skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What comes to mind are the exceptions.

Writing for example, is often as much about the polish applied after initial drafting is done. Perhaps for an academic assignment in a class, that's not a big deal, but it would be a huge deal for... marketing copy, fiction writing, scientific papers, journalistic reporting, screen-writing... etc.

The other possibility, where asking for polish is an attempt to be helpful, not a power-play, is where the professor is attempting to train the student to produce better work in the field of speciality of the professor. This is actually part of the professor's job. In that case, it would be unreasonable to attribute malice, and instead it should be considered a simple case of two people optimizing for different things.
And yet, most people love the stability of existing systems. Trying something new is betting with your time: if the startup goes defunct in x years, you've created work for yourself to migrate to a competitor, and that's a big risk to take if you're a medium or large business evaluating a B2B product that maybe only has Series B funding (and is dependent on massive growth to survive without being sold off to some investment firm due to pressure from their existing investors).
what do you hate about pandas so much? I miss it dearly now that I don't use Python anymore
Similar to the rest of the tech industry, game dev is a very wide field, if you want to work on large games I would suggest you figure out where in the pipeline interests you most (technical art, gameplay, tools/engine, networking, audio, rendering, live Ops) and build projects that revolve around that domain. If you want to work on smaller games then you just have to start making games. To me, the only real difference between game programming and most other programming is the need for more complicated math so making sure you have a solid understanding of the maths used will serve you far better than learning any specific language/engine.
It's sort of strange you have to make these points, but as an industry we seem to have an extremely short memory.

Vertical scaling was absolutely the way most big applications were built up until well into the 90s. Companies like Oracle were really built on the fact that getting performance and reliability out of a single highly-contested massive server is hard but important if that's the way you're going. Linux became dominant primarily because horizontal scaling won that argument and it won it pretty much exactly because of:

1)what you said - you hit a hard cap on how big you can make your main server at which point you are really screwed. Scalability pain points become a hard wall.

2) when I say "server" I mean "servers" of course because you'd need an H/A failover, at which point you've eaten the cost of replication, handling failover etc and you may as well distribute

3) cost. Because hardware cost vs capability is exponential, as your requirements become bigger you pretty rapidly hit a point where lots of commodity hardware becomes cheaper for a given performance point than few big servers

So there's a reason that distributed systems on commodity hardware became the dominant architectural paradigm. It's not the only way to do it, but it's a reasonable default for many use cases. For a very high-throughput system like twitter it seems a very obvious choice.

Clearly there are costs to distribution, so if you can get away with a simpler architecture then as always Occam's razor applies. Also if you can easily distribute later then it probably makes sense to leave that option open and explore it when you need it rather than overcomplicate too early.
Yet all living beings in earth are descendants of same cell, as far as we know. So if the above can happen once -- even if only "needs" to happen once, why would it not occur more than once, and lead to different "lines" of life, so to speak?
Jessica Buchanan was sure glad she was a tax paying US citizen when she was kidnapped by Somali gangsters and rescued by a SEAL team.[0]

I saw interviews about this and the Danish kidnap victim rescued with Ms. Buchanan said something to the effect of "the best thing that happened to me given this scenario was getting kidnapped with an American."

Citizenship has its privileges. I've been an US expat and will likely be one in the future and have no problem with paying taxes as a citizen either here or abroad.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_of_Jessica_Buchanan_and...
I did check that table, the data is great, but the readability not so much (especially on mobile) the meaning of some column names was not clear (tooltip didn't work on mobile).

That's why I was looking for a chart (in the graphical sense), it amazed me that I didn't find one.
Ask HN: Can we run ChatGPT/other large models on our devices?
ChatGPT has become the rage in programming recently, it's like everyone knows about it and what it does. But when is it actually going to be applied to industries like education, healthcare and eCommerce?

However it's unlikely OpenAI will just release the model like they did with whisper due to the size and commercial constraints. For it to be applied in industries it requires experimentation and changing from our side.

When will ChatGPT have it's stable diffusion moment? Is it possible for any machine to run these kinds of models?
If we’re talking about the navy’s power projection, the routine benefits are in reliable global trade, not random people being “saved”.
That is the case with any DI recording though, you can re-amp with analog amps. That has been Andy Sneap's workflow for decades.
From your original post, you seem to feel progressive taxes requires some sort of absurdly different treatment for people who make $999,999/yr vs $1,000,000/yr, or at whatever threshold, but that is not at all how they function. Even with discrete jumps in marginal tax rates (as in the current system of progressive income tax in the U.S.), post-tax income is a continuous monotonic function of pre-tax income. Making a little more pre-tax income always results in making a little more post-tax income.
This reminds me of the insane backlog of FBI background checks for NFA items (suppressors, machine guns, SBRs). Government has no incentive to process these things in a timely matter. People have to contact their congressmen sometimes just to push the sludge along. From what I've read it's not even a different background check than when you buy a gun either, just that the extra steps and the willful laziness to slowdown something the government probably doesn't like doing but has to.

You can buy a gun in 15 minutes at a gun store normally. Want to put a suppressor on it or that gun just happens to be 1" shorter than 16"? You're going to wait 9-24 months longer. Ridiculous doesn't even begin to describe it.
That depends on how you measure growth. If you measure it as total wealth then you are right but if you measure it as wealth per capita then you can grow for a lot longer before you hit a wall if you keep the population under control.
The US government will look out for your interests if an incident goes down in your country of residence. A rare occurrence for most but still a service that some may end up needing\using.
Does 4chan fit on one machine?
Well it's my experience that managers almost never think about the product or the customer, and almost never feel the need to justify their focus to the engineers who are (at least sometimes) thinking about the product and the customer.

I've never once had a manager say anything along the lines of "I just think we're building a bad experience if we release this early." I have heard them say all sorts of politics like "If we get this out now, then that'll prove massive impact that will free us up politically down the line"

Or for example I worked at a known location-sharing startup, and managers gave 0% thought to concerns like "hey is battery life impact worth measuring?" and kept pushing random integrations (like with Italian telecom company) hoping to get some huge amount of customers (which never payed off in my experience).

When I picture managers and directors I think of the idiots at Yahoo managing to fail to understand I need more than 15megs of storage or a spam filter (can't imagine what those managers were wasting their time ona), while a company of mostly engineers with scarcely any management builds gmail and eats their whole market.
Even if ChatGPT does for example prevail in the long run. I don't think it'll create too much job loss, we'll just get new types of jobs.
>People living far away are the ideal tax base. For one thing, they can't effectively vote against the tax.

US expats can vote from abroad from the last state, county, and municipality they held residency in prior to going abroad, as I understand.

Obligatory IANAL.
the original title has (by default) added to it, and the article points out it remains available as a config flag.

so the real discussion should be if it's the clients or the servers obligation to reorder binary integers as needed, or if the standard requests both to be in network byte order. technically do you use hton(3)/ntoh(3) [1] on every call in server and client, or do you apply it conditionally, on just the "smarter" side, and only if server and client native byte order mismatch? if you have the intelligence in the server you're hitting speculative execution all over the server, "penalizing" every user of the server, if ever so slightly, and "hardener" so if you have a mixed bag of clients, so speculative execution fails regularly.

so you move the burden to conditionally swap bytes to the clients, all of them. chances are the clients will talk to just one server. the price you pay is clients without byte swap option simply can't connect.

I _did_ run (virtual) X Servers on zSeries to run graphical software locally, on The Host (remote access via vnc), and all of this _does_make sense.

[1] https://linux.die.net/man/3/htons
Nuclear weapons make this kind of conflict less of a war and more of an extinction event.
I've never been to UAE or Bali, but I wouldn't mind having an Iranian passport in Australia. I can't imagine I would ever benefit from the "protection" of the USA while in Australia. And one could argue that if you are living in UAE, then having a US passport doesn't protect you more than having a Canadian one, so you're not really getting anything more of value from the much more powerful American one over the Canadian.

I realize folks are arguing what it's for, but I don't think their argument holds water.
Thank you i3(-gaps) devs for your work on this productivity booster!
If aggregate growth is zero, the system is zero sum. Per capita doesn’t matter.
I’m not really advocating for anything. I’m saying that some people say “these people making a lot of money are benefitting more from society, they should pay more” and other people say “actually they deserve to keep what they get” and we all argue and vote and come up with a system that everyone can mostly live with.

Sure, it’s arbitrary, but so is the flat tax percentage you’re talking about. Tons of laws are arbitrary. Speed limits aren’t some emergent property of the universe, or etched onto stone tablets by Adonai himself, but that doesn’t mean we should let people do 90 in a school zone.
don't travellers to US on any type of visa need to fill up lengthy forms called DS-160 where you declare details about your parents and their nationality, your own nationality and citizenship,answer questions about whether anyone in your family is a US citizen, and then swear that you are being truthful?
Too much concentration of economic power will translate into political power. We see this already with how much Meta, Google and Amazon spend on lobbying. Excessive concentration of economic power breeds antidemocratic political pressures. Sure there’s an argument to be had about the freedom to sell your company but there’s also American industrial policy, workers rights, industry resilience and consumer protections to consider.
What a bogus hypothetical. What market exists to buy individual cones?

It’s not the bundling that’s the problem, it’s dropping prices of a single product in a single market to destroy competition in that space while staying afloat with VC or other revenue streams/products.
Just swap the tax requirement to "if you've ever traded in the US dollar this year". How else are they going to maintain the most stable world currency?
US taxation applies to dual citizens who don't hold US passports though.

Heck, it applies to people who don't even realize that they are US citizens -- a number of Canadians have been hit by large bills from the IRS after discovering at advanced age that they have a parent born in the USA.
Anti-growth doesn't mean zero growth. I meant it more in the sense of being against unbridled technological innovation, which is a lot different than growth in any possible way.

For example, a society could grow in other ways such as being restructured or even using less.
How will it look in another month? In a year?

Trend reversals are not a good sign
Yes, happens all the time, and it’s not a big deal. There’s product and business strategies to help protect against that.
Also, it’s not as easy as it seems, and in cases where it is, it’s good for the overall economy: competition lowers prices the right way (unlike mergers and acquisitions).
... and then bill you. State operates on a cost-recovery basis.
No. I live in an unincorporated town. Dark Sky vs Apple was 3 degree difference as Apple reverted to the town 'next door'. But we actually have different weather. Slightly cooler. And rain hits us later.
My problem is that no one can logically explain why they chose what thresholds. It doesn’t mean anything, they just decided some number. I can play games and avoid that number. It’s absurd
Ask HN: ChatGPT Doesn’t Know Itself
Prompt: What is ChatGPT?

Answer: I'm sorry, but I am not familiar with the term "chatgpt." Could you provide more information or context about what you are asking?

Better luck in next version of the trained model?

This also raises my concern that the model is a snapshot of knowledge in time. Perhaps keeping the model with latest data is very costly?
I sense a recurring theme in these discussions:

Thesis: "Here are all sorts of ways to run a good organisation with fewer managers."

Antithesis: "That sounds nice for a little startup but it would never work in a big organisation."

Is the antithesis valid? It rarely comes with any citation beyond gut feeling. If yes, what's the synthesis?
If I'm not mistaken, you don't need to file taxes if you relinquish citizenship, right? It's not exactly a secret that a large amount of US taxes go to defense, which maintains the US' position as a world superpower, which you benefit from via your citizenship and US passport.
Mushrooms translated - “keep them in the dark, feed them shit, watch them grow”
Previously, with 132 points and 79 comments on Jan 26, 2018:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16237568
Neat post! I'd be curious to see some simple examples of each what the slow queries looked like. It seems to my limited knowledge they attempted to use row based dbs / mongo for column based workloads then saw a large perf boost after switching to Clickhouse.
How about smaller projects that might be hugely successful, but will never be remotely close to a Twitter level of success?

It’s interesting to see how much can be done with a single machine, because most projects will never be this big.

Though there will still be other concerns like redundancy to deal with.
I believe the OP meant growth of revenue, and ideally of profit. Layoffs in that case would actually be an improvement.
Ok I see what you mean, it looks like a difficult equation to solve then.
As I do believe anything productive (and not boring) requires mental energy.

Please, do let me know if you found any right path regarding your thread. Thanks.
> For example if you’re born in a foreign country to a US citizen who can pass down citizenship. You’re a US citizen, but there is no record of it.

Unless you've had a FS545, DS1350, or FS240 filed.
Pandas gets the job done, and is overall easy to use and intuitive.

The problem is that it's a huge pile of hacks, exceptions, anti patterns, and regressions.

The API is inconsistent, loose, full of obscure options added as quickfixes.
Yeah a delete checkbox would make sense. I've seen that in the past, and evidently forgot about it.

A specific horror show I remember was a Netflix-like DVD shipping service, where you maintained an ordered list of DVDs you'd like to receive. Each DVD in your queue had a textbox with a sequence number (1, 2, 3...) in it. You could edit the numbers and on submit, the server would do a stable sort. "1" and "999" could conveniently push multiple items to the top/bottom of the list, but to precisely order the first five items - the most common use case! - you'd usually need multiple passes. Drag and drop would have been way better.
I can imagine the Algolia founders had a lot of questions from their investors...
Rags to riches to jail
Wonderful article! Wish we had this in Germany, for my city, for example :')
> Absurd woke-ism strikes again!

On the contrary, it seems to be the opposite of woke-ism.
So you say! I included a cone for FREE with my ice cream. I have dropped the price to zero!

If we banned ice cream trucks from selling cones, surely an independent cone business would spring up if market demand existed.

This contrived example is to prove my point - you claim I’m speaking absurdities, but if I claim bundling a database (or caching solution, or search engine, whatever) is merely a convenience, you cry foul. Nothing is logical here
No rate limiting, API data, quote tweets, view count, threads, likes, mentions, notifications, ads, video, images, account blocking (permanent or TTL), account muting (permanent or TTL), word filtering (permanent or TTL), moderation/reporting, user profile storage, or the fact that tweets that display show more than just the tweet itself. No mention that tweet activity all occurs concurrently and therefore the loading script is not at all a realistic estimate of real activity.

But sure, go ahead and take this as evidence that 10 people could build Twitter as I'm sure that's what will happen to this post. If that's true, why haven't they already done so? It should only take a couple weeks and one beefy machine, right?
I never have shower ideas, but I do have walking and driving ideas.
Not much money and it's a controversial fee that is being reduced for the very same thinking that it is unreasonable
With decent anti-trust, we would have many many more stable mid-size companies. I.e. startups that FAANG snapped up on their ascendence to stability, that would now be successful in their own right.

Some examples to rattle off a few household names: instagram, whatsapp, youtube, tumblr, android, beats, audible.
I've noticed this too, but unlike smaller companies I've worked at, there is real money on the line with Meta's performance review cycle. Good reviews can lead to tens of thousands more in bonuses and stock easily. In that context it makes sense to me for the review cycle to be more rigorous.
You don't even need Rust or highly optimised code. Just moving the existing code from "vCPUs" and networked storage to real CPUs with direct-attach NVME storage will be enough for most purposes. (btw you can do that now, just get yourself a beefy server at OVH/Hetzner and play around with it)
Having done LSD, I can’t imagine doing anything resembling coherent productivity while tripping. The best I could do was try to process all the crazy shit happening. There was certainly no room for note taking.
Why are you playing games to avoid that number? There's no big difference in being slightly above vs slightly below that number. Indeed, it's slightly better to be slightly above.
> Citizenship-based taxation was brought in as a way of punishing deserters during the civil war and simply never dropped.

Have a resource for this? From what I remember, income tax started around the 1910's with the 16th amendment and grew to take out a large portion of citizens' income when prohibition severely cut sales tax proceeds from alcohol.
> Citizenship-based taxation was brought in as a way of punishing deserters during the civil war and simply never dropped.

It was started in 1861 as a way to raise revenue to fight a war.

https://nomadcapitalist.com/global-citizen/citizenship-based...

Deserters would most likely have gone home, remaining citizens and living in the US. And I'm unaware of US IRS attempt to collect taxes from the CSA during the war.

https://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/...
Bundling per se isn’t a problem. It becomes illegal when a firm uses market power to destroy competitors. If you’re interested in learning more I suggest reading about the Robinson-Patman Act (1936) and Clayton Antitrust Act (1914) as well as the Sherman Act (1890)
I'm in favor of anti-trust initiatives, and I like startups.

That said, there were (anecdatally) a large number of people on here (founders?) for awhile (maybe still?) that subscribed to the Thiel school of ~"first to the monopoly wins!" which is good potentially for a business, but absolutely terrible for any sort of ecosystem (including, say, the earth). I'm not sure I like startups with the goal of monopoly at the outset.
What about grocery store ideas?
I guess it's not too surprising somebody paired newer radios with the MT7621 SoC. I see now that MediaTek even lists that application on the product page, so they're probably not going to retire that processor anytime soon: https://www.mediatek.com/products/home-networking/mt7621
There is a common fallacy that going up a tax bracket can result in taking home less money. For example, sometimes you'll hear apocryphal stories about someone turning down a small raise because they did the math and realized it would move them into the next tax bracket and result in them taking home less money. That's not how progressive taxes work, and such stories are incorrect. I just wanted to double check that you understand this, right?
Why the Godfather of Human Rights Is Not Welcome at Harvard
What are ICs?
One side effect of this inane policy is that it is becomes very difficult for US citizens living abroad to invest their money, due to the tax consequences of holding foreign stocks, as well as the fact that very few US exchanges are willing to open accounts for expats.

I live in Japan, and holding Japanese stocks will get me in trouble with the US government, while holding US stocks can dramatically complicate my Japanese taxes. Because I reside outside the US, I cannot have a 401k or Roth IRA, but it is also impractical for me to take advantage of the Japanese equivalent (NISA) due to the prohibitive cost of correctly reporting my holdings to the US. In some cases there is also double taxation.
Its almost as if its nothing more than a marketing term :/
Haskell's compose being in that direction ends up fairly annoying, IMO. That's not the direction we think about a chain of functions, 90+% of the time, so you end up having to type the next thing in the chain, then go backwards over everything you just typed to do the next step.

Thankfully in Haskell you can just define your own, but it's annoying and then harder to share than if one existed in prelude. IIRC (<<<) or one of them is a more general backwards compose, but the precedence ends up working poorly so it's not a good fix.
Wife worked at a few banks. With so many branches closing or downsizing operations, if they decide to stop offering boxes, that means opening them up if they can't reach you.
I wonder how much of it comes from the ritual and creating the space for thought. I found just putting time between fact-finding and actual debugging has always helped me debug the wilder bugs, and I noticed GP was doing the same. Not taking away from GPs experience in general though, weed is a human experience like any other so if it works then it works. We can think about drugs too clinically for some discussions I think.
Everyone thinks they can tell the difference until they do a blind test.