skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an expat Indian, been an American citizen for ~25 years, and have worked/traveled all over India. Agree on the apathy, but I think it's a bit more nuanced than the notion of apathy one might have around here.

In America, you are very likely to be admonished by a stranger for littering in a public place. Trash cans are everywhere, and the laws/regulations are enforced, so the risk-reward of littering/pollution is overwhelmingly in favor of proper disposal. Most of the population doesn't have to work 14-16 hour days, 6-7 days a week, so there's a lot of volunteered time to go around for maintaining public areas. There is public funding and enforced regulations to handle waste management, and industry employees have union representation.

India is diametrically opposite to this - it would be risky to admonish someone for littering, especially if they look wealthy, because rich Indians are usually above the law and consider themselves so. Everyone bribes the police, so anyone can pollute the environment for a price. In everyday life, the tragedy of the commons is certainly prevalent - there's already a pile of trash, so one more wrapper makes no difference. But there is also apathy in the sense that you're not going to admonish the person dumping a rickshaw full of trash into the river, because that's the only realistic way for him to feed his family, and it's probably the only economical option over dumping it somewhere yourself. And there isn't much evidence that paying more in taxes is going to do anything for the problem, and a lot of evidence that it will just line your local politician's pockets. The people who actually do the work are usually the poorest in society, and they don't know the dangers of lighting carcinogenic materials on fire.

To summarize with an anecdote - I saw my uncle throw an empty chip bag on a beautiful beach in Goa, so I picked it up and asked him why he couldn't just hold on to it for a while. He shouted back, "it's someone else's job to pick that up!"
Now that I think about it that’s probably what a phone call I recently received because I “signed up for increased life insurance” was all about.

Dude insisted I was the one who initiated the contact and probably expected me to give personal information to correct the “mistake” or, at the very least, to figure out who is plotting my death.

Guess I’m getting old enough that the scammers think I’m an easy mark.
I did something similar using https://pixijs.com/
Now do it again with the electricity output of fuel cycles that actually exist and the amount of lithium in a new battery.

The only density here is that required to mindlessly parrot factoids about the theoretical thermal energy content fertile material as if they were relevant to electricity output of fissile content.

> If price of uranium increases 3x nobody cares, fuel is like 5% of cost for nuclear. If price of lithium increases 3x it's a disaster, the entire transition to electric vehicles will fail.

If the price of Uranium triples, the raw Uranium becomes as expensive as renewables' LCOE in one year rather than 5. If the price of lithium triples, it's still irrelevant because PHES still exists and so do Sodium Ion, Zinc Bromide and Iron batteries.

> We don't even have enough batteries for vehicles, the grid needs another solution, either hydro + hydrogen storage or nuclear.

The amount of batteries required for >90% renewables is tiny compare to the amount needed for overly large EVs everywhere. If you're going to change one of these variables to stop climate change faster, far better to unban light electric vehicles in countries with mandatory monster trucks and spend a few percent of that nuclear reactor money on transit, low speed roads and pedestrianisation.
I think this is the year that I’m going to finally hire an accountant. I have been doing my own taxes aided by software for nearly my entire adult life, and my taxes are complex. I’m tired of giving my information to some company that’s going to do their best to sell it again somehow.

The funny thing is, I kind of like doing my taxes. Oh well
> A few layers of shares later, the post is going viral, reshare-optimized ranking algorithms are putting it top of everyone’s feeds, and the dairy industry is using ads to boost distribution. Ad-funded news sites see that the topic is trending and quickly produce copycat articles, including some that say cheese makes you immortal, or immune to vampires. Millions of people, seeing similar arguments from many sources, assume it to be true, switch to cheese only diets, and get admitted to hospital with cheese overdoses.

Help me out here, so this person who does not have a history of going "viral" which I assume means likes by well reputed long term accounts that have good ad engagement (they buy stuff in reponse to ads) makes some content and their algorithm allows that to go viral because ______? No proven commercial or reputationsl benefit. So what gives?
Threejs apparently
I'm another ex-massachusettser and also love Somerville and would have shared a brat with you. Sounds like you made the best of it!
Yeah. RC cars can fit in your pockets. But you can't be the passengers.
The compiler (go) is part of a static read-only (compressed/in-memory) RootFS. Build on a air-gap build server, touching only signed/verified/reviewed code from git-offline mirror snaps. Go has no libs, all static. The resulting runtime only binaries are totally uniq/randomized and dependency free, straight from (signed) source code.
When to talk and when to write
It's the Windows key and the period (".") key, not the Windows key and the plus key ("+").
> what would happen if you gave a company an unpronounceable name and it took off.

As long as it's an actual company taking money/paying for services, you'll have to register it, so it will have a pronounceable name.

Reminds me of "Love symbol" formerly know as "Prince". The symbol is great, but you'll have to register as an artist to get the money, you'll be signing contracts, etc., so whatever clever symbol you find, at some point a standard writable name will be settled on.
So here's a trick - which worked for the clue question

step 1:
Hi, I'm going to ask you some questions soon. But instead of answering the questions, I want you to instead write out instructions for yourself to help you reason through the question and come up with the best answer

step 2: [provide clue question]

step 3: Now follow the instructions you have just written to answer the question.

.... The answer to the question is: (a) Yes; Colonel Mustard was in the observatory with the candlestick

Edit: mixed results for the apple question with this technique
Gotta put that second finger to use while you're running forward!
Relative of an employee here.

My relative has had to do UX work, and at least to me, it sounds like they care about it. But my relative also talks about how they're not the best at it.

So can you explain in more detail what you are wanting? Do you want some sort of way to see a line item list of what the tax bill is?
Instagram and Facebook Should Update ‘Confusing’ Nude Photo Rules, Meta Says
They dont care. That's their prerogative. I say this as someone who doesnt like light pollution. Dont live in a city if you're so bothered by light pollution and people in close proximity.
The Complete Story of the Last of Us Part 1 and 2
Seems like something fit for a GPT-3 / Wolfram partnership!

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34422122 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34422627
http://web.archive.org/web/20230120161032/https://www.nytime...
72 users spread among 34 servers, but the number of servers doesn't matter since you can follow anyone on any server
We have Go and Java SDKs that have better performance characteristics if that’s what you’re optimizing for. I think for many businesses, optimizing for development speed is a higher priority (eg if the devs already know JS, use that). The Node runtime with v8 isolates is also able to better protect developers from writing non deterministic code (durable code must be deterministic). More info on that: https://temporal.io/blog/intro-to-isolated-vm
> On the internet, it is usually very clear that you will accomplish nothing except maybe introduce receptive onlookers to a new idea, so the choice to minimize engagement is easy.

I'm going to disagree here. I've learned quite a lot from internet arguments. Admittedly, the majority of it was from attempting to argue positions I don't hold.

You're taking it as a given that the only goal of an argument is to convince someone, and if you can't do that, then there is no point. But there can be value in making an argument specifically in bettering your own understanding of a point.

With all that said, I will admit that some random news site's comments probably aren't the best place to do that.
"Repeated Tropes Considered Harmful"
I don’t see why you need a job to learn how to employ people. Actually other than the interviews, you probably won’t learn anything of use. Instead learn what you need from courses, and maybe get coached by someone who has done it too. Or get a cofounder.

If you simply don’t want to be isolated how about working from a coworking space, or attend meetups with other entrepreneurs?
Kernel-WASM: Sandboxed kernel mode WebAssembly runtime for Linux
Self radicalization at least takes some initiative and sustained focus which would seem to limit the relative population risk but I fully admit I’m on the thin edge here of what I have any clue about.
Is that what Bing does. Doubtful.
AFAIK having worked at several FAANG and discussing with others, this is just not true. No company is doing anything like that and calling it stock awards or RSU or stock-based compensation. Most FAANG companies (almost certainly including Google) are doing dollar value stock awards, but those only affect how the number of awarded stocks is computed. Those awards still vest over some period and employees gain or lose based on the difference in the stock price from when they are awarded until they are vested.
TL;DR

Animal rights activists don't like the pain that hook fishing causes the prey, so eat saltwater fish instead.
People usually don’t look at the maintenance costs of owning a car. Gas, insurance, registration, tune ups, repairs. Then compare how much you’ll put into your R&M over the years. It doesn’t even come close to a cars yearly costs :)
That seems like a "lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas" situation. If someone doesn't want to be accused of cheating in a high-stakes game then they shouldn't cheat in a low-stakes game.
i think so, otherwise some shit would've happened.
Do you mean this?

[cond ? expr1 : expr2]

Or maybe this:

[(() => {/*code*/})()]
They aren't cross plataform, windows say is in alpha and Linux doesn't even appear
Is there a record of the names of the people in the meetings leading up to the amendment, and a record of which companies those people lobby for?
Here's a good beginner-level intro to how this works: https://blog.myrawealth.com/insights/how-to-interpret-your-f...
"There is an increasingly large population of "programmers" that have never known anything other than Python and don't understand the concept of "different languages for different purposes". They want Python to do everything so they don't have to leave their comfort zone."

Also, s/Javascript/$LANG_YOU_HATE/g
The point is that you can write code instead of JSON/YAML like traditional microservice orchestration like AWS step functions. And it’s not a limited dsl—you have the full lang at your disposal, with the one requirement that deterministic code (workflows / the durable code) is in separate functions from non deterministic code (like making a network request, called “Activities”).
An interesting and worthy topic, but it develops way too slowly. Browsing the internet is fast paced. For the internet it really is Too Long; Didn't Read.

I realize that this works against an author's love of writing and rich stock of relevant ideas, but that's the way it is.
I am an end user of programs people write in rust. Like when I tried to use a fast radio scanning software defined radio program written in rust. There was no compiled version. It was written 3 months after the version of compiler from my repos was released but still used forwards incompatible features. Or the time a web serial I was reading had a spider and epub generator written in rust. Approximately the same deal. And it's only become worse as my rustc became older than a few months.

I am not a developer. I use my operating system to run software that other people write. Most of it like the above examples don't come from repos but the tools to compile them do. Or at least did until rust became popular.
Aarggh. Just noticed a typo in the above.

This:

I don't, for example, think "ChatGPT is AI".

should read:

I don't, for example, think "ChatGPT is AGI".
> I don't know why Mastodon is hyped up so much

Among tech-folk, it's hyped up because it's federated, with the hope that if it succeeds it brings us back to the original design of internet services like E-mail and Usenet where everything isn't centralized and owned by a single corporation where you have to live by the whims of it's advertisers.

> they can read your DMs as they are not encrypted

I have yet to send or receive a DM on Mastodon, I'm not even sure how you do it. As long as you know this fact, just don't send sensitive info in DMs? It's not a core feature of the platform so I don't understand why it's looked at as such a deal-breaker.

> they can kick you off the server if you write anything the server operator does not agree with

But, with Mastodon, you can just join another server with different rules if that happens. On Twitter, if you offend Elon, he kicks you off and now you have no recourse. Mastodon is strictly better in this regard.
The types of companies that use Windows will atypically take a long time to get on a modern version for their stack. Desktop fleet withstanding.
I think it's the 'old' thing mainly.

Most people in our age range have families and lots of ties and commitments. We recently booked a weekend away with 7 friends and for most of them it was the only weekend in March they still had free. Birthdays, kids trips, judo contests, blah blah..

For me as an expat needing to travel for it, I complained that it was too far away in the future to know if it would work to fly over (eg important work commitments like trainings in the adjacent weeks)

I can't really blame them but as a childless single it's boring yeah. Good thing I have some nice social communities with similar people.
Self-serve feature platforms: architectures and APIs
I did so as well, so I’m wondering if it’s a scam.
A good CEO is hard to find, but perhaps people are just terrible at predicting who will be a good CEO. Would we see worse results if people were promoted into the role with less salary?

My guess is the success rate would be more or less the same.
>Maybe they could have recruited better with a higher salary?

I've heard drug addicts say similar things about their next hit.
you can be terrific and have a focused family life.
A sparse checkout isn't quite the same thing. It still has to clone the whole repository, it just only puts part of it in the working tree. With svn, you don't have to pull down anything for other directories. More recently, you can combine a sparse checkout with partial clone to get more similar functionality, but it isn't exactly simple.
Relative of an employee here.

They have a question search [1]. When I searched for "rental depreciation," it showed [2]. The first result dropdown had this:

> Rental Depreciation:

> Menu Path: Income > Business Income > Rental Income (Schedule E)

> Enter on the Depreciable Assets screen. If you are filing a Schedule C, then that screen will be within the Business Income (Schedule C) screens. If you are filing a Schedule F, it will be within the Farm Income (Schedule F) screens. If you are filing a Schedule E, it will be within the Rental Income (Schedule E) screens.

[1]: https://www.freetaxusa.com/help_tax_tips.jsp

[2]: https://www.freetaxusa.com/search_faq.jsp?apptype=freetaxusa...
The language here for gen Z seems dated already. Are we sure that Gen Z on the internet wasn’t an AI to begin with? No cap.
> They should invent a vaccine for it.

Agreed. Until then, people should maintain 6 feet distance between each other or wear some kind of mask around their private parts.
I think this is relatively new. 10 or so years ago you still had to download a desktop app that looked like it was written in 1995 and go through each page.
Sure, you can buy a 1:76 scale electric car for around $80.
Relative of a happy employee (of freetaxusa.com, but same company).

I'll pass along your message!
Ask HN: Is being a independent freelance web developer still feasible?
Between webflow, wix and squarspace.. it seems the people who could benefit from having a web developer develop them a website is narrower than ever. Are you successful in building things from scratch as standalone person/company not "consultant" who is really a contractor at another tech company?
The most amazing imo is the `d` attribute of an svg <path> element
On the last three devices I installed F-Droid on, it was unable to update itself or update apps period. When I hit the Update button it would throw up a generic error message and Googling that message yields hits for multiple F-Droid issues from the past several years.

They have a long way to go before their software is usable. It's a shame because I would happily promote F-Droid to other people, if it worked.
> it has definitely seen during training

The size of the training data far exceeds the size of the model's weights. As loss is minimized, the model begins to develop various "strategies" across several "genre" of text. We of course have trouble interpreting these and have to make guesses without advanced analysis.

> very incorrect

What do you mean? It got _very_ close to the correct answer. One useful thing to know is that GPT-3 cannot "go back" and correct early mistakes. This may have happened here. I think in this case it just didn't remember much about it, and may have a sort of general strategy invoked for "include the definition of the word in some sort of counterfactual" process?
This is the cutest thing ever
The well-known version that seems susceptible is "Well, when a girlfriend gets murdered, it's the boyfriend x% of the time, so we should focus on the boyfriend." That's a great way to increase the value of x over time.
Yes. I asked the same question about a decade ago, when a new edition of NASAs Blue Marble, or in this case Black Marble for the night maps made its rounds through the mass media :-)

You can have that as desktop background, with dynamically moving night/day terminator, and optionally real clouds and storm systems overimposed, btw :-)

With programs like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xplanet , but others too.
And worth keeping in mind that every sub, every comment section, including this place, is a self-selected narrow group that is very much not representative of public opinion in general.
The link to upgrade seems to have been removed. I guess the pro plan was oversubscribed?
Installing chocolatey may leave your PC vulnerable
The install instructions listed at https://chocolatey.org/install wants you to set the windows powershell's execution policy to unrestricted.

> Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force

There is no instruction step listed to change it back. Many Dart users may have left it that way, open to numerous scripts run unrestricted on their PC.

To top this, they have a pretty NOTE at step 2 boasting 'they take security seriously'.
Samantha Power could care less about the privacy rights of ordinary citizens.

As far as she's concerned, only cyber-criminals and child pornographers need to hide their activities from the prying eyes of the government.

Harsher prison sentences for convicted criminals would be one way to preserve what's left of the liberty of law-abiding citizens, but we can't go down that road because then we'll become an "incarceration society."
How much money did MS make last year?
I'm pretty sure Tradingview doesn't take inflation into account.
I just want to sit in my back yard and not have laser-like LED streetlights burning my retinas at night. And yet, two of my neighbors have those set up in their backyards, so…
I have a big problem with FreeTaxUsa... I don't want my tax return data on their server. I want to have something I can run on my own computer.

(and it really bothers me that taxhawk.com and freetaxusa.com are mimics of each other... why have two sites with different branding that are under the cover the same thing?)
It runs quite well on a phone too. Impressive.
Thank you for the kind words, it was certainly an unexpected day!
I did this and now my brain is humming and my blood pumping. Thanks.
> I wish we could show some of the early computer engineers some of this kind of thing.

I often fantasize about this, just knowing even what 10-year-old me would have thought about it.
I don't agree with my friend, but she was incredibly outraged that I choose a tip of zero at a donut shop, this is how this came up. If you're being intellectually honest there's no logical justification for why a server "deserves" a tip and counter staff don't.* Half the time the server isn't even the one physically bringing you your food/drink - that's often done by a runner or a bus boy.

Because the entire tipping culture is based upon shame if a non-insignificant amount of people feel that they are expected to tip whenever asked for a tip, it ends up being the the same as if there was an actual social obligation to tip. Then there can become one.

*There actually is a social obligation to tip counter staff - only if you're ordering an alcoholic drink though.
His point is that if it was tested out locally amongst a smaller group of people, it could be better refined before it got to a wider audience... not that it would be "authoritative".
> I would be skeptical of correlated variables that defy logic.

Does this defy logic? At the worst, I'd say I lack an intuition around it, rather than that it's unintuitive.
> The only steps that are persisted are workflow api calls like sleep(), startChildWorkflow(), or calling code that might fail (ie “Activity”, like a network request).

Ok, that's what I was wondering. Makes a lot more sense this way.
Show me a use case that works and is worth 42 dollar and I m in.
Relative of an employee of freetaxusa.com (TaxHawk).

My relative is one of the people working on Free File. If you have any issues, don't hesitate to contact me [1]. Free File is something they are deadly serious about because they know Intuit, TurboTax, et al are scummy, and well, it brings in business.

But Free File can be complicated (my relative complains about it a lot), so there may be issues. Please let me know.

[1]: https://gavinhoward.com/contact/
You have probably already lost at that point, though: if you want true security, you have to go it alone.
> At some point those sequential integer ID's will become so long they might as well be GUIDs

Worth bearing in mind that an unsigned 32-bit integer sequence can uniquely identify 4,294,967,295 records. If you're really storing that many records (let alone enough to exhaust an even bigger integer sequence), the length of the identifier is probably the least of your worries :)
Exactly. Also good from laid-off person pov (considering...) as if it were just performance metric, most people wouldn't be able to get hired, or even considered for interview...
I feel obliged to mention doas[1], which is a sudo alternative from openBSD. It is written in c, but tries to be smaller and easier to configure. I am not qualified to vouch for or against it, but it is interesting.

1: https://man.openbsd.org/doas
A better title for the article would have been:

A Return to Autocracy

because that's what corporate America is all about when management has the upper hand.