skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What that article is saying is that there was hope that they would act and do something so these rules didn't take effect. Congress did not act and so these rules are now in effect.

These rules were established as part of the 2017 tax bill and take effect this year.

FTA: "The short answer is that the conclusion of the current congressional session with no action on this issue means required capitalization of R&E expenditures remains applicable to the 2022 tax year."
Qualified immunity prevents civil recourse when police, their unions, and friendly/reliant prosecutors successfully prevent criminal liability from being an option (https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2020/05/29/charging...).
Head Injury Is Associated with Doubled Mortality Rate Long-Term
> it's a choice you make to categorise expenditure as R&D, you're under no obligation to do so

Link provided by author says there is no choice:

(3) Software development. For purposes of this section, any amount paid or incurred in connection with the development of any software shall be treated as a research or experimental expenditure.
Ok I know it sounds crazy but hear me out.

I'm certain my neighbour is secretly conspiring against me. I've seen the signs, I'm not an idiot. He closes the curtains when I look into his place, I've seen him talking with the other neighbours, and you won't believe it! He named his dog Bozo, which I'm sure is just to allow him to call me names scott-free! I confronted him but he tells me to chill out. The balls on this guys...

Now if we get that mass surveillance going on, we can safely assume that they'll mission private companies to do it. We all knoe what's happening in this case, they hire the best of the best (and by that I mean the best at cutting on cost and maximizing shareholders revenues). These have the best security teams! (and by that I mean that they cost very little). I can only hope for an Equifax or a Lastpass like breach, but worst case scenario I'm sure they will gladly sell my neighbour's data, and I'll finally be able to prove that SoaB is after me.

I know all the privacy-conscious sissies out there will cry out, but I don't have anything to hide. I take good care of deleting my browser history and using private mode when I browse illegal websites
It would be bloody nice if the PaymentMethod object included a flag telling if Stripe thinks a card is premium or not.
I think hide implies intent to deceive. It's often more like conscious and sub-conscious reasoning. We constantly tell a story to ourselves about our motives. We're impulsive and wrong a lot of the time. And nobody is the bad guy in their own story.

Maybe it's willful ignorance. Ignorance of the misuse and harm of mass surveillance.
I... I don't know what to say... this is so... man... wtf?

I really have no words to express how uncanny it feels to watch that stuff, it seems alien television from the future and the comments seem a hive mind of bots. The experience is like seeing the apocalypse coming towards you from afar at a steady pace and there is nothing you can do to stop it. We need a big solar flare before it is too late.

I don't even know if I'm joking or not.
Not the OP but as an example, the difference between 8-bit and 10-bit on visual complexities like gradients are very noticeable.
In a past life, I was part of calibrations for L8/L9 at a FAANG. Even though "impacts the industry" is part of the spec, it didn't come up in calibrations I sat in on. Major impact on the most important company initiatives was really the bar that I saw, but writing a bunch of code definitely did not meet the bar.

Performance ratings seemed to either be "Met" or "Greatly Exceeded" as the work of these folks often spanned multiple review cycles, so some stuff my be In Progress & On Track for one cycle, but has landed and achieved impact in a following one.
Great point. I agree it's an amazing thinking tool and has helped me a lot in that regard.

If you haven't already seen this post, it echoes a lot of what you're describing: https://every.to/chain-of-thought/gpt-3-is-the-best-journal-...
just about anybody could built something that crawls the web and uses something like GPT to pull all the relevant facts from the internet transform them into a vector database and you converse with the data how ever you need/want.
It's not clear to me why Opus doesn't meet their needs. They write it off for not being simple, but is the problem that it's too slow for their application? Are they doing something where they need a very small compiled size [1]? Aesthetically prefer things that are simpler?

[1] I ship an Opus encoder and decoder to the browser to support https://www.jefftk.com/p/bucket-brigade-singing and it's just 310KB for compression and 470KB for decompression, which are small enough that I don't even minify them.
You know what, re-reading what I wrote I can see why... honestly, I'm mainly parroting my wife's argument because she's the one who talked me off the ledge few weeks ago.

Here's what she/I meant (she's also super annoyed that I'm bothering her with "nerds fighting about nonsense on the internet"):

The gist of her argument and paraphrased: "The problem is that CPS is by necessity anonymous. It's not that people aren't being punished for reporting false claims, it's that if you really wanted to catch everyone who was reporting false claims then you would have to make them present some form of identification. What if this is about a legitimate case of abuse from a scary motherfucker? Someone might not report because they don't want to realistically be murdered by said scary motherfucker. Also, the communities that have the most problems with child abuse also have a higher number of people who do not want to interact with law enforcement for a number of reasons. There is a trade-off with any situation that requires anonymous reporting."
130 / 4500 is roughly 2.9% which seems reasonable - application fees are from the third party application ("platform") you use: https://stripe.com/docs/connect/direct-charges#collecting-fe...

Some on this forum may even say it's great that the APIs provided enable someone to build this additional payment app on top of Stripe that makes it easier for you to take payment in exchange for a 180 / 4500 = 4% cut. However maybe you should look into lower cost payment methods if possible.
Show HN: Venom, a lean-and-mean virtual stack machine
Hey HN!

I want to share a project I've been working on: a handcrafted virtual stack machine with a reduced instruction set. The programs for the VM are written in a minimal, dynamically-typed, Turing-complete programming language featuring basic data types, pointers, functions, structures, and flow control. The project's goal was purely educational, and I'm more than satisfied with the outcome, having learned a ton of stuff. I recommend going through this experience to anyone interested in how programming languages work.

Shout-out to Bob Nystrom whose book[1] has been of immense value from the beginning of the journey.

[1]: https://craftinginterpreters.com/
Another, less written about, issue with education is: overschooling.

All of these artificial thoughts and ideas are drilled into students heads; they spend something around 18-22 (in some cases 30+) years of their life living in a bubble unrepresentative of the real world; told to believe (and made to believe) things that are utterly irreconcilable with the "real world"; after which they are thrown out into the "real world" and told to "figure it out."

Overschooled, unprepared, unfulfilled. Instead of being given the tools and access to resources that would allow each "student" to make use of them only as necessary to achieve their goals -- they're all forced into mastering a set of tools that are almost always ill-suited for the individual pupil.

And after all this... living in a relatively sheltered, structured, naive existence: they've built up beliefs and mindsets that are quickly proven to be irreconcilable with the world -- and this identity and world view quickly beaten out of them by the "real world." Instead of being raised in the "real world," and been allowed to stumble about and learn to grow into it, and find their place in their formative, and most adaptive years: they're stuck in a false world for over 2 decades -- and unceremoniously dumped into the "real world" without the tools needed to navigate it. Sort of like living a privileged life since birth, and then by chance having it all whisked away and turned destitute.

Is it any surprise seldom few are satisfied with life? Utter barbarism.
I have perceived that since the first days. I've even debated with ChatGPT about it lol.

I can foresee many AIs propagating biases and people believing without critical reasoning, like it was an oracle. Actually it's already happening.

The AI may be biased because most of the literature and other materials used for training is biased towards left leaning ideologies.

The AI should be neutral and unbiased.
This proposal hasn't been made before (at least in the EU at the EU level)

If you're thinking that you saw something like this last year and now again it's the same law. The EU legislative process is extremely slow (not that it's a bad thing in this case, I'd rather this not get rushed through, or even better not get through at all)

And even now it is not likely to pass before December 2023 or might even get delayed to January 2024
The U.S. also bans corporate donations to political parties and candidates.

https://www.idea.int/data-tools/region-view/26/55

Corporate political influence in the U.S. depends primarily on the popularity of the products, jobs, and investment returns they produce.

And successful companies create rich people, who sometimes make a lot of personal donations to politicians and parties. That gets lumped in with corporate influence depending on the details, even though they are personal donations.
Yuck, it seems like no exceptions, minimums, or safe harbors that I can find. Definitely something to keep in mind and save/price accordingly. Seems like bootstrapped software needs to charge 30-50% more than 2021 and prior, at least for the first 5 years.
Example, even though I don't believe many of the conspiracy theories regarding them, here's the WEF calling for everyone to literally build a "New World Order."

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/12/we-must-work-together...

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/conspiracy-theor...
Nice story! My father did the same thing as a kid, going to the bar to get beer for his father.
> Curtis levels the charge that Westerners are individualistic and self-centered often.

Thinking you can classify whole groups of people as if they were insects is a horrible mental handicap.
> 2. My country of birth, Sweden, has more history of rejecting stuff like that.

You might want to check the article as to Swedes and Sweden's involvement in the drafting of this in the first place. And the NDRE is another thing which the country happily introduced and expanded upon. As far as mass surveillance of populations go, Sweden's not on the side of protecting privacy.
> as a response to narratives about rare occurences

I think this is the root of it. Before the advent of mass media, you would hear about crimes if those crimes happened to people you personally know, but probably not otherwise. Rare crimes were rarely heard about and therefore people had an intuitive understanding that those crimes were rare. Mass media changed all of this. The most rare sort of crime is the most newsworthy because novelty sells newspapers. So the media has people fixated, worrying, about very rare sorts of crimes and this has made the general population much more irrational about rare crimes than it ever was before. Journalists may sometimes say that their job is to inform the public, but very often they induce a perception of reality that is less accurate than what people would have formed on their own with no journalist around to make a huge deal out of freak rare occurrences.
> LLMs are basically just spicy autocomplete

The word "just" is doing a lot of lifting here, however
I'm not sure you can separate "identify regressions" and "test suite" into different buckets. I'll concede that if you can, it'd be an acceptable replacement--assuming, of course, that it doesn't add more friction than it replaces.
It was a NJ/NY tournament with a lot of rivalry and prestige for the winners.

Some parents get very, ridiculously caught up in the excitement of their kids' sports, and a very small number go too far. I have seen parents fighting in the stands at 10U football games (10 and under). I have heard parents screaming at coaches threatening to sue them. I have seen parents mocking and degrading the opposing team's kids. I have seen parents encouraging taunts and chants from the crowd to throw off a pitcher or a quarter back. I've seen a nasty, abusive man ejected from a high school building entirely for cursing and screaming at opposing kids. And of course we had CPS called on us.

It's only a very small percentage, but they really ruin the experience for everyone.
Seems like a pretty easy fix. I would argue though that there's a larger body of "hateful" content out there targeting those specific groups, which is probably why its more keen to trigger on those vs others.

For example, the racial group you're most likely to get past the hate filter on is.... Native Americans. Now, while there's certainly a long history of hateful rhetoric against them, in modern discourse there's far less. You won't see crank internet trolls trying to be edgy by adopting hateful rhetoric towards Native Americans - their ire tends to be focused on Jews and Blacks, which OpenAI is very sensitive towards.
Even though I have an appreciation for some true crime content, I've come to really loathe most of it. Long ago, I was obsessed with Forensic Files, Unsolved Mysteries, etc. This was of course back before true crime podcasts and Netflix documentaries. I also got interested in forensics, criminal psychology, and helping to try and identify and locate decedents/missing people. My heart genuinely goes out to victims. But witnessing from afar the worst aspects of humanity eventually took a toll on me. That combined with the absolute state of the news media convinced me to quit consuming that stuff all together. I truly think it should be microdosed only, if at all.

What makes me loathe it now is I can see the psychological impact it has on others. I won't name names, but I've known a fair share of women who got into the new wave of true crime content and have significantly skewed views on men as a result. Women should be well aware of what a man is capable of and what to do to mitigate risk, but true crime content can create this picture that more men are criminally capable than is actually the case. Simultaneously, entirely from the women I know who watch true crime, I hear views suggesting that the common man is too weak or incompetent to intervene and stop bad men, which is also not representative. I'm only being vague here because if any of these people happen to read my comments, they'll know I'm talking about them, but others won't know.

Some may disagree with my perspective, but it's my honest impression. I've seen women in my life who are family members and colleagues get into true crime content and notice their views shift as a result. If it's said that porn can damage the views that men have of women, surely it's not such a large leap to believe that watching women get victimized over and over again by a small minority can impact one's views on men without even realizing it.
Why would mortal humans waste time/money on mass experiments with predictably useless outcomes?
Thanks for sharing. I had no idea there was a term for it.

As I reflect, I can see that with a lot of shows I thought were amazing. Humour evolves in such a fascinating way that a killer joke, even if it’s not context specific to an era, can stop being funny.

I showed my wife a bunch of flash videos from my teenage years. She just stared and I slowly came to realize: they’re just not funny anymore. I remember thinking they were such a novel concept and the humour was trying something very new. But I guess what was new and exciting then is so socially normal now that it doesn’t trigger the funny response.
Yep, the police serve the themselves. The same can be said about basically every other group of humans. Police have significant power and leeway because the service has provides a lot of value to others.

I like your martial metaphor.

Poor and marginalized communities usually want more police, not less. Not because the police come at no cost, but because the alternative is worse.

It is like hiring one knight errant to keep other knights/bandits at bay.

This is basically the origin of all governments and power structure.
Has anyone tried javascript fuzzing with this new jazzer.js integration? sounds interesting
This guy also wrote his own future. In one of his books a character from abroad returns home, marries his childhood sweetheart, starts a school and is then executed for treason.

I think the main thing he got wrong is that his childhood sweetheart spurned him.

FYI that he is the grandfather of Hitler is idle speculation much like my fantasy that he could write his own future :).
This is a terribly written article. Whatever the merits of banning or regulating crypto, this particular article makes a bad case for it.
Marcus has made some very good contributions, including both original research and a good exposition/popularisation of a fairly mainstream skeptical view.
> You're reading the news from a Swedish company anyway so we use to be pretty vigilant on privacy issues.

But the issue they're raising is that the issue isn't being reported and examined by others and especially not journalists who are best placed to raise wider awareness of this.
The point of human rights is to protect the underprivileged - the privileged of any given society don’t need to have these protections because they are at the top of the social hierarchy and get to call the shots. They would simply use their influence to get an exception for themselves. That’s why the US constitution is great, because it’s such a pain in the ass to change (unfortunately the privileged invent “interpretations” to change it retroactively).

Your thought experiment exists in a utopia where the above isn’t the case, which isn’t really applicable to any human society that’s ever existed. The top of the food chain will Until humans stop forming hierarchies, we need rights.
I know nothing about ML and AI and what GPT3 does looks absolutely magical to me. It helped me write unit tests the other day and the day before it generated a migration script for a new feature I was working on. A week earlier it helped me improve a letter I was writing to HOA to get some stuff fixed at the house. So all these posts dumping on GPT3 seem very unnecessary. What it does under the covers might not be all that impressive to a trained eye, but to a layperson like me it is by far the first ML model which has made significant contributions to my daily tasks.
Finding near-duplicate photos with basic maths
I don’t think L4 / L5 get booted that often, when was the last time FAANGS had mass layoffs ?

the more realistic scenario is attrition, going to another place for L+1 comp
Did you read the article?

The one where the cop straight up told the husband 'If she talks to me again, I'm going to arrest you both and take away your kids.'

Yeah, totally not on a power trip. Definitely. Just doing it for the public good.
You should try “staying up late”! You wait for everyone else to go to sleep and then you get a solid 2-4 hours to fully immerse yourself in glorious escapism. The next day, in the midst of suffering from sleep deprivation, you wonder why in the hell you did that and that tonight you will be going to bed early! (And then you don’t)
if you think about it, all humans are just a spicy autocomplete (per the article):

* we regurgitate bullshit we heard

* we aren’t very smart

* we are a threat to democracy by spreading misinformation

It’s kind of true too. All of us take what we’ve learned (our input) and synthesize new things from it (our output). That’s autocomplete
This suggests to me that the censorship is being decided on by (biased) human moderators rather than being just some random outcome of the training data and the learning model in place: if it weren't, the model would absolutely "learn" the same thing about Mitch McConnell as it learned about Donald Trump.
Maybe. Factorio does a great job of putting out releases and sharing details about what they are working on and you would have thought they were evil incarnate after they recently said they had to raise their price by $5 to keep up with inflation.

People are fickle and hindsight isnt always so clear.
PHP 8.2.2 is released. It's a bug fix release
Yes and no. Possibly. Personally, I think their dedication to work on it in an artistic 'passion project' style is what made the game what it is. I suspect if they had followed a more regular schedule they would have gotten a more ordinary, and forgettable, indie game.
"Arguably"?
Funnily enough it is European companies and not American ones that are leading the charge on privacy. ProtonMail / Tutanota etc for example on the email front. I've heard of a company called Snacka! as well that seems to be using some gaming tech in streaming for end-to-end encrypted communication that doesn't suffer performance as much as services like jitsi. If more companies follow privacy principles like this in the way they build their products that's only part of the battle, though - it's also important to prevent such things from a legislative perspective.
Stupid EU bureaucrats, don't they know you're supposed to put in the work and inject zero days in every consumer product so that you can create your very own spy network?

You can't just legislate it!
Especially when you can get half decent 120hz ones for like $400-$600 now. If they can't pony up for that then there's a lot more to the story or they are going to be a pain in the rear to deal with whenever you need resoures.
I commented in depth a little farther up in the tree, but the big difference between hypermedia in the web, and hypermedia in an API designed to be consumed by machines is the intelligence and judgement needed. It's a lot of work to make a very generic client that can navigate a hyper media API given only media types and link types. But it's trivial for a human because we can figure things out from context.

Maybe once we can run gpt-3 on a mobile phone lightning fast, we can start building these fuzzy, flexible apis and not worry about breaking our clients. But in the meantime, it's a ton of work for very little gain.
Chinese border officials asking U.S. visitors about their political affiliation
What's the new "basic" tier going to look like then, if this is the existing scheme? How low can that quota go?
Seems like OP fell in love with tshark
> when a company in Montreal is franco-dominated, there is a tendency to be, let's call it nepotistic

There's a lot of cronyism in tech. You know the saying - your network is your net worth. I've heard what you're saying about Montreal, but I've also seen it all over the world.
Learning a new language takes time, which translates to money for companies hiring developers. Also, even many more senior developers prefer working in a single language due to the context switch otherwise involved.

Mature is a matter of definition. There are several apps in production already that are using Serverpod and are very happy with it. But, of course, it is a new framework and there are many improvements to come. It's always important to do your research before choosing any type of framework so you know it will support the features that you will need.