skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll happily talk about it with everyone who'd like to know. Also I firmly believe I am overpaid (as a freelance software engineer in germany) compared to people in other fields such as for example social workers or most hospital staff and even compared to my employed peers.
I find it difficult to express that without it sounding like a brag.
This year, so far I have made about 120k Euros (in profit before taxes - will be about 140k by the end of the year) from one full time project in which they couldn't staff enough developers. The FTE in that same project make between 75k and 85k.
Talking about it helps me put things into perspective and has led to a few of my colleagues reconsider their employment. Now, having trippled my income by becoming a freelancer has actually not changed my lifestyle at all and I save up about 75-80% of my money to buy a house someday. I have not been met with open toxicity about it yet and I don't expect my current streak of luck to last forever.
Energy density must be calculated from useful energy (work) after conversion loss. By that metric gas burned in an ICE is not much better than lithium batteries. The latter store less energy but it’s extraction is over 90% efficient.

Most of the energy you buy with a tank of gas goes to heat the air around and behind the car as you drive.
Filing taxes isn't especially difficult. Knowing that filing taxes isn't especially difficult is not so easy.

If you have absolutely no clue how it works, you're probably going to have to pay someone to do it for you.
NIH Admits to Funding Gain-of-Function Research in Wuhan
People often bring up the quip that "as soon as something is AI, people stop calling it AI" but I think pretty much the opposite has happened, the term has been expanded so much that almost any stochastic computation that solves some computational problem is now shoved under that umbrella.

However unlike jordan in the article who takes that as an opportunity to focus even more on engineering and practical applications I think it's well worth going back to the original dream of the 1950s. I'd be happy if people return to the drawing board to figure out how to build real, artificial life and how to create a mind.
Well, that was inspired by sed. I have to do a test in Ruby too see how fast regexos are, being spoiled by Perl usage and all. What I don't like is this:

my $a = 'Perl';
my $b = $a;
$b =~ s/pe/ea/i;

Why not do something to $a and obtain $b, just like js does with Array.map. Why the need to copy $a into to $b and then replace? Much more ellegant in Ruby:

a = 'Ruby'
b = a.gsub(/ru/i, 'mo')
> "there's a government-provided online portal for direct communication with the Finanzamt (finance department)."

A government provided portal?! Surely this is a case of government over-reach: directly competing with hard working private-sector businesses (tax accountants, tax software makers), destroying jobs and stifling innovation? It would never be allowed in freedom-loving America!

/s
They have some great things. I bought their Bitcrusher plugin years ago, which is really fun, and I think I still receive software updates for that.

Chipsounds is great if you're into 8-bit / chiptunes and the like (they also have a "chipsynths" series of plugins emulating SNES/MEGADRIVE, and other classic game consoles, but I haven't tested them...)

And Bidule is quite a thing. Is some sort of modular VST synth with tremendous options for routing that seems very well suited to prepare live performances. The Philip Glass Ensemble, through Michael Resman has used it at least once to make complex live setups: https://www.plogue.com/michael-riesman.html
Those are all implementation details that a passenger doesn't care about. Seat reservations aren't honoured. That has little to do with the ownership structure. You're getting on a big green bus with a huge Flixbus logo on the side, of course it's Flixbus's fault if things are wrong.
How can you say Uber is a crap service? Compared to the predecessor of hailing a taxi, the consumer experience of hiring an Uber far exceeds it.
In most cases your tax consultant does that for you and what they charge is regulated.
Here's a different take to that:
If I refuse to use Windows as my OS on my Dell Inspiron 7559 I have to live with like 2 hours of battery life and a hot lap because power management doesn't work properly. So much as watching a YouTube video under Linux makes it loud and hot.

Same laptop could do 9+ consistently for me in Windows and remained quiet unless I was actually putting load on it.

The reading I've done on the Framework laptops makes it sound like this situation has not improved, or at least not anywhere near enough to compete with Windows.. this has effectively ruled them out of the running on a replacement laptop for me.

An M1 based Macbook sure is looking appealing these days. I can live with macOS.

Not everyone needs decent battery life, but some of us do.
That’s an interesting conjecture, and I wonder if you have any evidence for it. In teaching probability and asking students this exact question about the results of coin tosses, most do say the second sequence is more likely (early in the class), and they are in fact answering the question that we intend them to answer. But, after further discussion, most accept that the sequences are equally likely. It’s my observation of that specific transition in understanding that convinces me that they are, in fact, considering the particular sequences that we want them to consider, and not, as you conjecture, substituting a general notion of some class of sequences. Further, there are always those several students who just never buy it, no matter how much evidence and calculation I show them. They can’t overcome their faulty intuitions.
It took the world greatest minds thousands of years to figure out the atom and the electron, some problems are just hard.

Another question The Guardian might ask: why can't the world greatest minds realize that Communism is the solution to all problems?
Interesting thesis!
Maybe constrained to US though. I really appreciate public transportation in Lyon and Paris, and never felt any need to own a car.
You shouldn't generalize your particular experience to "public transportation"
EDIT: okey lets be fair, a little less for Paris, because of constant strikes last years.
If anyone asks me during conversation, sure, I’ll answer.

It can be very hard to find good salary data in my region. So I gladly provide this datapoint to those who ask for it.
Go outside and get back to us.
Gifted and talented programs in schools were a total waste of time in my experience. I would have much rather been given more challenging math problems to solve or additional books to read. Also, the vast majority of kids in those programs were not academically "gifted." The number of comments I see on Reddit from people who say they were in gifted programs but are now working as unskilled labor suggests that my experience with these programs was typical.

With that out of the way, I support tracking, but not the broad brush tracking that is done today. There are a few kids who could advance very quickly if tracked. The rest should be thrown in with everybody else, with resources given to the kids who have little home support to help them not fall behind. There is nothing challenging about the pace of current high tracks, and everybody without a learning disability should be able to keep up.
There is this thing called all in one desktop
In my early 20s, I discussed it with friends outside of work in the context that they were also sharing. The friends I shared it with were in good industries and coming about very nearly the same. I wouldn't share it with somebody I wasn't close to.

Now that I'm in my late 20s, I won't share it with anybody other than my wife, including future children. Having spent some time in a different culture, and listened to a few too many episodes of the Dateline podcast (it's a thing!), I realize that it really just takes one wrong person finding out to cause a lot of problems in your life.
The Berlin wall was orders of magnitude shorter, had a much smaller population of people trying to cross it, guards with shooting orders, several decades of progressive technological improvements, pervasive surveillance of the people trying to cross it before the act. People still managed to cross it.
This is my favorite use of goto. Not only it makes it more readable and easy to ensure the cleanup is only executed, it results in efficient binary representation which is important for some of the embedded stuff I am doing.
What good is it to have a legislative body, elections, and laws, if we then allow rich companies to ignore these laws at their discretion?
I think the bias on this comment thread would lead most people here to be well researched and not do the two things you mentioned. I wouldn't buy a car without research. The example of a doctor is more fraught - in the US I met the doctor and would have changed if I didn't read them and believe them to be competent in my judgement (And the institution I went to had already a high bar for quality).

I think what is missing from their comment is that people go to do those things without doing prior research. In the case which you go to the car salesman once, you have already done your research - same with the doctor.

I know people who would exhibit the behavior without doing the prior research. I am not sure if they believe the car salesman or not, I can't read their mind.
You are being way too charitable. While there certainly are people that fall into the category you claim... there are many who are full blown Jewish space laser, government ice wall, lizard people shadow government, 5g microchip tracker crazies.
It tends to be a very small world where you get to know everyone after a certain point, or you know someone who knows someone, and jobs tend to be had by word of mouth. If you have a good reputation (which can be gained working on problems on visible open source projects), work tends to present itself. Even more so than in other fields because it is such a small world, despite the enormous amounts of money involved in semiconductors.

There aren't a lot of advertised jobs, but I think this is often because they tend to get filled via word-of-mouth and employability is rarely a problem for a decent embedded engineer.
The simplest solution here is to require users to present government recognized credentials when signing up for accounts. Users can then create pseudonymous accounts that preserve some notion of anonymity, but when they become abusive the user can then be held accountable in the real world. Any solution here needs to be gated by the courts though, otherwise it would be ripe for abuse in and of itself through doxxing.
> Strictly speaking, in an immutable world, your iterator only gives you access to the head of your collection.

That's true, but I was talking about iterators in general. My point was that functors, applicative and monads may seem weird and special, but we use the same thing in everyday life. Same thing about the signatures: iterator is that, just a signature, but nobody complains about it.

Your explanation about functional iterators is great, I think it shows really well how iterators are about treating any data structure as if it was the simplest data structure. In a imperative language, it's the array, in a functional language, it's the list.
The tariffs are bizarre because they don’t apply equally to passenger cars. Just pickup trucks. I believe they don’t apply to the new unibody crossover SUVs, making the situation even more confusing.
Maybe you’re hungry but it’s crunch time.

It’s like when the iPad came out and had a camera. “Who is going to lug around an iPad to take pictures!?!?”

But that’s exactly what I started seeing people do. Pull out iPads and take snaps.
Ask HN: What are the most useful websites you use?
As the parent, I'd like to say... my entire argument isn't that top-of-the-line laptops are too expensive for what they do but rather that

(1) older macbooks are identical to mediocre new laptops in performance & price

(2) medicore laptops are very cheap for what they do

(3) desktops are far more economical when you need power.

If you spec out a laptop to be both powerful, light weight, and as beautiful as a MBP then you're going to pay a real premium. Paying for premium things is not the default.
This just reminded me to go back and delete my Mint account.

The process wouldn't complete in Firefox, I had to use Edge.
It definitely gets much easier when you stop worrying about other people think of you.
My personal opinion is that the pandemic offered a unique opportunity for hidden 'crazy beliefs' to expose themselves.

If Uncle Bob in 2017 believed that the federal reserve was run by a cabal hoarding 90% of our tax money to enrich themselves, nobody would really care unless he feels the need to bring it up in every conversation to the detriment of normal human interaction.

If Uncle Bob in 2020 believes that, he probably also believes that the cabal is using masks to control the population, which causes an immediate conflict when he insists on going unmasked everywhere, including visits to elderly grandma. And then in 2021 that belief probably gets extended to vaccines.

In other words, the pandemic offered a unique opportunity for conspiracy theories to conflict with day-to-day life in a way that wasn't true before the pandemic.
As a materialist in matters of the mind, I regard proposition 2 to be an unverifiable belief of those who hold it, but I also regard proposition 1 as being simply a statement of how things currently are: at this point, we do not, in fact, know what intelligence is.

To say that it is "just" highly tuned patterned IO with the environment would be so broad as to be meaningless; all the explanation is being brushed away by that "just", and in the current state of research, no-one has either demonstrated AI or explained intelligence with sufficient specificity for this to be a clearly true synopsis of our knowledge.

You are not quite, however, asserting that to be so, you simply posed the question of whether it is so. In so doing, you are shifting the burden of proof, and proposition 1 stands until someone settles the issue by presenting a testable - and tested - theory of intelligence (note that I wrote of intelligence, not about intelligence; we have plenty of the latter that do not rise to the level of being the former.)

My attitude to the current crop of models is that they demonstrate something interesting about the predictability of everyday human language, but not enough to assume that simply more of the same (or something like it) will amount to AI - we seem to be missing some important parts of the puzzle. If a language model can come up with a response coherently explaining why I am mistaken in so thinking, then I will agree that AI has been achieved.
Is there a reason to assume disease couldn't have come into existence in this native population itself?
I think part of the problem might be people too often try to come up with some grand unifying theory all at once, without standing on the shoulders of giants. Sort of like trying to write a gigantic codebase all in one sitting (no test suite, no syntax highlighting) and then sending it off for code review without even running it.

This preprint my co-authors and I are working on might offer something of a babystep, not toward consciousness itself but toward the simpler problem of self-reflection, and more specifically of measuring self-reflection in reinforcement learning agents: https://philpapers.org/archive/ALEEET-3.pdf
> They know that already and calculate it in your account. You're acknowledging that debt to them.

But that’s part of the problem. What is the purpose of making people acknowledge that debt? Why not send a bill showing the calculation that the government already knows? Even if it’s just a few hours, accumulate that for every person that pays taxes for every year of their adult life and now you’re wasting millions of person hours just to let a couple of companies sell products/services that are not really needed.
No different than using a block heater or diesel coolant heater then. ICE vehicles use a lot more fuel in winter too, and take a long time to get up to temperature.
Excellent business strategy. This'll get repeat business and make sure the bottom line is strong.
I've always found the cases where people like Uber/Lyft to be a bit absurd. I live just outside Chicago. In the city, there were (and still are) abundant taxis. It's a simple matter to hail a cab from most parts of the city (when I lived in the city proper, I would occasionally cab to work instead of take the bus if I was running late, or use one to get home from band practice and it was my usual mode of transport for dates since I didn't have a car) and the people who will go into an app to schedule an Uber or Lyft always seem absurd because they could be into a taxi in no time just by going to the corner and raising their hand. In the suburbs, it makes more sense because taxi service here is a much worse,¹ but I don't see a single defender of ride shares in the current threads talking about a suburban experience.

The taxi driver/credit card thing varies on city, by the way. L.A. taxi drivers are always grumpy about taking credit cards. Chicago taxi drivers have no problem with it (I think because they've discovered that they tend to get better tips with credit cards than they do with cash which makes up for the processing fees. Fast food places discovered something similar where accepting credit cards increased their average order price enough to make up for the loss in net revenue from CC fees).

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1. This, admittedly is the case in some cities as well. Los Angeles (used to? I remember there was a proposal to change this but I don't know if it passed) banned cabs from picking up passengers who hailed them from a corner and that's the case with the suburban taxis in the Chicago area as well—they can only pick up dispatch rides, except at the airport.
NIH Admits Funding Gain-of-Function Covid Experiments
There is considerable overlap between people who have no clue how taxes work and people who cannot afford to pay professionals to do it for them.
I made the same mistake reading the title and felt a rare emotional mix of being enraged and puzzled at the same time.
It doesn't work so well for muslims in India...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/02/21/india-muslims-deported-...

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2021/country-chapters/india
Because Nassim, like Wolfram, delivers.
Yes because I value openness and honesty even when it is uncomfortable sometimes. But only when they ask me and give me a chance to tell them that it doesn't reflect me but mainly the profitable tech industry.
The location is a bit weird also. Ingolstadt or similar they’d at least be able to find a lot of staff, I think it may be tricky around Berlin.. Time will tell I guess.
California tried to save the country from gasoline cars, then Ford and Chrysler stepped in and ended up bankrupting General Motors.

This is a common theme with big businesses. Instead of complying with "make people's life easier" initiatives they just pay off the politicians.
> They know that already and calculate it.

Why waste people's time with this stuff then?
> So there is absolutely no link between his murder and seemingly any online activity, but they're still going to use his murder to to justify... harsher punishment for being mean to government employees online? Never let a crisis go to waste I guess.

Hitting the nail on the head.
Even when I worked there I didn't do the routing. Now I still root for them. Auto-Correct is a blessing sometimes!
I recommend hiring an accountant. For as low as 50€/month I don’t have to worry about filling taxes (I’m programmer on a contract)
If you have all these assets and your time is valuable I imagine you can cough up a few $ to pay a local tax accountant. I do this for my single member company, it costs $150 each year. Very worth it and a small price to pay. They even do a quick review of my books.

At this point I am familiar enough with all the forms that I could probably do it myself in less than an hour. But I don't mind supporting the accountant, it's fun to chat with him each year.
Conventional Lead Acid or AGM batteries get somewhere around 500-700 cycles before the battery is bad.

With Lithium iron phosphate batteries the charge cycles are in the 5000-9000 cycle range.

TLDR: They can be discharged significantly more times than conventional lead acid batteries.
I assume I'm displaying my ignorance, but it feels almost tautological to me.
Tesla is going to be using multiple battery chemistries for different vehicles.

LFP is just for lower range vehicles where the advantages of LFP outweigh the decreased energy density.

https://i.imgur.com/ycylklk.jpeg
Was that via ebay? I really want to sell my devices. Since work-from-home became a norm, I'm struggling to find actual reasons to use a laptop.
Yes. For people with super simple tax returns, e.g. a few W2/1099s/standard deductions/no cost basis issues/etc., I suppose it would be convenient to have taxes auto-filed but it really isn't a big deal and doesn't require software. Once you get into the complexities that make tax filing a big deal and may involve accountants or multiple evenings with tax software, auto-filing isn't going to work.
> now they all need to be replaced after 3 years.

Your link doesn't say that. They were all taken offline, but the issue is with the wheel assembly, not the entire car, and it seems likely to me that only a portion of those will have to be replaced.
1. I researched car reliability, resale value, makes and models and determined that a Honda Accord best met my requirements.

2. There was exactly one Honda dealership within driving distance in the state where I wanted to buy the vehicle

3. I acquired this vehicle.

Later on, I was told that this was actually a Japanese Honda, and not an American Honda, and that the allegation was that although the same design, the Japanese Honda had superior reliability records and less variance around fittings, because the Japanese teams had a great deal of experience around assembly (at that time). More than 20 years later I am still driving the same vehicle, and I've had no major issues of any type.

>1. You're not taking account of the opportunity cost, the things you could be doing that you're not because you're stuck on this one thing

I do appreciate the point you made - there is an opportunity cost to your thinking, and overly focusing on one thing may be contrary. If I have learned anything from thinking about SV business models, it is that attention is a limited resource. Every moment we spend overanalyzing one thing, is time spent less on something more productive.

> There is such a thing as overthinking / analysis paralysis, where your thinking actually gets worse the more you obsess about something. You may be better off unplugging, taking a walk, and coming back with a clear mind. You may be able to make a quick decision that's reasonably close to optimal and ends the sinking of your time into this one particular thing.

"paralysis by analysis" is definitely a real thing. Although I believe it is important to go through the cognitive exercise of analysis, it can be counter-productive. Saw this at a workplace or two where budgets to execute projects were highly limited, so staff would analyze-to-death options for fairly low dollar activities. Spent more on analysis of paper projects by a factor, than actual project execution.
"I'd love to see how people with more than 2 external displays are actually using them enough to justify the space and cost (not being facetious, I really would)."

My friend uses 5 monitors, and I would too if I wasn't mandated to use an iJoke computer at work.

Teams, browser and IDE mandate a minimum of 3 displays.
Microsoft releases Surface Duo 2 kernel sources and factory image
You vastly underestimate the number of people that:

1. Don't even know they have to file taxes.

2. Don't even know where to begin.