skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at other countries is unproductive, since their tax laws and tax credit systems are completely different.

For example, in the UK, I believe where a child is living is tracked through some centralized benefits system throughout the year. That hugely changes the calculus as to whether an automated tax return makes sense. If the U.S. had a similar sort of centralized system for tracking dependents or at least children, then an automated return would make a lot more sense, since claiming children/dependents is a huge part of getting the credits you deserve, and it would be great if it were possible to do that automatically. But it isn't.

I've already explained why I think automated returns are bad in the United States. If you disagree, make counterarguments based on how taxes work here, not in some other country with an entirely different system.
The thing is that there is no actual evidence that “single photons” exist in the electromagnetic field. That last bit is important: photons are a mathematical shorthand for dealing with emission and absorption by atomic orbitals.

They’re not an explanation for continuous waves in between, but the mathematics largely works anyway because photons are very similar to how one would do a Monte Carlo numerical simulations of continuous wave phenomena.

This has resulted in an unbelievable amount of confusion…
I think this post is referencing a joke from the movie Airplane!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080339/
Is there any simple way to generate some tiles for a small region (e.g. park or tiny village) to serve pbf files from static server (or CDN)? Map data won't change too often.
"They don't censor reverse racism as badly" is a far cry from what you are alleging. It sounds like Facebook realized they were overmoderating and backed down.

And, furthermore, I would rather tech giants err on the side of less censorship. The problem that they've engendered over the past decade is that they want to punish everyone rather than just dealing with narrow problems. If you realize your platform is being used for, say, harassment; you don't need to impose stricter speech rules. You need to make it harder to use your platform to harass people and provide meaningful support to those who have been harassed. They didn't really... do that. They imposed broad "whatever pisses off our advertisers" policies.

Related note: Reddit did not correct their racism problem. In fact, site administration has explicitly intervened to prohibit operators of such subreddits from closing them down (such as in the case of /r/KotakuInAction). The only time they ever bother enforcing their own rules is when those subs become enough of a problem that investors or advertisers get cold feet.
Businesses are supposed to be separate entities from the individuals who own them. I don't understand why people think businesses need to be political. If that's the case then just start your own Political Action Committee.
Very nice. One of my hard requirements is that the data itself has to be persisted as a string.

So I’ve had to implement a system where a new yDoc is created when the session begins, and then is converted back into a string when the session ends.

Did you have to do anything similar? And if so was it easy with hocuspocus? I wasn’t able to get a clear answer from the docs.
Like, mammals are very vulnerable to skin cancer. We lost some traits reptiles have that makes them cope better with UV.
Agree with SideballOfDoom. Other countries do this, this isn't hard. Besides, most of your examples are specious. First off, it's not hard for the first page of this to be "any changes to your life situation?" which would be simple, straightforward, and account for the vast majority of deductions/credits in the real world (i.e. dependents).

Most of your other examples aren't really valid because the vast majority of people take the standard deduction anyway, so things like charitable contributions, home energy deductions etc. don't matter.

But most importantly, the whole proposal always leaves the "You're welcome to do your own taxes if you have anything we haven't addressed." It's just that Intuit didn't want to even allow this option because they know the vast majority of people don't have complicating factors, and they hadn't gotten really good at scamming "free filing!" users into buying upgrades they didn't need.

This isn't hard, and tons of other countries do this.
> > The Fentanyl crisis is absolutely a story
It's the same story for the last few years. There is no new information.

> It's the same story for the last few years. There is no new information.

Even if there isn't new information, it's worth repeating yearly for the simple reason that every year younger people get older and start paying more attention to news. Imagine being 18 and hearing about something for the first time and someone goes "how don't you know about this, CNN covered it 5 years ago!".

Also, consider that the fentanyl crisis isn't improving is new information in itself to those who may have stock in the existing attempts to curb it. Even more so that it seems like things are actually getting worse.
To be fair I took way too much math to be comfortable in my college days but when at Intel everyone (even Gordon) knew that "Moore's Law" wasn't a "law" (like the Law of Gravity) it was an observation on the current state of the art. As a result everyone made the assumption that semiconductor scaling was an S curve and we happened to be in the exponential part of that curve but it would taper off. And everyone in the design engineering team felt it would taper off way sooner than it has!
>Don't make the mistake of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison

Absolutely incredible!
I think people sometimes forget that tests are made of code too. If it's possible to write bad code, it's certainly possible to write bad tests. And writing bad tests first (as in `test-driven`) won't make them any better. At some point, people see bad tests _and_ bad code together and instead of blaming it on the "bad" part, they blame it either on the tests, or on the fact that the tests were written first.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2020/10/01/coinbase-w...
If one side is advocating genocide and you want to mute your criticism of politics (so that you can make money, to be clear), that's a choice available to you, but it's neither ethical nor respectable.
CNN has absolutely covered immigration issues and fentanyl overdoses. They didn't cover those subjects this week, because they had more important breaking news on the TV (like an unprecedented FBI raid on a former president) and those subjects had no new information to report.

That doesn't seem relevant to you? Effectively FOX was covering that stuff because it needed filler material to suppress the stories it didn't want to run.
How are you persisting the data? Are you storing them as ydocs?
Tangential, but:

> I’m very vigilant and still a bit freaked out when I carry the Macbook around. Careful in tight spaces! Better not hop on a city bike with it in my backpack, ’cause what if I fall?

I've actually found MacBooks to be impressively sturdy. Perhaps I've been lucky. I've dropped my 2016 Intel MBP once while coming out of my car, it hit the pavement on its corner. There was a little dent in the corner, and the screen/lid was a couple millimeters askew from the body, but it worked fine and was my mainstay for a few years more.

A colleague had this beautiful star-streak pattern on the aluminum back of their screen from the time they knocked their Mabook down their driveway, in a botched attempt to catch it as it fell. They were even a bit sad when they had to upgrade, and actually asked if they could swap the case!

In contrast, I had an old Lenovo laptop just explode from falling on the pavement.

(On the other hand, I've had to get the macbook repaired twice due to the butterfly keyboard issue...)

With all that said, the MBP is obviously heavier than the GPD Micro, and the lightness of the latter makes it inherently less fragile.
I think it gets the gnarliest in conversations about discrimination. We have notions of "protected classes" and "non-protected classes", and the recent discussions about caste discrimination are pretty exemplary. And sometimes you can't help but take a side. I don't know that I always think inaction is taking a side, but once you become aware of people taking actions in your company, like a higher caste firing a lower caste, it's harder to make that argument.
> longest stretch of ocean without diversions in the world.

TIL.

From the linked article, you could be 3 hours away from a diversion when you are flying to Hawaii.

Thus, there is probably a lower threshold to divert, than say if you were flying trans-continental over the US where there are a lot of diversion options all along the route.
> I think you make an interesting point about micro payments. Micro payments could be an avenue for crypto to actually achieve some legitimacy and usefulness.

I've been testing out the Lightning Network (Layer 2 of BTC) recently and it seems that the future has arrived. I can accept micropayments in BTC over LN, which get immediately converted to dollars and deposited to a bank account in USD. All for ~$0.01 fee per transaction. Here's how:

1.) Open an account at https://strike.me. This app is very similar to CashApp, but supports getting paid on the Lightning Network. I believe CashApp is also working on this functionality.

2.) Set up your own self-hosted install of https://lnbits.com (or use cloud hosted version at https://voltage.cloud for ~$10 USD/mo).

3.) Connect LNBits to Strike. (Note: there is an open PR for this, if you want to test then check out the PR on Github)

4.) Set up a Point of Sale (or paywall, or event tickets, or tip jar, or line-item invoices, or anything else) on LNBits.

5.) Collect a payment in LNBits.

6.) That BTC is immediately forwarded to Strike, converted to USD and available for withdrawal to your bank account.

Following these steps you can collect micropayments in USD for next-to-nothing fees and have no exposure to the volatility of BTC.

Your potential customers can hold their balance in USD as well, if they don't want to hold any crypto. They just deposit some USD into their Strike account to pay these micropayments.
Kimani Maruge: The Oldest Person to Ever Enroll in Primary School
This explains a lot. About 2 years ago my feed suddenly began to be filled with posts from random pages I had followed. Some I had followed a decade ago and had not seen a post from in years. BTW, when I say filled I mean filled. Literally like 30 page posts with maybe one IRL friend or family post showing up in-between.

It got so bad that to actually see the family photos and announcements I cared about I had to manually unsubscribe from almost every page I had ever followed. I guess I'll never know for sure but I'm going to guess "boosting" was to blame?
I agree with you that partisanship and polarization are making it worse. However, you imply that "both sides" are just as extreme, but that isn't often the case. Let's exaggerate it to: "Russians buy sneakers too" or "Taliban are religious too" or something alike. A business saying "We want the Russian military and the Ukrainian civilians to interact, share different viewpoints and prevent partisanship" would sound ridiculous.

My example is obviously exaggerated but my point is: Right now there is only one really extreme "side" in the U.S., so it doesn't come across odd that some businesses for ethical reasons and some for efficient reasons try to position themselves against it.
We built the internet without Github, and yet, no one can do work on the internet without access to Github.

Programmers have gotten so weirdly lazy.
The idea of natural rights is frankly laughable. Humans have always had to fight for their rights. Democracy is the form of government where the fight is done at the ballot box. Seems pretty clear to me that the American people do not believe money transfer systems without AML/KYC are a right that people have.
The woke-PR institutions that are meant to be criticized by this already account for it. Companies that sell direct-to-consumer are not trying to outwoke each other, they're resting in the same moderate, optimistic, positive, there are well-intentioned people on both sides place they always were.

Where you see the aggressive enforcement of woke sentiment is within industries who are fighting regulation. To think about Republican voters (not politicians, who are of course important for them) is wasted time. All of them are going to vote for politicians who will not regulate these companies, no matter how their base feels about the companies and their messaging. Their Democratic politicians, however, could be voted out and replaced with eager regulators for helping a company that has been cancelled.

Instead of thinking about regulation, it's important that the Democratic voter ask: “If we broke up the big banks tomorrow... would that end racism? Would that end sexism?”

i.e. Their Dem politicians need to be protected, their Republican politicians do not.
There's a simpler but less comfortable explanation, students even more than teachers try to find meaning for why they can't understand things as easily as their peers. Learning styles is an easy explanation that is just unscientific enough to not be easily testable but still seems plausible as a reason for why a student might not do well well while their peers do.

Learning is complicated and involved and it's hard to show students that learning is a marathon not a sprint.

I wish they stopped teaching this myth completely because it gives rise to this inherent sexism and binary view when comparing creative and logical thinking. There's no right-hand dominant or left-hand dominant brain. I don't know if it's changed in more recent generations but I was taught that girls are more creative and boys are more logical and that's why more boys go into math and sciences. That kind of thinking is the root of the current gender imbalances among stem and engineering fields. In most ways they are orthogonal.

https://www.thersa.org/blog/2018/09/creativity-and-logic-avo...

People in general like labels and categories.
The Symbolics Virtual Lisp Machine: Using the Dec Alpha as a Programmable Micro
The context of the article is that you should work out a little each day and is about advice on how to keep basic fitness. In that case, no, steroids do nothing for you. If you go ahead and take steroids and do your (from the article) “ Just lowering a heavy dumbbell slowly once or six times a day is enough.” nothing is going to be different.

Steroids are going to help ppl who need extreme performance.
Yeah you can also use shortcuts within your browser, if you keep that feature enabled. Personally I find it easier to just do like I do with other URLs: enter the URL. But given people use Android and iOS apps which are (proprietary) frontends for websites powered by HTTP(S) client I am not surprised there's demand for this. Besides, DDG is usually hit for me, and if its not I refine my search first on DDG. If that wouldn't work (usually it does) I'd follow the same approach on Google.
5.7bn data entries found exposed on Chinese VPN
Just lovely. See? Not all ads are bad.
The difference is that namespace packages can exist in more than one place at a time, while regular packages cannot.

Python looks for regular packages (which are really just modules that can contain other modules) by searching a pre-defined list of directories, stopping at the first valid entry.

What happens when you run `import foobar`?

Let's say that the search path is:

sys.path = [
# The current working directory
'',
# System package locations
'/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages',
'/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages',
]

And let's say that you have these files on your system:

/usr/lib/python3.9/
└── foobar/
├── __init__.py
└── nice.py

/usr/local/lib/python3.9/
└── foobar/
├── __init__.py
└── wow.py

In this situation, Python finds the version in /usr/lib/ because that directory comes first in the search path, and ignores the other one entirely. You can do `import foobar` or `import foobar.nice` or `from foobar import nice`, but you can't do `import foobar.wow` or `from foobar import wow`.

Now let's assume that you didn't have the `__init__.py` files:

/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/
└── foobar/
└── nice.py

/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/
└── foobar/
└── wow.py

From the perspective of the Python import system, `foobar` is no longer a regular package but a namespace package. You will be able to `import foobar`, but you will not be able to access anything inside it! However, you will be able to do both `import foobar.nice` (or `from foobar import nice`) and `import foobar.wow` (or `from foobar import wow`) and be able to access both modules freely that way. That is, `foobar` as a namespace package is no longer useful by itself, but now it acts as a namespace for several other packages that might live in different locations on your system.

The use case for this feature is the ability to split a package over several distributions. For example, you can install one or both of zope.interface and zope.component, and they will both be available to import from the "zope." namespace. It is also useful within organizations, where you can namespace all of your internally-developed libraries with some identifier specific to your organization.

You could even emulate a reverse-domain namespacing system this way if you wanted to:

/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/
└── org/
└── best_stuff/
└── pytools/
├── thing1.py
└── thing2.py

Which you could import as, e.g. `from org.best_stuff.pytools import thing1, thing2`.

As you might imagine, spreading a package across multiple locations is not a desirable outcome if you aren't expecting it. So you shouldn't use namespace packages unless you specifically want the behavior I described above.
Han Solo’s Blaster from Original ‘Star Wars’ Heading to Auction
There aren't any excellent news sources in the US but Voice of America (voanews.com) is pretty good.
Related: https://wiki.c2.com/?PlanToThrowOneAway ?
"words may be protected under free speech, but that doesn't make it legal to actually say those words"
https://archive.ph/dZjcM
Inaction is absolutely complicity. By doing and saying nothing you're stating the issue doesn't matter enough to you to not let it continue.
Let’s say I’m a corporation who gives marital benefits. But some of my employees can’t get married because the state doesn’t allow gay marriage. Should the corporation not take a stance?

Should corporations not have taken a stance about doing business in South Africa before apartheid was abolished?
Add me to the chorus of people that are impressed/scared by spammers.

In a previous life, I worked at a semi-well-known auto publisher site where scammers literally stood up a copy of almost _the entire site_ (ads, functionality, and all) in order to execute an auto escrow scam. We know of at least one instance where a user in the UK was scammed out of ~$10,000-ish using this method.

Democratization of technology at its best (worst?) I guess...
I learned a new phrase from that article: "Burrowing Lifestyle".
It's not your fault, the article also didn't explain it, and it makes me think that the article author didn't understand it either.
While I respect your position, I do think there seems to be something else going on here I don't understand.

According to the standard you've outlined, wouldn't someone be hypocritical if they advocated for universal healthcare while profiting from selling products made by those living in a place without universal healthcare?
As somebody who grew up in Chicago during his time with the Bulls, I can assure you that we all love Michael Jordan as a basketball player but I don't know anybody who has ever had a positive interaction with the guy. He's not somebody anybody respects.
The QR code in the video goes to the Youtube video itself
I believe Protomaps[1] might be what you’re looking for.

[1]: https://protomaps.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJJQ2-VORo0
Whether you understand it or not you have taken an extreme political position.

“Their politics are politics. Our politics are ethics/human rights.”

It’s all politics and refusing to see that is extremely divisive.
>> Right now there is only one really extreme "side" in the U.S.

I urge you to consider that this attitude is the very problem under discussion.
You have got to be kidding. Beck's book - both TDD: By Example and Extreme Programming - are very well written and have about the highest signal/noise ratio of any programming books.
IonQ Sign Agreement to Collaborate on Aircraft Loading Using Quantum Computing
It would be nice if we could evacuate walled-garden social media platforms and return to individual websites/blogs + RSS. RSS clients that empower the user to follow, sort, filter, and control their "news feed" of content from individual websites/blogs.
From context it sounds like his dad has dementia and that's just what you gotta do to keep them safe (invade their privacy).
There's a meme, where someone goes on a rant in the wrong location and someone responds "Sir, this is a Wendy's".

Maybe we need one for "Sir, this company sells shoes". It isn't clear to me why a person trying to sell shoes needs to take a stand about one politician or another. Except for the fact that there is only one thing partisans hate more than their enemies - the people who aren't part of the partisan fray.
So if I host the code on my own server, and accept pull requests and modifications, the government can't force me to take it down right? I think that's the real question people are unsure about. Are the actions by github by their own choice or forced by the sanction?
A non-chronological feed is a lousy feed.
Getting far off topic here, but Las Vegas is one of the safest water supplies.

There is the often quoted statistic that Las Vegas gets 90% of its water from Lake Mead/Colorado River. But Las Vegas reclaims and recycles 99% of consumed water and pumps it back into the lake via the Lake Mead Wash.

Because they get 99 return-flow credits for every 100 gallons, any draw limits from the watershed will have minimal impact.

Las Vegas also has a large groundwater table that supplies 25% of its peak summer demand.

As a last resort, the Casinos will never let the city run dry. While they only consume 6-7% of the cities water, they depend on their employees being able to live in the city to keep operating.
MSNBC and CNN together are almost as big as FoxNews.
Here's the thing: if done right it can have a _massive_ impact. One onboarding experiment I ran in a past life doubled trial activation.

Trouble is that lot's of people do onboarding poorly. What you and the parent comment call out is a failure mode: to build effective onboarding you need to understand who you're building it for and what they're trying to accomplish. A tooltip tour approach might be effective for certain kinds of products/users/use cases, and extremely ineffective for others.

What I've seen be most effective (at least for B2B SaaS products):

1) tailoring the experience so people are being onboarded in ways that are relevant (e.g. their role, are they the first user or nth user, their use case/job to be done, how familiar they are with the domain/similar products, etc...) and

2) do>show>tell: get people to use the product to learn how it works vs plastering signs all over it. Which modalities are most effective is product/user/context dependent.

Source: I've been responsible for onboarding at a few SaaS companies now (and am now building a platform in the space)
Also that goes off pretty frequently. When the PIC switches off autopilot when coming in for landing, for example.
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Walmart is just as bad... and their branded payment app is less intuitive than Kroger Pay.
If your statement is true, it sounds like it was for sure correlated.
I'm still mad at whoever decided to hide the entire menu bar in a burger menu and made everything in it take twice as long to find and use.