skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oddly, "convert to C" failed completely for me (wrapping the Python in main() { }) but C++ worked.
Well, yeah cause the first train's at 5 AM. You pretty much have to stay awake unless you're going to shell out at least 2000 yen for half a night's sleep in a bed for rent. I don't know about you, but my evil brain whispers "that's money for more beer and games with your friends".
The tax brackets are always based on AGI, millions have an effective negative tax rate due to EITC.
It hasn't. It's memorised the examples and can generate them with some variation
and according to what output is more likely given the input. But that's
generation, not computation.

I don't know if this example helps, but a computer can generate (pseudo-)random
numbers by executing an algorithm. A pair of dice can also generate random
numbers because they're thrown so that they land at random and someone has
marked pips on their faces that a human can read as numbers. The result may be
similar, but one is generated by a computation and the other by a random
process. The random process is not a computation. It's a random process.

(Or just unpredictable).
the first time it was a G1, that would have been my first year so I think it was 2008. That wasn't the best phone (although I loved the keyboard). I ported a physics engine to it, and it ran, but the phone got very hot very quickly. The next year was the nexus one, the excitement was palpable. The nexus one was truly sexy at the time, definitely the first android phone that I loved.

As for that Googler- well, there were always a bunch of people there who had some or another circumstance that made them incompatible with the larger Google culture.
> Why is the system still this backwards?

Intuit lobbying hard to keep tax rules complex.
I think I'm regarded as something of an intellij zealot at work but now a bunch of people have switched. Hopefully I'll receive my check soon.
Yes, Ubiquiti suing because of damage to their reputation results in damaging their own reputation more.

As a Ubiquiti product owner I’m being turned off Ubiquiti equipment in the future.
> I'm still shaking my head at how a few extremely toxic people could so effectively poison the culture and good spirits of thousands of employees.

But I'm assuming he did great at the whiteboard interview! Being sarcastic but I've always been surprised how some really terrible personalities are hired because they aced the tech quizzes.
The other stores wouldn't be paying for the ongoing development and maintenance of the iOS, UIKit, OpenGL/Metal, etc. That stuff is NOT cheap to develop and maintain. The final app that you see is trivial compared to the mountain of libraries and frameworks that Apple provides.
You could argue they have reason to sue because this reporting can impact their reputation and business when it seems the information was found false enough to retract. However it would’ve been better to let this one pass, because now they just look worse.
A huge amount of spending goes towards the healthcare needs of the elderly, and obese people die early. Is there data that suggests increasing obesity increases overall healthcare costs, instead of decreasing them?

I can understand the argument that diabetes resources, specifically, will be strained. If overall costs don't rise, that's not a huge problem.
I guess the risks here are that the paper cooks off or crisps up over time, the tape plastic or glue melts into the cooler, or the loop becomes dislodged and jams into a fan somewhere, causing an overheat. 3d printed rings might be a good, cheap option if the gap is not too small.
Bit silly that the fan didn't ship with something like this stock.
Someone with a "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" attitude?
That gray area strongly favors Krebs. They have to show Krebs knew that there wasn't a cover up. Krebs can make an affirmative defense that basically says "this honestly seemed like a covered up to me" and win
There's an assumption of sincerity in a conversation.

Censorship, banning, and the threat of all that, definitely steps on sincerity like a 5000 pound gorilla foot. ESPECIALLY the sneaky invisible kind.

It turns a nice conversation into mass psychosis. Are we seeing a lot of that these days. Maybe.
Blaming "lobbyists" absolves the politicians of their responsibility. The fault lies with the politicians for creating and perpetuating this broken system.
I highly recommend that you keep everything related to this, securely, for several years even after it is resolved.

State governments are not necessarily believing the same set of facts that the federal government does. I got caught in a multi-year cycle one time where the state government kept coming after me every year for the same thing, even though I had the federal return and the evidence that it was correct.

Each year I'd send that thing in, in response, and I'd never hear from them...until the next year, when they'd do it again.

Felt to me like each year somebody would receive my response, decide it was too much work to deal with, and then file it away in the "hit them again next year" pile.
I don't avoid very high income earners, it's just that the unit I'm renting is a small house I could afford to live in at the time I bought it. This unit naturally fits a certain, soon to be upper middle income young family. However, I'm currently renting the units to a couple who just moved into the city that each makes more than what my wife and I make.

My biggest concern with them was that they'd only want to rent for a few months to get to know the city before buying a place of their own. A missed renewal is very expensive (lost income) and time consuming.
It would be somewhat deterministic and predictable and therefore pseudo-random.
> Are you broadly suggesting there should be rules for what type of articles can be written on the internet (presumably that align with your values)?

Yes, the EFF should not be promoting FUD.

As I have stated several times in my comments, if the EFF had chosen a less sensationalist title, there would be no grounds to label this as FUD.

> And that it's okay if someone else wrote the article?

Yes, if someone had written such an article for their personal blog, or as a private individual on a site like hackaday, then it wouldn't have the endorsement of the EFF.

> Are you suggesting that EFF should not have done the investigation in the first place

No, however their choice to pulicize an otherwise unnoteworthy event was in my opinion, an extremely poor choice.

> As an EFF supporter myself, I enjoyed the article. I liked the walkthrough of the investigation, and all the steps they used to deduce the source of the tracker. It was interesting on its face, and also educates on a methodology for making deductions for other things.

That's fine, and I'm not here saying "the EFF should not be doing this" I feel I've been very consistent in saying:

* the title is sensationalist and this is bad for the EFF's credibility

* the methods in the article are very amateur, a more detailed investigation and/or a discussion about the privacy and legality of vehicle tracking would have been much more in keeping with the EFF's stated mission
Having to spend our own time, money and effort in order to work out how much money we have to pay the government for their crappy low quality services. Just yet another humiliation the government imposes on citizens.
I did a search for "radar chat" and it recommended my product. Below it was a message telling me to type "go radar" to go directly there next time. I typed in "go radar" and it brought me to an unrelated site.
Blaming "lobbyists" absolves the politicians of their responsibility. The fault lies with the politicians for creating and perpetuating this broken system.

(copy and pasted from another comment)
Sure, you could raise prices so much that nearly every of use CO2-emitting processes wouldn't be possible. But that might result in, say, people not being able to afford to heat their houses in the winter in cold areas of the US.

I am all for alternative energy but I don't think this is an approach that would work.
That's a trivial amount to enable Apple to provide documentation and tooling support for developers. I doubt it comes anywhere close to paying for all the libraries and frameworks they develop and maintain.
> Why is the system still this backwards? Either plain ignorance of there being a superior alternative, or a broken political system that can't get anything done.

Neither. There is awareness of the alternatives, and the political system can get things done for it's real constituents. The problem is a malevolent political system that primarily serves a class whose interests are opposed to the mass of the citizenry, to wit, a narrow capitalist elite.

(People will point to the tax prep industry, it's lobbying, etc., and that is part of the problem; an bigger part, however, is the political faction favoring lower taxes in general for the elites that likes to maximize the perceived pain of taxes for the masses to generate support for elite-favoring tax cuts; they are adamantly opposed to procedural simplification that minimizes the pain they leverage.)
Just because someone isn't forced by law to do something, doesn't mean they are values we should be promoting. There is a whole range of "they're not obligated to X" scenarios that we can mention. For example, police aren't legally required to protect your life, even if they have ample opportunity to do so. But clearly we shouldn't promote that behavior.
Yeah, I've spent hundreds of thousands with Ubiquiti and this has me seriously considering my choices.
Stories like this make me wary of using their products. [1]

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2022/03/16/uncoverin...
Section 508. Even if Bootstrap might support it for now (and I don't know that it does), there's no guarantee it will continue to.
Exactly. Stem is basically just the remaining non-inheritance-based middle class jobs, and it seems like someone is in a hurry to reduce the wages there. But not wages of doctors, lawyers, and CEOs.
My last CPA had a dart board on his wall.

The outside was NOT DEDUCTIBLE.

The inner, smaller ring was DEDUCTIBLE.

The bullseye was DEDUCTIBLE UNTIL AUDIT.
I wonder what is the vetting for the W-1 visa though? Can people just incorporate a business and get a visa? Or does it need minimum funding and employees? Should the individual have particular skills or experience in that field?
Are you kidding me. Whats the point of all the all nighter's i did to top the class. Stupid communism mindset
They even have a SASS/SCSS framework you can use. Underrated IMO.
Curious what do you have in mind? Every subscription can be expensed as a business expense, does not need to be annual?
Maybe you were thinking of this one?

http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/
The FTC isn't telling non-Americans what to do, only Americans. Russian software, outside the jurisdiction of the American legal system and under the control of Putin, is a threat to American infrastructure. American software is not.
This is really unhelpful for everyone but especially themselves. At some level, its arguable enforced savings (we have this, anyone in employment in australia has to contribute to retirement savings now on a defined minimum schedule) is needed.

The savings do disadvantage some people, its not a panacea. But it solves the primary problem for most people: Shit, i wish I'd started saving sooner.
It sounds like the commute is a big part of it.

My perfect commute would probably be a 10 minute bicycle ride, or maybe a short train ride.
New York politicians can be a good investment.
Not parent, but agree with your first point, want to run some numbers on the second. According to https://www.compareyourcountry.org/social-expenditure (which is sourced from OECD) Australia and the US spend similar amounts of GDP on social programs. I'm gonna punt on the healthcare question - our healthcare is on average twice as expensive as everywhere else yet not any more effective, so it's a bit trickier to compare. Australia has universal health care, and we don't, anyhow. From a personal anecdote point of view, anyone I know who is/was broke (and working cheaper jobs that don't offer health care) continually puts off going to the doctor due to the great personal expense. That's the biggest thing as far as the "no safety net" meme goes - if you're working, you'd better not get sick. And this was after the introduction of the ACA.
In other words, the conventional financial system has footguns that you have to avoid too.
Didn't we see this ago on Mr. Robot?
https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/7/12835320/mr-robot-hack-rep...
> Trains are generally not really designed to collide with anything at all

American trains seem to suffer this more than others. Given that freight trains have priority on most of America's rail lines (which the freight companies own), that might have something to do with it.
Funny that people don't respond well to being generalized as untrustable.
Talk about a lack of financial controls.

One benefit of being a public institution is your books are sort of open, someone would notice this. You can’t just add $5 million a year to your budget.
Yep, tried this. Latticini I think is the right word, but people definitely didn't understand the concept of dairy.
Thanks. Muse is quite different from what they describe, but interesting in its own right. I agree.

They also seem to have some of their projects on GitHub. But not Crosscut.

Which is strange given that they are showing examples of what people have built using Crosscut.
If it was about safety vehicles could be speed limited (obviously not very freedom oriented). Which means this is almost certainly about revenue. Doesn't help that new drivers are quickly shown that driving the speed limit is simply wishful thinking.
Yale is an elite, private institution, with a 40+ billion endowment. 40m is pocket change, relatively speaking. Most ivy league schools, have hardly anything to do with the problem of America's broken higher education in general. These elite schools have decades, and in some cases centuries, old legacy wealth. Being elite means they are highly selective, and if you are from someone with low or middle income that does indeed get selected to go there, chances are you are getting financial assistance from the endowment fund.

If this happened at a public institution, especially one part of a state system, it would be a much bigger scandal. While this is indeed scandalous, this is like crying over some rich people's pocket change, and not something that can be used as ammo against American universities on the aggregate. Again I am agreeing with your premise, American higher education on the whole is rife with waste, schemes, and scandals, but at least Yale and Harvard aren't vacuuming Stafford loans like Cal, Suny, or UOP.
but it doesn't, so it isn't a solution
I can confirm I’ve received a check for $0.01 from the IRS. My understanding is it was because of miscalculation of interest owed.
you can let them know by ceasing to do business with them and spending your money elsewhere.
There are a few intertwined closely related pitfalls that are each subtly different:

1) "premature first" wrt non-local attacker: this is the problem you identified - the RNG initializes when there's actually only 1 bit of entropy, and then SSH generates keys that some researchers bruteforce years later.

2) "premature first" wrt local attacker: the RNG has no entropy. Something legit feeds it 32 bits of entropy, and the kernel mixes that entropy directly into the key that's generating the /dev/urandom stream. Local unpriv'd attacker reading /dev/urandom (or some remote attacker who has access to overly large nonces or something) then bruteforces those 32 bits of entropy, compromising it, since it's only 32 bits.

3) "premature next": the RNG has some entropy. That entropy gets compromised somehow. Then the "premature first" wrt local attacker scenario happens. Maybe you think this is no big deal, since a compromise of the RNG state probably indicates something worse. But compromised seed files do happen, and in general, a "nice" property to have is that the RNG eventually recovers after compromise -- "post compromise security".

Problem set A) A malicious entropy source can currently cause any of these due to the lack of a fortuna-like scheduler. Since we just count "bits" linearly, and any source that is credit-worthy bumps that same counter, a malicious source can bump 255 bits and a legit source 1 bit, and then an attacker brute forces the 1 bit.

Problem set B) Making writes into /dev/[u]random automatically credit would cause the same issue, since it's already common for people to write non-entropic stuff into there (e.g. Android cmdline), and because others manually credit afterwards, and mixing into the /dev/urandom key without crediting would also cause a premature next issue, since some things trickle in 32 bits at a time. And other things that trickle in more bits at a time might still only have a few of those be entropic. Yada yada yada, it would cause some combination of the problems outlined above.

In spite of problem set A, the kernel currently does do a few things to prevent against these issues. First, it avoids problem set B, by not implementing that behavior. More generally, /dev/urandom extracts from the entropy pool every "256 bits" and 5 minutes. And, in order to prevent against a "premature first" it relaxes that 5 minutes to 5 seconds, then 10 seconds, then 20 seconds, then 40 seconds --> 5 minutes during early boot, so at least a potential "premature first" gets mitigated somewhat quickly.

Problem set A still exists, however. Whether anybody cares and what the code complexity cost is versus the actual risk of the issue remains to be seen, and should make for some interesting research.
I agree. The IRS definitely does not know how much I owe each year.

However, they do have an estimate and the vast majority of people would accept this estimate. So I think it's reasonable to suggest it ought to be provided.

I think the strongest counter-argument against this approach is in regards to bad actors and who discloses first. If you're thinking about hiding income and the first step is the government telling you what it thinks then you're very likely to continue to conceal and/or have a defense against a charge of concealment down the road ("I just used the IRS figures!")

It's a much more difficult situation for a bad actor if they have to disclose first without knowing for sure what the IRS knows.
Hooks have made my life simpler. HoCs were a nightmare and I'm glad to be rid of them.
> They could send you a bill and ask you to fix it, but many people wouldn't know where to look to find mistakes.

Then people in that situation can do it from scratch like they're already required to do now. This is really not an issue anywhere else - this change wouldn't make the process harder for anyone.
Why don’t all computers provide a random hardware generator? Randomness is trivial in dedicated hardware..
> Recent example: peaceful protesters in Canada

As a Canadian, and a former Ottawa resident, I can assure you those were not "peaceful protestors". I had friends and family who had to leave the city to escape the unending noise, the harrassment by the 'protestors'. There were arson attempts, assaults, threats, and general disregard for the law.

I've literally been a peaceful protestor in Ottawa (I was a student there after all). There's a serious difference between a daytime march for a cause and what those people did.

They're criminals, and were treated as such. I'm fully in favor of the government being able to seize the financial assets of criminals.

> Another benefit: smart contracts.

What benefit do such contracts hold over actual legal contracts? The biggest difference is that when legal costs have bugs, courts can resolve them.
the word "like" is your big mistake here. They react in a strict one-dimensional sense. No, it does not automatically uplift them into "THEY'RE ALIVE" because thats not how analogies work.

Sorry, but what they are doing is not 'stimulus-response' -Its physics. You mistake the label (stimulus) and the stimulus-response idea, for equalities. They are analogies.

A bi-metallic strip "responds" to temperature change by curling. Its "stimulus" is temperature. Its "response" is to curl. The basic mechanism is not sentience, its differential thermal expansion.
I'm 85% sure we said this exact phrase. Definitely tried out "lattosio", but no luck.
It might, it also might not be. Either way 1) odds of it being discovered are very low 2) odds of any law enforcement action being taken, even if it is illegal, is also low. 3) even if any action is taken, what do you think the punishment is going to be? a slap on the wrist or a talking to? a waste of tax payers money, either way.
Sad that Ubiquiti has decided to become victim of the "Streisand Effect" rather than simply working on the crux of the issue and/or working with him.
boot the mouse first, then the os
Let's Blue and Pink all the things!

These are great photos. But I confess I'm growing tired of this neon miami vice-ification.
I have even greater things to say about OpenWrt on Mikrotik hardware (where supported)!
Sure. Google how many bank robbers got caught the past ten years. Do the same for BTC. Then look at what percent of BTC has been stolen. Look up what percent of USD has been stolen.

Conclusion? Far less effort spent on BTC cases and far less thefts resolved.
Pretty entertaining to read all the handwaving why "we're not the rich ones, it's those other guys" all the while making top 1 percentile incomes.

Like the old saying goes "An alcoholic is someone who has one more drink than I do".
> Make them German Autobahn level safe.

You think that the Germans don't use speed cameras? Not all of their roads are (or can be) the autobahn.

https://www.expaturm.com/german-finance/busy-speed-cameras-g...
I still haven’t seen anyone actually buy anything with a cryptocurrency yet.
Depends what you mean by “glut” — if you mean the welfare rolls are full of English PhDs, or the ranks of middle management are gummed up with French Literature PhDs, or the arms of government administration are overrun by political science PhDs, then sure.

If you mean most PhDs don’t get faculty jobs, well, then we have a glut of basketball, football, and baseball players too.
Ask people if they want tech companies to censor information or show everything exactly as it was posted, and most will pick the latter option, because of course it is the "correct" one.

Then combine their email inbox and spam folder for a day, and there will be riots.

"But that's not what I meant!" Well, algorithmically sorting through your incoming mail and hiding a bunch of it from view based on opaque criteria decided by a large tech corporation is the very definition of censorship. And yet we are okay with it since it makes our personal experience better.

People who cry about big tech censorship are perfectly fine with a curated experience with 99% of the garbage removed. By debating endlessly about the remaining 1% you aren't making some great moral point.
> It happened rather sooner than 40 years later

I think that's a disingenuous reading of Ariel Dorfman's assertion. Dorfman is known in Latin America as the author of "How To Read Donald Duck" (a political book about cultural penetration) and he is of course referring specifically about the burning of his own book by Pinochet's thugs. He didn't mean this was the earliest case of censorship after WW2.

Not all censorship is equal. I understand the principle of anticensorship is valuable, but it's not ok to equate banning Nazi works during Germany's denazification period to the repression and censorship during Pinochet's dictatorship. One is censorship in the aftermath of toppling a dictatorship; the other is a dictatorship doing what it does best.
I somehow stumbled across this over the weekend.

There's a React component library (with a deployed storybook):

* https://github.com/trussworks/react-uswds

* https://trussworks.github.io/react-uswds/?path=/story/compon...