skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Projects that push aside the envelope of what was previously possible and reach entirely new levels of performance tend to have not that predictable schedules and costs. I'm pretty sure the planners involved know that, but on the political level fixed ranges and estimates are required to get funding - so you get cost overruns and delays.
What if it doesn't have to be a government forcing but rather a user demanding? Any way that users unionize or demand "no attention without representation"?
The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what customers want
How a Cooling Vest Invented by a Furry Made Its Way into the U.S. Military(2019)
Potentially yes, realistically no. This is the old "if the storage controller is lying about flushing to disk, there's not a lot you can do about it" problem.

ZFS does have defensive mechanisms, like doing a read after write to try and be sure that what is written is actually committed to disk, but if the storage controller chooses to serve that out of cache then that could be a lie too. It's the old "trusting trust" predicament, there's no way for hardware higher in the stack to prove that lower levels aren't simply a tower of lies, only instead of viruses it's flush.

That said, in practice very little hardware is actually a giant tower of lies. Flash drives typically do not have enough of a controller to actually cache anything, thus no real capability to lie about writes/etc. SSDs do, but they also generally obey the expected behavior around flushing actually flushing and not just lying about it.

RAID controllers and similar are the danger zone, because they may have cache and may lie to the CPU about it on the assumption that it actually will eventually be flushed, and that's the dangerous thing.
How about this. For each row, compute an 8 bit hash and write to a file whose name is the hash value. Now you have 256 files that you can dedupe in memory (and if not, use a 10 bit hash or whatever).
> What’s more, the product itself is getting more expensive but worse.

The product must get more expensive for Turbo Tax to deliver growth to its shareholders.
Yes. It's a bit of both, of course, but you know those little art galleries in NY that everyone always wonders about? No visitors, but the lights are always on, even in a pandemic? This is their business. They swap art pieces to generate proof-of-value. For a fee, of course.
When I was a Google employee, I helped a friend go through their account lockout issue. It was because they used MFA to a phone number, but later changed their phone number, which made them unable to login. He tried so many times that some velocity threshold was hit, further limiting the possibilities.

My friend needed to respond to some interview scheduling, so, it was a stressful situation.

Part of the problem was that it was hard for my friend to find a way to create a support ticket. He did in the end and got in a line of communication via an alternate email.

There were many miscommunications from both my friend and the support agent. While Account Recovery or even basic identification are hard to navigate for technically-minded folks, it's even more challenging for non-technical folks, including the support agent.

In the end, I got in touch with the support person, helped translate what they wanted to know to my friend, and likewise, translated what my friend was saying in a way that the support person could understand.

I don't think I was able to see the support ticket itself, because of PII restrictions. In the end, my friend was able to restore service. I doubt he'd have been able to without my support in time to respond to the interview scheduling.

It still took a couple of days.
As a JS dev learning python should be trivial. As language python is much easier. The main issue is it lacks many libraries that you are used to working with in the js world - but thats because python isnt really a web language.

All in all learning the basics should take no longer than two to three weeks, despite lower quality documentation.

One way to do it may be to pick one of the many useful node libraries and implementing them in python.
What is the point of stealing this money then? Presumably the "thief" thinks they will be able to cash in on it in some way. Can these "losses" be used to avert taxes on the part of the "investor"? If the pain of the laundering is less than the potential tax avoidance then you might have a profitable laundry outfit.
https://mikrotik.com/products/group/antennas

But that's 5GHz or 60Ghz.
SmarterEveryDay also has a really interesting episode about the sun shield

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu97IiO_yDI
> There is no downside here, for the city.

There are no immediate downsides. I'm not going to pretend to predict the future in it's entirety, but requiring any business to maintain any sort of additional infrastructure seems like it will lead to additional costs. I'm not saying that as a reason to avoid ever doing it, but let's not pretend it doesn't have consequences. This either means more expensive gas station visits (for at least some people), or it means fewer gas stations exists due to being priced out from the additional costs. Now, how those changes affect the local economy at large is anyone's guess.
At least in the US gas taxes and usage fees don't come close to covering the cost of roads [1,2]. In the US all of us pay for roads through other taxes because the use fees and taxes don't cover the cost of the infrastructure.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-gas-taxs-tortured-...

[2] https://taxfoundation.org/states-road-funding-2019/
The sad thing is the folks still buying into it, speculating that it'll be repegged even when the founder has explained that it's dead in the water. I remember people buying Lehman shares post liquidation on the basis that they would get retrospectively bailed out. Guess what?
Wikipedia suggests it's the use of Litz wire rather than solid wire in the making of radio tuning coils.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Lear#Radio_engineer
FreeTaxUSA for more "complex" fillings (i.e. multiple states, advanced investments, etc.), otherwise save coin and just use Cash App Tax (formerly Credit Karma Tax.)

P.S. Use FREETAXUSA 10 for 10% off, and go through TopCashback for cashback
OLT is another good option.
Indeed, the mentioned complaints about Android are not in any sense the result of an overadherence to Stallmanist thinking (rather, the opposite...)
As a bilingual Spanish-catalan speaker this does not match my experience at all. I was raised in Barcelona and approach people in either language and I can remember maybe 2 occasions were sbdy demanded to be spoken in one specific language. You can see this a lot in groups of friends where people switch languages all the time. It is a beautiful thing to see.
Did a quick search and it seems unverified copies of Tengen Tetris in their custome case without the box or inserts are going between $55-$120 right now.
10X bullshitters are a rare breed!
Sad to hear about this after having paid $200-some for federal and two state returns last night, but I've already set a reminder to use them next year.
The killer app for GPT-3 could help marketers lure clicks and game Google
> I actually like the brightness race since it's improved my ability to drive.

Unfortunately you are not taking into account how that brightness impairs other drivers ability to see.

I do agree with the parent, I do feel more distracted by bright flashes of blueish-white light from modern head lamps. Roads aren't flat. Cars bounce, dip, and hop over hills, bumps and pot holes. Never mind the jerks who regularly drive with high beams on or forget to turn them off when passing. Those sudden flashes of light cause floaters in your field of vision leaving you temporarily blinded. This is a problem that no one seems to care about and I feel like we are ignoring these issues on purpose.
This model is already proven to work via Kickstarter, Gofundme, and Patreon. Users already have interest in investing in ideas that _don't even allow them to retain ownership_, like Star Citizen -- it's still a copyrighted piece of work despite taking a ton of money from users to fund their game.
I mean they're basically right but it's kind of a non-answer

The reality is people who ask "what is the best language" are better defined than the comment implies.

Someone who's asking that is usually a beginner, is usually interested in a fast ramp up, is usually more reliant on existing resources than most, etc.

It's not quite as hopeless of a question to answer as it might seem
For energy production you need a hot source and a cold source.

This dark current is no different. You'll need energy to create either the cold source or the hot source.
Nor have I, but I did work with someone who was regarded as such at a company I worked for. He got the reputation for shipping features fast, but everything he did was quick and dirty. This lead to some resentment with other developers tasked with extending the new features he shipped - invariably the simple extension to the feature would take longer than the original feature. Instead of indicating that everything this guy ships is a nightmare to work with, it further cemented the notion that this guy was a 10xer.
Bike commuting in the US is fraught with peril - even in places with bike lanes.

Also because of suburban sprawl your commute on a bike can be an hour easy. I tried biking to work for a while - 23 minute drive but an hour or more on a bike. Great workout, but the lack of proper bike paths meant a few times broken glass gave me a flat miles (5-10) from home.

If you like a few miles away, maybe 5 or less, bike commuting can be a good option. Very few people live that close to work though.
Not really, every single Mac Mini I can think of in the past decade has been able too support more than one display. Honestly, it's the kind of thing I just assume an expensive machine (yes $700 is expensive) would support.
Sorry I actually meant to link that Opensea page but then forgot.

If you look at the bottom of that page [1], you'll see the events recorded by opensea. Also enable "Listing" in the filter. You'll see that there is a transfer 13 days ago and then it is listed. This is when the auction begins. Since then there was no sale, only bids. You can add the "Bids" filter as well to verify the timeline.

[1] https://opensea.io/assets/matic/0x28009881f0ffe85c90725b8b02...
They're specifically for HAMs. You should not be transmitting on FRS with those even if the software lets you do it, that's why there's no distinction: the user is expected to know what they're doing.

RE: Preppers

Most of the preppers I know that bother with these get their HAM license (They usually get General class actually, so they can use HF.) Maybe you live near some poorly behaved nut cases but I have yet to meet those.
Eh, maybe no one who's thought critically about it, but past the "earth is 6,000 years old" crowd I think you'll find a "cilization is 10,000 years old, before which we were hunter gatherers" crowd
I look at the list and the ones I have read are awesome or I know other people find the others awesome.

Take Of Mice and Men, how many N-bombs are dropped in that one? That's acceptable?Or should that book be banned? Maybe not banned, but why are we boosting these to be read in school? Does this really enrich us? Is there not a giant list of better books that could be read in its place?

What if teaching this book in high school encourages or creates anti-black racism? Often in class they are trying to teach you something and covering the n-word might be what is causing racism in the USA? Or is this attempting to stop racism by bringing it to light?
I warmly recommend to anyone interested in this line of thought James Scott's "Against the grain" for oldest evidence of the first agrarian states in the middle east.

"Against the grain" points out that it's not obvious as number of people increases everyone wants to live in cities ruled over and taxed by someone else.

"I think it’s pretty clear that sophisticated societies existed long before recorded history."

If you mean beyond 12k years or so I would not say it's "pretty clear". I would go as far and say it's psychologically and biologically feasible, but we have no evidence to back this up.

What archaeological evidence does prove, is that arrival of anything resembling civilization was a shambolic affair lasting thousands of years, composed of waxing and waning city-sized polities that could at maximum control only few tens of square kilometers of area.

What we do have are sites like Göbekli Tepe at max 12 000 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe

The arrival of agricultural plants is around the same time during Neolithic Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution

I think you would need to expand on the meaning of "sophisticated". I don't want to presume your intent with the use of this word.

But, a hunter gatherer society looks quite a lot different from an agricultural society.

Of course the people living in a hunter gatherer society could very well be artistically and philosophically very developed. But the likelihood of an "Atlantean supercivilization" would be very small.

I think both options are pretty cool. As a species we have a history of 200 000 years. Either our past is riddled with complex emergent societies that have been ground to dust, forgotten, only for the cycle to start again a new over and over again over thousands of years. And only on our current cycle we've managed to start to reach the full potential of our species.

Or, there have not been "civilizational cycles" which would make our anthropocene epoch with it's industrialization and science something even more mind blowingly astonishing.

Both options are humbling.
There must be something else in your inability to access your account because I have been using a VPN for more than nine (9) years, changing locations every 5-7 days, and I have no problems accessing my Google account.

Interestingly, I remember creating a new Google account a couple of years ago from the Philippines, without a VPN, and when I moved back to the US I couldn’t access it anymore.

I believe the account’s age has something to do with the restrictions.
Something that came up recenty for me. I took a job at FAANG company and my productivity from my POV sucks! I doubt I've written more than 2k lines of code in 9 months! I'm debugging hardware/driver issues in a giant code base (~250k files) that I don't know and APIs I've not used before.

Conversely, in my own hobby code I wrote ~2k lines in the last 10 days.

It makes me wonder how often 10x is about circumstance vs programmer skill
Study: Twitter Moderation Is Biased Against Misinformation, Not Conservatives
DNA seen through the eyes of a coder (2021)
Or just make a twitter where government officials have create update and delete privileges and make it read only for the public.
Well, which is it? What did Jones actually say about Sandy Hook? That seems to never get reported.

It gets reported all the time. It's both. Jones has said the shooting was fake/hoax, and Jones has called the parents liars and actors and said that they were making up the shooting for financial gain. In other words, libel.
It's not that they care a ton about price (they do, but), but that price is verifiable, certain, and stable,, while future benefits are not, or might be rugpulled.

I have lots of problems w/crypto, but one thing they've gotten right is the credibility of self-binding. Without that, it's just hard to trust any actor on their future behavior---from Reagan's immigration amnesty, to cable tv's ads, to funding government agencies that ("this time") will fix a problem.

(None of this is motivated by any dislike for USPS, which I generally like. I'm just talking about people's (imo justified) reluctance to trade the known for the unknown).
Thanks for showing interest. Yes, using SQL interface planning to even solve most popular business use cases like sales forecast, customer segmentation, customer churn prediction, anomaly detection and many use cases to add in the future as the product evolves.
Ask HN: How did you get into a professional system programming life
Hi friends,

Wondering if you could share the story of getting into a professional sys prog life? The definition of System programming can be taken directly from wikipedia btw.

Did you get hired directly after graduation or did you gradually moved into one? Which decade was then?

Thanks for sharing =)
Similar to AudioMoth

https://www.openacousticdevices.info/
The consumption tax is something that sounds like a great idea, but in practice isn't.

For taxes to be fair, people who have more means should pay more, as it's less of a burden on them than people of lesser means. If you think of someone who's not too well off, their entire paycheck is going to food and rent, and not savings. For wealthy people, some part of their paycheck is spent on consumption of things, but a larger part of it goes to savings and investments.

There's a reason why rich people go to tax havens that have no income tax and only sales tax.
>Bait and switch
>You set out to do one thing, but a different, undesirable thing happens instead.

This was back in the day, but I used to always go to IMDB to search for movie details. Inevitably, when I'd go to click on the search box, the site would suddenly get around to loading in a banner in the exact spot, pushing the search box down, and resulting in me inadvertently clicking the banner. I was almost certain it was by design.
The performance of ZK systems is improving rapidly, for example the startup I'm at has one which is likely already much faster than what the authors used (development is ongoing): https://github.com/risc0/risc0

The security implications of current decrypting MITM middleboxes are pretty bad so it's worth going to some lengths to find an alternative.
Shitheel.
Why? Because that only works if you are absolutely certain that person has your number saved in their contacts.

Otherwise, your call looks exactly like spam, so either you will get ignored, or that person has to answer all calls from unknown numbers.
The Fastify Workshop
Hundreds of years older than that. If not thousands...

We don't have very good ways to determine how old stonework is, in general. The convention for dating Egyptian works is to date them by whichever is the oldest name somebody carved into them, or by the age of objects found buried nearby. Carving a current pharaoh's name into older stonework, and chiseling away previously carved names, was absolutely the norm, with many things peppered with such alterations. But the obviously oldest things were all made with no name carved in. Often the alteration used to date one is comically cruder than the object itself.

In the only published use of surface luminescence testing applied to Egyptian stonework, it seemed to date a fragment of a facing-stone block from the presumed most recent of the Giza pyramids to 500 years before its official age, albeit with error bars that just barely included the official age. Surface luminescence is a technique that determines when a rock surface was last exposed to light. If the sample is collected with insufficient care, the test will indicate a more recent date than would be correct. It is frustratingingly imprecise, dating the sample in question to 3000 BC, +/- 500 years. No further such work has been permitted.

We actually have documentary records from the supervisor of a crew that received facing stones for work on a pyramid, but we do not know whether the stone was for repair or improvement, or original construction. Pharaohs frequently boasted of repairing or improving older works. The pharaoh officially credited with making the Sphinx left a stela next to it describing the improvements and repairs he had commissioned.
I have tried something similar, writing each entry to a trie on the filesystem and store each duplicate row on the filesystem. The problem was this created a heck of a mess and was taking too long, but it seems like it's feasible.
Xilinx Versal: Software Programmable Architecture
Why are we assuming that the "unidentified" attacker isn't one of the promoters themselves?
There's also a reasonable chance that the first immortal humans are alive today, depending on how optimistically you project maximum life expectancy curves with medical development. (There's also, of course, an extremely reasonable chance that they're not.)

The dynamics of "generation ships" change drastically with changes in human lifetime, including both the dynamics on board such a ship, but also the motivation to pursue it.
Great subject, glue...

Adhesive in the printing industry is very interesting.

For ‘tipped’ in material

For book spines

And artists make their own adhesive such as wheat paste.
Or a dock. Not disputing the DP MST, just noting there are docks that can drive 2 x 6K.

CalDigit's new dock takes a single TB4 cable to drive, and can do:

- 2x TB4
- 1x DP 1.4
- supporting
- 2x 5K60 OR
- 1x 8K60 OR
- 1x 4K144 OR
- 1x 1440p240

According to https://dancharblog.wordpress.com/2021/02/05/usb4-tb4-docks/

Or, as CalDigit puts it (see final paragraph):

Single 8K or Dual 6K Monitors

Users on Windows can connect a single monitor up to 8K resolution, and users on macOS can connect up to a single 6K 60Hz monitor.

When connecting dual monitors Windows users can connect up to dual 4K 60Hz monitors, and macOS users on M1 Pro or M1 Max computers can connect up to dual 6K 60Hz monitors. Users on original M1 computers cannot connect dual monitors as original M1 computers do not support dual displays.
Right, clearly you're on top of the info and that's what counts. Trouble is, most aren't which is most unfortunate.
Can I ask, in spite of all this, why you continue to use their product?
>The politicians did nothing illegal by accepting the lobbying on behalf of TurboTax, after all. Under what rule or law would you punish them? Surely you can not fault politicians for earning money to continue to survive in politics, no?

First off, I never said anything about a legal punishment. Secondly, politicians are ostensibly supposed to act for the good of their constituents. Corporations are motivated to act for the good of their shareholders. In this situation TurboTax/Intuit is operating as it is expected/supposed to act while the politicians are not.
Lightning Network is a "layer 2" on top of "layer 1" bitcoin. The short summary is that it allows two parties to conduct lots of transactions and, when one of them decides they are done, the final balance is committed to the bitcoin blockchain rather than every single one of the transactions. These channels can also be used to forward payments to others, which means that depending on your Lightning node's connections you are able to transact in this way with many thousands of parties beyond just the ones you are directly connected to.

Each channel sets their own rates so the cost of transacting this way varies but it usually comes out to a very tiny amount, much less than 0.1%.

This is a pretty good overview with more detail: https://cointelegraph.com/bitcoin-for-beginners/what-is-the-...

The network has grown a ton in the past year and apps like CashApp and Strike now support it.
And the pendulum swings another few degrees towards thin clients and “mainframes”.

I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing, but it’s definitely a more common thing as even our super powerful laptops can’t run full application backend (not saying they couldn’t if it was a goal, but they can’t).
I used FreeTaxUSA this year to file and was happy with them except for a pretty dark pattern.

If you google "FreeTaxUSA" and log-in that way, it'll change your free-file account to a paid account and there is no way to change it back. To free-file with them, you need to always log in using the special IRS link.

I thought this was pretty annoying, especially as there's no way for customer service to change it back. Their recommendation was to make a new account and re-enter all my tax info.