skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which one is that? I've seen proponents and opponents of simplified tax reform on both sides and for different reasons.
US could have simple taxes. Basically a standard deduction for everyone. But what that means is getting rid of a lot of tax credits including mortgage interest, charitable donations, education credits, child care, medical care, energy and disaster, just to name a few.

So instantly any proposed changes would get resistance from housing, charity, education, parent groups, medical industry, ESG among others. Think about how many times politicians say "we should encourage [good thing] and discourage [bad thing]". What do you think they're talking about? Changing the tax code.

And if you think the US government knows if you installed solar panels on your roof this year or something, then you're sorely mistaken
This sounds reasonable in that the current system probably has similar requirements in place for the CPT/OPT route. I think the text also says "(bb) from a foreign institution if such degree is the equivalent to a degree issued by a qualified United States research institution" which is murky. The likelihood of any of this passing are slim though.
Aren't those negative impacts on society a matter for government? Basically any company will 'try it on' until it's stopped. And 'stopping' is what governments are about, I used to think. It doesn't seem to happen and it's not surprising that some have written darkly about the marriage of huge corporations with government and its dire consequences.
LOL - WaPo and Facebook slinging political mud, what a surprise! The real surprise is that anyone still trusts what social media and ancient media oligarchs say.
U.S. probe of Google Maps picks up speed
Knowing the password is easy. With so many breaches and how often people reuse passwords...
My favorite REAL ID compliant ID to use is my Global Entry card.
> That’s where older, weaker forms of MFA come in. They include one-time passwords sent through SMS or generated by mobile apps like Google Authenticator

That reference to Google Authenticator being weaker is not consistent with the rest of the article.
I don't at all buy that the rage is "intentionally manufactured".

I also live in a rural area. The majority of the people here are conservative, see themselves as individual family units first and members of a community second. They understand how to operate mostly autonomously and have no need to hide in a crowd for comfort.

I understand that many people need the security of a strong authority when they are scared. But please understand that not all of us need some sacred decree from the State Capitol telling us when we can visit our grandparents or which direction we should walk down the aisle in the grocery store and strongly resent that anyone thinks they have the authority to do so.

Of course, these people instinctively "rage" against anything that encroaches on their rights as individuals and they should. And now that is clear those decisions were mostly arbitrary and the people making them so obviously doing so because "woke" or just to consolidate power, I think they have a right to be angry.

The backlash should be interpreted as a warning that the populace was pushed too far. Too much power was seized using fear and people noticed.
Welcome Intel Arc GPUs to the Market and Coming to Intel NUCs
I was nice for 25 years. It didn’t change minds. Being nice doesn’t change their mind and neither does being angry. I’m just frustrated and I don’t care anymore. There’s too much money involved in all this for people to change their minds.

This information about the effectiveness of Prozac and most anti-depressants has been out for over 12 years now. What good is it for me to site this information? No one cares. And let’s see if more people started caring, don’t you think the interest, the money interest in these drugs will come back full force?

And whatever about references, references don’t change peoples minds either. Did you just see what happen with Covid? You can show people proof and fax all you want but everyone is in their own individual cult now.
Facebook has consistently disappointed anyone working on any of these issues, from Islamic State recruitment to Myanmar's ethnic violence. Because young people in tech are generally thought to be smart and happy, i. e. Democrats, these failing have been interpreted as growing pains and various lapses in skill or judgement.

The idea has, however, been catching on that Zuckerberg may just be a Greenwald-Democrat, i. e. someone going through a process of alienation in increasingly schizophrenic episodes.

Combine bad faith with the power of Facebook and it's possible to consider that dangerous. The superlative feels strange indeed, but can you think of any other credible alternative, especially outside of (party) politics?
Feinstein is weirdly not aligned with the left or the tech industry given where she's from. Her strong anti-drug and anti-encryption stances are easy examples.

If I had to pick a single organizing principle to describe her positions it would be a bureaucratic sort of authoritarianism (as distinguished from the strongman authoritarianism of someone like Donald Trump).

I do believe the system is rigged in a way that consistently produces bad outcomes. The US Senate is structured to reward voters for keeping incumbents in office, and plurality voting virtually guarantees two dominant parties.
You have to understand that Google appears as a shiny, clean marble citadel before deciding whether to trust them or not.

The citadel provides great protection, information and solace for those who dwell and work within it, but it is extremely important to the citadel that it remains perceived in the way that I described previously: shiny, clean, marble.

Within the citadel there may be groups who enjoy scatological orgies - and that's fine, those people are extremely intelligent and are able to think in ways that allow them to organize the world's information in ways that few others are -- but in return for the privacy that the citadel provides them, they respect the external appearance of the organization: shiny, clean, marble.

What you have to ask yourself as a visitor to the citadel is: am I also willing to obey those laws, and keep my faecal carnal desires hidden until I'm wandering the dirty streets outdoors, or would I prefer to join the machine and use the cover that it provides, knowing that I may have to sacrifice my principles to do so? Or, alternatively: would I prefer to enjoy some time within the citadel but also some time on the dirty streets.

Don't mix the two. That's my read of how to consider trust and Google, currently.
Concourse also has `fly hijack` which is the baddest/funniest command of the decade. It's also very nice to use, instantly logging you in the remote container of a failed build so you can poke around an see what actually went wrong and try to run it interactively before fixing and re-executing. Much better than poking at things in the dark until you hit another issue...
Rust itself will most likely get some form of support for local, "pluggable" garbage collection in the near future. It's needed for managing general graphs with possible cycles, which might come up even in "systems programming" scenarios where performance is a focus - especially as the need for auto-managing large, complex systems increases.
While this story of Facebook smearing TikTok is getting all of HN's attention today, a perhaps more important story about Facebook is being ignored:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30855113

Summary: "A lawsuit accusing Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook of overstating its advertising audience got a lot bigger Tuesday when a court expanded the pool of plaintiffs to include more than 2 million small ad buyers.

Dismissing what he called a “blunderbuss of objections” by the company, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled that the case can proceed as a class action on behalf of small business owners and individuals who bought ads on Facebook or Instagram since Aug. 15, 2014.

The decision is another setback for the social networking giant after court filings in 2021 revealed that its audience-measuring tool was known by high-ranking Facebook executives to be unreliable because it was skewed by fake and duplicate accounts."
It's similar in the UK. You collect your end of year employment tax summary from any employers and file your self assessment online for for free using the HMRC website. There are helpsheets for most stuff and it's all over in 20-30 mins
I discovered this book today and have been reading it all afternoon. The interviews with Brad Fitzpatrick and Peter Norvig are very entertaining (and informative)!
> all but impossible.

This is somewhat hyperbolic. Reporting income to the IRS is pretty easy. Dealing with deductions and credits is not hard, but is hard to get right. The whole process ought to be much, much easier than it currently is, but it is not "all but impossible". I even managed to teach all 3 of my kids how to handle 1099s and other stuff, and if they were a bit intimidated (they were), they didn't find it actually hard.
Hmm, I'm seeing 99/100 in Chromium (mobile and desktop). I wonder what test is failing.
Worse, there are unacceptable lead levels in the glazing of any dishware coming from China (which is most of it). These are levels considered unsafe for children by FDA standards (which aren't as stringent as EU standards).

There are very few safe brands in this regard. One from France and one from Turkey, at least on the US market.
In the UK I watched a company being filmed that openly admits that peeling all the, in this case, biscuit (cookie) packaging, off of biscuits wasn't economically viable, so they just grind it all up.
> Actually professional photographic equipment doesn't get obsolete

> I can take my old D70s today and take beautiful photos, even with it's 6MP sensor

I suspect if you do a wedding shoot with a 6mp interchangeable lens camera, some customers are rightly going to ask questions when you hand over the work... Of course professional photographic equipment gets obsolete - even lens systems get deprecated every 20-30 years too. Newer sensors have vastly more dynamic range than the d70s among other image quality benefits.

I think you argument holds water much more strongly in the context of amateur users, where for sure you can keep getting nice images from old gear for a long time.
That wasn't the argument though, you are attacking a strawman. The argument was much more nuanced if you bothered to read it.

Essentially it boils down to this. If I am writing -systems- software and I'm going to choose between Go or Java then the list of things I pointed out are the main differentiating features along with raw throughput which matters for things like databases which need to be able to do very fast index/bitmap/etc operations.

Go is great for being simple and easy to get going. However that is completely worthless in systems software that requires years of background knowledge to meaningfully contribute to. The startup cost of learning a new codebase (or entirely new programming language) pales in comparison to the requisite background knowledge.
It's your "content blocker" that's broken if it's blocking random stuff. It's a very simple website without weird things.
The technical hurdles to inertial confinement fusion are so absurd. Even were the output energies substantial enough to justify the cost of a production generator it would take decades to have a functioning mechanism to deliver the fuel with beam integrity. Physicists are amazing at trivializing engineer feats and love nuclear weapons funding.
This is weapons research and that's it, talking about any other scientific validity has always been a weak attempt to give it some moral ground
Well I didn't say they should always do nothing. They are just better at getting out of the way than solving problems in most cases. Sometimes the issue is that nobody else has the incentives or means to solve a problem (climate change, food safety)

Reorganizing the economy around trucker job displacement is not something the government needs to be involved in.
I don't have a Tesla so I'm not familiar with the superchargers specifically but I have a plug-in hybrid and I have seen a combination of both time and energy at various charging stations. For example, some have a flat $/kWh + $/hour "parking" after the first hour.

I think that it makes a lot of sense to have some incentive for people to not just leave their cars there forever. But it is true that charging rates vary including a taper off in charging rate towards the end of charge if you are getting it "topped off" so to speak. So from that perspective basing it just off time does become a little disingenuous, and I like the hybrid approach of $/kWh + $/time that kicks in after some amount of time.
Agreed. Personally, it's depressing that everyone's getting into software, increasing my competition. Societally, it's depressing that people think art is a viable career unless they don't need to care about making money.
Fair point. I think in this case relying on a domain registrar or an email service is somewhat inevitable, though.
Not just for them, but in general it's the fact that we use tax code as a means of policy implementation. So we end up with all sorts of complicated deductions, credits, taxes, etc because politicians want to promote or discourage some action.
"each taxi will be replacing at least 10 cars"
Two cars maybe, but not ten cars. Ten of us can't commute to work in the morning, and return back with the same taxi. Two round trips might fit during rush hour.
Co-host of The Changelog here!

We're hard at work on the transcript for those of you who'd rather read than listen. It usually takes a couple days and there's a link at the bottom of the page you can click to be notified of when it's published.

Hope you enjoy the conversation, Brian does not disappoint!
I like radio, I grew up with short wave and still remember picking up stations late in the night in languages I’d never imagined existed.

I recently bought a cheap SW radio to play with my kid and I got surprised by the amount of stations from china broadcasting strong signals over basically anything.
This is a great article yet with an unnecessarily sensationalist headline. Generics can be improved in performance over time, but a superstition like "generics are slow" (not the exact headline, but what it implies to reader) can remain stuck in our heads forever. I can see developers stick to the dogma of "never use generics if you want fast code", and resorting to terrible duplication, and more bugs.
> They also go after poor people more often than rich people by a long shot (percentage wise, not just absolute numbers) because they know poor to middle class people can't afford a lawyer/accountant to fend them off.

Adjusted Gross Income, Audit rate

0 8.9%

$1- $25,000 0.7%

$25,000-$50,000 0.4%

$50,000-$75,000 0.4%

$75,000-$100,000 0.4%

$100,000-$200,000 0.4%

$200,000-$500,000 0.6%

$500,000-$1,000,000 1.1%

1,000,000-$5,000,000 2.5%

$5,000,000-$10,000,000 5.1%

over $10,000,000 8.6%

Please don't make stuff up

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-are-the-odds-be...
> Tesla maintenance cost is $832 per year. That compares to an average of $652 per year

I would be very careful before relying on those maintenance cost figures - they are very dependant upon the age of the vehicles and neither figure sounds realistic, if you look at the following information.

https://www.yourmechanic.com/article/the-most-and-least-expe...

The link shows the cheapest average cost to maintain a vehicle over 10 years was $550/annum for a Toyota in 2016, and the most expensive was $1780/annum for BMW.

More importantly, further down, the article shows the cost increase over time for maintenance is about +$150/annum. At age 10 years the average maintenance is $1500, and it plateaus at about $2000/annum (because people retire vehicles when they get too expensive to maintain).

A Tesla doesn’t have oil changes or combustion engine problems, so some maintenance costs are reduced. However the battery eventually needs replacing, which is a large expense, so you must know whether the battery replacement is included in average yearly maintenance costs or not, before the figure is useable over the long term.
Yeah, it's not how smart they are, it's how dumb other people are.

I mean, if I start receiving a bomb of MFA requests at 1 AM, I'd get up immediately, log my account, change password and let the provider know my account was likely under attack.

Even if I didn't care, I'd just turn off the phone and go back to sleep.

I'd NEVER click an authentication request which I didn't acknowledge. I can't understand why someone would do that. People are really careless...
Not exactly, but I'm working on something that I hope enables independent musicians just a little bit. TBD.

That said, I'm one of those artists who was consumed by tech because I have a lifelong interest in computers. Working on an out myself. Life's short, and it's really happening. My patience for scrums and HR-organized slack #donut meetings is waning. That's not the life I enjoy living, or want to promote to my possible children.

If you're an artist, I recommend doing research into grants. I'm from Canada where our current federal government improved the grant system recently—but there are also third party organizations that offer them as well. They are attainable.

It is work to get them, and you have responsibilities—like tracking valid expenses, some deliverables, and so on. But if it enables you to spend more time on art and less time on building half-baked software projects for cynical gold-rush pursuants (allow me my facetious remarks) then it's worth it. They're not going to pay your entire way, but they will help subsidize expenses for materials, studio time, promotion and marketing, exhibits and concerts, and so on.
This is not always the case for Microsoft Authenticator. When I get a prompt on my iPhone, yes I need to use faceid, but I also need to enter a random number to “prove” a human has indeed accepted the auth request.
Yes, we use CUE as more than just a YAML replacement. In particular we use CUE references to construct the DAG and "compile" it to buildkit.

And, yes, Dagger will gradually fill the missing values in the CUE tree during runtime. Essentially resolving the DAG on the fly. It is pretty cool :)

We have discussed this topic at length with the CUE developers. Our conclusion is that CUE's deterministic core is what matters, and the `_tool.cue` pattern is more peripheral: more of a reference for how other tools might use cue for non-deterministic operations. It's not realistic for CUE to be both a ubiquitous deterministic language, and a successful non-deterministic tool. Its priority is clearly the former, and we're focusing on the latter.
It says "test 64 is failing: object.data isn't absolute"
There's so much more to CI/CD than the build definitions (e.g. dashboarding, log viewing/retention, access control, manual interventions, secret management, test reporting, etc.) and while some of your points resonate very strongly with me (e.g. local builds), I can't help but wonder what the endgame is here?

You've raised $27m to what? Give away a free tool for engineers to define their builds in? While they continue to use and pay for another service to actually run the builds? I assume you intend to replace the CI service at some point and move up the stack to monetize?

Without more transparency its easy to imagine something like...

Step 1. Drive uptake of your tool by selling people on the pitfalls of "CI lock-in"
Step 2. Introduce your own CI solution, which people can now easily switch to
Step 3. Lock people in
my big personal nit is poor async support; e.g. async disk IO is recent in Linux, and AFAIK all the Unices implement POSIX aio as a threadpool anyway. not being able to wait on "either this mutex/semaphore has been signaled, or this IO operation has completed" is also occasionally very annoying...
I didn't say I wasn't interested in the [headline] I said it wasn't news to me. It's a topic I find interesting, and as it turns out, by an author I already enjoy.

The article was not informative [to me], but it was fun reading. Since it was not informative to me (as I deduced correctly from the headline) I could have easily read the comments and not the article.

Hope that helps!
Good article. I would just ask that anyone reading this to please look upon your fellow man with empathy, understanding and maybe even love. Through the last 2 years everyone was propagandized into fear, violence and even death and some actions could be said to be a primal fight or flight response.

Now turn and look to the media, corporations and government who did everything in their power to divide the populace and pit the citizenry against each other. While simultaneously amassing wealth and power in a equal amount that the populace lost.

Take a moment to consider everything that happened (maybe a long moment, there was a lot) and realize who the true enemy is and never forget. This certainly won’t be the last enormous overreach and removal of rights.

United we stand, divided we fall.
If they live on the cruise ship, they can stay as long as they want. They'll pick it up when the ship returns, or take a cheap flight to meet the ship somewhere else.

I do find those stops weird as a vacation. You get to see the very tippy-top tourist sites. My parents took one that let off in Le Havre, drove them a few hours to Paris, up the Eiffel Tower for lunch, past the Mona Lisa, and then back. They were happy with it, but that's not my cup of tea.

The retirees seem happy just being on the ship. The entertainment and dining options are oriented to them. The port days are just an entertainment option, not the goal.
> On a stdlib level Java mostly wins

This isn't even true compared to other comparable platforms like .NET, let alone Go which has hands down the most useful and well constructed standard library in existence (yes, even better than Python).
Starving artists have been around since time immemorial but it used to be less un-viable in the past.
The band name is actually a recent issue with broadcasting on the AM Band in the USA.

The FCC now allows for AM medium wave broadcast stations to convert to digital (HD) only. This causes many engineers to cringe at stations using branding such as "Digital AM"[1] or "AM HD" since there's no AM involved.

Even the FCC calls it "All-Digital AM Broadcasting"[2].

[1] https://www.am1230digital.com/
[2] https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-20-154A1.pdf
> What, exactly, are you saying that Go can't do that Java can?

Runtime library addition (plugins) and dependency injection are two big ones. (We can argue the merit separately, but they're not possible in Go)

I think if Java had easily distributable static binaries k8s would have stayed Java (it started out as Java).
UNIX time is not actually a stopwatch, it's defined as 86400 seconds per day elapsed since epoch, plus the number of seconds elapsed since the last midnight (in essence it matches UTC seconds from 1970).

Thus UNIX time is at least 27 seconds late (because there have been 27 seconds since 1972).
How come this person's blog isn't responsive / mobile-friendly? I'm sure that they're capable so I think it might be a choice, but would be interested to hear why.
> This will be easy to remember. Lots of 3's." I looked at him for a moment puzzling his response. He says, "2745, lots of 3s."

I cannot for the life of me figure out what he means by this
Still want to hit some milestones before releasing anything, so not quite