skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The very poor in the US are constantly made to wait.

For public benefits, they are made to sit waiting in a "DMV" office for several days per year. Then required to attend meetings, training, and complete paperwork that is likely pointless to their plight or assuring a better path, mostly to check bureaucratic boxes while simultaneously treating them like criminals for the heinous crime of being poor.
> mascarade

That word is redolent of Pride parades. It brings to mind a person in costume, with eye make-up.
Apparently this edge case was 40% of US CocaCola 2022 revenue.
Sounds like a bunch of hot air.
It's the opposite of what you wrote:

> That makes sense--alcohol decreases inhibition. It makes you do things that maybe you were inclined to do, but wouldn't do sober. (That is part of why people drink alcohol in the first place.)
Intermittent fasting has has nothing to do with being fat or skinny. My point about "skin and bones" is more about how normal it is to comment on someone that isn't overweight. I can't imagine people tolerating fat-shaming people in a friendly social context.
Bootstrap's purpose is to make the default web pretty. Tailwind does not fit into that niche. Two different goals.

Though reading Tailwind's website, people seem to think they're fighting some holy war against Bootstrap.... absolutely bizarre.

And as another commenter pointed out, Tailwind is just as complex or more complex.
Having worked with public access TV scheduling and playout software, this is perversely fun to try. Don't forget to fill out your FCC Form 2100 Schedule H, kids!
Russia can close the valves on their end, and germany cannot do anything, since the EU their contractual obligations and literally promising to steal russian assets.

Destroying the pipelines doesn't benefit neither germany nor russia.
My “wild conspiracy theory” continues to be that this was a well-known part of mutual spying and was tolerated up until the Chinese screwed up and one was seen by civilians. Now the US has to act surprised, outraged, and responsive, and the whole thing that was being tolerated is being unwound.

The follow-up to my wild conspiracy is wondering what American spy program will be unwound in response.

I have no evidence for this. It’s a long-shot silly theory that I think is at least plausible.
Everybody targets console specs (and sometimes last gen console specs…), so if your PC exceeds that bar, it’s often wasted.
I live near Yellowstone. This is a sad joke.

No one wants the pristine nature of our first National Park soiled and the logistics of building infrastructure in such intensely mountainous terrain would be wildly impractical.

The billionaires already have a hard enough time getting their “cabins” built at the Yellowstone Club.
Dijkstra had a lot of influence for some years on the UTCS undergraduate program, whose first undergraduate course for much of the 1990s was taught in Haskell and was a brutal weed out, at ~70% attrition for the first year courses.

However, by 2001, the failure rate was so high that the department moved to Java, much to Dijkstra's chagrin: https://chrisdone.com/posts/dijkstra-haskell-java/

The UTCS undergrad program has been "nerfed" twice since the 1990s - in 2001 and in in 2014. Various political interests during the first tech bubble - to produce more graduates - and later, to have more under-represented minorities, have dramatically reduced what Dijkstra pushed for.
Buying one of the dozen companies who do it already? The tax code may be rocket science, but the IRS don't lack the expertise. If aaafreetaxfile.biz can handle it, I bet the IRS can figure it out.
Came here to say this. It's so obvious and the downstream political implications are hugely positive.
This is a follow up to the HN thread last week that had over 373 comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34682225

A reminder that extraordinary claims should require extraordinary evidence.
Corporations are not natural persons, so it’s not an issue.
> Transactionality: Each endpoint has either processed a message, done its work (possibly including changing something in a database), and sent a message, or none of it.

Sounds too good to be true. Would love to hear more.
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> It's very expensive to be poor.

True indeed. This article gives many more examples:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/it-is-e...

> If you can’t afford the first month’s rent and security deposit you need in order to rent an apartment, you may get stuck in an overpriced residential motel. If you don’t have a kitchen or even a refrigerator and a microwave, you will find yourself falling back on convenience-store food, which—in addition to its nutritional deficits—is also alarmingly overpriced. If you need a loan, as most poor people eventually do, you will end up paying an interest rate many times higher than what a more affluent borrower would be charged. To be poor—especially with children to support and care for—is a perpetual high-wire act.
KISS: Treat it as any other proprietary license.

In theory 4 (or whatever) years later some version will become licensed under Open Source license but by that time it will be well past EOL ridden with bugs and security holes and unsafe to use.

Of course (in theory) you could take on maintaining such version yourself in practice it does not make any practical sense
why would russia sabotage their own space station?

it would be a job for the US , just like with nordstream2, they were never able to make one and china recently made their own (smaller), so they are maybe jealous, or it does give the impression that Russia is a scientifically advanced country, that would go against the current dogma?

let's take a step back and appreciate how the west was never able to put something habitable into orbit for this long

impressive
PyCharm has a full remote workflow, which I find too difficult to use. I am sure they will make it easier as it still in infancy. Instead, I just configure a remote SSH interpreter. Then you could create a remote SSH project pretty easily. The wrinkle is that you can not create an SSH project with the Scientific Mode (it says not supported). Instead you just create a regular SSH project and then, after the project is created, you switch to the Scientific Mode. Everything will work fine then. I do not think the above process will work in the Community version of the PyCharm, - you have to use Professional Edition.
By "link" they mean "it looks similar".

This has been noted since the first goatherd swung a bucket of milk. Right?
As said, whatever it's that works. In the meanwhile let's wait for that progress isolated from culture, beliefs, not even a language?
You can do that fine too with Cgo. This looks like more a binding for the dynamic linker.
It's an interesting idea, but it would mean that a single attack could cripple the entire country.

It will never happen.
Because, at least looking at modern humans it doesn't make much sense that you'd get 100% buy in.
Wheat is only popular because it has been a starvation food for the Europeans for thousands of years. If you are not starving, there is little reason to eat it. The wheat seed has evolved complex phytotoxins as defense to protect itself from being eaten. We try to get rid of a lot of it using yeast and bacterial fermentation and cooking, but residue is enough to poison people to varying degrees. There are grains which are less toxic.

Having said that, we may need to preserve a subculture to keep the practice if we ever need it (just for diversification purposes, in case we lose other grains to disease or change in climate).
An engineer sought opportunity in the Soviet Union in the 1930s
I'm a fairly cutthroat free markets kinda guy, but this topic is very palpable, and distresses me a lot. It's one thing to hold people accountable for unproductive choices that keep them poor, but quite another to make it impossible for them to exercise better ones because the time-cost of dealing with the here and now prevents the full exercise of their industrious energy.

We definitely should ensure that public transit is adequately capacious and on schedule, that public schools aren't bogged down in bureaucracy that saps academic learning time, and that there are enough incentives from the medical licensing gatekeepers to not impede the flow of competent healthcare workers in under served communities. (Among other things.)
But we will. GitHub for genetics would be awesome
Yep. The same goes for utilization of public benefits: a homeless person without refrigeration or transportation is often reduced to buying small quantities of food and things from expensive convenience stores. Their dollars of assistance are so meager and yet they don't have a meaningful ability to use them better.
This is also a fantastic illustration for understanding why lifestyle changes are very difficult the more poor you are, even before any mental or physical conditions.
Except that it patently does. Often. Corporations are fined, barred from various activities, have assets seized and members of them get sent to jail for criminal activity.
Last I heard ePBF is basically stalled due to Spectre. They aren't planning to expand it. Interesting to see NetBSD doing that.
The task force should be comprised of a PM, 2 seasoned tax professionals, an accountant, 2 backend engineers and 2 programmers. That task force should report to the head of the IRS with all communications available to the public and all meetings streamed live. Getrdone.
> part is a sense of achievement I don't get from work

This hit me in the feels, somehow. Everybody made me believe I'd get a sense of achievement from hard work, but that stopped being true some time ago.

If the work isn't something I'm ever going to see and use, I just feel detached and uninterested. Maybe it'll come back some day, but it's all pretty meh right now. Another problem solved for somebody else, but at least I'm getting paid.

A DIY project at home, however, fills a void work doesn't.
For Dijkstra programming meant to think about a problem, then sit for a few minutes at your desk and write with pen on paper "in one go" the perfect algorithm/program, no bugs, no errors, no corrections, from the first try, and also, in beautiful handwriting. Some kind of idealized way in which Mozart would allegedly write his compositions. Whereas "Beethoven was a doubter and a struggler who started writing before he finished the composition and then glued corrections on the paper. In one place he did this nine times. When they peeled them, the last version proved identical to the first one. This iterative method of programming is somehow a very Anglo-Saxon custom. British education is pervaded by it. People learn, when they write, not to try to get it right the first time. Just write what's on your mind and then rewrite repeatedly to get the product you want. That's partly why word processors are marketed so aggressively and partly why they have been so successful there." [1]

[1] Edsger Dijkstra interview, https://youtu.be/mLEOZO1GwVc?t=282
I first heard/thought about vacuum balloons when reading Diamond Age (which I can recommend as an interesting book!) and ran off and did a bunch of math and figured out how difficult they would be to build and use. However, on planets with a much denser atmosphere, they would be pretty handy. Having a platform hanging under, or sitting upon, vacuum balloons on Venus for example would make for a science platform that moved around the planet and could exist where temperatures were more amenable to current electronics.

For those wondering about "the math", the simple version is to find the nominal density of atmosphere at the altitude you want to sit, take your material of choice and it's density. And then use (material_volume x material_density) < (atmosphere_volume x atmosphere_density), the amount of vacuum you need is then (atmosphere_volume - material_volume). You can plot it out, for every gram of material you need x cubic centimeters of vacuum. If you can find a solution where the material properties allow it to withstand the pressure differential, then you can, in theory, demonstrate a vacuum balloon if you can build it.

Note that it will almost always be a spherical balloon as pressure on a sphere becomes compression strength of the material you're using.
I don't think you can attribute this failure to a political system. Space is hard. NASA's Genesis sample return capsule also failed due to an upside-down sensor[1].

Fun fact about the Proton M failure: the sensor was designed so that it could only be mounted correctly, but apparently it had been forced in the wrong way somehow. Possibly with a hammer. From [2]:

By July 13, investigators simulated the improper installation of the DUS angular velocity sensors on the actual hardware. As it turned out, it would be very difficult to do but not impossible. To achieve that personnel would need to use procedures and instruments not certified either by the design documentation or the installation instructions. As a result, the plate holding the sensors sustained damage. Yet, when the hardware recovered from the accident was delivered to GKNPTs Khrunichev, it was discovered that the nature of the damage to the plate had almost exactly matched the simulated version.

[1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9331-crashed-spacecra...

[2] https://www.russianspaceweb.com/proton_glonass49.html#culpri...
Yep, 84% is a pretty big majority, is it not? You aren't really disagreeing with me. The general proposal is that you'd get a "tax bill" that would typically be for $0 for people thanks to automatic payroll deductions, and can be safely ignored if you file your taxes. Businesses would file taxes, the vast majority of people would not.

If your concern is that business owners blindly pay bills without reading bold text that says something along the lines of "if you have additional deductions to report, file your taxes, find more information at https://..." then those business owners weren't going to last a year anyway.
This is at least a real answer to the question.

Understanding that there is a mutual dependence between the countryside and the cites, it seems like in the past the limit on city growth has always been sanitation and the ability of the agricultural base to support the urban population with the labor that is available in the country.

I'm curious if you know any good entry-level or popular books on this topic.
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...

> 60% of Steam users have a 1080p monitor as their primary display
It's not that Linux/BSD don't offer the most freedom (though as many have pointed out MacOS is essentially BSD with an Apple WM/GUI). It's the snobbishness of saying 'only ____ makes you a TWUE PWOGWAMMER'.

You can see this to some extent in other professions. Cardiologists and neurosurgeons get paid big bucks because their job is life or death stuff and requires skill and innovation. But would you want to work with a cardiologist that goes around sneering at every other kind of medical professional and saying they're not real doctors? Of course not, because they're assholes and when people like that screw up they'll blame their colleagues or patient rather than admit fault.

Back in the tech context, you can pursue authenticity into absurdity. You're not a real programmer unless you use (language). You're not a real programmer unless you contribute the language. You're not a real programmer unless you get into kernel hacking. Sure, you call yourself a programmer, but do you even assembler? Programming? Sorry, I design chips. Chips? Do you even basic circuit designs. Me, I roll my own capacitors built from carbon nanotubes...and so on up through materials science, physics, and mathematics.
Maybe just avoid directors/writers such as JJ. He seems to have a knack for making absolute garbage movies of beloved established worlds, that fans and critics absolutely hate, but sell well enough that it keeps happening.
> For the average tax payer this might be truthy

It's completely true for most people. "And a new paper estimates that at least 41 percent of American households — some 62 million tax filing units — could have their entire tax returns handled this way with no further intervention necessary." https://www.vox.com/23055489/irs-automatic-filing-prepopulat...

Even if that's too high of an estimate, there are absolutely 10s of millions of people for whom the IRS already has the correct amount of taxes calculated based on the forms they receive from other entities. Sure, you might have to ask people a few questions, but my statement is accurate for an enormous percent of the population.
I have no idea whether the Crew Dragon contract rescued SpaceX financially or not, I'll take your word for it. However, I'm unsure why you're framing this as a counterpoint to my argument?
Well, sort of. There's the (dominant?) school of thought that believes that types encode a program that runs before your actual program runs (and may thus be deleted at some point). This is often characterized by writing the type in a more awkward language than the usual one, C++'s separate languages for example.

Dependent Type Theory is quite strongly associated with the compiletime/runtime phase separation assumption, where the weirdness is that values from the runtime world leak into the compiletime one. This is magic in the static/AoT type world and trivial in the dynamic/JIT one.

So, strictly you're right, python is not dependently typed, as that term is owned by a different branch. However if you were to put an ahead of time type system on arbitrary python, that would need to be dependently typed to be able to describe the programs people write in python today. It would also be prone to failing to terminate during type checking.
That's kind of what I did here, I "used" the bits on the stack by loading them into eax and ANDing them with whatever's in ebx. But yeah, the value could also be more directly referenced on the stack...
This is called 'crony capitalism'.
I am hoping that more deep learning based stuff gets integrated, and they pushes hardware further.
Was it because of Musks leadership or was it because we're going into recession so companies are cutting costs and saw a cheap way to get free advertising while getting on the good side with media? Companies have no issue running under dictatorship, paying bribes, breaking environmental laws, hiding women/hbtq in ads, but Twitter under Musk, thats the limit.
I wonder why the choice to refer to him as "Leonardo", rather than "da Vinci"? Given that the latter appears to be the more common way of referring to him as the author of many of his other works?

They don't refer to Einstein as "Albert".
The updated Predator drone uses a diesel aviation engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycoming_DEL-120
There's a refueling tanker and reconnaissance plane in the vicinity currently.

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It's not just a time tax in terms of money, but also in social norms as well. I'm a very well-compensated professional. But there's no one telling me exactly when I should be at work, or on lunch break, or in the bathroom, or when my day is over. I can shift things around at my discretion (including personal priorities) and there's no system telling me the "how" of things other than some deadlines on the order of weeks or months away.

Yet the norm is to be very strict on the schedules of workers who cost a fraction of what I do.
You will find this story more rewarding if you can consider the possibility that sometimes both sides can be wrong, or that a story can have more than one villain.
> which is also why Ukraine punched above its weight in the space sector

In 1991 it was expected that independent Ukraine, a 52 million strong country, will basically be the next Spain.

What did it punch in the space sector in the last 30 years? They did indeed inherit a huge chunk of USSR industry and science and nothing went out of it.
I suspect the language used by the USA/Canada concerning these devices is meant to obscure an uncomfortable truth.

These balloons are significantly cheaper to manufacture and operate than the stealth warplanes that are being used to shoot them down. Instead of manning AWACS and defending them, China could flood the airspace with thousands of these balloons and it would be too expensive to take them all down with our current technology.

By publicizing the F22 mission to shoot that balloon down, we kind of showed our hand and it's a really bad hand. Hence the obfuscating language now being used by officials on the matter.
TIL the U.K. and USA have literally no common interests.

It’s a very naive worldview that says you never work with someone whose interests are not perfectly aligned with your own.
My understanding is that contributions to retirement are similar. The origin of any contribution needs to be identifiable in perpetuity.
What if I mess up my 1040EZ? I input something wrong and take more of a deduction than I should get?

You end up with a situation where if the IRS ignores it, then I’m getting away with paying less than my fair share. If they don’t ignore it, then it’s a lot of unavoidable hassle for me.

If the IRS gives me their calculations (which they do already!) then I know the baseline they’re using. If something looks wrong, or they don’t cover some scenarios in my life, I can simply adjust those situations from the IRS baseline.

This leads to a much more transparent, less stressful, more efficient process.

I think the less discussed part about this is the philosophical aspect of it as well. The current system frames the IRS-taxpayer relationship as adversarial. Now, this may be naturally true for 2-3% of high earners. But it’s not for 90+% of people who are basically just receiving a paycheck.

Starting with the IRS baseline allows the process for that 90+% to be more collaborative as opposed to adversarial, with either side trying to see how much they can get away with in the latter system.
> The legislation gave the IRS $15 million to stand up the task force, as well as nine months to deliver a report to Congress on whether the direct e-file system would be cost-effective for the IRS to operate, and whether taxpayers would use the system, rather than rely on third-party tax preparers.

For whatever reason this reminded me of something (and I don't have the exact quote) that Steve Jobs apparently said about Wozniak and a (again iirc) a basic compiler that Apple needed (maybe in discussion with Microsoft?).

'If we need one Woz can write that over the weekend'.

Point is amazing that they are spending $15m to just put together a task force and a report to analyze the idea.

(How many on HN remember the quote that I am referring to I was not able to easily find it).
"mark as read" happens automatically whereas archive is an explicit action (pressing "e" on your keyboard after enabling hotkeys or swiping the email on mobile)

This lets you turn the inbox into a sort of TODO list that only shows you stuff that's still pending. Of course you also have to use filters aggressively if you wanna maintain inbox-zero without having to manually archive every "your bank statement is ready" email.
And balloons have the option to loiter longer than say a satellite or other means.
I assumed they were doing some sort of RF monitoring more than the photo type monitoring.

A lot of the comments focus on "Why would they use balloons when they have satellites?" But the reality is they are cheaper, can be oriented inexpensively and can loiter. Not to mention the lower radar signal and other detection issues (made clear by the revelation that this has been going on for a while).

Now that launching/steering balloons is down to the hobbyist level...it seems a larger corp or state actor could easily use them in a way that seemed impossible 30 years ago.