skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Moving from indirect control to touch screens was great and intuitive for phones

This isn't even necessarily true for phones. Back when I got the early iPhone and iPad for my parents, one thing that they loved about it is the physical Home button - because, no matter where you were in the UI, even if you ended up "lost" (e.g. by accidentally fullscreening some app), you could always escape to a familiar place by pressing that obvious button.

Fast forward a few years, and it all gets replaced by completely unintuitive swipes. They were not happy, to put it mildly.
Try kopia.io is very good
> And I personally don't understand the flack they get for a lack of EVs when their hybrids are selling like gangbusters

Probably because people want a good Toyota EV. Right now, if you don’t want an SUV, there’s basically like one or two viable EV options in America. All I want is for Toyota to just build a pure BEV Prius.
If you're connected to wifi and enable android hotspot, it creates a new SSID which routes to the one Android is connected to.
> "every journal publisher and every editor will tell you..."

As much as I disdain academic fraud, I'm also deeply suspicious of statements about "every" editor. So I asked my wife, would is a lead editor of a major scientific journal. Her experience is nothing of the kind. Crappy paper-mill papers, plagiarism, etc.? Yes. Flat-out bribes, no.
I'm not running Wayland, so I can't answer questions on that. Also, you have the 7900, and I imagine the drivers for that are pretty new. You'll want a fairly recent kernel (6.1+) You might want to look for updated AMD firmware on kernel.org - do a "grep -i firmware /var/log/messages" or syslog or whatever Fedora is using now. The output of "dmesg" probably also contains some clues. feel free to post back here if you find stuff.
The alternative is to have only as much confidence in anything as it deserves.
Interesting. How is an untrained primate helped to get past the initial unexpected pain before the treat is made available?
I'm running it just fine on 10.14.
> They need to know where the sat is going, how much it weighs

Tell me that and I'll tell you what the bird is going to do. Specific orbits have very specific purposes, usually. And knowing the size and mass of a satellite gives a lot of information, especially if I can look at it or even just a blurry photograph of it.
some screenshots and examples would have been appreciated. none on the site, repo, or last couple of blog posts. weird.
None of these config/dependency problems are present in scrapscript.py because it has no external dependencies and is written in one file. This is intentional!
Also the "CLA" link just points to https://zed.dev/cla, which asks me to authorize Zed Industries to access my private GitHub profile. So at this point I don't even know what the CLA says. That's important because not all CLAs are created equal. I think some don't fully remove the contributors' ownership, which would prevent the hypothetical future closed-sourcing.
> Using the IRS' option, if able, shows uptake, which will be used to gauge success and continued operation and improvement. If you can use it, you should. It is how for profit tax prep gets driven to the margins, and is eventually sunset (except for perhaps the most complex returns).

FreeTaxUSA is part of the IRS' free filing program, except it exceeds the IRS standards by offering free Federal Filing for any AGI... no maximum.

FreeTaxUSA is already marginalizing tax filing software. It cannot get cheaper than free. Additionally, they're the cheapest/easiest State Filing system I am aware of.

> > Just use FreeTaxUSA...

> That is how the status quo remains. Hasn't done very well for us tbh.

This is exactly how the status quo is destroyed. FreeTaxUSA provides the same outcome as vastly more expensive software and/or tax preparation services, at no cost to you for Federal Returns.
The prequels were awful and Jar Jar Binks was a horrible, no good character. That said, I had no idea tripod still existed! What a blast from the past.
What's with the file download when opening the site?
Nutter. Love it.
Because I'll never miss an opportunity to promote this... Tim Hunkin has an arcade in London called Novelty Automation which is legit one of the most under-rated things to do in the entire city:

https://www.novelty-automation.com/

It's tucked away down some side streets five minutes walk from Holborn tube station. It's best described as a collection of satirical arcade games, almost all of which were made by Tim.

There's a small hadron collider, and a money laundering crane game, an Amazon Warehouse job simulator and so much more.

It is utterly delightful. Everyone I have sent there has loved it. If you haven't experienced it yet you should fix that!
(Not OP)

These days that's a lot less of a concern than it used to be. It is a lot of up-front work to facade e.g. Metal, Vulkan (and even D3D12) but it's much much much easier than back in OpenGL vs D3D9/10 days.

Most of the general concepts are more or less the same across them all these days. The "shapes" of the APIs are very similar.

A texture is a texture is a texture. Same for a vertex/index/uniform buffer, vertex/fragment/compute shaders (notably not geometry, but you can just use compute), etc.
> and DRM circumvention

Which makes it sound like a breach of copyright law.
We're simply at an impasse because you prefer the non government option, and I expect my government to provide it.
IMHO, it's better to just accept that there are only two Star Wars films. Wonder about what may have happened after the Empire Struck Back, and be sad that we'll never know.

It's better than the alternate realities that many experience. ;)
Thank you very much for the feedback - I'll take a look! I'm planning on adding to the tool this year, so I'll fold this in!
Share link in the corner is the way. Or just do a “replace” instead of “push” (using NextJS terminology)
The problem is (to me) it's entirely obtuse. I can't call the function and get back some configuration - which is insane to me. You have to pass in all sorts of state, and you have a lot of difficulty producing the exact same state as your config in question would see in a real execution. Or at least i do. I even asked on several forums and the answer kept boiling down to "Well, it's just not easy. Sometimes not possible." What's the point of it being functional?

Ie yea, i can load up the Eval and call my config func - but what about the params? Well now i have to generate the params. Some of them might be easy, but some are difficult as hell - and if they differ now executing my func in the Eval is not producing the same output (or failing entirely) as it does when i run it "for real".

Nix in practice felt like all of the problems of imperative languages but wrapped in a nice functional wrapper. It was functional without any of the real benefits of functional - to me.

Eg i can't easily get the same input and pass it into a function to produce the same output. To be able to view a function as a simple slice of functionality that i can inspect, debug, etc. They have get access to the entire universe (nixpkgs/etc), a huge stdlib, etc - and you need to recreate all of that if you want to use the function.
The more I read about forensic "science", the more horrified I become. DNA is still a shining beacon of scientificity in that field. The other techniques that guided most crime scene investigation before DNA were a complete crapshoot. Blood-splatter analysis, fire investigation, psychological analysis of testimony, all these are basically only slightly above the "source: trust me bro" level.

It's horrifying.
it is a general recommendation as the observation is that if more of the population educated themselves in this field and structured their life accordingly, more of the population could have the same flexibility in lowering their agi at their discretion

right now, it is a tiny minority of the working population that does anything preemptively for tax purposes, it doesn't have to be that way.
This site needs to be removed from Hacker News.
I don't believe you actually are aware of what you are talking about. There is no government option currently, except manually filling out forms.

Furthermore, it is naïve to believe the government will provide better service and/or usability than a private organization who's entire existence and purpose is to make submitting tax returns easy.
The link is broken.

Fixed it:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/23/ebay-layo...
With arrow keys and Enter?

You can argue that this gets too unwieldy once the UI gets more complicated. But if the UI is too complicated to be navigable with arrow keys, I would say that it's too complicated for a dashboard of a fast moving vehicle.

FWIW touch itself is not really a problem. Sometimes it is indeed more convenient. But when you can only e.g. adjust volume using touch, that becomes much more difficult to do while driving. Same thing goes for navigation and other such things. A good dashboard UX will let you do this using both touch and dedicated physical buttons.
Just because we don't currently have an alternative doesn't mean we should keep using a flawed methodology.
The point is about not getting provoked (or at least, not writing tedious things about how provoked you got in HN threads), not the size of the alleged provocation.
Do you have a source for that? Google returns nothing of the kind.
The gap between the clojure libs and the java libs and actually calling java is a jarring experience and really isn't a plus. While in theory the java interop is a selling point, if you don't need that it ends up being extra syntactical complexity.

Now I haven't coded extensively in clojure, so a lot of it stylistic unfamiliarity. It does hold back people from adopting clojure.

One reason why I'm excited never to use the JVM again is the huge memory footprint it uses. The best practices for production java is to figure out how much ram your process will need max under normal (not leaking) usage... and set both max and min ram to that (Xmx and Xms). It's a real hog on ram, and when running under clustered tools like k8 with can do memory overcommits it really reduces your flexibilty.

I'm super psyched for all these tiny go and rust programs that run and use like 50 mb ram or even less. Running a cluster of 50 containers is really no heavier than a single Xmx1g java process!
I'd love more help bubbles, since I'm not familiar with a ton of these toggles and boxes.

I'd also love to see how much employees would get, not just me. I know people generally care more about themselves, but seeing how it would work if you gave a lot more to employees would be great.
I didn't have any expectation at all, just contributing my opinion. I value all the feedback I'm getting and totally willing to agree that he was a fine person and I'm an outlier. Doesn't change my gut reaction, though.
> I would look to an RTSP doorbell if you're concerned

The problem is that the market success of products from Ring and similar companies have obliterated the market for DIY systems, so the few RTSP doorbells that exist aren't very good.
Israel Defense Forces is probably the best example (they were the first to put it in practice publicly): https://www.businessinsider.com/army-autistic-people-israel-...

You can see hits of it through Five Eyes, cybersecurity is hot if you are autistic as well:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gchq-jobs-re...

https://hbr.org/2017/12/why-the-australian-defence-organizat...
> Nothing wrong with that.

The themes maybe, but the forced positivity is frustrating. Trying to get stock ChatGPT to run a DnD-type encounter is hilarious because it's so opposed to initiating combat.
The new movies made no sense. At least the crappy prequels followed some sort of logic despite the bad execution. No one is gonna dig into the new trilogy for spin offs.
california is a socialist-injected bankrupt state that takes money hard-earned by people to redistribute it to people that did not work.

welcome to socialism : tell us what you need, we will tell you how to life without it.
I hate Login.gov. And ID.me. And every other external service the various USG agencies, departments, and administrations have "partnered" with to make logging in "easier." When I want to log into the VA's website, do I use my DS logon, or ID.me, or Login.gov, or MyHealthEVet? I don't know which one I used last, so I guess I'll just create a new login credential. I'm tech savvy and get confused, so I can't imagine the confusion of a boomer Vietnam veteran.
Not OP, but I usually trigger Python scripts from cron.
> Brother. Laser. Dumb and reliable.

Not anymore. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131
Any big, mature project is going to have issues that keep getting bumped down the priority queue for core contributors. With open source at least there's the possibility of an external contributor being motivated enough to fix them.
It's really amazing. Github Actions has been an absolute curse on my team, it's bundled with other Github and Azure charges so finance convinced us to abandon CircleCI and I have nothing but regrets.
Great data.

Now please fix github actions so it isn't such a PITA to develop workflows in. (I'd start with deprecating yaml actions, personally. Step 2 would be a local dev runner.)
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3639443

From the bottom of this allegedly duplicate discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39119141
Just recently, talks in the java amber mailing list emerged talking precisely about deconstruction of arbitrary classes.
K. Cool.
Are you claiming that the Permian-Triassic and Triassic-Jurassic extinction events didn't happen, or that they weren't coincidental with rapid climate changes?
> This is an attempt to bring overclassification under control, which has been admitted in the open press to be an ongoing problem for DOD

Can attest to this.

That and our messed up procurement process has caused too much info getting siloed, and slowing down development [0]

[0] - https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/06/09/america-we...
everything you listed is still better than giving it to the cops. "these random examples sound bad" isn't really a good argument for doing nothing.
There's no blockage - in fact oceangoing cargo ships can travel all the way to the Port of Sacramento, thanks to a thirty-foot-deep channel maintained by the Corps of Engineers.
It's kind of amazing. The issue is that the cells have a dysfunctional copy of the OTOH gene, which leads to production of a dysfunctional otoferlin protein that does not work. There are virii that inject their DNA into cells. They modify one of these to make them inject a working copy of the OTOH gene into the cell. Cells have a mechanism where if there is a gene floating around nearby it will sometimes pick it up and integrate it. This is the process that is exploited in gene therapy to change individual cells to produce the correct protein. If enough cells produce the correct protein, there will be enough to have the desired effects. It's really unbelievably cool. I wish there were more appreciation for how these things work.
Mayan EDMS version 4.6 available
- Component based UI system
- Easier index mirroring
- Move to Django 4.2
- Document malware scanning
- License changed to GPL 2.0
- eMail documents using the API
- New CSRF settings
- Performance improvements
Similarly this is why I feel kids were drawn to Steve from Blues Clues.
Yeah, I've seen a few things and listened to the Fresh Air interview way back when.
Euler went blind in one eye, and remarked "now I will have fewer distractions". He eventually became almost blind entirely, but with the aid of scribes, his productivity actually increased. It's remarkable how Euler didn't let being blind hinder him. A truly astounding mathematical career.
And Gauss.
"Our AI agent finds precisely what you ask for, 10-50x better than Google Scholar"

I was curious how this was measured since benchmarking accuracy for LLMs is tough. Found this in the paper:
"This classification accuracy was benchmarked by manually analyzing over 400 papers across a range of representative searches, and comparing the human evaluation to the language model’s judgment"

I'm skeptical that their dataset of 400 papers with 3 classification labels (highly relevant, closely related, or ignorable) is large enough to represent the diversity of queries they're going to get from users. To be clear, I don't think this undermine's (haha) the value of what they've built, still very cool.
Sqlite3 Utility in the Browser
That's pretty expected. I don't have too much sympathy for the investors here.

To a certain extent, investors are the ones who are creating an incentive for companies to stay private for longer by funding gigantic late stage rounds rather than having the company simply go public.

Private companies don't need to share info. Public ones do.
I think it's more like that 50% of representatives think that taxes shouldn't exist, so by making taxes an annual pain point, they are increasing their own support. "If it wasn't for That Other Party we wouldn't have you paying $39 to Intuit every year, but that's all they do, subsidize Big Tech with your Personal Information."
And? Human psychology hasn't changed.
"Keep your feedback loops short" is the main one :)
No idea what a MDPI is, just spoiled by acoup which is good historical entertainment :)
I have an EcoTank and print infrequently, clogging has never been an issue. I once didn't print in half a year and it didn't clog.

Printing quality goes down after not printing for a long time, but the automated "cleaning" (or whatever it's called) program solves that in a minute
I guess that's kinda my point. The Innocence Project should be one of the forefront groups opposing such fishing expeditions. Instead, the article says, the head of the Idaho Innocence Project suggested testing Michael Usry based only on a familial match, because a positive result might have helped get their client Christopher Tapp out of jail. I can't make sense of that, and it certainly doesn't seem consistent with principled caution about DNA forensics.
Technology moves faster than law, so we’re seeing areas where the existing precedent, such as the “Third Party Doctrine,” just doesn’t work well when I’m renting server space (all SaaS is this way) for much of what would have been personal property and papers. The nice thing about Western democracies is that they evolve over time and generally get better. In the US things are changing as judges are forced to review decisions and laws are changed as both judges and representatives start to understand new tech. It takes time.
> the fact that getting them wrong is a felony

Why do people keep repeating this? It's so obviously wrong I can't believe that saying it can be anything other than bad faith. I have miscalculated my taxes twice now: in both cases, the IRS sent me a letter explaining the mistake and what I still owed, I wrote them a check for that amount, and that was it. No "felony" or even the faintest hint of one was in play. The letters even had an apologetic tone and suggestions for how to set up payment plans, as well as multiple ways to dispute the charges.
> But, remember, the goal is to maximize after-tax gains/revenue, not minimize taxes.

yep. most of the things I like to do will satisfy that. people generally don't understand that the IRS is not this adversary that's waiting to be offended because they didn't get anything, when a lot of offices of the IRS basically helps you not pay them. Have to know how it functions and that requires education.
Absolutely HARD disagree. Pythagoras, Aristotle, Pascal, Descartes, Newton, Franklin, DaVinci, (just to name a few) were all polymaths. They all left lasting impacts outside of a singular domain. It's because they were such well rounded individuals that they were so successful and capable of revolutionary discoveries and inventions. Our world is made up of models that are related with other models that are related based off of that relatedness. It's maddening. Being "well rounded" is vital.

Today that concept is watered down. A "well rounded" education is just taking a few classes that people hate and will blow off because to graduate they need to check some boxes so they can focus on doing one thing moderately well and finding their place as a cog in a machine that will abuse their ignorance. It's all mass produced conveyor belt education that manufactures young adults with little conventional wisdom. The more you lean into behaving like a part, the more you will be treated that way.
Why wouldn't the head tracking be the same? They use the same H2 chip as AirPods. FaceID probably implemented ideas used by iris ID. Learnings from Memoji almost definitely underly the personas. Lidar in the wild I am sure provided valuable data and got developers used to working with AR.

From what has been reported - a lot of the AR things, including RealityKit and ARKit came from the TDG which are also who made VP.
I’m amazed how many words this article managed to use without telling us a single thing about how the architecture works.
I don't hate the prequels.

But to me, Jar Jar is a singularly unlikable character.
This is cool! I recently worked on integrating something like this into our blogging platform [0] to help bloggers monitor their links automatically. One main problem is with popular websites which have pretty aggressive bot prevention mechanisms. They often return 5xx codes even in HEAD requests. How do you combat that?

[0] https://blogs.hyvor.com
Doubtful, given my decades of experience and expected retirement age.

Working with 1000+-line SQL scripts written by other people is no fun. Why wouldn't you want to decompose that into legible, testable functions using an expressive language like Scala?
It is. Because the point GP / OP are making isn't that we are doing inquisitions today, but rather that the human psychology behind confessions has long been wielded as a tool.
This is just the whitepaper to cover the manager's manager ass.
Government: creates a byzantine tax code to allow the richest/most competent avoiders keep their wealth while consistently over-targeting lower-income groups for audits

For profit tax-co’s: do back door deals with the government to prevent lower-income/competence individuals from working directly with the gov’t while engaging in dark patterns to make the lower cost products harder to use/find

This guy: It’s the citizen’s fault and they get what they deserve for having other priorities than wealth management!

I think it’s fair to assume that all users want taxation to be as close to 0 overage as possible while also wanting all overage returned as quickly as possible. Anyone not working towards that sucks and is the universal enemy.
Well maybe such a JIT is an inappropriate choice for a sandbox. There are under-explored safe alternatives such as isomorphic interpreters e.g. https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-fast-interpreters-in-ru... personally I've written one such implementation that could hold it's own compared to a LLVM based JIT.
> It's a mistake to trust a cloud service with your data

Eventually, this has to change for the better. Right now, users don't understand/don't care...
Zed was the name of the Zortech C++ IDE back in the day!

It disappeared, though, because the author (Phil Murray) disappeared and we didn't have a license to continue with it when Zortech was bought by Symantec.

It's too bad, it was a nice editor. I never was able to find out what happened to Phil. He was an excellent programmer, and an all around pleasure to work with.
The low hanging fruit argument only takes you so far. How many other mathematicians in his epoch or before were able to pick as many low hanging fruits as him?
Production of Turquoise Hydrogen from Methane (CH4) Through Plasma Reaction
> "I don't play with my food"

I don't get that quip. Is the joker implying that they see horses as food animals? (Yes, I know that some places like France do sometimes eat horse, but it isn't common in English-speaking countries at least).