skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tax code is structured the way it is for a reason. It’s not there to be exploited. It’s there to be followed. DF is a business and labor of love for the two owners. One which generates revenue and is clearly above board. There is nothing wrong with taking dividends as the business becomes more valuable rather than increasing salary. And it’s not some mega tax loophole for the wealthy. By any measure these two aren’t wealthy. It takes 30 min with an accountant it doesn't consume your life and waste time and sap energy to be on top of your books…
"If we don't, then others will" is a bankrupt argument put forth by people who are trying to justify doing things they know are harmful. It would be more legitimate if it were "we won't, but others will".
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What is desire, and where does it come from?
I really hope so, but I also hope they continue to work with the UI team… the Steam version changes have really impressed me!
UNIX as a whole, and C in particular weren't any kind of well-designed projects. They are awful inside and out. Their staying power isn't due to the goodness of the design or their remarkable performance. They are with us because of the network effect. Same as IPv4 + NAT, Base64-encoded email attachments etc.

Plan 9 would be a similar attempt to this "Friendly C", or D language: these are attempts by people who were misguided to believe that the original technology was mostly good, and needed only a nudge in the right direction to fix a few problems here and there to make it perfect... but it turned out that the technology didn't succeed on technological merits, and improving the technology only so slightly isn't going to bring any new audience to the clone.

C has way too many problems, far beyond undefined behavior. None of that is important as long as the most popular operating system on the planet is written in C, and C89 at that...
Thanks for the link. I've been journaling for over 20 years. I want to feed my writings into a LLM because I know I've come up with some good answers for personal issues before, but they are buried in my writings. It would be great to pull out a summary of my thinking about some recurring issue.

This is especially true because I'm a senior citizen and have noticed a decline in my memory.
The writer assumes that we the audience would find it ridiculous to make adult learning compulsory, but much to their disappointment, I err more towards that than getting rid of childhood education and … giving kids the… right to work?

You wouldn’t even need to make adult learning compulsory. Use all of the nobel prize winning knowledge we have on nudging to normalize the idea that it wouldn’t be all that bad to go and take a class at community college every so often. It could be a remedial class, it could be something totally new. Its affordable, if you dont qualify for a pell loan (right, this is in the United States), and classes are available until 8 or 9 pm and on weekend on most campuses.

Maybe from there people would find the will to go to the library every so often to fulfill their own curious itch whether with books on a subject or by using the online material available.

As far as my own curious itches, my 3 year old gas range went out recently, and of course GE makes as minimal of information available on how to repair it. The display and all electronic function (the spark mechanism, most importantly) went out, so I started watching a number of videos related to electronics repair on YouTube. I did pretty badly in physics in high school, and while I can build a pc, electrical wiring and circuits have been a sort of voodoo to me, and I promised myself that eventually I’d sit down and learn it. I’ve watched multiple videos on what voltages are, how transistors, relays, resistors and capacitors work, and how to solder, reflow bgas and at least diagnose gpus and motherboards. The last couple of weeks.

I opened up the back panel, found a relay on the mainboard was blown, and the quick disconnect on a wire connecting to that relay was black and covered with plastic. Because ge has seemingly discontinued the wiring harness, i have to order some new wire (18awg with a 600v and 150 degree rating) and splice that between the old wire that has no slack and a new circuit board using a wago junction (which I just learned about and ordered last night. Got a crimping tool, waiting on a auto wire stripper that hopefully won’t consistently pull strands of wires off when unsleeving said wires. I watched some videos about wiring houses last night and kinda wonder if I could service the outlets here at home.

Really, writing this makes me think of the part of Bowling for Columbine where the creators of southpark explain why kids would get so angry to shootup a school. We really should try and move away from the “you couldnt pass this one arbitrary test of rote memorization so that means you will be stupid and incapable forever” to something much more forgiving where you at least go to school to be exposed to an idea and if you don’t do great on a test you can come back and revisit it another time when a contextual switch flips.
"but where's Facebook's LLM that's available to the public"

They are trying it, here:

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/democratizing-access-to-large-s...

Demo:

https://opt.alpa.ai/

But it's clearly not as good as GPT3.5
Again, to clarify, I was not saying children in Eastern bloc countries were arrested for exploring. I was saying that authority was (at least viewed as by Western countries) beyond reproach.

The infuriating thing isn't that the police made mistakes or were jerks. It's that the family can do nothing to achieve justice against the state/the state has no consequences.
I responded in the qualified immunity context, but qualified immunity is actually somewhat of a red herring. It certainly does need to be eliminated, but it is not the main problem. In fact the focus on it smells a bit like the common pattern of hoping that occasional extreme penalties on individuals will reform a situation that has poor diffuse incentives.

The main problem is extending blanket sovereign immunity to these actions/positions in the first place. Let's say someone is arrested, even on a good faith suspicion of a bona fide crime, and is then later acquitted or the charges are dropped. From the victim's perspective, what has actually taken place is a kidnapping and false imprisonment. But the current framework just writes off what happened to them as collateral damage, leaving the unlucky individual to bear it themselves. But really they've suffered an externality of policing which they should be reimbursed for. The damages should be rolled into the overall police budget so that it reflects the true cost of the police department.

Right now these externalities are being covered by a perverse reverse lottery of unlucky citizens, which is not right. Reform this perverse incentive and correctly attribute blame (economic blame, at least), and many resulting incentives will fall out from that.
The problem is the one above that at the start of the section:

(1) except as provided in paragraph (2), no deduction shall be allowed for such expenditures, and

What that means is, you can't take it as a normal business expense deduction, except by following (2) which is to amortize it.
Maybe. Are you as open to the idea that those who oppose surveillance (that’s me) also have secret motives and engage in willful ignorance, so you can’t trust my anti-surveillance arguments? Because, the theory goes, even I don’t know the dark motives that are making me say those things?

Do you see how impossible any dialog becomes in that model?
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> The fundamental issue to me is that society still wants to protect against pedophiles or drug dealers or whatever other group more than protect privacy.

Speaking from a U.S. perspective here.

A pedophile with a cameraphone is terrible. But law enforcement without the 4th amendment is worse.

A racist with a social media account is terrible. But a president without the 1st amendment is worse.

There are people who do terrible things in this world. Unfortunately people who do terrible things can run for government and be appointed to positions of power.

There are darker things down the path of eroding our protections from our government than whatever evil they’re asking us to yield for.
Ask HN: Stuck in a support role, facing burnout at small, great startup
I'm a developer at a small startup with a great tech stack, and I love the company's mission and the people there. However, I'm facing signs of burnout and feeling stuck in a support role that I don't enjoy. Despite voicing my concerns to my boss repeated times, not much has changed, also partly due to the company being understaffed. Due to personal reasons, I don't want to leave the company for the next 10 months, but I fear that staying in this role for too much longer will impact my future job prospects. Even in my support role, I'm still learning a lot about tech and good software design - but I find support stressful and I want to grow as a developer. I am in touch with recruiters and think I can likely land a new, more coding/designing-heavy job, but I am worried about burning bridges and having a final work reference that heavily emphasizes support roles.

What steps can I take to avoid burnout in my current role and how can I prepare for a potential job change in the future? Am I right in preparing to leave rather than to try to fight my way into the positions I want? What are your rules-of-thumb when it comes to these decisions? Additional thoughts?

Any input is much appreciated! (I will be checking back in around 3-5 hours from now and able to answer follow-up questions should they arise.)
Shots penetrating meter-thick stone walls. Good times.
They've voted in favour of mass surveillance too.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/data-protection/news/new-eu...
If they paid an outsourcing company, not direct hire through payroll, then there is no payroll?
> For all you know, their contributions could be profound and subtle and totally invisible to you and many others, while still having massive impact.

How do you square having invisible impact ?
Disruptive technology disrupts. Society and culture as well as markets.

How many generations did it take for society to adapt to the industrial revolution? What were the spasms which occurred during that period?

As for deepfakes, we know before we even begin that it breaks (utterly moots) social norms about identity, trust, reputation.

How many people are going to die while societies adapt?

Is that price acceptable for the benefit of more amusing viral videos on TikTok?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

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

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

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FzZnAAAAMAAJ&q=%22the+fa...
I usually see plenty of security focused roles in the regular Who's Hiring thread. You can try using https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/ or one of the other aggregators listed at the top of the thread to search.
"Controlled" in your sentence doesn't mean the same as the one for the ordinary money.
> not some "combined actions of the US and Russia".

You are right, it's the US, EU and Russia. I guess sometimes it takes 3 to tango. It's rather disingenuous to say it's all russia.
CS before it went downhill. Played so much de_dust (before de_dust2 became popular) from the beta days to 1.6.
I find that most people that claim guns themselves are the problem, and that there aren't already enough restrictions, don't have much or any experience with them.

I don't really know how people manage to read the second amendment any other way than "due to the fact that a militia comprised of every able-bodied person is fundamental to a free society, every person has the right to own, carry, and operate anything that constitutes arms." It's pretty simple, really.

Better go renew my warrantless search and seizure immunity permit, and my journalism permit.
I think you’d see substantially more crime if the US incarcerated less people. The evidence is clear, released prisoners have a much higher rate of violent crime than the average person. I’m sort of confused where this meme that prisons don’t keep us safe comes from.

Removing people who commit violent crimes from the public should obviously decrease crime and I’ve never really heard a convincing counter argument. Usually when people make this claim they’re just badly misinformed and believe most prisoners are in jail for marijuana possession.
IANAL but maybe marketing took up way more of your time this year
> the conversation amongst the staff at the public school my wife works at came to a different conclusion. They seem to be a better representation of society in general.

That's the saddest thing I've read this morning, assuming it is accurate. For every great staff member at school, I've met at least one other than was barely able to function in adult society. I don't know which direction the causal effect is going, but there's a correlation between working all day with young children and being able to relate to other adults.

My son's elementary school is more like a prison now, after a huge transformation in the last two years, and I can't wait for him to move up to the middle school. Which thankfully isn't quite so authoritarian. Yet. I'm right on the edge of pulling both kids out of school and going online with it, and probably would have except my daughter really didn't fare well during the pandemic version of online school. My son would be quite happy though. Make it self-paced and he'd have his high school diploma at 12.
All the code that has been pushed so far is under MIT and we currently have no enterprise features (/ee folders). The majority of future code will fall into this same bracket.

Some features that are for "enterprise" will be put in /ee folders – ideally we will put all of that in a single /ee folder in the root but we wanted to cover the case where that's non-trivial to implement.

This open core model (that Gitlab use) is popular because it strikes a nice balance between having an open source project (good for everyone) and it puts off bad actors from building a commercial competitor with zero effort.
In the context of democracy, size is everything. Like, by definition. If the majority of Americans want guns, then you're never going to get a super-majority to vote to take guns away.

> Big tech lobbies for what serves its interests. NRA lobbies likewise.

The difference is that the NRA isn't a trillion dollar corporation. Its millions of individual Americans participating in the democratic process.

Do you think that people should never campaign for what they believe in? That people should not participate in the democratic process? Or do you only think that when the people in question disagree with you?
This is what I've also heard from our CPA (that no one likes this and it shouldn't be happening), but since it's here and taxes are due in April, here we are.
spent so many hours playing this years ago.. great memories. too bad it doesn't seem to support inverting mouse y-axis or changing keybindings. too much muscle memory to overcome.
If you are dealing with a labor shortage, then how can you honor an IP? If you can't honor it, then you shouldn't produce it. That there isn't a law for this is unfortunate. Until something is done, we will keep ending up with 2022 Trigun CGI remakes.
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It makes me wonder if these people have ever talked to a real person before. Spoiler: real people can be wrong too!
When you think of things like Gamma or x-rays you cant relate them back to "light" because while there are similarities there are also a number of differences.

Gamma penetrates rocks, these sensors are used to help determine the density of rock by measuring how much was stopped by the material.

This is also why Gamma sources are so dangerous, because things like a coat, a car door are effectively "transparent" to them.

If there was just "one small stone" in front of the source it would almost be like it wasn't present at all.
America has a lot of quirks and problems, but in not many other countries can you flagrantly criticize/insult the government/leaders/policy without repercussion. USA has arguably the greatest freedom of speech protections on earth which is one liberty that is not worth trading for the freedom to drink wine more easily when picnicking in certain places - hence why people are not flocking to authoritarian states that "feel freer" than USA.
I have a similar experience.

I've been using it to explain minified code I come across and unusual code patterns I don't understand. It's similar to a coworker in that it's not always right but can generally point me in the right direction if not. But one that responds within seconds and not with a random delay of 5 minutes to 3 days. It also means that I'm interrupting my real coworkers less.
I moderate a forum and a user recently started answer questions with links to his blog, where he made AI-generated pages of generated answers on the topics.

The posts don't offer anything novel or personal to conversation, as they only repeat the most common talking points on the topic. Ugh.
ChatGPT violates its own model
Absolutely, every government is absolutely a bunch of corrupted criminals.

Totally onboard. The thing is the more layers of corrupted politicians you put on top of people, the more theft and harassment you'll get from the aforementioned politicians and - surprise! - less accountability or ways to complain / protest.

Brexit actually damaged me personally, but I'm glad for the British people that they won't be subjected to the extra EU rules. The UK government is bad enough, they don't need EU bureaucrats on top.

I wouldn't wish it to my worst enemy.
This was very probable for so brave new program.

- Energia, unlike most other Soviet rockets, only launch to suborbital trajectory (perigee under sea level), so payload have to add few hundreds m/s speed by its own engines to stay on more or less stable circular orbit, and have only few minutes to do this.

Development of Polyus was not careful enough, to make this operation reliable, because on all previous Soviet rockets top stage launched to payload target orbit.
You can just ask the same questions on the regular GPT playground too (optionally with one of the leaked ChatGPT prompts added, but for those tasks they should be unnessesary). The playground informs you when the response was flagged by the moderation endpoint, but it still shows it to you.
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Morality evolves with technology. At some point in the future even killing someone migh not be very immoral if technology reaches the point where we can back up and recover from back up.
Sure, if that is important to you. You are welcome to make sacrifices elsewhere. We will need to make sure you make them though, probably by taxing your petrol through the roof.
Yes, GPT-3 is not better than an expert at the same task. But most people don't have access to an expert's time, so a good-enough solution being widely available is game changing.
"I'll die at some point so why don't you stab me now"
Everyone always talks/jokes about, "Rewrite it in Rust," think about all the business applications over the years that had been rewritten to Java, just because. Usually under the guise of, "Kids coming out of college will have an easier time wrapping their heads around Java," than some other lang.

In my time as an engineer, I've seen quite a few Scala and Clojure apps, get rewritten in this manner.

This is all antidotal, of course.
My expensive accountants didn’t bother mentioning the Section 174 changes because like every year since the 50’s that law has been delayed or overridden through other legislation.

Manchin killed the bill last year that would have extended the protection from 174…
Exciting times lay ahead
Maybe the things that get blasted on twitter are formally secret things that government agencies do that someone blew the whistle on?

Which means there could be an untold number of things which they do which are currently secret.

I heard once that things, sometimes shady things, exist outside of the twitterverse.
I don't know which Dunkin they were going to, but the Dunkin I've been to the most in Killingly was near a major intersection. Depending on what side, they may not have had to cross one.

Growing up, I was allowed to freely travel within my neighborhood, but not cross the main roads. There was a Dunkin I could safely get to without crossing any big streets.
I am not sure if this is made with source engine, would it still have bunny hop if not?
I at least personally refuse to use any walled garden VR system. Importantly no one should be using any Facebook VR system.
This is very similar to my own experience. Having the freedom to try things out and explore my interests at a young age had a large impact later, and gave me a real sense of personal direction that I see many of my peers lacking.

I do find many of the arguments in this article somewhat nonsensical, but this one in particular hits home.
I listen to the police scanner frequently.

A few days ago, CPS had to get involved because somehow an eight year old ended up in the middle of a highway. Cops showed up first and shut down the highway to safely extract the kid. CPS got to bring the kid back to the parents.

People abuse kids all the time.
They don't need to worry about it if they hire people to worry about it for them, which would save them time to work on what they love anyways.
I think most people wouldn’t mind writing a thoughtful letter if they knew that the recruiter will put thought into reading it. However most applications are discarded before that, which means one has to apply a lot to get a chance at hitting someone who will actually give you a chance by reading what you wrote. That in turn makes it impossible to put effort into every single one of them.

Have some compassion. Maybe try applying for jobs yourself and see how it looks from the other side.
> tcpdump and strace/ltrace are the ultimate tool for "I have no idea what the problem is, let me find out exactly what is happening" when troubleshooting.

And the ability to do that type of troubleshooting when the shit hits the fan is becoming more and more rare. I regularly run into devs, even so-called “senior” devs, these days who don’t know how it’s useful to look at packets or system calls and whose minds are blown that anyone would know details that far down the stack. It would be depressing if it wasn’t so good for job security.
That's an even more faulty argument, though, because almost everyone considers themselves one of "the good guys".
I mean, on some level, yes, but if all of the complexity people wrote with Java was merely collections of versioned strategy-patterns with average-level organization, it wouldn’t be sufficient for the language to have the AbstractEnterpriseBeanProviderFactoryFactory reputation that it does today.