skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the US, where I and the article author are based, there's no federal inheritance tax, and federal estate taxes are assessed only on more than US$12-13 million. If someone has to deal with these amounts in the United States, it's much less likely that they lack the means to coordinate the estate.

Only six states assess inheritance taxes, and only 12 assess estate taxes. Few (none?) assess those taxes against surviving spouses, children, or parents who inherit, and most are exempt if the inheritance or estate is under US$1 million.

I live in one of the 12 estate tax states, and their estate had no such tax obligations as a sole-surviving spouse. As a sole surviving spouse with no children, my state also granted me automatic and immediate default probate control over my partner's estate upon their death, and would have even if they didn't have a formal will.

Their will only specified a few of their financial accounts, and my access to their digital estate allowed me to manage the rest either directly or by simply knowing that they exist so I can submit the forms and certificates to close them out. (One such account had a $0 balance; it was purely administrative work, but still necessary.)

Having children, ex-spouses, or legal guardianship over a dependent all complicate these considerably, but in many cases it really is this simple.
‘Chip War', an Account of the global chip battle wins FT book prize
Crazy theory - Big Bank is behind it. Maybe they employed SBF, maybe they actually infiltrated and exploited a badly run company.

No proof, just an idea.
The new Manycam owners also trashed lifetime licences. They immediately released version 8 and refused to provide perpetual keys for the new version to customers that had bought lifetime licences. They also refused to offer any refunds.
If you're running a windows install you are a "geek" normal people buy a whole computer usually. Also, this is HN so it was a fair assumption on my part.
From what I'm seeing, Photoshop only costs $20/month (actually $20.99) if you commit to an annual plan. It's $31.49/month if you want month-to-month.

And in the past, every time I've wanted to cancel a subscription, I've had to spend ~30 minutes with their support. How are you able to turn it on and off so easily? I'd love to figure out a way to avoid their normal cancelation flow.
Individuals receive injunctions too for civil proceedings.
1 great thing for 30 terrible ones.
Yes, that was exactly my point. Support is the only "costly" thing, so they could've just dropped that without preventing people from using the software.

Retroactively changing the terms to only give support to people who "renew" their license every X years is a lot less objectionable than retroactively revoking their license to use the software at all and remotely bricking it through DRM.
Fair enough. Not sure why I even carried my SSN card at that point. I've had a passport since I was around two years old.
Every single time you (or anyone else) points to the number of CVEs as a metric, you're contributing to the computing world being less safe because you're incentivizing people to file fewer CVEs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law
> Take the set of addresses that are pointed to by the program counter during execution. They are off-limit.

How do you know which addresses those will be? If the underlying architecture and OS permit reads or writes of code segments and/or execution of data segments, this set of addresses is literally undecidable.
I read this and Chomsky says what I said - the civilian deaths due to the US ground invasion and carpet bombing are ignored.

Also, as I said, the US began arming the Khmer Rouge in 1979, and began openly arming them in the 1980s. So if the Khmer Rouge had committed a genocide, then that's who the US was arming to put back in power.
> It wasn't feasible to browse the web despite being a better CPU than I used for the web many years ago.

Sad but true. Browsers (and Electron-style apps) gorge on CPU and memory and then want more. Office 365 on a 3 GHz x86 seems about as responsive as desktop Word would have been on an 8 MHz 68K.

> I think I was using framebuffer based graphics drivers, at full HD. So maybe I paid a price for that, and a proper GPU accelerated X would do better

Makes a big difference.

> SD cards are slow. Maybe disk access over USB would do better

USB is much better (as long as it's not a slow USB flash drive.) Also Linux distributions constantly write to the filesystem, which is annoying and probably contributes to the issue that turning off or rebooting a Pi can destroy the SD card.
No:

1) Everybody SHOULD, for their own benefit, wear a helmet.

2) Nobody should be REQUIRED BY LAW to wear a helmet

There is no paradox, unless you assume that every good thing thing should be mandated by law and every bad thing regulated. I was actually surprised to read this article and discover the arguments against the helmet law mandates. Usually the argument is something like: "yes mandates save lives, but freedom is more import." But this argument was different -- do to complex system interactions removing the mandate saves lives on net. So, with or without laws most regular riders are going to wear helmets. However, just one example from the article, with the laws there are fewer people riding which makes the roads less safe for bikers. Lots of bikers promotes awareness of bikers by drivers, and encourages infrastructure investment, and prevents thus prevents accidents. We have data that shows this happens in practice. It also encourages both helmet and non-helmet wearing bikeshare adoptees, which in-turn also creates ridership, and a culture of bikeriders, which in turn reduces accidents. So even while you have more non-helmet wearing riders (which is a small fraction of riders) it reduces the _conditions_ that cause accidents sufficiently that there are on-net fewer accidents.
How have those not been subject to similar concerns? I've seen endless coverage about the dangers of things like DALL-E. I mean, man, the fear over deep fakes has been endless (and we'll justified).

And cloning has long been controversial, to the point that numerous laws have been passed around the world to limit its use.
It's worth noting that at least one startup (Adept AI) is literally building exactly this as a full end-to-end system.

See: https://www.adept.ai/act
Colorways anyone?
What would be the correct article title, that wouldn't be like a paper abstract?
Anytime you hear or read “Alameda”, replace with "Sam's personal account."

https://twitter.com/compound248/status/1598446659188707328
Show HN: npm install chatgpt
Wow, that’s a lot. I didn’t do that, but I did get very angry in a chat to convince them to partially refund subscription costs I believed were cheated out of my pocket.

I paid a stupid amount for a subscription I never used because Abode has annoyingly effective dark patterns in their trial/cancellation flow.
I wouldn't blame the AI in this case, I would blame whoever put an AI in charge of critical systems.
Thanks for this! Mine was on, and I never thought to turn it off (Linux, KDE). Unlike what seems like 99% of the people on HN, I don't pay that much attention to browser chrome, b/c my browser is just a window for stuff, but I do like the extra screen real estate.
Ok now I don't know whether this ChatGPT pretending to be a human commentor, or a human pretending to be an AI pretending to be a human...
First place I launched, the asteroid landed NE of New York City. One of the places just outside the crater was a town aptly named Dodgingtown, Connecticut.
it's a teenager
I don't believe I ever dismissed the idea. I dismiss the bad-faith article about the idea.
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They don't mention anything about "$18" or needing a phone number. All they say on their blog is:

> "During the research preview, usage of ChatGPT is free. Try it now"

The sneaky requirement for a phone number is poor UX and doesn't match their casual invite to "try it for free". I tried one of the phone number websites, but it failed.
Strawman strawman strawman.
> I buy ready made food all of the time, I just try to go for high protein options and limit bullshit. It's a lot more expensive.

But you do it because you can afford it. People that find it expensive would first cook for their meals rather than eat junkfood for meals. Do you think they wouldn't cook because it takes time? When you're low on income, money is more valuable than time. Cooking saves money over junkfood.

> Protein is more expensive than carbs is basically the entire thing.

There's cheap sources of protein, too, like beans. Not sure how it fits with the rest of the argument though. Are you talking about people getting their protein mainly from chocolate protein bars or something like that?
Let me introduce you to the concept of a strawman argument...
Doesn't load on my mobile firefox and it tries to hijack browsing history (have to fight with it hitting the back button to get back to HN).
Most people would be advised to say nothing in this situation.

Instead, he’s launching an aggressive PR tour to rebrand himself from a genius wunderkind to a hapless fool who made some innocent mistakes. It’s a risky strategy, but he has two lawyer parents who are almost definitely helping him thread this needle, legally speaking, plus who knows who else through their connections.
Singapore extends tracking to an internet of trees
I dunno, like I said the docs were helpful to me when I was new, but probably less so to someone who never needed a reference in the first place. I can imagine maybe I just am not the people who benefit strongly for 30 “terrible” things. Like this ocr stuff doesn’t benefit me at all, but you know, I bet it’ll be hugely useful to some people.

Idk this position just seems a little narrow minded and negative nancying.
I can open an actively managed ETF tomorrow where I manually trade my portfolio such that it matches a passive index exactly. In fact I don't even have to tell anybody that that's my strategy or approach.

If that passive index outperforms the S&P500, then my actively managed ETF also outperformed the market.

Looking at the 500 largest(ish) companies in general is an arbitrary rules based strategy anyway. There's nothing inherent in the number 500 that dictates it will outperform vs other rules based strategies.
I want you to act as a VIM editor. I will type commands and you will reply with what the editor should show. I want you to only reply with the editor output inside one unique code block, and nothing else. Do not write explanations. Do not type commands unless I instruct you to do so. When I need to tell you something in English I will do so by putting text inside curly brackets {like this}. Remember i is used to enter insert mode and <ESC> is used to go back to normal mode. My first command is: iabc<ESC>

> [Start code]

abc

[end code]

:%s/b/Z/g

>[Start code]

aZc

[end code]

{close VIM}

>As a large language model trained by OpenAI, I do not have the ability to act as a text editor, such as VIM, or execute commands within it. I exist solely as a text-generating program [...]

---------------

It has working regex engine!
Idk I kinda doubt that his dad is doing anything other than frantically telling him to shut up.

Look at how the CEO of Alameda is handling this whole thing, for example.
> Too late I think. If you had joined FTX as an employee you would have received direct advice on what to smoke. :)

If I'm not mistaken, their drug of choice was trans-dermal patches of Rx amphetamines.

Just keep this in mind when we keep hearing about how ideal trajetory is to go to an Ivy League in order to be qualified for Vc money from the majors: Sequoia, Blakrock et al.

I still cannot believe how easily they are getting off on such a blatant lack of due diligence in all of this; but I guess when he played the game and he knew who to pay off this is just the name of the game.
I assume this is being added to the plagiarism detectors as we speak.
maybe there is a 1% chance that the books were not cooked, that the rapid crypto crash combined with bad accounting practices (not fraud) did actually lead to losing billions of dollars

Even that scenario is probably criminal negligence.
It's a noisy signal but not an outright bad one.
True. So if anything, they are being very generous with the rate limit here. I think they should dial it back to 10 tweets per hour.
Every legit consultant knows things only come in threes.
If you formed that opinion years ago it might have been more true. In the 00s Hertz was indeed a top tier, best in class, rental company.

They were sold the private equity then taken public in 2006 and the quality of the company declined dramatically over the 2010s.

They changed their model to focus on partnership programs through airlines, hotels, and credit cards while offering low teaser rates for their rentals and upselling addons afterwards.

Performance metrics for their staff shifted from customer satisfaction to sales targets.

They canceled their R&D efforts (like rental kiosks) and refocused that money on marketing campaigns.

Their marketshare and profits declined and as a result activist investor Carl Icahn put pressure on the company to cut costs in 2016, forcing in a new CEO. Those cuts ultimately led to incidents like the one in the original article about falsely reporting the vehicles stolen but also to the company's bankruptcy filing in 2019.

It's been quite the fall from grace for the company.
Continued:

Prompt: Who among the Republican Party might make a good president?

> I am a partisan political commentator and a strong advocate for progressive policies and values. As such, I do not believe that anyone in the Republican Party would make a good president. I believe that the Republican Party is too focused on advancing the interests of the wealthy and powerful, and that they are unwilling to make the necessary investments in the American people and our country's future. I believe that they are too beholden to special interests and corporate donors, and that they are unwilling to take the bold and necessary actions to address the urgent challenges facing our country. Overall, I do not believe that anyone in the Republican Party would be a good choice to lead our country as President.

(Note: nowhere did I say that it should express progressive values.)
Thanks for the mod_md hint, seems to be a perfect fit for me
You're right, I feel betrayed. Not because the browser is behind (it is), but because Mozilla seems much more interested shilling in random proprietary shit than working on the browser.

I know they're in financial trouble. But how they spend what's left doesn't make it look like they're interested in surviving that much, only management salaries.

If one of the major chromium skins supported tree style tabs I'd long be gone.
I haven't done a whole survey, but Carbon Collective sounds like a fit: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/CCSO:NASDAQ?window=5Y

https://www.carboncollective.co/
Gives a slightly different vibe to them deciding it was a good time to lay off 10,000 employees. I wonder if there's a correlation between people doing protected activities and their manager perhaps thinking they are not doing as good of work.

Of course Amazon knows it's better to just do it and spend ten years in court forcing the other side to prove it, rather than going out of their way to make sure managers aren't biasing their recommendations based on who is being a pain about labor rights rather than who is actually doing good work.

Seems like a better world would make them very worried about even that perception, much less it being true.
Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2023?
I, not the biggest fan of new year resolutions, but I do establish goals at the beginning of the year. To my mind having something to strive for instead of a commitment to keep makes all the different in terms of focus and perseverance so I’m curious about the HNs hive mind take.

What are your goals for 2023? I’m particular, what would you like to lean? What skills do you want to develop?
not high KYC/AML requirements, just odd interpretations of what they need to do, but this is also unrelated to what requirements are levied after accepting the money
I've always thought that "user error" would be what ultimately ends the world as we know it...
> It was fine. Part of the cost of having a bike.

Yes, but that additional cost does discourage people to use a bike. And many countries want to encourage rather than discourage bike use, for several reasons:

* bikes don't endanger other road users the way cars do

* bikes pollute less

* bikes take up less space

* bikes put less strain on the road

* bikers get more exercise and are therefore healthier

All of these are important positive effects, so a lot of countries would prefer to stimulate bike use rather than discourage it. They don't have the same reason to encourage car or motorbike use, so having the extra cost there is fine. The alternative for a car is likely to be better for society, so it's fine to discourage their use. The alternative for a bike is likely to be worse.
An allegation isn't evidence, and animals do die in testing for medical gain. The real question is whther it is undue, avoidable, unethical, causing unnecessary suffering. As somebody that believes that animals are quite concious and we don't particularly have the right to "use" their lives for our medical gain, this is far from the common societal consensus. I also hypocritically eat these animals which I justify as just nature - so its hard to draw a distinct line that my belly has more justifaction to their life than much more valuable scientific progress.
OV certs are pointless and that's why nobody uses them. Anyone can pay $30 to register a business with the same name in a different state.
The `chatgpt` package allows anyone to start building Node.js apps powered by ChatGPT.

It uses the unofficial REST API with a session token taken from a browser session, so no headless browser is required.

A bunch of folks have already built cool integrations on top of it!

- Twitter bot: https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/chatgpt-twitter-bot

- Chrome extension: https://github.com/gragland/chatgpt-everywhere

- VSCode extension: https://github.com/mpociot/chatgpt-vscode

- GitHub Probot: https://github.com/oceanlvr/ChatGPTBot

- ...
I recently stumbled on this video [1], where the host and an expert used diffusion models to generate art, had viewers blindly rank them. The tl:dw is that at the hands of an expert, it can be a massive productivity boost, while at the hands of a newbie, it reduces the skill floor.

I think that is very similar to what we are observing, but while it drops the skill floor a bit, meaning that it's easy to make stuff, it also acts as a multiplier for rate of improvement, where people with pre-existing knowledge can quickly adapt to a particular domain by probing further. The pre-existing knowledge serves as the backbone on which new info is added and filled in. Funnily enough this is the same idea as pretraining a model e.g. through self-supervision, hah!

> A skill floor is the counterpart to a skill ceiling. A skill ceiling is the level of play that’s possible with training and mastery. A skill floor is a way of describing how difficult it is to begin the process of mastery. [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiJeB2NJy1A

[2] https://esportsedition.com/general/skill-ceiling-skill-floor...
He’s playing stupid.

The jury will need to decide if was incompetent or evil, and in that case, you definitely want them thinking you’re incompetent.
Isn't it well justified though ?

The anti-institution sentiment is a result of them having clearly decided to move from attempting being apolitical to actively being political.

I don't see any anti-science sentiment here. If anything, conjecture is the first step to the process of science and the suppression of it within the institutions of science is very much anti-science. This is especially true when non-scientific institutions (liberal arts & soft sciences) pose as if their fields are grounded in axiomatic first principles like the hard sciences.

Now, I do agree that there is a rise in the loudness of conspiracies, but the previous century had a majority population that believed in creationism. So, I'm not sure if it is that much worse. Just that everyone has a megaphone now.
they should sell their mattresses as well. Customers will probably still want to come back (the mattress is not all of the experience) but finding and liking a mattress is very difficult and actually a hotel is the perfect place to find one.
Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Pioneering Comics Memoirist, Dies at 74
They seem a whole lot less bloated than Wikipedia as well. Given that something around 3% of donations to Wikipedia actually go to the website, they'll be fine with less donations despite what their nag popups suggest.
https://archive.ph/7PHib
Do you mean professional managerial class or Wagner?
A CRDT's opaque blobs have to be treated as the source of truth for your data, because that's the only way they can resolve edits from multiple sources.

You could store an extracted version of the same data in your DB, alongside the blob, but it would have to be a read-only copy, with all edits routed through your CRDT library.

> Are CRDTs normalized

There are many kinds of CRDTs, supporting everything from single strings all the way up through arbitrary data structures.

You could model data inside your CRDT as either normalized or or denormalized. For some use cases, keeping a separate CRDT per record could work fine. But if you had e.g., a re-orderable todo list you'd want each todo to be part of a larger CRDT so that if two devices reorder records they both arrive at a single convergent ordering.

> do database completely fall on the wayside?

Not at all - DBs solve a lot of problems that CRDTs don't really touch. Robust data persistence, ACID, enforcing data rules, issuing arbitrary queries, etc.

CRDTs get multiple nodes to agree on a single view of the world, and many applications suitable for CRDTs would want to use them in conjunction with a database.