skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true. The thing that most people won't appreciate is that taxes that are not done online are processed at a very slow pace. Most people don't try to optimize their withholding in a way to get close to 0 tax returns and won't be willing to wait long times to get any kind of returns. We all are paying cost of capitalism.
Nice Pulp Fiction reference :)
Your link seems to work?
Carefully selected video evidence, out of context, can be highly misleading.
Fred Rogers was a music composition major at Rollins College[1] and his wife Sara Joanne Byrd majored in piano[2]. So it is no wonder that he cared about the music on his TV show.

[1] <https://scholarship.rollins.edu/tomokan/67> page 69.

[2] <https://scholarship.rollins.edu/tomokan/66>
Personally I'd rather the EV chargers be put in the back of the parking lot away from the prime spots, as long as they're still easily walkable to businesses and amenities.

That provides less incentive for non-EVs or EVs that aren't charging to park in them and block the charger just because they want a good parking space.

I agree though that the best economic model for travel chargers is to combing the charging with another business that benefits from the chargers. Some of my favorite travel EV charger stops are at "premium" gas station franchises like Buc-ee's and Wawa that have clean bathrooms and good snacks.
Yeah, I've used this for the past couple of years and will do so again this year. It's solid.
How Electric Cars Work Animated
My understanding is that even though you view it as your property, according to the patriot act, it’s a “business record” of the provider and subject to disclosure without a warrant.
My point was that “more cameras” and “police access” doesn’t always translate to “only bad people get hurt”.

And that police do bad things, and someone giving them more evidence of their own life is probably not in anyone’s best interest. Because no one can guarantee that the police won’t decide to use it against themselves.

Considering the point I was replying to was someone discussing using cameras to watch for crimes, I think we’ve pierced the topic around paranoia and structuring life around evil people - that’s the whole topic at hand with security cameras.
> The intelligence community is legally barred from collecting on US persons

Only for their made-up definition of the word "collecting", which in some cases is "retrieving the data which we have already collected and stored".
The pressure to cut costs may be a little lower on the government contract side.
IIRC, you can now attach electronic copies of your brokerage statements to your return instead of mailing it to the IRS. I believe it changed for the 2022 tax year, I did have to mail in my complete 1099-B with transaction history in 2021 and before.
YouTube tends to post a downscaled SD version first, then they encode and post the higher-res versions when they get around to it. This can take days in some cases. Meanwhile the creator catches the flak...
Show HN: Custom meeting notes in ARC browser [video]
I'm generally a big fan of zed and have been using it for 60%ish of my dev time for 6 months or so. A couple of nice things to note:

- It really is remarkably responsive,and makes one really notice how UNresponsive everything else is. I have reasonably fast machines, so we're not talking about the difference between 5ms typing lag and 500ms, but it's still pretty surprising. VSCode never felt slow on my macs until I started using Zed.

- They seem reasonably responsive to feedback. There was some contention around how search/replace was initially implemented, and the current builds have something much more usable IMO. I'm not sure how much that was driven by community feedback, but the changes were great.

- The debug syntax tree mode is a really neat feature that I think demonstrates how much more advanced zed is under the hood than older editors that are doing syntax highlighting via regex.

There are a few downsides that I'm hoping get addressed soon:

- The collaboration workflow/security isn't very clear to me. You sign in via github (no other option???), there are 'contacts' (I guess these are github usernames?), and 'channels' (where do these live? on zed's servers?). I would really like to know if I can self-host the chat server and use a company oauth provider rather than github. If the diffs being passed around are going through zed's servers, that may be a showstopper for the company I work for as well. If they're p2p and encrypted, maybe not.

- I would love to see ollama integration. This + continue is the only reason why I spend any amount of time in vscode now. There's an issue for it here: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4424
There's a difference between having a negative personal reaction, and sharing it publically. It's causing a public harm based on nothing other than some vague internal feeling. It's unproductive and irresponsible.
All (or at least nearly 2000) of Mr. Rogers episodes are available on Archive.org. It's really great to be able to share these with our child, and us parents often appreciate the break and quietness more than our kid does!
> In any case, it's one of the "IRS Free File participants" according to the OPs link.

Indeed, but without the $79,000 AGI maximum.
Duply is a good frontend for Duplicity.

https://duply.net/Main_Page
I do have JS turned on, but it won’t work for me either. The reason is I use Firefox 78 which is the last version supported on my OS which can’t be upgraded on my computer.
One thing (in retrospect) that I love about the xUSSR school system, is its focus on competitive math and physics.

There's a robust multi-level system of "Olympiads", starting from the neighborhood level, and going all the way up to the national level. Every student knows about them, and more importantly, "magnet schools" scoop up students who do well in competitions.

This works really well for math, and so pretty much every Fields medal award ceremony has awardees from the xUSSR countries.

I'm really surprised that this kind of system is not more widespread, especially in the US. After all, sports and competition is kinda a thing here?
Let's hope education indivualizes to the need and talents of the individual partially via software. ChatGPT is my hope here.

15% failure rate is optimal for learning

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12552-4
Yah, that's not the problem he's referencing.

He's referencing that we have early 20th and late 19th century case law about third parties holding documents, etc, that is used to make everything sitting at a cloud service subject to subpoena without a warrant (email, etc, too).

There's all kinds of precedent that was based on sane tradeoffs for the 1800's that doesn't make sense anymore with the more complicated ways we transact and interact and with the ability of technology to commit mass surveillance.
Because TurboTax and H&R Block need that corporate welfare check from the government in order to survive.
On the east coast, there's been a trend to larger, well-list stations with clean restrooms and much better food than ye ole hot dog roller. A stop like that is perfect for DCFC, especially when open 24 hours.
It is such a game changer for me. Pair programming or multi pair programming if you will, suddenly has 0 barriers. Including others in your session with no overhead changes things completely. Before I would rarely include others in my processes because it cost too much. Now I'll do it whenever... Switched from sublime and got my coworkers macs just to be able to use zed and work in this way.

It is extremely important it works fast and fluid, and zed is the only one I've tried that nails it. There are still a few things that needs tweaking wrt. undo history, but I'm sure they'll get that to feel intuitive in the end.
It seems odd to be willing to give the government a loan over the course of the year, in the form of overwithholding, but then not be willing to wait a few more weeks to get the payout. If somebody is impatient to get their hands on that money, why not fix their W-4 so they get it with every paycheck?

(Also, as noted in the parallel comment, the forms can be submitted online, separately from the Free File service)
I agree with the sentiment, but in this case you just licensed software, you don't own the bits, the service, the components, or the video. Those files were never in your desk drawer, they've always been in amazon's desk drawer. While this is a step in the right direction, I would look to an RTSP doorbell if you're concerned.
The interesting thing about statistics is it implies future behaviour based on past behaviour. Up til now commercial aviation has been remarkably safe, per passenger mile traveled. But it appears that Boeing has been shaving off safety procedures to get 737's out of the factory faster. And their suppliers have been similarly pressured, by all accounts. And the carriers don't come to this issue with clean hands, either.

So yes, up til now, commercial aviation has some good numbers. But we're also seeing door plugs fly off, tail assembly bolts improperly fastened, wheels falling off planes as they taxi around the runway, single points of failure on flight control software that cause aircraft to nose into the ground. These are the type of failures you wouldn't see 20 years ago (except for the MD-80, which was designed and manufactured by the same guys who took over Boeing in the 2000s.)

I'm not sure I want to wait to be a statistic. I'm happy to take the train.
This is true only because our laws allow such a thing. The 3rd party doctrine is something that should be heavily restricted to encapsulate people's reasonable expectation of privacy for hosted services. The least of which for our industry because as it stands it requires wasteful work to add unnecessary security just to play legal games and hurts our ability to sell products that store people's sensitive data.
If the so-called liberal Western regimes respected privacy rights they way they claim to it would be perfectly reasonable to trust a cloud provider with your data.
Astro SSR with React components when in need (rarely). A joy to iterate upon since you don't have to worry about coordination between the frontend and backend. Easy to dockerize and deploy wherever you want (I'm looking at you Next!). Never been more productive in my life. https://astro.build/
For those who aren't familiar with these awards, it's important to note that the awards and the organization that run them have basically no governance structure other than people showing up at the yearly convention and voting.

Each year's convention and the corresponding awards are run by whatever committee of people submitted the winning bid for hosting the convention that was voted on by anyone who attended the convention two years previously.

The rules for running the convention and the awards are set by a meeting at each year's convention. Anyone attending the convention can vote at the meeting.

The only standing committee is the Mark Protection Committee which only has the power to enforce trademarks. Everything else is handled by the hosts of that year's convention.

The upshot of this is that the only action that could potentially be taken about this is for someone to submit a proposal to be voted on at the next convention in August in Glasgow.
Then I will put some more effort into it.

For many men, this type of comment is frequently made without any malice. (The original archetype several levels up was "Run Forrest, run!")

This seems like it fits into the general tone of a large fraction of interactions I've had with other men. Either I missed a lot of intended aggression, or this large volume of interactions wasn't actually intended to be aggressive. Of course, it's possible for a short verbal communication to be understood differently than it was intended. But in this post, we are getting the recipient's interpretation of the intent. It appears to me, (also a biased source) that this recipient is very sensitive to perceived aggression and insults. There's some analysis and speculation based on their perceptions, that seems to take it as given that intents were correctly understood. From my reading, this is very much in question. I didn't have the benefit of hearing tone of voice and understanding full context. But in their written form most of the lines categorized here as aggressive would have been categorized differently by some other unicycle rider. Specifically, I'm thinking of me. Full disclosure, I don't know how to unicycle.
The unprecedented surge in money printing which pushed nearly all asset prices higher, causing major inflation. The mandated vaccines, paid for by taxpayers. Lockdown policies which effectively forced most people under house arrest, sending tech stocks like Amazon, Google, Facebook to all time highs. There was also a clear conflict of interest between companies like Google which benefited from lockdowns, and their content policies which censored criticism of the response to covid. Needless to say it's creepy to have the vast majority of information controlled by a handful of companies.
I think it's important to consider any data being held on someone else's server as being effectively publicly available. That's one of the main reasons why I don't use cloud services and would never use a device that required someone else's server to hold or process sensitive data.
He's not asking about how to enforce it, I don't think.

He's wishing that things like your e-mail, videos in the cloud, etc, required a warrant for the police to search, instead of just a subpoena to a third party.

The article falsely implies that a warrant is required, but in practice police can just subpoena the information.
Doesn't work in Firefox-on-Windows, but does give results in Edge. Less than impressive results, mind you, but results nonetheless...

AI-Garbage: As Marcus Aurelius, I must say that... <snip>

Me: Ehm, why do you speak modern-ish English? Aren't you supposed to be ancient Greek or Roman, or whatever?

AI-Garbage: Ah, a most excellent question, my dear <snip> I find that the ancient tongues of Greek and Latin are most excellent <snip> I must admit that I find the modern languages of today to be most useful for, well, communicating with the people of today! <snip>

Me: Ah les langues modernes, je les aime aussi! Mais pourquoi insistes-tu pour m’appeler "chéri"? Cela ressemble à un interrogatoire garanti par les RH, non?

AI-Garbage: Ah, bonjour there, young linguist! <snip> I must apologize for any confusion regarding the term "chéri." <snip> Please, my dear, do feel free to address me in any manner that you see fit <snip>

Me: Richtig! Aber was jetzt, Schwanzgesicht?

AI-garbage: — Ah, I see! <snip> I must inform you that this term is not a word that I am familiar with <snip> I am always here to assist you in any way possible, while always being mindful of your comfort and consent.

Ah, okay, so it does seem to be familiar with the term after all! In any case, I don't think this is a particularly, eh, convincing demonstration of AI will take all of our jobs in the next decade, but anyway...
It looks like Bloomberg wrote this misleading article and put this title up, deliberately, on purpose. I don’t think it’s the OP’s fault. I wonder what else Bloomberg publishes on, in the same way?
There was an actual engineer as CEO.

They threw him under the bus for the 737 Max because 3 years in on the job and he was starting to ruffle the feathers of McDonnell Douglas.
... christ, I hope you tried turning it off and back on again.
Welcome to 2015?

https://www.theverge.com/2015/7/21/9009213/chrysler-uconnect...
Recent and related:

Hair sample that put a man in prison turned out to be dog hair - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39110088 - Jan 2024 (41 comments)
A Guide to Compiling the Linux Kernel All by Yourself
I’m pretty sure untrusted code means code you can’t trust, which includes any code that you haven’t either analyzed yourself or put through some sort of institutional review with auditable sign-offs.

It is how these conversations always go:

There’s a hole in the sandbox.

If you were trusting the sandbox, you were already doomed.

Nobody validates their code well enough to trust it. (we are here)

The ecosystem and industry is just irreparably damaged.

What am I supposed to do about that?

Non-solutions, because it is an impossible problem to actually fix
Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin among artists used to train Midjourney
Do you have some recommended devices that follow that rule?
I'll repeat my answer to the previous iteration[1] of this question from a couple of weeks ago:

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You might find something of use in some of this stuff:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=request+for+startup

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=startup+ideas

https://unvalidatedideas.com/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/

https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs

https://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html

https://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html

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In addition, the two videos on "How to Invent the Future" by Alan Kay might be inspirational to you (or anybody else thinking about this topic):

Part I - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id1WShzzMCQ&list=PLoROMvodv4...

Part II - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e8VZlPBx_0&list=PLoROMvodv4...

Actually, this entire playlist is quite interesting, even if you're not looking to launch a startup right now - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e8VZlPBx_0&list=PLoROMvodv4...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38923809
The beatings of our customers will continue until their attitude towards us improves. HP I'll buy from ebay, 1990's era or so. Indestructible and good value for the money.

HP Laptops: crap. HP Inkjet printers: too expensive for actual use, stop working when you need them. If they still make other stuff I'm unaware of it, I see the HP brand as a negative signal.

Boeing has been mentioned often on HN as an example of how management can destroy a very good company. I think HP is actually a much better example, they were the brand to emulate and now anything they do is what you really want to stay away from.
Batman is a good example of avoiding attribute clashing by going monochrome :) But I have the same memories, huge sprites and smooth animation, it was pretty great!
The "rolling window hashes" from the comment suggests sub-file matching at any offset. (See Bently-McIlroy diff algo/how rsync efficiently finds matches, for example.) I'm not aware that git performs this sort of deduplication.

Better yet would be to use a rolling hash to decide where to cut the blocks, and then use a locality-aware hash (SimHash, etc.) to find similar blocks. Perform a topological sort to decide which blocks to store as diffs of others.

Microsoft had some enterprise product that performed distribution somewhat like this, but also recursively using similarity hashes to see if the diffs were similar to existing files on the far machine.
All names on a paper should be tarnished if their papers were found published with bribes, you’d create an incentive for all involved to make sure no bribes were used
Ooof.

https://www.theverge.com/23573362/anker-eufy-security-camera...

> First, Anker told us it was impossible. Then, it covered its tracks. It repeatedly deflected while utterly ignoring our emails. So shortly before Christmas, we gave the company an ultimatum: if Anker wouldn’t answer why its supposedly always-encrypted Eufy cameras were producing unencrypted streams — among other questions — we would publish a story about the company’s lack of answers.
The post you replied to was talking about stateful NAT. Stateful NAT doesn't firewall either. If you do what they described, you'll be able to connect in just fine unless there's a separate firewall blocking it.
Open Source Delayed – pay for early access?
Sentry funded a history of open-source delayed, finding it more common than expected.

Between fully-open (MIT) and viral/copy-left, is there an open-source license that can sustain developers as well as users?

Historically, small companies with big customers who wanted the security of having the source if their small nimble supplier fails would have conditional or partial open-source (e.g., Sun's SCSL).

To date, the only open-source business models seem to be support, SAAS deployments, and value-add's (premium or custom). But given the strategic value of being first in technology, perhaps OS software could also be sold under the early-access model of publishing subscriptions.

(No endorsement of Sentry implied.)
But if Western countries really had liberal principles of democracy and freedom why do we not already have these protections?
Not really. Where do they want to sell their expensive toys and tools?

* EU is 450 million of potential customers.

* USA + Canada is market of 400 million of potential customers

* Japan + Korea is market of 200 million of potential customers

* China does not count, because they will rip off your product and you can do nil against that.

Rest of the world is just too poor to afford the product.
Encryption. Anyone org than can side step it doesn't matter anyway.
The location, size, description, ownership details, price and in some cases even pictures of your house are all a matter of public record. Google taking a picture of it from the street once every few years isn't eroding your privacy.
That you are charged to file your taxes are the most American thing ever. Over here you just sign your prefilled return via your phone and be done with it.
It would be useful to list IP ranges that the scans come from -- a lot of my web stuff has "hosting providers" firewall dropped because so much malicious traffic emanates from the hosting providers (Do you hear me, Digital Ocean and AWS?)
If Brother Laser Printers didn't exist I'd be more worried. I don't know what people that need color printing do anymore.
I recently was in Cuba and also visited a local print shop.

It was a delight to see dozens of hacked HP printers with tubes directly going into containers of ink doing all the printing.

The printers had small custom circuit boards attached and were mostly dismantled up to the very core of the machine.
As far as I could see it all worked very well and print quality was also good at a low price (even for local standards).

HP doesn’t stand a chance against humans who are determined to solve a problem.
This is really exciting. I currently use Sublime Text 4, and coupled with SublimeLSP, it does almost everything I need. What's missing is good debugger support and UI integration. What's the story like for Zed on that front? I briefly scanned the homepage and did not see mention of a debugger.
Yeah, I'm familiar with 3rd party doctrine and not a fan, myself.
Naively, what is the difference between panics and exceptions? Is it the philosophy on when/how to use them?
We have different bars for satisfactory.
Even if good devex didn't increase productivity, it increases developer happiness and as a developer, I will try to tithe my budgeted time to improve it and hide it among ambiguous tasks. When I feel I can't, I sense I am at a toxic workplace.

And while I've never left a job primarily due to developer experience alone, it's always the second reason in mind which makes me want to never go back.
Sorry, I wasn't trying to be political, but cheeky (I actually hate the overuse of the cliché I allude to). I didn't say anything about pigouvian tax.

I was trying to say that "informing" oneself is a very expensive hidden cost.

I felt your phrase "people buy products before sufficiently informing themselves" nonchalantly implies consumers should bear an unmeasurable hidden cost. We have a variety of solutions to help consumers avoid such unfair and wasteful costs (including Fair Use legislation).
I do. I don't care about the tech stack, but I'm always curious about what got people started building something. What opportunity did they see and what led them to that point.