skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I'm willing to pay as much for helium as someone trying to pursue some lofty science goal, then either you have vastly underestimated the importance of amusement or science vastly overestimates the importance of the lofty goal.

Honestly, if my niece's quinceanera balloons stop the world from being saved, there's something deeply wrong beyond my scope of helping.
The fundamental thermodynamic costs of communication
"copy-pasta"? Is that a spaghetti replicator? :) I can reverse that, with XTRAN rules I have to automate removal of GOTOs by structuring code. (It uses XTRAN's code match/replace facility.)
> Are you writing many tests before you begin implementation?

No. I usually write functional/integration tests after I've written most of the code.

> TDD promotes that you start with just one.

And that one will be absolutely entirely useless. Because what would be that "first one test"?

Let's assume it's a REST or GraphQL service that returns aggregated data from multiple external services. Until you have more-or-less functioning code (including all model definitions, client definitions, data transforms etc.) you can't even write a "first test for observable behaviour". Also here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34765360
And was considered really expensive, at the time
> Schumer said he was briefed by the White House's national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, on the most recent object shot down over Canada on Saturday. According to Schumer, intelligence officials believe that object as well as the unknown object shot down over Alaska on Friday and the craft downed over South Carolina waters earlier this month were all balloons.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/3-objects-flying-us-canada-b...

edit: https://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_3_4885.html

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Good License for a Database?
If you started creating a new database system today, what license would you choose? I am picturing a system that could be installed locally—not just used as a cloud service. What sorts of considerations do you think are particularly important?
I was recently refactoring the dialogs at work where I inherited a codebase with a few different custom implementations of equally many dialogs. Some of those had the click outside handler closing the dialog, others didn’t. So I went outside to the world wide web to see how other apps do this to pick one consistent experience.

What I saw is there is no consensus on whether clicking outside should close a modal dialog or not. A menu dialog, sure, but a modal dialog was all over the place.

I went with not closing on outside press. My reasoning is that perhaps the user had filled up some form or done some other stateful interaction with the dialog’s content, and then clicked outside on accident (perhaps missed the submit button because their mouse was jerked around, or they are on a very small touch-screen) that would be annoying to have to reopen the dialog and re-enter those values.
> THIS – this is different. If this doesn’t work – if this is not a success – it’s there, forever … I don’t want to be the guy that approved this and then it’s a flop and sitting out there in Vegas forever.

Disney's Galactic Starcruiser flop makes him sound less wrong than the article tries to make him sound.
They refuted it with anecdotes of their family members serving. If you want more, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_Jewish_Ame...
It reads to me like others are talking regime collapse, whereas you're concerned about societal-level collapse. I'd agree few with good intentions would wish for the latter.
Regimes can and do collapse without it meaning anything like the level of nationwide chaos and misery you seem to have in mind.
The DEC VAX-11 instruction set had SVPCTX and LDPCTX for the kernel which made context switch simple. But they were reserved instructions; so they couldn't be used for setjmp() and longjmp(). VAX-11 also had queue instructions which made rescheduling simple. This was basically:

SETIPL
SVPCTX
INSQUE
FFS
REMQUE
LDPCTX
SETIPL

Yeah, there was a little more. See page 188 of ...
http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/dec/vax/vms...
That... is not anyhow related to the discussion, nor an argument for/against anything on this page. And thank you for your ancestors bravery.
they didn't have any real idea of the underlying mechanism

Exactly

'Chesterton's fence' is the principle that reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the existing state of affairs is understood.
The Progressives thought they would eliminate government corruption by making everything, including the proverbial dog catcher, an elected position.

It has not gone well. It turns out the voters can’t be bothered to learn about more than a few top line races. Anything under that is either straight party line or random.
7700 is 7th generation, 13600 is 13th generation, so they are about 6 years apart. The 600 and 700 tells you something about how they are positioned within their generation (bigger equals better). i5 vs i7 is a difficult topic. i7 generally has more hardware features enabled and has the higher end models. But unless you want specific features it's not so big of a deal.

Looking up the numbers instead of reading them like tarot cards, I can tell you that the i7 7700 is a 8 core processor with a max turbo frequency of 4.20 GHz, and the i5 13600 is a 14 core with 6 cores that can do 5 GHz, and 8 efficiency cores capped at 3.7GHz. And both support VT-d, which is about the only feature I would care about :D
"and the impression I get is that there must be a lot of people there who are working conscientiously and effectively."

Totally agree. The IRS is not the problem but the people in Congress who do everything they can to obstruct them.
I wasn’t intending to be snippy nor did I take your response as snippy
I know about MKULTRA. I meant the Jew thing
We don’t, Ron Wyden (mentioned in the OP) is a prominent Dem who has also been campaigning hard on this issue. IIRC he had committee access and said things like “there is unconstitutional stuff going on that folks will be outraged about” prior to the Snowden leaks. He was very critical of the Patriot Act.
1. Rich people consume; some consume a lot. Not just individually; they have businesses that consume voraciously.

2. Tax credits can relieve regression in consumption taxing; small consumers can pay as little as nothing.
That price is going to scare away most voters. $1000 per citizen for something that few people care about.

You could argue that the cost estimation is a worst-case scenario. It assumes that 90% of the affected software will be made compliant, but it's also possible that they just use proprietary exception for most applications. It would cost much less in that case, but it would do so by abandoning the purpose of the bill.

The bill died in a unanimous vote last time around, and it's not going to anywhere close to success this time either. However some other parts of the 2022 bill (considering libre solutions for new applications, limiting NDAs and non-competes, allow audits of software used in criminal cases) are more feasible and might stand a chance if they're also split into new bills.
I was thinking more about playing with new AI toys. TBH a 10 year old CPU and GPU are still fine for most games, latest AAA releases perhaps notwithstanding.
But plenty of time to complain, apparently.
The government can’t magically know what your expenses and deductions are. Got married, had a baby, used a home office, paid a plumber to fix your rental property? Deducting mortgage interest?

If none of these things apply to you and your taxes are really just a single w2 income it’s pretty simple to just fill out a paper 1040 form (or even 1040ez). You just need your w2 and an hour of time.
> So "painting teeth" with dubious chemicals is moronic since the problem is the food.

This is a pretty bold claim to make -- given the reality of American diets, do you think there's a better option? Especially in healthcare (and especially with $$$ American healthcare) you have to balance the perfect solution with meeting people where they are.
Russia had already been increasingly cutting gas supplies to Europe before the Nordstream pipeline was sabatoged. They weren’t just threatening.
> the IRS tells me what they believe my taxes should be

File for an extension. Then after April 15, download your wage & income transcripts from the IRS. Use that to reconcile with your own records and file before October
Show HN: Nix-init – Generate Nix packages from URLs with dependency inference
He's also saying "I get paid for code that works, not for tests, so my philosophy is to test as little as possible to reach a given level of confidence..." https://stackoverflow.com/questions/153234/how-deep-are-your...
IJulia is falling behind. If you look at github activity, it has 1 commit in past month. Compared to 9 authors and 39 commits in past month for IPython. IJulia issues are piling up.
Don’t want to be under sanctions? Don’t invade other countries murder innocents, kill babies. Want to be trusted? Follow the treaties you signed. Don’t want to be accused of breaking g your obligations? Read the UN charter.
Doesn't alt right love Russia and especially Putin? How did it get on your "black, Muslim, or an immigrant" shortlist?
A slightly more nuanced take from Mark Fisher's brilliant Capitalist Realism:

> A film like Wall-E exemplifies what Robert Pfaller has called ‘interpassivity’: the film performs our anti-capitalism for us, allowing us to continue to consume with impunity.
I don't think that idea can go very far before running into serious problems. Gas taxes to pay for roads is straightforward, but what would taxing at point of use for "police interactions" even look like? Are you suggesting that police departments be funded entirely by traffic tickets and the like, or that every time you call 911 should add a toll to your phone bill? The conflicts of interest and other perverse incentives are rampant. What is the "point of use" for services like the military, whose whole purpose is to prevent ordinary citizens from having to directly participate in the national defense?
I don't know anything about this study, but am a lifelong NYC resident whose kids have gone through the public school system and who also has been directly involved as a "parent leader" in some DOE programs. With some confidence I posit the answers to the questions are a) very much yes b) yes c) n/a d) no.

NYC DOE is an incredible organization that serves both the extremely wealthy and the extremely needy. There are schools where the majority of families are millionaires and the quality of the education and attention is competitive with $50k/year private schools. But there is much, much more pervasive need.

Some estimates put 1/10 of the total attending population as homeless. 70% of the attending population are on some form of financial assistance.

The range of services the DOE offers are astonishing. For various reasons they do NOT include anything that constitutes medical care, but they will regularly run studies that involve making medical resources available or provide some medical intervention. The needs in some areas are so great. As an efficient deliverer of in person services, there is no better organization than the DOE.

It is very likely that most of the students in this study have never been- and never would otherwise be- to a dentist. They very likely get 1-2 meals a day from their school year round. They in many cases spend more waking hours in their school than at home. High poverty classrooms can be chaotic, but they often are much less chaotic than whatever home is.

Consent was collected, to be sure- DOE is extremely careful about this. DOE legal is extremely aggressive because they are often sued- mostly by students of means but also by advocacy organizations, of which there are many.

Very likely NYU was offered the option of where to do the study. They could have picked the Upper East Side or Tribeca- wealthy neighborhoods where kids will regularly attend boutique dental practices- but then what would they learn? The kids there are already getting sealants and so forth.
Note that this is the same as us programmers preferring to have a single interface for many things instead of several mutually incompatible ones.

Also similar to how iterators are a fantastic API in most cases: lots of things can be built on top of getting the next item.
Intel’s naming convention on consumer parts is relatively easy to grok, as it’s been much more consistent for the last 12 years than their server/workstation parts.

Breaking both down we have 3 things to take note of:

i5/i7 - indicates relative performance or feature set within a given generation, bigger is generally better

13/7 - the generation of processor

600/700 - where Intel rates a given processor within a generation, this is consistent and doesn’t (to my knowledge) involve overlap between i3/5/7/9 - generally bigger is better.

So i5-13600 is a thirteenth gen i5, type 600. i7-7700 is a seventh gen i7, type 700

Then you get the legion of letter suffixes determining other features, mobile SKUs etc.
There are a couple edge cases where CPAs are poorly equipped. ISOs are one of them. Out of state ISOs even more so.

I moved out of CA and had to pay taxes on my ISOs. Financially it was a good move as the market soured after I sold them. Even after paying taxes to two states, I came out ahead. However, my life was misery just trying to do the right thing.

It took three CPAs. One quit after he was sufficiently intimidated after calling the FTB for instructions, one just gave up, and the third told me correct enough instructions that I paid and filed. I apparently still did something wrong per California and had to write them another check. I have no idea if I overpaid or not. It’s simply not worth the fight but if I did think it was, in come the lawyers.

I just want to get to a point where I am not living with monthly taxation discussions so I’m ok with being done with it, whatever overpayment I may have made.
Did you read the page that the GP specifically called out? And yes, none of it is related to MKUltra or the linked topic… which makes it all the more infuriating that this comment is still up and not flagged for removal.
It's not a killer deal for the consumer. That's just Nvidia fucking you over either way and still profiting off it. The market is not only bad in the high end, but there aren't any ~$200 value oriented graphics cards that provide significant upgrades over past generations. Just now the GTX 1060 has stepped down from being the most popular card in Steam's hardware survey just to be replaced by the GTX 1650, a much newer card that costs about the same and performs about the same. And with less VRAM!
Thanks. It seems that the keyboard is the last component in the disassembly sequence. It's the component that I replaced most in all my laptops because I either dig a hole in the most used keys or I break the mechanics below them. They last me two or three years.
The issue that comes up with 'efficiencies' in this context is that much of the money that has been spent at all on ISS-based science would probably not have been spent at all if it had to be done otherwise, because instead of a large up-front cost of the ISS + smaller cost of an experiment to be done inside or just tossed out an airlock, there would be no upfront cost and a large cost for a dedicated science satellite.

This is why Artemis is structured the way it is, the best way to guarantee that the US sticks to a commitment instead of every other president trashing the last one's work is to tie in so many international partners and so much large-scale up-front spending that it becomes too prestigious to cancel.

On top of that, there are lots of engineering benefits, where it's useful that we've learned the lessons from the ISS instead of needing to learn them later at the Moon or Mars or needing to have a sufficiently slow and expensive waterfall design process where they get figured out on the drawing board. Eg. simply being a destination for crewed spacecraft to go to is in itself useful as it creates a standard target to aim for. It allows SpaceX to discover that their toilet can leak urine into a compartment sometimes much faster because they're flying and refurbishing regularly.

It'd similarly be hard to quantify the benefit of things like regular resupply flights needed etc, considering that a big part of what helped SpaceX establish itself as a leader in the industry (and thus also giving rise to all of the other new launch companies and their potential technological improvements, private funding and cost reductions) was the ISS cargo resupply contract they won. Creating that regular demand has a similar effect on funding and costs as the emergence of megaconstellations as a viable project have had.

So, I'd say that ultimately the ISS is proving to have been worth the cost for the US. Without it acting as an easy destination, our space industry would be kinda like the SLS, absurdly expensive, very corrupt, barely usable and essentially non-existent (compared to the rest of the industry).
> You can’t become a competent programmer by using Windows or MacOS.

Not gonna fly with over 50% of engineers. For a good reason too
Flow Manifest(o)
Bootstrap templates contain examples and simple utility classes though.

They prepackage bundled JS for interactivity, skipping over any build process.

There are also way more websites running bootstrap that need maintenance or enhancements.

These seem like a better fit for junior programmers.

I think tailwind has caught jr programmers because course sellers have had an easier time getting market share because there isn’t remotely as much (free) content, examples and docs about tailwind.

I think the influence of people with a vested interest in selling courses (like the hosts of Syntax web dev podcast) is what gets people to choose newer frameworks, not practicality or employability.
Agreed. Another additional benefit in my opinion is that when restricting your feeding window, it’s much easier to control cravings. When “free-eating”, it’s easy to just continue to snack.
I get that, but I'm also opposed to the idea of a middleman with no value-add for what is purely a government process. The IRS should offer the baseline service and then third parties can add value where they see fit.
because they all learned from stadia and know how crappy and useless remote streaming of input/graphics is for most games.

this tech is bad. awful. only worth for casual games which are already well served by comon hardware localy.

its all a ruse to try to sell idle capacity for their gpu farms because AI model training hype never materialized
Quite a lot, at least based on my experience using Steam and playing various games I’ve bought for my actual gaming PC, but have builds available for multiple platforms.

As long as they’re 64 bit builds, MacOS’s Rosetta translation layer does a great job of running then without a hitch.

Apple Silicon is a beast. I wish more developers would take advantage of it.
Hope is hardly a strategy. Long term technological progress depends on social stability and economic prosperity and those are all but certain.

Humans had thousands of years experience having fun w/o wasting non-renewable resources.
Current LLMs can’t reason like that. If their training text contained a question and response similar to the one they are asked, those will have been encoded in their network weightings, and they will produce an answer of a similar form but randomly varying in the details.

This is why they produced answers to maths questions in the right form, but wrong in detail. It’s why when asked when and where a famous person was born, they will often respond with an answer that looks highly plausible, but wrong in the details.

What this mechanism might do though is enable it to identify this as a question best answered by one of it’s available APIs. That API might be to an LLM trained to write code to solve maths problems, so that will write the code, run it and generate a response, then pass that back through the API.

So this way you could build a hierarchy of problem solvers, some of them procedural, some of them domain specific LLMs, or problem solvers that themselves use LLMs as components to help solve that problem domain.

Interesting times.
DeepCuts: Dive deep into your Spotify data by asking questions
Just a reminder -- since a lot of people don't know about it -- the IRS has had "Free File Fillable Forms" [1, 2] for many years. Everyone (no income limits) can use it to e-file for free.

The difference is that instead of being a "wizard" interface like other tax software, it's just online fillable versions of the tax forms, that do 99% of the math for you based on the values you enter and automatically add forms and link values between forms as necessary.

I've used it for well over a decade, and at the end of the day it's just the same "doing your taxes" that my parents and grandparents did, but on your computer and easier. For anyone who has an engineer mindset it's entirely doable, even if you have to Google a few things to make sure you're doing it right (e.g. what's a qualified dividend vs. a regular one?). The real secret is keeping a PDF of your previous year's return next to you while you do this year's, because you'll usually just be filling out mostly the same lines in the same way with different values.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_File#Free_File_Fillable_F...
How to Succeed as a Junior Developer
It's name mangling yeah. I believe Go uses those characters in place of where it might use dots.