skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is plainly false.

No, its not.

> Neither the words ‘son’ nor ‘daughter’ appear in it at all.

No, what appears on the form is the column heading “Relation to you” with a free text field in that column for each line for a dependent claimed. But that is not the issue.

What appears on the instructions [0] determining when you can use the line (and what is therefore likely replicated in tooling which supports completing the form in line with the instructions) is this “A qualifying child is a child who is your… Son, daughter, stepchild, foster child, brother, sister, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, half sister, or a descendant of any of them (for example, your grandchild, niece, or nephew).” [1]

Which, read strictly, says that a first-generation biological descendant of yours must have binary gender (“son, daughter”), as must a biological- or step-sibling (“brother, sister, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, half sister”), though binary gender is not important if they are your foster or adopted child (“stepchild, foster child”), nor is it important for a qualifying descendant child (but still required for the first ancestor through which their qualification is traced) of any of the others (“or a descendant of any of them”.)

I think it is pretty clear that the use of words specifying binary gender is overspecific drafting of either the instructions or the source legislation/regulation, not that there is really an intent to apply limitations by binary gender at select, but not all, levels of this qualification. But the limitation is there in the text.

[0] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040gi.pdf

[1] p. 17
There can be non-binary sexes, too. It's a thing that happens, but it's much more rare than non-binary gender.
Business profiles have been the only reason for me to use google maps over apple. Hopefully this finally makes it possible to reduce the number of map apps on my phone
I considered beginning an electrician apprenticeship because I just can't sit in a cubicle 40 hours a week anymore. I'm still young enough that the physical aspects aren't an issue, but the overall working conditions, pay and benefits sound terrible.

I think I'd rather just learn to repair electronics.
Change. Force a change, good or bad.

I was in a comfortable but unfulfilling job, feeling unhappy without understanding why. I tried changing careers and seeking therapy, but nothing seemed to click. Frustrated, I applied for internal jobs and even lower-level positions out of boredom.

Eventually, I took an offer for a similar-paying role with more work but at a lower level. Initially, I regretted my decision with the new company and job politics. However, after a couple of months, my outlook improved and I began to enjoy my life again, even if my job wasn't necessarily better, I was happy to have made the change. And now I feel like I have control and can make a change for better when I want to.
What if they weren't sad? What if they were depressed, but the cause of their depression was situational rather than a chemical imbalance? Isn't that possible?
For a while now I've been dreaming about a system that lets me link tests to documentation. In a similar way that citations of other documents support claims in many domains, claims about software could be backed up by tests that demonstrate the claim. Then, when a test fails, the system could surface the relevant pieces of documentation (whether they're developer facing or user facing) so the developer knows the _why_ they're trying to preserve as they update some combination of the code, the test, and the documentation.
What's wrong with violent fiction? Writers can't protect every reader's feelings
Impressive, I picked a random one and it had a multi-pages The Martian spoof in the middle with a moral of doing regular maintenance procedures and reading technical manuals !
Technically yes, but for the vast majority of English speakers, pronouns supervene on gender.
We found trackpad/mouse in the browser to be a bit of a headache. This stackoverflow thread talks about the problems.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10744645/detect-touchpad...
I keep reading these microservice essays where the author is lost and I really feel their pain. In that spirit, let me try to make things as simple as possible.

(True) Microservices have no dependencies on anything but unstructured text data. They do not couple to a database, the business understanding of what it's doing, a domain model, or anything else. They perform a simple, idempotent, business task that can never fail although it can create various error chains.

Programming at scale is tough. There's no free ride here. All you've done is turn the traditional model of coding "inside-out" and now you've got a ton of work doing all of the wiring.

But if you keep your microservice doing one simple useful business thing, then all of that inside-out work become business decisions. What do we do if the sign-up fails? How do we move IMPORTANT-THING to those other guys to use? You still have business coupling: things change and you have to adapt. But you're not coupled at the _coding_ level. If there's any magic, that's it. Your business should be able to wander all over the place and your microservices hold up just fine. The old way, where we may have coupled every little business need or want with every piece of code in the system, was not only a pain, more importantly it was impossible to keep organized in any one person's head and aligned with everyone else at scale.

What I see is a lot of drift. Folks start coupling things up, perhaps by trying to create one domain model to rule them all. They start creating microservices to do _system_ activities, like flushing a cache. There should be a one-to-one correspondence between your microservices and interesting business conversations. That's a hella discipline to maintain. It may force a lot of conversations you thought you could avoid by hiding them in a class hierarchy somewhere. Once you start drifting, pretty soon you're writing essays like this. And then here we are/
Is it still possible to get Youtube Vanced? Last I'd read it got taken down.
> The first is a company like Google, where their tech enables a step-function increase in human productivity. Google Search gave people a super power they never had before. This type of company is extremely valuable as they can capture the value of the productivity they unlock. The second type of tech company is something like WeWork.

There’s another distinction to consider: WeWork, Uber, etc. have most of their costs scaling with every customer and limited competitive moat (people who travel heavily might value sticking with one global app, but locals don’t). Google or Facebook have costs to get started but their costs to go from 1M users to 10M aren’t linear, and that’s really what VCs are looking for. A lot of the bubble came from deliberately misrepresenting companies in the former group as having the revenue potential of the latter.
I never quite understood the need to make "5G" this standalone solutions to all problems of the future. It was by definition a bundle of technologies that improved upon existing tech. Nothing fundamentally new was ever going to happen. Phones have internet now, they will have internet after 5G.
Interconnectivity is separate from mains (though both may be required) - the modern ones have to be set that if ONE goes off, ALL go off.

For those playing at home, get the ones that are BOTH ionization AND photoelectric: https://www.nfpa.org/Public-Education/Staying-safe/Safety-eq...
Check out the YoLink temperature sensors on Amazon. They are amazing for monitoring our secondary freezer. All their sensors have been great. Temp for fridge/freezers, leak detectors, temp+humidity for basement, they have a motion sensor that is a magnet you can place in the back of your mailbox if you want to know when mail is delivered. Their door sensor can be installed on overhead garage doors by a magnet and a velcro strip for the part that goes on the wall. They also have a 1/4 mile range and the sensor can be inside your fridge/freezer and still connect. App is great, no monthly fee, you get notifications on your phone you can also get a small number of SMS messages for free. All notifications/limits are configurable.
Martin Luther King: The Three Evils of Society (1967)
On my phone the bird button is mostly lost off the bottom of the screen. Worked out what it was by deduction.
The first life in our solar system may have been on Mars
> Are you trying to say that the risk to lose electricity is bigger than the risk to lose the other heat sources?

From my personal experiences, yes. Gas pipelines are practically always buried, electricity lines are often overhead and subject to storm damage. There have been dozens of times in my life where electricity is out but natural gas infrastructure is still available.
> Shrinkage can also be attributed to product damage and loss of goods, theft by employees and vendor fraud.

I'm not sure what Dr. Su was referring to when they said "it all comes down to employees," it might not be stopping theft from the public. Internal theft obviously is about employees, and product damage and to some extent vendor fraud are also things more obviously effected by employees.
I can only speak to the UK who remain a European (if not EU) country. My understanding having been through it in my first job, is in the UK you must make a given number of a specific role redundant. So it's not the people you're laying off but instead you say, we're making cuts to 4 sales positions. There is then a required consultation period where the people to be laid off are identified so there's always forewarning that cuts are happening but not to who.

So it's not firing but it's still perfectly possible to reduce headcount. What you can't do is the standard US move of firing everyone with zero notice by email.
I would associate N/A more with agender (someone who has no gender) more than someone who has a gender but it is not listed. For me, my gender is applicable, it's just not in that list.

"Not Listed" might be a better title for N/A?

Edit: Just saw your edit, makes more sense. Still feels a little on the edge for me, but we're all going to have different needs out of something like this.
I can only hope you're trolling here. But on the off chance that is a sincere question, maybe read the books I recommended.

Or if you'd like a quick answer from the Confederacy's Vice President, you might read the Cornerstone Speech, which includes these words: "Our new government['s]...foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth."

If you're having trouble seeing the racism there, I'm not sure how else I could help.
I'm talking about how USA sees race and the forms you fill in there, not reality of human ancestry. USA has a very antiquated view on race, but that is the legal definition so that is what we talk about when we are talking about race with respect to US employment laws.
As a counter point, I paid about $1600 in 2019 in northern NJ to have my circuit breaker panel replaced and my service upgraded from 100 to 200.
I've been waiting for the other shoe to drop for a decade.
No doubt the US has more of a history with deep racial division than most other western democracies.

But is the race of someone voting really useful, or is it just a fairly good proxy for other demographics. And at what point does this use of race as a demographic in itself become a societal pressure for blacks, latinos, asians etc to fit into certain stereotypes?
I am truly amazed at the mythology of "high performers" as separate from the org. Teams can be high performing, but high performing individuals are often built by the environment.

Yet, in the US we have this almost Stakhanovite mythology where a single worker can pull an entire organization.

I have worked with individuals who had been pariahs in the previous org (got that info over beers with the individual) but were rockstars in our org. Also with so-called high-fliers from other teams/companies who just cratered when they joined our group.

Personally I think cutting 10% pay is preferable because a) the work doesn't go away - if 10% are let go, I'll probably end up doing 10%+ more work. b) it's a commitment by the organization and that shows they care enough to not unilaterally make a decision.
They also have American Indian or Alsaka Native
First Year as a Founder
yes, another restatement of the distinction between 'plan' and 'workflow' as used in the talk.
Reddit has given us a lot of users. Especially r/selfhosted.
I want to point out that lower-case is possible with ITA2. Start at 4.6 of ITU-T Recommendation S.2 / 11/1988 in the Blue Book, basically 11111 & 11011 11111 switch case in locking/unlocking mode.
Maybe China wants to dip a toe into great power style politics, so it can see what being on the world stage actually entails?

After all, China is looking for friends, and what better way to make friends than to prop up a failing regime? Propping up Haiti can't be more expensive than propping up North Korea.
It's time to stop texting
"Systemic" discrimination is rarely actual discrimination in the sense of illegal hiring practices. Women enter and graduate from college at higher rates than men. Thus it's "systemic discrimination" against men to require a college degree. But since it is valid to require education credentials to perform related jobs, nobody can sue for this. Almost every hiring practice is systemically discriminating at some level. If I'm hiring a Spanish to English translator, surely it's legal to ask applicants to translate a piece of text, right? But that's going to be heavily biased in favor of Latin Americans. Even the audition-behind-a-veil example is surely systemically biased in favor of people who had disposable income to hire musical instructors at a young age, and lots of free time to practice correct?

The requirements to prove a discrimination suit are far more direct: you need to prove that the company directly used protected class to make hiring or compensation decisions. And if the people making these decisions were never even informed of the candidate's protected class status it's exceptionally difficult to make the case that this was affecting this decision making.

> for example, basing a candidate's pay on 110% of their pay at their previous employer can result in implicit wage discrimination because men tend to enter the workforce at a higher pay and catch higher pay bumps in promotions

Actually, this is a perfect example of something that isn't going to get the company into legal trouble. They didn't make this decision on the basis of race, gender or another protected class. They made this decision based on something entirely objective: the candidate's previous pay. If that employee's previous employer was engaging in racial discrimination, then that's the company that vulnerable to a lawsuit.

I'm interested in this notion that you can sue your current employer, because a co-worker's past employer potentially engaged in gender discrimination that bumped their salary, which in turn was used in negotiations with the current employer. Do you have an example of any such lawsuit succeeding?
Thanks for letting us know your preference here, will look into it!
I guess it’s easier than wearing your underpants on your head, sticking a couple of pencils up your nose and answering every question with “wibble”

https://youtu.be/G2DCExerOsA
> As I understand it, there's no reason you'd need a Driving License to ride in a Waymo for example. Waymo is driving, you're in the back like a cab, why would you need a license?

You "need" a license and insurance because Waymo and other self-driving companies will never ever allow a scenario where they're liable for accidents. They'll move heaven and earth to prevent it.
99% chance this won't happen to your flight.
>Jim would drive in a blizzard, some Level 5 car refuses to drive in a blizzard. Is the car faulty by this definition or is Jim a lunatic ?

What if staying where he is poses a greater risk to Jim than driving on the road? Why should the car decide for Jim what an acceptable level of risk is, when Jim (presumably) has more information to make that decision?
Hard to be hispanic when I'm 50% German, 25% Italian, 25% Portuguese (in terms of my grandparents/grand-grandparents). Where I'm from in Brazil, it's very common for people to be eligible for getting Italian and German citizenships (wife and myself included)
UK abolished slavery for themselves 30 years prior to the US abolishing it, mainly because their sugar plantations had lost their worth.

But the UK still continued to buy US cotton, knowing full well it was enabling the slave trade to continue.

And the most important point was they had setup all of these colonies with these systems in the first place.
Sharing your "maker experience" with anyone else quickly leads to liability concerns and insurance costs. Someone can injure themselves on your property, despite all you can do to prevent it, and it can still be your financial responsibility. catastrophically so in some cases.

Given that doorstop the "maker movement" hasn't failed; it just hasn't launched into an actual movement. its still a hobby for individuals.
Really great question btw!
My understanding is the grid in general is capable but the last mile transformer networks are not.
Generally Hispanic/Latin is a second question, so you can choose White and also Hispanic.
Sex, New Scientist and Me
Well, if the power shuts off and that saves me from electrocuting myself, I couldn't care less how much of the rest of the house lost power.

The annoying part is when I plug in some faulty device that is not immediately dangerous and that shuts down power to the whole house.
I think what you have created still has great demand. It give devs who do not have the budget or need for the gigantic models, something to train and use for their own specific language tasks.

Not everyone is trying to replicate CHATGPT results for certain tasks.
That linked quicksort paper is pretty cool: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.05982 - for sorting floats/integers the speedup against std::qsort is around 10x.

Considering climate change more focus should be put on making fast and efficient software. Every watt not wasted on bad algorithms/code is good.
My understanding is admittedly limited, but I do not believe companies are allowed to just make positions redundant in germany. Layoffs must be coordinated with the government and they basically look through your books and decide if you really need to lay these people off.
I see you're comparing designs. I'd rather see test data for air quality. The hoods I was talking about did actually extend past the footprint of the stove. Granted they were closer to 3' above vs 2' above. I'd still imagine it works pretty well. Of course fume hoods and gloveboxes work better - typically you're dealing with stuff that is more dangerous.
What are the sort of applications that FPGAs enable/accelerate?
What else can you do other than talk things up?
The vast majority of U.S. personal income tax returns are prepared by software, even paper-filed returns.

As stated elsewhere, yes the instructions do specify the descriptors used for dependents. Interestingly, "grandchild" "stepchild", and "foster child" is allowed.

"A qualifying child is a child who is your...
Son, daughter, stepchild, foster child, brother, sister, stepbrother, stepsister, half-brother, half sister, or a descendant of any of them (for example, your grandchild,
niece, or nephew)"
Apache Hudi vs. Delta Lake vs. Apache Iceberg Lakehouse Feature Comparison
I never stated or implied that it should be ignored.
Before I respond to your post, I need you to fill out this questionnaire so I can correctly tailor my post to your identity:

* Race

* Gender

* Sex

* Age

* Eye color

* Breast size

* Size of reproductive organ

Wouldn't want to accidentally be prejudiced! So, to make sure my reply is fully-inclusive, please let me know this information. Thanks.

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Please don't actually do that. My point is to demonstrate that you can be perfectly non-prejudiced without obsessing over race and gender. And once you start that obsession, it looks a hell of a lot like you are prejudiced.
Two is one and one is none. This is not hard. But it's costly. The main problem with security and reliability is that they are expensive. Those operating in high margins, highly specced spaces need to do it right or they lose. Everyone else is cargo culting, box-checking for stakeholders or selling snake oil. There is a fundamental tension between optimizing for cost and doing things right, and short term gains will always come at the cost of mounting operational risks.
A different two things can also be true -- there might be, as you suggest, problems with: "tent cities, people shooting up in the Muni stations and on the street, actual human feces on the sidewalk. The Tenderloin in particular has become a lawless zone, even the longtime residents are scared."

And at the same time, shoplifting losses might not be significantly different for Walgreens or other stores than typical trends, and the stories about widespread organized crime shoplifting might have been overblown.

People still in HN threads like to point to the "shoplifting problem" specifically when talking about crime being out of control or former DA Boudin not doing his job, and use Walgreens specifically as their evidence. If Walgreens says in fact shoplifting wasn't all that unusual...

There is a transcript of the earnings call available and linked to in OP, if you want to see exactly what the Walgreens exec said about it (that "shrink" losses are now "well below the prior-year levels."). https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2023/01/05/wa...
I'm not sure this counts as a bias in healthcare, but I remember reading a study that looked at a large walk-in clinic that served a diverse population. A patient on any given visit would be seen by whatever doctor was next available.

They found that patients were more likely to follow the doctor's instructions after they left the clinic if the doctor was the same race as the patient.
It’s also worth noting that Haiti attempted several times to invade and annex DR.
Yes, a lot of times people think depression is an illness whereas in fact it is a symptom. It was actually scary to see how easily you can get antidepressants once you mention depression and anxiety. I refused any type of medications because I don't believe there is anything wrong "technically" with my brain, if you gave me $10k it would be perfectly capable of producing hormones of happiness - see no medications were consumed but just the idea of having more money made the brain produce chemicals, so changing the perception of how we see things is crucial imo. I believe only a fraction of clinical cases require antidepressants e.g. major depressive syndrome etc in most cases therapy is the way to go but it is expensive and people don't generally like it they would rather take medications. I think I've made a great deal of progress just being in therapy, practicing meditation, healthy diet etc
Ty agree, most people practically speaking will be interested in finetuning rather than from-scratch pretraining. I currently have some language about it in readme but I agree this should get more focus, docs, examples, etc.
Finland Is Teaching a Generation to Spot Misinformation
Ask HN: RSS Feed of HN Articles?
Is there a RSS feed of HN articles? I mean those from frontpage or ie for over 100 points.

I don't want this: https://hnrss.org/frontpage because it show in my RSS feed two links to articles and comments. I just want feed of those articles with previews, just like other feeds that I'm used to subscribe.

Thanks.