skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>People with [goals] want more power

Sometimes those goals align with other people's interests. Sometimes not. Unless there's a way to portion out power across a population on a case by case basis there's going to be conflict of interest.
That would be an argument to ban the stock market more than crypto, which is crazy to read on the wall street journal.
600k gross is 340k net in California if you are married.
*Upper level employees, not the lower level.
I'm glad it worked out for you. If anyone finds themselves in this situation, please do not talk to protective services without a lawyer. Treat it like you're talking to the cops who are investigating you.

They can make your life hell and take your children away. They do it for things as minor as possessing marijuana in your home, and they do it every day to people who are poor. You just don't hear about it because those stories don't make it into the news.
Good on you. I have often wondered how much genetics plays into success and personal discipline (which I would argue can increases ones _odds_ at various points in life). I come from a lower-class background, but am doing quite well today in my late thirties by most metrics. I can easily recognize some turning points in my life where luck played a role. At the same time, I easily recognize times in my life where good luck was a result of earlier decisions and sacrifice.

All this is only interesting though when I compare my life to my siblings. I have talked about this with my parents to some extent. Some of my siblings just seem to be terrible decision makers, and seem to not have any ability to think forward. My older brother's life is a complete disaster, and it is hard to piece together why, because all macro things considered, we were dealt the exact same cards--yet he seems incapable, and always has, of practicing self discipline or instilling any ambition.

In short, I think luck definitely plays a major role, but I also wonder if genetics is more at play than people are willing to admit. If such is the case, it could make conciliation extremely troublesome in some circumstances.
So, if everything is encrypted, how do you expect the police to catch ped0philes, for example?
The laws don't actually have to exist. Cops can arrest you if they just say they thought it was the law and that the believed they had the right to enforce it. They can totally make it up. So while you may not be convicted of violating a made up law you still have to deal with all the consequences of the arrest. No ramifications for the cops at all. They have virtually unlimited power.
Global Study on Homicide
"Better the devil you know than the devil you don't" is the idiom used for this kind of thinking.

The pessimist says "Things can't get worse, I'll vote to leave the EU", the optimist says "Things can always get worse, let's stay in the EU".
Bitcoin is still being issued, unless I misunderstood what you meant.
The original creator of Flutter actually left Google rather recently and is in the process of building a Dart server project as his next thing. It’s not even at alpha stage yet however it’s VERY new https://github.com/shorebirdtech
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_elephant

Lists a few. My guess is that they served more to strike fear into the hearts of ememies rather than actually being effective.
It's much easier for people to resist by using "forbidden" systems in private, than to affect political change. In the context of the EU, other rights afforded to citizens make things like this hard to enforce.
I used tcpflow extensively about 17 jobs ago. I had a Linux box on a hub segment with Windows servers running a .NET application, used for realtime capture and monitoring application traffic in a test environment. I had an independent implementation of the framing protocol and message format written in Ruby, and if my decoder choked, then it was either my problem or their problem. Early on, it was always my problem, but after about 6 weeks, it was their problem 70% of the time. Great way to uncover subtle bugs, at the upfront cost of a 2nd independent implementation.
It seems to me that people are completely missing the point of the article here. The point it's making that if luck is a dominant factor in success, then being poor isn't a personal flaw. People aren't poor because they're lazy or don't have ambition, it's because they got dealt a shitty hand in life.

Once this basic fact is recognized, then it necessarily dictates that we should structure a society in a way where everyone has access to the necessities of life. Things like food, healthcare, education, and housing should be universal rights that are guaranteed for everyone.
When I was a kid in the 70's/80's we weren't just allowed to play outside unsupervised until dark - we were required to!

There was an arrangement where the older neighborhood kids would look after the younger ones.
I'm not sure what you have in mind, but there is definitely a propensity on the left to try to shut down any argument with "that's a right wing position". For example, opposition to CRT was largely a moderate/liberal thing before your average conservative even heard the term, but even then criticism was dismissed with "people who criticize CRT just want to say the N word / get their slaves back / etc". Similarly, conservatives were pretty quick to coin the term "Ferguson Effect" for the pattern of increasing violent crimes in areas that saw large-scale anti-police protests, so naturally academics and the media reflexively dismissed the notion out of hand, but now it seems like crime researchers have largely come around to that viewpoint (to be clear, I'm not criticizing skepticism of conservatives' initial claims, but rather the incurious, out-of-hand dismissal).
I don't think Matter will add to price; for many devices, I suspect the opposite. The open-source Matter implementation (disclosure: I worked on bits of it) has wide support from silicon vendors. JoeBulbCo will basically be able to pick from a selection of high-volume ICs, run ‘make’, and ship it. JoeBulbCo competes on how good — or how cheap — their bulb is.
> In that regard, Julia code reads like someone’s manuscript about the issue and not a program written by a programmer. To you, that’s desired. To me, that’s my actual worst nightmare

That's a pretty dubious attribution of intention, though, that I desire this. I want clean, maintainable code.

> You mention not taking all argument types, it’s just so stereotypically mathematician of an assumption that the code will just work with whatever garbage you send it.

But that's not what I said, and it's not what multiple dispatch means. You are talking about generic functions and duck typing -- essentially, code that has no type restrictions. Multiple dispatch means that types of all arguments are considered, and you are free to be as restrictive as you wish. You can specifically and concretely type every single input, and probably make the code much more predictable and to your liking.

The amount of genericity vs type safety is a trade-off between different advantages, and you have a lot of freedom to choose.
Agreed. I am from ex Yugoslavia and for many... interesting things that growing up there entailed, my childhood was free. I walked to school starting grade 1! In a city of half a million I and all my classmates safely crossed intersections and walled to school every day.

Now I'm in Ontario and statuary limit for leaving child alone is... sixteen years :O

We can see school from out house but do not dare let our (independent safe and bright) child walk, not due to fear of crime, but the real fear of some overzealous bored neighbour calling it in.

Boo.
Ask HN: How are you handling Section 174 changes for bootstrapped companies?
Hey everyone,

Was just starting the tax process for 2022 and found out about the changes that have been made to Section 174 that take effect this year. Essentially, all R&E expenses must now be amortized over 5 years (instead of taking them as a regular full deduction in the year in which they are incurred), and on top of that all "software development" is now an R&E expense. [1][2]

This seems like a disaster for any bootstrapped software company. As an example, if you make $100k in income, and spend $90k making the software, at first glance you've got a successful company bringing in a 10% profit margin. Previously, you would have just paid tax on that $10k in profit. Makes sense.

Under these new rules, the US actually says "that $90k you spent to make the software has to be spread over 5 years, and you can actually only take 10% of it in the first year." Suddenly you've gone from a profit of $10k to a "profit" of $91k for tax purposes. Even at a 30% tax rate (which isn't even close to the top rate in the US), you're staring down a $27k tax bill that you're somehow supposed to pay out of the $10k in actual cash you have left on hand.

To be clear, you will eventually get the taxes you pay back over the next 5 years. 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? For every dollar you spend on making software, you've now got to have 30+ cents in reserve just to pay the tax bill for the year!

I am completely flabbergasted as to how this was thought to be a good idea...it seems like it drastically increases the cost of starting a bootstrapped software company in the US, which is just terrible policy in general.

Was just curious -- is this interpretation what others are hearing from their own tax professionals? Is it affecting others and if so how are you dealing with it?

[1] https://rsmus.com/insights/services/business-tax/looming-required-capitalization-of-section-174-expenditures.html

[2] https://www.taxnotes.com/research/federal/usc26/174
I am really curious if we had an up or down vote whether people would pass a law saying that everyone 12 and under must be supervised. I think it would pass.

I certainly wasn't permitted to walk anywhere by myself at that age, nor were any of the non-immigrant friends that I know. My sister wasn't permitted to do that until around 15.
As I understand, this is not case of abstract money, but most cases about investments to clean energy, for which EU guaranteed payments.

Sure, this is extremely bad, because next time investors will NOT make investments, if this will no been resolved, and Europe will again become vulnerable to energy empires like Russia.
> Pretending there's a sinister, organized New World Order (aka "them"

How did you got this out of GP?
I think you both saying/meaning the same.

> and listen to the loudest and most organized group. Which tends to be intelligence or law enforcement.

Yep, and their actual desire is to control people's freedom (even admitting that some or all of them themselves belief that this is only for good cause, the reasons that also GP listed.. ).
Why do we see an issue if AI is biased, while 90% of media run by humans are biased too?

Every single individual has its own bias, so why it's an issue for an AI.

If we look at the many topics, there's no universal objective truth, truth is what we define as truth, and again, not everyone agrees at it.
> They exist to "protect and serve" those in power

While this is technically correct, this phrase sets up a simplistic model of society where there's the Powerful on top, the Police right under them serving them, and the Oppressed under that. I don't think this is the best way to understand what the Police are and what they do.

I've heard many left-leaning people claim something along the lines of "the Police do whatever the Powerful want by taking it out on the Oppressed". This doesn't accurately reflect the behavior or mindset of the individuals who collectively make up the Police. There are thousands of stories of rich and "powerful" individuals being harassed by police officers when their actions or beliefs clashed with the beliefs of the responding officers.

In fact, in America the definition of "power" is almost tautological when it comes to police. You are a "powerful" person when the police will either look the other way or help you when you break the law. I would go as far as to say that in America it is impossible to be "powerful" unless you have the police on your side. (A possible exception is for gang leaders with their own outlaw police forces.) Without the police you do not have meaningful power, and so saying "the police exist to serve the powerful" incorrectly separates the relationship between the "Powerful" and the "Police".

The Police are the power. I like to call them the "Martial Caste", in order to draw connections between them, medieval knights, samurai, cartel sicarios, the KGB, etc. It's all the same thing: they are the muscle behind the societal ownership claims of the local warlords. Without them the warlords are nothing, and without the warlords they are nothing.

A more accurate statement is "the Police exist to protect and serve whatever system perpetuates the Police". If you're a rich and you donate to police causes, suck up to their members, agree with their politics, and generally support police proliferation, they will bend their enforcement tactics to your favor. This makes you "powerful". If you rail against police behavior and try to reform them, they will bend their enforcement tactics against your favor. This makes you "powerless".
Isn't the whole point that they're trying to make mathematics illegal? To my knowledge, encryption is currently legal.

To those who say "it's impossible to make encryption illegal": there have been sillier laws. George Orwell once imagined a society where 2+2=5 was a law. While they usually do, laws don't have to make sense.
Open.ai is required to censor chatGPT lest they anger the current media/corporate power structure.

Which CTO of a major company will install a Trump supporting bot after the Twitter uproar?

This is all about the $$$$
The poster dismisses their DEXA results because they don't match some scale's BIA measurements. Also the DEXA results show lower lean body mass and higher fat mass. But then they dismiss the BIA as "making stuff up". So I'm forced to be skeptical of any of the conclusions or recommendations. Fall back to Michael Pollan: Eat food. Mostly vegetables. Not too much.
And that's why there are also restrictions on what people can do. Businesses have more power over others
periculosam and quietam are adjectives (the comma is wrong)
In some cases I'm not even getting colour, quite a few of my bulbs are cheaper ones that only allow colour temperature to be controlled. Mostly I'm using Hue because its where I started, so I'm fairly bought into that ecosystem - I do like that the Hue hubs will still work even without an internet connection though. At some point I'll bite the bullet and migrate all my bulbs over to pairing with the Zigbee dongle attached to my Home Assistant server.
my company website got cloned twice, we are based in france and it was cloned in india and in thailand...

It was so far away with no impact, that i decided to do nothing.
It's somewhere between Waiting for Godot and No Exit.
Why would you get a cold shoulder from the rest of the team?

Aside from that, this doesn't sound surprising to me. Maybe I'm just a pessimist, but I've seen similar stuff over my 10 years working for a company that markets itself as a place that cares.
> In general, centralization of power leads to unequal society.

Your axe grinding doesnt make sense here. Police powers are one of the most federated types of power in the country! And these sound like they were the smallest unit of police, town police.

In fact, its difficult to imagine the more centralized police causing this type of trouble. Can you imagine a state trooper wasting time with this? Or the FBI investigating a child walking alone?
Rows.com Launches API
Compound page is just an implementation detail how page-table data structure represents the pages larger than 4K. And this is reasonable to me because in order to create a mapping for 2MB page, kernel needs to group 512 consecutive 4K pages, and per my understanding this is exactly what the kernel will do. For a 1GB page it will have to group 512 page-tables, each containing 512 4K entries. There is no separate page-table data structure that the kernel will maintain for 2MB or 1GB pages. There's only one.

However, you're right that multiple processes maintaining separate page-tables where each is containing mappings to the same physical memory regions can be wasteful.

Still, due to how huge pages are represented in the page-table data structure, I don't see what difference would it make to switch to 2MB or 1GB page, unless you're running a recentish kernel (~3 years) that has been specifically optimized for exact this case, e.g. to reduce the memory footprint of huge-page representation in page-tables. Specifically, a single 2MB huge page is now represented by 8 page entries (512 bytes) instead of 512 page entries (2MB). And there was another patch proposing to cut 8 page entries to only 2 page entries.

In any case, that's a dramatic cut of memory footprint when compared to how it used be and which is why I believe that this is the actual reason why OP sees the difference.
Valid point, but I don’t expect AI to be able to really pull off a believable stream of scenes in the foreseeable future. I think for at least the next few years it will still be off enough to be hilarious. The uncanny valley can actually add to that, in my opinion.
Is it wrong that I just saw AI and assumed it would be better than it is? Or, maybe that's just where we're at now.
I was considering going on a vacation/scavenger hunt when I saw the first article about it
Better said than me. There are different approaches to changing someone's mind if they're misunderstanding something, versus if they're straight-up lying to you.

The fact that there exist highly public straight-up lying politicians doesn't mean the mass of politicians are liars. Most are trying to do a decent thing, with the understanding they have.

Casting one's democratic agents as "other" corrodes democracy, decreases participation, and generally furthers the problem being bemoaned: lack of attention to citizen desires.
This implies that "difficulty" is a totally ordered set. Which... I find highly unlikely. Things can be very difficult in amazingly unique ways.
You can teach web development to your peers and schoolmates
You don't understand why people should be able to cook food and heat their houses?

This is a governance failure: for letting prices get out of control, for allowing poverty so bad that _people cannot heat their homes_, and then for allowing utilities to shut off people's utilities like this.

It doesn't have to be that way: on that last point for example, in Ontario, Canada, there's a law that says that a utility cannot shut off a house's electricity or gas during the winter for non-payment. It doesn't matter how far behind you get on your bills, it's illegal to shut it off. This would, I think, make pre-payment meters illegal here, and this probably explains why I've never heard of them being a thing.
How can I hide comments in VS Code?

And all I’ve said is comments are a last resort. Nothing black/white about that, just tired of egos getting in the way of seeing how there are a million ways in practice to avoid comments that people who “like” comments refuse to learn about.
Ok, so this is just a case of something that a primarily male demographic between 19-35 and a background in STEM agree with... which was also my initial, emotionally charged reaction!

Meanwhile, 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.

So I guess it all works out!
Firearm law has not been a constant through the years. There were pragmatic restrictions that have slowly been eroded and left us with where we are now.
Every SMS and phone call on the PSTN of most European countries is already part of a long-term archiving process dating back more than two decades. This legislation is in part meant to bring purely Internet-based communications into the dragnet, and part just retroactive legal gyrations to publically formalize the already established mass-surveillance of the PSTN.
This mentality is dangerous and only drives the thing you are getting at.
sorry missed to reply.

Yes you can resell but reselling is different than a marketplace. A food delivery service like Deliveroo is not selling the food, so they can't collect money on behalf of the restaurant. In theory same with amazon 3rd party seller, in this case amazon has a licensed.
I think they will just keep working on df the way they have so far for another 20 years before retiring.
Somewhere deep on my todo list is building a grid of ESP32s around the place reporting BLE signal strengths to a central node which can then do triangulation to work out where people are based on devices they typically carry with them (I for example am almost always wearing an Apple Watch, and carrying my phone).
> I think the main issue in this story is that most Americans wouldn’t feel comfortable leaving their kids outside by themselves

Father of 5 here and you are fully correct. Our kids are not meaningfully safer with constant supervision - and by mandating it, we're knee-capping their ability to develop problem solving skills.
This is really it.

I'd go a step further, which technologists will fail to accept, since it's essentially an animistic argument. Cars, very specifically, the actual physical _thing_ are evil technology. In absolute terms, in absence of their application.

Americans don't recognize it as such. We see it just as a tool. It is not. Cars have their own force field and it has changed our minds, our bodies, our relationships to other, our dispositions.

Once americans recognize it as such, we can see change. It's not impossible. From my visits to Europe, the difference is already night and day in so many places compared to just 10-15 years ago. If they can, we can. But it will be such a hard slog.
Exploring Rust for Vulkan drivers, part 1
It would be on them if the AI generator was forthcoming about how it "created" the image. If a company like MS is advertising that they have a program that creates new content, but that program actually has a known tendency to output content from it's training set then they bear responsibility, especially if that program is being run remotely on their servers.
> They're not wasting tons of precious energy and talent on creating scams, ponzis, casinos, rug pulls, and unlicensed securities

All of those exist in the financial derivatives market. And the finance sector in general...
Intelligence and law enforcement aren't typically empowered voters in democratic legislative bodies.
> There doesn’t have to be a secret agenda.

There doesn't have to be, but there totally can be.
As I understand, this is not case of abstract money, but most cases about investments to clean energy, for which EU guaranteed payments.

Sure, this is extremely bad, because next time investors will NOT make investments, if this will no been resolved, and Europe will again become vulnerable to energy empires like Russia.

So citizens will have really troubles, because critical investments where not safe.
On a website where the majority of people are SWEs living in HCOL areas where their daily lunch and coffee is probably $20+ the argument against a $1/day productivity tool seems lacking.
Here's an example, atheists[0] are considered less trust worthy than muslims in america. Christians absolutely have a privileged place in society.

[0]https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797615576473
I saw this article the other day and thought it was odd that it doesn't mention how far away the Dunkin is. It does say the cops picked up the kids two blocks from their house, but it doesn't say how far the destination was. Seems kind of relevant, and it's usually mentioned in Reason pieces like this. Does anyone know the details of the distance or route?