skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You asked for advice and are ignoring it. ~~Don’t take the R&D credit.~~ Don't use Section 174. Problem solved.

EDIT:

Let me elaborate: unless you are in the “start up phase” incurring startup costs, you are not required to follow section 174. I suspect the confusion is between how we use “startup” colloquially vs how the IRC uses “startup costs”. Once your business is up and running you are “carrying on” business, even if you aren't yet making a profit. You are only required to follow section 174 if you are choosing to classify your expenses as “startup costs” which in my experience would be very odd after the first year and even after the business is founded.

Not an accountant of course, but nobody is going to tell me to pay taxes on revenue before expenses. And writing software does not automatically mean you are doing R&D. Not even in spirit. If you’re writing a script that speeds up part of your business and makes you more money, thats not “R&E”. It’s just work.

EDIT2:

> In the meantime, the Section 174 amendment should not cause established taxpayers to adjust their accounting methods when applying Section 162. Existing taxpayers incurring R&E costs as part of their ordinary and necessary expenses while carrying on a trade or business can continue to make deductions with confidence that legislative and judicial history support that practice.

https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/ch...
emperor has no clothes but this forum is full of people who wasted their money investing it and/or get paid to work on it.

today "AI is just spicy autocomplete" gets flagged off front page.

For MONTHS, front page has been full of sub-script-kiddie level "AI" tools that are just `curl "{static_prompt} + {user_input}" http://chatgptapi`

or mediocre examples of things that would have been impressive a computer could do in 1960, but are absolutely easier to do since 2010 with google or other tools.
> A morning commute from the Marina District to the Financial District,

You’re overcomplicating the commute. Take the 132 Southbound, about 15 mins during morning rush hour.

My guess, though, is you’re not really complaining about a specific commute as much as the paucity of rail in SF, and other faster commute options than bus. Relatively crummy public transport in SF is a valid gripe.

But in larger context, it seems you’re just not happy in/with SF. Could also be you’re just not happy.

If you’re looking to improve your experience, you might do well to consider that SF probably won’t be “fixed” inside our lifetimes.
Is anyone else astonished by how dramatically Hacker News has shifted its tone on this issue over the last five to ten years?
Twitter replaces its free API with a paid tier in quest to make more money
That’s not how it works. OP is misinformed.
> We have elections... but

two parties. (Still better then one.)
Then a PhD is just Kindergarten without naps.
That may be one option, but now I'm paying interest to give the government an interest-free loan in an inflationary environment. Great.
To be fair, we wouldn't have gotten the space telescopes at all without the Earth telescopes and their predecessors.
That happens in the US, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novak_v._City_of_Parma

> Novak v. City of Parma, No. 21-3290, is a 2022 decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit granting qualified immunity to the city of Parma, Ohio, and its officials for prosecuting Anthony Novak over a Facebook page parodying the Parma Police Department's page. As of December 2022, the case is pending certiorari before the Supreme Court of the United States.

> cherry-picked quirks of individual states

Civil forfeiture? Healthcare? Incarceration? Paid leave? These are each widespread national problems in the US.
Exactly the problem, yes. On a societal level it's a problem that we should strive to correct. But on an individual level on a case by case basis, it's the reality you have to protect yourself from.
Still doesn't work with "Open with..." on macOS on first run.

Still has problems with footnotes in docx files. https://ctrl.vi/i/3M_RGxdv7

Still does weird, inconsistent, specification-noncompliant things with lesser-known code pages in RTF documents. https://ctrl.vi/i/tufN9_PE4

But sure, let's add machine translation to a word processor instead of fixing things.
...you're not concerned about all of the other Trusted Root CAs that ship in OS/browser updates? Why would the NSA/GCHQ/etc need to compromise a high-profile target like LetsEncrypt when they could bribe any of the dozens of companies names listed in my own local certmgr.msc that I don't recognize at all[1].

1: I'm seeing names like "Actalis", "Baltimore CyberTrust", "Cetrum" - some of these sound more like pharmaceuticals than tech companies...
Unlimited 24/7 AI streamers on Twitch.

Unlimited 24/7 AI TV shows and movies (RIP Netflix, Hollywood).

Unlimited AI opinions about any topics.

Unlimited AI “grassroots” campaigns.

Unlimited AI propaganda from every country and military (perfectly chosen each time).

Unlimited AI comments, “friends”, and engagements on every social media platform for your posts.

The bigger struggle will be for discovering authenticity and filtering the content down.

Suddenly everyone’s frustration with their AI generated newsfeed and social feeds will become necessary filter tools to communicate and digest information.

Just my opinion. Fun to think about. Will watch “Her” this weekend again.
This looks interesting! Do you have a link to the source code of the opus encoder and decoder? The code in the github repo (html/opusjs/decoder.js) looks generated and is hard to understand.
It seems like insects are halal only if they have a "clean" diet. So things like cockroaches are haram but locusts and fig-inhabiting insects are halal because they feast on what humans feast.
We're using the open core model that Gitlab use. It's popular because it mean 95% of the code is MIT (good for everyone) and a small number of enterprise features are under a different license. This puts off bad actors from building a commercial competitor with zero effort. The alternative we considered was AGPL but that felt worse for our open source users.
It could unlock a better web without overlapping, basic and repetitive content spread throughout millions of websites, optimised for search engine indexing. I see it as an interactive knowledge aggregator for basic fact checking on any subject. This creates an opportunity for the web to thrive with genuine, original and thought-provoking authored content.
> If you had tried to get over the wall you'd been shot and your family questioned.

Although I agree with aspects o your general point, this is a bad take.

Pretty sure this is also true of the US-Mexico border wall. It's just much longer so it's easier to get away with, but if you tried to cross illegally in front of a law enforcement official and ignored their orders to stop, odds are very good you'd be shot. And your family would definitely be questions during the ensuing investigation.
https://archive.is/SBzw7
I agree that you are making logical sense.

I think you should review what I linked or talk to a CPA because this this indeed the change this year, and it is indeed nonsensical.

This is not the same thing as the R&D tax credit.
I think that his diagnosis of Adtech is not quite grim enough. Knowing that advertisers can uniquely identify most users, pretty reliably, not only will the chat bots be able to produce responsive texts, they will be continually training on each individual’s unique psychology and vulnerabilities.

It’s gonna be a gas!
Everybody thinks their world view is the correct one otherwise they wouldn't believe it.
Okay but what share of the wealth do they control?

“ The richest 1% of Britons hold more wealth than 70 per cent of Britons “

It would make sense if the 1% paid more than the combined bottom 70%

Source: https://www.oxfam.org.uk/media/press-releases/richest-1-grab...
California has already passed the National Popular Vote bill.
https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/written-explanation

Republican controlled states don't want people's votes to count, so none of them have passed the bill.
Web 3.0 = Semantic Net

"Web3" = crypto nonsense

Web 3.0 ≠ Web3
The fact that you couldn't find it reported in another "reputed news organization" doesn't mean it didn't happen. News organizations only have limited bandwidth and the extreme power that police and CPS has in these kinds of situations isn't exactly a secret nationally. Maybe the reputed news organizations simply don't consider it news? Or maybe the organizations aren't as reputed as you believe? There are many explanations for the lack of corroborating reporting here that don't imply the original story isn't true.
Because thats what you do to evaluate it as a service?
That's a fairly vitriolic take on what I understand to be a pretty benign opinion.

Am I missing some context here?
op implies that after half life 1 engine cs 1.6 it wasn't same game anymore, which is a common sentiment among people who were there. first, besides I think "urban terror" which was a mod for q2 engine, cs was the first "realistic" shooter, so if you played it beta to 1.6 you were part of the creation of the new genre. second, most of the mechanism from half-life engine were still exposed and the path from beta to 1.6 was at least in part about tweaking your cfg to give you a little edge. each new release would nerf and remove some "exploit", and it was kind of exciting in its own way. third, cs after it got bought by valve and later cs:source became big publisher game, explicitly "e-sport", crystallized in the conventions, big and flashy, one of many "realistic" shooters, that came to dominate the shooter genre.
Ask HN: Suggestions for working effectively with junior devs?
I'm a senior dev at one of the FAANGs with more than 15 years of experience, but the rest of my team consists of devs with an average of 2 years of experience. At first when I joined, I thought this was an aberration, but there are many teams around me that are structured similarly. Is this how FAANGs try to scale teams? The devs on my team are smart but mostly naive about getting stuff done in the real world. I'm sure they'll figure it out over time. But in the meantime, my days are quite frustrating because I'm in teaching mode most of the time instead of building stuff.
> I mean that something else will limit the capability of the sensor before the quantum efficiency of the silicon.

Sorry. Again, no. Not a single well designed camera will do this. Quantum efficiency is, to use a term from a time gone by, the "emulsion". Now, if you are talking about a $15 security camera or some garbage design, sure, whatever, anything is possible. I have been involved in the design of cameras for terrestrial, orbital and lunar applications. You don't throw anything away unless you absolutely have to.

QE is the "fingerprint" of the sensor, it si based on the material used to make it and it all follows from there. Put a different way, it's how a sensor converts photons landing on a pixel into electrons. You can't degrade or enhance this externally. If less photons land on the pixel (bad optics, ND filters, etc.) the QE is the same. If more photons hit the pixel (back illumination, better optics, etc.) the QE is the same. If you have shitty digital processing, the QE is the same. Etc.

Going back to statement that "Digital sensors these days are way better at capturing light", still not sure what it means. For example, a better way to capture light is back illumination, which has been around for many decades. Interested in learning if there's something in modern sensors (in production) I might not know about.

I have a database of nearly every imaging sensor in production up to about a year go. It covers the SWIR to visible range. Every sensor you can buy. If there are any advancements that cause a sensor to be "way better at capturing light", I would sure love to know about it.
It is especially great, because it allows fast analytics on historical data with ClickHouse: https://www.ntop.org/ntop/historical-traffic-analysis-at-sca...
No, not that statement on its own, and no one's seen jail time in Norway for hate speech alone. The post specifically targeted an individual for harassment.

And, again, these tend to be matter of perspective; balancing the right of free speech against the right to be free of discrimination. Each country is picking in these scenarios where rights conflict; I tend to prefer Norway's selections.
Convincing people the streets aren't safe also helps ensure police budgets keep going up year after year.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/defunding-claims-police-funding-in...
France's government just applied 10 times on a row the "49.3" article of constitution where the French parliament cannot vote on a law presented by the government.

https://rundownbulletin.com/politics/105269.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_49_of_the_French_Const...

Now the same government wants to use another article 47.1, where the government does not even to present any new law to the parliament.

https://newsrnd.com/news/2023-01-22-pension-reform--%22recou...

Even De Gaulle, who set up Fifth Republic by a coup involving the army, has never gone so far.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1958_crisis_in_France
Worked for me but without sound.
Using GPT to Write SQL
There's also just that Google's search ranking doesn't work anymore.

I searched "lowest temperatures in boston every year" and got some shit-looking MySpace-like website with a table of temperatures, hell knows where it got its data, instead of a link to the correct page on NOAA or something more authoritative.
I've realised this recently reading various stories about what seem like amazing debug stories but boiled down to understanding how to use tcpdump or wireshark or some other profiling/logging tool but they are amazing because most devs simply don't know how to use them (or even if to use them).

This is probably part of the reason why Google is super fast and most software is super slow.

Same for IT teams. I should be able to assume that any answer to a network question includes the relevant info from the wireshark trace not just, "I can't see anything wrong with it"!
Kind of an unfortunate name. At first I thought it was "NToPNG" and was slightly confused.
While we’re on the topic, I would add TVs to the list of evil objects. With a book, if you don’t like the content, you can stop reading at any time. But with a TV, anyone in the vicinity is coerced into keep listening and turning the TV off, even when the content is extremely disturbing, while others are watching is considered faux pas.
What's as worrying, judging by the comments here and in that GitHub thread, is that there is no correlation between technical ability and ethical understanding. Perhaps naively, I'd have thought someone intelligent enough to develop a technology like this would also be intelligent enough to understand the complex ethical issues it raises. It seems, unfortunately, that there is no such correlation.

In fact, anecdotally, it seems the people with the technical ability are least likely to have a nuanced understanding of the ethical impact of their work (or, more optimistically, it's only people with the conjunction of technical ability and ethical idiocy who would work on this, and we're not seeing all the capable people who choose not to).

Also, what's with all the people in this thread coming up with implausible edge cases in which deep fake tech could be used ethically to justify a technology that will very obviously be used unethically in the vast majority of cases? It's almost useless for anything except deception—it is intrinsically deceptive. All the 'yeah but cars kill people so should we ban all cars?' comments miss the obvious point that cars are extremely useful, so we accept the relatively small negatives. The ethical balance is the other way around for deep fake tech. It's almost entirely harmful, with some small use cases that might arguably be valuable to someone.
The most important thing I’ve learned about anxiety in the past year is that the conscious/cognitive part of your brain is not effective at calming down the stress response. I recommend this book to anyone who struggles with anxiety: https://amzn.to/3B3muZ9
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The rule of thumb that seems to be common among my peers is that monopulse offers an angle accuracy improvement of roughly 10 to 1 for objects with nominal SNR (13ish dB).

So a radar with a real beam width of 1deg employing monopulse would result in an accuracy of 0.1deg if the object can be reliably detected.
Very good points. I've used this same strategy for decades and my interactions with the police have been nothing short of overwhelmingly positive. Of course, I remain wary at all times, maintain situational awareness, and always try to remember the police officer's name and badge in case I need to have redress later with their department or the court.
I appreciate the response!

Now that I know this, I will probably remove the tree - eventually. It's near the deck and I don't want wasps around. Additionally, there's a big snake that likes to sun itself around the tree. Not that I mind so much, but a lot of visitors get really nervous!

One of these years, I'll get a better variety and plant it further up the hill, and move the stones that hold the heat that the snake likes so he can go hang out up there :)
If you frame it as ignorance, the next step is to enlighten the other side with the factual arguments you want to make. "The threat landscape isn't as bad as you claim it is." "Mass surveillance has downsides that are worse than you would think." If you assert deceptive intent, it kind of slides into character attacks.

It's true that people sometimes don't argue in good faith, and it's fair to question hidden motives. But I think if you have better facts, you should keep arguing the facts.
The article seems designed to provoke, not really illuminate.
Self contained, fully static LLVM tools and libs
Really wish people would stop conflating "Web 3.0" and "Web3" they're entirely different concepts that just have similar names, and don't get me started on "Web5" (but if they are achieving anything it's killing the "Web [version]" naming convention forever)

More about Web3 ≠ Web 3.0 for the uninformed / curious: https://www.nexxworks.com/blog/web3-and-web-3-0-are-not-the-...
No ordinary people are competent enough, even for Linux these days. The tech people tend to over-exaggerate their belief that average people can't think beyond hitting a button.
it's been over 15 years but b43 came back instantly, woah!
I also think there might be different kinds of stress responses that might be wired differently, for instance the leaning into stress had hardly helped me. Immersion and slow adaption to stressors seem to work better for long term decrease in my case.

Breath is important, it does help! I have enjoyed the Lungy app recently launched by an HNer.
Absolutely. Tech companies already learned their lesson with the transition from the personal PC to the phone. VR will be even worse.
> Not sure if this is intended to be sarcasm, but it's like the adage goes -- just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you.

But it doesn't mean they're after you, either.

> ...but the media do constantly provide puff pieces for the police.

And teachers, too. Is that a media conspiracy to distract from poor school performance and low test scores? Must be, as proof, watch for the big jump in those from September to June, right during the school year, when schools are actively performing poorly.

What's really happening is there exists a genre of news called "human interest stories" that highlight all kinds of feel-good positive stuff.

In this case, one type is about ducks getting saved. Here's a bunch of stories where firefighters are doing it:

https://www.wusa9.com/article/life/animals/baby-ducks-rescue...

https://www.wral.com/apex-fire-department-rescues-13-baby-du...

https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/jc-firefighters-rescue-ducks...

https://www.whas11.com/article/news/local/ducklings-rescued-...

https://www.whec.com/archive/ducklings-rescued-from-sewer-dr...

https://local12.com/news/local/nky-fire-department-comes-to-...

https://www.12news.com/article/life/animals/lucky-duckies-ph...

https://www.fox29.com/news/firefighters-get-creative-to-save...

https://www.winknews.com/2022/07/26/ducklings-saved-from-har...

https://www.fdlreporter.com/story/news/2021/05/05/spring-bri...

https://www.ocregister.com/2021/04/01/huntington-beach-firef...

https://www.wdrb.com/community/prp-firefighters-save-family-...

https://www.forestparkreview.com/2020/06/11/duckling-saved-f...

https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/local/communities/the-...

https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2021-04...

And here are common citizens and other kinds of workers doing it:

https://www.abc4.com/news/local-news/duck-defender-neurodive...

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/3502545-ca...

https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/zevely-zone/duckling...

https://www.metrowestdailynews.com/story/news/2022/04/29/duc...

https://www.odt.co.nz/star-news/star-christchurch/team-effor...

https://www.richmond-news.com/local-news/video-richmond-resi...

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/07/07/off-duty-...

https://www.blogpreston.co.uk/2022/07/preston-rspca-describe...

https://www.wmar2news.com/goodtoknow/good-samaritans-rescue-...

https://dailygazette.com/2020/04/23/rotterdam-water-departme...

https://onwardstate.com/2021/05/04/wholesome-penn-state-stud...

https://myedmondsnews.com/2020/04/scene-in-edmonds-duckling-...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/17/us/boys-rescue-ducks-savannah...

https://www.news4jax.com/features/2021/05/05/familys-ducklin...

And here's a man who needed to rescued by firefighters, because he got himself stuck in a drain while rescuing ducks:

https://www.wxyz.com/news/firefighters-rescue-man-who-was-tr...

Those are some of the top results of a Google News search of "saving ducks from drain".
Breaking the Limits of Traditional Cyber Threat Detection with Memgraph
But I heard Alex Jones say something different ...
Source wasn't well received by a portion of the community. The community bisected for a while with some folks staying on 1.6. I don't recall everything behind the 20+ year old drama but it was a thing. Source eventually won out and the rest is history.
My son specifically got into computer security as he found it more fun to figure out how to get around various security policies and whatnot in his school in order to figure out how to play games (with CS 1.6 being the most popular at his school at that time).
Yea I just figured a bootstrapper is not going to take a salary in year 1.

But also seems like you could sidestep this by taking your salary as CEO rather than as a software developer or...something?
If you played the betas I wonder if you remember beta 7 and the jeepathon2k map. Not many people know that CS had driveable vehicles for a short time. It was pretty silly but a lot of fun.
How did that work out for communists in the US in the 20th century?
This is a very hard problem, "who is the original author of a string of facts," "is that string of facts sound or was it altered," this is like the end of truth.

I know that truth is relative but it's like there's no point in using the word truth anymore. Everything is just becoming a collection of words.
How can it be a fact-checking machine when it can take nonsense and make a plausible sounding response from it? GPT has no understanding of what truth is (let alone any real understanding of anything)…