skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We both know that this isn't true.

First, the US government gets to run an arbitrary deficit, which is essentially the same as printing money.

Secondly, the Fed's board is appointed by the government and can be recalled by the government.

Thirdly, if the US government wanted they could change all of the rules governing the fed.

It has nothing to do with not being able to. The US just decides it's more profitable to have the reserve currency. You can't have it both ways, and it's senseless to complain about not being able to have a cake after eating it.
This kind of comment isn't my favorite, but I do understand where you're coming from. I personally think that it's better the devil you know than the devil you don't.

I'm American. My country is the US. Yes, they're spying on me. Yes, they do naughty things. But I assume that at the end of the day, the US has my interests at heart more than China does. Or the UK, or Russia, or Turkey, or anyone else. I happen to live on the land that they'll protect even while filling their pockets.

My feedback to you would be to do the same. You don't have to trust your own government but assume your government will keep you around longer than any other government will.
Spinoza understood thought and extension were unified. A change in extension is a change in thought and vv.
> I'd like to see a recursive language model, that can sub-call itself to decompose problems.

I tried a very simple and specific version of this a few years ago (Recursive Application of Recurrent Neural Networks) and it worked great for intent parsing: https://github.com/spro/RARNN

Would like to see what "real" researchers with more modern models could do with the concept.
WeWork founder Adam Neumann is back–as a VC
How small is small enough to use this approximation?
Really a poor decision to come after Brian Krebs. The crossover between Ubiquiti customers and people that support Krebs, I would venture to guess, is quite high. What a way to incinerate a pile of goodwill.
If I were in his shoes I'd go for some decent-to-nice artificial grass. Sure maybe it's a little tacky, but it beats the derelict look and it spares the work he doesn't wanna do.
100k Stars Chrome visualization experiment
Java is the COBOL of the 21st century, in both the best and worst sense.

Java stacks will be running major companies long after everyone posting in HN today is dead and gone.
Nope, just coming off a migraine and not catching stuff like that. :)
It's common in storytelling to add details. It's frustrating you call it bad faith because you don't get it.
The central problem is the refusal of US governments (state & federal) to pay people money to do things they want to encourage rather than give them tax credits and whatnot.
Social media websites are NOT obligated nor are compelled to carry/broadcast each and every person's opinion, how shitty it may be. That is is their choice and their freedom.
I hear great things about Mikrotik
Really excited about the strategic transformer reserve bit. Looks like they’re finally taking EMPs and solar flares seriously.
check out how morbig uses a shell grammar to parse a shell script in order to build a syntax tree. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30812330

Technically, it's not lexx && slightly different shell grammar than [1].

Can feed in grammar based on [1] and/or make grammar changs and see how morbig generates the syntax tree.
As one who has no faith in human nature, I think:

1. These controllers are being paid off by companies who builds similar apps but not as good.

2. These controllers are stealing the code and selling it to other developers who will republish under a different name.
AVX512 has a compressed store which might be a bit easier than a normal masked store?
I have a print of one of Liam Wong's photos[1] hanging in my living room that was taken at a place called Kawasaki Warehouse. It was a giant multi-story video arcade in Kawasaki that was themed after Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong. Unfortunately it closed a couple of years ago, but it was by far the most surreal and cyberpunk place I've ever visited.

[1] https://www.liamwong.com/neon-warehouse
Agreed. Entt is a popular ECS library that does all the things the author states separates his library from a traditional ECS ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
One funny thing. By banning the bad stuff you prevent us from intelligently studying it. Prevent us from coming up with intelligent ways to deal with it.

So whatever (or whoever) actually caused the bad stuff gets lost in the shadows.

And the next time the bad stuff comes around we're blindsided like a bubbleboy catching the flu.
Why wouldn't it be sustainable? Well-paid professions/roles have existed since forever. Income and wealth inequality have both existed since forever. We're talking all the way back to antiquity. Within what sort of timeframe would you consider something to be unsustainable?
Concern over cryogenics seems so weird. No one builds ballistic missiles with liquid fuel anymore because the response time is so slow. Every country that has or wants such weapons is focusing on solid propellants.
Do you have a good resource for learning Rails? I have never learned it.
(1) They do if the RNG isn't seeded or is seeded improperly; otherwise, it's pointless (you might as well try to break AES).

(2) Yes.
I feel that calling the final step a "sanity check" underrates its significance. To me, it implies that you essentially have the proof, and you are just looking for confirmation that it is sound and whether there are some edge cases to finish off. In contrast, I would say that it is the first point at which you understand how the half-remembered fragments of the proof can be put together to make an unassailable case for the proposition. Until then, it is as if you are groping around in the dark, trying to remember what the room looked like when the light was on (I know what it's like, as I have frequently been in that situation!)

These answers are the sort one might expect from something that has a vast memory for what it has seen before, and an ability to draw huge networks of syntax-level associations and generalizations from all that text, but is not so strong on semantic associations and generalizations that are not manifest at the level of syntax. What surprises me is how successful that has been.
Seymour Cray: What's all this about gallium arsenide? (1988)
Did anybody say anything about obligation? Did anybody make any moral arguments? Not me.

We're just talking about conversations here.
And? That doesn't fix the problem.

People can pay for the damage all they want, it won't fix the damage they cause.
I have a $165k notice of defiecency bill from the IRS due next month that is a complete joke that I have had to spend days figuring out. I almost dropped thousands on a lawyer for it until I understood Tax Court better.

Why? They think I sold a house and kept all of the gains. Like I didn't have a mortgage, and like it wasn't my primary residence.

It's ridiculous. I can't explain how stressed out getting a $165k bill when that's practically my yearly income made me. I wonder how many wealthy people get these completely incorrect $165k bills and how often they come after the person with $10k in the bank.
However, I can't find any references of whether it is used much today.

CORDIC is still very common in embedded systems, especially with CPUs that have no hardware multiply/divide.
Zee: A modern text editor for the terminal written in Rust
If only there was some secure technology capable of hierarchical accreditation and authentication that already ran on every single computer operating system that could resolve this situation for no cost beyond administrative overhead and was so easy to deploy that a small team could prototype a solution within weeks.
I've filed for years using FreeFillableForms. It works. A bit more cumbersome than if some ex-Amazon people had implemented it, but not too bad.
thats insanely productive, amazing job. surely you had the aid of a few coffees right!? :grin:
Are there libraries/tools that people use to do Remez/Chebyshev/etc. function expansions? I can do a basic Taylor series expansion by hand but I’m out of my depth with more sophisticated techniques.
Any remotely sensible cost estimate where ending the world is a legitimate possibility is going to be set impressively high.

My point above is that one doesn't avert the end of the world by setting prices. One averts the end of the world by making plans and issuing orders, as the OP essentially argues. That is - carbon taxes are bullshit. They and every other market-based policy have been worthless and done serious harm to humanity and the environment. Many of us can see this damage around us.
Adventures in Stereograms
> To me, it's really stupid that anything but a tourist/business visit visa should be non-immigrant; all long-term stay visas should provide an easy path to permanent residence (sure, assuming whatever reasonable qualifications are met).

Americans don’t want that. A lot of our immigration-related problems is that the executive branch created a de facto permanent immigration system (with modest Congressional acquiesce in the 1990s) out of what was sold to the public as a temporary worker visa.
Then just kill it after a few years
Yep, and also just want to add that the engineers making ~400k are paying around ~150k in taxes, probably have a PhD so they didn't even earn much of anything and lived off of instant ramen packs until they were 30, with over 100k in debt. This is the boat I'm in, and unless I get lucky and get one of these jobs when I graduate, I probably won't be able to afford having kids until I'm 40, while my buddies who started working right away already have a house and a kid or two. We're all part of the same working class, and the ones with equity love to see us squabble over what is pennies to them. You also don't pay as much tax on capital gains as salary.
We clearly need both. They form a positive feedback loop.

Ye can be compassionate to our friends and community, and by doing so, improve both
Pretty damn sweet having taxpayers cover your stadium when you're in about the biggest money-making sport, complete with salary cap...
I suppose the other commenter doesn't really leave out the argument that "better cryptocurrencies" can only mean "more government oversight."

I'm not really sure what a secure, generalized zero-trust system really looks like, from an algorithmic standpoint or a political standpoint. ETH is arguably the first large-scale attempt to answer that question, but so far it has unequivocally failed to do that.

> but if the plan is to run an illegal business that's hard to shut down...you do not need blockchain to do that?

It sure as hell makes it easier. Think about NFTs for a moment - they have the perfect recipe for money laundering:

1. Subjective market value (examples: paintings, pokemon cards)

2. High market value.

3. Relatively-unregulated bookkeeping system (examples: other cryptos, any transaction in a tax haven)

4. Trivial mechanisms for layering as a result of (3).

5. Easy (not necessarily cheap) liquidation (examples: casinos)
"Increasing regulatory barriers to homeless gaining housing is harm maximization, and should be eliminated. These renter protections maximize harm."

I am sirry but this sounds like youve never seen the bottomn of the housing market and what actually goes on there, and basically live in cloud coocooland.

I know a landlord who should be in jail for abusing student tenants, commiting fraud on deposits, renting out houses with mold, rats and leaking riofs, without working heating. Safety railing on stairs sre attached with hot glue. After years of criminality she got a RangeRover and a small fine.
I still have wonderful memories of paying $6.25 an hour ($16.18 an hour according to the official inflation rate) to play British Legends in 1986 at 300 baud (plus huge land line phone fees). Not sarcasm - it was good times!
I've had issues with both archive.xx and outline.com for the past week or two. They just don't load.
> I'm not mad about owing the money, but what annoys me is if they have enough information to know that I underreported,

There's some chance that they didn't have enough information to know that until you filed. Maybe.
We were younger, and mostly remember only the good things.
Your characterization of Uber leaves out the sexual harassment from the source you mentioned:

“On my first official day rotating on the team, my new manager sent me a string of messages over company chat… He was trying to stay out of trouble at work, he said, but he couldn't help getting in trouble, because he was looking for women to have sex with… When I reported the situation, I was told by both HR and upper management that even though this was clearly sexual harassment and he was propositioning me, it was this man's first offense, and that they wouldn't feel comfortable giving him anything other than a warning and a stern talking-to… Within a few months, he was reported once again for inappropriate behavior, and those who reported him were told it was still his "first offense". The situation was escalated as far up the chain as it could be escalated, and still nothing was done.”

https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-on...
If mobile counts; Safari, Facebook, WhatsApp, Snapchat, TikTok?
One of the Biggest Frauds in Tech History – The Miniscribe Brick Fiasco
Stereokit.net – Open-source XR library using C# and OpenXR
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There’s huge costs particularly to English speaking developed countries like India and Bangladesh.
I don't think they're obligated to do anything, but people using them also do not expect or understand how it works. It is a whole new breed of concealed censorship which is not obvious or visible without research.
Of course RT is controlled by the Russian government.

Can you find Zelensky's recent interview with Russian journalists on RT?
'That’s not the typical credit card user behavior. It’s a well known risk of churning'

Neither of those statements justifies the system as morallly right or even logical
Depends what you want out of immigration. Consider the profile of the people who emigrate. People with PhDs are typically elites back home. Moreover, less than 10% of people in Asia would emigrate if they could: https://news.gallup.com/poll/245255/750-million-worldwide-mi.... So you’re selecting people who are antisocial enough to leave kith and kin behind for economic opportunities.

Not saying this pejoratively—my whole family fits this profile. But people don’t think enough about what sorts of folks we’re really bringing in and how that changes our culture.
The HR professional’s time is a sunk cost, there is no extra cost to perform the exit interview as a salaried employee.
Hey cool! I wrote a similar thing[1] a while ago to revive an old Mario fan game written in VB6. It’s a VB6 to JS transpiler in Rust :) Basic is so nice to parse isn’t it? Guess it makes sense given the era it’s from.

[1] https://github.com/jaburns/smb3k
Winning or losing in court has very little to do with being right or wrong.
That would be neat. You could give it backspace and "let me think more" tokens that would signal the inference program to run it again on the prompt plus its own output. That way it could generate "thoughts thoughts thoughts [THINKMORE] thoughts thoughts thoughts [THINKMORE] [BACKSPACE]X 8 (The real output would go here""

It would of course have to be penalized in some way for [THINKMORE]ing to avoid infinite processing time. It would have to learn to reason at what point diminishing returns would kick in from continuing to [THINKMORE] VS recording its best answer. The penilization function would have to take into account remaining tokens that would fit in the transformer prompt.
Regardless of what Krebs said, the bar for defamation in US courts is incredibly high. Nothing is going to come out of this.
45% of Gen Z and millennials don’t see the point of saving for the future
> Cash doesn't scale

I refer the learned gentleman to, er, the global economy. How much more scaled up would you like?

Meanwhile crypto transactions have to go through a single common blockchain with pitiful throughput. Even the enhancements like lightning are laughably slow compared to the global banking system.
Home Ground to Japan's Living Culture
A brilliant design. I suspect the main problem, as he has already shown, will be finding a reliable source of motors, and noise free encoders.

Thanks for showing us what is possible, and for pointing out the supply problem in advance.

I suddenly feel a case of historical deja-vu. The Antikythera mechanism was probably made of materials and techniques remembered from before the collapse of the bronze age. It was a high-tech gee wiz device made from unobtanium as well.

I hope our supply chain issues get worked out, and those parts get made domestically again.
Calling it a cover up is a clear opinion, not a statement of fact. Just the fact that there's a debate about what cover up even means goes to that.
I wonder if the Prodigy archives are floating around out there too?
I guess this answers part of it

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/how-russias-central-bank-en...
Having an opinion that isn't yours, doesn't make me a troll.

But you saying stuff like this, definitely alludes to you possibly being one.
I still have Ubiquiti wireless equipment but the rest of my network incorporates Mikrotik and I've been really enjoying using it the past few years.
This could backfire on Ubiquiti - considering Krebs stellar reputation already, that if it does go to court, and they rule in Krebs favor, it becomes even more devasatating to winning any further Enterprise market contracts.

It could kill Ubiquiti on all enterprise deals with "cybersecurity business risk" factors each enterprise ways before making decisions.
Pretty much every other major developed country operates like this. Here in South Korea for example filing taxes is as simple as logging into some government portal, verifying that the information they already have on you is correct, and making any corrections if necessary. 10 minutes, done.

The U.S is unique in forcing its citizens to waste countless hours and pay hundreds/thousands of dollars every year doing the useless unnecessary work of "filing taxes". Why is the system still this backwards? Either plain ignorance of there being a superior alternative, or a broken political system that can't get anything done. My guess is it's a combination of both.
its js too? https://alpinejs.dev/essentials/installation#as-a-module
Tax is rounded to the nearest dollar though.
You'd think someone higher up would've noticed an anomalous increase in total transactions. Maybe she was smart enough to ramp up over time. Maybe a few million a year is really just a drop in the bucket.
> here is a statement that you must agree totally, disagree totally or shut up about an idea

> The argument, that I heard expressed, and lack information to fault (acknowledging that such information may exist), is interesting to me and possibly others. Refraining from stating it as an incontrovertible fact is not at all weasel-like and doesn't seem to me that calling it so is likely to lead to productive discussions between people who are capable of updating their opinions on a topic.

No, but you have to state a stance at all.

If you don't state a stance at all then you're not engaging with the argument you've quoted!

People should engage with what you're arguing, but much less so something you just toss out as having heard. If you don't say what your opinion is, then don't complain that there isn't engagement.

> We really do need to be able to discuss possibilities before having full, firm and unshakable views as to their unambiguous and evergreen truth.

Okay. But say what your view is. It doesn't have to be firm and unshakable. Be clear about if you believe it and how strongly you believe it.

> otherwise it's "weasel words" which is clearly and obviously to me utter nonsense

The phrase "I've heard the argument made" is one of the clearer examples of weasel words I've seen. Your dictionary definition isn't perfect. From wikipedia: Examples include the phrases "some people say", "most people think", and "researchers believe."

> being weasel-like

It's a term, not calling you a weasel.

> What do you think? Is it plausible

I guess?? I'd need to see a lot more about priorities in washington before I can have more than a ghost of an opinion, personally. Without that I find it a little bit interesting.

> If you had thoughts and an argument from /evidence/ about it I'd likely update my views at least somewhat.

I'm not trying to change your opinion. I'm encouraging you to better express your opinion.

But if you only have a vague idea yourself, then you're not going to change mine either. If you were actively looking for evidence instead of just mentioning the idea I might be more interested? Whatever, I'm not here to post about that, I'm here to explain weasel words.
You don't need a CLA. Github's ToS are set up such that contributions you get from other github users are licensed in the same manner as your repo unless the contributor gets you to agree to accept them under some other license : https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t.... People should not be worried about you "going private"; if you've accepted non de minimis contributions from other users, any future conveyance or network interaction stuff would require you to include the source materials to stay in compliance.
I created a metasearch for myself based on the idea of "continuation searches". One obvious point of collaboration bwtween search engines could be a uniform API and SERP format. Currently, there are slight variations between search engines in terms of the submission URL syntax/paramaters and the HTML used to display results, not to mention HTTP method, limits on number of results and sometimes additional, optional URL parameters. The differences are generally small^1 and this makes it relatively easy to create a personal metasearch. However it could be much less cumbersome if these differences were eliminated.

1. Exceptions are, e.g., ones that require two HTTP requests per query, such as Gigablast or ones that have strange limitations, e.g., Startpage, which has become unusable for me without Javascript. Contacting their "customer support" yielded no response.

Even better would be if search engines all shared their indexes and made these available for download. This would faciltate people building new search engines without needing to have their own index. In theory it would also bring a stop to the problem of people who submit large numbers of queries since all the bulk data they need would be available for download. www indexes that comprise public information could be freely shared as public data.
That is in fact how it works in many (most?) countries.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/dreading-taxes-countries-s...
That’s like saying the Chinese communist party is free to censor, if you don’t like it just overthrow them.

There’s a difference between being forced to promote something and being compelled to not censor.
FYI, median software dev pay is $110k. Those high levels of compensation are uncommon. Most of the wealth inequality that is talked about deals with the 1% who will make more in capital gains or interest each year than those $400k devs.

That's not to say that support/facilities roles should be paid as low as they are. But the high pay is not as common as is represented. For example, I have 10 years experience, a MS, but make under $100k.
It’s a nice, if overly simplistic sentiment.

It’d be nice if my 1099s were electronically filed with the cost basis. But they’re not. So the IRS, every year, thinks I’m going to owe way more than I do.

The IRS also has zero idea about the $4000+ of sales tax deductions I’m filing for this year.

And finally, if you do get it wrong, you don’t go to jail. They send you a CP2000 letter. (Remember those 1099s? I forgot one one year.) You fix the problem or show them their error. They’ll even waive the penalties the first time. It’s a somewhat easy process.