skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's actually extremely impressive, even for chat GPT. Not only is it a coherent scene, the humour emerges from a disagreement about an incidental detail in the lived environment. While situated in a realistic situation that's typical of the series. With the detail in question being a real environmental detail of that situation. George is irate and Jerry sarcastically winds him up. It literally could be segment from a real episode (bar the ending). So we have (an impersonation of) theory of mind, coherent understanding of setting, a narrative structure etc.

Compared to the infinite Seinfeld, which appears composed of disconnected setup -> response type gags, it's night and day.
The government isn't a monolith but the tens of thousands of police departments, containing what, tens of millions of officers are?

Here are the facts, a large proportion, if not the vast majority of violent police interaction in the United States is a direct result of the war on drugs. The people who voted those laws in are currently still in power, one is the president, and generally they blame the police for this state of affairs while making no effort to correct their lethal mistake. How many young men would run or resist arrest if that bag in their backpack resulted in a small fine vs a few decades in prison like today?
Appreciate the insight. And I agree it's incredibly useful - I use it hundreds of times a day too! I guess my point (which maybe I didn't make clear in the post) is that it's just a tool and shouldn't be viewed with the mystique that some people ascribe to it.
Setting aside the outrage-inducing headline, in fact there's numerous registered sex offenders in that town: https://www.city-data.com/so/so-Killingly-Connecticut.html https://www.city-data.com/so/so-Danielson-Connecticut.html

and there does seem to be a substantial amount of violent crime:
https://crimegrade.org/violent-crime-east-killingly-ct/

https://www.google.com/search?q=crime+map+killingly+ct

I have no comment about whether the arrest or social worker were appropriate in this situation - we're only hearing one side.
No children, or children who are old enough, probably helps. As does not working more than 40h a week (or even less). In my case, it’s also home office (= no commute) that helps.
> In general, centralization of power leads to unequal society (*)

(*) when not matched by appropriate safe guards.
Probably not as different as one would hope compared to North American news of unjust harassment/abuse by police, religious/sport organization some 10-20+ years ago. I didn't see major Canadian news sources overflowing with content about abuse suffered in residential schools until fairly recent for example. That's not to paint any sort of a rosy Jugo picture, far from it.
I think "blogging" will be dead in 5 years though.

I don't think google search in it's current form makes it.
I am not a tax expert but my understanding is that a business would claim expenditure as R&D because of the beneficial tax treatment: it's a choice you make to categorise expenditure as R&D, you're under no obligation to do so. If the tax treatment of R&D spend has changed to be less favourable in your circumstance (i.e: you can't afford the short term cost of amortisation) then you would not claim the spend to be R&D related. After all, a small technology company working on their revenue-generating product is not doing anything experimental: it's only experimental if you massage it as such.

I could be far off the mark -- so please correct me if I am wrong -- but your framing suggests that if a business spends money on software development then they must amortise the cost which does not seem to be correct.
Correct, my company is a partnership LLC and these "phantom profits" are going to flow through to me personally to owe taxes on.
Change patronizing to matronizing and the top result is the Urban Dictionary with a lot of feminist writing links following it. Seems like a self-reinforcing bias in the corpus.
It can however regulate the harmful externalities of where that talent is invested. Fraud and tax evasion are still criminal. Destroying energy with reckless abandon could be.

I really don't like crypto, but I don't see why everything I dislike should be illegal. The active harm it causes should be illegal though, but I believe that it's largely the case already.

Besides, crypto bros weren't exactly cracking the atom before crypto became profitable. The rest of our industry is devoted to either making people click ads, or creating toll roads on every human interaction.
is there a different or free app to use instead of BetterTouchTool just to highlight text and run it through an API and reinsert?
I think a lot of folks in the US don't realize that even some (some!) countries we think of as authoritarian feel freer, day to day, than the US does, let alone other liberal democracies.

We have elections... but having some wine at your picnic in the park may get you a citation.

We have elections... but, this article.

We have elections... but civil forfeiture.

We have elections... but you'll spend tons of your "free" time fighting with our healthcare system, should you ever actually need to use it. Ditto the time and contortions required to navigate our benefits systems if you ever hit our "social safety net". In either case, you're not gonna be feeling all that "freedom".

We have elections... but an LOLWTF-high incarceration rate.

We have elections... but are constantly scared shitless of civil litigation and liability and there are rules and disclaimers posted on every flat surface.

We have elections... but no mandatory annual leave, with the result that for most people 2 weeks off a year is considered decent. How many people feel "free" at their job?

But at least we have the 2nd, to protect our freedom. Seems to be working great. (I actually also think folks here overestimate how hard it is to get guns in some countries with effective gun control—it doesn't have to mean "no guns", and often doesn't)
It's quite ironic how much critics are aimed at China being a surveillance state when the EU train is going full steam ahead in that direction... Dark days ahead.
Yea, as a quite left leaning person i'd be curious to hear how i or anyone i know (who is on the left) marginalizes a group of people.

The worst i can think of is wanting more equal rights for religious groups rather than special treatment of the primary group (in the USA) - which is seen as an attack by much of the right. Likewise i am concerned by the strong emphasis of rural over urban with respect to voting power and representation. Though i have no easy answer here, so i'm pretty unopinionated - just concerned.

I'd be really curious where i and the folks i know and discuss with marginalize other groups; as i want to correct that, if we do. Obviously no one here can answer that with specificity to my beliefs but.. my curiosity exists nonetheless heh.
Node Weekly Issue 472: February 2, 2023
Yup! That's what we do in my lab.

SignaGel is a conductive gel. It'll mostly stay in place and stays wet a lot longer than the sponges, but it is a little gross. Get it from a medical supplier rather than Amazon, where the individual tubes are massively overpriced. You might also be interested in 10-20 paste, which is a sticky conductive putty. It's a bit more expensive, but it stays put. Instead of the bands, you can also try a neoprene "swimcap" style holder.

Some of the tingling is unavoidable--the currents are driving fibers in the skin--but you can do a few things to reduce it. First, make sure there's good contact with the scalp: fully coat/saturate the electrodes and make sure they're pressed tight. The lower the impedance, the better. because the "dose" is specified in terms of current and you want to use as little voltage as possible to deliver that. Second, gradually ramp up the current instead of just switching it on/off. The sensation will diminish a bit over time anyway, so slowly increasing the current will make it more bearable. The difference between on/off and a 30 second ramp is really striking! We've used a topical anesthetic to block sensations, but it's a giant pain--it takes an hour to kick in and you need to tightly cover it too. Finally, be careful because you can burn the skin!
Let me share an article I wrote: https://medium.com/@lukawskikacper/how-to-implement-a-visual... It uses Qdrant and ResNet embeddings to do that. Sources are included if you want to go straight to the implementation.

Qdrant is a Rust-based vector database: https://qdrant.tech/ According to benchmarks that's the fastest vector DB available.
The answer is you spend part of the 10% profit on a CPA or tax lawyer. The legal deductions, they are so many. I've run a bootstrapped software business for 14 years and I never even heard of this one until your post.
What if I told you it's possible to hate more than one thing at the same time?

What even IS this response?
If it wasn't explicitly lib-left it'd quickly become far-far-right, just like Tay.
Goals typically come from ambition. We define them as the success criteria needed to achieve the desired outcome. But what if we wanted to put the ambition itself inside the Jira hierarchy levels in order to better track, organize, and respond to change while working in an agile manner on something grand or company-wide?

Enter Themes and Initiatives – your means of structuring Jira projects on a larger scale.
KDE 3.15 was forked to Trinity Desktop and is still actively developed - it's also a default desktop for Q4OS Trinity, EXE GNU/Linux and PCLinuxOS:

https://trinitydesktop.org/
Thanks, that's exactly what it was. I thought each row corresponded to exactly one individual.
I get the feeling this guy isn't an educator or a parent.

"Shorter school day: School days should be cut drastically. If parents need babysitting, let students play games together or hang out and pursue their interests under adult supervision."

Big clue that he isn't a parent at least - like it or not, we depend on school to allow both parents to work. Allowing children to "play games together" under adult supervision. Which adults? Perhaps working professionals that have devoted themselves to the well-being of children, despite shit pay and being subject to ever changing priorities and non sense ideas like this article.
You got what is called Smyrna type fig - the type that needs pollination by the fig wasp in order to ripen. Since you seem to not have such a colony of wasps around, the figs won't ripen. If you want to grow and eat really good figs that doesn't require pollination, there're varieties plenty to choose from. You need to look and buy from a reputable nursery, not from generic store or nursery. Check with the community at ourfigs.com
Ask HN: How far is a peer-to-peer trained, open source alternative to ChatGPT?
How far are we from having available a peer-to-peer, community trained, open source alternative to ChatGPT, that, would allow individuals to run, control and access their own personal AI bot?

[links are merely illustrative]

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/30/theres-now-an-open-source-...

https://www.makeuseof.com/best-alternatives-chatgpt/
My favourite example in the world of "silly" laws - Saudi Arabia invests massive money in scientific research, and still executes people for Sorcery and Witchcraft
Ok I see what you mean. I think you underestimate how hard this would be though. You'd probably have to basically eliminate police unions somehow.
I want a cheap home smart camera that offer good local control. It seems like the premium jump from Wyze is like $100 per camera.
Yes, it is using well-formed JSON and/or web sockets. Serialization is following the Dart standard, and you can use it together with popular Dart serialization packages, such as Freezed.

However, we are still working on making the documentation for APIs. That is on the roadmap as well as providing code generation for other languages.
Until now I thought the lyric was

> Some of those that law enforce us, are the same that burn crosses
Msdf_C: A pure C99 single header multi-channel signed distance field generator
It also turns out that the optimizations are valuable. It's easy to think its a bad deal when you are just complaining and don't actually have to face losing the optimizations.
Granted I may be reading this wrong (dog knows I’m confused over the US tax code at the best of times), but I got the impression from reading this link (https://www.plantemoran.com/explore-our-thinking/insight/202...) that the 5 year rule wasn’t yet in place.
Inclusive or Alienating? The Language Wars Go On
> Representative Ritchie Torres, a New York Democrat who identifies as Afro-Latino, noted that a Pew survey found that only 3 percent of Hispanics themselves use the term Latinx.

> “I have no personal objection to the term ‘Latinx’ and will use the term myself before an audience that prefers it,” Torres told me. “But it’s worth asking if the widespread use of the term ‘Latinx’ in both government and corporate America reflects the agenda-setting power of white leftists rather than the actual preferences of working-class Latinos.”

> Similarly, terms like BIPOC — for Black, Indigenous and People of Color — seem to be employed primarily by white liberals. A national poll for The Times found that white Democrats were more than twice as likely to feel “very favorable” toward the term as nonwhite people.

> Dr. Irwin Redlener, president emeritus of the Children’s Health Fund and a lifelong champion of vulnerable children, told me that the linguistic efforts reflect “liberals going overboard to create definitions and divisions” — and he, like me, is a liberal.

> “It actually exacerbates divisions rather than accomplishing something useful,” Redlener said, and I think he’s right.

> First, much of this effort seems to me performative rather than substantive. Instead of a spur to action, it seems a substitute for it.

> Second, problems are easier to solve when we use clear, incisive language. The A.M.A. style guide’s recommendations for discussing health are instead a wordy model of obfuscation, cant and sloppy analysis.

> Third, while this new terminology is meant to be inclusive, it bewilders and alienates millions of Americans. It creates an in-group of educated elites fluent in terms like BIPOC and A.A.P.I. and a larger out-group of baffled and offended voters, expanding the gulf between well-educated liberals and the 62 percent majority of Americans who lack a bachelor’s degree.
This is how it worked in previous years. Previously, you could elect to take the R&E expenses either entirely in a single year or amortized over the longer period. This year the change is:

1) You can no longer take it all in the single year, and
2) All software development is now R&E automatically, no exceptions.

Note that this is separate from the R&E tax credit that you can also claim, that's a different deal in addition to this.
An attempt to Google 'killology' returned to Wikipedia article on Dave Grossman:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Grossman_(author)

The article claims he is the source of research into 'killology', but makes it pretty clear that he is against the costs that the more violent approaches to policing involve. He was on the prosecution team for Timothy McVeigh, FWIW.

Has there been a subsequent move in the usage of 'killology'?
There's no shortage of ways. For example mandate preinstalling a spyware on every mobile device sold
Jealous people don’t think that way though, unfortunately.
Nah, it's literally thousands of times weaker; just on the threshold of perception.
Sure, if your bubble is "project veritas".
>But I know a lot of people who claim that Zuckerberg was just a lucky guy.

He isn't *just* lucky. But if theFacebook (a literal face book for harvard students) didn't go viral (which requires a great deal of luck), Mark Zuckerberg might be a middle manager at Google.

Of course there are a lot of people who couldn't execute if given that opportunity. Maybe very few who could.

But there are huge butterfly effects for these types of outlier outcomes in life.
...and? Your point?

Putting it to spotlight is an effort to make sure they can't get away with it. Even in a scenario where you say "of course they do it", jumping to the conclusion of "we should not report on it" is ridiculous.
The Steam app itself is also pretty great. I didn't fully appreciate that until the Epic Games Store, which runs about as well as a sloppy Javascript app from ten years ago. It's been in the same dire state for years.

Meanwhile Steam is pretty quick, the interface is well organized, and there are tons of useful features from controller configuration to the mod workshops.

I definitely agree that there's an alternate Steam-less timeline where major game publishers migrate entirely to consoles, as they were threatening to do in the mid-2000s. We'd never have all these PC ports from Japanese developers (from Dark Souls to Persona 5) without Steam.
Again, I think we're in agreement. Chinese-Americans built themselves from being one step above chattel slaves to some of the wealthiest and most influential people in society. Penniless Jews from the shtetls of Europe have done the same. Ditto for Mormons, who were actively hunted by the U.S. Government. All of these groups "organized" by creating independent networks of power and influence. This is what organizing is. We might associate the word with things like ACORN or unionization drives, but those movements are essentially trying to do the same thing that these groups have done.

If there is some nuance of difference between our views, I don't have the energy or interest to find out what it is. Have a good day.
There's also Trinity Desktop (fork of KDE 3):

https://trinitydesktop.org/
Yeah, I don't understand the disparaging of 4-bit ADPCM as being terrible quality when this is effectively a 3-bit ADPCM. Most ADPCM codecs I've seen shipped have a similar table based system with a frame header with coefficients for your two history samples rather than the weight update scheme here, and it works quite well.
That's exactly what I'm thinking. Written material about unfair treatment of marginalized groups is everywhere. The reverse is not true. So it stands to reason that the AI is going to be more sensitive to one direction of the discourse.

One of the priors that is going unspoken here is that "The Truth Is Politically Neutral". And... that's not always correct. I mean, to borrow the libertarian angle here: do we want the AI to tell us what we want to hear or do we want it to tell us the truth?
$149/month for 500 requests, good lord. https://twitter.com/PaulTassi/status/1621162343039406084
I walked to school for Kindergarten and 1st grade. Roughly a mile each way. This was in the early 70s, and though I see some kids walk to the nearby elementary school, the majority are dropped off by their parents in their huge SUVs...
We don't want there to be a whitelist of things we are allowed to do, with anything not on that list assumed to be against the law. That's a bad direction to go down. The right response to this situation would be to apologize to the parents, and punish the police and social worker who overstepped their authority.
Every time this comes up people talk about protecting privacy and anonymity and what not and while luckily for us most of the time the laws die out they still do pass on occasion. 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. As an example, how many people here could go on television onto some talk program or news show with their real name and face and tell a child abuse victim that while their concerns may be valid they are wrong and they should shut up? I doubt very many. I ran into a similar scenario once defending privacy when a lady who said she was abused as a child came into the conversation and told her story to the crowd. As you can imagine the crowd was very supportive of her and my concerns were more or less dismissed afterwards. There is nothing technical I could say that could persuade them as much as the poor lady's life story could.
You are not going to find any kind of hard evidence for anything when it comes to software engineering.

If you have some experience in software engineering you should already know that.

Based on the "hard evidence" in this thread you are either ignorant or a time wasting pedant.
Government controlled firmware on all devices that reads the messages after they are unencrypted?
>The fact that they agreed to that tells me that they detected it was a touchy subject for you and went the appeasement rout.

It wasn't touchy, it was reasonable. I guarantee you not one engineer at our company uses their personal computer. It's no different than saying "I want a work computer." They were going to buy me film equipment but hadn't determined exactly what we needed yet and hadn't set aside enough resources (cash) for it yet. So this was a useful stopgap that worked for everyone. Plus it's not like I got 10k more or something absurd. It was a modest amount that made me happy and got them what they needed.

>If they cared about the equipment they would have preferred to purchase/finance it or lease it.

Wasn't for sale and neither of us wanted to get into a lease. Plus they absolutely made out like bandits if we put dollar costs on this. I was just happy to have some cash for using my gear that made my life easier while also establishing a precedent that my gear isn't there for them to joyride.
Who is arguing other than you? What is there to side-track? People are providing their anecdotes about the Eastern bloc and growing up in it, and how it differs from the western stereotype.

A curious mind would encourage learning more about something you likely have had no real world experience with.
> worth drawing comparisons with Argentina and things like the pari passu bond litigation

Co-author of the op-ed worked for PE firm involved in Argentina bond litigation.
I use a handful of modern projects on a Mac running System 7 for “productive” purposes. I don’t use the computer itself for work, but I program on it, manage my servers on it, keep my household information recorded on it (bills, budget, power usage, etc), write on it, etc.

Beyond being distraction free it doesn’t remind me of my work computer, which helps doing things on it not feel like an extension of my day job.

In all fairness I’m pretty weird in this regard. I don’t see it as a toy, or fun retro thing, and it’s not a nostalgia thing, it’s just a computer and experience that I enjoy using to accomplish things I would have had to do anyway.
>America lacks community in many places.

Arguably the most painful aspect of survival in our late-stage capitalist society.
Haha, what did America become! Country built by pioneers venturing into unknown danger, the whole ethos of the country is "exploration and endeavor". Now, one would be questioned for having kids outside.
> But also that you can't say "shit" on American TV.

Yes, you can. South Park is on American TV, after all.
I'm not resistant and I think I explained later on why paying is not sufficient to get what you need. I was saying more that there is not much community around specific iOS apps, and offering a reason why that seems to be true. The ones that do have community tend to be open-source and, of course, virtually identical on iOS and Android (like CarbManager).
When a pack of coyotes enters the pasture where my sheep are, a semi-auto 7.62mm is one of the best tools for the job. Can also be used when foxes go after my poultry. These are fast moving predators and despite being a practiced marksman, they're easy to miss and not being forced to re-load at an inopportune time really helps.
Cool tech! Spent a chunk of a past life building radiation detection equipment and mapping it in various ways - it's neat to see the state of the art moving forward. Is your LAMP device using coded aperture (in that tiny form factor?) or some other technique for mapping directionality?
You probably already heard of it, but one of the all time classics on the topic is How to win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie