skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would ask why /you/ are implying to exploit is "wrong". At best that's a very narrow and fairly modernist reading. To exploit someone or something in and of itself has no negative connotations associated with it.

Business is exploiting someone somewhere for your benefit, no exceptions. Put another way, business is ripping someone off without pissing them off. Put another way, business is buying and selling time at a price that is acceptable. Ideally, business will culminate in all parties being happy.

If you think business or the act of exploiting something is "evil", or that capitalism is a "demon", that's your problem.

I'm describing business for what it is objectively. Some guy has a surplus of something you need/want, and you try and exploit that fact for your benefit. That is business.
Now if only 6mo (or even 3mo) severances were the norm outside of FAANG on this wave, it wouldn't have been quite as painful of a lurch for some of us.
None of those except for the iPhone were obvious to me. And in hindsight I’m happy I only switched to Git and Node when they’d matured a bit.
Jobs. With all the extra paperwork, we can create "jobs" and pay ourselves on the back. I agree, i've already paid my taxes why am I spending time/money to get my own money back?
> Ooooh "misinformation" and "conspiracy theories"... also often (but not always!) known as "spoiler warnings"

Yes, by people with an agenda of spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories.

> The source of the original talk is the CEO of The Atlantic,

Then why isn't an article from The Atlantic shared? And do we instead of the rely on the trustworthiness of some untrustworthy rag?
Yah you have to be confident of the values you’re plugging in. Do the math is for the simple in-form formulae. Some of the raw data you put in comes from worksheets etc you fill out on your own. You may benefit from a gist I’ve kept around with some tax urls for free tools out there https://gist.github.com/jxramos/08ea6af443dae5a251f0a5b21ee5...
This is exactly right. It is far too simplistic to model the human energy conversion and storage system as if it were a simple black box furnace - where joules of food energy are the input.

Many threads on this topic here at HN over the year.
I'm helping my son buy his first house in the midst of much uncertainty and British politicians shooting our economy in the foot. My advice is just do it. There is too much fear in the younger generation. Probably the result of too much information. We all need a roof over our head, this fact won't change.

When you get to my age life becomes more clear. Here's what's important; family, friends, a roof, a healthy diet, heat and the ability to go for a walk.
Accuracy here is probably about classification? Like “am I really putting this in the right box?”
Sort of. I get my fill of what bartending gave me by attending social gatherings, mostly. I don't miss the hours, and I don't miss having to deal with the more inebriated patrons.

Also, it's a thing you can always just sorta do so long as there's one other person around.

That said, I also don't drink hardly at all anymore. There are better ways to have a good time that come with less literal headache.
‘Nightmare’: collapse of leading crypto lender traps investors
I loved it lol
I know the flavor of elderberry. I was just surprised by there existing folklore for collecting elder wood. In my experience, elderberries grow on a bush that isn't much good for anything other than being a garden plant.
The IRS is not actually a godly being that has omniscient knowledge of every transaction that ever goes on and in the future.

How is the IRS supposed to figure out how much money to take away from your W2 when you could get a billion dollar windfall at the end of the year and massively change tax bracket?
Holy crap, three of us so far! Maybe there's more to restaraunteuring than I give it credit for...
Elixir handles errors as you describe, the example does not cover it. The pipeline also assumes a single direction, which pushes error handling to the next step, but there are also constructs (case and with) for handling and composing errors in one go.
That's jolly neat. Kind of like email, but public and a clean-slate design.
I actually find the original easier to read than the piped example given for this one:

Original

jQuery.merge( this, jQuery.parseHTML(
match[ 1 ],
context && context.nodeType ? context.ownerDocument || context : document,
true
) );

-----------------------------------------

With pipes

context

|> (% && %.nodeType ? %.ownerDocument || % : document)
|> jQuery.parseHTML(match[1], %, true)
|> jQuery.merge(%);

I think F# pipes are ideal in more complex cases, the % can add unnecessary complexity when reading code. Alas, it looks like we're not going to get that.
Please don't post in the flamewar style and please don't break the site guidelines with complaints about downvotes, tendentious generalizations about the community, etc. All of this noticeably lowers discussion quality.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They overhired. I've heard on the grapevine that FAANG companies were lowering their standards to keep up with the high pace of hiring demanded by the higher-ups. It seems like they were all stuck in an arms race and now they're all overcorrecting.
FTX guy didn't really have time. One day he was rich and famous, next day he was a criminal.

Holmes had years to plan, as she knew for a long time that she is eventually going to jail.
Especially since at least the street lights are meant to light up the streets, not blind you. So the light efficiency is better, but the lighting efficiency is worse. It's not even short termism, it's wrong.
And then there are various thermal storage schemes. Pumped thermal (reversible thermal cycle with hot and cold storage) could have up to a 75% round trip efficiency with cheap materials and no geographical restrictions.

https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.4994054
Not every source of income for folks is from a W2 payroll. Lots of 1099 stuff out there and other complexities people can get involved in. It’s interesting the complexity of the tax law imposes that complexity on everyone just about.
Thank you! Once I saw this comment, very satisfying puzzle. At first I was fumbling my way through randomly, but around halfway I started to visualize the board as two "sets" of connected paths and grokked how to switch between them using the lower-right quadrant.
Calories in being different for each person is irrelevant if the same person wants to lose weight. Calorie counting is a sure way to do so. Diet quality may influence calories in or out, or make it easier to adhere to a certain calorie count. But in the end, measuring what you eat, and reducing it (or increasing calorie expenditure) if you don’t lose weight is the one thing that is guaranteed to work, if you can stick to it.
Unfortunately reading mode didn't remove the characters for me, it actually made them occupy the whole screen LOL (Fennec on Android if anyone is wondering). I don't have that much of a problem with the conversational format as long as it's used in an appropriate context, but this one was really intrusive and broke the flow of the text, since I'm reading mostly for entertainment I decided it wasn't worth the time.
> I've mostly favored procedural programming and only use objects when I have to because the abstraction can make the program harder to reason about, especially when there's a lot of inheritance.

In functional programming, you generally abstract in different directions than you do in object-oriented programming. IMO, functional abstractions make things easier to reason about, since they generally constrain what any given block of code might do.

> So, for someone who doesn't love objects, why should I love types?

Because powerful type systems mean that a lot of mistakes will be compiler errors instead of bugs.
Yeah - my team and I fought for the good in this tech. I still have hope the opportunity will come around to realize that vision - but you’re right, without a true steward, this gets inhumane quick.
Consider it like dressing up, with nice clothes. Sexual attraction is an important aspect of dressing up to some people, but that's only part of the time, and just generically being dressed up is not a sex thing.
why is that? i thought sw developers have a strong presence on hacker news. is this not the case?
Check the =nil; Foundation. All of their products have really weird names. Their db service is called `DROP DATABASE *

https://nil.foundation/
Good catch! I'm really bad at CSS lol
https://www.freetaxusa.com/ and their parent company https://www.taxhawk.com/

They charge $14.99 for the state filing. Usually a coupon code available. Or go to the state's website (CA at least), and file that for free, too. But for the convenience of not having to input my info again, I'll pay their fee.
Both Tweetbot and Ivory are based on recurring subscriptions. Now I don't love the subscription model, but if users are no longer paying for Tweetbot and some subset of them are paying for Ivory instead, that's no double dip.
Those crazy conspiracy theorists thinking "life has never been better" was a marker that this was a utopian vision.

https://medium.com/world-economic-forum/welcome-to-2030-i-ow...
Now the question is: Can I build a LISA in 2023? I know a lot of the parts are common with the Macintosh, but being an earlier model, maybe it has fewer custom ASICs? I can hope?
"Even if that were plausible (it's not)"

You can be legally liable for STD transmission. There are many cases that show that.

So you're using the technical definition of moralizing rather than the colloquial one. Fine. Seems like an odd point to make. How does this affect anything being said here regarding solutions? You seem to be moralizing that what I'm saying is wrong. Why are you allowed to do that then?

"which pass overt and explicit judgements"

Other than implying that the majority of cases are from not using protection, what judgements do you think I am exactly making? And more importantly, how do you think that affects what is being discussed around possible solutions to the problem?

"uniformly take the opposite stance?"

Please, do show me where they recommend a vaccine for gonorrhea.

I'm starting to feel like your just trolling. I've clearly laid out that the vast majority of people who are at risk for this disease are one who are irresponsible about prophylactics and would thus be irresponsible with a prophylactic vaccine. We could go farther into trade-offs on benefits vs adverse events. However, that information would be present in the CDC (or other org) documents recommending gonorrhea vaccines since treatments must be shown to be safe, effective, and providing net benefit. You can also see how the HPV vaccine has been a relative flop.

Edit: Why disagree?
Seems more likely Ars opinion of Musk has little to do with wings or wingnuts. Seems more likely it's tech's so-called meritocracy bias: he's been re-weighed on the merits and this time found wanting.

That said, both wings have tried to politicize #elongate, so I can see how people imagine any opinion on Musk is politically polarized.
Just to add some background, the Right to Repair bill passed in NY legislature and went to the governor. Kathy Hochul then amended the bill heavily before signing it into law. As far as who is opposed to right to repair in NY, take your pick, everyone from Apple to John Deere have to fighting against this for years.
What was the recurse center like?

Any anecdotes of something you've learnt there that has helped you?
In a twist, pandas programs don't get parallelized on Spark. Someone had to go and write a parallel layer that duplicated the pandas API, because otherwise you ended up with the entire pandas program executing on a single executor.
> even in the wealthiest countries, average programmer salaries are about 10% higher than the national salary at best

I'm not sure 'even' is the right word here. The gap between developer and median salaries goes down the richer the country is. e.g. in many Eastern European countries the average salary for a software developer can be up to 2x or more higher than the national average.
I think the real point is that CICO ends up just boiling away into a trivial statement yet people fling it around as some actionable mantra. For example you can’t actually calculate CI and especially not CO. You can just try to approximate them which is just “eat less to lose weight” yet people throw around CICO as if it illuminates anything interesting, especially when it seems to be brought up as a counter to eating healthier. Turns out can’t actually eat all that much of something like broccoli, so “eat healthy” remains good advice.
This is kind of meaningless without including other factors like inflation, gold backing, GDP, etc.
When I joined Stripe in 2020, I was over the moon and felt like this is my dream job when I signed.

It was border line toxic environment. So many new folks were getting hired and being shoe horned into random things.

My manager was new and a bit biased. Kinda racist who assumed white = smart, not so white = not so smart.

Both my grandfathers had passed from Covid after a few months. I was really depressed.

I felt suicidal sometimes. Left a few months after and never felt better.

Have no equity, but no amount of money is worth tolerating passive racism.
I've read that there is a huge difference between not eating anything at all and eating just a little. The former leading to rapid loss of weight while functioning somewhat normally, the latter to body shutting down and entering starvation mode. In other words, the stored body fat is not utilized unless there are no other options and if there are, body prefers to shut down instead of taping into reserves. The exception would be HIIT and similar training regimes that seem to lead to weight loss based on fat but those are typically out of reach of a regular obese person (but would work for athletes that bulked up).
Loved it as well. Reminded me of some of the blogposts over at https://fasterthanli.me/tags/rust
You don't have to engage with people on the Internet
Really?! They have almost as many dead from COVID-19 as the United States [0]!

[0]: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
I really love the text-like style. I didn't know Unicode added as composing character to ask for that style!

That's awesome. Those are so easy to read and I love how they play nice with users' font coloring choices.
Yeah a simple `python3 -m http.server` works pretty well.
I do wonder, as a late afterthought, though, whether the legal principle behind making your accessibility worse via negligence or deprioritization (the internal team) or lack of due diligence (these apps) could be different than whether the government could require you to include it in the first place.
When do you think the Internet was set up?
Disconsidering the sarcasm in your answer I should note I am familiar with the format, I was noting this one specifically was really bad and I just couldn't follow it, specially because of the figures (although that's not really the topic of my question). Just to clarify further: I was asking because I was curious if anyone thought different about it and how they decided to approach the reading.
If you are overwhelmed, seek help.

We are a highly specialized society with lots of occupations that can help you navigate different kinds of problems. For this kind of problem in particular, try talking to a therapist.

If you are overwhelmed by a plumbing problem, you call a plumber. If your house is burning down, you call the fire department. If your pet has a problem, you go see a veterinarian. This is the same thing. Nobody expects you to be an expert in getting out of every type of problem that exists. Just don't think too hard about it or care too much about what others might think.

Be kind to yourself.
This isn’t entirely accurate. I went keto and despite actually eating a higher calorie diet, I lost 40 pounds in 2 months. Over the following 6 months, I lost another 10 pounds. Not all calories are equal.
ASCII text would be less accurate I'm afraid. I'm open to suggestions!
The speaker agrees with you: https://twitter.com/NitaFarahany/status/1616461568509710337

> 1) I advocate a right to #cognitiveliberty over our brains and mental experiences
Yep, I tried to acknowledge that in the original comment when I said it’s geographically dependent.

It still seems like the only solution that currently exists and actually works on the scale required. I’m not sure what realistic solutions are for regions where hydro pumped storage is not a viable option.
By following the model that Spain and other countries follow: take the information they know (which is basically everything since anything meaningful is reported), calculate it, send you what they think you owe, and you either pay it as is or you file taxes manually.
Elon Musk takes witness stand in court trial over taking Tesla private tweet
Dust.tt: Large Language Model Orchestration
Empty Night!
Original title was too long for HN:

Elon Musk takes the witness stand in court trial over his failed attempt to take Tesla private
His argument is apparently "if there is some technology that it is not reasonable to expect will happen, then there is no technology that it is reasonable to expect will happen."

(Except maybe whatever advances are needed for nuclear fission to power the world, I'd guess.)
Here is a chart with more meaning: https://www.longtermtrends.net/real-interest-rate/
I've run into a service where having a password longer than 15 characters _truncates_ it but the password change dialog does not so it's stuck in limbo.
1099s, K1s, SEPs, list goes on

add in retirement trusts owned by self directed IRAs invested in leveraged real estate and id love to see a 30 min tax return

i pay $1k and spend a few hours setting data up to give to the accountant

oh let’s not even consider the mess crypto or poker winnings are
I consider my time behind a bar my real education. Imagine a wide eyed 22 year old from a pretty quiet area thrown behind a bar with a clientele ranging from Nobel laureates to homeless people taking a shower in the bar toilet. You learn to get along with and enjoy all sorts of people and take them for what they are. You learn to deal with people that love you and people that hate you with the passion of seven suns. You learn to handle people at their best and their worst. You learn to convince belligerent people to do something they don't want. You develop empathy and see people with lifestyles completely different than your own. You learn to have a conversation with anyone and I mean anyone. There's so much more but that's a start
It's for plausible deniability. They want to rally us against them, and they can stand on the sidelines smirking and raking in the cash that TikTok provides them.

I would recommend looking into some independent thinkers and doing your own research on the collusion between these big companies. There's definitely some out there, however they suspiciously get removed from HN as soon as they're posted.
Phishing emails in particular seem to go right through most spam filters. It seems like email providers should be focusing on these (spam emails don't annoy me as much as an email carefully crafted to steal my identity!)
They already are – there's a system webview on Windows and macOS. There are a few "Electron alternatives" that use the system webview instead of bundling a copy of Chromium. Tauri [0] is one of them, built around Rust, and it's pretty great. I built a video editor with it.

The usual complaint against this is that you have to support multiple browsers (Edge/Chromium on Windows, Safari on Mac).

0: https://tauri.app
I thought having candy crush installed automatically with windows I paid for was evidence enough.
Nuclear stans assure us the road to success involves standardized reactor designs. Now imagine what happens when a terrible design flaw is discovered in that reactor type and all must be shut down to fix it.
If the predicate is that mining of a commodity cannot ever expand, the how is building new nuclear supposed to work? Where does the Uranium and Gadolinium for fuel rods come from?
I don't understand the numbers game approach. It's like a war of attrition - you're definitely going to suffer if you pick a fight with everyone you see.

I prefer the 'choose your battles' approach. Interviewing at 3-5 places (not 35), and being prepared to 'win' before I start, as well as possible.

I do find the marathon interviews are difficult, but the difficult parts for me are front-loaded - the initial anxiety, gradually building to being desperate for a break (or to escape) around halfway through. But then like a runner in the zone or coasting through the second half of a double shift on sleep deprivation, the latter part is relatively smooth.
I think it was just that the subthread was mostly veering off topic.

Offtopicness is fine when it's fresh and whimsical but not when a thread gets sucked into old/repetitive arguments.
At what point is it recommended to not use a software like freetaxusa? I've been using it for years.
NY allows statewide ballot measures, this would be a better vehicle for passing it
Yea man, these mid-air 180 rail shots are getting difficult :)
Maybe I should get into chess.
I'm assuming they picked the percent/number of people who should be covered and worked out where the AGI cutoff was to hit it.
Even if you screw it up the IRS will just charge you interest “penalties” or give you your money back if you overpay (both have happened to me). I’ve straight up forgotten forms and paid maybe a few extra dollars in interest, I wouldn’t even call it a penalty.

People are generally way more afraid of the IRS than they should be. People that hate the IRS for being unreasonable are very likely aggressively reporting deductions or whatever, not just making typos on their freefillableforms.com return.
Shouldn't normalization functions handle that?
It is amazing. My batch was a mixed bag of incredible insights from brilliant people and awkward social dancing over zoom. I worked really hard because I felt like I kind of owed it to the others in my batch to give it my all, and that was really helpful.

Funny enough, probably the most helpful thing I got out of my batch was seeing the folks with a lot less domain knowledge than me simply kill it and make awesome stuff. I had the thought - "If they can do it and they just figured out how to fizzbuzz, what the hell is my excuse?". I learned a lot about what kind of energy it takes to just get the job done from them.

Mostly, though, it's the ongoing support that makes it incredible. Once you're connected with that community, you're never wanting for advice or just someone to talk shop with. I highly recommend it to anyone of any skill level. I'm considering doing another batch when I have the time off work.
Wonder what the minimum information you could put in, and how accurate it'd have to be, to get that response. It'd be cool if you could lifehack your way into getting the IRS to do your taxes just by sending something obviously wrong that they'd autocorrect into the final product! Then we'd be roughly on parity with more sane countries that just send you a tax bill.
This is just an email list, no content.
I've been using TT for decades. Their "tricks" are basically asking you 2 or three times during the process if you want to pay for a new feature. Pretty lame for tricks. But annoying still.

Also: just be rich. They don't investigate non-billionaires. Jeez.
I didn't actually realize the goal of the game was to do it all in order! The help text just says "Move the knight to every square, right to left, top to bottom."
I'll investigate fixing that. Where can I download Fennec?
> take your pick

Someone exerted influence. It would be useful to know whom. I’m failing to think of an obvious in-state employer with the motivation and pull to demand this.
On the other hand, paying 20 bucks just for a better user interface and a step-by-step guide is absolutely worth the money.