skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making sure I get your point: if I get a job at a mature company, like amazon, and they give me, say, 100k in stock options, then AIUI filing a 83b would be painful as I'd owe taxes on 100k even before they vest.

But as the stock vests, isnt that treated as income and taxed anyway? And then taxed again if I sell (as capital gains)?

If so then it comes down to a gamble of whether the stock is going to go up by the time the stock vests and whether you happen to have the spare cash around to pay a tax bill.

Am i reading that right?
One to Many in Healthcare as an Innovation?
I work in healthcare tech (boring backend engineering on apps). I have always wondered about a real innovation in the provider patient relationship. Of course, this is only the case for the treatment phase, not the diagnosis as the individual is the primary focus for the provider. In spin class and yoga, one provider (instructor) can provide high value for many. Is there any way this has been taken advantage of that anyone knows of? I would love to do something in this space. I am aware of many of the constraints like the one I mentioned (cannot diagnose many as each case might be unique) and health info being private. But there must be many applications that could shorten wait times for treatment, or bring the costs down for patients or both. The main insight being that many things that healthcare providers do are repeatable and generic for many patients. The closest that comes to mind is group therapy. Surely this line of thinking could unpack the value of healthcare providers? Any criticism/ examples/ companies doing things in this space would be appreciated.
Step 1. Build a swimming pool somewhere in the US

Step...

There is no other steps. Don't overthink it. A couple of hot bricks every 5 years isn't something to freak out about.
Yes, I've come to the same pattern after many year of crafting explanations.

If I may add somethig, an initial step 0 that contains a "pitch" or "hook" to motivate reader to read the material. e.g. why what you're learning is important/useful.
> The world needs basic income

That's all we need. Basic income will allow people to get housing, internet and food.
Maybe I'm too pessimistic, but sometimes I feel that bloc got all the goodies at everyone else's expense. This isn't a typical 'boomers' or anything argument against the people, but perhaps the demographic itself and the way politics played out.

Pensions are unheard of now, and companies are still struggling to keep up with them, likely meaning lowered wages for the next group(and no pensions). Tough luck.

I fully expect to pay social security my entire life to subsidize those getting it now, and to be dead before I'm ever able to collect a dime.

Honestly, even having paid into it my whole life, I wish they'd just kill it off. It's an unsustainable pyramid scheme, especially as birth rates flattened. Even if I do live long enough to collect, I don't want that burden on the next generations.

The age is going to keep being raised. A quarter of Americans don't even live to 'full retirement age.' And when it's raised so high it's profitable, the USG is just going to raid it like a slush fund.
Previous discussions (slightly tricky to find because the URL has changed)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6654905 (November 2013; 81 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9738302 (June 2015; 29 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14394095 (May 2017, 7 comments)
> Upto 75% of population is employed in bullshit jobs anyway (= not producing anything).

Source?

I love that so many people are convinced everyone but them is doing nothing and somehow getting paid for it.

> Only 2% of population working in agriculture already produces food for 10+ billion people.

What's your point?

Who's going to take care of sick people? Who's going to educate our next generation? Who's going to maintain our infrastructure? Who's going to police people? Who's going to defend our country from war? Who's going to make sure your cellphone still works? Who's going to make sure your house still has electricity? Who's going to make sure the laws are being followed? Who's going to make new entertainment for you?

We need to do more than just have beans to eat.
The State of Competitive Machine Learning – 2022 Edition
I agree with this very much of course.
The Right Side of History
> If you are alone on a island, there is no one to say you don't own it

Ownership has no meaning unless you can identify who does not have it, which requires at least one other person nearby. If you are alone on an island, you are just occupying it.

> Similarly, you can own land without social dependence if you have the power take or defend it.

This requires an army or militia, or an overwhelming technological advantage over those you are dispossessing. Those imply operating in a societ. Otherwise where does your militia and technology come from?
>We don't have to get carbon production to zero. If we run the gas plants even as much as 10% of the time for no-sun-no-wind-flat-batteries conditions, you've still cut 90% of carbon emissions.

Not just wrong but backwards, we in fact need to REMOVE gigatons of carbon to avoid dangerous, possibly catastrophic warming of the planet.
This isn't a problem as long as your grid does dynamic minute by minute pricing.

When the price of power drops to zero in the spring/fall, you can be sure there will be plenty of people lapping it up to smelt aluminium, make glass, make steel, make cement, liquify air, make hydrogen, etc.

When the price of power is high in the winter, companies will swoop in with gas turbines, power cables from other places, and extra insulation to keep houses warm with lower energy costs. Entrepreneurs will see this coming, and will be there ready to provide power or power-saving measures to those who did not prepare.

As long as the market can set a price, the market will solve each problem. The people to lose out will be customers who don't adapt to keep their costs down - for example those who heat their 1960's uninsulated home with electric baseboard heaters.

There are already plenty of seasonal industries - like tourism. Power hungry industries will become seasonal or migratory too.
PgEdge – Fully distributed PostgreSQL, optimized for the network edge
I think the problem is incentives - it would be way more effective to cover the cost of decentralized solar panels, but then you don't have to charge for the power and there's no way to "recover" the investment. I think we're going to keep seeing these dissonances until we can get over the idea that everything has to generate money
Inscrutable?

The language is _tiny_ (and kept that way on purpose)

Aside from stuff like metatables(which may require you to play around for a bit to understand their value), you can pick it up in a couple of hours. I'm not even kidding. So much so that you see people modifying code without even looking at documentation.

https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/

https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/lua/
What major city would you recommend Google employ at 100% to vet enough advertisers to support nearly 30 billion daily ad impressions?

Or, alternatively, should there be a few tens of thousands of firms allowed to advertise on the Internet and the rest of us can just pound sand?

(... actually, now that I think that "out loud," a distributed trust model would be an interesting idea. Google, instead of vetting ads, could vet trusted ad resellers, and knock entire resellers off the network that failed to do due diligence. The resellers would be responsible for policing their various houses and if you didn't like the terms one provided you could go to another. This is, perhaps, one of those situations where more middlemen would be desirable).
Try this one: https://oeis.org/A060843
It's not necessarily in defense of billionaires, it's because other people are just as vile as Musk and feel validated by him being vile in public. See also: Donald Trump.
Is there a fundamental reason that cuts would have to be to benefits? Why not cut xx% of the government budget anywhere but pensions?
:)

Thanks for clarifying!
> Lua is most hated lang

Impossible. Most developers outside the games industry don't even know it exists.

... and if they knew about it, they would use it much more.
> I wonder to which extent can category theory be re-expressed in terms of sets...

yoneda
Now that's the kind of wrong causation that follows from using bad analogies :) most people’s hearts stop beating once they die, but there’s a myriad of reasons why they die in the first place - only some of which being a stopping heart.
That's how one might like to think traditional media works but then again the Lakers play in the FTX (previously Staples) Center, and plenty of other orgs have taken shady crypto money as well. It's not exactly like human review is a perfect solution.
It is tempting to believe that category theory will shed new light on and simplify machine learning, just like it did in algebraic geometry, algebraic topology and other mathematical things. This is wishful thinking. Folks who care about doing something useful should stay away from this content.
Is this any different to the high ranking results for websites which host re-uploads of literally every windows installer for every piece of software and sometimes even include malware? That, as far as I am aware, has been an issue for at least 10-15 years already, if not more.
I take fractal to mean: at all scales
I had the impression that's what fly.io was doing.

Converting Docker images to run in VMs instead of containers.
'Cotorra' is 'Parrot' in Spanish. So "The Parroting", but not in the sense of repeating things back.
I agree. And how people think about disabilities is interesting. See the discussion about what is acceptable to disclose. And does the CEO of Twitter really think you have to type to tweet?
And yet despite these numbers, somehow the most prominent open source software is relentlessly impersonated and Google is the facilitator, FTA: https://twitter.com/wdormann/status/1616497407390355456

It's clear this will never be prioritized without regulation as scammers money is as good as anyone else's and open source projects cannot afford to sue Google to force action.
Not everyone has made their sexual fetish their identity and wants to see porn all over the place.

edit: The parent comment originally advocated putting hardcore porn into all content, but was edited.
What about the existing housing stock? There's a lot of energy upgrades that pay off well over a couple decades, but not when you move an average of every 7 years and the new homeowners don't know how or care to value your upgrades.

I think the government could create regulation to fix the incentives here. Something like allowing enhanced energy efficiency to be paid over time by creating a lien on the house that a new homeowner has to continue to make payments towards.
Yes, but the clamps I've found designed for that sort of use are quite expensive, and add a substantial margin to the project cost - and they're not needed if you can weld it up, or have someone else weld it up.

As I understand NEC from talking to various people and reading quite a bit of it myself, someone else can do the frames for a homeowner installed solar project, but "rails and up" has to either be the homeowner or a licensed electrician, because the rails are typically considered part of the grounding system and therefore electrical work.

In any case, costs doing it yourself are far, far lower than paying someone else to do it. And ground mount is an awful lot nicer to work with than roof mount.
Huh, what does that have to do with whether or not Amazon has a monopoly? I think at this point it’s clear they do not, you just didn’t have the info about the industry you were commenting on.
In no time at all live video will be inadequate to verify someone's identify. It won't be enough to verify that you're talking to a human being at all.

TTS that fed into an LLM (brownie points: one trained on fraud artist conman techniques) with replies fed into face video + voice generation. Open Zoom and Facetime and start making calls.
FWIW, Bing was worse last time I used it. Not only for FOSS, but for e.g. Google Chrome! First page of results were useless, top two were malware.
OP here.

The exponential growth in CS publication is much faster.
This repository is simply a testament that CT is slowly ramping up.

It's meant to show what kind of expressive power and breadth current CT models have, which to my knowledge isn't something that's well-known outside of our niche community.
Your examples are either Military projects or Buildings? FYI they're building Fighter Jets and Stadiums and Skyscrapers all over the world. Nothing majorly impressive about that.

Really complex things we completely fail at, Nuclear power plants take decades longer than intended. California's High Speed rail is billions of dollars over budget and many years behind schedule and may never finish.
It's certainly not a perfect solution. But it would be vastly superior to whatever they're doing now.
> Overwhelmingly, it does "just work" as Apple intended.

that's a creative re-wording of "you're holding it the wrong way."

Not all Apple fans have been on board with the slow morph from general purpose computer to walled-garden console -- although admittedly that audience is probably mostly gone, anyway.
> Now, there have been studies that showed that erythritol is apparently toxic to fruit flies.

In fruit flies. Totally irrelevant, and it's stunning the author thinks they can use this to suggest anything about human physiology. Even mammal models of other species can't definitely tell us anything about humans.

> But we seem to have spotted a toxic effect now.

seem != does

> In initial untargeted metabolomics studies in patients undergoing cardiac risk assessment

Unfortunately, these are studies evaluating patients who have preexisting cardiovascular conditions, so at most we have correlation and perhaps some causative data specifically for those already at risk for cardiovascular events.

Maybe there's something to this, but the tone of this article isn't scientific.

> if your clotting behavior is normal to start with, you really, really, do not want to go around activating your platelets.

That depends on the degree. Alcohol affects blood clotting, so I guess we'd better not have one sip ever under any circumstance.

> That seems to be a risk under normal erythritol consumption, as determined by separate blood level measurements

Seems, for those who are already at risk of CVD.

It may very well turn out that erythritol increases risk of CVD events in otherwise healthy people, but that's not what any of the data mentioned actually indicates. The only exception may be how erythritol has been observed to affect patelet activation in vitro, but there are many things that seem significant in vitro that aren't medically relevant in vivo.
Yeah, but you only spent $10. The investors aren't going to stand for that crap when all these other companies are scamming their way to thousands. $10 or $4000 in revenue...take your pick. Gambling needs defined and outlawed in every way possible.

The recent supreme court ruling that released the sports gambling hounds has me gobsmacked with absolute disbelief.
The EV will be better even if the energy mix was 100% brown coal? Just takes longer to offset the climate effects of making the battery.

It’s just so wildly more efficient in operation.
Google doesn't care. We need someone copyrighting malware as art, then let RIAA/MPAA et al. lawyers do their job.

/s?
According to some quick googling, about 26% of roads are financed by gasoline tax, another 11% from tolls, and the rest from federal and state general funds:

https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiative...
When working on spacecraft cabling we use a combination of zip ties and lacing cable depending on the situation.

Lacing is used to hold a bundle together, fix shielding braid around cables and to connector backshells, and sometimes used to fix the cabling to the spacecraft structure.

Zip ties are used for more structural tie down points for both cabling and small components.
Because law enforcement always follows the rules and they don’t employ rubber hose decryption.
> There is no value to this comment. I mostly just wanted to be annoying

Since annoying provides negative value, your statement is incorrect.
There is no reason to believe government programs are ran efficiently or without large amounts of fraud and corruption. There has to be a reason it costs governments (including government contracts) several times as much to do things compared to the private sector and non-profits.
you, the user, should expect it to work without any tweaks or workarounds

I think that, for any reasonable definition of "it just works", it would clearly refer to essential functionality and not the extremely long tail of niche tweaks that at least one user out of millions might want to perform.

For example on Apple devices I've often wanted a feature that would let me skip PIN/FaceID authentication when connected to my home network. No such feature exists. But I'd say there's a clear distinction between a missing feature and "not just working."

Of course, "it just works" is a vague marketing phrase that they haven't used in a long time, perhaps a decade or more? So, whatever. You have the power to decide it means whatever you want it to mean, and then decide if Apple meets your made-up standard or not. I freely admit that's what I'm doing.
This makes sense at the UI layer, if you're making a chatbot or an NPC for a game. But if you're at the point of prompt engineering, it makes no sense to stick to the natural language interface. It's like another iteration of the idea of "programming via conversations in natural language instead of writing code" - it sounds like it makes sense, until you realize that programming languages and the mathematics underpinning it were developed specifically because natural language is nowhere near precise enough for the job.

Or, put another way, using text/conversation as user interface in a model is turning a normal engineering problem into a much harder reverse engineering problem. Why would anyone want to make life difficult for themselves this way, and ultimately turning engineering into voodoo?
We have these little 250ml cans in Australia now, I think that's ~ 8oz.

I have one once in a blue moon at the beach or on some outing when I feel like something more that water.
I never click on ads even if I know it's what I'm looking for, often it's the wrong page on the right website. Looks like I'm alone in this though.
Use this and the other NASA workmanship guides all the time. A really great resource for building spacecraft.
> roads are BY FAR the most expensive part of infrastructure you mentioned - and those are financed by gasoline taxes.

Do you have any sources for that? I'm in Australia, where fuel costs about twice what it does in the US. A decent portion of that is taxes/duties, but road spending is taken from consolidated revenue, and fuel taxes ultimately contribute a minority of the spending on roads. So unless the cost of fuel production is massively lower in the US, something doesn't add up.
> The top 3 chunks of spending

After national defense, you mean.

https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/budget_function
Generally, the difference between being able to do SQL or depth-first searching comes down to the storage layer. Traditional row-oriented RDBMSs can’t do DFS efficiently, but a RDBMS backed by RDF-like columnar storage sure could.
I'll cherry pick an example: the default cookie config rule(https://github.com/bearer/bearer/blob/main//pkg/commands/pro...).

We have many places where `cookie: <EncryptedString>` is used in our code and it triggers that rule. There are a few issues with this:

- Most of the expressions where we use that pattern are used to send a full encrypted cookie string. The use of `cookie` is not the name of a key in the cookie string, its the whole cookie.

- All of the data in the cookie string itself is encrypted and also sent over https. Just matching on a regex expression won't tell you this information without an accompanying AST to verify.

Notably, we're using hapi and not express but my notes above would still apply to some use cases in express as well. Its possible I am missing the actual value of that rule, but just matching on the expression is going to generate a ton of false positives.
46 comments and not one has called out the fundamental issue: when you run software you have essentially giving the author access to your machine as you.

The problem is that every piece of software has way too much power, way more than they need. Apple with iOS has done a pretty good job (AFAICT) locking down what an App can do and there's _some_ of that on macOS. I don't know what Windows is doing. And of course, even it were perfect we'll still have vulnerable platforms for decades, but at least IT dept. can curb them.
Yes natural gas has less Co2 emissions per BTU than oil and natural gas can be burned very efficiently in a power plant at nearly 60% vs say 40% for diesel or 30% for gasoline in an ICE.
I recently almost got scammed by Google malvertising in free android app for scanning QR codes as I was trying to pay for parking.

Fortunately my bank blocked the operation.

It's weird that Google has zero responsibility in those cases.
They are not wholly funded by gas taxes. At best, federal roads are half-funded by gas taxes, and local roads are not at all.
Oh. I wasn’t objecting. I am not getting many calls, maybe one a week, but the explanation of “picking up and wandering around” makes complete sense.
What do you do when your phone fails?

2fa can also be soft-defeated by simply using iMessage or messages.google.com, so sms codes go to the desktop machine you're trying to log in from. Does that mean we should eliminate services that connect to phone messaging?
ChatGPT Explained: A normie's guide to how it works
52 entire dwellings on 250 acres? Thanks but no. You would literally need to pave America to make this happen.

50 dwellings on one acre is at the low end of the urban density scale.
Sorry, Lua is not simply not a great language.

The first problem is "Which Lua?" Lua, by itself, is almost completely useless. You first need to compile/install a bunch of things in order to make Lua useful. This has the Perl problem that everybody uses a different dialect of Lua.

The second part is that the Lua constructs for programming in the large are very weak. I believe that Adobe had a postmortem about this (Lightroom, I think?)

And then there is the language, itself. For me, the 1-based indexing is death in this day and age. Sorry. Zero-based is the dominant ecosystem and not fitting into that is simply not acceptable.
It's also meant to suggest where things are going (the kind of a chart I have in mind is this one https://twitter.com/bgavran3/status/1422206118688956420 ), though I understand this is something that deserves a much more substantial proof.
> Hacker News Guidelines

> What to Submit

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
FYI I don't think Signal cares much about anonymity (sadly). I've seen several discussions on their forums where admins have even been hostile to people asking for it. I love Signal, but its community is toxic and I really wish the devs would move a bit faster. I know it is a tall order, but that's what Moxie argued in his "The Ecosystem is Moving" talk (we can't have decentralized because you have to move fast and adapt). There's a lot of low hanging fruit that Signal just seems to ignore.
Chatgpt doesn't "learn from every conversation", they trained it once and the output isn't back propagated through the network. Keep in mind that Githubs terms are the same ones they willingly ignored to make copilotm