skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> X: there are no use cases

> Y: here are the use cases

You misunderstand. My gist was there were no practical use cases, and the response was to enumerate some impractical ones. I think the thing that confuses some people is that (like cryptography) some of the biggest problems are on the onramps and offramps, not in the core technology itself.

> X&Z: let's downvote and be negative anyway.

It's right an proper to be negative about something that doesn't really work (when compared against alternatives), especially when that thing is as overhyped as cryptocurrency is.

If it actually worked, the value would be obvious, and wouldn't need to be constantly justified by the kind of contrived use cases that are usually offered.
I'm undecided between if is propaganda or trolling, but there are so many falsehoods and hallucinations in this post that I don't even know where to start.

> Spain is just Castille and a bunch of other regions conquered by force

Hem... not and not. Marriage arrangement is not the same as violence necessarily

Nobody has been beaten for "casting a vote" in this country in many, many time. That scam was not even a real election and the desired results were rigged from the start.

Please, stop with the Franco bullshit. You were not the only Spanish that suffered in the civil war.
Could be, but is not mentioned in the offer. Also maybe most of those shares are also already offered as collateral for something else.
Really glad that everything is progressing smoothly. Very much looking forward to what they might discover.
A daisy chaining monitor is essentially an in-built dock in most cases.

I work on Displays at Microsoft :)
I mean, with Big Sur it's pretty hard to not see where they're coming from: big round borders, bloated quick settings menu and widgets that somehow manage to be equally as useless as they are on iPad... as a fan of 201x-2018-era MacOS, I'm pretty dissatisfied with the latest releases. Compared to Mojave, it feels much less like a professional workstation OS and more like a LeapPad with POSIX compliance.
No.

And I find it concerning that many people seem to feel that this is a make or break feature (as this is always brought up in this discussion). It really isn’t that hard to sit down and focus for a half hour to actually look at your tax documents and type in a few numbers.
How do unions operate when anyone with a pulse can walk in and do your job?

There's always the possibility that your starting assumptions are wrong.
A helicopter will try to catch a rocket booster mid-air
Pretty sure a company that gave up on being allowed in China is willing to give up on being allowed in Russia which probably has very little impact on their revenue
The only Apple product I use is MacOS so perhaps you have a different perspective, but their operating system releases are of shockingly poor quality. My workplace has a blanket ban on installing the latest OS releases because of all the problems they cause. And of course this ban isn't enforced by group policies because that's not even possible in this ecosystem, so they end up having to deal with the fallout regardless.
Valve could shut down all the counterstrike servers by tomorrow rendering your skin worthless.

The value of my baseball card might fluctuate but at least it's existence doesn't depend on the availability of servers outside my control.
I'm currently using my iPad as a VNC client for a headless Mac mini, it's pretty close to a laptop. But need to figure out how to get a better wifi connection from my home office to my bed room btw.
Why buy when their bots and shills sway public opinion on Twitter organically?
I think going with this metaphor if you have cancer then it's like already being under attack by this civilization.
Yes - this all has the feel of corporate "kabuki theatre."
Cool. I can get behind a data gathering tool like this project. My problem with Merlin and Merlin-style apps is they attempt to do everything related to identification which shortchanges users because they don't teach fundamental skills.
> are that many people doing taxes on their phones!?

More people than you would think. I have several coworkers with kids that don't have a single computer in their house other than their phones. If the kids need to use a computer they take home their work laptop.
> the whole thing is just a blown-up mobile UI (are that many people doing taxes on their phones!?)

Yes. According to Pew, in 2021 there were 15% of adults in the US who said they only have smartphone data for Internet access and do not have what we know as home broadband. By age, that number skews towards younger adults, with the largest share being people aged 18-29, however even older adults hover in the low teens of percent.

Even if someone does have broadband at home, the number of "traditional" desktop and laptop computers have been dropping. Mobile phone and tablet devices (but, let's be honest, mostly mobile phones) have been replacing regular computers at a pretty high clip. And where a household does have a desktop or laptop, they may only have one, where almost everyone has a mobile phone device so it's probably convenient to just pull up the tax prep web site and get to it on the handheld.

Pew data: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/
This post seems to begin _in media res_. I feel like I'm missing a lot of context here. What exactly are we complaining about? Did some event happen?
The imaginary solution works reliably in 100% cases, but the available solution works only in 99%. Should we accept that practical solution in the interim, or should we dismiss it and fall to a "perfect solution fallacy"?
> 10x is a really bad term, it tries to quantify a difference without a baseline.

I believe this is incorrect. The baseline (or 1x) is the lowest-performing member of the team. At least that's how I learned the term.
It's not centralized, but I see a fair bit of discussion on Twitter by following the researchers in the area.
Their cult graphic designer following in the 90's and 00's and insistence on top spec hardware has helped them enormously because that cult group following is intrinsically linked to the media sector and thats helped then enormously because I've never known of anyone to bad mouth Apple as a result, but Google and Microsoft, thats different. They became the premium product manufacturer in IT.
Lots about the US, not much about Ukraine. Ukraine isn't a pawn on a board for two nations to play with, it's a country.

NC makes good points if that's how you see the world but his opinions are outdated. People deserve to have self-determination now that it's a modern, globalized world (I mean they always did, but nation states matter even less now).
You don't need to know about the Avengers to know the difference - the movie and ad above are contradictory by themselves.

I never read the comics, it is more objective that way. Maybe you mean Deadpool...
What do you think is east of the Pays Basque, if not France? Like, everyone's voting me down, but nobody's setting me straight.
I chose to use that word to preempt nitpicky objections about measuring oxytocin in dog brains (which doesn't actually tell you anything about the subjective experience the dog feels.) 'Qualia' refers specifically to the subjective conscious experience, which is something science is presently ill-equipped to answer questions about. The word 'qualities' does not have the same rhetorical effect.

As an aside, what's the point of complaining about uncommon words? Dictionaries have never been more convenient to use. If you didn't know the word before, then in about 5 seconds you can learn what it means and your personal vocabulary will be enriched.
“hello fellow kids” ad alert.
I also loved Unity - glad to meet one of the few others who are willing to admit it!

But I could live with gnome 3 with a few extensions. What made me move away from Ubuntu to PopOS was snap.
Whoops, you're right, I assumed my muscle memory was the source of truth heh.
I'd recommend freetaxusa for everyone, I've been using that for years now. E-filing federal taxes is free, and state income tax E-filing are only something like $15 total. The interface is generally the same as TurboTax and is nice and easy.
This is not true for most folks, who can use one of two exceptions that allow summarizing. Exception 1 allows you to simply report totals on Schedule D. Exception 2 has you file Form 8949 with summarized rows, as long as you attach a statement with the detailed transaction info (the brokerage 1099-B generally suffices).

https://www.irs.gov/instructions/i8949#en_US_2021_publink594...

These are the very same exceptions that tax software uses.
From what I understand, the challenge is the following: Even though we know precisely how to calculate the lift generated by a wing, all attempts to reduce those equations and their predictions to "ELI5" arguments leads to incorrect explanations.

Basically: We can explain aircraft lift to a college student, but not to a 5 year old. Or, we can explain aircraft lift using equations, but not using informal arguments.
“qualia” are the internal experiences of sensory perceptions of the subject, “qualities” are the attributes of the subject. They look a bit similar, and are etymologically connected, but their denotations are about as far apart as is possible for words that are the same part of speech.
I agree - some more exceptions: Hedge funds and VCs as well as brokers and other investors definitely _do_ pay for insights on top of public data feeds. TipRanks (worked there 2012-2017) is a big'ish (profitable) company doing (mostly) exactly that.
Yup. I myself get along fine with my neighbors and wouldn't be concerned, per se. I simply think folks should be aware. There's plenty of lawsuits in my state regarding "illegal wiretapping" and not everyone has good relationships with their neighbors.
That's generally incorrect. Circumvention is generally illegal, regardless of if you're using it for otherwise legal activities. Below I've included the relevant text from the law. In that specific example, though, you might have an argument that enforcement of the anti-circumvention provision violates the first amendment, like in [1] (but IANAL so I have no idea if this has already been argued/settled). Connecting this to your fair use point, fair use is part of what keeps copyright enforcement from violating the first amendment, but it's unclear how the Supreme Court would rule such an issue if it came in front of them.

> No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. The prohibition contained in the preceding sentence shall take effect at the end of the 2-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this chapter.

> (3) As used in this subsection—
(A) to “circumvent a technological measure” means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner; and
(B) a technological measure “effectively controls access to a work” if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.

You can see how the law is written so generally as to arguably include almost anything under the definition of "technological measure".

[1] https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-asks-appeals-court-ru...
Energy Harvesting Starting to Gain Traction
Ask HN: What kind of technical blog should I start?
I had a blog before but its mixed with short snips of code, how to's and some personal anecdotes. It was not well kept and more something from long ago and not really comfortable sharing. I like to start a new one, this time, marketed using my real name, for example. What might you like to see (and not see)?
Robert Warden (original author of the paper "Cryogenic nano-actuator" (2006)[0]) did the first prototyping with Lego Technic [1]. From Lego to the JWST, I mean damn, like childhood dreams come true (:

[0]https://www.esmats.eu/amspapers/pastpapers/pdfs/2006/warden....

[1]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3WBrqUa_1yk
I found his own Twitter mini-feed he linked more valuable than the article: https://twitter.com/mouthofmorrison/status/15153275070793482...
13s seems horribly slow to draw a plot.
Immediately thought of that as well. I still play MSFS4 from time to time in dosbox. I sat down with dosbox’s internal debugger one day and patched the .EXE so that it properly works with joysticks, and now use a Bluetooth game pad to fly the Learjet from SFO over the Golden Gate Bridge to Seattle navigating via radio from VOR to VOR every now and then.

There’s just something about this “light” simulation. I can just go for a “simple fly in a Learjet” (hah) while doing other stuff.
bruh, the script worked but was executed with the wrong parameters. This can happen and was not the main issue.

The communication was weird, also: not having a batch solution for per-customer restore.
that was so weird, I assume that this won't happen again.
Agreed. I was thinking this thing would be a bust or expecting some type of catastrophe, so nice to see none of that happened. This has undoubtedly exceeded the expectations of many.
I never made an argument for police state. It seems like you are unable to objectively evaluate policies and science apart from the people behind it.

Even Nazi Germany has achieved a lot scientifically and they did a great job industrializing post WWI Germany. Acknowledging that fact doesn't mean you are arguing for the Nazis.

Also just because "China Bad", doesn't mean you get to make up random bad stuff and stick to them and call that facts. That's not how any of this works.
Ukrainians are very much running out of babies, desperately so in fact. Average Ukrainian woman has just 1.2 babies on average. You cannot make up for that shortage with Nigerian babies (of which the supply is high) any more than you can make up Ukrainian war casualties with Russian settlers moving in — or, I guess, you can, if you don’t care about Ukraine as a nation in the slightest.
https://archive.ph/cWR3N
Stolen AirPods give away Russian retreat positions
Oh, I see. You're just citing the slices that have grown by the most, and therefore concluding that a 41% raise is a loss of purchasing power. This is not a valid method to compute purchasing power, nor a reasonable basis for asserting that someone who got a 41% raise in one year lost purchasing power.
I'm not much for regulation of crypto/DeFi in general, but instant lending like this should absolutely, 100% be illegal. It's exclusively useful for exploits and MEV vampirism, and for nothing else.
This whole situation is a depressing demonstration of the ratchet effect [1].

Intuit obviously doesn't want free filing. They'ee engaging in rent-seeking behaviour and free-filing would obviously hurt their business. Politicans are bought ("lobbied") for a pittance.

But the dirty little secret here is the complexity of the tax code. It's truly ridiculous. Everyone fights simplication of the tax code because every simplification will remove somebody's special exemption, write-off, accelerated depreciation schedule, tax credits and so on. Intuit loves this. The tax industry (not just Intuit) loves this: the more complex it is, the more money they make.

Worse, there's almost an institutional resistance to ANY simplification based pretty much on the slippery slope argument: well if they come for Acme Co's tax credits for not growing corn this week they might come for mine next week.

There's also an awful lot of dishonesty built into the system. Payroll and social security taxes are classified as "employer taxes" (in part at least). There are no employer taxes.

Simple example: Social Security is 6.2% on the employer and employee (up to a cap). So if you have a nominal income of $100,000, the employer is really paying you $106,200 and sending $12,400 to the Federal government.

Can't we just call this what it is?

And don't get me started on the bullshit that is the standard deducation.

In an ideal world, I'd like to see a consitutional amendment for universal basic income of $X per US citizen tax resident, a tax free income on the first $Y of personal income and just a flat rate tax beyond that. Congress gets to play with the values of X and Y.

I'm not holding my breath.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratchet_effect
It’s only very slightly novel to apply solutions that we already know exist that were designed to solve a class of problems to a problem that nobody has done so for so far. Not being novel doesn’t mean it isn’t useful, though.
All those major cities developed their mass transit systems long ago in far different environments than they exist in them today. If you don't have strong cultural norms (and in NY, anyway, you do have a sort of lowest-common-denominator norm: you don't talk to strangers on the subway) you end up with people abandoning public transit.

Zoning is and was certainly an issue, but without stronger social consensus you are going to have a hard time getting folks back into a shared space.

I prefer denser living and would love to see it, but I view both sides of the political spectrum as sharing blame for the problem, and neither one willing to compromise on, or, frankly, even discuss it. So, unfortunately, I expect remote work to address the energy crisis rather than a return to sensible urbanism.
I don't think the original 10x programmer was by measuring lines of code they wrote at all..
> keep the tax system complicated

what happened to the original forces that created this mess. I am not convinced that if it wasn't for intuit we would have a simple tax system.

> The majority of the civilized world spends almost 0 time doing personal taxes.

this isn't actually true.
In the Washington letter, he clearly is referring to "regulating" the militia by modifying the law under which it is organized. The primary concern he and Livingston express about the existing New Jersey militia law is that it allows "[a] Man capable of bearing Arms [to] buy off their Service by a trifling Sum" in lieu of service, as well as "suffering an appeal to lay before a Court of Judicature". I don't think this endorsement of mandatory conscription of armed men without option of appeal to the court tends toward supporting a libertarian view of the Second Amendment, nor does it support the case that "regulated" does not imply government regulation.
Is there some conspiracy theory here I’m missing?
Well, the alternative the OP is about:

> …There’s been proposals in Congress on and off for years, from people like Elizabeth Warren, to appropriate money to the for the IRS to do what it was thinking about doing back in the George W. Bush administration 20 years ago, which is to join many other developed wealthy countries in having an online filing process that’s free and offered by the government to all of us as citizens.
I think that version is called "we don't give a fuck about what the USB-IF thinks"
>Spot a difference?

The difference you point out doesn't matter because not everyone who uses "10x" in conversation is rigorously tracing it back to the 1987 DeMarco and Lister "Peopleware".

And arguably, the "10x" had earlier origins in the 1968s studies by Sackman, Erikson, and Grant : https://www.google.com/search?q=10x+Sackman%2C+Erikson%2C+an...

But again, that 1968 origin doesn't matter because many people are just using "10x" as a rhetorical synonym for "really good programmer that's much better than average".
I'd guess people who used workflows causing their x86 laptops run hot and loud felt very relieved when switching to dead-quiet-yet-quite-fast m1's. I am one of those people. I travel a lot, and using a $5k xeon laptop meant bringing a heavy 180w brick on flights, and lugging it everywhere with me. And suffering from loud fans. Especially when having a teams or hangouts call with people sharing video. Or using docker compose. Switching to a machine that can do it all, while being quiet and lasting a, say, AMS-SFO flight without charging, felt great.

As for usb3 speeds, I mean, oh well. I probably wouldn't notice if the ssd runs at 400 vs. 500mb/s. Minor speed differences are less noticeable than quality of life things like noise, battery life, screen quality, stuff like that. To each their own.
How does this work? I thought the struct layout needed to be the same between API boundaries. E.g. If I call a function `foo(struct bar* x)` in some library how does the compiler know what random struct layout was used for that library?
If by 10x, you mean engineers that add 10x more value compared to an average engineer in the team, then from working 10+ years in the industry, it is abundantly clear to me that 10x programmers exist, and a good team is likely to have 5-10% of those. However, these engineers are rare, and when you do find them, they are not perfect. They might have flaws in other areas - communication and teamwork is a common one.

Most of these anti-10x engineer posts either assume a different meaning of 10x engineer or are unable to accept that engineering is a skill just like every other skill, there are masters and not every one can be a master. Every person cannot be a great engineer. Every engineer in your company/team does not need to be a master. But you need a few of them to be successful if software engineering is critical for your product.
For some reason my large corporation's IT department thinks this website should be blocked.

Can I get a description of what this is like?
Thank you for this link. I was wondering when someone was going to present some concrete evidence for the "social justice" creep into mathematics curriculum that some people object to.
Sure and Apple had A/UX.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX
Anti-intellectualism seems an almost inevitable destination for
authoritarian regimes. In a thread yesterday [1] the subject of Mao's
purges and the Khmer Rouge came up. Why kill all the engineers,
doctors and lawyers? Because people who build and maintain
civilisation can build alternative ones. They are a threat to that
kind of power.

Heed this warning, all of you comfortable building systems of control
and surveillance while thinking that you are "on the inside" and will
be treated well because you are "needed".

Once the "new order" has it's cybernetic governance machine, who do
you think will be the first to get a visit?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31042304
If I understand the authors use-case to get more refined top results, from the first paragraph,

"Suppose, not hypothetically, that you have a machine that periodically has its load average briefly soar to relatively absurd levels for no obvious reason; the machine is normally at, say, 0.5 load average but briefly spikes to 10 or 15 a number of times a day. "

$ sudo perf sched record -- sleep 5 && sudo perf sched latency

seems to do the trick. I'm not even a perf engineer just did a simple google search. Though, that makes for pretty crummy blog content.
This was more or less my exact same scenario as well. MFA with an old phone number makes account recovery from Google about close to impossible. I had a friend who worked at Google that was able to create a support ticket for me. Before talking to my friend, every single customer service support rep more or less confirmed that I was completely SOL.

It is the reason why I have transitioned from Google.
It's not entirely a coincidence that Tim and I sound alike on this subject! We grew up together at the same hippie alternative school in Toronto and then both came under the influence of Larry Lessig in our adult lives.

Tim and I got a chance to catch up at a Brussels antitrust conference last month and it was great to go over all the ways that our backgrounds contributed to our work in adulthood:

https://www.cra-brusselsconference.com/home/Programme
Brain area for substance disorders now has searchable atlas of cell populations