skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I guess it would be easier and better to just strangle them by simplifying the tax code, sending pre-filled returns to everyone and making a simple and accessible web app for people to file theit taxes with a few clicks.

Yes, that solution is obvious, and has been for quite a while. The problem is that Intuit et al, through their lobbying, are blocking it. So the problem that needs solving now is how to block that lobbying.

> There must be people who think taxes should be complex and scary, so would be against making it easy and convenient. What I wonder though is: aren't there any such people in the rest of the developed world where filing taxes IS simple?

Most countries' politics are a lot more sane than the USA's, so such people aren't able to exert quite the same perverse amount of power through "lobbying" -- i.e. bribery, thinly disguised as "campaign contributions" -- as in the USA. (Oh sure, most countries have at least some of that shit, in various forms. But few, on the whole, as bad as the USA.)
I've found a lot of value in defining away errors, too. I think it's one of the underrated principles from that book.
speaking as a humble statistician,
If x is your sample, given
x = {8, 3, 7, 1, 3, 9}
sample mean = (8+3+7+1+3+9)/6 = 5.166,
doctors mean = (1+9)/2 = 5,
trimmed mean = (8+3+7+3)/4 = 5.25,
median aka 50th percentile = (3+7)/2 = 5.

ofcourse programmers will have none of this. They'll code up a fancy function called computeMean(x) in java or python or what have you, with proper types & unit tests & suchlike, and declare "the mean is 5.166", and call it a day.
No amount of persuasion will convince them that the mean is unknown, because the population's distribution is unknown, so population mean can at-best be hypothesized to some constant c, and then you can run a hypothesis test to see if you can disprove said hypothesis at some alpha level. ofcourse with a sample size of n=6 your power will take a beating and type-2 errors will spike, but who cares about these esoterica when our famed intern has coded up the mean function itself in one afternoon!

Snark aside, every summary statistic has widely varying properties. Sample means will asymptotically converge to the population ("true") mean as sample size grows. Sample means are an unbiased estimator of the population mean, so they have the mvue i.e. minimum variance, the variance decreases linearly with sample size. But that doesn't mean one should ditch biased estimators. Choosing a clearly biased estimator such as a trimmed mean instead of the sample mean, which is what they've done here, can definitely result in a huge breakthrough (at the expense of higher variance but that's ok).
You do not necessary need more fuel to slow down. Mars atmosphere can absorb few extra km/s above 5 km/s with typical landing maneuver as long as the heat shield can handle that. On Earth Starship must handle 8 km/s re-entry and potentially up to 11 km/s if direct landing from Lunar orbit will be feasible.
Taking serious steps to make changes in your own country before requesting changes in others.
> How do people manage to figure out such elaborate ways to manipulate Amazon results without getting banned?

Because Amazon doesn't care, they still get paid if you buy a real product or a shitty counterfeited product.

In fact, such manipulation can result in increased sales and driving up the price of a product. You're more likely to buy something that has a ton of reviews and purchases, and more likely to pay more money for it if it has a ton of positive reviews.
Sometimes I really wish people would just write things out instead of trying to save time with needless acronyms...
Are beliefs like clothes? (2015)
Program Verification: Vision and Reality
Is this better than the commonly taught ransac (random sample consensus) for rejecting outliers?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_sample_consensus
Sure. I’ll be honest, the distinctions are challenging to me.
This year is the first year I've worked at a company that has stocks, ESPP plans, etc. and I'm curious what's the most effective way to file my taxes by myself if I don't use TurboTax? I've read that Credit Karma Tax (which looks like it got sold again to Cash app?) doesn't do a good job covering these scenarios.
You stated a fact "Copilot is trained on publicly available code".

The question (and implication) is: why not train it on MS internal code, if the claim that the output isn't license-incompatible is true.

If the output doesn't conflict with any open-source license (ie. it springs into existence from general principles, not from "copying" licensed code -- then MS-internal (in fact, any closed-source code) should be open-season.

I can imagine a few of the non-obvious segments of code I've written being "recognizable" methods to solve certain problems. And, they are certainly licensed (GPL + Commercial, in my case).

I think, at the very least, that a set of AIs should be trained on different compatible sets of code, eg. GPL, AGPL, BSD, etc. Then, you could select what amount of license-overlap is compatible with your project.
I've found the multiple contradictory sayings ("don't force it", "where force doesn't work, more force will", "doing nothing is better than doing the wrong thing" and its reverse) useful as a way of characterizing the problem space. ie in positions of uncertainty, figuring out which proverb applies is a great framework for approximation.
https://meltano.com/ right now says:

"ELT for the DataOps era

Meltano is open source, self-hosted, CLI-first, debuggable, and extensible."

That doesn't tell me what Meltano is.

I happen to recognise "ELT" as "Extract, load, transform" but I imagine a lot of people would have to look up the acronym.

I hadn't seen the term DataOps before, despite working in this area. DevOps for Data? But the definition of DevOps itself is still pretty vague!

I know how hard it is to explain what a product like this does - I'm definitely not there with my own https://datasette.io/ project yet - but what you've got right now could definitely do with some improvement.

Here's my attempt for Meltano, based on a very loose understanding of what it is:

"Meltano is an open-source tool for building automated pipelines for extracting and converting data. Pipelines are defined using version-controlled code, and the framework can be extended using plugins written in Python."

This really isn't very good, but it does fill in the questions that I had when I first visited https://meltano.com/
Good to hear, gonna try in on silverblue
They don't do anything really, besides ensuring they get their cut and cover their ass.
> The citizens cannot police the federal electorate.

I thought the citizens are the federal electorate?
Also has shares some elements with the earlier Pandorum (2009):

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1188729
I wonder if one could make trolling patent trolls self-sustaining.

For example, let’s say you get hit with a demand letter. I review it and agree to finance your case. Using my resources, I prepare to invalidate the troll’s patents unless they settle for some amount less than their expected lifetime value from said patents. This gets split between you and me (after litigation costs), with maybe some of my share reserved for the eventual holdout who fights and gets their patents invalidated.

Less emotionally satisfying than invalidation. But far more scalable and thus threatening to the model.
And Most Pointless Comment of the Day Award goes to.... Animanoir! Come on down and collect your prize!
Anyone who thinks they are going to make a difference by abstaining from driving their car is woefully misinformed.

We have cargo ships right now that are burning dirty oil and producing massive amounts of pollution. It has been estimated that just one of these container ships, the length of around six football pitches, can produce the same amount of pollution as 50 million cars.
I don't really mean that you should completely remove your work from your identity, only that you shouldn't tie your identity to one particular project. I think Bob would be in a much healthier psychological spot if he had made ten games by now, or even created art that wasn't games, instead of becoming obsessed with just one particular project.
Sounds like the precursor idea to Snowpiercer. Then again, I can easily see Jeff Bezos operating a train like that in the movie, so maybe it was less fiction than I thought.
I am from Pakistan and have quite a few cities there were temperature goes up to 50 degrees Celsius. I am living in UK these days and feel that UKs cold will kill me. Summer is the only one or two months when I feel alive.
Libraries (like Internet Archive for one) seem like the logical 'permalink' curators of information collections. I'm thinking, for example, of a large regional history site created by a a 501(c)(3) corporation. [https://www.historylink.org/]

Such efforts deserve a guaranteed permanent home with permanent funding. Another example: hundreds of 'Old-time-radio' programs and early TV shows have only emerged and survived because of enthusiasts. If they disappeared from Youtube ....

It'd be good to set up a universal 'permalink' library system (UPLS) like the DOI system and its 'persistent interoperable identifiers'. This could (and, at least in part, must) be publicly-funded. Anyone who wishes could apply for a unique ID. Then, subject to a set of specs from some participating library ("yes, we'll host that"), they could package that content with metadata. Backups must be ensured. If eventually the content needs to move (or can't find a home), the ID (and metadata) remains.
> Amazon is quick to permaban accounts from real sellers, who make a single mistake (sometimes completely out of their control) but are happy to let these fake review/sellers keep their accounts.

They banned my customer account from leaving reviews, though, because I mentioned that I got scammed from a listing I left a review on.
GameMaker Studio 2 Trial Changes
Love the idea, recently got referred to it by a friend. Hopefully it will help the "open salaries" movement

I'm more interested in the business side of things e.g. how do you plan on monetising this app?
> When a request already takes 500ms, an additional 50ms of latency is basically noise.

I guess it really just depends on what you're trying to do. I would never consider 50ms as noise. It's an accumulation of various things taking 50ms that results in your request taking 500ms in the first place, which is very slow.

I'm interested in this though. I think it's a cool experiment!
A company of TWO with a JV is surely moving to a partnership?
The character is super creepy anyway. Passengers is essentially Stockholm Syndrome: The Movie.
How else will they feign domain expertise unless you are dazzled by jargon?!
Hasbro make Joy for All. They obviously push an angle here.

Meat pets work. It stands to reason robots could one day.

But given the entire AI industry is built on lies, I'd hesitate to believe anything around this.

My robot vacuum which cost 4 times the price is garbage (but she has a name), Alexa has 10,000 employees and is garbage.

The naming of our vacuum to me is around a shared experience, (talking to other humans about her) It's unlike a pet for me which is a direct interaction.

It'd be interesting to post the Joy for All to them and get a telemarketer robot to ring them and see if it worked, but that sounds evil to me, which to me means it's the gifting in person which has the value.

[edit] The Amazon review are pretty actually glowing, https://www.amazon.com/Joy-All-Orange-Tabby-Cat/product-revi... The guy who bought one for himself after his wife's suicide and his disappointment is quite sad though
To be clear, I agree with you and make my best efforts but I know that there is no way that requiring individuals to apply restrictions to themselves is going to work. Seeing how little effect it has had vs tiny changes from government having massive effects.
They're getting closer. If they achieve rapid reusability with Super Heavy Starship then it'll be close to 99% reduction in costs.
My experience working in tech is that it's pretty common for teams to add 100ms latency without even noticing!

I wish that wasn't true, but that's what I've seen.
> Solar doesn’t provide nearly as much energy and for desalination you need a surprising amount.

Are there numbers for this? One one hand solar might provide more energy than nuclear if you're only interested in heat generation, but on the other hand using heat to desalinate (ie. boiling water) is also less efficient than using reverse osmosis.
What about collecting taxes at every paycheck instead of having me do it?
> Patent trolls are Americans that are destroying American manufacturing and small business

Why should the identity of their victims matter? Also, are they?
that'd depend on the reactor type, no?
The fact that I have a limited amount of time to invest in things is exactly why those things are necessary to have at the workplace.

I like having fun, and I like making friends. Being limited on time, I want to maximize the percentage of time in my life that I spend having fun and I want to maximize the amount of opportunity I get to make friends. It's great that I have personal free time where I can do that, but why would I not also want 8 more hours per day at work where I can also have fun and make friends? It would be silly not to, that almost doubles the amount of opportunity I have to have fun/make friends!

>and those relationships don't always follow you to your next job.

See my other comment in this thread. I haven't found this to be the case. Sure, not every relationship follows you, but that doesn't mean I'm going to forgo the opportunity to cultivate relationships that will follow me to my next job, or even for the rest of my life.
> ...we should think about how we can help more people become successful.

It's like you're purposefully missing the point.

What if most of serious wealth and success is decided at birth? What are the logical consequences of that?

Let's go extreme: A rich guy wins the lottery. He then tells everyone in town how they could've won if they bought tickets. What's your reaction?

> Even poor people today live better than kings in the past.

I generally agree with this on quantitative measures of productive or technological progress. Other quantitative measures don't look so great: education, housing and healthcare costs; health (esp. mental health) issues in developed vs developing nations; prison populations in the present vs past.

Michael Foucalt has better arguments to make here than I do [1].

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBJTeNTZtGU
Is there a filter available that just fixes the apparent direction of the pupil, so the image is looking at the camera, without doing any other edits? That would be really useful.
We can muster whatever we want if there's sufficient need/desire.

In energy-tech, a useful metric is energy-return-on-energy-investment -- a saudi oil well returns 40 units of energy for each unit of energy required for extraction, tar sands are something like 3:1, solar panels are something like 5:1.

Taking that mindset, what's the ratio of CO2-sequested-for-CO2-required-to-mine? Yes, we can get better numbers if we electrify all the heavy machinery and power it with solar, but given that heavy mining trucks are largely fossil fuel powered, where are we today?
Solar doesn’t provide nearly as much energy and for desalination you need a surprising amount.

That statement doesn't make any sense to me. If you need more power, install more panels. Space certainly isn't an issue in like northern Africa. It is cheaper to order a gigawatt or more of solar panels than building a new nuclear reactor, and faster to set up too. Even Germany today has way more solar capacity than it ever had in nuclear, and it is less a great place for solar than Africa.
Interesting read. Much more in-depth bullshittery than the usual patent troll. I love sparkfun, I've spent far too much money there building small trinkets, but I like supporting a local independent shop, and getting quality builds, rather than waiting and risking lower quality direct from Shenzen. I'm almost glad they got hit by the troll, because they're one of the companies with the wherewithal and life to blow them out of the water.
Amazon Opens Public Cooling Center at Seattle Headquarters as City Bakes
"But the wayback machine is pretty klunky and slow, honestly."

archive.org is much less annoying if one avoids using a bloated browser and Javascript to make HTTP requests

here is a more lightweight approach, not nearly as klunky/slow, IMO
(393 bytes)

usage 1: (simple html page of all results)
echo https://www.theatlantic.com/article/619320/|1.sh >1.htm
firefox ./1.htm

usage 2: (retrieve last result)
echo https://www.theatlantic.com/article/619320/|1.sh 1 >2.htm
firefox ./2.htm

#!/bin/sh
read x0;
x1=web.archive.org;
curl -s "https://$x1/cdx/search/cdx?url=$x0&fl=timestamp,original" \
|case $# in :)
;;0)( printf "<h2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$x0</h2><ol><pre>\n";
sed -n "/[0-9]\{14\} [hf]/{s/\(.* \)\(.*\)/<li><a href=https:\/\/$x1\/web\/\1\/\2>\1<\/a>/;s/ </</;s/ //2p;}";
printf "</ol></pre><br>\n" )
;;1)curl -s $(sed -n -e "s>.*>https:/$x1/web/&>;s> >/>" -e \$p);
esac

haproxy + nc version
(965 bytes)

maybe it is faster than curl, maybe not; you be the judge

#!/bin/sh
read x0;
x1=web.archive.org;
printf "defaults\ntimeout client 50000ms\ntimeout server 50000ms\ntimeout connect 50000ms
\nglobal\npidfile $HOME/1.pid\nfrontend f\nbind 127.0.0.21:80\ndefault_backend b
\nbackend b\nserver s ipv4@207.241.237.3:443 ssl ca-file /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt\n" \
|exec haproxy -D -f /dev/stdin;
printf "GET /cdx/search/cdx?url=$x0&fl=timestamp,original HTTP/1.1\r\nHost:\40$x1 \
\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n"|exec nc -n 127.21 80 \
|case $# in :)
;;0)( printf "<h2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$x0</h2><ol><pre>\n";
sed -n "/[0-9]\{14\} [hf]/{s/\(.* \)\(.*\)/<li><a href=https:\/\/$x1\/web\/\1\/\2>\1<\/a>/;s/ </</;s/ //2p;}";
printf "</ol></pre><br>\n" )
;;1) printf "GET %s HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: $x1\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n" \
$(exec sed -n -e '/[0-9]\{14\} [hf]/{s/\(.* \)\(.*\)/\/web\/\1\/\2/;s/ //p;}'|exec sed -n \$p) \
|exec nc -vvn 127.21 80;
esac;
if [ -f 1.pid ];then kill -9 $(sed b 1.pid);exec rm 1.pid;fi
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Just wanted to say that everything is ultimately "derivative", and this literal ordinary meaning differs from the legal meaning, which is informed by context, policy and what makes sense.

Where do you draw the line? That's for the courts to decide!
Security patches are one thing. The constant moving things around and putting "fresh coats of paint" onto everything without solving any real problems is another.

But then, at some point, all mainstream OSes will have been rewritten in memory-safe languages and there won't be any more exploitable vulnerabilities remaining. What then?
I may or may not have made somebody's shared-via-SMB-over-dialup printer print "FEED ME CHEESE" in huge figlet-generated letters. I may or may not have giggled maniacally when their IP address stopped returning PINGs immediately following. I may or may not have wished, for nearly 25 years, that I could have seen the face of the person who was sitting by that printer.
Maybe offer him a job?
actually only the tau instace type is marked as non smt. e2 use ht and smt.

tau is just a different more native workload.
Someone made the real pull the pin game from those fake Ads
I do not know what is really going on here but I can think of something that is similar. Imagine that Swiss communists want to raise a 10m high statue of Stalin. From one point of view it is just a statue but from another point of view it is a huge symbol that in many ways advocates against what Swiss people value.
That's an interesting employment detail, but what does it have to do with the other parts of the organization? I happen to know that they work together on security and contract areas, and it wouldn't surprise me if there were other similar arrangements in place.
None of these fines (either meme stock fines or systemic failures/price improvement issues) are "substantial". It's not even a slap on the wrist for Robinhood, compared to the money they are making. They are probably clearing profits north of $70M in half a day.
It seems like a simple solution! It gets tricky when you think about illiquid assets, especially those with few comparables, like fancy paintings or luxury real estate. Now you could say “well, we’ll just do this for XYZ types of assets, but not do it for the types of assets that are hard to value.”

But if you do that, you create distortions that would lead people to have a huge preference for certain asset classes over others.

Also, if you tax people on gains they have in good years, you have to also give people refunds in years when they lose money. Well, you don’t have to, but if you don’t then people will be much less likely to engage in risky ventures.
I wonder if it's possible to make some sort of patent troll insurance company.

Basically a company that attempts to collect as many patents as possible to weaponize against trolls and then provides legal protection to clients from trolls. The clients can share their patents with the insurance company too to help them become more powerful.

Then when sued by a troll the insurance company goes scorched earth to destroy them as a matter of policy. So their clients get the benefit of also deterring suits just because they're represented by this insurance company.
Can they send postcards from hell?
But, it's a known unknown, not an unknown unknown.
> > The cost is further reduced by employing only static or dynamic ram as a means for holding the state of the system. [...]

> Dynamic ram? Can I poke fun at them for not knowing what RAM is? Yes I can.

> The above paragraph succinctly describes malloc(), which is perhaps one of the most fundamental advancements in modern computing. The problem is that Al didn’t invent it. Memory management (the ability to take RAM and then give it back when your function is done) goes back to the dawn of computing.

No, this is wrong.

Nathan is referring to dynamic memory allocation, which is what malloc does, but that isn't what this line in the lawsuit is talking about.

Dynamic RAM, or DRAM is RAM that stores state in a capacitor. This is what your laptop uses -- DDR4 SDRAM is "Double data rate (version 4) synchronous dynamic RAM". In DRAM, the charge on the capacitors slowly dissipates, so DRAM needs to be "refreshed" periodically, which is why it's referred to a "dynamic" RAM.

Static RAM, or SRAM, is RAM that stores state in a register-like structure (usually cross-coupled inverters). It's "static" in that it doesn't need to be refreshed -- as long as the supply voltage is maintained, the bits stored in an SRAM will remain intact.

I agree that this patent lawsuit is bullshit, and I really hate to derail the conversation, but I'm surprised by Nathan's misunderstanding here, given that SparkFun makes embedded boards that use all kinds of memory. SRAM/DRAM isn't unusual terminology. The distinction doesn't even matter in the context of this line in the lawsuit, but if you're going to make a point of nitpicking about something, you should really make sure that you're actually right about it first...
I think MAUs are multiply-accumulate units.
s/quite/quiet/