skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I wonder how much progress and innovation, and general world progress, has resulted from opening the internet to include Russia, for example."

Off the top of my head -- nginx which is by some metrics the most popular web server[0]. Or Kotlin -- the programming language that Google recommends for writing Android apps[1].

"Sometimes including actors that do not conform to certain ethical standards and trust worthy behaviors, leads to spreading infection and danger to the world."

Could you tell how have you come to this way of thinking about a whole nation?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx

[1] https://developer.android.com/kotlin/first
I've actually seen code equivalent to this used for control flow. It was a very old bit of safety-critical code(!) that initialized a bunch of hardware from predefined tables containing pointers to overrides. For table values that weren't overridden (very few by the time I came along), it would access the null pointer to intentionally trap so an interrupt could insert the correct default and restart the instruction.

Certain higher ups determined that behavior was a business requirement when I refused to reimplement it on a new platform.
I see B when people want to pause for a bit - the vertical orientation will slow the progress of the cherry, and reduce the stink accumulating on your hand if you're just gonna sit for a while.

G is the opposite - the cherry is hidden. Used to light and smoke in high wind, and to hide it from your spouse or from snipers.
> why is legislation moving forward that doesn't address the problem?

Helping multi-million dollar inheritances built on the housing shortage dodge taxation isn't the political winner it might have sounded like on first glance?
The government could theoretically make anything a public service; that standard doesn't distinguish between one industry and another.

I support the IRS's new service, as a general matter (i.e., without knowing details), but you raise a serious issue.
This is only tangentially-related, but I know I'm asking the right audience: I switched, blissfully, away from Quicken/Quickbook/Xero/all that heavy crap to very simple and elegant textfile-based accounting (ledger/hledger) and it's been the best and most flexible accounting experience I've ever had. I finally feel completely in control of my companies' books.

Is there an equivalently-blissful tax-filing software/service? I don't want to go back to TurboTax, and with several single-member LLCs I'm probably beyond the scope of the IRS' free service.

Anyone have any suggestions?
>> But there was a pivotal moment for me when we had our first post-quarantine, in-person group gathering. Within 45 minutes I came away from three separate conversations with spontaneous to do’s and ideas to put in motion, something that hadn’t happened during the past few years of video meetings.

This is the only reason to work in an office: in person brainstorming is much better. Virtual brainstorming doesn't seem to cut it (or we at least haven't figured it out yet).

Something spontaneous about it that is hard to replicate via predetermined remote calls.
I'm sorry, but the folks who prefer Western-style NC BBQ are definitely wrong. Eastern-style is where it's at.
>Rule of Law (capitalised conceptual) is there as permanent ground truth in contrast to the ephemeral du-jure laws.

That's a strange way of articulating it. The Rule of Law is simply the concept that a society is ruled (hence the name) by the body of law that it passes. That, quite literally, the ruler of the land is the Law.

It's that simple!
I suppose for remote (unspiedupon) work it's ok, but in an office where you work do you really want to be using an app called 'flout work'? Did you mean flaunt? Or is it Flo[w] [ut?] work?
Philosphers <-> Drum n Bass Fans

Calling themselves "junglists"
I disagree.

If anything, this will compel the tax preparation software companies to get even better than before, and offer an increased value proposition.

Competition benefits the consumer, and for a long while there's been limited, mostly fixed competition (via Brand awareness mostly).

FreeTaxUSA is amazing, and cheap, but it does not yet have the brand power the incumbents do.

It's unlikely the IRS offering will be as easy to use or as pleasant as the existing offerings, but it will be a huge shot across all of their collective bows.

Keep in mind the IRS offering a free online service for tax filing does not reduce the complexities of the current tax code - nor does it make for a more fair tax system (one where having means to access professionals reduces your perceived tax liability). This system merely means fewer people need to pay $49 a year to file taxes...
Of course not! This being the NYT, you've got David Brooks, Ross Douthat and Bret Stephens to do it for you.

Those guys don't represent the rest of us, individually or collectively.
So, why is this downvoted?

This is the current state of scientific investigation, if you like it or not.

Maybe one of those who has been emotionalised confronted with this information can explain.
Related:

The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980–2020. (1997) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37605795 - Sept 2023 (1 comment)

The Long Boom (1997) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26734647 - April 2021 (37 comments)

The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980 – 2020 (1997) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705439 - Dec 2015 (1 comment)

The Long Boom: A History of the Future (1997) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5505143 - April 2013 (4 comments)
Small story about the time I read the collection Feynman's letters (I think it's a book called Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track)

The beginning of the book contained a lot of cute letters between him and his wife Arline. I was curious how much of the book would be this, considering I know she died of TB, so I flipped ahead and saw a letter to her quite a few more pages in, so I figured she must survive until at least that point. I continued reading and was emotionally caught off guard when she died only a couple of pages later. I'm not sure why I was so distraught at the death of someone I did not know who died 80 years ago, but I was looking forward to, and had the expectation of, a few more cute letters between them.

When I got to the letter that I had originally flipped to, it was the one he was writing after her death as a form of therapy to himself.

FWIW, they had a very cute relationship and the letters are worth reading for that alone.
I saw my first goatse in elementary school. Just continuing the tradition.
I came to post the same comment. They are going to lose their best people but it wont matter. Or their top 5% will get the ok to work remotely.

Roblox is the exact opposite of any company I would want to be involved with. It is a platform to create malformed children, a simulated dystopian hellscape.
The only "qualification" to use PGP is to read the manual.

You claim that _every single person on the planet_ can use the corporate apps, which implies that every person is able and willing to buy a device which can run them. Not everyone can buy a smartphone, and not everyone is willing to buy one for various reasons, but anyone with access to ANY computer can run PGP.

As long as computers exist, we'll have PGP. The other messengers rely on centralized infrastructure which could go down by accident or by hostile actors. Even Signal, which I love and recommend - and was not mentioned by the post I was replying to earlier (why?) - could easily end its services one day.

The wrong thinking I see in your post and the earlier one is this:

1. Lots of smart people create encryption schemes

2. Phil Zimmerman invents and releases PGP, giving the power of encryption to everyone with a computer.

3. Years pass...

4. In the smartphone era, Google, Facebook, and Apple incorporate encryption into their apps, in order to entice users to use their platforms and take their friends with them.

5. You and that other guy are all like, "Praise be to Google and Meta and Apple for giving us the power of encryption!"
If they can provide value on top of the public service and find customers willing to pay it, then they weren't killed by the public service.
I totally agree with the impact of spontaneous things happening when in person.

I had been working remotely for 8 years and really was 100% for it and advocating it.
I recently joined a new job where I'm at the office 3 days a week, and I can definitely feel the difference both in the time it took me to onboard (compared to other remote-only onboarding I did) and the productivity / relationships / other gains from those days we are all in the office.

Those ad-hoc conversation happening around a desk, a white board, at lunch, do bring a lot of value that you never get while WFH. I can definitely see how some of my previous burn outs may have been prevented if I was not 100% remote.

Of course YMMV, but personally I can definitely see how a company may decide to get back to the office and it's definitely not all black and white where remote is better and omg the mean bosses are getting butts back in seats for more control.
I have no idea what their experience is, but is absolutely not my experience on BC (selling digital music) nor that of anyone else I know.

They have the best margin-to-artist of any music distribution system I am aware of.
Sure, to some extent, but overall it's clearly in our interests to have that land be used productively. If we want some land to be fallow, as policy, again there are better options than it just being underdeveloped, such as park land or gardens.
Poor catering is insulting in America too, we just happen to be a society that insults by default.
> This means that an absolute beginner (roughly 30kyu) has no chance vs me, even with 9 handicap.

A beginner will find games on the smaller 9x9 board MUCH more enjoyable. They will likely have a decent chance vs you at 9 handicap, while reducing the very real risk of feeling lost and getting bored by lengthy play before seeing the result.

And you will probably find small board games more enjoyable as well when playing beginners. When they get a little stronger, I would first try the intermediate 13x13 to see if they like it better than 9x9 (there's a chance they prefer sticking to the small board for a while longer).

Beyond that, there is no reason to limit handicap to 9 stones, especially with free placement.
The US justice system seems very odd to this European. Then I realize that if the EU project ever were to reach its presumed goals (by some), we'd probably end up with something pretty similar in terms of "oddness complexity".
Fascinating, and if I go to their tech home page, I see this ranking for which tech powers the most games https://steamdb.info/tech/

Unity 38437
Unreal 10504
GameMaker 4130
RPGMaker 2700
RenPy 1973
Godot 922

So there are 4x more games made in Unity compared to the runner-up Unreal. And both of them dwarf Godot which is the only other name I recognize in that list.
This method doesn’t scale in a distributed system. Two machines running this algorithm will generate conflicts which violates the “universal” part of UUID which means you can run the same algorithm anywhere and you won’t get a conflict. So if you want to make this unique, you have to make a remote query to generate the UID uniquely. Examples of this are Snowflake. Also Sled (the database written in Rust) does a variant of this but it’s not a distributed system per se (ie generates unique identifiers globally on a single machine across process restarts which is useful for transaction IDs).

The current SOTA as I understand it is to have the timestamp be the most significant digits and a random value in the least (ULID, UUIDv7 etc). That way you get temporal locality for the UUID which is typically an indexed column where that helps for storage a bit (not so much for lookups because it’s still a random value relative to other concurrently accessed UIDs being input into the system)
There's a huge background check fetish here in the US, and it's facilitated by a massive lack of privacy and an equally big fetish for everlasting punishment.

Want a job or rent a place? Background check, baby!

Not just prior employment but even civil court cases and criminal history are all a part of it, and it doesn't help that even something as small as a traffic ticket shows up on your records.

Have you ever sued a landlord to get your deposit back? There's a good chance your new landlord doesn't want you.

Were you convicted of petty theft years ago? That might cost you your prospective job.

In most of the EU, much of this information isn't public, and in many countries, criminal records are inaccessible.

Often, in the latter, you can get a declaration of “good behavior” from the government if your prospective job has some sensitive elements. The government will then issue one or decline based on the specific job and its risks with your record in mind.

Were you caught committing a DUI? You won't get one for a job as a cab driver, but you can safely get one for working at a bank.

Have you got caught embezzling money? Then you can't get one working at a bank, but you're welcome to become a cab driver.

In the US? Well, you're SOOL. Enjoy being marked for life as your options to get an income legally have significantly shrunk.
> Americans seem to hate apartments, everyone wants houses

Tell that to every apartment building with a waiting list. The fetishization of single-family housing comes from planners, not the populace.
1. Most people don't have anything interesting to say.

2. People who do have interesting things to say deserve to get paid for their work.

3. Other platforms (e.g. TikTok) provide a more natural medium for interaction and response.

4. If you're just aiming to write, there's always journals. I journal and I find it very satisfying.

5. Obviously, people still blog, even if the scene is dominated by capital's obsession with SEO.
On the other hand, they probably will get an influx of HN users now. If they had used a tamer approach, I doubt this post would have the amount of points it has now.
Ethical non monogamy requires ethical behavior. If you’re seeking out students wives, that is predatory and unethical behavior. If you’re also denigrating women that is unethical behavior. While it’s possible that Feynman, the students, the students wives, and Feynman’s wife all consented to this behavior, it seems unlikely.

I do not believe “that is on the wife to say no, not on him”. If these allegations are true, he was a teacher engaging in predatory behavior. That is simply unethical due to the power imbalance. And the fact that he was asking people to cheat is unethical.
These pages are naturally out of date from the moment they're written.

Caveats aside, I use pyright, ruff and black (although ruff will probably one day consume `black`, entirely) – that's it.

`ruff` centralizes a lot of the linter/fixer ecosystem (isort, autoflake, pylint and more). `pyright` is for GoToDefinition and type-checking. `black` is for sanity-checking what `ruff` spits out, and should hopefully not be necessary (for me) as a standalone package at some point in the near future.

Ruff is not 1.0 yet, so I wouldn't use it at work – but I use it in all my own things.
Show HN: Terminal emulator and multiplexer through browser tabs
I was cajoled into using chromeOS at work, so I created proper terminal emulator for it: werm

TL;DR: Screenshots at https://github.com/google/werm/wiki/Screenshots

It connects remotely or locally from Chromium-based browsers, with all the features I have when working on macOS and Linux terminal emulators. It also supports input macros and integrates elegantly with browser and window manager navigation, unlike traditional multiplexers like tmux and screen.

This is worth using on other OS's too, thanks to that integration and other unique features. I use werm exclusively as my terminal emulator for work and home.
Some businesses only exist due to government failure. The solution is to fix the government, not preserve a middleman asking for their cut.
How will I know the software is properly optimizing my deductions without a 30 second animated progress bar with the words "Optimizing Deductions" flashing on screen, while also advertising to me that I could be leaving savings on the table unless I upgrade to the TurboTax Pro Ultimate package for no up-front cost*

* cost of TurboTax Pro Ultimate will be deducted from your refund amount, plus interest.
Here's a better / more nuanced standard:

If an industry exists because of the government and it can be replaced by a public service, then it doesn't deserve to exist.

FWIW, public defenders are a public service used to interact with a government-created system, but the private legal defense industry is alive and well. So, it's not like making a public service is sufficient to kill any government-created industry.
Couldn't agree more with the sentiment.

I started blogging [1] in 2012 as a kind-of documentation of my work and thought processes (especially with raspberry pi projects) because when after a year on not working with a specific technology I forgot many aspects or challenges I had to overcome and I was sick of re-googling fixes for problems I have already fixed in the past.

Blogging has been a blessing for me and I have hit the top of hacker news a few times and even though I don't monitize my blog in any way (not even affiliate links) I still feel good about other people learning things from my projects or mistakes.

For me this is the truest form of blogging

[1] https://blog.haschek.at
I started a random blog of my own for no particular reason recently. Even if nobody reads it I think I enjoy the whole 90s internet vibe of people having individual personal websites. Everyone being on Twitter, Facebook, Mastodon or wherever has no personality to it.
> Even with the artists saying their music is style X the mods wouldn't budge.

I'm reminded of The Immortal Bard by Asimov. A professor of Physics gets drunk and is talking to an English teacher, telling him how he can bring people from the past to the present. At first it sounds like a drunken, but good story, but he explains that older scientists were unable to wrap their mind around the world as it is now, so he needed a more adaptable, universal, creative mind, and brings Shakespeare, who adjusts well.

Eventually he enrolled Shakespeare in a night school class on Shakespeare's plays—taught, as it happens, by the English teacher, who begins to become genuinely worried. He recalls a bald man with an unusual accent, and starts to doubt whether the story was all alcoholic fantasy. Timidly, he asks what happened, and the physicist explodes with anger. Shakespeare had been humiliated, he says, and had to be sent back to 1600: "You poor simpleton, you flunked him!"
I think anyone with an ounce of common sense is aware that EVs are analogous to the steam era with similar dangers. Coal power is used to create and force tremendous amounts of trapped energy into batteries, which like a steam boiler is highly stressed with the added danger of explosion, thermal runaway and toxic chemical fire that can't be extinguished.

Where EVs - heavy, tire and road shredding devices requiring enormous amounts of largely unrecyclable materials in their batteries etc - have virtually no regulatory burden (why is there not legislation requiring mechanical door locks for example?) ICE vehicles, which are now highly sophisticated and efficient, are subject to endless meddling and restrictions.

An entire airport car park burnt down last week, which is an unprecedented event masked by a compliant media who are obsessed with selling the concept that EVs are our future - all just because a bunch of bungling politicians have tried to legislate change.

It's all a terrible mess compounded by encouraging people to abandon common sense and buy into the hallucinatory idea grids and the planet can support EVs within a few short years
No reason remote work can’t be spontaneous, even easier IMO because you don’t have to herd cats into the same space. A ping on chat and within 1 min multiple people can be in the discussion without even having to move.
Local police departments seldom have any real influence over a state AG.
> it should be expected certain private sector components might be eventually deprecated when government steps in to provide as a public good

I support many public goods, including this one, but they are a tool with appropriate uses just like private enterprise is. I don't want operating systems to be a government-provided 'public good'. Also, I think freedom is the core, but not only, value here, including in commerce. When government takes over, it's no longer a free market with free people.
Simplist and fastest way to get vr code up and running is:
https://lovr.org/
Because the “run length binary encoding”, does not track only null pixels.

It switches data from row major / AoS to column major / SoA form, then each type gets its own RLE scheme, timestamp remains on RLE-ing only 0 values but color and writer switch to every value being RLE’d (so each entry is a pair of a value and a repetition count).
I bought two Pinephones early on -- the second because I figured my original one, a developer early-release device, must have been faulty -- and frankly they were paperweights the day they shipped. I tried several different OSes on them and they were all more or less unusable, and the camera support was and continued to be garbage.

I had high hopes for the project, but over the course of years it still never turned into something that even an open source masochist like myself could really consider a daily driver. Phone calls, a halfway responsive browser, and a camera that's no worse than a 2008 Razr and I'd be happy... too bad!
Because if we have those tools we can always easily find new sites to attack. Molecular/nanoscale tools that can target specific cells would solve most of our illnesses, bacteria or no.
Thanks! I dug bit deeper and found old pricing tables. For Jira and the 500 to 1000 user tiers I'm interested in it was roughly about twice the money going from Server to Datacenter. Interestingly the Datacenter prices per user are similar to the cloud prices, so from Atlassian's perspective it is more a price adjustment with regard to the incongruous Server pricing. From the customer perspective it's still a bummer and I guest many will go straight to the GTFO tier.
https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/hWEMnjT83
Then it doesn’t sound like you disagree, because you don’t see this killing the industry.
They're often in places more dangerous including patrolling neighborhoods (the kinds neighborhoods that need extra paid security) full of 'random houses' and they investigate suspicious noises every one of which is an unknown situation. I'd rather tell people having parties to turn down their music than confront people breaking into places and committing crimes with nothing but a flashlight and a radio.
Those are likely reserve officers. Reserve officers are generally part time and are used for additional manpower for events or recurring security so that normal patrol officers aren't short staffed.

Generally the private entity pays the city, which then pays the cop. In many states private entities can't stop/redirect the flow of traffic legally so they hire off duty cops to do so.
Well, you would need a template with 8x smaller features than a EUV mask (at least in one direction, 4x in the other). Ebeam lithography can in principle do this, but it's at the resolution limit and the shot noise will mean there will be a lot of defects.

A sufficiently defect free EUV mask can be worth >>1E6$, for a nano imprint template this would be much much more and it's lifetime probably a fraction.
That's why nanoimprint litho is no alternative to EUV.