skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Being a large app with multiple ways to do almost everything, Illustrator also has multiple methods to export SVGs.”

Bravo for phrasing that neutrally, because I see at least 4 ways to export SVGs, and I have no idea what Adobe actually wants you to use, because I increasingly think Adobe hates you.

1. Export for Screens… (which is what I generally use)

2. Export As…

3. The Asset Export panel.

4. Save As…

The first 3 all use the same export engine (or at least I think they do), but they all expose the settings in different locations. And then there is Save As… which tends to mangle things, as described in the article, and also lets you save as SVGZ, which is supposedly compressed, but it’s not.
This just sounds envious and resentful.
I'm 42, I'm finishing my game development degree, doing my ham radio license, and I was never so sharp as now in my life. Maybe as younger hacker, I could learn harder, but i used to have much less focus and waste much more time than now. Now I know myself, I know how I learn and what I want to learn. What works for me: I study always from 7 until 8:30. To be able to do that. I wake up 5:30, do my sports and then start to study. I'm blessed to have a wife and kids that just support me to be "weird" and hungry for learning and knowledge. I dropped as well my workload to be able to spend as much time as I can learning.
I’m not at all saying bored people should not be allowed to drive for Uber for fun.

I’m saying the marketing to drivers needs to change. Uber pretend it’s some great paying gig and markets hard like this. It deceives people who have no idea how to do depreciation calculations
I was wondering why they didn't use tree-sitter since this sounds very similar to tree-sitter, tree-sitter is written in C (and thus hopefully faster than a similar project written in TypeScript), and there's even officially support wasm build steps for if you need to run it in the browser.

The linked blog post [0] answered my question though:

> Unfortunately, tree-sitter is written in C, which is still awkward to run in the browser (and CodeMirrror targets non-WASM browsers). It also generates very hefty grammar files because it makes the size/speed trade-off in a different way than a web system would.

[0] https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/lezer.html
Yet another pseudoscientific application of Gödel’s incompleteness, which makes very specific guarantees about logical systems of a certain strength and their ability to prove theorems. I’ve no idea how you could twist it into what you suggest.
> He explicitly stated that he does not view it as a money-making opportunity. His goals are altruistic.

A few hours ago he tweeted out an article that celebrates Musk as a great person for growing shareholder value: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1516057871108165637

> The Tesla CEO’s track record proves he’s a pre-eminent builder of businesses and maximizer of shareholder value.

That's not the article you'd tweet to support altruistic intentions, is it?
They are given a small AWS instance to ssh into, everything is already set up there. There’s a makefile already prepared that will build it.
I imagine they’re saying that since the team is overall twice as productive, you could say this manager who got them there made each individual 2x productive. And if you add all those together you have > 10x impact.

Napkin pseudo math for sure.. but when has that even stopped us from categorizing engineers with these labels.
> This is where you'll have seen legal permission for filmmakers, videogame archivists, etc

An excellent podcast on that very topic (with some links to further reading):

https://gamehistory.org/ep-59-dmca-exemption-ruling/
Agreed. At a bare minimum, I'd love a way to bulk unsubscribe from mailers like this. It's a waste of my time, a waste of money, and bad for the environment.
Is it additional redundancy or additional points of failure? Enquiring minds want to know!
You would use wireguard for that use case, possibly on a regularly updated computer, and update your network firewall rules to accommodate that setup.
It’s only 10x if he is so productive that he doesn’t have time for his teammates;)
Glacier retreat in the Andes is bankrupting a billion-dollar corporation
This is one of the problems with proof-of-stake, although the attack manifests differently and is much slower. Someone can borrow money, and pay higher yield than the normal staking yield, to buy staking power and change the rules to their favor. It's already happening and most people are staking through exchanges, instead of running their own staking nodes. It's a fundamental failure in the PoS incentive structure, and that's why it's inherently more risky than a proof-of-work system.
That's the first time I hear anyone refer to Blackrock as anything other than hardcore capitalists, let alone left wing...
I vividly remember the time my apartment complex scheduled a fire inspection and chose to forego the written notification required by California law, instead replacing it with an email. Too bad their property management dashboard was incapable of sending me email. I got a notification during a meeting with video showing people breaking into my unit. The police (just around the corner!) showed up before I could get home. It was a mess.

Don't rely on email for important things.
This is very jurisdiction dependent.
> It is unlikely that humans will ever visit a distant solar system

Yes, but it is quite likely human technology will some day.
> They are simply lobbying for their continued existence

Survival instinct.
I think they mean by helping 8 people double productivity they achieved at least 10x maybe 16x

I suppose you could also be 10x everyone else you work with by deliberately sabotaging the rest of your team...
What legitimate uses can you imagine?
Came here to say this. I will try to avoid committing politics in the HN comments section, but it is a true fact that one side of the aisle has definite policy preferences on taxes and maximally does not want them to happen quietly without people noticing them. They will say this, at length and on the record, when asked about the topic. Their positions are sincere and flow logically from both their political preferences and incentives.
Who have a desktop, or who'd like to try to drop to just one device for whatever reason (cost, easier traveling, minimalism, whatever)
Is it illegal for 51% of shareholders to dilute away the stake of the remaining 49%? Serious question -- I don't know.

AFAIK (IANAL), companies have few restrictions on stock dilution as long as the dilution is in the best interest of the shareholders. You can make a legally defensible argument that one actor is bad and should be diluted, but it's probably hard to make a legally defensible argument for selectively diluting shares of idle shareholders.
> This idea that humanity sprang up out of nothing in Sumerian/Babylon is very contrived.

I don't think anyone believe that's the case? It's just what we have records for. You need a lot of prior development to arrive to the point where you have recorded history.
That is, assuming birds are real...?
There is a link to this right in the post. In fact, it is the first link in the post. Here it is:

https://href.li/?https://third-bit.com/talks/greatest-hits/?...
I'd prefer to reduce overall name calling and broad assumptions based on nothing in particular like in the parent post, personally.

The fact that the post is currently light grey gives me some hope that I'm not in the minority.
What does a standard programming language being unsound even imply? It’s not being used for theorem proving, so how is it of consequence?
Lots of good tactics here, but this one did it for me: having no other way to make time for something I deeply wanted than waking up early. And, wanting that thing deeply enough that it re-established my wake-up habits.
One doesn't necessarily have to invest money to get ownership of something. For example, I'm pretty sure worker-coops give ownership rights based on labor, not investment. I wonder if Twitter users could be considered as workers, customers, and clients. Workers as in the ones who produce the content and maintain other users' attention. Customers as the ones to whom people advertise. Clients as the people who advertise to others.
They do force you to prove you have their app installed on your phone to use it, though installing it and uninstalling it afterward isn't that much of a hassle.
>I hate how this story is always framed as the fault of evil TurboTax/Intuit. They are simply lobbying for their continued existence.

Fascinating way to reframe this as a natural survival instinct of...checks notes... a corporate entity. An entity that exists at the government's pleasure, and whose charter can be revoked by said government.

Let's reframe your own logic:

> The real villains of this story are the politicians who TurtboTax/Intuit have successfully lobbied.

The politicians did nothing illegal by accepting the lobbying on behalf of TurboTax, after all. Under what rule or law would you punish them? Surely you can not fault politicians for earning money to continue to survive in politics, no?

You can go in circles with this kind of thinking.

Instead, we should look at outcomes. What do we want to happen with taxes? Ideally the government sends you pre-filled paperwork. Who is opposing this outcome? Intuit. Hence they are villians.
That sounds so retro now. In Silicon Valley, TechShop and TheShop.build went bust. The gym pay-by-the-month model didn't work. I was a member through most of the life of both of those. Hacker Dojo turned into something like WeWork, then had a staffer ripoff problem, then closed, then reopened recently. The local public library is opening a "maker space", but it's heavy on sewing machines and crafting.

Maker spaces don't seem to work well in high-rent areas. For software-only projects, they aren't really necessary.
Interestingly, always: a Catholic church contains an altar, the literal definition of which requires that it either contain or support the relics of saints. In other words, there are either bones in the altar or something which touched the body of a saint. Neat how the tradition had continued for so long. I wonder about how they manage to reliably source the material as well as to ensure its provenance. Supply chain is an issue everywhere!
TaxCut is probably the biggest alternative. Owned by HRBlock. Not sure if the they are better.
You're talking about dumb contracts and off-chain legislative systems of a random country. That's not what we're talking about.

The question isn't, "once we get these people in a room, how do we (as a legislative body) decide who owns what and compel the parties into cooperating?" The question is, "these parties are assumed to retain perfect anonymity, and they operated according to the design of the consensus-based system that we (as miners) agree to; are we ok with the outcome? Should we come to a consensus on an adjustment to the design?"

Smart contracts are unambiguous by definition. What you're describing is PEBKAC at best.
That's why you use Shamir's Secret Sharing...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing
It used to be that it would just mist for 6-7 months out of the year, instead of rain. And now it hardly even rains at all anymore. No longer a rainy city/region.

Last year, summer lasted from April to October.
About a decade ago my company had a thing set up where were could complete coding challenges and other devs would rate them anonymously (so you couldn't rate a specific person highly unless you recognized their style). Once you completed a challenge you could see others' submissions and a ranking of how much someone's solutions were liked. Ordering was fairly consistent, with a few people recognizably always being in the top third or so (out of around 15-25 people who bothered to try the challenges, IIRC).

The original purpose of these challenges were to help people learn python, as we'd just officially moved to it not long before I joined, so to give an idea of the complexity involved, the only one I can remember was "implement a brainfuck interpreter". It was really interesting to see the different ways people organized code that did the same thing.
I saw sites that have "reject all cookies" button right on the cookie banner. Maybe you should ask why other sites do not want to do the same?

Also, GDPR is not only about cookies, it is about tracking in general. For example, collecting IP address and device fingerprint is also considered tracking, although it doens't use cookies.
DCS WORLD | 2022 : https://youtu.be/dtmGCYeipas
When I was looking into this, I found that just running ps (with -L option to see all threads, not just processes/thread group leaders) with some grep/sort/uniq was the easiest way to break down where does the “too high Linux system load” come from. No need to compile C code or have root access to drill down into load. And you could drill down further by sampling some additional /proc/PID/task/TID/ files, like “syscall”, “stack” to see which (blocked) syscall is contributing to the load and where in the kernel is it stuck. Knowing what kind of process/thread level /proc files are available and reading/sampling them with a shell one-liner is a powerful entry point for performance troubleshooting and may allow you to delay writing advanced kernel tracing scripts further.

For those that are interested:

https://tanelpoder.com/posts/high-system-load-low-cpu-utiliz...
>Even if you’re coding for yourself, you’re still coding for a team. Your future self will not have the same cognitive context that you do currently.

This. I've definitely cursed the author of some code only to realize it was me 5 years ago and I have absolutely no memory of the code or the problem.
Even better may be to install and use git-delta which does this amongst many other things:

https://github.com/dandavison/delta
> He is also known for [...] developing the technology that made it possible to reduce the size of electronics

What technology is that?
They are not talking about cognitive decline, they are talking about speed of processing. I am mid 60s, engineering for the last 38 years, and the depth of work is not a problem, but I definitely don't make the same snap judgements that I made even just ten years ago. It also pertains to physical reaction time. Meaning, after 60 you best leave a little more gap between you and the car ahead.

You may doubt this now, but you will see how life changes for you after age 50, and again how life changes for you after age 60.

It is all fine, it really is, but you will find yourself saying "that didn't used to hurt", and you will also find yourself shoving people away from your mouse because they want to click on something that you haven't decided to click on yet.

It's just nature. Yes, some people abuse their bodies and their minds, but even the most careful are going to see changes. Just life, just how it goes.
Truly. At some point, there is a person with far more money than their family would ever need, even only counting annual interest earned instead of principal.

Current CEO has net worth of >$100 million. In fairness, the poorest board member of intuit has half a dozen positions earning $150,000 to $350,000 and _may_ not have accumulated true financial independence. But other board members have over $200 Million.

Those people make the following decision Every. Single. Year: “let’s try to get the government to make taxes far harder and riskier for hundreds of millions of Americans so that I can be even more rich than I already am.”

It would be more excusable if they merely hadn’t lobbied for Americans at all, someone else did, and they reacted quickly to additionally reap the benefits of the same policy.

But when you are already well past having all the money your family could ever need, and choose to try to get the government to fuck over hundreds of millions of people, then the blame
lands on you just as much as the politician.
TurboTax/Intuit are bad guys for other reasons. Like trying to mislead customers like the article details, but I don't think lobbying the government to ensure their industry is not eradicated is necessarily immoral. They have perfectly reasonable motivations there. Most of us would act the same way in their position. It isn't their job to consider the societal ramifications of those laws. It is the governments job to see that lobbying and not let it outweigh the clear societal harm in just acquiescing to TurboTax/Intuit.
Mr Willis is 67 years old. I suspect that any incoming attack asteroids are more than 13 years out (it just seems statistically improbable that one will show up sooner than that - I don't have any data on incoming bogies), and asking a >80 yo person to go take out asteroids seems like a plan destined to fail.

Point being, we should hurry up and create a bunch of Bruce Willis clones before it's too late. The future of humanity depends on it!
The Launch Pad Astronomy is another great source for astronomic content [1]. I found pretty awesome the live show about JWST done with NASA scientists [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/ChristianReady
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv7QiNjx_MY
The IRS currently receives almost all the information needed to do taxes for most people. There are not technical reasons why they could not share their calculations with you and give you the option of accepting them or doing them yourself and submitting them anyways.

But I agree, the current system is intentionally complex and should be simplified.
Seems to work perfectly well in other countries, why should it not in the US?

Just make it so that it's only already 'prepared', you still have to sign them off or correct them if there's something wrong.
> The problem isn't people trying to influence the government to do the wrong thing. The problem is the government can so easily be convinced to do the wrong thing.

It's both.

If you tried to change the government to fix lobbying, every company would lobby against it. It wouldn't pass.

Also I don't really want to hear about how American citizens need to fix their government when they have no time for civic engagement. Independent polls show the US Govt has misaligned priorities to what the people want, and they often have a rock bottom approval rating.

Let's start by making voting days holidays, guarantee a livable minimum wage, guarantee time off like the rest of the sane world, let that marinade for a while, then let's criticize people for their lack of engagement.

Trending outrage seems to be the only way to move the needle at the moment so trying to undermine this article is also undermining progress.
Of course it’s not the first case. Police have been involved in crypto cases for years.
> Even our metal based structures would not withstand it very well over a few thousand years.

Well, not steel framed buildings or anything like that. But our modern civilization has certainly done things that I think stand a good chance of lasting hundreds of millions of years. Take for instance glass bottles. Those tossed into the ocean won't last more than a few decades before they're eroded to nothing (see: sea glass), but we've created so many glass bottles and distributed them so far and wide, it is virtually certain that many of them will survive in the soil for a very very long time. There is no doubt that glass can last for millions of years under the right conditions; there is a lot of volcanic glass around that attests to this. There are so many glass bottles in landfills or littered around the world, at least some of them are certain to be in geologically stable conditions.

Then there are things like mountaintop removal mining. Maybe normal quarries get filled in and hidden over time, but there's no hiding the top of a mountain being sliced right off.
I have and I'm sure others here have too.
It's usually people who are not only skilled coders but are capable of staying ultra focused for longer hours.
Go check you favorite team project on github and open the list of contributors, notice anything?
The woman who hit me got out of her car and said "I'm so sorry! I saw you but I just didn't stop in time!"
There is no potential scenario where that happens even long term. People have to physically live somewhere. Nation states continue to hold a pretty effective monopoly on violence. They can prevent you from entering, or put you in prison, or seize your assets by force. Global, trustless, decentralized networks can't control government security forces with guns. The value proposition of central governments will continue to grow, not in the sense of people actually liking them but simply because there is no alternative. That is reality and no amount of techo-utopian fantasizing will change it.
Toyota is also the manufacturer of the Prius, which outnumbers any other hybrid or BEV model that I see in my day-to-day.
Should we read this as an implicit comparison to what a 10x programmer is? It seems like this is mostly just having a sane work-life balance and actually targeting deliverables. I guess I'd expect a 10x programmer to have a bad work-life balance, but also still target deliverables... just somehow, better (I'm not sure I understand what a 10x programmer is supposed to be).

> Users care about themselves. To them, they need to be the primary priority. This rift causes a problem when open source maintainers decide that their users are indeed secondary. But that might be the theme of a future post.

That came from out of left field.

I enjoy using open source programs, but understand that open source software is released to the universe as a favor, and the author has no obligation toward users like me. The ideal form of open source is just that you solved your own problem, and were kind enough to share the solution with the rest of us. If I wanted my needs to be a priority, I'd look for a relationship where I was the customer. The only issue I can see with letting user needs become secondary is that this is far too high of a priority, it leads to confusion and might infest the project with an unhealthy customer-service mindset.
This is so awesome. I tried to write something like this in 2007 (I called it "Tweeter") but the state of embedded hardware for makers back then was a bit more challenging so it was all PC based. I tried simple spectrogram correlation by sliding a window and comparing low-precision spectra, but I don't know enough about DSP so it never worked. Glad to see it is finally a reality.
The US system is more complex, but I wouldn't attribute this to malice.

The reason why it's so easy to file taxes in lots of European countries is because the tax system (for the general population) is a lot simpler. For example in Austria you pay the same amount of taxes no matter if you're single or married, capital gains are taxed at a flat rate and directly withheld by brokers, and "social benefits" are typically handled outside of the tax system instead of being folded into the tax system.

In the United States the tax code is a lot more complex. You pay different taxes if you're married compared to if you're single, capital gains tax rate depends on your other taxes so brokers can't automatically withhold taxes, and there are a lot of edge-cases for certain other situations that can't be easily automated. Like tax credits if you're affected by natural disasters, different tax handling for railroad worker pensions, and so on.

With that complexity it is a lot harder to automate taxes, but it's also hard to retroactively reduce that complexity, as any changes will negatively financially impact some of the affected groups. Also I think that it might be easier in the US to handle those aspects as part of the tax system (instead of handling them independently), as the federal government has the authority to collect taxes, but direct payments (outside of the tax system) to individual groups might be harder? (But I'm not sure if that's true).
And hope the ai didn’t ban your account with one of the reasons no one wants to touch.