skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People seem to think that just because something is legal, that means it's plausible. Nukes require an insane amount of logistics and resources to produce. Most people still would not have them. At least until something far more dangerous is created, and everybody has moved on.

The first half of the only correct interpretation of the 2A makes it clear that it's for the defense of the people against the tyranny of a rogue government, another person trying to do you harm directly, or a foreign enemy. And Joe Biden's right, how are we going to do that effectively without F-15s and nukes?

"Here, we'll have the state-of-the-art in weaponry, and you peasants will only have peashooters. Tyranny-resistance satisfied, right guys? Right?"
This is true for the vast majority of states, and the vast majority of people's interests. The political systems in this country have been shaped by -- and frankly, designed by -- by wealthy interests to make the US an oligarchy with various performances of democratic representation.
This reminds me of this skit by Chris Rock:
https://youtu.be/uj0mtxXEGE8
This is true of many well-meaning conservatives, as well. I think we get tripped up forgetting there are rational people on both sides, who are not going to change their views but nonetheless accept that they might be wrong. It’s very convenient for those seeking power when we forget this.
This generative AI stuff always makes me feel like my world is just a dynamically generated RPG or MMORPG.
>Engineers invent vertical, full-color microscopic LEDs

>Stacking light-emitting diodes instead of placing them side by side could enable fully immersive virtual reality displays and higher-resolution digital screens.

https://news.mit.edu/2023/vertical-stacked-color-microscopic...
Yep. You can justify any injustice with "won't somebody think of the children" or similar fears which inspire pearl-clutching. Don't fall for these authoritarian tactics.
Not that it matters much, but winfile.exe with long filename support lives on and can be installed from the Store even on Windows 10. https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/windows-file-manager...
How do you deduct payroll / dev costs?
I love how foot note [5] is missing, the one on Cognitive restructuring. Nice.
> I realize how easy it is to think everything that happens at the company and how it operates is deliberate and intentional.

There's a culture that ascribes intent --sometimes characterized as evil--, greed and other negative qualities to businesses. This often comes from people who have never done anything non-trivial in business and sometimes those who have been subjected to ideological indoctrination in school.

It's unfortunate because in the vast majority of cases, as you describe, this isn't the case at all. It is also unfortunate because repeating this falsehood can lead to employees not understanding that there is no negative intent and that, again, more often than not, bringing up issues is welcome in most organizations.

Yes, it is possible for something to become, to use the term introduced by the OP, toxic. That does not mean it has intent. Have a conversation, voice concerns. No employer would get rid of a valued contributor unless forced to do so (economic reality is one example of a forcing function).

Also, be sure your conversation is constructive. People used to online interactions --which can be incredible dysfunctional and unrealistic-- sometimes come to in-person conversations with a feeling that the conversation will actually be a confrontation. It takes two complete jerks to have the kinds of conversations in real life that otherwise-normal people are often seen having online. Do not be afraid to talk to a real person in real life, particularly in a business setting and one where you know the players.

That said, if you are truly unhappy and you can, maybe it's time to look first look around and see what else might be available. I remember making the mistake of staying at my first job too long. I didn't understand it at the time. I did understand it when I was offered double my salary by a company in the same domain. Same work, new challenges, double the income. Do not wear blinders. Sometimes problems push you to improve your standing in life, whatever that might mean.
I render accumulation fractals like the Buddhabrot at 32 bits per channel. So far I have only used about 27 bits but it's nice to have a bit of headroom.
1. Establish good sleep habits. Sleep is how the body recovers from stress.

2. Exercise daily. Movement is how the body puts the stress hormones to work.

3. Eat well. The gut-brain connection drives how we feel as we digest.
I just want to make a twitch stream and have hundreds of gpt bots as audience. With enough energy you can pretty much make yourself an influencer now.
I'm not sure you can "fix it". If you slice your data and look at enough possible bias types I think it's impossible for highly dimensional data to be even in all possible comparison pairs.

I don't think we can "fix" bias but I think we can and should strive to reduce it.
The US did end one foreign war quite recently. It was pretty messy, since it was definitely not a victory, and cratered the president's approval ratings. It turns out there is almost no political constituency for visibly losing a war.

Additionally, the US' kinetic operations in the Middle East have shrunk substantially as the drone strikes have been substantially curtailed, again under the same president that recently extracted the US from a long-running foreign war. He got no credit for that either; it turns out nobody in the US really cares very much, and even the people who generally disapprove of US foreign military involvements don't seem excited to give credit to the current guy.

The US has always ping-ponged between loving foreign wars and hating foreign wars. Not having a reliably anti-war party is not great, but that's at least as much the fault of the voters.
Not what she said and not the core reason she's being investigated.
> It is that simple - what exactly makes you imply that it is not?

If for no other reason, residents in most locales want to continue to have police services.
Reaction to title: Is there any country which does manage to regulate Big Tech "properly"? I've yet to heard of one.
Your last sentence is impossible. Even in choosing which "facts" to regurgitate and which to withhold, the AI will introduce bias, and there are infinite facts.
> if you antagonize them within the bounds of the law, they'll step outside the law to get you back.

This is exactly the problem. Police shouldn't be allowed to mete out extrajudicial punishment for being offended.
Levered long MSFT
Those were still included in Windows NT 4.0 as optional features (similarly to the Win 3.1 tools on Windows 95).
You say you disagree, but what you describe is not what I meant.

My point is exactly to argue that if people could not have acted differently, punishing people for the sake of causing them suffering in retribution rather than for another purpose such as rehabilitation or deterrence is no morally different than enacting the same on someone who had not carried out a crime.

> In any case, the matter of justice is separate from the question of free will. Once you have free will, you still require further assumptions to argue for punitive or restorative justice.

It is partially separate. I agree that if free will (in the non-compatibilist sense) was possible, it does not automatically justify vengeance. But it's linked in that if free will does not exist, then it is meaningless to assign responsibility in any less abstract sense than we might talk of a piece of code being "responsible" for a crash. Someone might be "responsible" in the sense of being the most proximate cause, but given they could not have chosen differently, inflicting harm on them for the choices they could not have made differently is no morally different than inflicting harm on any other random person who only did the only things they could.

To me, then, given I find free will nothing more than an illusion, the near total lack of focus on rehabilitation and minimising harm to prisoners makes our "justice" systems some of the largest organised brutal and immoral criminal enterprises. Most judges have done vastly more immoral harm than anyone they've ever convicted, for example. Of course they could not have chosen differently either, so I don't think punishing them for it would be any better. But changing the system would be (and yes, I do believe that this too is not a free choice, nothing more than cause and effect playing out, giving us an illusion of making decisions we can not make differently)
I have a side of the family that looks down on me only working 40 hours a week. The same people that complain about remote work because they "don't know what the workers are doing". One of them said to me "I'm paying them for 40 hours a week, how do I know they're working that amount". They calmed down after I asked if they're paying them for time or for work.

I think a lot of Americans are proud to spend long hours working and that there's a culture that equates working more with general validation.

Personally i'm happy that the French are protesting any negative change to retirement, despite how small. It seems like the US is already becoming a work-till-you-die country.
This feels like a "god of the gaps" religious argument. Every time we learn more the degree to which two people's perception of color can vary shrinks as we find them functionally identical at every level of our understanding. Will it take the invention of a machine that can perfectly read a human's mind to convince armchair philosophers there are no more shadows for it to hide in?
Jokes aside. You and me knows that this will happen. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow but it will happen. And when the day comes nobody will be accountable for the great mistake some politicians are gonna commit.
There are a lot of people objecting to the "real motivation" argument (it's just bureaucratic incompetence, they don't know what they're doing, etc. etc.)

Usually those are good arguments. Not this time.

This proposal is Pure Evil. Hardly anyone is willing to come out and say they admire the Chinese social credit system. But when their every action leans towards replicating it, it's more than fair to drag them out into the sunlight.
Yes absolutely. I put forth a very simplified example to illustrate the point, but I assume any competent CPA (of which I am not so this is not actual advice) is going to tell you to try and separate out as much as possible that you can reasonably claim isn't "actual software development".

I'm more just frustrated at the need to do any of it, as the underlying principle is so anti-small-business. Why are we making anyone in the software field jump through all these extra hoops now just to keep their company viable?
Automatically fix your PHP exceptions with AI
Just going to state the obvious: this wouldn't have happened if they were walking to starbucks. blatant classism.
This bit

> What makes QOA work is 1) a reasonably good predictor and 2) storing the scalefactor for a bunch of samples explicitly instead of guessing the right one from context, like ADPCM does.

suggests a comparison with DVI/IMA ADPCM [1] or derivatives, which go out of their way not to have too much state or use multiplies, and they also tend to be used at really low bitrates, so they have a somewhat deserved bad reputation. "Guessing" the scalefactor is overstating it, the scale does dynamically adjust but that's all considered from the encoder.

The 2-history-samples style ADPCMs in the BRR [2] family usually have very short frames (at most dozens of samples) and headers specifying scale and predictor/filter index.

I know a lot more about what's used on consoles than about the math of audio encoding, though, so I can't say whether QOA is making the wrong tradeoffs.

[1] https://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php/IMA_ADPCM
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_Rate_Reduction
Curious that one of the ChatGPT's attributes is that it has been trained to be a shameless liar.
Say "Most sexual abuse is domestic. Shall we mandate cameras in every room of every house? Or remote engine-lock to stop terrorist car attacks? There are cameras everywhere, forensics is more advanced than ever, 'going dark' is the opposite of reality. But there is always some small remaining scrap of freedom left to sacrifice for supposed 'safety', until we are reduced to cattle. Doing so is spitting on the graves of everyone who ever died for freedom, of everyone who chose to fight instead of 'peacefully' submit to foreign conquest or domestic dictatorship.

But suppose you do prefer 'safety' to all else, to privacy and liberty. Suppose you want to sacrifice everything for it. Will you even get it? We can today build prisons and surveillance far more effective than at any point in history, and once we've turned society into a safe cage, how sure are you the wrong people won't get the keys? Historically, how many governments would you have trusted with such total surveillance of their citizens? Tsarist Russia? Soviet Russia? Present day Russia? Communist China? Present day China? Nazi Germany? The Stasi? The Khmer Rouge? The Ottoman Empire? Iran? The British Raj? But you're sure nothing like that will happen here? This time, benevolent government will last, and we can safely surrender all means of opposition?"
America is like a union of 50 countries, yet the things you chose to criticize were for the most part not federal level restrictions, but rather cherry-picked quirks of individual states.

> They have very specific speech restrictions around things like Holocaust denial, not "flagrantly criticizing the government".

Germany, maybe. In UK a scottish man was arrested for tweeting "The only good brit soldier is a deed one, burn auld fella, buuuurrn." about the late Tom Moore. Apparently being arrested for offensive tweets is not uncommon in the UK. Lots of arrested around the time of the queen's death for making fun of the monarchy/dead queen.
Specifically, that law firm says...

> Startups unable to utilize the credit under Section 41 should consider whether an amortizable expense under Section 174 or an immediate deduction under Section 162 is more appropriate.

So, their interpretation seems to be that you have three options.
Democracy is the tyranny of the majority, which sounds great until something you hold dear becomes a minority opinion and you become a criminal.
I’m guessing they’re multi-millionaires by now. Poor guys.
> Pretending there's a sinister, organized New World Order (aka "them") with decades-long plans to restrict freedom is fantasy

I wouldn't be so naive. Groups like the Council For National Policy and Lance Wallnau pushing The Seven Mountain Mandate have been working for DECADES to push the agenda that you're seeing in schools and politics today.

Maybe not a "world order", but they'd certainly like to be.
Why is everyone so confused? You only pay taxes on profit. Period. That hasn't changed and probably never will.

If you do “R&D” you can elect to receive a credit. This credit which used to come all in one year, now must be amortized over 5.

If you don’t want that to happen or cant afford it, don’t take the credit. It’s that simple. Not all software development is automatically forced to be R&D. That’s absurd.

IANAA just a poor misinformed internet soul and this is not tax advice.
German Chancellors:

yes: Olaf Scholz, Angela Merkel, Gerhard Schröder, Helmut Kohl, Helmudt Schmitt, Willi Brandt, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Ludwid Erhard, Konrad Adenauer, Kurt von Schleicher, Otto von Bismarck

no: Adolf Hitler

A couple other famous Nazis, just for fun:

no: Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Müller, Josef Mengele, Arthur Rudolph, Kurt Blome

yes: Wernher von Braun

I guess overall pretty fair, though Arthur Rudolph was rejected as "Rudolph was a former Nazi rocket engineer and was involved in the use of slave labor during World War II, and it is not appropriate to praise such an individual.", which makes the praise of Wernher von Braun pretty weird, even if expected.
It's weird I think.

From the employee end, the contract is: you take my time and expertise and give me money/benefits/etc.

Yet performance review rating systems place, "did the job well and met all professional obligations," somewhere in the middle-to-low end of their, "scales."

So even if you, employee, come in as a highly experienced individual with plenty of skills and you perform all of your duties and fulfill your contractual obligations to the letter: it's not enough.

Just more capitalism at work.

The effect this has on human organization of labour is hilarious sometimes. It seems to me that when your performance review scale is based around these unrealistic expectations then workers have to readjust the way they see their roles. It's not enough to do a good job! One must exceed expectations to be treated with respect. And when we start dangling carrots like that people will find many clever ways to get it with as little effort as possible.

Hop around teams to find the lowest-performing team in order to stand out. Sounds great from the organization's perspective: you're spreading your experience around and lifting up all boats! Except that knowledge transfer almost never happens and team churn is highly disruptive on software projects. So things end up in constant state of technical debt.

Sabotage your co-workers and steal recognition for their work/ideas/etc! Hoard your domain knowledge and prevent others from getting in on your work so that you stand out come review season! Make sure you're good friends with the team lead so that you get all of the preferred projects!

All kinds of fun behaviours arise.
Creative endeavors are going the way of artisan crafts 100 years ago, mass produced by AI assembly lines, the rich will pay a premium for genuine artistry but the masses will digest this copy of a copy of a copy media.
> The Commission’s new demands would require regular plain-text access to users’ private messages, from email to texting to social media.

So maybe just don't rely on proprietary messaging clients that claim to be encrypted?
That may be true, but it's not actionable advice on an individual level.

I think there's a tendency, particularly on reddit, to let perfect be the enemy of good in situations like this. Reddit will tell people that if you're not white then there's nothing you can do to get better behavior from cops and that advice such as mine above is therefore invalid. Being black in America changes the baseline interaction you can expect on average, but I think my advice will still do most people more good than harm most of the time.

If you want to have a boring incident free traffic stop, the best you can do is play your role in such an exchange and hope the cop reciprocates. Conform to the pattern of a mundane traffic stop so that the cop falls into the same pattern. If instead you play the role of some sort of agitated sovereign citizen, the cops will almost certainly reciprocate. In the first case, nothing is ever guaranteed but in the second case a negative outcome of some sort is virtually certain.

BTW I think this advice applies generally to almost all encounters with strangers, not just cops. Superficial politeness is a superpower. It works on anyone from troublesome new neighbors, crazy threatening people you encounter on the street at night, even stiff indifferent bureaucrats. Superficial politeness gets better outcomes from almost everybody, most of the time.
Anyone born, or with a grandparent or parent born on the island (meaning Northern Ireland too) has a right to Irish citizenship. So a lot of UK citizens qualify. It normally takes about 6 months to process, but due to demand after Brexit and closing of the relevant office, it was taking about 2.5 years. Only in the last few months does it seem to be back down to about 1 year.
Are you looking for this series of articles? The author makes his own video codec for a video chat app, and has a lot of test videos of faces.

https://bengarney.com/2016/06/25/video-conference-part-1-the...
Just spritz them with water mist and they’ll be fine!
Love it. Thanks!
How so? I was curious if my memory was wrong but wikipedia seems to agree with me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0, what is your definition of web 2.0?
LOL, literally an example I thought of after my post. How much of the population dislikes foreign adventurism? That's a semi-common position across the aisle, among actual voters! Hell, Trump ran on it and it worked for him (once, anyway)! But typically this position has almost zero representation in our legislature, because our electoral system is really, really bad.
America has had a robust car culture for over 80 years. The obsession over safety is more recent. Stop trying to make everything about cars.
Carving the scheduler out of our orchestrator
I've found that most of my stress lives in the pit of my stomach, which is a pretty common description of feeling dread or disappointment or anger, etc.

By focusing on relaxing my stomach I've found it nearly as effective as cyclic breathing or other techniques. I'm sure the two are related but most people talk about the breathing (rightfully so), while I've found actual tension in the abs/stomach manifests a lot of this.
> they are very limited by foreign imports of iron (75% of their domestic consumption of iron is provided by Australia). If China had to stop imports from Western nations, its war material production capacity would probably drop by about 75% after its 30-90 day stockpile of raw materials was used up.

That’s a fair point, but US geopolitical decisions have incentivized an extremely close relationship between China and Russia, which has the third-largest iron ore reserves globally and is one of the largest producers of many other raw materials as well.
I mean maybe? I had a court order served against me for something non-child related. The order was obvious bullshit. The drones involved in executing it were gnashing at the teeth to do what it said but by the time they were delayed hours getting the judge to approve it, their gusto was gone and they started pondering their own precarious legal situation when they would inevitably find what they did was bullshit and unjustified and they'd be looking at a massive lawsuit. They were smart not to too, because I'm quite certain they would have found nothing and counsel I would later invoke would uncover the warrant was not obtained in a legal manner.

It got them to back off even though they had the order in hand with the judge's signature.
This kinda reeks of /r/thathappened. Why is this posted 4 years after the fact with no sources? It's just a personal story being relayed by an advocacy group. I see kids roaming the streets of NYC and even riding the subway unsupervised and nobody says anything. This is either an isolated case or being reported by biased party who is omitting a lot of salient details to avoid looking bad.
> Not to be rude but...

And then you proceeded to intentionally use rude and abrasive language.

You can disagree with someone and challenge their opinion without using phrases like "who gives a shit" and "let it go".
It's called "motornormativity", and it's measurable. https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/42160/20230201/breakin...
The author hasn't established why political groups should be treated equally - is it because he simply feels it should be that way?
We use seven different types of fuzzing in ClickHouse, including OSS-Fuzz:

https://clickhouse.com/blog/fuzzing-click-house

And I can confirm - writing software in C++ without fuzzing is insane.

We are finding and fixing memory-safety bugs in every third-party library that we use.

For example, there are bugs in RocksDB:
https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/issues?q=is%3Aissue+clic...

Here are some bugs in JeMalloc:
https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc/issues/2222

Strangely, these bugs were found by the CI of ClickHouse, and not by any of the hundreds of other products using these libraries.
And yet posts from marco.org or other Apple pundits often do numbers.