skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple’s 30% tax on IAPs is ultimately a convenience fee on impulse buys. Whereas inherent in the process of sneaking Apple-taxable-purchasable under their nose necessarily requires a very inconvenient process: buying crypto from a retail exchange, then moving it off-exchange to a tumbler, then back again to to buy something from the same (or another) retail exchange is far from convenient - and definitely not instant - so it is not in any appreciable way to circumvent Apple’s IAP tax, because it simply comes down to the fact you can’t make impulse-buys through that system - never mind the txn/gas fees in cryptocurrencies make it very wasteful for microtransactions, or really any transaction below tens-of-dollars.

I’d agree with you provided Bitcoin’s Lightning network worked the way we hoped it would back in the early-2010s, but it doesn’t. Otherwise, your argument reads like is saying Apple should tax every PayPal transaction made through PayPal’s iOS app.
Chroma is a generative model that creates new protein molecules
Funny name, interesting project
IME, it seems that most of the lawyers with experience in this area primarily work for the companies that hire consultants, rather than consultants themselves. And their skillset is focused on drafting contract language that favors the customer rather than the vendor.

That's not to say that they couldn't apply that same skillset to drafting contracts that protect the interests of the consultant. It's just an observation.
> What I find interesting about Twitter hatred is that it is all related to the platform slowly shifting towards not engaging in politically one-sided censorship and cancellation. That's it. Nothing else. Call it freedom of speech if you must.

Are you stating that Elon’s behaviors since owning the platform has been neutral and not one sided? I feel like the Paul pelosi tweet, unbanning nazis, and hunter Biden hype has shown that not to be the case.

Call it freedom of speech you say… is that what the continual ban of Alex Jones is and rebanning of Ye shows?
One can, of course, go much further than simply distinct number types in Nim: https://github.com/ringabout/awesome-nim#science

(Unchained seems maybe the most featureful of those units packages.)
Missing a few, although (6) might be similar:

Don’t be an asshole.
Honour your commitments.
Help others.
That’s just a noob dev.
Amazon’s cloud unit faces cost-sensitive customers as economic fears mount
Not only that. Once you are at place X, lots of times you want to do something requiring a car…
>trying to re-invent org-mode without emacs

I'd absolutely love to see more of this. Hate emacs but after picking up orgzly I'm addicted to orgmode.
I have spent countless hours on this on my unlocked PS Vita... it runs very smoothly, and the controls are great. Really scratches an itch that few games do. Man does it get difficult at the later stages though...
Pls add "how X does not work" too.

How does the architecture of 8086 not work

How does work not work
In France WE used to think that trade softens the moods.
It's funny because two century ago France did a volt face on that idea and forces Europeans countries not to trade with thé british.
The britts are trying to do the same volt face today whereas they were during all that time the perfect defendeur of the free World, the free trade and the end of the History bullshit idea : it should be now your whole ideology to rebuild I guess.

I wish you the best of luck on that quest and at the same time I hope you will not forget you are just an island : so do not be too bolsy on that move, it could backfire a bit.
Why are those mutually exclusive? We should help drug users get off drugs, but we shouldn't make it deadlier for them if we fail.
4x giant geostationary assets have a drastically different adversarial profile compared to 10,000 mini assets.
I don't understand why the discussion is centered around porn when the NY post article had no pornography and yet Twitter banned it even in private dms, a punishment previously only reserved for child porn..

Is the hunter Biden story on the same level as child porn? Is that the moral equivalence you want to draw?
Are they not? With words not related to cars, could you describe for what cases Confluence would work better than MediaWiki?
I wrote an article once with a cheeky title sometime after I became aware of “Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarden” about counting things.

Basically one of the questions you should always ask is if the results match your expectations. You may find that some methods are calling the slow function that you didn’t expect, and refactoring the code to pass the answer to your business logic may save a lot more computation than making low level changes inside the function. Plus you just learn more about the architecture of the system by following this mental exercise. If ten requests are made I expect this routine to be called 51 times, so why is it being called 213?

Also when I have a smoking gun I like to pull the whole assembly out for the benchmarking phase. If you can’t reproduce the slowdown outside of the live environment it may mean the problem is split with some other place in the code. Cache poisoning, high GC overhead, lock contention, etc.

Each time you successfully pull a piece out, you get the opportunity to fix other problems in the vicinity as well, amortizing the cost of that effort. It’s also a canary for when your coworkers who are overfond of tight coupling get their mitts on the code.
"Create a list of people who want to receive database tips via email" is almost a tautology at this point, but seems like a reasonable objective.

Also is a good way to weed out people who want just a 1-way relationship. I, for one, wouldn't care about not distributing my knowledge to people who aren't even willing to drop their email in exchange. Those people want something but aren't willing to give me anything - that feels really greedy.

Building an audience is incredibly difficult. People who don't want to be in my audience - I'm totally fine if they don't get access to my stuff.
I’ve bought nothing but Mercedes since I was 27. I’ve owned 4 of them. I would never buy a Chinese owned Benz.
Yes, that's the point. Credit_account_cents() would be the name that states the units.
The problem is that drivers perceive removing the existing carrots as applying a stick. If private car owners paid the full cost, transit would be a no brainer. How much public land is devoted to cars? How many DOT employees have jobs only to maintain traffic signals and pave roads?
Never heard that quote before. +1
this was a wonderful writeup, thank you
Or even contribute with code: https://github.com/BrentOzarULTD/SQL-Server-First-Responder-...
"Ask HN: What's the purpose of North Dakota"

I ask this everyday.
1. watch out for your mental health
2. learn about time management
3. give yourself time to learn new things and experiment with them, it should be joyful experience
I'm unsure if anyone is seriously making arguments that dropping in Uber/Lyft into a city like Phoenix, AZ would be much more efficient. Rather, it would hopefully help as an intermediate transportation mode for cities that have a somewhat useful transit system. For those cities, mass transit is the highly available mode.

To state the obvious, people can want all the availability in the world, but they don't often get that because of the costs associated with it. Cars are expensive[1], and so is parking[2]. The costs of congestion are also typically only paid for by drivers with time (although many cities are toying with congestion pricing). Of course, the cost calculation for residents changes for different cities; the costs in Manhattan vs in Atlanta are very different.

So while you in particular may be able to afford the private cost burdens of car ownership, I believe the convenience of owning a car is a woefully inadequate metric to make policy decisions on. This is all mostly moot anyway as at least according to the original post, ridesharing does not positively impact car ownership.

[1]: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/64-billion-massachu...
[2]: The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup (ISBN: 1884829988)
Switch jobs, tell ‘em to fuck off. This is how companies are doing stealth layoffs these days. They know they’ll lose 50% and they want to.
Do "kill vehicles" that are only capable of destroying a few tens of square meters at best really illegal under the ballistic missile treaty?
> it cannot be sliced to produce another length-prefix string

Come again? Of course it can. It can't be done in place, mind you, but that's a pretty bad way to do any string slicing, regardless of implementation, in a manual memory management environment. Do most programmers expect their slices to result in undefined behavior if they release the larger string they were made from? I doubt it.
Worth mentioning that management vs. IC is not a decision for life.
Charity Majors wrote about the opportunities and challenges when switching throughout one's career between management and individual contributor [1] and [2].

[1] https://charity.wtf/2017/05/11/the-engineer-manager-pendulum...

[2] https://charity.wtf/2022/03/24/twin-anxieties-of-the-enginee...
All of us tend to forget that each year there is a whole cohort of people getting a new phone and using fb, instagram, twitter, whatever for the first time.
I found the writing beautiful. Sometimes if writing "gets to the point" too directly, it can fail to make an interesting point at all. Weaving together lots of references and ideas provides a lot more nuance and richness IMO.
Another name comes to mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Cohn-Bendit

Not directly related to this case, but as part of the political climate which
enables such things.
Binary Coded Decimal allows for perfect representation of numbers by not restricting you to 4 or 8 bytes. It trades speed and memory efficiency for precision and simplicity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal
I like to summarize everything said and add my own conclusions. It only belongs at the end.
What does the Twitter purchase or Musk’s opinions on the war in Ukraine have to do with Space-X’s capabilities to successfully put satellites into orbit?
One thing I will say in their favor is that it if someone dives in I'm sure they will find it was a massive economic boom for late night entertainment venues, especially in Los Angeles and other car dependent cities.

When I was younger, going out in LA was a huge pain. You had to figure out who would be the DD, how you would carpool, how you'd get all the cars home in the morning, where you'd park them overnight while you were sleeping off the hangover, etc.

Now you just call an Uber/Lyft, everyone can have a drink, and you can all sleep in your own beds that night (or someone else's, whatever floats your boat).
Buick still exists in the US.
Ignoring that we have no idea where the data ultimately comes from (or are private contributions public in the US?) it is highly misleading by omission.
If we look at the linked page [1] we see that 2014 and 2016 much higher fractions went to the Republicans (31% in 2016 and 11% in 2014) with the total contributions varying wildly from year to year, but the chart was cut to show single-digit values only.

[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/twitter/totals?id=D00006711...
> It's compensation for damage done.

But you're still being held liable for that damage, despite the fact that you did not cause any physical damage. It was just words, and yet their effect is considered damaging.

That's aside from the fact that there's also a thing called "punitive damages", so that still is quite explicitly punishment. So these are words that do damage, and they're punished for.

> if a threat is a threat to do something illegal, how can a threat to do something completely legal be a threat?

I guess I should explain the terms I use a bit better. You're right that words can mean different things, and I'm talking about the legal concepts of threat and blackmail, but in my too-brief explanation of blackmail, I use the word "threat" in one of its other meanings.

So here's what I mean by threat and blackmail:

Threat: expressing an intend to hurt someone. Here, hurting someone is illegal, but expressing the intention to do so is illegal as well.

Blackmail: expressing an intend to reveal embarrassing information about someone unless they do something, in order to coerce them to do that thing against their will. Here, revealing the embarrassing information might be totally legal. In fact, if the information is about a crime the target committed, revealing it might even be the right thing to do. And yet saying you're going to reveal it unless they do a particular thing, is illegal.

In any case, I think we have established that there are forms of speech that are illegal, are considered damaging, and/or are sufficiently harmful or damaging to warrant compensation or punishment.

So to get back to the original topic: is hate speech damaging? And is it sufficiently damaging to warrant compensation or punishment? And if we were to conclude that they are, legislating that is not necessarily a more significant infringement on the freedom of speech than the existing laws against libel, blackmail and threats are.
Not necessarily true. A bunch of parents would prohibit their children from using contraceptives if they had total control.
I don't think anyone is claiming that's the only factor, but it does seem that some people have higher natural aptitudes for some modes of thought, at least to me.
I would tend to recommend the Bar Association over Google.

https://www.calbar.ca.gov/Public/Need-Legal-Help/Using-a-Cer...

More generally, the type is just "your lawyer."

Most lawyers mostly handle contracts. You probably don't want a trial lawyer or a criminal lawyer or a tax lawyer and likely won't come across an in-house council.

As an aside, [1] if it comes to the point where the fine legal points of the contract are in contention your business relationship has gone bad (or it was bad from the start (there are clients like that)).

What I mean is that the way NDA's between consultants and contractors are really supposed to work is that the consultant is working on the next project for the client (and the next project after that and so on) because that's how the consultant makes their money.

If you are prioritizing your own "future IP" you're shooting your client relationship in the foot. I mean who wants to work with a difficult consultant?

Your lawyer should tell you what you are in for by signing, but unless the terms are onerous, any kind of heavy NDA back and forth is a reveal of lack of experience. Onerous terms are a reveal of a bad client -- new consultants tend to experience more of them because experienced consultants work to acquire and maintain good clients.

Finally, the terms of the NDA and other aspects of the contract should be reflected in your fee. Your business is to charge for the value the client expects. That value may often include saving the client money. But it does not include saving the client money on your fee.

Good luck.

[1]: well that got longer than I expected.
Except the friend isn't encouraging me to spend more in hopes of raising business. That's their comment on what existing companies typically spend on legal. Commercial and regulatory disputes are a fact of business life past a certain size.

Did you have a bad legal experience and think all lawyers are now out to get you or something? Conversely, do you think that not budgeting anything for legal expenses means your business will never be sued or need to sue anyone?
Maybe you haven't seen the newer cars like the Zeekr 001 which is amazing (Zeekr is one of Geely's sub brands). Nio ET5, Xpeng P5, BYD Seal, are also very attractive cars aimed squarely at Tesla.
Have my upvote, you made my day!
"FTX owes $288.05 to Binance"

At least, lol
Making views editable is quite challenging. Especially in the general case. For tasks specifically this works, you can query them somewhere and when you toggle their completion state this gets propagated back. Editing other attributes is more tricky.
The important thing is to never defer if you win the coin toss and also the best guy has to go first, the second best should go 2nd etc.
Half of me agrees with this, the other half doesn't... I liked too much that game.
> HN probably has the highest quality conversations anywhere on the internet!

Do you know a better place? Maybe some small ones, but I doubt there are larger internet communities than HN with better discussions.
Yeah that'll end up getting you the people who are good at bragging.
Personally, I’m hating on Twitter because a) Musk is a narcissistic asshole and my tolerance for those types has plummeted since 2016, and b) the American right loves to whine about being censored while breaking all sorts of rules and norms, and generally acting like complete sociopaths. There is no “balance” to be had with an ideology that spews hate and lies, and gleefully supports taking power by whatever means necessary, even if it happens to make up half of the voting population. If the other side were full of Liz Cheneys instead of Trumpists, that would be a different story. But American conservatism has morphed into something completely decrepit over the last decade, and there is nothing unfair about platforms disproportionately moderating it into the ground — simply because it has a disproportionate share of rule breakers.
You have to commend YouTube and Twitter's longevity as social networks.

YouTube has better and more content than ever. Twitter also has the best and most relevant content, provided you curate your feed. All the stuff happening on academic Twitter, for instance, is hard to find elsewhere.

Reddit also seems to be going down the path of irrelevancy. The content is increasingly mediocre and hivemind-ish.
I'd rather an 1802 or 6809.
This just reminds me of music in the 50s/60s and radio (without the payola)

Some bands were one hit wonders, but some were able to transition to a career, usually help behind them - writers, producers, and everything else from the record label. Chubby Checker always makes me laugh with the song Let’s Twist Again.

Something similar happened with Youtube, I think. Especially with media for kids. Popular channels turned into a productions, but usually it was much slower.

TikTok will be like Youtube/Radio Hybrid. Some people will take their one hit wonder and transition to a career, but not without the help of something like a record label or production company.

And if there’s payola, it’s going to click farms.
Funny how popular this story is despite your "non story" assertion.

You can argue it is minor in comparison to, say, impeachment proceedings re: Burisma, but did Twitter do the right thing in suppressing the laptop story? Probably not. I don't think most people want private citizens like Gadde tampering with elections in the future.
How does one find a good tax accountant? I used to use one who cost around $1200/yr, but I lost trust in him for various reasons, so I do my own with TurboTax Home & Business. Probably not a good use of my time (takes 1-2 days per year), moderately complex taxes with multiple K-1s, LLC filings, home office deduction, but otherwise normal stuff like W-2s/1099s/standard deduction (not itemized).

When I search google or yelp results, it's hard for me to judge who is going to be competent and also reasonabily priced.

How did people find their accountant?
TikTok has a creator fund that incentives and rewards their creators. It is much closer to YouTube than Twitter or Snapchat. And I’m pretty sure it’s DAUs are way greater than both of those as well.
I am quite sad that "The secret life of videocassettes in Iran" is not a real article
In my experience, ChatGPT lies a surprising amount - not really on purpose, though. It'll claim to be incapable of certain things, but still do them (and well!) if coaxed.
This project looks really cool. Maybe someone reading this can answer this question. I've been wondering what the in-browser options are for easy to use low poly modeling? Are there any application you'd recommend?
It's a pretty deep rabbit hole!
You play with ChatGPT a bit and you do start to see certain patterns in the results. So I guess if you train on the outputs it gets relatively straightforward to recognize other examples that are just cut and pasted from the ChatGPT--even if, in isolation, it seems like something a person might write.
I could see the concern, though a car is basically always going to require you to drive around with a potentially lethal amount of energy regardless of the storage medium. Also a battery failure does not mean all energy is released simultaneously. A denser battery could result in a smaller battery that could be better protected from damage.
He's just spamming his website in every thread related to ML. The snark gets more attention.
I did ask both questions and found the answer to "Why did large SMP systems become mainstream?" more coherent. Broken down into bullet points, the arguments given for both questions would be AFAIK correct.
This page brings fun twice: when you first load it and read the headlines, and next when you reload it a few times, see the pattern, and start to anticipate.
Microcode goes back to the PDP-11 and beyond; in a CISC mindset ("our job as ISA designers is to make it easier for assembly programmers to express their programs") it's a pretty obvious tool for increasing instruction set richness without proportionally increasing transistor budget.
> How many destitute families are you sheltering in your home?

This is the worst argument ever. I'm not sure what kind of fallacy it is, but it's a really really bad argument.

It's even worse than the "if you really wanted to lose weight you'd find a way, so obviously you just don't care that you are overweight" argument.
One of the first programming languages I learned was TI BASIC on the TI-89. It had an excellent units (refinement types) system: you could define an expression as a "unit" by prefixing a variable with an underscore, and it came with a bunch of built-in units. A unit expression could thereby automatically convert between types as needed, outputing the base unit.

E.g. `5_dollars + 8_cents` would output `508_cents`. There was also a conversion operator you could use to change the output unit, so `5_dollars + 8_cents→_dollars` would output `5.08_dollars`.

It even worked for more complicated derived units, so e.g. `8_m * 5_kg / (3_s * 4_s)` returns `3.333_N`.
I think I'm most puzzled why the Navy is making so many edits on Boys II Men founding member Marc Nelson. The read I'm getting is they are by Marc Nelson himself since a lot of them seem to reflect his personal regrets about leaving right before they blew up.

Incredibly odd.
I use xournal for many things, but its function is only being able to mark up non-fillable PDFs. The federal forms are fillable (do them right in evince or whatever PDF viewer you use). If your state's forms aren't fillable PDFs, then xournal can save some paper and avoid handwriting errors, but that's about it.

Sometimes your taxes are simple enough to do directly on the forms, but sometimes they aren't.

(Thanks for the reference to xournalpp, I should check that out some time)
It is, it's just from a different source.

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-secret-life-of-videoc...
I mean if you ask the same question to a human your question is ambiguous enough that you will get the same type of issues.

How is any being or AI meant to read your mind to know you don't want instructions for system X but assume the instructions would be good on system Y etc. I feel sorry for the humans you expect to query you to get what you really want out of you.
I miss n-gate
How the Visionary Hospice Movement Became a For-Profit Hustle