, and don't care about making it better because the law doesn't say how good their service has to be, just that it exists. I'll note that when I sign up with the same information to their paid service as a trial, there's never any issue with verifying my identity.
Your 3300 economists finally issued a joint statement in 2019. Oh thanks, we're already at 1C warming. Way to be in front of things. It's only been, what 30 years of mainstream science?

And yet still carbon taxes are opposed by every conservative think tank with staff economist (flunkies?) carrying the water.

And that 3300 statement, did it come out of the CLC? With major oil producers cosigning? Strange how the oil companies, possibly the strongest lobby in congress, can't get carbon taxes through. Almost like they really don't support it.

I guess you guys have done everything possible, after all you signed a petition.

Can't wait for the not-really-Nobel prize to actually reward economics that involve actual climate solutions. Oh look! Another old white man doing price theory math. That will save us.
To give an idea of how much content is in this bill, please see "Sec. 74029. Beverage containing coconut water." where duties on imports of beverages containing at least 10% coconut water are hereby free.
Britain should apologize, but France as well and all other countries implicated (I reckon I don't know which).

The US and the democracies in general ought to put a huge pressure on Japan. I don't feel that we belong in the same alliance if the Japanese people don't do their homework. It will be very difficult for them, but a necessity however. I'm not holding my breath.

The whole thing is indeed depressing.
Agreed, I’ve used turbotax in the past and never paid anywhere near that much. You could get a real accountant to do your taxes for less than that, maybe depending on the state. I know because I’ve done so.
Pythons indentation errors and complete lack of variable types make it a kids scripting language at best. It is only useful for quickly cleaning data up for clock watchers at Mega Corp XYZ and its libraries like scikit learn which are kinda cool but it's best to link some python scripts and do everything else as a Java project. Data science cleaners / janitors are usually very limited energy wise from fapping and have that cuck squarish personality thing going on so they like pythons lazy approach to coding.
Generally by massively outspending opponents in the primary.
I’m completely out of my depth reading through these comments so I don’t have much of value to contribute, but I do think I can gently say I think the selective quoting was harmless, but deliberate to fit the shape of a harmless joke’s setup. I don’t think there was any intent to misrepresent your more salient information.
Do they have CPU temperature at that point in boot? That should still work given enough time to gather entropy, on jitterless platforms.

They also have fixed seeds+ RTC on some platforms.

Seems like they should be able to find a few bits of entropy on almost any platform.
Thank you, this actually means a lot.
Obviously it's a joke, but if you get it wrong, they send you the right amount and then you pay it (or they pay you). As long as you are close with your on-time payment, the interest is very reasonable on small differences. It's probably cheaper than paying for turbotax if you would have to pay for that.
This struck a cord. Can I get you to elaborate?
Prepare to wait on hold for hours, probably trying for multiple days. They are woefully behind.

I believe your best chance is dialing in right when they open, before the call queues build up. Also the folks answering the calls are in a better mood then, and you're more likely to get the outcome you're looking for.
Firefox said Cryptome wasn't using TLS1.3, asked to try TLS1.0/1.1, that worked. Found a couple old URLs needed updating.

The archive [https://cryptome.org/cryptome-archive.htm] goes back to 1997, is available on media.
Programmers aren't going to write codepaths for hardware that doesn't exist, so citing the draft proposal as being when coders would have started writing code is completely off, that's just not how code gets written at all.

Xeon Phi was always a very targeted and limited product for HPC. Nobody was doing tons of performance-sensitive JSON parsing or emulating a PS3 or ARM on a Xeon Phi. Emulator people aren't going to target hardware that doesn't exist in their target market.

In practice the first time AVX-512 was accessible to the general public was Skylake-X, so 2017. Five years ago. And it was a server/HEDT product. And it had some weird performance regressions (like the downclocking or pausing when you use too many heavy instructions) that bumped it back out of a lot of codebases it might have hypothetically been useful.

The first consumer architecture that would have implemented it was massively late due to 10nm delays. So was the 10nm successor to Skylake-X that fixes the downclocking and other shortcomings.

Basically the answer here is "10nm". AVX-512 is a casualty of the eternal 10nm delays. Intel got stuck on Skylake forever, and couldn't push any of their other developments forward. They've had fixes for a while for a ton of the stuff people complain about, they just couldn't manufacture them at scale.

They are only just launching their first post-14nm server platform literally this year, and it's not even Intel 7/10nm ESF, it's Ice Lake based lol.
Finally!

First Intuit lobbies to prevent free tax returns by claiming that can provide their own (very sketchy) free service for that.
Then they have the gall to opt out that very program which they used to prevent free tax returns in the first place.

I wish they would just go away.
Right, when it comes to the ocean you also have to remember that hundreds of full containers a year are just swept off of a ship and lost. Floating panels would be outright annihilated in rough seas, and a system to stow them would add a fair amount of complexity.

And again, all of this is overshadowed by the fact that there's enough open unused space on land to power the entire planet with solar by multiple orders of magnitude. You could power 100 earths with ground-based solar and still have room left over.
That is the stupidest shit I've ever seen. Just flat rate everything and get rid of all the special exemptions and trash that just creates loopholes.

If this results in a lot of things soon containing 11% coconut water, I might just snap.
There is no XSS in React
Thanks for the feedback and comment! Really appreciate it :)
ya, so why not just send me a statement once a month, the power company does that, the cell phone company does that, the city I live in does that, etc.

Just send me a statement, you made this, you get this much deduction for the other crap or whatever.

No stupid W2, W4 1040, bunch of mumbo jumbo from the 1950's that a few companies are ripping us off over IMO.
Cash app also couldn't file my ev credit correctly. Support was significantly worse than useless. Ended up going with Free Tax USA this year but I've also seen bugs with them.
they had their computer systems scour a bunch of the bank records and discovered that I had forgotten to claim a 1099

I assumed they did that automatically for everyone -- does that mean that if I "forget" to attach a 1099 then they IRS won't know unless they do this special "electronic audit"?
This explains it better than I can [1]

" When members of the House of Representatives, the Senate or entire U.S. Congress want to send a stern message, state an opinion or just make a point, they try to pass a "sense of" resolution.

Through simple or concurrent resolutions, both houses of Congress may express formal opinions about subjects of national interest. As such these so-called “sense of” resolutions are officially known as “sense of the House,” “sense of the Senate” or “sense of the Congress” resolutions. "

[1] https://www.thoughtco.com/sense-of-congress-resolutions-3322...
>> It doesn't. Everyone who claims otherwise can't come up with a single credible example.

> Buying a subscription to gay.com from Syria.

That is not a credible example. Here are some reasons:

1) Paying for porn? Paying for porn when the implication is that it's illegal and could get you in trouble? Who would do that?

2) Cryptocurrency isn't anonymous, and is usually highly traceable.

3) And even if it was anonymous, what good will it do when your DNS lookups will divulge you're looking at gay porn?

4) Oh, so now someone's supposed to be using some elaborate TOR/VPN setup in a repressive country, just so they can pay for porn?

5) What, exactly is the process for converting Syrian Pounds into cryptocurrency again?

6) etc.

> Your on the clock..

Why were you so confident in your non-credible example?
Hmm. Looks like Eastern Ukraine is still in Kiev's control. Russia's losses have been phenomenal.
understanding, belief, expectation:

SEC. 2003. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) the National Science Foundation, the Department of
Energy and its National Laboratories, and other key Federal
agencies have carried out vital work supporting basic and
applied research to create knowledge that is a key driver of
the economy of the United States and a critical component of
national security;
(2) openness to diverse perspectives and a focus on freedom
from censorship and political bias will continue to make
educational and research institutions in the United States
beacons to thousands of students from across the world;
(3) increasing research and technology transfer
investments, building regional capacity and reducing geographic
disparity, strengthening supply chains, and increasing
capabilities in key technology focus areas will enhance the
competitive advantage and leadership of the United States in
the global economy;
(4) the Federal Government must utilize the full talent and
potential of the entire Nation by avoiding undue geographic
concentration of research and education funding, encouraging
broader participation of populations underrepresented in STEM,
and collaborating with non-government partners to ensure the
leadership of the United States in technological innovation;
and
(5) authorization and funding for investments in research,
education, technology transfer, intellectual property,
manufacturing, and other core strengths of the United States
innovation ecosystem, including at the National Science
Foundation and the Department of Energy, should be done on a
bipartisan basis.
God is dead
Unreal. How is she out on bond? There are so many loose ends here too. I wouldn’t be surprised if others were involved.
Did indeed :P
> I use and love Firefox, but I don't think it's really fair to say Chrome is the new IE.

Nobody wanted ActiveX on the web except Microsoft.

Nobody wants Manifest v3 except Google.
This is great! Tangentially related - any maybe an interesting way to view the network you have built up - I put together a quick d3.js force visualization of the "blogrolls" for ~300 linked blogs visible here: https://jacobwood27.github.io/035_blog_graph/
When requesting credit, you’re basically stating that you’re good for the money. If you’re economically unstable, that might not be true.

No sense in getting offended at the idea someone is saying you’re dishonest.