skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other 20% are where they might actually suspect you of something, but even those are much easier to deal with than people expect.

The only one I know of personally was a friend misfiled his taxes and didn't allocate cost basis for day trading so the IRS had each sale marked as a cost basis of zero, and they sent a letter saying "you owe $800k in taxes based on this" but all he had to do was dig out the cost basis and refile.

And yes, for the vast majority of people who do NOT own a business, they could just send you the 1040 already filled out (there's actually a way to get them to do that IIRC, something like you file for an extension and then request "what tax info do you have on me and the result is basically a filled out 1040).
> The model predicted COVID-19 could not be transmitted through the air. The model was wrong; COVID-19 is highly transmissible through the air.

I'm not sure if that's the best way to put it. IIRC, the controversy was if COVID could spread through the air in the form of an aerosol or if it could only spread in the form of droplets. Droplets can't travel as far in the air, and their limitations were the basis of the "6ft social distancing" rules. It turns out COVID can spread as an aerosol, even though that was strongly denied during the early phases of the pandemic.
> Since mice are not humans the gender of the mice might be irrelevant.

Actually, it's not. It's well known that medications can have different effects or different dosage requirements depending on menstrual cycle.

And if you drop out a drug candidate in animal trials because you don't account for genetic and hormonal gender as well as menstrual cycle, you can end up dropping prematurely.
Are you saying that you build desktop apps that are just a webview container for the JS bundle which is hosted server-side? Is that typical with Electron dev work? I would have assumed that most people ship the bundle with the app, so that it can function without phoning home.
I think the "growth ideology" becomes almost a religion. Economic growth, and subserviently population growth, is very important to the super rich. Sure. But should we then all believe that without growth we are going down?

Japan will probably lead the way, but I'm confident we can create societies that thrive and shrink.

And if not, I need to see some real hard proof why shrinking has to hurt actual people, instead of using "economic growth" as a goal by itself.
Congratulations you’ve identified exactly the problem which concerns literally every economist who has ever worked on this question. Education Econ people work very hard to get around exactly your worry.

Education is not my field but there are ways to identify causal effects outside of experiments.

So: you are wrong when you say “the only way to do this is…”
> there’s hardly any outrage

Perhaps because it wasn’t his money or time being taken by these websites. It was his employers.
I had a flight of fancy recently where I thought I might try lecturing. I saw the below as required 'Qualifications' on a CUNY [0] posting for "Distinguished Lecturer - Curriculum & Teaching, Computer Science Education" [1]. I will leave it to you to determine if the qualifications they seek would lead you to believe your child would benefit from being under the instruction of such a person.
Edit: See comment below, this particular institution has specific goals.

MA Degree in Computer Science, Educational Technology, Education, or a closely related field; earned doctorate preferred but not required

Expertise in computer science educational pedagogies

Experience with outreach and community engagement

Demonstrated commitment to social justice, multimodal learning, anti-racist pedagogies, multilingualism, and culturally and linguistically responsive and sustaining pedagogy

Ability to collaborate in recruiting students for graduate programs

Demonstrated ability to effectively teach adults in college level education programs in various modalities including in person, hybrid, synchronous and asynchronous modalities

Experience with outreach and community engagement which are seen as important for developing the Computer Science Education Program at Hunter College.

Demonstrated knowledge of computer science K-12 learning standards and curricula

Experience integrating issues of diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility in teaching, scholarship, and service

Experience teaching in classrooms, educational settings and communities with culturally diverse populations including multilingual learners

Evidence of excellent written, oral, organizational, and interpersonal communication skills

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_University_of_New_York

> The City University of New York is the public university system of New York City. It is the largest urban university system in the United States

1: https://cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/distinguished-lecturer-curricu...
Except there'd be no way to focus it enough to hurt anything.
Good catch!

Apparently yes, and has had them for a while: https://old.reddit.com/r/bing/comments/12v56nv/bing_ai_now_a..., https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11cnc73/not_only_d...

I remember seeing an article about Microsoft introducing ads into Bing Chat, but I kind of assumed they would just be sidebar ads. It's a little bit validating but a lot more upsetting to see that no, they're already inline.
This piece is almost entirely about the cost of college. There is little about the benefits.

As far as I can tell, all the statements about benefits are:

> According to repeated analyses by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a four-year degree generates an annual return of 14 percent over a 40-year career.

> ...a weakening job market for new grads (true, but better than the market for non-grads)...

The first quote links to a much better analysis:

https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2019/06/despit...

As someone who works with statistics, this is the oldest trick in the book: talk about the average when it tells the story you want to tell as opposed to the distribution. Given the massive variability in total cost to attend, the average loses meaning.
They technically only have jurisdiction over the UK, so it would only impact their own market. But that market accounts for nearly 10% of the global gaming market, so this is not something you can easily ignore. That's also why MS is already trying to gaslight them, by saying that they will need to pull out and this will be bad for consumers. On top of that, the FTC and European Commission are still actively reviewing the deal, so this blow could also set up a chain reaction. From the political POV, the EU certainly doesn't want to be perceived as less strict than the Anglo-American places.
It's broader than that. The CMA considers impacts of mergers (and other competition-related concerns) on UK markets regardless of where an entity is headquartered. It has broad investigative and enforcement powers over any entity selling in UK markets with over $70M GBP in revenue from UK markets or 25% of market share in a given vertical. If Microsoft and Activision merged without making accommodations to satisfy the CMA, the CMA would be able to block their access to the UK market and fine them.
If the company is bad, then the company should fail.
Don’t forget that they have one of the highest fertility rates in Asia.
> If their population began declining twice as fast as now (1% per year) it would take around 105 years for the Japanese population to reach the level it was at back in 1900.

As the population declines, the rate will pick up. A nearly extinct Japan will give rise to an even more profound nihilism.

> A lot of things can happen in this time frame.

Tell us the science fiction story where the Japanese learn to love life and want even more Japanese people to exist to revel in it.

Nothing happens in that time. It's extinction. Their culture isn't nearly malleable enough for anything significant to change.
That's because it's more like a compacted if/else ladder than what I'd traditionally think of a switch as (indexed jump).

SQL has CASE...WHEN which is a similar concept.
Oh come on, no there isn't.

Have you seen what life in Tokyo looks like for the average person today? The size of apartments, the crowds on subways, etc.

People's quality of life would be far better if the population density were lower.

I'd much rather have a world with a steady or shrinking number of people and a rising quality of life, than a world with an exponentially growing population and declining quality of life.
“We hired a market research firm to tell us that people like sunlight. So we started building homes with windows. It was win-win all around.”
> More people is more good

Everything exists within the boundary conditions of its environment. Humans, just like any other organism, can strip their environment of resources faster than they can figure out how to escape the environment or build a new one or whatever.
The wisdom of crowds of watches.
It isn’t like this. AWS Availability Zones are in separate physical facilities by design, regardless of region.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regio...
SpaceX Starship Grounded Indefinitely by FAA
If women are like mice and the behavior were measuring is “exploratory.”
There wont be enough people to repair the automation lines. Society needs certain baseline levels of populations to enable the existence of certain technologies.
Can someone explains me why a UK court is able to block a deal between 2 US corps ?

How can they overreach ?
One thing I wonder about whenever "the brains of men and women have systematically different structures" comes up, is what structures do the brains of trans people demonstrate?
> Timed exclusives are not an unfair advantage, both Sony and MS have bought or paid for timed (or perpetual) exclusive games for their platforms.

I don't think just because the two biggest actors can afford to pay for exclusivity that means that paying for exclusivity is fair. Would you expect itch.io to pay for exclusivity in order to compete in the games market?

> Are we going to make a rule that bans all exclusive games, and force developers to create ports for all system that launch on the same day?

If you made a rule about this, it would be about banning paying for exclusivity. If a developer wants to make a game exclusive to the PS5 that's up to them, but Sony can't pay them for the privilege.
How do we reconcile this with the increased demand for trade skills?
Abusive and scummy. Anyone who uses Osvianskina is advertising that they are manipulative and untrustworthy. I would never give money to someone like that.
What would they have to do if they were to decide that the deal is more important than the UK?

- merge everywhere else but the UK (presumably that would mean spinning off/closing one of Microsoft or Activision UK branch). I guess that wouldn't be enough?

- both companies have to pull off of the UK?
Water intrusion in europe-west9-a has caused a multi-cluster failure and has led to an emergency shutdown of multiple zones. We expect general unavailability of the europe-west9 region. There is no current ETA for recovery of operations in the europe-west9 region at this time, but it is expected to be an extended outage. Customers are advised to failover to other regions if they are impacted.
No mention of pattern matching being used with a case statement:

https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.0/syntax/pattern_matching_rd...

This is where some real magic happens.
Ask HN: What’s your average phone screen time (and why)?
I’ll start: I’m averaging about 4 hours a day. A decent chunk of that (perhaps 1/4? Maybe more) in concentrated in the morning, between sets at the gym.

I’m seriously considering a dumb phone. I feel stupidly addicted to this thing: I’m graduating college soon, but the other day I was doing some “deep” studying, and whenever things got hard I reached for my phone and scrolled through Reddit. The high stress moments where I should be learning the most are the ones I end up replacing with phone time.
i have a bunch of copies of my house key, including one at a neighbors house and one in a realtor-style lockbox in my back yard. If I somehow lose all of them, I can still call a locksmith who can re-key my locks for maybe $300ish. There is no conceivable circumstance in which losing my key(s), no matter how badly I mess up, even if I only had one copy and threw it in the ocean in a fit of rage, will permanently deny me entrance to my home.

So... it does not seem like a very good analogy?
IMO humanity going completely extinct has always been an unlikely outcome, at least from direct climate change causes like food shortages, rising seas, etc. Those are too solvable by just having less people around and/or in different places. Even secondary causes like war are unlikely because eventually one or both sides will lose the ability to fight across the Pacific and Atlantic, kill enough people the resource crisis is alleviated, or humanity and rationality kicks in eventually and agreements are reached to stop fighting.

The much more likely is life just gets really bad for a while or at the outside possibility things fall apart enough we slide back a few centuries in some industries. If we go too far back power becomes an interesting issue because we've exploited most of the cheap easily accessible power sources so successor civilizations won't have the easy coal deposits to power a second industrial revolution.
I just can't imagine the privacy problems with this.
We would also have to revert to that level of technology because there wouldn’t be enough people to operate at each level in the supply chain to turn raw earth into wiz-bang computers etc.
2.65GWpeak... all of which runs at a capacity factor of about 11% on average, and delivers energy at inconsistent inconvenient times. Won't run your heat pump in a December night for sure.

So the solar energy gets supplemented with bulldozing villages every year to mine lignite in Garzweiler instead. Yay?
Huh? Windows 10 has been shipping the C standard library for quite a while now, you don’t need to ship any redistributables... yes you need to static link the C++ standard library but that is also a requirement if you ship on Linux since Debian/Ubuntu always have horrendously outdated copies, heck I have customers that still use Ubuntu 16 that I have to support.

At the end of the day none of this is any different from shipping containers or flatpaks, which bundle all the dependencies with them. In many ways Windows has escaped the DLL hell that plagued it in the past, whereas Linux still has some learning to do.
McDonalds has an operating margin over 40%. And for Altria is above 50%. And for Visa or CME Group above 60%.

How are any of those things relevant for the comparability of the businesses of Apple and Microsoft anyway?
What an awesome project. How well does it perform in the browser, though? I've never worked with them but I've always heard of voxels as kind of being a nightmare.
Seems so simple but I haven't seen that before either. Novel
> I was pleasantly surprised to find that about two-thirds of the newspapers on my list were easy or moderately easy to cancel

I was surprised by only ⅓ making things difficult until the rest of the sentence…

> requiring fewer than five minutes to discontinue and presenting few, if any, obstacles

Considering you can sign-up in a minute (except typing in CC details if you aren't using a stored payment method stored in your browser or a service like PayPal) I would class anything close to five minutes rather excessive, and I'd be less forgiving of any obstacles (an “are you sure, we can offer you a discount” I might accept, but not multiple nags or properly dark patterns).

I'd like to see a breakdown where easy and moderately easy are split. I know five minutes is hardly excessive, but being able to sign-up a couple of times faster that cancel I find irritating.

> As a valued subscriber…

That annoys me, perhaps overly I must admit, as much as “we value your privacy” and “your exclusive code”. Attempting to butter me up with a lie just makes them look scammy IMO. I know I'm no more valued than someone who signed up yesterday and someone who subscribed a while before me is no more valued either, just like I know that while the code is indeed unique (as everyone got a different random one) the pretence that I'm somehow getting special treatment when in fact everyone has been sent a code, again, feels scammy.

> phone calls with customer service representatives

I had this one when unsubscribing from New Scientist, a publication that at the time I felt was more reputable than to be deliberately inconvenient (I say “at the time” as they are now owned by the same parent company as the Daily Mail so these days I'd expect bad behaviour!). Signed up with a simple web form years before, had to cancel on the phone. In fairness the call was fairly short, lacking in hard-sell (there was an offer of a few months discounted IIRC), and I wasn't on hold for too long, so it could have been much worse. One mild concern was that I didn't get any confirmation by email/other so if they somehow kept taking money I had no evidence that I'd cancelled – but I made sure to cancel payments from my side to stop that from happening.
Similar things are happening in other countries. The US is looking at this one too.
We were impacted at a previous company, luckily we had solid backup, so everything was back online a few hours after.

Still, it was kinda fun to go to work and learn that the corporate website literally went up in flames.
> This is magical thinking.

It's experimentally validated. Calhoun ran it multiple times. Animals don't bounce back. This isn't moose populations crashing because of overfeeding and starvation.

> Turns out that the vast majority of people reach a comfortable weight, and stop dieting.

Which is where the analogy diverges from reality. Cultured populations don't reach a comfortable weight... they become "depressed from the hunger", and decide to go for broke.
Does it use gpt llm?
Sounds like they're looking for a career academic who happens to have a CS undergrad and not a CS professional who can teach and work in an academic environment.
This simple fact blows up into a bunch of even more surprising things that are true of all primes when you follow the algebra to its logical conclusions. Like:

Since this means every pair of twin primes > 3 must be separated by a multiple of 6, so they can be written as 6k+1, 6k-1. That means the product of any pair of twin primes will be of the form 36k^2-1.

In other words take any pair of twin primes, multiply them together, add 1, divide by 36, you are guaranteed to get a perfect square. E.g. 11*13=143, +1=144, /36=4 =2^2.

Or (and this one’s actually a little more complicated because it gets kind of casewise) you can show that the square of any prime (>3) is either one more or one less than a multiple of 24 (which is the product of the 6 and the 4 from the 6k and 4k rules)
Bluetooth: celebrating 25ish years of crappy UX.

I can’t wait to see what headphone manufacturers come up with in order to let a user subscribe to an LE Broadcast … maybe by jabbing two or three side-of-head hardware button combos, wait 30s, pair again, grr, now repeat x2 for the kids.
What does the comment "test your design" mean? Are you mostly referring to eliminating potential coding bugs, or are you referring more to "did I build the right interface/UI/UX to solve a particular problem?"
Fair point, but IMHO that's just a reason to double check his reasoning, not to discard his conclusion.
I think to some extent developers today are choosing not to face this challenge directly. A couple years ago I started using safari instead of chrome, and since then I've worked on a couple projects where my dev time has been the only testing on safari done.

In this time also out on the normal internet, I've seen a shocking number of sites with critical functionality broken on safari. I'm talking nav, login, payment, on the sites of major brands, wireless carriers, saas companies.

So, do we face this challenge today? It exists certainly, but it seems like increasingly we are pretending it doesn't.
Humanity still goes extinct if climate change mattered due to the lifetime of earth/sun.
I wonder about the "Last" in the title, and how common road landings are in general. We had one not far from us awhile back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QOMDyMZD3k, saw the plane from a bridge on my bike commute home... a strange day was had by all, with zero casualties.
This is me as well.

I wonder if as the subscription landscape gets more “toxic”, it’s a net negative for the whole industry. Even above-board offerings will get ignored by would-be customers that no longer trust.
Very different experience here. Bought a Billy, moved houses twice, the fucker is still alive and strong and grimly stands in a corner supporting two shelves worth of heavy books and a ton of paperwork.
Makes me wonder how Google would compare if a good portion of the entire world hadn't spent decades trying to game their system. OpenAI created a completely new system and reaps the benefits of training on data that hasn't been twisted-half-way-to-hell to exploit it.
On Spain I just use the RSS feeds from the state news agency (EFE and the ones for my province), The Conversation (Spanish Edition) and Slashdot.

Everything else is too much to read.
Looks like impossibly excellent qualifications, except maybe one of them if you are "anti-woke".

CUNY is a haven for low-wealth non-white people who appreciate being included in opportunities for advancement.
Pro tip: You can add a `+anything` to your gmail address, and it will still be sent to you (so e.g. `foo.bar+wsj@gmail.com`, when your email address is `foo.bar@gmail.com`). Most websites don't know this and treat it as a different email address, too, if you ever need to sign up twice.
>AI output is considered PD in the US)

That's not what the court ruled. The particular case had no user input, so failed the creativity test. Even making simple prompts, a creative process, is enough to make the result copyrightable, in the same manner that using AI ni photoshop to teak things results in copyrightable, or using AI filters to adjust audio, or even write text, results in copyrightable content.

The requirement is that a human drive any tool with some creative input, which does not have to be extensive at all. I can write a few words and it;s copyrightetd automatically. How can doing that to create a prompt which drives a tool not be copyrightable? They're both creative content.
> The body max-width is 800px by default. Research has shown that limiting the width can lead to better retention of the content itself, as well as a decrease in eye strain. A thinner column of text is more readable on very large monitors. This is simple to change by editing the max-width of the body element in your custom.css file.

No, edit the max-width of your _content container_. Not every pixel of a site is devoted to content worth retaining.
I've never needed to break the window. I needed to call a neighbor who I had left a spare key with once, when I got mugged and my keys were stolen.
even elon musk said it would be a success if it didn't damage the launchpad. It did, it is wrecked.
I got into both Linux and SunOS around 1996. At the time, I got the impression (perhaps correctly so) that Linux was a "play thing" and mostly good for small businesses, while SunOS was the only thing that would properly scale to the type of volume an Internet business could expect.
If you can't tell if your friends are harassing you, or messing with you in a playful way, does it really matter?
Kenji Nagai: Missing camera reveals journalist's last moments in Myanmar