skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like the tax return industry Shills have downvoted you.. corporate Shills are all over the Internet they control everything
Perhaps it is related to doomerism getting more and more real?
Yes, and it is very very hard to tell prospective customers that a product is not for them. The temptation is always to cast as wide of a net as possible and sell product X as being product Y, often with the best intentions of evolving to be X+Y in a future revision.
Instance Segmentation with YOLOv7 in Python
See https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2023-May/241264.html for why this might not be the case anymore soon - although I suppose that adding in -fpermissive or -Wno-error=conversion or something like that isn't too much effort.
What you describe sounds an awful lot like SerenityOS, with the exception that it's not a VM, but a full-blown Operating System. It really does embody that pragmatic sense of no-fluff UI design that peaked in the 90s, but applies it to systems design as well.
I would point to the World Wide Web as an example of this.

This book

https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED058713

circa 1970 predicted that you'd be getting your news online in the early 1980s based on the "Delphi method" polling both experts and laymen. The author was famous later for books like The Media Monopoly that took a Marxist perspective but this book takes a McLuhanite perspective but attacks the concept (and wholesomeness) of "news" as aggressively as anyone has.

It turns out technologically all the pieces were there in the early 1980s, there was Compuserve, there was Minitel and various sort of VideoText or TeleText systems. Analysts from the early 1970s expected cable television to rapidly evolve into a more flexible system and vastly underestimated the foot-dragging that would happen in the process of tearing out obsolete copper telecom infrastructure and replacing it with fiber.

With the possible exception of Minitel (sponsored by the French state telecom because it could eliminate the expense of printing telephone directories) there was no corporation that could make the end-to-end investment to make a service that was compelling and affordable.

By 1994, however, technology had advanced to many many multiples of what was required, to the point where no great end-to-end investment was required to build a system, rather people already had investment in their computers, high speed modems were affordable, the price of intercity communication had dropped dramatically despite AT&T and other telecoms having no way to pass those low costs onto consumers to stimulate demand, etc. It was all so cheap that people started publishing stuff online without worrying about what it cost figuring the money would come later. Thus we got the web.
> "Ironic."

Predictable. Unoriginal. Redundant.
History of left handedness:

https://slowrevealgraphs.com/2021/11/08/rate-of-left-handedn...

Nothing caused the population of left handed people to soar. We just stopped hitting them in schools for using their left hands.
To add, one of the "infringed" patents here:

1. A computer-readable medium having instructions, the instructions including instructions that cause a processor to:

detect a first pressure on a first input device;

provide a first tactile sensation to the first input device, the first tactile sensation based at least in part on the first pressure;

[...][0]

In general any patent that doesn't help the reader recreate the invention should not be valid. They should be more like instruction manuals "describing the said invention or discovery, clearly, truly and fully,"[1] rather than a list of vague ideas.

[0]https://patents.google.com/patent/US7336260B2

[1]https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_States_Statutes_at_Lar...
I'm not a mind reader so it is hard to identify their POV, but it matches a popular brand of political sloganeering. In the context of depression, I think it is may be easier for people to project their unhappiness upon these faraway and indistinct entities outside of their control rather than deal with what might be the more immediate causes of their unhappiness. From that point perhaps it is worth asking if this brand of political sloganeering is empowering individuals or using a victimhood narrative to advance a political cause.
AssistiveWare ushers in next generation of AAC technology
>It's horrific in the UK for those that don't own

It's horrific everywhere if you don't own. Granted, some countries make it difficult to evict someone who isn't paying their rent, but that comes at the cost of landlords explicitly seeking to rent exclusively to people with good jobs or letting the apartment stay empty rather than risking letting someone in who might not be able to pay, with no way of evicting them.
It's almost true that they have no moat, or have a small one. Acquisition is the best option for them and the time window for that is closing as it won't be long until every company can afford to create their own gtp4. The value of those weights is going down fast, there are now hundreds of LLMs of medium size, all it takes is for any company to change the parameter size and retrain.
>Sindri or Chaunsa

These are available through most of the Indian subcontinent, albeit sometimes with different names.

I agree that these are much better than Alphonso. Also try Himsagar and Langra!
For me the convenience and access of city life makes it a better cheaper choice.
Obvious lockdown residue. Could also be COVID itself but far fewer people were directly affected by that.
Isn't this an insane policy?
> Most companies seem to be consumers instead of creators and only offer Jr.-to-Sr. level roles around making a CRUD API micro-service collection.

That's because this is what 90% of companies need. Even at big tech or any nationally-known tech brand, I'd bet at least half the work in maintenance, support, incremental improvement, and integrations.
I would like something similar to VoidTools Everything that allows a person to search their own computer using AI to generate answers instead. (But it should not send any information to third parties such as OpenAI.)
> Clinical depression had been slowly rising in the U.S. prior to the COVID-19 pandemic but has jumped notably in its wake.

That finger points at the social isolation hypothesis (though is obviously not hard proof).

I wonder if social media is to socializing what fake sugars are to real. It occupies the same sort of space without the benefits, and is more desirable on the surface while generally being worse for you. It's a discount but more easily obtained substitute.
Bad name... selects the wrong audience. OS is a hardware resource manager & hardware abstraction layer. This is a user interface paradigm.

Why not "Mercury UI"?
Totally agree. The housing market is simply in a state of stasis right now. Sellers are loath to sell at a loss, and buyers can't afford these prices because interest rates have gone up so much.

While I'm sympathetic to many of the other arguments that "moving is hard while firing you is easy", that dynamic has existed for at least 25 years. The total insanity of the current housing market is the thing that is relatively new.
The (fantastic) Reply All podcast episode #144, "Dark Pattern" covers tax returns.[0] In summary, the US government made a deal with private industry that as long as that industry offered a free tier of tax returns, the government would never create its own tax filing system.

I wonder what has changed!

[0]https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/6nhgol
Pretty cool project but something about the casual way the writer just wrote about manipulating and bullying his friends into doing free labor for him sorta struck me a bit wrong. It's really easy to take your friends for granted or to bulldoze them socially, and it's really easy for someone who's not so much the leader of a friend group to subconsciously feel like they need to go along with the charismatic plan-maker to stay on their good side and continue to be invited to group hangs.

Not saying at all that that's what is happening here, but it just reminded me of some situations in my life like that (where I was the leader of a friend group and didn't treat everyone who depended on me as well as I should have, as well as the opposite scenario where I felt like I was trying to people-please the popular person in a group).

I guess my takeaway is, I hope the writer also asks their friends what they feel like doing sometimes and goes along with their plans instead of just dropping their own plans into their laps.
I would appreciate also firmware, but that's likely to remain a dream.

My biggest annoyances with HID-equipment of the past decade were keyboards with firmware bugs (i.e. not accepting key-combos in all orders due to some QA-oversight, not having Home/End on Fn+<Left>/<Right>,...).

Right now I'm writing on a Dell KB7120W which occasionally "forgets" to send the Ctrl-key. Fun times whenever I want to expand a multiselect with additional items in a GUI and I lose the whole selection...
Increased/unlimited immigration seems like their preferred solution to the labor shortage problem. So what if a country's population are refusing to work, just bring in people who are used to worse and pay them less than those pesky citizens.
That's not the question.

The question was: If we take it as given that we shouldn't build new reactors because they're extremely dangerous, shouldn't we just as zealous about shutting down existing reactors?

If solar is cheaper than new nuclear plants that's cool and all but doesn't change the danger levels.
These statistics [1] would suggest that sociological factors are in play, especially if you look at the graphs for young people. The number of young men not having sex is at record numbers.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/03/29/share-ame...
Contexts are also immutable where it matters, which helps.
I would add many more, but a big one:

- significantly diminish limited liability. If your corp causes a chemical spill that kills many people, the executives should be put on trial for mass murder.

This change creates a large incentive to do the right thing -- like not implicitly killing.

These corporations are not people. They are run by people. We need to start holding those people accountable for their actions. We need to start naming them and attaching their names to the disasters they are causing.

If you are the head of an oil company when a massive spill occurs, not only should you live in poverty for the rest of your life, but you should probably be in a jail cell for the rest of your life as well for being a danger to society in the pursuit of personal riches.

If we can throw people in prison for carrying certain rocks for all their life, I think this is more than reasonable.
Would you say the same to a black enslaved man in the 18th century? Or to a Jewish awaiting his death in a nazi concentration prison? Or to a Palestinian deported from his home? There can always be rules or laws that are directly responsible to people suffering and depression.
Thank you so much!! It's also 1am here so I have to go to bed soon (Sydney time) and I'm the only dev person, but I'll try to stay up as late as I can.
Hmm, my editor is able to autocomplete this. Not yours?
That represents a more substantial change to the property. Subdividing may not be possible, significant changes to sewer, electrical and water metering. If you've got a parking lot that is shared then there is more of a challenging for its maintenance (e.g. condo fees) which represents more overhead.

In the SF world, going from RH-1 to RH-1S is is a much easier change than RH-1 to RM-3.

Subdividing an existing lot further can get into difficulty in some areas with minimum parcel sizes. For example, in Chicago https://secondcityzoning.org/zones/ you can't have a parcel smaller than 1,650 sq ft.

Switching from owner occupied property to something that is a commercial apartment structure can also impact the financial security of a household (you can't evict me from the house I own vs falling behind on rent because of a layoff).

We do need higher density and less impacting houses - but this isn't a simple "tear down the house and build four smaller one" changes for most urban and suburban places.
Dynamics 365 application modernization on Microsoft Azure
Okay, this was a great read, well the first part. Down to earth, had technical stuff in there, sneak peak under-the-hood. Showing tactics how huge project succeeded instead of failed: lift-and shift, approaching the rewrite or not to rewrite question, introducing modularity and Strangler Fig pattern to modernize application.

The AI part for me was abstract, overhyped and excited, but yeah, shows future direction.
How is telemetry so valuable that language maintainers feel the need to introduce it even when it is so controversial?
And they afforded that working a job at a furniture store with no degree at age 24.
Other interesting war/weapon related strain names:

“KGB” [0]
“Glock 19” [1]
“.38 Special” [2]
“Area 41” [3]
“Crossbow” [4]
“Grandpa’s Gun Chest” [5]
“Brown Bomber” (Grandma’s Boy)

[0] https://thehighestcritic.com/reviews/strain-review-kgb-by-ki...

[1] https://thehighestcritic.com/reviews/strain-review-glock-19-...

[2] https://thehighestcritic.com/reviews/strain-review-38-specia...

[3] https://thehighestcritic.com/reviews/strain-review-area-41-b...

[4] https://thehighestcritic.com/reviews/cultivar-review-crossbo...

[5] https://thehighestcritic.com/reviews/strain-review-grandpas-...
Multiplying Mag/Phase representations is easy; adding them is hard. The opposite is true for the Re/Im representation.

So some of your representation choice depends on what you're doing. If you're multiplying two FTs (i.e. to perform convolution in the spatial or time domain) then Mag/Phase is easier. If you're adding signals together, Re/Im is easier.
We hook calls to libc that are of interest (like open, write, execve), so when those functions are called we can exfiltrate the data to a queue, then return control to the caller with an unnoticeable delay. Right now, there is a capability to send data over the network, and we are working on the capability to perform remote management and configuration.
A runtime is a runtime, regardless of the size and features checkbook.
Yes. All the FAANGs have such roles. Sure, most PEs are "applied" engineering or management right-hands, but the same companies have PEs up to VP/Distinguished Engineers deep in technology... React came from Facebook, Google employees James Gosling (Java), Jim Roskind (QUIC) is formerly Google currently Amazon... at all these companies, there's a ton of deep technology the public hasn't even heard of.
I think Windows 7 was the last version of the OS that wasn't phoning home every time you clicked a button in the Calculator app. That could be a reason.
Looks like a decent list of places is developing in this this thread.

If you like a bit of retro computing, checkout the http://retro.directory/ lots of places - museums, arcades and events, etc.
The in person jobs are the ones having issues recruiting, so it should be easier for you to change that situation than the opposite at least.
Thats just BMW. Not known for their reliability.
> If remote work is established properly, then your remote job will end instantly and will be shipped to Canada or Latin America (if bosses care about timezones) or to Eastern Europe or India (if timezones are not an issue).

This was always the case for companies that wanted to offshore. Remote work hasn't changed that.
Meta needs to invest first on hardware (prob. creating smart glasses ala google) and go all in with AR. VR is good but I don't think it'll be "ready-player-one" good and that's the thing. I could see a case being made of using AR all day if you add it to smart glasses.
I think serenityOS is heading that direction: "Roughly speaking, the goal is a marriage between the aesthetic of late-1990s productivity software and the power-user accessibility of late-2000s *nix."
https://serenityos.org/
Bandwidth is a real concern, yes. Also, the intent is both for the school and open to the public.

But it's really not to build web dev skills, but literally to learn to read and write.
Can HN please ban these low-effort + low-contribution "I asked GPT your question" responses? These add nothing to the conversation, as you have no idea if the response is accurate or a hallucination. HNers should know better.
DNS can be used to unmask Tor users
No, I’m being literal, it’s just the environment I’m suddenly finding myself in in recent months :) I simply meant that the security of the TLS library (port) is founded more on good wishes and optimism than on testing or expertise (which the authors freely admit), so don’t use it as a daily driver.
I duly get your point, but my opinion is that most kids aren't well equipped to learn in the non-traditional way. The current system doesn't favor everyone, but I think it works best for the average kid who doesn't have exceptional abilities or the intrinsic motivation to learn in a non-standardized way.
Funny, for me it’s the other way around. Ain’t no way I’m going back to the land of C++ operator abuse, where ‘+’ doesn’t even mean ‘+’ anymore.
Why not a dedicated events platform that takes payments like Eventbrite?
Fun story! I think I would be happy if I found myself in the author's place. Someone getting mad at creative code I wrote would mean it got used in ways I didn't imagine and/or by people I didn't know of. Prompts for more creativity.

(edit: typos)
I set up everything to basically turn off at 6. Close the work laptop, and either set up time based notifications for everything on my phone, or a work profile (Android) that I turn off. While meetings have had a tendency to spread out (due to more spread out teams and trying to make calendars work), so I have a bit less time detached, I still feel like I'm able to detach, even with my work area being the same as my personal PC (though I step away from that for a decent amount of time as well).
Software engineering.

Most engineering is this way. Somebody needs to build a thing that isn't too different from other things on a budget and a timeline. Your typical civil engineer isn't designing a new burj khalifa. Most software engineering is about organizing a group of people to build a thing for a customer that isn't too different from other things, on time and on budget. There just simply aren't as many jobs working on wild stuff nobody has ever done before.

RollerCoaster Tycoon is, in my opinion, a great example of something that isn't really engineering. One person did it and the decision to write it all in assembly is almost anti-engineering. It is an impressive feat, but not really comparable.
Two PhDs should be the minimal qualification to enter!
>> Or in other words, we didn't get to find out how well it would work.

What small company or individual has the tens of thousands of spare dollars to actually litigate/defend? It doesn't matter if a settlement was reached or whether a strong argument was made --- if you have to spend 10k, or 15k, or 20k to go retain lawyers...it hasn't worked out well!
I am always intensely skeptical of the phrase "cost the taxpayers" when presented as a pure loss. It is almost always the opposite. It's like saying "Exercise costs a person energy and nutrients." Well, no shit, but you get more value out of it than you input in the form of burned calories and muscle strain.
>Open source only works when the group that can make the tools are also the group that uses them

Counterpoint: Blender is a wildly successful open-source 3D modeling tool. Yet the majority of Blender developers are not 3D artists, and the majority of Blender artists are not developers.
As a staff in practice, but not in title, here's how it works for me: My manager and I are at the same level. We work as peers. They handle the people stuff of the team, I handle the technical stuff of the team. They help with routing people/HR/management questions, I help with routing technical questions.

If you think "Gosh, that person (on another team) sure was rude", that's a question for my manager.

If you think "Gosh, I sure have no idea why that API (from another team) sucks", that's a question for me.

In terms of reporting to my manager it feels more like having a corner-man in the boxing ring than a boss. I fight the fight, they say "Hey you're dropping that right hand on your left hook, stop that or you'll get rekt. Here's some ice". And they spend more time thinking about and navigating politics-like issues in the org than I do, which means I can lean on their expertise when "org stuff" is needed.

I probably have similar or more years of experience than my current EM. The person we both report to, happens to be a true greybeard.
In the context of the article - and in most conversations - depression is short hand for "clinical depression" or "major depressive episode", i.e. the form where it is a disease, not the normal feeling of short-term depression after a bad event.
Isn't this also down to different types of Mango being grown in Brazil than in India?

The small yellow Indian mangoes that are exported also taste very different from the exported big green-red Brazilian mangoes.

So the export might have to do with it, but I think it's the type of mango that makes the difference.

I find Indian mangoes much better personally, even if exported, although when traveling in India they were even better.
Yeah, agree diet is a big part. Would also add physical activity and social structure though.
American Computer and Robotics Museum in Bozeman, MT USA https://acrmuseum.org/
I have a death grip on my 3% mortgage and thank the stars I got in just before things went more to shit.
Brain wave mapping to text is unique from person to person. They’re also hard to read and tend to require concentrated focus on specific patterns of conveying text (more like consciously shuffling to be understood rather than the reverse). I think this is an unlikely development. What is more likely is you have a personal device like a phone that you have reading your own thoughts and that’s just some leaky thing that corps can listen to.
The entire point is that yes, all of them are doing it and Apple isn't this golden savior among them that some make them out to be. They trump everyone else in certain aspects like longevity of software updates and privacy, doesn't mean they don't partake in costumer-hostile actions nor does it mean we should excuse those.
I would stay away from any company that treats Staff as a natural progression on the road the management. You just have 4 senior levels at that point, which is fine if that's what you need/want, but it shows a genuine misunderstanding of the IC path.

I'm a big fan of the 1 and 2 levels for mid+ as it gives a little more granularity, and the opportunity to increase pay a bit more and still have reasonable pay bands. But at the last senior level you really need to start focusing on whether you want to be in the IC track or the management track. You can certainly switch (I have) but they're very different and "ok you performed well as a Staff 2, we'll promote you to EM1 now" is a red flag in my opinion.
May I ask how it you use it? I skimmed their site and it looks like they provide time tracking software for when you are actually doing something, but what I'm looking for is more a page with many "kitchen timers" ticking down all the time and doing a programmable action when they reach zero.
If they haven't explicitly stated why they've flagged your account, it's not worth trying to reason out yourself.

Everyone eventually gets caught in Stripe's crossfire, unfortunately they have done nothing to make it easier to get out of that rut outside of making a lot of noise on social media. So hopefully someone from Stripe reaches out to you here, if not make some noise on twitter/reddit/facebook/etc until they do.

Unfortunately the rest of us can't help here since Stripe is generally vague about why they flag accounts.