skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are there downsides to this?

Absolutely. Just to give an example, I was able to narrow down my personality dynamics to a set which predicted that memory-focused interests would be intriguing but risky.

I measured the risk as I studied for upcoming test (US amateur radio license) and the subjective intrigue factor seemed to be the worst factor by far. It compounded risk early and often. As I saw early payoffs from spaced repetition and other techniques like Roman rooms, the intrigue convinced me to up the ante again and again.

I had little experience with electronics or radio and nonetheless decided to study for all three license levels simultaneously.

I ended up having to measure my success not by progress, but by frequency of extremely negative ahem, "ideations". IOW I would quit studies for the day/week when I wanted to end it all. I had the granularity figured down to how many minutes I likely had to study before I'd have to lose a day of all other productive work due to exhaustion. But the prize was so big that I couldn't just give up. And all of the memory techniques worked great.

I wasn't able to find a hyper-objective model for this but the mixed models were good enough for me. In my case the most relevant was Jungian cognitive functions' Si-as-recall model, combined with several other perspectives from the personality dynamics world, including theories by John Beebe.

If you are able to do some basic research and determine whether you are an intuitive personality, that would be where I'd start to draw a big warning line. Especially if you have strengths in conceptualization, contingency planning, imagination, reading science fiction, and so on. Not only are these strengths often found in recall-deficit personality groups, but moreso the more detailed the nature of the recall. In addition, recall perception blocks intuitive perception and vice versa. So by definition the expression of your gifts can become blocked, which logically means that you are blocking your ability to create positive outcomes and energy for yourself.

It's interesting stuff but please be careful and mind the subjective factors. Especially if you have any thoughts like, "I learn some really interesting stuff, so if only I could retain what I learn..." (I'd never be caught blanked out in a conversation, losing a debate, etc.)
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> It doesn't erase anything, it just excludes historic contributions to one gender.

If a documentary covers a specific topic it makes sense that it wouldn't cover another topic. The Cancer documentary isn't somehow woke for not being about AIDS. I don't see anything weird about a documentary that is about women computing in WWII not being about male computing in WWII. I'd totally agree with you if the documentary was claiming to cover computing in WWII generally and then only covered women, but that's not what's happening here.
It's about the lifecycle of the inventor, not the motor, silly.

Even though the probability is low that he is founding a revolution in magnetodynamics, I personally found this story more inspiring than a blog post about the latest front-end Javascript framework.
It doesn't come through well, and it is phonetically confusing (perhaps doubly so for those with English as a second language). In an age of mobile touchscreen keyboards, it just looks like a bad autocorrect.
>article about IRS auditing

>person I'm replying to is talking about funding for auditing

>IRS says they're going to hire 87,000 more auditors

Gee I wonder what the results will be.
The guy you’re replying to is just making this up. One of many accounts trying to foment sentiment against working for certain employers.
In a comment that says "masculine insecurities and one upping your neighbors," I reply with an anecdote about a female feeling safer, showing that the statement is not universal.

You say the comment is lacking in self awareness because she has become what she feared. I'd say that is not lacking self awareness though it definitely feeds into the "race to the bottom." That is orthogonal to self awareness, it is tragedy of the commons. She has no obligation to lower her sense of safety to make others feel better.
Discussion from 2 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32396061
Random brain dump of questions: Does proof-of-stake generally mean the more money you have the more influence you get over the consensus? If yes, how could this manifest itself if a bad actor had a lot of ETH and tried to manipulate the chain? Could they theoretically jump favored transactions to the front of the line and/or charge less fees for their own transactions? How does this affect mining pools? Is a 51% attack any easier/harder/different?
I thought those were pretty well serviced one or two decades ago by niche hobbyist forums and the like, more recently by specific subreddits.

Personally I lament the demise of forums and BBs.
Yet both men and women who have shed some fat weight and maybe got some muscle, saw the world treat them differently and can tell you exactly why you can't trust words over actions. Even the descriptions of these traits alone are extremely vague.

That's not to say they are bad traits, but they certainly aren't the magical bullets that will get you through any door that the women claim them to be. Certainly opens a few eyes when a non-insignificant portion of women saying those words seem awfully lenient to a guy with a higher status and a stronger physique, even if he acts like a jerk.
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Not a Higgins brother, was it? I went to school with Mike.
The source for this "web page" is at https://github.com/Linguistic-Antipatterns/linguistic-antipa...
It’s somehow gotten a lot better for me too in the last few months, I now don’t even get spam on the WHOIS emails
The Dimensions of Colour, Aristotle, Isaac Newton
MidJourney allows you to specify other aspect ratios. DALL-E's square constraint makes a lot of things more difficult than they need to be IMO.
Görli is also close to FullNode[0], the office building where plenty of blockchain projects were based.

[0] https://www.fullnode.berlin/
I've been wondering over the past few months if we can build a "public" cloud. I have some old machines gathering dust, I'm sure others do too. Is it feasible to build an ad-hoc network of such computers where the compute power is rented out. For ex: I can connect my old lenovo i5 laptop to this network for 6hrs a day and charge 1.2x my electricy cost. Sort of like on demand EC2 instances, but backed by torrent like tech. It'd make computers pay for themselves over time
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The number is about right. I did a benchmark a couple of year ago while developing a realtime 3D frame processing and using Qt signal was about 7-8x slower.

But for most of the use-cases like UI interaction handling, the difference is negligible.
> authorities who often frown on the special love between a person and their crows.

What are the authorities afraid of here? Which states have such silly rules where you can’t have crows as pets? Is this not a violation of personal freedom?
Relational databases are optimized for typical operations over data structured in tables. So, joins and records. However sometime you want something simpler - like LIFO queue - and wouldn't mind to have is faster. Redis allows to have this - the variety of data structures it has is much bigger than with relational databases. They (Redis and RDBs) both have their uses, of course. Ideally you would structure your system to use one of them where appropriate according to data requests.
I don't think it is GPT generated, seems similar to the kind of stuff on Phoronix that has been editorialized from mailing list posts, which of the legacy hardware mentioned do you feel is incorrect?
Humans are even slower than that.

If you measure the response of individual photoreceptors, it takes 25-50 ms to peak after a flash of appropriately-colored light; the precise number depends on the color and intensity of the light. After that, the signal still needs to propagate through a bunch of visual brain areas, and then even more needs to happen to somehow influence behavior. With everything tuned just so, you can complete that whole process in 100 ms or so, but the conditions have to be perfect; otherwise, 300+ ms between (simple) stimulus and (simple) response is more typical.

Obviously, a lot of this is happening asynchronously, and high refresh rates can help in other ways (e.g., by smoothing out movement), but it astonishing how laggy our visual system is.
There are some other implicit requirements like:

> Program members must renew their memberships annually.

> Upon acceptance to the GitLab for Open Source Program, all program members are subject to the GitLab for Open Source Program Agreement.

Source: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/community-relati...
I think you're right that Game Pass is a terrible idea.

It reminds me of what happened to cable TV. Back in the 1980s cable channels all had definite brands to uphold. The cable bundle meant, however, that you had to take them all or leave them all. You couldn't pick your favorite news channel, you had to get all of them. Like the Discovery Channel? You pay for the Hallmark Channel.

Cable channels thus don't have any motivation to be any good. They get paid whether or not you like them, whether or not you watch them. So why bother?

The cable industry "thrived" for many years by simply jacking up the price, something that people tolerated for a while but each time they increase the price they lose a few subscribers, every time there is a funeral a cable TV subscriber is gone and they don't get replaced by anyone new.

It irks me that young people who didn't live through this think anything is going to be different with GAME PASS. Each time I see that logo on my Xbox it makes my blood boil -- I am thinking about getting rid of it since it doesn't play music well, doesn't play HEVC videos at all, and there aren't that many games I want to play on it. I still keep it though because it plays Blu-Ray.
Thank you for actually finding good counter-examples. Come to think of it, the problem is deeper.

The first level is that many western societies have vocal groups of people whose joy in life comes from bullying others (getting other people fired, targeting them with rather disproportionate punishments, campaigning outside their houses, etc). The woke/progressive movement has attracted a lot of these people, but I agree that blaming all progressives for doing that is like blaming all conservatives for being racist.

The second level is that the governments realized that by giving platform to bullies they can keep the public busy with an endless third-world-style feud, while escaping accountability for many real problems (former middle class plunging into poverty).

The third level is that most people refuse to scrutinize the actions of those who claim to be fighting for a good cause, refuse to check for conflicts of interest, refuse to distinguish between anti-discrimination and attention seeking and refuse to focus on actions rather than identities. And this makes the 2 previous levels possible.
I have a friend who likely live in your city (there aren’t many EU big capitals that fit your description), who managed to get a job as a Research Data Scientist on a Uber-like company. His focus is Self-Driving.

Such positions for people like you exist out there, but you‘ve got be patient because there aren’t many.
They're not cheating. It's because the EITC is complex so it's easy to make mistakes. Also because the IRS doesn't have the proper staffing to actually go after people that are richer and file yet more complex tax returns.

"Cheating" is a very loaded word to use here.

Increasing funding so the IRS can hire the proper staff to enforce tax-law across the board is the solution and it results in net revenue for the government. But the GOP consistently opposes these measures and is intent on hamstringing the IRS in its ability to audit higher-income households and businesses.
Very cool. I would definitely like to see this in action!
Interesting. Yeah I wasn't sure what was going on there, but it seems to use a pure C++ QProperty, Qul::Signal and Qul::Object.

https://doc.qt.io/QtForMCUs-2.1/qtul-integratecppqml.html

Which is kind of interesting ...
So does this apply to inkjet printers too?
If dodging/bungling taxes were a Civil matter instead of a Criminal matter, it might be easier to get support for better enforcement.
What makes humans unique? Our capacity to imagine the future
A wide-ranging interview with futurist Byron Reese on how the unique human capacity to see and shape the future arose.

Also discussed: why AGI isn't possible, where free will comes from, and whether human consciousness emerges from the brain.
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> $400k is a 98% percentile income in San Francisco metro, DC metro, and NYC metro.

You care about household income, not individual.

https://dqydj.com/income-by-city/ gives 95th, not 98th in SF Metro area for household income. 92nd in Silicon valley.
For one, the vast majority of those people are W2 employees. Their taxes are withheld at source. Let that be whatever taxes someone pays.

Take it further: the IRS just gives you a form at the end of the year saying your income was $X and your taxes withheld were $Y. Sign here to get a refund or pay the shortfall (which, if withheld correctly, there should never be a shortfall).

That's actually how it works in most developed countries.

As for small businesses (the vast majroity of non-W2 employees), sure, audit them if they have been running a restaurant for years and weirdly have never drawn an income.
Doesn't the same apply to PoW? The more money you have the more HW you can buy/rent to mine.
It's on Congress to fix the EITC, too. There are already detailed proposals to reform it [1], but nothing will change unless Congress has the will to do it.

[1] https://www.taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020...
Clearly there is some group of people with the power and influence to make this decision. How does that group compare to, say, US central bankers, in terms of transparency and democratic accountability?

Edit: To be clear, I’m not talking about banking operations, I’m talking about decision making by central bank leadership. One of the purported benefits of crypto is independence from the shadowy cabals that run the US dollar.

Except the Treasury isn’t actually all that shadowy - the staff have names, and are appointed through an ultimately democratic process. Whereas I really have no idea who is pulling the strings behind crypto and who they are accountable to. The original vision was for decentralized finance where nobody could pull the strings, but the level of coordination on display here in the PoW-to-PoS switch makes it obvious that strings exist and they are capable of being pulled.
I have trouble sleeping because I spend too much time on the web...
Some Hyundai, Kia Models Can Be Stolen with a USB Cable
No, protocol changes are not affected by the amount of ETH staked.

> Is a 51% attack any easier/harder/different?

Harder. With Ethereum's consensus, you need 2/3 of the validators conspiring to produce an attack on the chain.
Yeah GUI is really the biggest missing part of the ecosystem. To be fair it is an extremely difficult problem; there is a reason there are so many electron apps out there.
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Home Manager really doesn’t lead to many problems, and if you encounter any the NixOS community is wonderful. You can set up everything without understanding much of the Nix language by looking at other people’s configs on GitHub.
Yes, laws do matter. Were it otherwise civil courts would have lots of free time.
The legal system isn't known for being the corruption oasis that movies make it out to be.
And yet, oddly, only one party has the platform of "drowning the government in a bathtub" which, if you think about it, is isomorphic with "defund the police".
I was making a few thousand a year chopping firewood and selling it to restaurants with my dad and the IRS audited me at 17. I’m pretty sure it was because I had donated to the Holy Land Foundation but come on.
This sounds wonderful in theory. How often does this get exposed and enforced in real life?
nix/guix are also good solutions, but they have a much higher learning curve than a Dockerfile; I would even be willing to suggest that docker is not the true best solution to any problem it solves, but in my experience it is the easiest solution to most of them
Incidence of audits per 1000 returns filed by poor people is (13.0/2.6)=5x the incidence of audits per 1000 returns filed by non-poor people.
Twitter's approach to combating misinformation for 2022 US midterm elections
IMO the Merge will "prove" that PoS works and thus bring a lot of pressure to bear on PoW coins for being obviously wasteful.
Show HN: Exit Reviews - Learn how products performed over their lifetime
Problem:

- We never hear about broken and worn-out products and there is no data about the longevity and repairability of products.

- At the same time, environmental impact and sustainability are becoming increasingly important for consumers.

- We don’t know how a product performed over its duration of service because most reviews are written when it first arrived and people haven’t spent much time with it to learn the quirks.

Solution:

That's why I'm building exitreviews.com to change the way people review products. Let's reflect upon how a product performed over its duration of service instead of when it first arrived and people haven’t spent much time with it to learn the quirks.

We can then build a collection of how long products last, where they break, and how to fix them. Even if certain products are not available anymore, it still gives a good picture of brand deterioration.
Much the same experience using Excel - people describe a problem in English with a lot of glossing over of details, but asking them to mock something up in a spreadsheet brings home some of the complexities.
> Gee I wonder what the results will be.

On the FY 2021 audit rate? Little or no effect, I expect.
Can you name any country successful in stopping people with a mindset that they want to grow, mainly financially, or into power?

In capitalism, these are entrepreneurs.
In democracy, these are politicians.
In autocracy, these are dictators, army generals.
In theocracy, these are pharaos, etc.
In nature, these are alpha wolves.

Even people proposing degrowth, if they're going to achieve their goal, will have to be power hungry, alpha wolves (no matter how they will market themselves), not that different from people I describe. And they will have to fight constantly. There is no way how to stop need for getting better, getting more, competing, winning...
They've probably changed corporate owners in that time as well reducing their independence, switched to a new CMS, etc.
What you described is mostly not tech jobs. Tech is building Starlink, or maybe even Chat application No 17 at Google, or doing some other technical product. Coding work at banks or other non-tech corporations you mentioned rarely have any technical challenges - they merely use technology, they don't develop it themselves.
If those terms mean anything to you: const is an rvalue, static is an lvalue.
Correct neither party cares about the will of the people both parties are beholden to the rich and corporations.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.
Contrast with, say, physical or natural phenomena: the size of the Earth, solar insolation, the prevalence of various chemical elements within the Earth's crust, their organisation (or lack) into ores, their cycling through the biosphere, net primary productivity, and the like.

A debt, by contrast, is a socially-recognised and generally legally sanctioned claim on another's wealth or productivity. That is, debt is fundamentally informational, and records a relationship, but that relationship is not fundamentally grounded in any underlying physical reality. As is noted, "debts that cannot be repaid won't", and when the notional fiction runs up against such a reality, the debt is retired. That is, the information is changed.

There are numerous cultural, legal, and financial reasons to believe and behave otherwise, but ultimately, debts are a social, not a natural or intrinsic construct. Their behaviour is ultimately more a symptom than a cause of a larger growth or collapse.

Debt wants growth, but need not have it. The principle challenge is that the modern monetary system based on central banks and fiat currencies was developed in a world of rapid economic growth. It need not be limited to such a world. Currency sovereigns can both retire debts and introduce new liquidity to maintain a flow which supports commercial transactions. A major problem to date has been that new liquidity introductions tend to be to the wealth-holding classes rather than those requiring currency to pay for current and essential demand and consumption. Again, there are historical reasons for this, but they are still cultural and notional, not some underlying Law of the Universe.
"in some way" sure, but in lots of other ways not. For the sake of discussion let's pose one way in which we could define the distinction as a purely utilitarian metric - does an individual contribute more to society than they take out. The problem is that it seems to me that many individuals are professionally parasitic. That is their jobs, which they carry out diligently and conscientiously, don't contribute anything useful. As such they are purely drains on society.

I would put much of the finance industry in that bracket, which is essentially a rent seeking industry (albeit in various convoluted ways). It's doubly bad in finance because it sucks huge amounts of talent from areas where the individuals could actually contribute usefully.
Exactly. It's easier to catch when things are automated. People of lessor means generally have simple tax returns. However, good luck catching a rich persons 1031 Exchange or an improper 83(b) Election. Those just don't scale.
The 87,000 additional auditors is a misleading interpretation [1]

Summary:
- IRS used to have over 100,000 employees a decade back. This number has fallen due to funding cuts etc to less than 78,000 today.

- The employees are not just auditors - they are support people for tax filing, IT etc.

- There will be further employee attrition over the next decade that would need to be backfilled.

- What Congress has given them is funding to cover hiring of 87,000 employees over the next decade. This will cover backfill for employee attrition + new employees that will include auditors, enhanced support, IT etc. The total growth (again over the next decade) is expected to be 20-30,000 with will bring the IRS back to last decade levels.

TL;DR: IRS isn't going out and hiring 87,000 new (and in some misleading reports, gun toting) agents tomorrow and doubling their workforce. Instead, they are bringing their employee count (auditors and others) back to last decade levels and also replacing departing employees.

1. https://time.com/6204928/irs-87000-agents-factcheck-biden/
TFP growth declined due to constraints on idea processing capability, not supply