skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why do people think a $1B donation saves $1B in tax?

A distressingly large slice of eligible voters don't even understand how marginal tax rates work. Which is, like, the absolute minimum to have any clue whatsoever how US income taxes are applied, what tax bills will actually do if they become law, and so on. I'd be surprised if understanding of how deductions work is any more widespread.

[EDIT] Not a great source, but it's in-line with the results I've seen from better ones in the past:

https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...

Roughly half don't understand how marginal tax rates work.

Can't find data on how many US adults understand how deductions work, but I doubt it's better.
You seem to be confused as to nomenclature, transformative works are still derivative works. Being sufficiently transformative can allow for a fair use exception, the distinction is important because you can’t tell if something is sufficiently transformative without a court case.

Also, a jpg seemingly fits your definition as “no creativity was used in making them, etc” but clearly they embody the original works creativity. Similarly, a model can’t be trained on random data it needs to extract information from it’s training data to be useful.

The specific choice of algorithm used to extract information doesn’t change if something is derivative.
Right, but where is the threshold for wrongness which is so widely accepted as truth that it becomes harmful enough to be actively removed? If I began preaching of the correctness of 1+1=3 surely someone would deny my publication, no? Or, the critics would outweigh the proponents. How can this be accomplished without division or empathy?
Invests in vaccine companies (Bill Gates stating it was his most profitable investment ever) & major funder for WHO (who’ve been pushing COVID vaccines).

Might be a conflict of interest here.
Why it's so hard to build a commercial electric plane
If an AI ever gets paid for the work it does, I'm sure we will.
Perhaps, "falling flat with objective reality." These folks are wrong, mad, & being hammered non-stop by their media that these are huge scandals. But they're not. If these organizations & these viewers had any sense of scope these would be periodic footnotes, not major continual topics. It's low journalism meant to inflame.
Tidal turbines are viable in inlets where currents are consistently strong during tidal changes, the problem is they often disrupt the ecosystems around where fish need to spawn. Altering the total water flow into estuaries is sketchy and the good places are typically shipping lanes. You could put them in a place like Gibraltar and live with reduced water exchange in the Mediterranean, but it will be met with a lot of resistance.

Ideas that rely on moving a mass up and down 10 feet every 6 hours require floating platforms the size of Rhode Island. Not cheap to build.

Neither strategy is a contender in my book. I recall a research project in France which the results were unappealing. The environmental costs were high and power generated was low. You have to be careful getting scientific knowledge from the mainstream press or researchers who need to sell their research which means it is more akin to marketing than scientific knowledge.
i don't think you need a 4090 for this. and even if you did get one, its 1600$. another 1000$ for good CPU and ram, etc. and you're well under 3k.
Thread and ZigBee operate in the 2.4 Ghz and also 833/915 Mhz although in practice I've never seen any devices that explicitly claim to be using the sub Ghz bands. It's not WiFi, it's IEEE 802.15.4. Matter supports devices connected through WiFi, Thread and Ethernet with BT provisioning.
Shipping is a Hard Problem, especially when dealing with large volume (bigger than UPS, usually strapped to a pallet) objects, and/or very dense objects (cartons of metal nuts and bolts). You still need to call your freight person and get a quote directly from the carrier over the phone. Low density LTL (less than truckload) is a pretty known quantity and delivering to a known business (like Walmart warehouses) with a loading dock is easy. Delivering two pallet loads of high density metal to a single story engineering office in an office park with no facilities to service an 18-wheeler (let alone allow one to enter/maneuver) is another thing entirely.
A lot of people sound worried about all this, and I’m not one of them. This meltdown is great news.

Twitter is still working. The next drop of files will probably start another scandal about COVID censorship.

I wonder how many folks all over the world are looking at this and thinking “we could probably fire most of our government”?
>"Feminization"...[bad stuff]...[dubious, gender essentialization]

>Denial of Great Men...[bad stuff]

>Please don't interpret this as an attack on women or femininity
Not sure about Stable Diffusion / Metawhatsit, but OpenAI's training set is already curated to make sure it avoids violence and pornography; and in any case, the whole thing relies on humans to come up with descriptions. Not clear how this sort of thing would "spike the well" in that sense.
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> Finally, in the keyboard shortcuts bind Super to the xfce4-popup-whiskermenu command, to bring up whisker menu for a text search.

I've had this trigger the popup menu when there is another shortcut that binds the Super key in combination with something else. Say, if I had something under Super+R, then the menu would also open. Though maybe this has been patched out in the newer versions, I remember that issue being the case in an XFCE desktop from 2020.

But other than that, this is indeed a really nice and usable setup!
I don't read German but I used biological fathers for a reason, does your data include stepfathers? I am familiar with studies like these[0] that indicates a child's lowest risk of abuse is in a household with both biological mother and father, lower even than biological mother alone.

[0]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11675811/

[0-2]https://www.center4research.org/child-abuse-father-figures-k...
Somewhat relevant: https://xkcd.com/465/
"An annoyance of McMaster I didn't see enumerated is how they don't show you the shipping cost until after transaction is complete."

I use McMaster daily and can see the shipping cost in two places when viewing my cart. The lines above the Place Order button on the top right side of the screen has

Merchandise ####.##

Shipping ##.##

Total $####.##

In the same bar below that is tax and directly below that you can click Delivery Method and it also displays the cost for each delivery speed. Maybe if you are set up with an account that is Net-30 this is hidden, but it certainly shows up for me when set to process the transaction by credit card.
The only time HOAs really make sense is with condos. We have twelve units over 2 in my HOA, and the dues all go to water, garbage, and a little set aside for future maintenance of the building. It wouldn't name sense to manage this individually, and the whole thing is pretty light touch
BOOM! Yes!
Cool! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions (contact details in profile). I am by no means a ZFS expert, but I have been doing servers/storage for a long time and can probably help out if you run into an issue.
I was a research librarian in an academic setting. So, I can do research and have an informed opinion. Now if I was to dispute the information then sure I need to have a masters or PhD in the field to have reasons why the vast majority is wrong. I cannot find a single article from an academic background stating that current laser technology will work. Nor do I see anyone that doesn't say decades away.
Looks like they trained it on an additional 13.5k competitive programming problems for this specific task.
I have crossed over the other direction from coding to drawing and suspect that neither side understands their craft well enough to assess what'll happen.

Most of coding is routine patterns that are only perceived as complex because of the presence of other coders and the need to "talk" with them, which creates a need for reference materials(common protocols, documentation, etc.)

Likewise, most of painting is routine patterns complicated by a mix of human intent(what's actually communicated) and the need for reference materials to make the image representational.

Advancements in Western painting between the Renaissance and the invention of photography track with developments in optics; the Hockney-Falco thesis is the "strong" version of this, asserting that specific elements in historical paintings had to have come through the use of optical projections, not through the artist's eyes. A weaker form of this would say that the optics were tools for study and development of the artist's eye, but not always the go-to tool, especially not early on when their quality was not good.

Coding has been around for a much shorter time, but mostly operates on the assumptions of bureaucracy: that which is information is information that can be modelled, sorted, searched. And the need for more code exists relative to having more categories of modelled data.

Art already faced its first crisis of purpose with the combination of photography and mass reproduction. Photos produced a high level of realism, and as it became cheaper to copy and print them, the artist moved from a necessary role towards a specialist one - an "illustrator" or "fine artist".

What an AI can do - given appropriate training, prompt interfaces and supplementary ability to test and validate its output - is produce a routine result in a fraction of the time. And this means that it can sidestep the bureaucratic mode entirely in many circumstances and be instructed "more of this, less of that" - which produces features like spam filters and engagement-based algorithms, but also means that entire protocols are reduced to output data if the AI is a sufficiently good compiler; if you can tell the AI what you want the layout to look like and it produces the necessary CSS, then CSS is more of a commodity. You can just draw a thing, possibly add some tagging structure, and use that as the compiler's input. Visual coding.

But that makes the role a specialized one; nobody needs a "code monkey" for such a task, they need a graphic designer...which is an arts job.

That is, the counterpoint to "structured, symbolic prompts generating visual data" is "visual prompts generating structured, symbolic data". ML can be structured in either direction, it just takes thoughtful engineering. And if the result is a slightly glitchy web site, it's an acceptable tradeoff.

Either way, we've got a pile of old careers on their way out and new careers replacing them.
I have a very simple criterion: Do they have a production process designed for this new technology? That's the final step to commercialization and is often the barrier that prevents new chemistries from entering the market.
I don't know if this is a philosophical question or not, but the answer for me is: most of the time it is useful answers.
Doesn’t display correctly on my iPhone though. :/
For those who won't click through;

What is the relationship between Overture and OpenStreetMap?

> Overture is a data-centric map project, not a community of individual map editors. Therefore, Overture is intended to be complementary to OSM. We combine OSM with other sources to produce new open map data sets. Overture data will be available for use by the OpenStreetMap community under compatible open data licenses. Overture members are encouraged to contribute to OSM directly.

How will Overture data be licensed?

> Data contributed to ODbL licensed datasets will be contributed under both the ODbL and CDLA permissive v2. Contributions to CDLA permissive v2 datasets will be contributed under the CDLA permissive v2.

How will Overture code be licensed?

> Overture’s open source code will be subject to the MIT license.
So at the end of the day, did he beat the market?
I'm not the one making assertions about legal actions. You can't call someone lazy for not making your arguments for you. I assume you are doing this because you wrote what you did based on information that you cannot back up and are now deflecting.
Prosecution of Sam Bankman-Fried Could Rise or Fall on Intent
Totally agree.

But then it’s more like brand-driven marketing - people literally typing your URL into their browser.

Brands take a long time to build.

New companies don’t have a brand so they kinda have to go at it along the SEO route, especially in the early days.
Ask HN: How does Hacker News avoid (successful) DDoS attacks?
Hacker News has an API¹ that doesn't require authentication and doesn't have a rate limit. Naively, that seems like a perfect recipe for DDoS attacks. Yet HN is typically a very reliable site. So what's the secret?

Fn 1: https://github.com/HackerNews/API
No, not at all in the same way.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation actually spends its money on charitable programs.

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/562...

The Musk Foundation spends very little (~2%) of its assets on charity.

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/770...

Musk's "charity" is a tax-dodge coupled with an influence and access-buying scheme.
Chrome to Remove TrustCor
That time is coming from somewhere -- it's time that's not spent doing actual research. It's certainly not free.

When I was in academia, I did peer review initially because it was fun to be on the other side for once. And later mostly as a favor to the editors who asked me.
You're changing the topic - whether data structures and algorithms problems are suitable for interviews is separate question. My claim is that if you're using those types of interview questions, an AI model being able to solve them well makes no difference to your interview process because the interview isn't something that you want to automate.

Like I said, they were always able to automate solving those problems by doing a database lookup.
There's a number of valid arguments for why the plane tracker may not be doxxing, and a couple tenuous, but valid arguments for why to ban the plane tracker account.

But no matter how you slice it, this account (and it's owner's personal account) were targeted purely because they irked Musk, and he has given zero indication that he plans to enforce this rule for basically any other account.
Oh FFS! How much does it really cost them to keep the Unreal Tournament servers running?
Bad argument. Copying art is not the crime, distributing the copied art is the crime. The Disney Gestapo can't send storm troopers to your house if your kid draws a perfect rendition of Mickey, but they can if your kid draws a bunch of perfect renditions and sells them online.
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I'm honestly a bit baffled - what do they actually do?
I phrased my question to mirror another person's question but with the opposite bias; they created a anti-taiwan response opportunity, so I made my post with a pro-taiwan response opportunity.
I believe Taiwan should remain free if that is what they want for themselves
Do you have stats for that?
PS: most foundations are probably required by law to do a little bit of actual charitable work, but I believe these foundations are mainly tax exempt investment vehicles and a way to peddle influence with governments.
It would be a film video camera if they developed the film in quasi-realtime and then fed it into a scanner or a flying spot mechanism to read out pixels or a video signal. I would donate to a gofundme that wanted to do such a crazy thing.
Have you seen https://www.moderndatastack.xyz/?

On this page: https://whaly.io/product/mission

It's says pairs well with Airbyte, but right above that you say Whaly handles ETL. Those two seem to conflict, do you use Airbyte for the ETL?
I'm confused about medusajs. It has an API but yet I can't find anything about other SDK's. Are you locked into only using JS?
There's no need to port it because it's a fine device. Are you one of those consumerist sheep that is obsessed with buying a new device every few decades? It works fine!
Z-Wave devices are almost universally better (longer battery life, longer range, more reliable, etc.) than Zigbee (I have both). Not sure if this is based on price (Z-Wave devices being more expensive), certification, different radio frequency, or something else.

With the investment into Thread (still sharing frequency with 2.4 GHz WiFi) I could see this changing.
Exactly. It's more about control, where the money goes and how it is spent. It's not their money anymore and can't spent it as they wish. Rich people are obsessed with that (and I don't blame them. I wish rest of the world is concerned more to where their tax dollars or charity they give go). Huge percentage of charity money is spent on corrupt activities, bribe etc. People who give more tend to care more about where the money goes.

I know for my self, I don't really care when I donate 1-2 $/eur. I don't think that in "value" terms because amount is so small and often I don't question too much (or investigate) where the money goes. But if I donate $500 then I try to gather as much information as I can about the organization, people involved, previous projects etc. I can imagine this feeling (having control) would only be amplified if I tried to donate millions of dollars.
Ask HN: What's the Latest with Quantum Computing?
I'd heard Rigetti and others were making major progress, but haven't heard any updates. Hopefully they didn't just do a SPAC-dump to make the public into bag holders.

What's the latest with quantum computing progress that's meaningful to regular users?
https://archive.md/pxG5o
>eliminate many pain points

Such as?
> Other humans can do anything you can do.

No they really can't.
Floating solar panels could unlock clean power without wasting land
Native Reflection in Rust
What about instantly sending money to Africa very cheaply?
This is from Driveline Baseball. My understanding is that they've really revolutionized the ability of pitchers to put spin on the ball. (Sticky stuff aside)
Parent's point is probably that their government should change opinion on the matter and tax contributions to your own organizations.

Musk's behavior being currently legal or incentifized is kinda beyond the point.
>in the workplace

Or at a house party, club or restaurant... as more people arrive or leave and the energy level rises or declines..or human rhythms speed up or slow down...so does the music...
I wouldn't say fantastic. You still need a dongle for USB A which I imagine would be more useful to everybody but photographers instead of the SD card slot.

And they still have some ridiculous models like the 2 port iMac.
Is calling it a charity accurate? It is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, but not the “public charity” subtype, rather it is the “private foundation” type[0].

[0] https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/musk-foundation/#

[1]Types of 501(c)(3) orgs: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/starting-a-business/understa...
> You can't automate a live performance or an oil painting with AI in this way.

You'd have to combine it with these guys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqE9zIp0Muk
You're right and I'm wrong! There it is, plain as day. That's fascinating. I guess they updated this and I didn't notice.
Although that wasn’t much better for longevity than Medium or the like.

So much early web lost from URLs like http://www.myisp.net/~username/
But it has become more necessary and useful, so even C programmers better get used to it (and some tooling to help catch most mistakes).
RTIB/LTIB and RTHI/LTHI are not symmetrical - any idea why?
We’re not far from coding becoming just a hobby or a sport - like chess.
Scanning through the feature list, the more straightforward management of the application/mime type associations is a big win to me.

Like probably most people who use XFCE, I appreciate how it focuses on small, incremental quality-of-life improvements instead of trying to reinvent the wheel.
And yet I bet you often use "native apps" that are really just repackaged web views put into the app store. Without even knowing it.

> So how can you both want web apps to have more native capabilities and want to avoid apps because they have too many native capabilities?

You seem to totally miss my point.

A native application can do things like sniff local bluetooth devices, track your GPS location, snoop your clipboard. Something a web app can't, because the web APIs have been much more carefully vetted for privacy.

It's this fine grained user tracking that is behind the push towards using the app store. Companies want to know everything your doing, where you are, etc etc. That's much more difficult through a web API as compared to native APIs. This is why they will intentionally cripple their mobile sites and push to use their apps. They want native API level user tracking.
The Open Group seems to think so: https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3683.htm
I'm super excited about the Audio AI space, as it seems permanently a few years behind image stuff - so I think we're going to see a lot more of this.

If you're interested, the idea of applying Image processing techniques to Spectrograms of audio is explored in brief in the first lesson of one of the most recommended AI courses on HN: Practical Deep Learning for Coders https://youtu.be/8SF_h3xF3cE?t=1632
Shrug.

I’ve enjoyed Civ 6, Control, Dead By Daylight, Darkest Dungeon, 20XX, Remnant, Pathfinder Kingmaker, Star Wars Squadron, Hitman, Tomb Raider, Enter the Gungeon, Darkwood, Gloomhaven, Terraforming Mars, Blair Witch, XCOM 2, Scythe, Verdun, Ring of Pain, and many other titles all for free.

I don’t like them dropping support for these games but it’s still a huge net positive for me, and I’d try to buy everything on epic if I’m going to buy it accordingly.
I’ve seen this done with Mello-Roos taxes, which usually have an expiration date and have to be set when the neighborhood is built. Otherwise I’m not aware of how it can be done.
McMaster-Carr out-Amazons Amazon when it comes to specialty items that you can't find online anywhere else. For a lot of product categories they have every conceivable variation that you might need. Specifically in the past I've used them for electric relays. I don't know of a brick and mortar locally that has the selection that I want, and you won't find these on Amazon. Next stop? McMaster.com.

One thing that annoyed me recently:

They don't take Discover. This led to me attempting to pay with an old Visa debit card which appeared to be accepted at checkout. In fact, they even shipped my order, and then sent me an email about my card being declined. It was a small order, but it still surprised me that they shipped without confirming payment. So I have an outstanding invoice. Not a huge deal, and as others have mentioned they do actually answer the phone, and you can talk to a human being about whatever customer service issue you might have.
Thread is a mesh protocol on 6LoWPAN, which in turn is based on the same underlying 802.11.4 as Zigbee in the 2.4 Ghz spectrum.

Its claims to fame is having reasonable response times/batteru life and being based on IPv6. Being based on IP allows devices to talk to one another, and for bridging those devices to the broader network and potentially to the internet with clear layer separation.

Matter is a IP-based IoT discovery and use standard. Devices advertise Thread and/or Wifi support for wireless support. It also standardizes onboarding (I know BLE is an option there) and the underlying security, and mandates certain capabilities such as supporting multiple 'admin' software at once.

Devices using other wireless tech can also theoretically work with Matter with a gateway that does protocol translation, supports device onboarding, and then exposes them onto the network.
Itanic only happened because AMD had the licenses to produce AMD64, otherwise Intel would eventually managed to push it to everyone else, no matter what.
> Co-authored-by: Sean DuBois

Sean is everywhere that involve WebRTC ! He is doing an incredible job.