skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's necessarily transparent. This page claims it will only put ads in a corner of the Smart Screen, but I would be pretty surprised if they don't also use the rest of the Smart Screen, and the main screen, and the speakers, and camera and microphone for targeted advertising. They also don't make it clear that they will actively monitoring what you're watching and adjust the ads accordingly, and I don't think that will be obvious to the people that sign up for this.

I would also expect microtransactions to unlock some of the functionality they advertise on the page, which again is not stated anywhere.

The level of data collection is unexpected too - this thing is going to monitor how many people are in your house and watching particular TV programs, and probably scan their faces too. They will sell that data to anyone who wants it, and not make it clear anywhere besides the fine print that they know you don't read.

Informed consent is when you buy a newspaper knowing there is an ad on page 2. Uninformed consent is when you visit a news website knowing there is an ad on the side, but not knowing that it's installing 10 cookies that will track all your browsing activity forever and sell the data to anyone. This TV is equivalent to that second example.
Totally agree with this, I’m just saying that few, if any, companies would make the decision to force people back in the office based on the well-being of cities or the real estate market.

All companies act in their best interest and that’s kind of it.
Sounds like a case of malamanteau

https://xkcd.com/739/
postmarketOS is usually leading the way there. I'd check their devices page and see if anyone's got them working yet. Although I think mediatek stuff tends to be harder to support.

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices
The basic error underlying this line of thinking was covered above, but I will reiterate. And at risk of sounding cliche, without taking the holistic picture into mind, the only thing being observed is a different part of an elephant.

Statistical observation against a greater sample is flawed. That would necessitate that there is an ideal state of human functioning (mentally/physiologically/etc.). While I'm certain there is a local ideal per individual, and that many features for an idealized "perfect state" are shared among many (e.g. proper diet, rest, etc.); psychology is not so simple. Again, dysfunction in the brain would necessitate there being an ideal state of function -- which has not been defined or determined outside of individual traits that have been interpreted to be at odds with various (subjective) ideals of being.

I do realize that certain physiological states make it subjectively harder to exist in one's specific environment. My issue is with taking this as given fact, rather than interpretation -- that there is an abstract and all-encompassing ideal to be reached, regardless of the individual.

This is ignoring the erroneous usage of medical measurements for purposes of "matter-of-fact" and not recognizing that measuring physchological behavior, as by-product of the underlying nervous system and all the other bodily systems, is correlative. To use a simplified example: if you take an EEG of an "ADHD" brain against an average sample of "non-ADHD," yes it will look different. If I were to steelman it, I would swap out "non-ADHD" for those with prefrontal cortex brain damage. Now the results may look similar. However, this doesn't extend to reaching the conclusion that someone with ADHD has brain damage (they may -- but the results are not causative, merely correlative).

Or what I've already written above, that the data measured is the right data to measure.

The environment, the people, their norms, behaviors, and "average" are different depending on the specific geography, and constantly changing. To nail down an "ideal," in spite of the specific circumstances of each individual is -- in my opinion -- misguided. For an off-hand example: a wealthy and erratic person is an eccentric; but a poor and erratic one is clinically insane. Or someone with hallucinations in Western society is a schizophrenic; while in other cultures he may be a shaman.

I want to take a tangential excursion into the various cultures and their implications against an "ideal" a la Quigley and Huntington -- but I've already written too much.
US law doesn’t allow it, or at least it doesn’t allow you not to declare and pay US tax on any income you make no matter where you make it.
I’ve overpaid my tax, they told me about it and IIRC I just got one letter with a check in it, I didn’t need to do anything.

I’ve also underpaid and my experience was basically the same (except I had to send a check instead obviously). Edit: and the “penalty” was just modest interest on the underpayment.
> The steelman case for opposing "auto-filing" or having the IRS provide tax preparation is that the intention of requiring everyone to file is that all citizens should be directly aware of the amount of taxes being assessed and the complexity of the tax code itself

That's a very weak case when they could just send me a letter telling me how much they took and why, which would accomplish the same thing but better and without saddling me with a bunch of unnecessary labor and/or expense.
When you're talking about undermining bodily autonomy are you talking about Republican states banning abortion or Democrat states compelling vaccination?
I feel like vaccine mandates did something similar for companies, it helped them to remove the less intelligent employees. Sometimes it's better to convince the trash to take itself out.
I know I’m welcome to escape the plantation, thanks. Still doesn’t make slavery right though.
> But these people also still go to the pub to drink them on a night out

People also eat out a restaurants even though most are able to cook their own meals that are just as good, if not better.

It's not just about the food (or beer). It's also about convenience, enjoying the setting, etc.
I've posted a rebuttal.
Data collection is not inherently wrong. As long as there is consent I will willing take the benefits in my hypothetical situation.

Consider the alternative - we are literally discussing an ad now, and received nothing. Anyone who clicked the link has likely had some data taken about them.
That's my wish. I'd think the 70% or whatever the number is that takes the standard deduction could be satisfied with a fairly simple app. Businesses, certain business principals, individuals with higher incomes have more complicated taxes but I would think there could be some standard patterns. I also think that most families not in that 70% (or whatever the number is) probably have fairly similar taxes 3 out of 5 years or 4 out of 5 years. If not, maybe there are some loop holes we should look at or some alterations to the tax code to allow for this. Quick books and peach tree and do an awful lot for a lot of businesses, I know it can be done...
It's almost criminal to post things like that without any annotations.

The first picture plots points where radius and angle (in polar coordinates) are uniformly distributed. Of course, this is not uniform in the disc.

I don't have the time right now, but if I do later, I'll type up the math behind what a uniform distribution in the disc looks like, and what's going on in other pictures.
Do you only sell e-books? Or you self publish physical books too?
Agreed, this is familiar to me.
Group B
C level of a mid sized start up. Depends on the team. If you're doing js maintenance then I don't really care where you are. If you are developing new features I want you in an office at least two days a week with the rest of the team. Going off pointless tangents because you didn't understand the spec is something I'm seeing constantly regardless of seniority.
How does that make sense ? You read something and then you see it's poorly argued. I'm not a magician.

I don't care if people read that lol. I don't even really care if they believe the nonsense he's spouting. I reckon people like that will always exist.

I'm just telling you that that's not a study. You say you had a study and then you link an opinion piece.
Casinos are technically illegal.

So instead we have pachinko parlors. They do not have age restrictions.

We also have gacha games which heavily push gambling and incentivise the spending of money for png images.
just in terms of pure randomness (which is not what this is testing), random(random()) doesn't make more sense than random(). If your random number generator is good, one is enough. If it's not good, multiple times is not going to help.

I'm putting this in the past tense, it randumb enough times for me.
> people will figure out how to block all the ads one way or another.

I’m not so convinced about this. Locked down hardware and software, not like you can download a browser plug-in.

In before anyone says “PiHole”: anyone actually doing that would be a rounding error in usage.
I typed >Hello and it is still blinking 2 minutes later
Google said it would stop selling ads on climate disinformation. It hasn’t
And as far as I've understood it, winning an appeal against the CMA just means that the CMA has to process the merger again.

CMA ruled that Facebook had to divest Giphy, it was appealed, sent back to CMA and CMA still ruled that Facebook had to divest.
what is a chrome shortcut?
It doesn't need to be a personal phone. If you get a new phone, you could do a factory reset on your old phone and use it as a webserver in this way. And since you aren't taking it with you anywhere, you can leave it at home plugged in and on wifi, for better uptime than your regular phone.
Hallucination is a big issue. Sometimes the models would not output anything, or that the models would output paragraphs from 'real' stories that share one or few words with the input.

The uncensored models were better in terms of heading towards the direction of correct ideas, but still performed poorly in my tests. But hey, at least the models has the right idea.

I can't share exact examples on HN, for obvious reasons.
Hopefully we'll see a better Blizzard come out of this!
Pachinko parlors and gacha games.

The are all fundamentally designed around the same psychological hooks.
The main character, Ignatius J. Reilly, was extremely fat, which was part of his ignoble caricature.
You pretty much just have to listen for and handle premature closing of the underlying TCP connection. It's the only form of dead peer detection you'll get if someone just abrubtly closes their browser tab.
Easily one of the best series I've seen in recent years. Fantastic to see it back.
Second. Our HR recruiters told me they could fill my open positions yesterday if it wasn't for the RTO requirement.
Stealing and expropriation of other people's intellectual property will not go unpunished...
> As long as there is consent

True, yes, as long as it's actually informed consent (which is incredibly rare in surveillance marketing). I was just expressing that it rates extremely high on my creepiness scale, not that there was an ethical problem with it.
repeating things does not make them true. I read the post. You can only control some failures, but happy for us to write our thoughts in blog form.
Nuclear engineer here. UF6 is solid at ambient temperature and pressure, though it is extremely voltatile and can be turned into a gas with ease. It is mainly used as an intermediary Uranium compound which has physical properties (first and foremost, being turned easily into a gas) that are very conducive to it enrichment. Once it is enriched though, it is turned through various other chemical processes into either various forms of ceramics (e.g. Uranium Oxides) or metal (e.g. pure Uranium metal). DU rounds are made of purely metallic Uranium and are, of course, stored that way too. There is no UF6 involved in the storage of DU rounds since... the rounds have already been fabricated out of metallic (depleted) Uranium.
Why does the Google SSO say "Choose an account to log into QUORA"? Shady
This is definitely one place where it gets morally tricky. The church has facilities and programs to run, and needs protection against economic downturn. And it's not financially wise to have a bunch of liquid cash on-hand. For me the points in my original comment push it into immoral territory.
I think this is a really good primer for electronic music production if you're going to start from absolutely zero.

If you specifically want to program beats, I recommend this quirky book "Pocket Operations": https://shittyrecording.studio. It's basically guitar tabs for drum machines. Pick out some styles as a foundation and then build on top of it. Think of it as boilerplate code.

Being a software dev by day, and a former musician in high school, the current world of digital music production tools is as incredible as it is overwhelming. It's good to have something that orients your practice and experimentation.
There are some cases TurboTax can handle that FreeTaxUSA can't, if I'm not mistaken -- AMT due to early ISO exercise being one of them.
CAPTCHA v11:

> What was the name of H.P. Lovecraft's cat?
Did you mean "Schrödinger's cat"?
no, because it is built into the raft protocol itself. with Acks=-1 we only acknowledge to the producer once data has

1. writen to majority
2. majority has done an fsync()

i can see in the future giving people opt-out options here tho.
Max Headroom? Go Blipverts!
There's lots of bottom feeders who love separating poorer people from their money. Gambling companies, payday loans, pyramid schemes, etc...
Imagine a world without advertising constantly. No generation before us has ever had to deal with this kind of constant aggressive product placement.

It makes me want to hatch a plan to take over the world, solely to ban advertising in every way, shape, and form, outside of Yellowpages. It's completely out of hand. And it would take real restraint to not send the advertisers to the pillory for the rest of their lives for thinking this is an OK way to treat human beings.
Yep that’s basically me

To clarify my marital status is single but that has nothing to do with my relationship status

Also I live in nice and connected parts of town and prioritize short commutes, ideally walkable and bikeable
Is there a kit to be purchased?
Do you think the pushback is due to them wanting to do the right thing and they disagree on what that is or because it would cost money and they would prefer to keep it?

Op said "the company won't recall" and to that point he seems completely right here.
> If you've never used one of those services, you should

Complex tax situations, likely will be using third-party advisors from here out regardless of what the IRS provides for wage earners.
The .zip Top-Level Domain: A Recipe for Disaster
Unlike the assassin who showed up outside Kavanaughs door.
i love this. you can make a pretty cool thunderstorm vignette with by drawing lots of rapid blue lines downwards and then a couple of zigzag lightning bolts : )
The county boards statement on that removal seemed pretty reasonable to me:

The McMinn County Board of Education voted to remove the graphic novel Maus from McMinn County Schools because of its unnecessary use of profanity and nudity and its depiction of violence and suicide. Taken as a whole, the Board felt this work was simply too adult-oriented for use in our schools.

We do not diminish the value of Maus as an impactful and meaningful piece of literature, nor do we dispute the importance of teaching our children the historical and moral lessons and realities of the Holocaust. To the contrary, we have asked our administrators to find other works that accomplish the same educational goals in a more age-appropriate fashion. The atrocities of the Holocaust were shameful beyond description, and we all have an obligation to ensure that younger generations learn of its horrors to ensure that such an event is never repeated.

Though I would very much agree that censorship of any kind is a delicate matter and can easily become heavy-handed in exactly the way you describe.

I actually don't know anything about that source. It came
up in a search and appeared to summarise and provide source-links to cases I'd previously seen. It wasn't as sensationalist as others so seemed worth including.

Glad you appreciated it. I wasn't able to find something that specifically summarised what I've seen from the US, but it is out there and was as concerning. Maybe it's a bit "boy who cried wolf" with the right in the US on this.

That is, while there's often puritanical hyperbole that's easier for left to switch off to, the right appear to have a valid point most people either side would agree to here, but it's maybe not represented well in mainstream left media.
Foxconn starts work on building $500M AirPods plant in India
It generates existing words:

trinitarium: https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/KNY9

proglyococcus: https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/dquv

nonrecursive: https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/uALs

I am somewhat amused by this one, which is the opposite of what I would have chosen:

> adverb.

> thriftyly

> in an unusually generous or generous way

> "they paid thriftyly to church"

https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/PgbQ
quite the opposite. they haven't existential risk where they might get blocked by one of the providers that I used to sign up, but I still am opted into a monthly paid subscription
It's way worse still. Even if none of the problems you describe materialize for a young individual, still smartphones are bad for development.

They directly come at the expense of socialization, physical activity, discovery and experimentation, group play, facing (manageable) dangers and setbacks, making your own mistakes and learning from them, etc.

To have actual experiences. Good and bad ones. What an absolute dead-end culture it must be to have no experiences.
See reply to sibling.
I don't think that's even a little bit true. Consider CIA "black sites" where prisoners are brutally tortured at the government's behest, nominally legal because we have contractors in some other country conduct the torture rather than our own agents. Or, widespread warrantless surveillance of American citizens that the head of the intelligence community will brazenly lie about to Congress without consequences.

If the government doesn't particularly care about an issue, like did Page rape children, then it will abide by the law. If the government does care, then the law doesn't matter. The government might take some efforts to conceal their crimes, but they don't even try very hard to do that, because it doesn't matter when their wrongdoing is exposed.
> [T]hey keep adding features to C, such as type inference [...].

The thing about typeof (and its close cousin auto) is that it exposes information that the compiler’s frontend has to know anyway for type checking. That’s why GCC has had typeof for many years, even back when it only spoke pure C. So while it’s a new feature, it doesn’t really have a lot of implications for the rest of the language.
Last year I had lots of investments that I hadn’t previously. This year I sold a home. Next year, I’m planning to get married. The year after that, a new home?

Maybe these are “drastic” changes but they aren’t unusual across the population. Not planning on kids, so that means I’ll have fewer changes than most. But the person I plan to marry has significant changes to income based on commission so I’ll probably be doing taxes this way for a long time!
Yes, the US government generally frowns on tax dodges. Famously, that's how they have put away hardened criminals like Al Capone.

But of course, the dynamics of our current system are such that the people least likely to be able to defend themselves legally are the ones which are frequently targeted for tax dodges. How many years do the extremely wealthy have to dodge taxes before the IRS finally comes down on them? Meanwhile, a friend of mine got dinged for a $500 deduction for unreimbursed work travel and not having receipts (a $2000 fine which she had to borrow money to pay).
Yea relatively speaking…
Both sides seem to say the other side only encounters a drop in the bucket. Can you provide some data or source like the other guy did?
C is officially a mathy abstract language since 1989, the compilers just took some time to catch up.

> 2.1.2.3 Program execution

> The semantic descriptions in this Standard describe the behavior of an abstract machine [...]
I mean, evolution is also "highly contested". Controversy surrounding "the idea of IQ" is as interesting as those around evolution, in other words, not at all. Scientifically, it is a closed case. Being highly contested is no excuse for Bard to spread misinformation.
Love what the team over there does with these web demos. They previously made this amazing interactive synthesizer learning resource: https://learningsynths.ableton.com/
Doh, thank you!
I think planned obsolescence can be a not-bad thing if the obsolescence phase is actually planned.

Is the product going to be trashed? Is it made of recyclable materials? Does it have materials in it that are hazardous to the environment? Can it be easily disassembled so those materials can be processed differently?
Procrastination feels absolutely terrible, just like binge eating. You know it's wrong but you keep doing it because you are not in a good place mentally.

Even if ending procrastination led to no increase in productivity it would still be a good achievement for mental wellness
I feel like the issue of whether he left are the real racists (as you seem to be implying) or whether they infantilise indigineous people is a separate one
Since you did not address the monetization suggestion; I hope that there will be some mechanism to prevent open DBs to just become closed/paywalled over night. If such a premium content is implemented, similar to free software there should be clear limits to how an initiator can take the work of volunteer collaborators and privatize it.

Not sure if viable, but I would much rather prefer a kind of donation system with some kickback to valued collaborations.
>then you are intentionally under withholding

What’s wrong with that? You can pay estimated quarterly taxes with a credit card too. Many churners do.
On closer, look it is a randomized trial with 3 hundreds of fat, hypertense patients, most of which are on some kind of drug or platelet treatment. That 70% hypertense bit pointing towards most of them being magnesium deficient to begin with.

The quantities involved are so small that they might as well not have bothered. In Asia, people have consumed +10mg of K2 for extended periods of time.
720 µg MK-7 plus 25 µg vitamin D or matching placebo for 24 months are laughably small. So small one can only wonder if they were trying the homeopathy where they keep diluting some concoction and claim it still has some effect.

Not even getting into the issue of whether D supplements are an adequate replacement from sunlight.

So, yeah, no conclusion...