skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sharks and coelacanths have evolved exactly as much as humans.

The difference is that they have kept a more-or-less constant body plan, and evolved details less easy to see.

The monkeys have also evolved exactly as much as we have. Again, it is less easy to see the evolved differences from their ancestors, because their bodies are so superbly adapted to their way of life and so have not changed much.
The tradeoff is that brown rice will have 50 percent more arsenic. Than white rice.

And rice has 10x’s the arsenic of other grains.
The forms of taxation vary significantly with income, the important comparison is tax burden. The top income earners pay a higher percentage in income taxes but payroll and gas taxes etc effectively cap out. Net result America has a surprisingly flat tax curve that only drops for ultra high or ultra low income earners.

Critically the definitions get warped so stock appreciation for example doesn’t count unless you sell it. And when you finally do capital gains isn’t taxed as normal income. You can even give stock away without ever paying any form of income taxes on these gains.
Wells Fargo are just assholes and have been for at least 20 years. I wouldn't generalize this to all banks.
https://zainhoda.github.io

Just a list of random stuff I’ve worked on, including a lot of abandoned side projects.
I feel like this could use a modified "so you've got an idea for fixing email" checklist. Some basic assumptions just don't hold:

> without having to appease a moderator (...) get pages that just load instead of considering which country I'm in or showing popups

Who's going to make this system work without country filtering or popups if you have an uncensorable network without moderators?

Are the creators going to go to court instead of me if local law does not agree with that idea?

> with filters with such categories as "non-commercial".

Again, who's going to ensure that's the case without moderators?

> Creating an "account" is just a cryptographic process.

So no account recovery then, making the service unusable for very-non-techy people.

> You open up an article and instantly get text, images, and videos,

Images and vidoes of ads - since the system is uncensorable, you can't stop it.
Show HN: I Market-Make AWS Cloud Contracts to Save Companies $40M+
Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/

We help companies drive down AWS EC2 spend by buying and selling 3-year no-upfront reserved instances. Why? Because there's almost no liquidity on the AWS EC2 RI Marketplace and it can take a while, if at all, to sell an RI if you need to stop using one.

Previous to founding Usage, I worked at JPMorgan Chase as a summer analyst.

Here's how it works: We are typically brought in by a DevOps manager to cut AWS EC2 costs. The app is entirely self-service and the savings are generated automatically, typically we do this live on a call. On average, we reduce AWS EC2 spend by 50% for 5 minutes of work.

To reduce by 50%+, we've built a pool of reserved instances that's shared across our pool of customers. When a customer scales up their EC2s, Usage buys RIs. When a customer scales down their EC2s, Usage sells RIs. At this point, we've saved companies tens of millions of dollars in spend and have a lot of liquidity, so we take on very little risk.

We make money off of a 20% Savings Fee. Happy to chat directly kaveh@usage.ai

Have you experienced any issues with managing your company or organization's AWS expenses? We'd love to hear your feedback and ideas!
Lots outside primates, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool_use_by_animals

Birds, dolphin, octopuses, otters...
eh, I disagree.

hypothesizing that atoms exist allows and encourages you to design experiments which can prove or disprove their existence.

assuming that they exist, and never experimentally verifying that is not research and it is not science.

assuming that some feature of a product that you do not understand exists for any reason is at most an hypothesis, and dismissing the hypothesis without experimental evidence disproving it is simply bad science.

Roman concrete is not something far away that we can not interact with. we can verify by experiment. for years we chose not to validate the assumption that the white specs were accidental, and that delayed our understanding of Roman concrete.

I just want scientists and historians that take the time to recognize their assumptions and to prove them correct or incorrect, if possible, instead of just relying on them as immutable facts; assumptions are often wrong.

I write software for a living, and the number of times that my assumptions about the cause of any particular problem have been correct approximately 0% of the time. whether it's a logic bug or a performance problem or a usability problem. despite decades of experience in this field, I am still almost always wrong about the cause of any particular problem I encounter, unless I have seen that exact same issue previously, which is rare.

historians, some of them at least, would probably benefit quite a bit from making fewer assumptions and by experimentally proving the assumptions they do make. if it isn't possible to prove or disprove your assumption, then you must never forget that it is an assumption and not proven fact.

I've seen so many scientists and historians say they know things which they simply do not know. things like "we know dark matter exists." no, we don't. we know that the currently accepted theories of our observations require dark matter to exist in order for our observations to make sense. that is not proof of dark matter.

dark matter may exist! I don't know, but for a scientist to say that it exists is incorrect because we've never observed it directly, and have devised no tests which can prove that it does exist.

our theories which require it in order for our observations to make sense could be wrong. our observations may not be as accurate as we assume. we may be observing things that we aren't aware of which look like something that we are aware of. etc.

I'm saying that professing that you know something without proof is folly. just like the white specs in the concrete were assumed to be accidental impurity without that hypothesis being proven is folly. these things set us back as a scientific community that wants to understand its environment.
> Good luck asking your boss if you could go down 50% in time, and keep 100% of the salary.

That’s just the lizard brain mode of thinking. The person you paid $5k to redo your roof isn’t more deserving of the money because they spent two weeks on it instead of one. You’re both better off if they get it done faster.

My company went down to 80% time for 100% salary and every metric we use for productivity didn’t change one bit. I have no doubt we could drop another day down to 60% and still have hit all our targets. And anyone who actually works knows why, because the time off isn’t cutting into working time, it’s cutting into bullshit time.
> What they have is post-tax.

What? No. Net worth amounts are quoted in approximate pre-tax amounts. The vast bulk of which, for the 1%, are deferred capital gains taxes. The rest of us don’t get the ability to defer taxes until we feel like it, and capital gains are taxed at a lower rate too because… just because.
No need for a VM – Github Pages or similar will do just fine. It's also possible to pre-pay domain registrations for several years at most registries.
> Why would one need labor to operate a safe-deposit box business?

Because physical security boils down to capable men with guns, whether that's private security, the police, or godfather type arrangements.
Renegade Cut did a video explaining some of the bullshit. Highlights just how little shoplifting affects the bottom line.

"Let's talk about shoplifting" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGB7QnOZj3g
To the contrary, the larger a company is, the more professionalized management becomes, and the more inefficiencies can be eliminated. Lots of economies of scale to be found.

And valuation has nothing to do with headcount, that's not how stock market analysts work. They look at revenue and costs and growth. The higher salaries are because of increased headcount, the higher costs are and therefore a lower valuation.

If it only takes you a few hours to do the thing the boss hired you for, you can bet they're going to find some more productive work for you real quick. In any business, there's virtually always more profitable work to be done that there are employees to do it, so it's not difficult.
You can prepay domains for pretty far into the future (like 10 years at least.)
Jack Ma Gives Up Control of Ant Group
They are commodity chips. But the interconnect is extremely beefed up.

The bandwidth and communications are always huge on these supercomputers. That's really the difference between a typical cluster and a supercomputer... The interconnect.
Learning the ORM is easy. On the other hand, learning the ORM bugs...
Whatever they’re paying, it’s not enough, because inequality is increasing. In other words, they’re paying an outrageous amount of the taxes because they make an extraordinarily amount of the income (and wealth). I’m not talking about someone who got a bunch of RSUs and paid 50% on their $2m payday, it’s the billionaires like Trump who treat tax evasion as a game because the consequences are lower than the expected rewards.
Safe deposit boxes are the cloud equivalent to having a safe, you pay someone to manage and pull security and you are saved from having to do it yourself.
Query builder or SQL.
One change guru had an often unspoken rule:
-Culture follows Process
(Especially the budgeting process).
It’s possible his faith gave him calmness in a stressful scenario and allowed him to think more clearly than he otherwise would. It says nothing about the veracity of his faith, but there are some practical benefits that have been shown in terms of stress reduction and overall happiness due to the feeling of safety.

(This is coming from an agnostic)
Philosophy’s Blindspot
Oh. Just learning about this now. I haven't fired up the quest (or Go) I'm about a year. Suppose I'll probably have to side load whatever's been removed.... Once I eventually fire up the machine again
You think 2038 will be bad, just wait for those poor saps that have to fix stuff 292 billion years from now when 64 bit integers overflow!
The fly's brain has been deconstructed to finer resolution in the last ten years. The three dimensional model looks like a weather system. The threads in hardware/software could be made to thinly approximate that brain functioning for a minimalist flying dragonfly embodied micro controller.
Indeed. Hearing that the FTC plans to unilaterally modify millions of contracts to invalidate non-competes gave me mixed feelings. Those non-competes are mostly ridiculous - the products of over-zealous lawyers applying to all employees terms that may have made sense only in extremely limited cases like where employees have access to internal trade secrets and take them to direct competitors. But such major structural changes should be made by congress via legislation, not by an unelected bureaucracy that reports to no one.
I read the linked study out of curiosity [1]. The study is from the other perspective, that replacing saturated fats with vegetable oil would lead to reduced mortality.

I couldn't figure out exactly where they got the 86% figure from, but the study found a significant negative effect: "There was a 22% higher risk of death for each 30 mg/dL (0.78 mmol/L) reduction in serum cholesterol" [resulting from vegetable oil consumption]. This is in accordance with what the article says.

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i1246
The claim (in gp's link) that it is unwise to extrapolate from focused studies to claims about populations seems sensible, though.
NYC Schools Ban ChatGPT, Citing Fears About Safety and Accuracy
https://justingarrison.com

Blog and stuff
You can defer taxes with 401ks, IRAs, Roth IRAs, and investing in stocks, a house, anything you have that appreciates in value.

40% of Americans have investments in stocks, it is hardly confined to 1%.
> actual statistics of the danger

Do the statistics not show this to be the case though? I only know anecdotally that life insurance premiums go way, way, way up when one flies small aircraft.
IIRC you can generally handle 120-140% weight of concentric with eccentric. The issue is HEAVY eccentric for advanced lifters is extremely taxing and fatiguing on body and is suboptimial in how much it can eat away at overall routine volume / practice by pushing body into recovery debt that ultimately drives progression (for many). Singles with 90%+ or supermax (over 100% 1RM) eccentrics when programmed are done with very few reps (often just last rep to pins/safety, anything over handful singles per week is considered machoistic). Otherwise it's reserved for tempo work i.e. 4010 or 40X0 (4 second down, no pause at bottom, 1 second up or X explode up, no wait at top) with relatively light %s that doesn't fatigue for technique work.
No, you’re part of the problem.

Maybe I should commit a crime, serve my time, and then be given the assistance I’ve been denied as a victim.

And by giving sincere feedback, I did help him. I’m sure next time he shares his sob story, he’ll be sure to say he is sorry rather than he has waited out an appropriate amount of time to be entitled to… what he wants.
In the article, he discusses putting in French drains. If berming into a hillside, having French drains that are lower than the sunken green house would do the trick. You could have two symmetric drains that start on the middle of the back (north) berm, follow around the side walls, and then drain out on either end below the low/south wall.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_drain
High taxes historically result in revolts.
Crucial to also read SMTM's investigation, to which the OP is partially a response, and their reply.

https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/01/05/n1-introduction/
I’ve heard Apple’s regimented, cog in wheel, need-to-know, follow orders…? At least for rank and file.
I thought the expansion of YAML was YAML Ain’t Markup Language?
Yes, much more readable now!

Dates on posts is nice because knowing when a post was written (and/or updated) gives a lot of context. For instance, your timeline is super cool. Knowing where a given post fits into that is useful.
When you're making 50-70k / year you're probably not able to put money in a 401k, especially in the event you have a single income 3 or 4 person household.

This is also missing the point slightly. You shouldn't have to rely on tax day returns.
Lorawan Soil Moisture Sensor with ATmega328P – IoT Project
https://yash.info
The oldest domain I have. It used to be my blog for many years, now it's a repository of my projects.
Contributions to a Roth IRA are not tax-deductible and early withdrawals are both taxed and penalized. You don’t just pay taxes as normal income when you take an early withdrawal from a 401k they also tack on a 10% penalty making such investments unusually risky.

Untaxed capital gains on the other hand is just a free zero interest loan.

Anyway, having stocks is irrelevant here. What matters is for tax burden is what percentage of people’s income comes from capital gains.
The idea that they can change the terms from the contract you signed is ridiculous. I don’t mind a liability cap for the banks but changing that under you? Insane.
I'm not suggesting you read TSG because of its position on morality but because of its explication of what evolution optimizes for. TSG does address the question of morality, specifically how altruism can evolve, but Axelrod gives a much more complete and up-to-date account.

> In the end this kind of comes down to a belief or not in free will, which is a faith based discussion

No, it doesn't, and no it isn't. The illusion of free will is enough, i.e. it suffices that we lack a complete understanding of our own brains.

You should read this:

https://blog.rongarret.info/2018/01/a-multilogue-on-free-wil...
They were liable for military service though. Being forced to go die fighting Spartans may not have an easily assigned monetary value, but it's certainly a civic obligation at least on par with tax paying.
Interesting - a similar argument is that if you removed the ability for governments to arbitrarily print money, and they actually had to tax citizens and explain to them what it was being spent on, wars would be way less popular and occur less often.

You seem to think the dangerous psychopath is the independently wealthy rich person. They may be a psychopath, but the true danger is the psychopath who also gains government power - that is the real danger, which the US Constitution wisely put limits on. I believe power often corrupts, and I'm way more afraid of the bureaucrat than the aristocrat.
How could a pre-tax quote be what a person has, if legally they can't have it all? I know clickbait articles love equating those, but we can do better.
> While the tool may be able to provide quick and easy answers to questions, it does not build critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, which are essential for academic and lifelong success.

Lmfao… and the NYC school system does?

Have they seen their standardized test results?
The Soviet Biological Weapons Program
And I don’t owe him assistance.

You are absolutely correct that I am prejudiced - against folks I feel are entitled and antisocial.

A different tone and word choice would have generated a very different response, given he doesn’t sound like a “hands on” offender and thus not actually as huge employment risk as a full blown rapist.
Totally agree with your last point. But based on my understanding, over the past 5-ish years commodity multicores with multi-terabyte memories have made a big dent in the supremacy of supercomputing, at least for some of the topics you mention (thinking about graph analysis in particular).
I've increasingly found it irritating to need to google things when I can just ask chatGPT. I suspect some additional training has occurred since the initial release as I'm seeing fewer factual errors day by day. Alternately, I may just be getting better at asking ChatGPT for things in ways more likely to produce a factual answer.
It pains me to see websites and VMs still being conflated in this day and age.
What if you don't use Google...
Depends more on when you learned C++. C++11 didn’t immediately replace C++98…
French drains are good for normal amounts of moisture, but once you're talking about a structure installed at a low point and receive an inch or two of rain in less than 24 hours, the drains and ground will be saturated and then you're gonna have a bad time.

I'm only thinking of this because of the extreme amount of rain we've been having in the Bay Area this past week. Normally it wouldn't be a big concern.
Of course none of this means there were no humans in South America 30kya. It only means this particular site might not be good evidence for such presence.

If no other sites show unambiguous evidence of human presence, we might need to account for that.

There is a site near Los Angeles, excavated by Richard Leakey, that has been rejected as indicating early human presence because there was too much stone-tool evidence, and because "everybody knows" there were no people there 200kya.

Now that we have the unambiguous Cerutti Mastodon site from 130kya, it might need to be re-evaluated.

Generally the null hypothesis is that people went anywhere they could go whenever they could, no matter how inconvenient that is for anybody's chronology narrative.
Rent the Backyard built great-looking ADUs. It seemed like a great product, and got a lot of attention after YC. From the article it looks like the issues of running and capitalizing a factory was what killed them.

Does anyone know where their factory was?
Ethiopian ET302 final report released, NTSB and BEA issue comments
> The idea that "people who want less tax than I do just crave widespread poverty" is a sign you have an ideological brainworm. No one thinks like that.

Plenty of people think that. They might not admit it publicly (or even admit the full implications to themselves), but they still think it, and more importantly, try to act on it.
I'd like to see a study of people who do slowed negatives on deadlifts vs just barely controlling it on the way down.
https://jpdias.me

Research, blog, and stuff
I have no idea if symbolic reasoning will be purely an emergent property or if it will also require new, as-of-yet-undiscovered breakthroughs. But as I wrote elsewhere on this page, if engineers and scientists on the "connectionist" side find ways to build an AI system that relies on "dumb" computation to reason about symbols representing entities in the external world, they would simultaneously silence and satisfy the critics -- who, as always and as ever, will surely say they were right all along.
Labour is cheep. There is high unemployment, yet companies are crying for talents. You do not get rich by working, you get rich by having others work for you.
Just like the old merchants bying from one market and selling for 5x in another market.
Many good and service are produced with the help of automation and sold with high margins. Demand is artificially high, or prices are fixed.
Thanks for the correction, I meant EFA but misremembered the name.
Thanks - my preconceptions about climbing are corrected! (A little.)
I end up not managing it at all and it becomes a second brain. Links also rot when revisiting to recall info which is another problem. I use % in the address bar to find the tab what I'm looking for.

I like exhaustive deep dives so will explore as many sources as I can find, until my attention wanes, or I find a solution.

Have signed up for Readwise beta which will hopefully help me to add a layer to store/consume information before it info gets committed to Obsidian. Other link/article aggregators have not been successful for me as it just becomes another repository to manage.

Will have to look into sidebery, haven't seen that before!
Solved problem, most of those things will not last till then. The ones which does will be able to continue doing whatever it does in Dec 1901.
Sim Wong Hoo, founder of Sound Blaster maker Creative Labs, has died
Pipewire has been fantastic. Works great and was a drop-in replacement for pulseaudio.
This is interesting, as a Haskeller interested in type geekery who doesn't know Rust. I can't promise anyone else would find it interesting.
I assume you've seen this[1] story about quantum immortality, but other readers may not have.

[1] https://www.tor.com/2010/08/05/divided-by-infinity/
for many people, myself included, actual brutalism is "concrete buildings I don’t like"
If there's no human involved, what stops someone coming in with a screwdriver and hammer?
> Those are powerlifting exercises.

They are also classic bodybuilding exercises.
Withings' $500 toilet computer wants to be WebMD for your pee
> Every serious firm has a receptionist to answer the phone, so they felt they had to hire one. She was essentially there as decoration.

looks are sometimes not unimportant nor useless. It's only the hacker mindset that thinks otherwise. "Normal" people do put some importance on appearances. Therefore, it's not useless.
I don't disagree with your overall sentiments, however

>Arc<Box<Foo>> ugliness

Box is not needed, Arc<Foo> should already be heap allocated.
I have never rock-climbed, only briefly messed about enough to know it's not happening despite my pull-ups peaking with +50kg added weight.

The "not happening" was that my weight distribution feels like it was ripping me off the wall. I just can't get much percentage of my bodyweight supported by my toes because my big back, ass and quads are going in another direction. Turns into an upper body exercise and one-arm pull-ups on a sheer face aren't happening.