skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is the system in the US much more complicated to require software purchases?

It's intensely more complicated.

My 2022 Federal tax filing was over 50 pages. I gave up trying to do it myself with TurboTax about 10 years ago and that was one of the best decisions I have ever made. I can sleep well at night knowing that as long as I provided the necessary information to my accountant, all the right forms will have all the right stuff on them.

IMO, nobody but the most trivial W-2 only taxpayer should be doing it themselves.

The state filing in my state is much simpler because it mostly piggybacks off the information in the Federal return and doesn't require dozens and dozens of additional forms.
> None of which is intended to let Facebook off the hook. There are better ways of doing this that don’t involve banning people for life without explaining (clearly) but I at least do understand how we got to this ridiculous state of affairs.

The conclusion people should draw from this is that companies as big as Facebook should not be allowed to exist. They can get away with this because they have too much leverage in the vendor-client power balance.
Are you planning on moving to Postgres from Mongo because you and the team have experienced pain with Mongo? Or is it because of Postgres’s popularity?

I’m not judging or anything; I’m just curious the decision making process for the switchover.
I am a big fan of strong.network, they have convinced some of the best tech people I know with their offering and some market leaders in reinsurance, semi-conductors as well as other industries across the US, Switzerland and Asia are already clients
I was wondering about that too, but the articles says they make networking equipment, like 5G-related things.
I've been running multi-server Moodle for many years. My sessions are in Redis, but you have the option to have them on the database.
High traffic Moodle (mine is about 40k users) is a bit involved. You need to set up caching and also connection pooling in the database and there are a few hidden pitfalls, but it can be made to perform very decently
Thanks!

The only option I saw was to wrap `useQuery` so that you can do custom shenanigans like hooking up the abort signal to the fetch requests.
> The problem I see is that these people think that "telling" on criminals and international intelligence operations is wrong, for some reason. That's weird and really negative for our country.

If you think it's weird, you must have grown up very sheltered. Every child knows what happens to snitches. It was common practice to punish both the offender and the tattletale when I was growing up, because "nobody likes a snitch". The vast majority of the population has the same or similar cultural context here.
Generally, if you buy it on the perimeter of the grocery store, and it has a relatively short shelf-life, it's not processed.
North American Cities Can Promote Large-Scale Adoption of E-Cargo Bikes
Usually when I’m surprised about something, I realize that I am uninformed or out of touch.
Firefox (and maybe others) seem to use punycode instead of the rendered ASCII at least in this case.
Picking a peer you have good bandwidth to is a hard problem.
After relocating from the US to Scandinavia, people here are always give me crap for having worked in a cubicle farm. And I always tell them I'd go back to that layout in a second compared the open landscape nightmare we have everywhere here.
You should LTW without UA.

(You should learn to write without using acronyms.)
They do not make phones. The are only selling license to the company that is branding them with Nokia logo. Nokia is a major global vendor of 4g/5g and PON equipment. Like really big. Especially now when using Huawei devices is not acceptable in many countries.
This reminds me of middle school while I was temporarily in a country with heavily censored internet, where, I couldn't even search for info about sexual reproduction in plants for an assignment without a VPN because they filtered on "sex".

So while I couldn't find info on actually innocent topics, it had been trivial to play around with search terms to find porn that the filter couldn't catch.
Sure but what would they have to steal from the Soviets?! I mean the West had A/C, cars, color TV, computers and so on while USSR was struggling to feed its people. Reminds me of the old Soviet joke brilliantly included in the Chernobyl series:

"What’s as big as a house, burns 20 liters of fuel every hour, puts out a shit-load of smoke and noise, and cuts an apple into three pieces?

A Soviet machine made to cut apples into four pieces."
That's great to hear
> Java (and JavaScript) is outdated: if you were designing them today, their strings would not be UTF-16.

Except that UTF-16 makes a lot of sense on Windows, which won’t change anytime soon.

Since you always have to deal with noncharacters, initial vs. non-initial BOMs, isolated combining characters, etc., and you have to validate your inputs anyway (meaning you almost always need a failure path for unvalidated strings anyway), I’m not sure if (unpaired) surrogates constitute that much more of a complication.
The 1040-EZ actually got dropped. I don't actually know the logic but I assume it was something along the lines of just use the 1040 and just fill out the relevant parts.
No it's not! I just accessed the site. Do you have a static IP address? if you don't, maybe you can try rebooting your router to get a different IP address. If that doesn't help you could try calling your ISP. It also can be related to DNS issues.
Has anyone here actually used mojo? I’m curious to hear people’s experiences who don’t have a vested interest in its success :)
Amazon's cavalier approach to verifying new sellers and their listings lets things like this get into their store.
Especially cause he faced the entrance to his cubicle with his face, not his back.
This, exactly this!
Spending money on DRM is supporting DRM, even when stripping it afterwards.
Not too long ago I heard about some fantasy series that I really wanted to read. It wasn't available as DRMfree e-book, so I got the paper books second hand. Reading them reminded me again how much nicer e-books are, especially when travelling.
I have since gotten recommendations for two more fantasy series which appear very interesting. Again, no DRMfree e-book available. This time I decided I will just not read them.

Imagine how quickly we could get rid of all DRM if everybody simply stopped buying DRM! The world would be so much better! To me it feels like a moral obligation to not support any kind of DRM.
Luckily there are plenty of authors and distributors who support DRMfree books, games, audio. Let's make the world a better place, for ourselves and for the next generations, by simply refusing DRM!
Nokia itself makes network equipment only. They also license their brand to a company that manufactures Android phones.
If someone is asking for my piss, it better be in a sexual context.

Drug tests are dehumanizing af. What I do outside my work hours is my own private time.
Will you be at M2020? Would be interesting to chat.
It's pretty true. Here's a screen recording some guy took while working in the dispatch role. They're tracking every driver in real time and measuring against the expected progress

https://youtu.be/8SJYPf73iJI
yes, agreed; specifically I had in mind codepoint 9

i wasn't suggesting manually positioning text pixel by pixel, but rather taking advantage of the potentials unlocked by displaying text with pixels rather than a teletype
One server can handle quite into the 1000s of concurrent users, that is for sure some people's definition of small...

For most it really isn't.
It's almost as if big tech's way of handling abuse specifically selects for assholes who know how to work around the system
Here's a clickable link: http://complish.ai
Yeah open plan offices is like someone looked at cubicles and said "they are not miserable enough, we need to change something"
I am a huge fan of Monty Python's Flying Circus (watched all episodes and own it on disc and as a book), but I never understood why people go crazy about The Holy Grail. The humor feels different, more silly with less wit to it.
This ruling isn't just "this specific case is allowed" it establishes precedent based on the ruling details.

I certainly think there is an argument for disallowing but am not trying to argue about that.

If you assume it is allowed then being careful about the controls put on police is important. Giving them unlimited access would be problematic.

So it could be true that this is okay but the ruling allows things that shouldn't be.
>The IDF seems very open about the strikes they make, were they reached out to for comment?

Yes. The very first articles say the IDF hadn't yet commented. Later articles included their comments. "Later," in this case, means "one hour later".

>hey, does it make sense that Israel would bomb a hospital packed with civilians right as the US president is about to visit? Would Israel so blatantly destroy the relatively high global goodwill and backing they currently have? What do they have to gain?

Israeli bombardment has hit hospitals before.

Israeli damaged hospitals in 2021, perhaps unintentionally.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/17/israeli-strike...

This is a stub of an article and the origin of the claims isn't clear to me, but it seems Israeli artillery hit the very same hospital we're discussing on the 14th.

https://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/news/news-and-stateme...

In the 2014 war Israel admitted to deliberately attacking a hospital, claiming that it contained a weapons cache.

https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/21/world/meast/gaza-hospital-att...

It is not, on its face, implausible that Israel would attack a hospital. It is also quite plausible that they would hit a hospital by mistake. They have done both of these things before.

>THEY HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF THE ACTUAL EVENT SINCE IT NEVER ACTUALLY HAPPENED.

The event happened. There was an explosion at a hospital that killed hundreds of people. This is not in dispute.
It's be funny if there was baby shaving cream—like baby shampoo but shaving cream and for babies (as advertised on bottle)
Oh my, I've never heard about gambas. It is just what I was looking for! I always get stupid ideas about simple UI based applications in my day to day linux usage, but everything I've tried is very cumbersome.

I installed and tried Gambas and it does have the VB6 feeling. A complied graphical Hello World was a matter of 5 clicks and `lblHello.Text = "Hello World!"`

I'll do a lot with this. Thanks again!
Median household net worth (assets - liabilities, not including NPV of future cash flows from personal labor income) in the US is $192,900 according to the latest Fed data: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scfindex.htm
Obsidian Importer now converts Apple Notes to portable, durable files
A few points.

- Reuters leads by saying the reports come from "health officials", "Gaza health authorities", and "Palestinian health authorities", as if these are reliable third party agencies. These are all Hamas, an internationally recognized terrorist organization that last week went on a killing spree murdering and brutalizing over a thousand civilians including the elderly and children. Reporting what they say without any actual verification is heinous and absolutely destroys their credibility.

> As usual, the New York Times has a good article on this subject

The New York times was one of the most egregious actors regarding what happened. They had a front page story about the hospital showing a completely different bombed building from the other side of Gaza as if that was the hospital that was destroyed [1]. I genuinely don't understand how people are not being fired over this.

> There were "around 500" deaths. 200-300 is "around 500" when picking through rubble in a war zone.

That's just it. There was no rubble. There was no 200-300 hundred deaths. Look at the photo. It was a parking lot that was set on fire with rocket fuel. The building was practically undamaged. People still act like the death toll numbers coming from Gaza are accurate when they are clearly not.

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F8uNSAbXoAABhR0?format=jpg&name=...
sounds like an argument for nationalization.
There's a lot of athletes and sportspeople that wouldn't mind an extra test to see if the carbs works out: especially as many of them really keep the fat levels down when athleting.
> they absolutely cannot be trusted with the responsibility of showing safe ads

That would mean having someone screen the ads. Google would need Foxconn nets for any building where they task people with watching youtube ads.
You can't possibly hope to measure aligned vs unaligned memory access with 10,000 elements. Or if you include the heap allocation for the array memory in your timing. Or if you don't take caching into account. Or if you do it in C#.
It smells like a bunch of FUD to me

Software needs fewer priest wannabes declaring ends of so-called eras. The death cult admiring endless updates and changes needs to be gone
Thanks - and obviously it’s a hot topic. I wasn’t looking to go down that track so much as query the ‘monopoly on violence’ thing. I didn’t know this was a libertarian view, and assumed a broad ‘self-defence’ belief.
Jews and Arabs both claim they are descended from Abraham's sons Isaac and Ishmael, respectively. In a sense, it can be seen as a very long-standing dispute between distant cousins over who should inherit their great(x160)-grandfather's land.
I think they should get rid of all deductions at the individual levels. They just cause confusion and hide true cost of things.

For example, I went to buy Jeep. 4xe version was $8000 more. But its battery lasts only 2-3 miles and it would have taken forever to breakeven. But dealership kept insisting that I will get $6000 in tax rebate/deductions so the actual cost is only $2000 more.

They had marked up the car by how much government was going to give rebate on and there was no savings for a taxpayer. I tried to have them issue give me discount now and claim my car on their taxes but, of course, that was not going to work. I ended up buying a cheaper model.

EDIT: Just checked the range, it is actually 21 miles on battery, which would have been enough for my usage. At that time, salesperson informed me that it was 3 miles or so. At 21 miles per charge, I may have bought 4xe. Math still doesn't workout, since I work from home I probably fill the gas tank once every 2-3 months. About $200-300 per year for gas. So it would have taken 7-10 years to breakeven after rebates.
This seems like the future. Shit that just works with barely any maintanence or config. As the comments show, we aren't quite there yet.
The idea of a closed source Nim in 2023 is bananas. Getting vcs to pay to make you famous instead of just contributing to better projects is certainly an option I suppose.
(codecrafters dev here)

It doesn't, but will soon: https://app.codecrafters.io/vote/challenge-extension-ideas?c....

We release a set of "base" stages first, and then work on extensions based on demand. DHT is one of them, magnet links is another that folks have voted for.
Statistical mechanics of consciousness: Maximization of information content 2016
I wish you every success with this, I'm really glad there are people that still care.

In case anyone else was curious about Public Benefit Corporations, or PBCs, I found this comparing them with a B Corp: https://socapglobal.com/2021/04/whats-the-difference-between...
Ah that makes sense, didn't realize that they aren't free to move.
I don’t know much about this, but I’m not sure “reset” is the right term here. It seems more like “overwhelm” than “reset” to what a newborn might have. Measles can cause autoimmunity, and I’m not sure it’s been shown to abate it.
So Epic basically bought bandcamp, shot it thru the head and sold the corpse to Songtradr. Shame
Fair point on the security theatre, but I don't get this:

> Also, no information on its authors, who audited the code, what makes it "secure" enough to warrant giving an administrative entitlement over my system. Hard pass.

The code is hosted by an organization on GitHub, who have clear links to their website, email, twitter. On their website they have their office addresses and it seems to me that they are registered with the Italian government as a business.

They don't mention anything about it being audited or make any claims that it is secure. Both of these would be something to follow up on if someone is planning to use it within their org.

I'm not sure what it is you want from them. They've released something, and made it open source. It is a little over a year old, so they're probably still getting their footing and figuring things out.
They state that they will have paid tiers on the site [0]:

"At its heart, Spacedrive will always be open source and free. However, we do offer optional paid services to boost your experience. For instance, with a subscription to our cloud service, you get an encrypted database and preview media backup, file transfer options, ample storage, and backup plans. These are perfect for individuals, teams, and businesses looking for better collaboration.³

Connections between devices in your network are always peer-to-peer, and never go through our servers. We do not have access to your data, and we never will. Our cloud service is completely optional, and you can use Spacedrive without it."

[0] https://www.spacedrive.com/blog/october-alpha-release
Companies would not be able to raise wages fast enough to keep people in their homes
Show HN: Tweetx for Twitter, supports iOS, macOS, and is support with iOS 12
It does seem to have an answer to most common challenges.

Debouncing (for interactive form validations) seems to be something that you still have to sort out yourself.

And I'm not sure how much work the mutation support saves in practice (compared to the extremely sophisticated Apollo cache).
Sorry, but that is most fanboyish thing ever.

If Google cannot handle their ad business, when there are too many customers, then stop taking new customers.

Very simple.

But taking money from criminals is very profitable and that is the reason.

Edit: Checked DannyBee profile: "I manage developer workflow tools and services at Google"

That explains why he is defending Google's scammy behaviours.
"Google probably knows you're a programmer"

I do everything in my power that it doesn't, but your point still stands.

My somewhat creepy story about this is that at some point I got lots of COPD related search results and ads and I didn't even know what this is at the time. After a few weeks my neighbors wife died from it.

I can only assume that my neighbors and other people in the house searched for it a lot in these weeks and Google thought I must be interested in this topic too.
For me DDG shows a fact card at the top about Franz Kafka, linking to the Wikipedia page about him. After that comes the search results, of which the first one is about Apache Kafka.
And the 1040EZ is even easier to fill out and probably works for the majority of taxpayers. But the bigger issue isn't filling out the form ... it is on the data side. If the IRS were to send you an invoice, independent of how complex the calculations are, the work to validate their data is much different than starting from scratch.
Is this a joke that I don’t Linux enough to get? That’s the same command with https redacted for some reason.
If by "some" you mean "every single one", sure.
I really wish the bump team was never acquired by google. I use to love the ease of just tapping your phones together and immediately sending a file or whatever else across. Made transferring to PC a breeze too just by tapping the space key.
I suspect that a great many of the people who say AGI is just around the corner and are giving <2030 timelines are saying that because they want it to be around the corner.
> and the other speculative execution

I don't think RowHammer is a speculative execution attack, is it? I thought Spectre and Meltdown were the best-known examples of SE attacks.
A very unfortunate choice of comparison on their end. People use numpy, they don't write matrix multiplications in pure python. This feels like an own-goal, because bad benchmarks reduce trust.
Those mistakes are systematic.

I worked on the team that dealt with that, and you pretty much can’t mention exotic animals by name if you sell books, movies, fan art, etc.
No it isn't (at least in the US). Banks have to adhere to Know Your Customer laws, and have to refuse services related to any person or group that's been sanctioned. OFAC has a search tool for such persons[0], but notably says that even using their tool isn't enough to avoid liability. Just saying "we looked for 'bomb supplies' in the memo" isn't going to cut it.

You might see dumb things because banks will do anything they can think of to ensure they comply, and enough in the eyes of the regulator is that they don't allow banned transactions.

[0] https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/
Hi, author here.

The problem is that it's actually really hard to write you own specialized glue layer,and so most developers who do that have poor implementations with low performance and/or incompatibilities with non-AWS solutions. In the context of object storage, we've found lots of applications have tried to add S3 support, and while they work with AWS S3 and have basic functionality, they fail on a lot of other S3-compatible solutions. So they end up tied to AWS, and you can't use them on Microsoft Azure Storage, or often on Google Cloud Storage (despite its S3 gateway), or others.

For instance, a key workhorse of the genomics field is `samtools`, which works with AWS S3 in some ways, but not others (like Amazon Resource Names[1]). Our approach works across vendors transparently, and on S3, is much faster compared to such native implementations.

[1]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference-a...
Modern typography in Firefox and Edge (I can't speak to Chrome as I don't have it installed) has actually done a great job of skipping underlines across descenders of all sorts (as proper underlining is supposed to do).
Then again it might not really exist at all. Probably the most insubstantial thing there is.
OP edited their comment.
I believe the examples in the post are all definite integrals, not indefinite ones.
There is a lot of silliness that something has to be "fun" in order to do it. Writing is talking to yourself, disciplining and bringing clarity to your thoughts, building a mental model and more. The goal is to understand something better and/or express oneself freely and not showboating/looking good.
Similar: https://github.com/cilium/tetragon
Yes, I have the same feeling about the SPECTRE mitigations, for example. No one is going to be attacking my home Linux box with SPECTRE (has anyone ever been attacked with SPECTRE?), but by default they remove like 10+% CPU performance, just in case. I disabled the mitigations.
Why you're thanking corporation for doing their due dilligence before squashing union movement in company ?

It's disgusting
It's faulty logic.

"Unions of type T are weak, therefore all Unions are without purpose" is not logical.

A poor implementation of a system is not a case against the system, particularly when other countries have proper implementations of the system.

(BTW I'm discussing things with the opinions given by others. I certainly don't think unions, even in the US, are particularly weak or useless. The president had to take action to prevent a particularly useful and impactful railworkers' strike last year. Teachers in Virginia got good pay raises after a strike several years ago. Writers and actors are fighting for their long-term survival against large studios.)
Marvellous. I asked it:

Which opinions do you tender?

and

Do you need a beefy GPU?

The result really was food for thought.