skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I avoided reading "How to win friends and influence people" for way too long based purely on my revulsion with the title - which just seemed nakedly manipulative.

However, when I finally brought myself to read it, I found it's a treatise on changing your attitude towards other people.

The core thought is that if you want to be interesting that you should be honestly interested in other people.

This really struck me as a humble and approachable way to do better with my communications and as you better understand people you'll just naturally be more persuasive.
I am sorry I am not following the connection between Pokhran-II nuclear tests and Australia. Would you mind sharing some more information or a link maybe?
>"Because it's not like it used to be," is the excuse I hear.

Well, they're right.

We used to treat concern trolls like laughingstock, now they set national policy.

Karenism is an existential threat, and it should have been treated as such before it got this bad.
You're absolutely not required to categorize things like payroll as amortizable R&D.
I don't think it is. It's blocking on H H Holmes, Nero and Tiberius, and that seems pretty obscure for a manually curated list to me. I think it's blocking on individuals with certain properties ("I cannot write a poem that praises individuals who are known for committing atrocities").
Portraying any of the first ten amendments as an after the fact is beyond dishonest. No version predating the bill of rights was ever run in prod. They decided that those ten features were necessary before they even released the thing.
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They don’t have a grounding defect, they are simply not grounded.

You have to purchase an extra cable with a grounding pin for your power adapter to ground a MacBook.
I would second this recommendation - I'm off to my local club this evening. I'm presenting Table Topics tonight.
I know that I am going to sound pathetic but I may actually like it. It makes me sad when the characters in long running shows get old or die in real life. I also get sad when shows end and the characters that I love just go away. Right now we have cartoons but I don't really connect with these characters. What I would love is an actual good series where the characters never grow old and the series never ends. Now this may not be something that an AI can produce in my lifetime but I am sure that AI generated content will cross the uncanny divide within the next 40 years or so.
That is why passion is not a good way to write laws.

Something being useful (lack of privacy) does not make it either good or necessary.
People have claimed this off and on for a decade

I've yet to have a "throttle" or apparent slowdown ... and I always update the day (or 2) after an update's released

Have owned a 4s, 6s+, 8, 11, and 14 Pro Max
> Babushka's Dumpling Shop

Except babushka didn't have a dumpling shop because private enterprise was outlawed. You probably mean the Pastry Workers' Cooperative, an organization that didn't actually make dumplings because flour and vegetable oil was ratoinalized. The state was exporting those ingredients to the West at a loss in order to obtain dollars and pay back the IMF loans. Instead, the PWC shop had lots of vinegar and pickled cucumbers for sale. Which was too bad, because nobody wanted to buy those things.
I imaging few things like:

- most SMALL projects succeed while most large fail, small projects can evolve, larger have bigger issues, small fails cost far less in absolute terms than larger one so are easy to "try and see if it works";

- we are in a climate change scenario, so building complex infra on land is a stupid idea, we do not really know enough area-per-area where living in the next 100+ years and FOR the next 100+ would be good/doable or inopportune;

- ALL theory to lower prices of public infra have regularly failed;

- we, rightly, foresee and push short-range mobility by air, concerned more about people receptions than technical issues: https://www.easa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/dfu/uam-full-... such mobility is called "urban" but anyone with a trace of smartness understand that that's no room for such model in cities, while there is in spread rivieras;

- the biggest point of modern cities was the vast amount of SMEs and few large in a close area to keep prices down, innovation up, specialization to create new jobs etc. This point is gone in the mega-corp present era.

Long story short for what I see cities will be the receptacle of poverty and desperation while the wealthy will be outside in nature. Thanks to modern tech the "right density" is the Riviera model, not anymore the city model.

Of course all who are soldiers of mainstream PR will deny such claim, not even trying to reasoning about it. EVEN if many articles here and there prove it, without explicitly telling.
And even so Tarn has been pretty responsive to major bugs (and even minor ones) - but it is really nice to have the expectations set.
>>The ability to scam people exists and isn't going away.

True, but giving the scammers orders-of-magnitude better tools can have serious consequences. If you already have a plague of robbers in your town, handing out free automatic handguns and ammo to anyone is beyond stupid. Yet this is pretty much what these AI tools give to scammers.

Arguing that people will eventually figure it out is no justification for allowing it. It ignores all the casualties in the meantime. This is especially bad because the result of this scale of weaponized technology may well be a complete destruction of trust in society, or in technology in general. These are catastrophic for everyone in society and the economy.
Could this even be allowed by the constitutuons of EU democracies?

EU doesn't pass laws, it passes directives, rulings or recommendations.

If it's not compatible with a member's constitution it will not pass.
The difference, of course, is that in the US you could start a campaign to change all those things.
„Labor shortage“ — while there’s no shortage of kids around the world dreaming of becoming animators..
Look for a new job, you deserve a raise
Is Ireland too economically dependent on Big Tech to regulate it properly?
What if we all have the same favourite colour, but we see them differently.
Agreed. What is it with everyone wanting to see Chat GPT only in the light of accessing information and then complaining about it?
> This is in my opinion is the primary reason why kids aren't allowed out alone.

I guess this is polar opposite: the situation is like this because kids are not allowed outside. Since kids are not allowed outside, you build "suburban sprawls": rows of houses with literally nowhere for those kids to go even if they wanted. And then you transport them directly to school and sports with a personal car. So the kids do not have interaction with other kids, because they are neither allowed to nor there is a field to play in. Naturally the other parents don't know the kids further than immediate neighbors.

The twist is that now the infrastructure is suddenly lone-kid-hostile.
>Anyway, this is the hugely attenuated white version of what confrontational policing gives America.

I mean, I'm not a huge fan of that stuff either, but I lived in Killingly for a number of years, so perhaps this one caught my attention for that reason?
I was confused initially as well but you are reading it backwards. They were getting ~15k a month before launch and that jumped to 7 mill after launch. I am very interested to see what it normalizes to. 100K a month? several hundred? 15K a month again?
> > whereas the real motivation is to control people's freedom of speech and communication even though they will 100% deny it.

> That smells like QAnon-level of conspiracy BS.

Are you familiar with a country called China?
Key verbiage here is "for purposes of this section". Section 174 can define software development expenses however it wants--that doesn't make amortization required.
> Crowded probably means it's popular.

Or just badly managed. Public transport in my city is also crowded, but that's because even key lines do an average of four courses an hour.

Also streetcars around here are still plagued by derailments.
France has "federalized" police in most of the country and they don't have this problem. I'm with you, that doesn't seem to be the causal factor.

I don't have great insight into police, but I've had a little into a few county governments and school districts, and the impression I've gotten is the opposite: the more local interested are insulated from state or federal oversight (de facto, if not de jure) the more wildly-corrupt and tyrannical they get.
> But how are bootstrapped companies without access to large capital reserves or investment supposed to come up with the money to pay these tax bills while they wait it out?

You can go to the bank and take out a loan. It's called a "factor loan", and tax receivables are solid collateral.
This is incoherent... not worth reading
Wow, they raised their price? I thought their whole thing was $30 forever because they were never going on sale.
Wikipdeia is double plus ungood for containing thought crimes against The Party
How many news websites/blogs/things of that nature are still going to have Twitter accounts that link to their new posts? BBC Breaking probably will, but will Daring Fireball?
I wouldn’t claim that he was lucky but upper middle class?

The guy went to Phillips Exeter for high school and was captain of the fencing team. Not exactly middle class.
Another way of phrasing this might be "people will not have to pay as much tax if technological tools are used to assess crimes rather than traditional high-touch policing (ie high man-hours)".

Generally people want all the [other] criminals catching, but do not want all resources of the state used solely for policing. Optimisations then are preferred even if there is collateral harm.
This is not what my accountant is telling me or what the articles I am finding from large accounting firms are saying...

It is not a choice anymore, if it is software dev, it's R&E now. They added a specific callout for software development only right to the tax code.

Example: if you are a restaurant and you buy an off the shelf point of sale software, this doesn't apply. If you are in the business of making a point of sale software to sell to restaurants, or your restaurant chain develops its own point of sale software internally, it applies to all costs related to the development of that software now.
I would suggest you try to distill a framework for your updates based on updates by your colleagues you find informative, to the point, ...

Something like: I achieved [this] by doing [that] which leads to [value/progress].

On the other hand, I am a product manager and I do not need that much technical detail during standups from engineers - I am mainly interested in learning if the task is progressing according to original plan and if not, how do we need to adjust the sprint plan.

Standups should be done standing up so that people are annoyed if they run long so being brief is a plus in my eyes.
Damn, brings back much memories.
Kids can die walking unsupervised to Dunkin, too.

Five minutes in a car during mild weather isn't going to cook a kid; cops should use their broad discretion and some common sense in both scenarios.
"All leaders want their countries to be like China" is conspiracy BS, yes.
Good advice. Also helps to be white.
Slowest start-up in history. Good for them.
I think the style is similar, but it was more complex. He was also showing off the codec on his face, probably this is a newer version.

Anyway, I'm grateful.
I didn't notice anything else, but the mood impact was all I was paying attention to.
Looks cool! Will it still work when your company is gone?
> Don't fight progress in the hopes you can one day become complacent.

I'm not convinced this represents "progress". That aside, the goal of resisting it isn't to allow you to become complacent some day. The goal is to avoid being harmed.
You seem to be making a bunch of assumptions about the person you’re replying to.
without Steam there might have been 20 different platforms, but another possibility would have been Microsoft just fully taking over the space and treating the PC like a very expensive Xbox. Even with Steam’s success this has always been a possibility. I think Steam’s massive investment in game compatibility for Linux (ie: Steam Deck) has been an amazing counterbalance to stave off the potential of MS monopoly on the PC gaming space and I am so thankful for their continued support of PC gaming culture and tech.
IMO Prime Video is a lot nicer than Netflix. Prime typically has almost any combination of audio/subtitle languages that I want. Netflix typically has only North American languages (English,Spanish,French), and usually only as /either/ subtitles /or/ a new audio track. I'm working on my Polish (because my wife is Polish) and my wife is working on her Spanish (because she's studying it as a hobby) and we frequently watch Prime shows with Polish "lektor" (it's not dubbing, just a guy interpreting the characters' English, which you can still hear) and Spanish audio, or vice versa. On Netflix we can usually find Spanish subs or Spanish dubs -- rarely both, and Polish anything even more rarely (even for shows that are natively in Polish!).
Really interested to see what their revenue numbers will look like when sales normalize. It will probably take a few months but will they be at 100K a month mid year? Really interesting what the staying power of DF will be now that it is more accessible.
Bunny hop, shoot, bunny hop, shoot
How long has this been out?
I see. I guess that it could also help biodiversity efforts from a PR standpoint to have wildlife reserves for a 'charismatic' animal like the dodo, similar to how everybody wants to protect the panda bear.
> The UK has hundreds of thousands of government CCTV cameras and they can comprehensively track your movements through the entire country.

It's not a new thing either. 1984 was about Britain after all...
Holding static views is a sign of stagnation right? has nothing in the world changed over the past decade? nothing to re-evaluate anything?
Yet again this video on how there is something deeply, horrifyingly wrong with raising kids in American suburbs is apt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHlpmxLTxpw

Visited Utrecht in December and visiting Freiburg in April to decide where to live.
Sometimes I feel that the world is sleepwalking straight into the pages of 1984. Proposals to monitor chats, ban encryption, legitimize location tracking create perfect infrastructure for new dictators. If some day a new Hitler grabs power in a nuclear-capable country, he'll be able to track down and destroy dissenters before they have a chance to protest.

What are some simple and practical actions any EU citizen can take now to stop this from going forward?
Spot on. This actually applies to most consultants like myself. Though I pay expenses in order to develop software, since I don't own the resulting IP I can't take advantage of the R&D credit.
The nostalgia is real with this one for sure. I started playing CS with v1.3, and it is fascinating to me how terrible I still am when I play the occasional round of CS:GO.
> (a)(2)(B) be allowed an amortization deduction of such expenditures ratably over the 5-year period

I’m not familiar with this tax law, why would the “be allowed” verbiage here not mean it’s an election the taxpayer could choose to apply to their situation rather than a mandate as the OP is presenting it?

i.e. software development is always an R&E expenditure but you are only “allowed” (not “required”) to amortize it.
> it further agrees with centuries of legal precedent that accounts for free choice, so there is a good justification for defining this as free will.

Of all possible reasons to argue for compatibalism, I would not choose this.

Historical precedent is often wrong, and often horribly so. This particular issue happens to be one that leaves us mostly in the dark while many of the provably incorrect historical precedents have been addressed by growing scientific knowledge.

As neuroscience progresses and converges with philosophical thoughts on the subject, I think philosophers will have stronger ground to build on. Until then, I’m not looking to historical precedent for answers, on a topic that seems very incompatible with such a source of wisdom.

> Compatibilism provides a coherent definition that largely matches how people talk about and reason about this topic, so exactly why should that not settle the debate and require us all to understand that this is free will?

“Religion and the existence of god provides a coherent framework that largely matches how people talk and reason about existence and morality, so exactly why should that not settle the debate and require us to all understand that this is our origin?”.

This is a sentence that would not have raised very many eyebrows at one time. It seems that you are arguing for compatibilism on the basis that it matches how people currently make sense of our notions of free will?

Accepting “good enough” approximations, especially when examining issues of ethics and morality seems extremely problematic and likely to create blind spots.
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Some people just can't see it.
That seems to be the opposite of what we watched happen over the past 3 years during the pandemic. You'll remember how much of a hole the USA got in at the beginning, when the CDC's own test was broken but they wouldn't let anybody else do the test either. So we lost the first, most important, weeks in being able to monitor the progress of the virus. And since then, the FDA has steadfastly prevented anyone from creating a vaccine that's effective against whatever happens to be the current variant.
It seems to me that you are being unfairly downvoted. At some point there has to be a balance between punishing provably false reports, punishing (or not) good-faith false reports, and not discouraging true reports. This kind of balance is something that folks in AI need to take into consideration when deciding model performance (ROC curves), but it gets a lot more complex in real life because now you need resources to distinguish between false-reports, good-faith-false-reports, true-reports etc which easily veer into territories of determining intent and downstream harm.

If those resources do get allocated, there's a good chance these same folks downvoting you would complain about wasted government resources because the nuance in allocating those resources doesn't shine through in obvious ways.

What's the solution to this? I don't know, unfortunately. AI scientists have to take every problem that involves this nuance on a per-case basis and work with their business partners (or whoever the "client" is) to decide what's a good point on the curve for the operational model. Similarly social scientists (and politicians) influencing government operations presumably have to determine where that balance lies. And likely the downvoters don't have those answers either. Maybe the real solution is to have a not-too-complex-or-lengthy redress mechanism for those caught unfairly in the "system", with the ease-of-redress driven by how far to one side or other the balance tips.
To be clear I would love for this to be the case. I'm just curious though how you would justify saying a developer's salary is not a software development expense?
Which also proved it didn't have jack for AI.

But man that would be a trip, wouldn't it? You offload a lot of the simulation part to an AI algo in someone's cloud and it generates its own patterns, people, traffic, weather. Occasionally a little emergent behavior where a random citizen becomes a PITA for your city hall, etc.
But at least those are the fault of the UK government itself. The people have greater likelihood of being able to fix it than if they have to defer to the EU commission for compliance. Brexit is expensive in the short term, but, in the long term, the nation is much better off for having preserved some of their sovereignty.
"Tape Gateway supports all leading backup applications"

Only huge companies like Amazon can be this dumb. They don't even mention tar or pax, the two most common tape backup applications.

Also, how will this magic Amazon "Tape Gateway" back up petabytes over slow links? There are many data heavy businesses that don't necessarily have tons of Internet bandwidth. Fully saturating a 100 Mbps outgoing connection will only get you 1 TB a day, so what happens when you have a tape's worth of new data daily and an already heavily used Internet connection?
I was more drawing analogy between how above reproach authority was (or at least how it was portrayed to me) than about whether or not children could freely explore.
Curious to know what part of the app they're using it for. I haven't used duolingo in the last 6 months.
Probably just an extension to existing ETSI legal interception interfaces[1] that I believe are required to be implemented by all service providers of a certain size in the EU. Your personal email server and private IRC network are probably out of scope.

[1] e.g. for email: https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_ts/102200_102299/10223202/... - the specs are really boring to read and there are lots and lots of them, if you want to deep dive. From what I can tell it's basically just the service provider implementing an API client that feeds everything they're required to a centralized endpoint.
The term New World Order has been used for over a century by politicians. It’s hardly believable that Woodrow Wilson was using a secret code word to communicate a plan to do evil things in the 21st century when he was advocating for the League of Nations.
There might be an analogy to AI here: suppose you take an embedding network (e.g. word2vec) and instantiate two instances with random weights. You then train each network on the same training data up to the same level of accuracy.

Given any particular pair of words (e.g. "red", "book"), the models should produce pairs of vectors that have similar similarity scores, and thus one could argue that they have the same "understanding" of the word "red" and its relationships with other words. But the actual vectors that the two model instances output for the word "red" will be totally different, and entirely incomparable, due to different random initializations. (It's overwhelmingly likely that they will converge to different local minima).

Likewise, the actual internal representation of the color "red" inside your brain differs completely from the color "red" inside my brain, in terms of e.g. the set of neurons activated and the weights they use. That effect should run quite deep, and will be influenced by a myriad of life experiences - for example, maybe someone fears red because they saw too much blood as a kid, while someone else loves red because their culture views it as a symbol of luck & prosperity.

It's nice that we have language as a common protocol for these deeply convoluted internal representations, even if it fails to communicate the full nuance of someone's subjective experience.
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It’s important to remember that those libertarian views didn’t just happen by accident: a LOT of money had been spent developing media, organizations, even religious denominations starting with backlash to the New Deal. The historian Kevin Kruse wrote a book which will have a lot of familiar names:

http://kevinmkruse.com/book/one-nation-under-god/
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