skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For all the hollowness of crypto, AI finally feels like it is building toward something meaningful.

Large Language Models like GPT-3 definitely aren't sentient (or even coherent often), but it's definitely more than what I could figure out how to code with vanilla python, which could not be said of the much simpler chat bot type systems 10 years ago.

Interesting and exciting things happen anytime a new tool is built and added to the toolkit.
I think parents are unaware of how little autonomy public school teachers have over what takes place in their classroom.

I have several friends and family members who work in education. They've fielded their share of complaints over the years. And when it comes to what's covered in the classrooms the kinds of angry complaints they field are almost always over stuff mandated by either the administration or a state-level standard. And when they (very politely) inform parents that they're required by law to learn about <some thing> you'd think the parents would be like "Oh my god that's terrible! I'm going to write my state rep right away!" NOPE - they just double down and seem to think its within the teacher's purview to eschew state requirements.

And the kind of stuff that parents find objectionable isn't even the stuff you're thinking - like maybe evolution, slavery, civil rights etc. Nope. One parent was upset her daughter had to learn that the US civil war was extremely bloody and demanded to know why this sort of "macabre information" was part of the unit as dwelling on such things does not prepare kids for college.
This is fantastic - will be using in the next Dystopian Disco mixtape series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64Mxban54mM&list=PLFyd_83HK5...

Is it possible to set the effects run time for a set period & if so would it be possible to have the effects modulated?
I enjoy his travelogues and photography. His observations of Japan as a foreign resident are particularly perceptive. He's been able to indulge in a life as a travel writer-- if you can look past the cringe there's quite a lot there.
Un-paywalled: https://archive.ph/yA5Rr
You should never be asking yourself if your actions are legal..... probably means your not very moral and acting with some bad faith.
Welcome back, I never left
I do appreciate this suggestion and have considered it in the past. The spouse acceptance factor for mounting a computer board to the ceiling is low in my household. :)

I hadn’t considered that the mesh nature of home control devices has negated the need for central placement.
This will crash asset values, won't work. The whole system of debt and income is built off expected money, change the expectations and watch things break. And I get your retort, "let it break", but I am telling you, wont work
Yes. The affluent ones. But most suburbs are not affluent.
I guess by hub I meant home hub device.
I interpreted nimskull as self deprecating, IE calling themselves numbskulls.
Why exactly would it crash asset values?
California is not going to manufacture their own molecule, they are going to contract with someone, seems likely to be CivicaRx.
I vote for couples over 1.5 Million. Believe it or not, 400k is not a huge amount of money in NYC or SF. Its upper middle class if you have kids, and even then, you arent saving much. Youre also taxing like small business owners, doctors, programmers, lawyers, etc. The professional class, not the wealthy upper class. Politicians are completely out of touch with the american caste system
Any state in the US has a lot of autonomy, not just California. California has many issues though, as an aggregate indicator look at underfunded pension liability per capita or per household. It wasn’t looking good, then it got better in 2021 because investment performed well, but as we in a recession I think next numbers aren’t gonna look good. CalPERS have made some very questionable investment choice, which caused removal of the previous CIO. What is more concerning is that they tried to sponsor the bill that would allow them to keep secret due diligence information of certain private investments. They basically wanted to venture into lending business but keep the lid closes. This seems to me a disastrously risky.
Only about 21% of US electricity comes from coal right now, and the number is falling over time.

Efficient natural gas plants can actually do pretty well, about the same as the 372g/kWh grid average. Almost no oil (or petro coke, etc) is burned for electricity. I think less than a tenth of the amount of electricity from solar (solar is currently somewhere around 5% to about 4.2%, depending on how you count "now", i.e. annualized amount based on the last month of data in April with seasonal effects taken out... or the more conservative 12 months rolling average).
In what world is $500k as a couple “wealthy?” You have to be joking.

Taxing 70%? That’s a sure fire way to have your precious tax donkeys leave the country. Then who will pay for everyone who doesn’t want to work?

It’s this mentality that makes me not want to visit HN anymore.
James Webb Space Telescope First Images
Not if you need fractional scaling. But that's the only limitation I'm aware of.

As these days many users have HiDPI displays I'm really surprised that Wayland still doesn't support it properly (please don't tell me to scale my font size ...) and why so many distros use Wayland as default.
Most pass-through structures already require you to pay social security and Medicare taxes in the form of the self-employment tax. This hits a lot of people really hard, since you are paying both the employer portion and the employee portion of these taxes. The only exception today is the S-corporation. However, S corp owners still have to pay themselves a reasonable salary (for consultants, this is usually set to 50% of their billing rate), and pay SS/Medicare tax on that salary plus payroll taxes.

The loophole closure should only affect how S corps are taxed, and effectively would eliminate the benefit of them. I'm not sure it would get nearly as much money as these people think.

Edit - the way this is worded makes me think that this is a 3.8% surtax on pass-through income, not just closing the S corp loophole. Pass through income is already the most heavily taxed form of income, and taxing it hurts small business owners the most.
Have any economists done the study? It would be interesting to see. Maybe a PhD or two in this area.
California schools system is not good.
That is before any default or user styles are applied, which are in turn overwritten by author styles.

(Think of the default values of a base object or base class, which are then overwritten by the constructor or more specific methods.)
How about don’t fuck individuals and make corporations pay a real tax?
I believe I appreciate your point.

But, you appear to be making the assumption that the impacts one leaves are the defining features of ones life. It's certainly a valid point of view, but not sure I fully subscribe to it.

Additionally, I doubt my ability to recognize, in sum if an impact is ultimately for good or ill.
What world are you living in where 500k/year isn’t wealthy?
Agreed, the title is editorialized to be more spooky and hopefully will be corrected. Closing loopholes is way more reasonable than the language about simply raising taxes.
I don’t consider myself wealthy, and I make less than half that… But I’m also not poor. I have no problem chipping in or 1 or 2 percent more if it means keeping the masses from revolution… As happened to my step mom’s parents in the Chinese cultural revolution.
Yup same thoughts here... add in a mortgage, school loans, children, expensive cost of living, a few vacations, the rest in a college fund, and some left for savings/investing. Dwindles very fast.
Before raising taxes on citizens, governments would be well advised to first make sure companies are paying their fair share.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/02/business/economy/zero-cor...
No Federal Taxes for Dozens of Big, Profitable Companies

https://itep.org/55-profitable-corporations-zero-corporate-t...
55 Corporations Paid $0 in Federal Taxes on 2020 Profits

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/these-19-fortune-10...
These 19 Fortune 100 Companies Paid Next to Nothing—or Nothing at All—in Taxes in 2021

It seems epically stupid to raise taxes on citizens in this context.

You alienate voters by increasing taxes on them. You win voters by taxing corporations who are paying nothing.

But left wing politicians just have zero idea about this sort of stuff.
Maintenance question: I am on a Mac and it seems VS Code seems to be chugging slower - is there a way to find the previous installed versions and safely remove them?
Actual link:

https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/countdown.html

in 4 days
1.5 million won’t be a huge amount in a couple of years either at this rate.
There is a cohort of parents that is involved (edit: in a healthy way) in their child’s education. There is another cohort that is looking for a babysitter. A bifurcation in path’s for these cohorts is about to occur.

For the former, parents of means will elect for private school. Parents of lesser means will either stretch for private school, or homeschool.

For the latter, I am at a loss of what will happen. Perhaps a lost generation.
Nim was originally “Nimrod.” It’s probably a play on that.
Japan ex-prime minister taken to hospital after apparent shooting
We should do both. It makes no sense that long term capital gains is taxed less than your regular income. This doesn't mean LTC gains should necessarily be increased to regular income. We could also simply lower regular income tax to be the same as LTC gains but that would only highlight the ridiculousness of the low LTC to begin with.
>They're already in talks (trials, too I think) with Airlines to equip their aircraft with terminals. I'm sure commercial shipping companies would be interested too.

Would an airplane using Starlink be more easily tracked in an emergency to avoid MH370 type of mystery?
California? The state with the highest poverty rate in the nation?
What is "it"? As in the ideology, both what it is and what about it is troubling. You didn't answer the question.
The best refractory snow for pizza igloos comes from Naples.
Again, a great way for those earners to bail and move to UAE, etc. I personally find no reason to stay in a high tax support everyone minefield. It’s like having a massive alimony bill only without the ex wife. HN going crazy here. Maybe I should mention I heart crypto? ;)
Well, I guess it's a good thing that I was a manager and basically never issued any operational commands over chat.
Shinzo Abe: Former Japanese prime minister 'shot' while giving speech
It's really just a side-effect of culture war victories. The US is an imperialist power and like all other imperialist powers it will project its zeitgeist out into the world.

If conservatives won the culture wars the CIA would be trying to hire Proud Boys and Jordan Peterson fans or whatever.

Go back 20 years when Evangelical Christianity was at its zenith of cultural power and what did we get? Two invasions of Muslim countries and paranoia that agnostics and atheists were national security liabilities because a hypothetical invading Muslim hoard would convert them to Islam (yes, this was actually a scenario bandied about in those circles) and recruit them to become terrorists.
>Load image in black and white ttf c++

>I'm not sure what you mean by "load image in black and white ttf c++", but I can give you an example of how to do it. First, you'll need to convert the image to grayscale. You can do this by using the cvtColor function. Then, you can apply a binary threshold to the grayscale image. For example, if you have a color image with a value of 255 and a black value of 0, then you can do something like this: __

First impressions - really impressive! I did have to add "c++" to get any meaningful results though.
Only cause he offered them free rent.
Yes. Certain opinions you cannot allow to exist if you want your democracy to continue to function.
Fortune 100 Companies Paid Next to Nothing–Or Nothing at All–In Taxes in 2021
Perusing the Nim discord, it looks like some of the people behind this project were once Nim devs (think maintainers), but this project is also considered unusable and constantly under development. There is also talk about Nim not accepting PRs soon enough, and knowing ahead of finishing your work that your PR will be approved with NimSkull.

I could spend more time looking, but really these are the sort of things that should be in their own readme in plain English instead of leaving me and everyone else who has no context confused.
> You mention that the cells might last 500,000 miles but is that really relevant if you're likely to have your car totaled

The market for batteries pulled from wrecks is hot! For my own personal interest I wish it wasn't so I could batteries for cheap.
I've been visiting Italy for years and this last trip during the pandemic, sans the typical tourist volumes, was fantastic. Now that travel is back on, I recommend getting away from the main tourist hot spots, the rest of the country is just as nice and much less crowded.
> half of them passive aggressively blink their headlights at me and play the throbbing anus animation on the dashboards

Alright man. I guess I'm not hip. What the hell are you talking about here? The Tesla drivers don't like your car and they have some sort of feature that moons you? I'm so confused.
It is apparently a temporary name, but yes that's what it read like to me.
Update 2: Kyodo News is reporting that local authorities say Abe is showing no vital signs
Not every one gets a bot created in their image. Lucky guy
> We have a very long way to go until we can say that EV is always better for the environment than ICE.

This is a meaningless point as you can make this argument about literally anything. Please point to the person you think is making a purchasing decision where it’s heads = Chevy Malibu, tails = Hummer EV.

An H1 Hummer gets 10 mpg rated, but at the performance levels listed for the EV it would be substantially lower. So an equivalent performance gas H1 Hummer would have four, five or more times the emissions of a Chevy Malibu.

Your position is irrational. I’m really looking forward to urban gas stations being deleted and replace with nice things that don’t contribute to childhood cancers.
https://github.com/cinnyapp/cinny/issues/664 Thanks for the bug report.
Many of those suburbs mostly exist as a way to hoard wealth; high earners depend upon the city in order to gain their income and wealth, but use small enclaves to make sure their taxes do not get shared evenly.

So in that sense, they are net negatives in that they cause greater inequality. And inequality lessens the economic efficiency of capitalism and markets.
The "Looking for a babysitter" parents aren't that bad assuming their kids are well behaved and make decent grades.

It's actually mixture of helicopter parents who are EXTREMELY invested in their kids education and troubled kids whose parents treat school like a daycare/repair shop for their kids that are the problem. A pox on both their houses etc etc
> It is not the physique / weight but the intent, which is some kind of sexual harassment at a minimum.

that seems like a weird take. Most of the time I'd think people wandering unfamiliar streets will be accosted by assholes looking for money than looking for someone to sexually harass. Even catcallers will have various motivations which might not involve intent to sexually harass (even though that's usually the effect).

Men have a lower risk of being sexually assaulted while a mugger or a scammer will happily target individuals of either sex if they think they can get away with it. Men do tend to the preferred target for someone looking to start a fight however which can make a difference depending on the area and how territorial the local thugs are.

Still, I'd feel way more comfortable as a 60kg woman who was fit and knew how to defend herself than I would as a 60kg man who had no idea how to fight and little muscle. In either case if someone assaulted me I would be targeted because I'm being perceived as weak and vulnerable, and in only one of those scenarios would I be in a position to quickly give an assailant cause to reassess and back off.

Staying aware of your surroundings and taking sensible precautions when wandering (anywhere) is good advice for anybody.
You might say that's not what should be happening, but apparently Charles Schwab is not letting them sell or move their shares. So, maybe CS is fucking up as opposed to a contractual issue, but how does that change things for the employees being denied access to their money?
This is specific to pass through income like from LLCs. These are wildly undertaxed relative to ordinary income at the moment.
Asset values can be thought of as a series of future cash flows, each discounted back to today (for uncertainty and inflation).

Raising taxes on those future cash flows makes the assets less valuable today.

The contemplated change isn’t this drastic, but imagine that you have an asset today that’s worth $X. Suddenly, overnight, everyone in the market for that asset learns that all future benefits from that asset will be permanently exactly half as valuable as they were yesterday. What would you expect the price of that asset to reconverge to? I’d expect it to converge to pretty close to half of $X.
I believe it would still violate the ridiculous Norquist pledge, so as far as politicians are concerned it would be "raising taxes."
Community splits around concrete technical choices (e.g. NeoVim, and use of Lua as a scripting language) SOMETIMES survive and thrive.

Forks that seem to exist for no clear reason other than disgruntled person(s) thumbing their nose at an upstream maintainer never do.

If this were meaningful, then there would be clear roadmap (at least high-level aspirations without dates) announced with the repo’s creation. Without that, this is little more than a gripe post on a Nim mailing list.
The problem is that there are a decent amount of extremely wealthy people who absolutely do not get anywhere near 1.5 M in yearly "income". Many of these folks live off of things like dividends, capital gains, or even better loans against ever rising investment portfolio amounts (with the added advantage that the interest on the loan is tax deductible). The emphasis of the tax code on "income" per se, which does make sense on several levels to be fair, ends up missing a significant portion of very wealthy folks who just don't have much "income".
As opposed to Republican states, which are utopias of innovation, culture, and industry, and totally not leeching on the merit of the blue states who keep transferring wealth to them via the Federal government.
An Indian NGO receiving foreign funds requires FCRA registration. That they didn't have.

As to the rest of your comment, his video was doctored to take the statement out of context and aimed at violent islamists to take action against the individual. His specific video is quoted by most of the islamists threatening her with beheading.
Warranty is to some percent of original capacity, like 80 or 90%. Then you have another few hundred thousand miles for the next quantum of degradation.
A DHS officer and a DHS agent leak restricted information on US persons and all they get charged on is lying about it?

> Miller and Taylor procured and disseminated sensitive and confidential information from a restricted federal law enforcement database regarding U.S.-based dissidents from the PRC.

> The charges against Miller and Taylor pertain to their alleged obstruction of justice...
output $MONITOR scale 1.25 in sway; no blurriness.

IIRC the only thing I eventually did to make things work was setting env vars

MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1
MOZ_WAYLAND_USE_VAAPI=1

(You probably already know this but check `window protocol` under about:config and/or use the xeyes method to verify that it's indeed not falling back to Xwayland. I mention this because any time I experienced blurriness, Xwayland's been in the loop and xeyes is a quick way to check that for any app)

As for terminals: foot has some weird behavior with font sizes[0] but kitty and alacritty have not had surprises here so far (though I didn't try alacritty in multi-DPI situation yet)

[0]: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/issues/714
Maybe....maybe not... It depends if it will work using the new sat tech if it ever comes out. As it stands you just have a different (I wouldn't even say better) version of 4g....
That is true, but I've also read that F1 (electric series?) was using transmissions at first and some stuck with them, while some didnt. Although, F1 has unlimited budget. Im sure using lower power motors would allow the usage of transmission and maintain enough power to be a daily commuter.
Non-competes is an interesting point, I always wonder how much it impacts innovation. Probably very hard to measure and isolate this impact. Current tech scene seems to be a combination of few things: remnants of semiconductor industry, great climate and beautiful outdoors. College system obviously is a factor as well.
E2EE can prevent the leaking of private conversations to thirdparty middleware/cloud companies. This would allow orgs to continue using those thirdparty services to handle their traffic like usual, but would also guard against middleware disasters like cloudflair's leaking of https traffic.

Thanks to the prevalence of early HTTPS termination (usually at the edge of some big cloud company), that green pad lock at the top of your browser means little when true privacy is needed.
For two people. A world called California (which we left for Florida) with 39% top fed tax rate, something like 14% state/city/block tax, high property tax, high sales tax, etc.

Am I the only one here who thinks sending off a huge portion of what I make is not really worth it? California was nice. But it’s not worth working another 5-10 years for the privilege. Don’t worry I’ll come back to California in 15 years when I have zero income and only property. If there’s water left.
California has a high poverty rate as measured by local cost of living (but very low using the standard federal methodology) 8j no small part because federal funding formulas funnel money out of California because of its aggregate economic success, limiting it's ability to effect distribution.
I think you read a lot into what was a very simplified description of what these tests may look like in the future. It will be a handful of years before Stage 1 blood tests are performed on anyone in a non-experimental fashion, and probably over a decade before being used at any sort of scale.

Currently, for many people with some sort of mild long-term condition, their doctors will order bloodwork every year or every other year, building up a history for that patient so that when there's suddenly a deviation, it can be noticed.

This will be similar. Once the tests are cheap and ubiquitous enough, checking for mutations at sites associated with cancer to see if someone may be developing cancer, will be equivalent to how currently we check for bilirubin levels to see if someone may be suffering from liver disease.

And it will be dealt with similarly- with follow-ups, additional tests that are more sensitive/specific, and examination of possible problem sites. We haven't flooded hospitals with false diagnoses of liver or kidney diseases that are detected by traditional bloodwork.