skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I the only one who has gotten very tired of this meme? I laughed at a few of them, but now its just everywhere it seems.
Clang 15 Lands Support to Randomize Structure Layout, Linux Prepares to Use It
Sounds interesting! Would you link to that or describe them here? Thanks!
That looks pretty similar to Wealthsimple Tax (formerly simpletax) that we have here in Canada, which I also recommend. I used to hate dealing with the shady tax software we have here in canada and as always we had even less options than you guys have in the US, so simpletax was a gamechanger
OpenAI would be the best example. However these large language models also have limited business value today, making an startup a speculative bet that the team will beat Google/FB/AI/Academics at making a language model and find a viable business model for the resulting model.

I'd take one of those bets or the other, both are tough to pull off. Considering that the first task of such a startup would be to hand ~100-500MM to a hardware or cloud vendor I'd be hesitant to invest as an investor.
> it feels like most folks just don't care, and most of the folks who do
care wind up using the "bad stuff" anyway (mostly out of convenience,
but also due to FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out)

They do care, but most of us lack the understanding and vocabulary to
change. All these things can be overcome. FOMO, worship of
convenience, lock-in, or fear of being different. Never give in to
bullying by weak-minded naysayers and defeatists who shout "resistance
is useless", or demean others by presuming to know "what they want" or
saying that "ordinary people are too stupid..." etcetera. These are
the vestiges of the 20th century hacker that we must shake-off as a
culture.

These are mild obstacles in the end. People can be educated. Please
help spread the word about Digital Vegan [1] which is an attempt to
make a case for "healthier technology". Spread the word about Humane
Tech [2] and the harms inflicted by incumbent monopolies

As an ordinary citizen. speak your mind and remain true to the values
of what you think technology can be, not the pale imitation offered by
so-called "Big Tech". I personally refuse to use any big-tech products
and I use what influence I have to convince others to drop them too.

Interop will not happen by legislation alone, it also requires
awareness, dissent and self-determination. People must be reminded
that it is their right to be masters of the technology necessary for
modern life, not slaves to it.

[1] https://digitalvegan.net

[2] https://www.humanetech.com/
What do you use them for? I went through the GitLab doc, I see how it could make sense for automated PRs, but for manual ones I don't see how I would benefit from them.
Making Wise Decisions: A Checklist
Unless I misunderstand your meaning, I guess in a certain sense you could frame it in that way, where you have a rotational drift which provides energy to an axially-propagating wave. I'm not well-versed in black hole plasma physics. It is worth noting that anomalous cross-field transport is a problem that exists in lots of plasmas, including fusion plasmas like tokamaks and probably also in astrophysical plasmas.
> "And bias-wise we can generate whatever distribution of ethnicities, ages, genders you want in your data, so we are not biased in any way," he says as he shows us a three-dimensional fake face.

Am I missing something, or isn't this a tool that can be used to generate a highly biased dataset to train an ML system on? This is how you'd insert biases into your 'algorithm' to get the desired result, isn't it? And then you could use that system to say, select from a pool of loan applicants, and any biases would just be 'due to the algorithm'?
> I assume the converse is true

I've made the same assumption and been wrong. It might be a bigger assumption than you realize. Maybe they just got a new phone, and their contact list wasn't synced correctly.
I did not have that experience. I went directly to the site and my federal was free. State was $15 or whatever it was. I did not use the IRS link.
Weird, I just go to freetaxusa.com and have never had a problem.
Early civilizations did not appear out of nothing 6000 years ago. The earliest evidence of cereal harvesting in the Middle East is from 23000 years ago. The transition from hunting and gathering to sedentary farming communities took over 10000 years, and those communities needed thousands of years to grow into large sophisticated cities.

It's also good to remember that there has been an ice age for the last 2.5 million years. The climate is generally too cold and dry for agriculture, except during relatively short interglacial periods. Maybe there was an opportunity for a civilization to develop in the Eemian period 130k to 115k years ago, but that was likely the only window of opportunity.
This is a cool game. The tutorial was very informative and took <10 minutes to complete.
I can’t speak for other contexts, but the organized lobby representing Asian Americans has very little relationship with Asian Americans themselves: https://www.slowboring.com/p/yang-gang

I don’t know how these organizations became so politically powerful. When organizations purport to be speaking for and making demands on behalf of “AAPPIs” like me and my family, you’d think maybe I’d at least heard of them at some point. :-/
This little one's not worth the effort. Now let me get you something.
Correction! Cost is around $10M not $10B.
> It's either true or you are a liar.

Point of order on this dichotomy. There is a third option, they could just be wrong. It's only a lie if it is wrong and he knows it is wrong.
> But even an unintended or informal campaign by two of the most important players in this battle—who reach a combined 90 million people on Twitter

That's some lazy journalism. They just added the two follower accounts and then rounded up by 1M. My guess is there is a big overlap between the two groups followers (and it should be noted that Musk has 82.4M of those ~90)
We're all still traumatized by the meters/feet problem. Oops, I mean the Newtons/pounds problem.
German, Swedish, Finnish: Ä

Norwegian, Danish, French, Icelandic, Faroese: Æ.
> "Those that came before us..." refers to Shang Chi's family tree, not the Avengers, that is the deceptive message here.

I kinda feel like if you know enough about Marvel to know that that line can refer to the Avengers, you also know enough about Marvel, to know that it doesn't.

I have never seen an Avenger Movie, and I couldn't see this tied in more or less with other Marvel movies than ... I don't know. That one with the black thing that looks like Spawn?
In my entire career as a US software developer (15+ years) I've only had 1 employer that offered sick leave. Every other employer offered a "bucket" of time off. So even if you just have a cold you either go to work or you have one or two less vacation days that year. It's not uncommon to only have 10 days total for the "bucket", even for senior developers.
He's a fairly important figure in free software. Probalby more like a godfather than a father I'd say. He lives what he preaches and he means it. I respect that. He sees any software (including firmware and video games) as bad unless you get a copy of the software so that you can modify it. His own license adds more stipulation to that like "if you distribute this software you have to release the code (and copyrights notices) that goes with it or make it available to those distributed to so they can modify it for their own use and this license is sticky". It's a bit more complicated than that but that's the jist. I think people who dismiss him as a nut should revisit how many times they've complained they are stuck with software/hardware that they can't get to work like they want or repair it because the company is defunct or refuses to fix old (non-lucrative) software/firmware.
There are casual millionaires everywhere. People only notice the ones who prefer to stand out, who are probably the minority.
X: there are no use cases

Y: here are the use cases

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

Welcome the usual crypto discussions on HN. Why do people still bother?
In general, people with significant non-W2 income (e.g. dividends, capital gains, etc.) already have to file estimated quarterly taxes in many cases.
> On desktop, the whole thing is just a blown-up mobile UI

Meanwhile, the traditional desktop software version of TurboTax remains quite good, and I have been using it year after year on Windows. They have several editions; here is the one I used this year:

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B09FW199HB/

It's much cheaper to buy it on Amazon than directly from TurboTax.
> The poison pill is 100% avoidable

Can you please elaborate on this? How can it be avoided?
Another request for better investment input. It was really bad for me this year. I suffered through it but improvements here would be super welcome. I paid for the deluxe stuff even though I didn’t need it just to put money into the bucket to hopefully improve things.
Seems like a very lossy form of compression. Not to mention that hashes usually aren't reversible. Not a great stand in for the real thing, especially when the real thing might be a widely available jpeg. There's really something I don't understand about how an NFT, apart from cryptographic foundation, is different enough from, say, a UUID in a traditional database.

Also it would be funny if there was a (very highly unlikely) hash collision between two different valuable NFTs.
It is a compelling proposition.....

If the NFT craze has shown anything, it's that too many people don't have any understanding of the law. They don't seem to know what "own a thing" means - neither the "own" part or the "thing" part...
I am an applications programmer but I'm good at systems work which I occasionally have to do to make an application work.

I think it was 1983 or so, I was about 11 years old, when I started programming 6809 assembly language, I did later for the PC, I'd say in 1988 you might write a program in Turbo Pascal but it was not unusual to use assembly.

When I was in college I skipped the intro level programming class and took a class in C and in TeX instead. In retrospect I wish I'd taken a class in compilers.

I earned a PhD in theoretical physics and did a lot of numerical coding to support that, then I went into the "real world" and started making interactive web sites.

Circa 2010 or so I got interested in information extraction, writing parsers, etc. I can take a free class next semester but probably won't take that compiler class because I think I've self-taught myself past what is in that class. (Might take something to do with UI design or fine arts instead)

I've also done my share of "data science" work where sometimes I'm faced with a job that would take 100 years to run and figure out how to get a really good approximate answer in 20 minutes and other tasks that involve finding bottlenecks in a system.

Just lately I am getting into embedded systems, coding them in C because it's portable and pretty easy to do, but wanting to get back into assembly because C's "automatic" memory management is a complete waste for the programs I write.
I haven't visited for a while but for the last couple years I thought that even for the usually low, but high quality, post frequency for it the site seemed to have slowed down to unusually low posting frequency.

Sad to see it go but it might just have self died.
I Lolled.

Highly ethical ? They're China's lapdogs (Google left China). Also they're the ones who don't want to pay employees for the time they spend being searched, nor acknowledge when their platform or their customers have a virus.

Design-driven ? They're the ones with keyboards with a 30% failure rate and $500 repair cost. (They're PR and financials driven).

They certainly have unlimited money, and have shown they're not afraid to sue, and bully, or reward compliance.
Well, it would seem like the middle way would be to postulate things such as these but not assert them as 'received knowledge'. And just as we might postulate that dogs can experience love, we can also postulate the opposite and discuss both without giving one a preponderance of support till we can develop such support.
Vanguard, IIRC, buys and manages a portfolio on their user's behalf. Their uses are the ultimate beneficiaries of the stock and can vote the proportional share they own.
At least for accounts that have services that have a billing address, they could send a postcard with a special code to unlock the account. In the case of the OP, that would have solved the problem.
https://www.k12.wa.us/sites/default/files/public/socialstudi...
If you live in New York or Washington DC you can drop your junk mail off at the DMA headquarters. Imagine what it would be like if 1000 people a day delivered their junk mail there. They wouldn't be able to get in the door.
Not to mention the fact that SSNs are horribly insecure and used as a national ID anyways because it's the only national number (almost) everyone has.

I just use a passport for govt identification because it usually only requires the passport, where most other ID methods require two.
Is this an MLM spam post? It smells like one.
I wanted to test this myself after Elon bought in and had a poll of free speech.

I created an account and connected to canadian conservatives and chess. 2 of my interests. I never commented or retweeted anything. I would just like stuff. Then 1 day I saw a comment by MVL and he was kind of wrongly excluded from picture. I felt bad and told him he's awesome. I was censored. I see my comment normally but from 'private window' it's labelled offensive content.

This however makes some sense. I think all medicine should be free choice. Government can't ever coerce you into getting medication or prevent you from getting medicines. This however makes me connect to a political party that is against vaccine mandates. Which twitter attributes to being misinformation.

I can see what happened here but boy do I ever not agree with that. Elon fixing this will be a good thing.
Sadly, very little of it still reaches the sea anymore.

From 20,000 up until 8000 years ago, the Persian Gulf, where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers drain into, was continuously filling in, and thousands of square miles where people lived were disappearing beneath the waves.
It’s all rainbows until you need to hit the escape key… my iPad setup has been collecting dust since
Why do you think they dont?
Analog A.I.? It sounds crazy, but it might be the future
I certainly do blame our politicians for bowing to this type of lobbying, but I think it's a little weak to claim that the companies that do the lobbying deserve a pass. Asking your government to adopt policies that is actively against the interests of most of the people in the country is immoral, regardless of the reasoning behind it.
They were elected to the board by shareholders. That's entirely different than a hostile takeover. You can't say "this is not in the interest of the shareholders" when the shareholders voted for it
Hey Danny!

> So I think that opponents of DMCA 1201 have mostly fallen back to advocating for stronger exceptions under the triennial copyright office review of the law, https://www.techdirt.com/tag/triennial-review/ where individuals and companies can push for specific exceptions to the blanket ban.

A sad thing about this strategy is that the triennial review exemptions are only allowed to exempt acts and not tools (that is, the Copyright Office can allow people to circumvent, but not allow people to publish software that helps other people circumvent). And then also that the exemptions don't autorenew, but rather expire after three years and have to be argued for again.
I agree 100%, but I think viable businesses will begin to emerge especially as these large models move from text to images (and eventually to video and 3d models). If the examples shown of DALL-E 2 are indicative of its quality, then a large number of creative jobs could be replaced with a single "creative director" using the model. But the high entry cost just to attempt to train such a model will likely remain a hurdle until more business value is proven.
It is also a tool to resolve merges as well.
I spoke to the researcher on twitter, his claims don't make much sense. He sent me a file he said proved his claims, but it was just some naïve attempt at directory traversal that couldn't possibly work. When I told him that, he said "that file doesn't belong to me anyway" - then explained he was planning his wedding and was too busy to answer more questions.

Logically, if there was a way to escalate privileges via 7-zip, then it could also be exploited with CreateRemoteThread() - why would a heap overflow be necessary? What change to 7-zip has he requested that would prevent that? Why the bizarre drag-and-dropping operation, why not just double click a HTA file?

I suspect there is no heap overflow and no privilege escalation.
The insurance that paid my Learjet ambulance ride after an accident in a neighboring country goes for a single digit rate (€), per year. I don't consider myself ultra rich.
Star Trek of course :-)
I think this is where you erred in your reasoning:

> The corporations are ignoring something that is outside their responsibility.

Intuit is actively lobbying about tax preparation, ergo it is their responsibility, ergo they can be judged for their actions on it. In general you are correct, in the specifics here, you are incorrect.
Not sure when the study was done but I'd be fascinated to see if wearing a heart monitor improves one's unaided ability to accurately guess heart rate. It makes sense to me that it would be I'm not sure if that's the case overall. I have a buddy who is a professor in kinesiology and researches heart rate monitors and fitness, maybe he would know or would like to do such a study, thanks for the idea!
I think they rather control public discourse than make money.
My belief is that more individuals would be seeking out Thunderbolt accessories over USB.
There is nothing wrong in alien civilization wiping out humanity.
Loving these turn-key Pi projects showing up on HN today.
One's worth definitely does not depend on comparisons with others, or with what seems popular. There are permanent truths one can grasp and keep, for peace & stability amid the hard times that we all can have; even joy.

I wrote some things at my web site about purpose in life (in profile, no ads or sales), whether one is religious or not. (If you want details and can't find them, you can email me--it is in the site footer.) It revolves around learning (personal growth in ability to serve one's family and others), and service to others. There are important things to learn about the nature of life that also help.

One site that helps with the service part (ie volunteering) is justserve.org , which is free for individuals to participate and/or organizations who could use help, coordinated by location etc. And there are others like it. Unselfish service, helping others in good ways, brings a unique kind of enjoyment and real satisfaction.

I have learned for myself that God is real, cares, life has a purpose and extends before & after this mortality, questions have answers, each person including you is of infinite worth, and you never truly have to be alone. If we learn and make good choices, things can and will be very good, better than now.
All real best wishes.
For me it was installing a local account with admin privileges via Kali Linux.
Humans were not mass manufacturing things back then, and there were orders of magnitude less people.

On top of that, we don't even have exact knowledge of where to look. Most places we do discover have plenty of signs and evidence, they are just buried under 10ft of dirt and thus essentially undiscoverable.
I think you've just described all of leftist theory. I was wondering specifically about thinkers on Free and Open Source software taking a broader scope than what we tend to see from the FSF.
Just to play devil's advocate though, there's a difference in the information conveyed between declaring you owe $0 and not making a declaration at all.

Or to put it into computer terms, IRS doesn't interpret "no return" as meaning you owe zero taxes but rather as a null (i.e. a person that didn't file a return).
"Corporations" don't act. The people who manage them do. These acts are not amoral; they have real consequences for real people, and need to be judged as such.

Corporations may not be obliged to better society, but it is entirely reasonable for me to look upon them unfavorably when their management intentionally and knowingly takes actions that make life worse for most people.

It is very strange that you believe that an entity can engage with a government but then be absolved of all responsibility for the outcome of that engagement.
This quote is almost useless unless you know its origins. I think it comes across as a bit disrespectful of the people you're aiming it at because most won't know what the hell you're getting at unless they look it up.
"Is that really where you think people are probably incapable of making decisions for themselves?"

You don't hold public office to make decisions for yourself, you are making decisions for everyone else.

Well we can argue where exactly the boundary lies, but why do you think most scams and fraudulent schemes target older peopl? They are also considered vulnerable cusotmers by UK competitions and market authority.
plenty of people got banned
Regulatory capture. There's lots of money in running third party repair shops, and the incumbents in that space lobby congress.

For anti-circumvention, libraries would be the main beneficiaries, and they don't do much lobbying.
> car users pay taxes on gasoline to maintain the roads.

True. But then it’s counter-productive, because it really does not cover government spending to build and maintain roads (and motorways, and bridges, and tunnels). To be fair, roads are necessary and useful in a modern economy. But the same money on some reliable tracks for freighter trains could be even better in some instances, and now we have people saying that we cannot have that because trains are expensive. True, they are, but the comparison is flawed because we assume that roads are free.

Indeed, gas taxes will have to decrease, and that will be associated with increased maintenance costs (EVs and modern cars keep getting heavier, which results in more wear and tear). So it’s possible that at some point people will realise how much the debate is stacked against any alternative form of transport, but I am not too hopeful. Roads are just expected; people don’t really realise they we had to pay for them.
I took a year to write an app to manage my stock portfolio... Everything from stock selection based on fundamental value analysis to tax loss harvesting and gains capturing. I used the Interactive Brokers API to manage my funds and get data along with a Schwab scraper to sanity check data. I currently track 36,000 stocks from every major market on earth. My portfolio is balanced primarily between Japan, US, Australia, and European markets. I manually blocked China and Russia to due to governmental risks in those countries. I now can just run this program with no supervision. Returns have been 20-40% a year with very low risks as I am looking at companies with very high revenues and profits compared to their market price with no bad years in the last 5-10 years.
I think learning diff3 has had one of the largest ROIs of anything I've perhaps _ever_ learned. I show it to interns whenever I can, which tends to remind me just how daunting it is to use for the first time.
That is true. The old ways are an expected cost.

Also bike infrastructure degrades very slowly over time.
Or good judgement and focus.