skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not sure who you think is concerned about the feelings of the IRS,

The IRS isn't exactly mute and helpless.

If the IRS came out at some inquiry and loudly said "Millionaires and billionaires can hire a tax firm to deal with these piles of paperwork we make people fill out, but it's a disgrace that normal people have to spend a great deal of time/money and life stress dealing with their taxes, when we already very likely know exactly what the upper theoretical bound of their tax payment is."

> The corporate cash is literally the only reason they care.

The reason for anything complicated cannot usually only be attributed to one reason. Money is always big influence, but so is power, and probably other variables.

> The IRS doesn't vote.

They're not literally voting, but they're choosing what benefits them the most, right?

Are you familiar with an exploratory task force or committee being where ideas are sent to be killed?

> Your theories of power are weird.

My theories of power are literally the standard throughout all of human history.

People very rarely voluntarily give up power that exists that benefits them.

Giving up power is so rare that the very few examples of it we have in human history, such as George Washington declining power, are heavily celebrated.
Or their cost-benefit analysis said that the cost of removing kids from schools was worth it.

Cost is incurred by the children who have no voice, so zero cost to decision makers. Benefit is to one of the largest donor groups to politicians, so also large benefit to decision makers. Cost/benefit to society, population at large, the country? Seems to be willfully ignored.
The balloon provides the lift for an instrument payload.
This has had me wondering if there is an amateur/civilian role in spotting, (optically or otherwise) high altitude unidentified objects.

I know amateur's are involved in meteorology, aircraft tracking, even spotting asteroids and meteors. It would be awesome to have something pointing up all day with software on the back end — pinging you if a small object traverses its CCD.
Wow... I'm not sure what to say. How many decades more, for instance?
Personally I think that's throwing the baby out with the bathwater for most use cases. You could rephrase my comment as "if you're already committed to reinventing half of libc's wheels, this one is not really any harder or more awkward than most, but if you're not aiming for that overall goal then reinventing just this one wheel is a bad plan" if you like.
Resolution would designate potato as Oregon state vegetable
I wonder if my ASCII art image screws this up?

EDIT: Yep. https://imgur.com/a/FS4n9iA
So what's your plan for the incapable, the disabled? Fuck 'em! Capiche?
If you pretend that your message bus has zero producer impedance and costs nothing then this analysis makes great sense. If you have ever operated or paid for this type of scheme in the real world then you will have some doubts.
Great example for the benefits of 'no loss lottery'. Savings plan which provides prizes.
Hehe, okay. It was meant to mean "Each stage is processed in a transaction". Kinda hard to get down into a list. But my wording evidently didn't make anything clearer!

If you read a few more pages, then it should hopefully become clearer. This page is specifically talking about it: https://mats3.io/using-mats/transactions-and-redelivery/ - but as it is one of the primary points of why I made Mats, it is mentioned multiple places, e.g. here: https://mats3.io/background/what-is-mats/

This is not Mats-specific - it is directly using functionality provided by the message broker, via JMS.
John Carmack goes off about online-only games being abandoned
How much would you pay for childcare to stay at work?
Still using my old Dell 1440p 27" monitor to edit my 4k youtube videos. I briefly considered buying a 4k monitor this year but I spent my money on a NAS instead. I use three monitors on my desktop, the other two being 1080p. I use the 27" for my main monitor and the others are for docs and videos. I haven't bought a monitor in like 10 years because these things just keep on going. I do have a 4k monitor and work and its nice but does not feel significantly different from my old 1440p monitor. If I had more money I probably wouldn't think much about an upgrade but I work for a tech non profit and live in the Bay Area so I am not out buying new stuff that often. The NAS was a long needed upgrade to serve as a backup for my important media!
I am on a pair of 1080p’s. I stare at text all day. What is the benefit of upgrading to 4K?
Rather than watching a bunch of marketing courses that’ll probably be covering content that is painfully obvious (trust me on this one lol), you’d be better served picking up a book like “The Personal MBA” to understand the important concepts in marketing (among all the other core business elements).

I could write a lot about marketing, but for the most part it all comes down to one thing: really understanding your target customer (what they want, what they do today, what type of people they tend to be, etc.) and creating the messaging and material that speaks to them. Don’t fall in the trap of talking a bunch about all of your cool features. Instead, focus on how with your tool, your customers can become the hero they always wanted to be (or at least show them that their life will be better).

If you can do that, you’re doing marketing and doing it a lot better than most.
"Connectedness" is a qualitative answer that's subject to change from person-to-person. I work best when connected with my peers over Slack or something similar, so I can streamline my workflow away from arranging meetings or interrupting others. Obviously everyone's job is going to look different, but that also explains why management is so frustrated with remote work while many devs don't care one way or the other.

However you slice it, remote-vs-office is a matter of perspective. Trying to make one uniform office/remote policy is not working.
Why is this better over Kafka?
If I was China and I wanted to disrupt Space Development Agency plans over my country (go after and destroy low orbiting satellites). It would make sense to me to strategically provoke my opposition into being the bad guy (shooting down benign low orbiting stuff) setting a precedence so I may be free to "retaliate" with less recourse of public opinion.
"Another amazing study recently revealed that neurodivergent friendships and romantic partners"

Neurodivergent, as far as I know, is not a medical term.

Did this study use that term?
At least WRT the first balloon that kicked off all of this hubbub, NYTimes report that the State Department have disclosed it was "equipped with an antenna meant to pinpoint the locations of communications devices and was capable of intercepting calls made on those devices": https://www.nytimes.com/article/chinese-spy-balloon-mission....
Okay, so the minimal pessimistic interpretation of "more permissive". Bummer.
> Then why is he tweeting something that implies the opposite?

Exactly this.
New one: https://notams.aim.faa.gov/notamSearch/nsapp.html#/details

Looks like it's over Lake Huron now?
Come on, this is FUD. You're talking about one or two guys who got into an enormous personal fight years back and were condemned by everyone else.
Thanks for this.

I love the idea of breaking up a flow into separately scheduled but still linear message flow.

I wrote about a similar idea in ideas2

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas2#84-communication-code-sl...

The idea is that I enrich my code with comments and a transpiler schedules different parts of the code to different machines and inserts communication between blocks.

I read about how Zookeeper algorithm for transactionality and robustness to messages being dropped, which is interesting reading.

https://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/r3.4.13/zookeeperInternals....

How does Mats compare?

LMAX disruptor has a pattern where you split up each side of an IO request into two events, to avoid blocking in an handler. So you would always insert a new event to handle an IO response.
Your license would not be a dealbreaker for me in an SME commercial setting. AGPL would be a dealbreaker.
Another strategy that works really well with beginners is to use jupter notebooks via https://mybinder.org/ links. We put all the materials on github, and then send the workshop participants a link[2] that launches a remote jupyter lab, so they don't have to install anything at all.

That works well, but make sure to download your notebook in the end of the session because they are ephemeral (will disconnect if no commands for 20 minutes).

[2] Example mybinder link that launches a notebook from a github repo:
https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/minireference/noBSstatsnotebooks/...
You are correct, of course. I was writing my comment with two ideas: a) venting some steam as I'm of course upset that I can't e-file; b) telling that things some take for granted, such as an ability to file electronically, aren't really universal.

I suppose the issue is that they had to start from scratch. It's not really about software, it's only a data structure here that's problematic - an XML schema that doesn't allow to make some value kind of optional.

IRS most certainly has an existing data structure that can handle all scenarios. They don't just file outlier cases as a paper in some cabinet - they do digitize those mail-in forms and input them into a computer. I had downloaded back a transcript and it's all in there, my 1040 was digitized, so I know it for a fact.

It's just probably that it's hidden in an ugly giant legacy system (possibly involving some Fortran-running mainframe somewhere) so they weren't able to realistically extract this full schema from there. Or deemed it too flawed.

A shame that they probably will never be able to afford a proper rewrite (sometimes legacy code gets too convoluted it becomes impossible to treat it as anything but a black box).
You were too harsh on ChatGPT, by calling it rubbish, after it tried so hard.
Sorry, what is the explanation for large headcounts in your comment? Are you saying hire more people because more people results in more innovation? I’m not following.
Could you give an example of 3 amazing articles that would make you purchase a subscription if you found them on the same platform?
As far as I can see, this doesn't say it can't be used on AWS, it only says Amazon can't launch its own service that uses this software to compete with itself. It's too short to really tell what "compete" entails, though.
The majority of high-level US politicians have had an anti-China bias since about 2011 so Senator Schumer is squarely in the mainstream on that issue. This bias is completely reasonable given the rapid growth of Chinese military capabilities and the malign intent of the CCP leadership. Look into the history of President Obama's "Pivot to Asia" policy; he wouldn't have made that move without broad support from the political establishment.
Agreed. This was such a stupid take that it’s going to turn off most who read it. I think the goal of the bill is great, but I wouldn’t take it seriously after reading this person’s take on it and would assume it was put forth by ideologues who have unrealistic expectations of how people actually live.
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> There are no good current gen (or even previous gen) cards available for under $1000

The 4070 Ti is <$1000.

> Want a 10Gb onboard NIC? Be prepared to shell out $1000 just for the motherboard.

Why not just a PCI-e 10GbE NIC on a regular motherboard?

> now that figure is closer to $5K.

I see plenty of prebuilt PCs (eg CyberpowerPC) with 3070 Tis for $2k. 4070 Tis for $2.5k.
> I used to think that the community of hackers would be immune to this

I'm not really sure why you would think this. Hackers use tools to amplify their intent/will. Hackers are also human beings, who generally are interested in cutting the drudgery out of their lives. The fascination seems obvious.

> We're pretty much fucked

This opinion strikes me as the classic case of "I don't like how other people are (or are going to be) living their lives. How dare they!". If mostly everyone is comfortable, happy and (within reason) has access to all the things they want, why is this so offensive to you?

As we (hopefully) approach a post-scarcity, AI-supported society, I totally agree that the average level of insularity will increase dramatically. So many of our day-to-day interactions are solely due to us needing to (begrudgingly) cooperate to live our lives, and people will just opt-out of those interactions. But that frees up so much time to spend with the ones we actually want to socialize with.

In such a future, there's nothing stopping you from "maintaining your humanity" with other like-minded individuals. Inflicting hardship on others is not a requirement for that.
The Challenge of Making a Keyboard for Every Language
.mozilla - Firefox

.npm - NPM

.pki - Chromium-based software

.SpaceVim.d - My fault, I should write my own vimrc but I'm lazy

.steam and .steampath and .steampid - Steam

.vscode-oss - VS Codium

.w3m - w3m cli browser

These are the ones I couldn't change the behavior of, in my dotfiles I've managed to fix at least a dozen of programs that were previously misbehaving but offered environment variables to change their behaviors.

The thing that bothers me most about these is that most of these folders are simply cache and logs, I can always delete them and the application will keep working, but of course the folders will be recreated. It's truly mind-numbing.
Wow. "Using Borland C++ compiler and BASM assembler as a programming platform".
I had to get this just to see what the code was like back in 1993...
Luckily/unluckily I got started on silicon graphics machines, so never needed to perform the heroic hoop-jumping that 3d engines needed on pcs at the time.

This will go nicely with "Methods of Orbit Determination for the Micro Computer" (1991) which published by AFIT and has some incredibly useful simulation content...with examples in BASIC
Assuming management who actually care about their people (a tiny minority), I've seen companies allow employees to vote whether the company should have layoffs or temporarily reduce everyone's salaries by various means (e.g. furloughs). This approach requires some things that are rare, like competent senior management who care about the well being of their people.
Combat roles are a minority of military jobs and vast numbers of people live off base with a somewhat 9-5 job.
A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of Y-intercept (2012)
No it isn't.

Occam's Razor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor)

> when presented with competing hypotheses about the same prediction, one should prefer the one that requires fewest assumptions

Occam's razor would say that this is the first time we've noticed a balloon over the US, so we shot it down. Believing that there is an unspoken agreement between the US and China to allow a certain amount of spying and we're only taking a hard stance because the Chinese fucked up and got their balloon noticed by civilians has far more assumptions baked into it.

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To be clear, I'm not saying the theory presented by OP is wrong, I'm just saying that it's not backed by Occam's Razor.
For posterity, I was apparently wrong. It doesn’t autovectorize, with gcc 12.2 -O3 on godbolt, at least.
Factories aren’t cheap and they don’t age well. Datacenters probably go obsolete even faster. Someone had to put a lot of money at risk in return for uncertain future profits, and it wasn’t me. I can walk away with all the paychecks I banked whether they succeed or fail.

I think this is why worker-owned co-ops don’t outperform; ideologically they over-index on sweat equity and are reluctant to pay the market price for the capital they need from outside their own membership.
This story sounds oddly specific...

May I ask how many people come complaining to you?

In any case, how you treat your family and friends is your own business, but I'm unclear how you're holding anyone accountable, or how this is relevant to poverty in general?
The domain is "sending a rocket to space" whose specifics are, in general, not only that you really don't care, but that one of the things you want to maximise and make as easy as possible is inspectability by humans.
It seems to me that 43% support among Democrat primary voters is fairly broad, but I guess that's just a debate about semantics.

I would argue, however, that he faced tremendous opposition from the wealthy, and that translated into most corporate media either attacking him or ignoring him, so his supporters could only be heard on social media.
see also: the noise/experimental music label (iatrogenesis tapes), created by brother of "casiotone for the painfully alone"
It took me a while, but by reading a lot of AI research papers, I finally realized that Computer Science is primarily an experimental subject. You can see that we are running a lot of experiments in these papers. I don't think we understand what is going on inside the Deep Learning networks, for example. Sure, there are quite a few studies, but overall I think this is accurate, we simply does not know what is happening inside. The main difficulty is high dimensionality. We simply do not have mathematical frameworks to analyze structures in the 100s of dimensions. With the advent of special relativity in 1900s, we developed some understanding of 4-dimensional objects, and a bit higher dimensions in the String Theory. But 100s or 1000s dimensions, - we simply have no mathematical tools for that. The real CS theory is sorely lacking. For some reason, theoretical computer science seem to contribute quite little to the practical deep learning world, while primarily concerning itself with the complexity theory and computability questions. Fun stuff, but... Somebody needs to do this. Calling all theoretical physicists looking for hard but immediately useful problems to solve!
I see where you're going, but I don't see the legal issue as relevant to my question. The answer I was hoping for was that the company makes no claim toward any rights that may exist in the work the tool generates. That way, regardless of how the law treats generated art, the company won't end up with rights in stuff that their customers made. Compare "royalty-free," which implies the company retains everything except a claim for royalties.

It's too bad the cofounder hasn't answered.
This is unfair. I made Mats so that I could use messaging in a simpler form. Nothing else.

Mats is an API that can be implemented on top of any queue-based message broker - which excludes Kafka. But it definitely includes ApacheMQ (which is what we use), Artemis and hence RedHat's MQ (which the tests runs), and RabbitMQ (whose JMS implementation is too limited to directly be used, but I do hope to implement Mats on top of it at some point). Probably also NATS. Probably also Apache Pulsar, which I just recently realized have a JMS client.

You could even implement it on top of ZeroMQ, and implement it on top of any database, particularly Postgres since it has those "queue extensions" NOTIFY and SKIP LOCKED.

edit: I actually have an feature-issue exploring such an implementation: https://github.com/centiservice/mats3/issues/15
An old Amiga with ‘Titanic’ miniature shoot ‘video taps’
Heck being a US Taxpayer looks stressful. Useless comment, but my lord y’all have made live way too complicated!
My wife and I do this using TV bingo sometimes and use freely printed bingo sheets with some old markers. It's a fun way to spend an hour and sometimes it means we go out for dinner or buy something fun.
Quoted from [1]:

"It seems that these two research studies, dating back almost 40 years, had kept the FDA from approving Stevia as a common sweetener, due to concerns about its effects on both male and female fertility. Dozens of further research studies show no evidence for concern.

Plus, there is some question as to why pharmaceutical companies worldwide have not used Stevia, a completely safe herbal extract, to develop better and more effective contraceptives if indeed it holds these properties. The answer may lie in the fact that it simply doesn’t.

Today, Stevia is sold in almost all grocery stores in both liquid and powdered form, as a sugar substitute."

[1] https://natural-fertility-info.com/does-stevia-cause-inferti...
I see your point, and could not avoid thinking if ElasticSearch would have more revenue if AWS could not offer it directly.
The cheapest 3050 in Canada is $389. It is ~10% slower than a 1070ti.

4 years ago you could get a 1070ti in Canada for $400 new.

The exchange rate is about the same as well.
That weapon is only being deployed on a test basis. It is rather short ranged, unable to shoot through clouds, and too heavy for use on aircraft. But the next generation of laser weapons might be usable on tactical aircraft.
Actual weather balloons transmit on internationally agreed common frequencies https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/wmo-and-itu-update-radi...

Amateur radio operators monitor these frequencies https://tracker.sondehub.org/
Are balloons still used in weather forecasting anymore? I thought that ended with weather satellite.
The truly wealthy understand non-wage income and how everything physical should be owned by and maintained by trusts and corps.

They don't teach that in school.

The quickest way to fix this unfair scheme is to completely repeal the personal income tax. That government revenue can be offset by increasing sales tax on everything (except uncooked food at grocery stores).
People who are complaining about how we (don't) connect are completely missing the places and ways that people do connect in the modern world. I've spent the past year connecting in person with people almost constantly. Just not with my coworkers. I spend my days in coffee shops, socializing between periods of focused work, and my evenings going out and socializing at parties, beaches and spas. A life of socializing in the office and at the bar sounds like absolute hell to me.

If you're not sure how to connect with people while working remotely, search for coworking spaces, coliving, and workations, and find an in person meetup for one of your hobbies. I often go to running groups or meet people at the gym.
United Airlines 777 dives after departure
I'm curious how much of the research going into Nature if funded by the US government.
How about the military sees UFOs on a regular basis but only started telling the public after this balloon thing? After all, we still don't have any information on the 3 things they've shot down since the original balloon.
Not everything has to be open source
Poor people are less likely to be homeowners who can make that investment in DIY. Instead their time cost is chasing up a landlord who is slow to do repairs. I do agree with your wider point though, and car maintenance skills are especially valuable to poor people keeping an older car running.