skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are the liabilities?

I remember a CBS article from decades ago. CBS submitted the same tax information to something like nine entities, including the IRS. One or two of them got it right. The IRS was NOT one that got it right.

The law is so complicated that the Ultimate Authority can't get it right?!

What are the Preparers' civil and criminal liabilities for getting it wrong?

What are the liabilities if it is true that the Amendment authorizing the Income Tax was not legally ratified? There are claims enforcement of the Income Tax is a felony committed under "color of law".

Would that make tax preparation "aiding and abetting"?

If my sources are correct, only taxpayers are liable for income tax. The definition of a Taxpayer is anyone who signs a 1040 Form and/or anyone with income from outside the United States.

It's been taken to court. The defendant said, "I'm happy to pay, just show me the regulations where it says I owe." He said show me the links of the law between the Constitution the statute that says I owe. The government ignored what his request. The jury did not.

The foreman of that jury spoke to the National Press Club ... forty years-ago? Marsha Brooks(?) was her name, I think. She explained how the jury decided that juries were there to enforce the law; the defendant made a reasonable request; the prosecutors ignored it. Repeated requests to the judge for a copy of the law or just the statute number of the law, got nothing from the Court except "You have the information necessary for making a decision."

They acquitted.

Government did not appeal.

The video of the speech to the National Press Club is, however, no longer available easily available. It used to be a quality recording.

The last time I found it is only available from Russia... excuse me... Muscovy, and the recording quality sucked.

No thank you. Please do. I'd love it if someone did. But I want nothing to do with.

(LOL (but softly). A GOOD open source tax preparation program sounds like an excellent project for Muscovian hackers; so rife with irreconcilable mores - to exercise the American freedom of speech for the purpose of weakening the American Government by helping the American People to understand and exercise rights that would get a Muscovite poisoned, imprisoned, or disappeared. Wow.)

Someone should write a book about this.

Oh, Red Benson already did. https://thelawthatneverwas.com/
Doesn't sound like it to me. If they meant "administrative access" they should have said "administrative access". They didn't, they just said "access" which unambiguously means just "access". Would've been very easy for them to make a one word correction somewhere in the dozen or so people who should have read this before it went out. But they didn't, they just said "access". If they wanted unambiguous meaning, they could have easily just said what they meant.

Methinks that's exactly what they did
So our end goals are kind of the opposite. I wanted a setup that I can plug in once and not fiddle with ever which is why I wanted everything wired all the way.
My hardware investigation also occurred because I noticed that scrcpy fails to display banking/protected apps while HDMI works just fine.

There should be two ways to get audio out of the phone, either via HDMI or via the cheap USB C to 3.5mm adapters.
(HDMI audio splitters also exist if you need them for some reason)

To get audio into the phone, the 3.5mm adapter should be able to handle that since they can handle headsets with microphones via a 3.5mm TRRS jack.

I have not tried this setup out yet but it should work in theory.
flickr is just perfect. why it's not on your list?
> Iran mines it’s Uranium locally

Yes, but "extra 10 drums of Uranium" are "extra 10 drums of Uranium".
When you have to use any documents within another country that doesn't list their original languages as official, not much, if anything at all, is machine-translated AFAIK. Is this not the case for most legal paperwork as well? You almost always need certified translation (by a human), for which you have to pay out a reasonable sum. And if it's not a good translator, you pay double.

e.g. Italian citizenship can cost as much as a brand new car in Brazil and almost half of that cost could come from certified translation hurdles.
It's not, but I didn't mean to imply it was.

Apple does provide all those as first party services though, so you might think of buying new phones as subscribing to that if you like it.
Ask HN: What do you do for sites that require SMS for 2FA?
I really dislike having to use SMS 2FA. Even worse is when the country of the phone number is restricted.

Do you use any service for this? Is there one? Is this a market? Help.
Yes thanks. I probably confused it with green energy.

> I'm also getting increasingly skeptical of but-other-countries argument: America's chip war with China has demonstrated that nations are willing to cut off major trade partners if they decide it's a matter of national security. I'm giving less than ten years before carbon tariffs are everywhere.

We're doing it at such a pace that 10 years is way too late. If we had the time we would do the tariffs at the same time in order to at least have everyone make the same sacrifices. Instead only a few hundred million people will make the sacrifices in vain while the rest of the world keeps burning coal. I hope the market pressures them sooner because green energy will be profitable. I'm not convinced banning energy sources like this is effective.
When they get off the drugs and stop hallucinating.
This is known as "Massachusetts".
Since your question gets asked almost verbatim every time this topic comes up on HN, I can help you with an answer. This happens both in the US and Europe. But some people, both in the US and Europe, get hardly any scam/spam calls. Other people, both in the US and Europe, get tons.
That sounds like a cool use case, but... how can you bring yourself to trust anything at all that it tells you? This feels like it's just begging to contaminate your understanding with sparse, unpredictable errors, and personally I find the thought of that unexpectedly dismaying.
There was plenty of ganging up on AOL too, if you were even a little bit outside what "mainstream AOL" people thought was acceptable.
Marketing people try to explain away mistakes with doublespeak. Isn’t it grand? They keep digging deeper at this point.
As the saying goes, 'Make hay while the sun shines'. If you don't take advantage of a good opportunity while it's there, it'll eventually go away and you won't have benefitted from it, while others have.

Not saying that to justify SVB or anything, as they're in the business of securing people's money long-term, and they made bad decisions that they had plenty of time to course correct for (rates have been continuously rising for well over a year, with a clear goal of lowering inflation to around 2%, and you can see how slowly that was lowering and predict roughly how high that would get).

Car companies also had a big faceplant moment with cancelling chip orders, but we were in the midst of a novel global pandemic that no one really knew how people were going to react to, or how big or how long it would last. Health officials were predicting around 100k total deaths in the US, and we blew way past that.

But for tech hiring I can clearly see why they were like 'let's take all this zero interest cash, get a bunch of people, use them to get a competitive advantage, and then when everything starts to unwind we'll just lay people off'. It's a shitty thing to do to people, but I get the reasoning.

I know they all claim they didn't see this coming and 'take full responsibility' or whatever in their layoff announcement/apology letters, but behind closed doors I bet they knew exactly what they were doing, at least the vast majority of them.

I've had quite a few opportunities in my life that I didn't really leap on 100% like I should have, and as a result those opportunities slipped by, and I didn't end up making that hay at all as a result, the opportunities passed and I'll have to find some other way to make that hay.
What do you mean? Running containers with docker is free as in beer, as well as docker itself being free as in speech. Do you mean docker desktop? Any reasonably proficient developer can install docker as cli only and doesn't even need the lousy electron app...
You can do all you list with effect-ts/schema.

Arguably the highest quality TS lib out there.

https://github.com/Effect-TS/schema
They want a say in certain decisions being made at the higher levels.
how can you "assure" that?
I love the README files in the Elixir open source world. Always to the point and very indicative of what you need to be doing.
If you are deleting the organizational data and effectively archiving [1] all the images, keeping only the option for public images to be pulled but not updated... then how will affected maintainers be able to delete their now out of date public images after the 30 day cut-off? You will have to retain enough of the organization data to allow that to happen.

Keeping the public images available in an archived state is okay for specific image references, but questionable for specific image tags and somewhat irresponsible for the `latest` tag. A `latest` tag that cannot be updated is ... worse than no `latest` tag.

Responsible maintainers that are unable to apply for open-source status or otherwise sponsor their usage of organization public repos should be advised to delete their public repos.

Responsible users of public images on Docker Hub need to have a way to determine which images will be affected, and which will continue to be maintained. Archiving the public repos gives an extended grace period, but users will still need to be prepared to notice if they end up using a now unmaintained, archived repo and migrate to alternative image sources.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35188691
GPT-4 Might Just Be a Bloated, Pointless Mess
“ Seeking an improvement that makes a difference in the shorter term, researchers seek to leverage their human knowledge of the domain, but the only thing that matters in the long run is the leveraging of computation. “

http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
Pull all your business logic out in to XState machines. Keep your React components as just dumb renderers.
List of Landmark Models Added to Apple’s Redesigned Map
Just come back to it after 15 years like me :)
I work at Meta on compiler support for all kinds of apps. We regularly write and use some pretty aggressive compiler optimizations and we often experiment and evolve lots of compiler and programming language features that are really experimental for use in our apps and services.

I don’t think you can directly compare an app like the ones a small team can build to the apps that larger more established companies have to maintain and evolve. I mean sure you could just do a full app rewrite and start from scratch but that’s hugely risky and certainly fails more often than it succeeds.
More extremely bored military officers will use AI for reports, paperwork, and presentations. There will be some really funny powerpoint decks on the topic or related to the topic. We might get to see some of them.

More seriously, a lot of testing is likely already taking place and slowly making its way through the tech-front-lines to the tech-rear so to speak. I would guess that right now there are 10K+ officer-level IT, engineering, and mathematics specialists who are prying with all their might to get institutional buy-in to leverage their take on what AI can do. In military forces around the world.

IMO, creative logistics will not be as amenable to positive intervention by AI. And I expect that this will reinforce the outcome that supply line attacks will be more popular, with lasting consequences. This will be more true, the tighter the feedback loop for the attacker, and the more rigid the supply line for the defender.

I would guess that defensive strategies for logistics will deepen significantly on 25+ year timelines. Likely tilting more toward moving from establishment to flexibility as soon as possible.

Battlefield strategy will need to keep up as well. Flexibility in materials and quick-fab is going to be absolutely huge, especially with smart materials if possible.

At a deployed battalion-to-squad level there will need to be sensory-characteristics-to-AI pathway translation/establishment and hardening in systems. This should be both broad and deep and will likely be part the new universal soldier concept to follow last-time's universal soldier concept.

I would hope to see at a minimum, the establishment of an objective rating system for a battlefield situation's AI-amenability, to inform combat decision-making.

Along with a general economic institutionalization, I expect open source intel to broadly and greatly constrict in terms of reliability and availability. People will realize that if you give an inch to an AI-enhanced adversary, it will try to take 1,000 miles.

Specialists will also take de facto hypnosis/jailbreaking mindsets as a new default tool for the direct AI interaction toolset.

I expect AI to also be used for counterintel to greatly restrict OSI. But this probably more minimally.

Just some thoughts though.
He was in a different arm.
They switched it on years ago and nothing changed, I still get loads of spam calls.
The owner class gets enlightened and makes sure that the govt taxes them and implements a solid Universal Basic Income

This is part of what the original UBI concept was about.

If this doesn't happen, yes, there will likely be violence until it is fixed.

The other view is that many technologies that were supposed to reduce work actually net added work, because now more sophisticated tasks could be done by the humans, so the net was similar to the highway paradox where more and wider highways breed more traffic by induced demand.

Where would this demand come from? IDK, but at least initially, these LLMs make such massive errors that keeping a lid on the now-hyper-industrial-scale bullshit[0] spewed by these machines will make many more full time jobs.

Seriously, just today I was amazed at how the GPT model tried to not only BS me with completely fabricated author names for an article that I had it summarize, but it repeatedly did so even after being successively prompted more and more specifically to where it could find the actual author (hint: right after the byline starting with the word "Author". It just keep apologizing and then doubling down on more fantastic lies, as if it were very motivated to hide the truth (I know it's not, that's just how fantablous it was).

[0] Bullshit being defined as speech or writing telling a good tale but with zero regard to the truth or falsehood of any part of it — with no malice but nonetheless a salad of truth and lies.
https://archive.is/W2NXk
I think that is still a valid answer, it just doesn't explain why as well. The fist for can not answer definitively but the 5th can. That said, i didn't bother to look up the liar paradox, so that part could be BS.
Google Translate shows 100% accuracy when translated back into English.
I think you're pretty right, but that we are currently in a boom time for standalone streaming apps, where in addition to the big guys (Netflix, DisneyHuluESPN, perhaps another 1-2 who do have both access to huge amounts of owned content and great scale) we also have every other video content producer (Warner Discovery/HBO, Paramount, NBC/Peacock, etc) currently trying to make a go of keeping as much of their content exclusive to their own bespoke paid streaming service as they can. Many of these will probably fail and hopefully resume licensing things to streaming platforms that are bigger and more appealing.
Australia (Canberra) for this one, half-remote
They don't. It's just that the solution to scam voice calls is a lot harder to implement--there's no point making rules to address voice calls because there is not yet the technical capability to follow any rules around that. The STIR/SHAKEN protocols which will address voice scam calls when they're fully deployed, but that's a fundamental change to the protocol, which takes time. Texts, on the other hand, can be text scanned independent of the number from which they originate, which allows for a lot of filtering.
> ... no one will ever be able to credibly claim that they need thousands and thousands of people to maintain a single app ever again...

Nor do we need to spend a ridiculous amount of money on a gigantic new building[1], on the roof of which we will put a 12.6-acre park and live animals, including foxes, so all of those thousands and thousands of people can maintain that single app (well, in reality, apps), ever again.

I will forever be blown away by the excess I witnessed every time I visited that campus, and I'm sure it's similar elsewhere.

[1]https://www.builtinsf.com/2020/02/25/facebook-headquarters-m...
I worked with class components first. Built a whole app in them. Now we’ve migrated to functional and I look back at the class based ones wondering how I ever dealt with that.

I didn’t want to adopt functional, but let everyone make their own decisions on what to use, and now I’m very happy I did.
TS is implementation-defined, it doesn't have a spec like C or Java.

It's simply impossible to keep up with TS for competing compilers.
> need to be replaced by a better solution.

Which is...?
This idea is unlikely to work unless the entirety of the pressurized volume is encased in a giant "balloon" or some sort of sealant coating the entirety of the cave's surface.

Lava tubes are formed from flowing molten basalt, and basalt shrinks when it cools, forming contraction cracks. If we're producing breathable atmosphere and pumping it into lava tubes, it's destined to leak from innumerable cracks in the cave walls. And it'd presumably leak out faster than we can produce new breathable atmosphere.

This differs from proposed deep "carbon capture" strategies, where we'd pump large amounts of CO2 underground for storage; in that case, the depth provides an airtight seal due to significant overburden, impermeable clays/shales, and perched aquifers above it. But lava tubes, by their very nature, are always very near the surface. That's because lava tubes - unlike other types of caves - form on the surface as molten basalt flows over it. They generally don't survive for long (geologically speaking) nor survive significant sedimentation which would bury them deeply.

Lava tube caves can certainly provide shelter, and can significantly buffer temperature changes. But it would be extremely difficult to use them as an airtight biosphere.

Source: I'm former cave resource manager for the National Park Service at an NPS unit with 700+ lava tube caves which was used by NASA for training and ongoing research.
With the organization data gone, will there be a way to update the retained images, like security fixes etc? If not, then this could become very dangerous.
Massive changes to international protocols aren't just "switched on".
> Already deployed apps will keep running, but customers cannot update or manage apps.

Pretty sure some of their cron/scheduling stuff is affected too :-\
I think it's the same 'from' as 'far from home', but I'm not British so take that with a grain of salt.

Even 'work from home' is weird. The only way I can read it if I really think about it is your work is coming from home.
This used to be the case for me but recently I got added to some kind of list and I get almost 1 SMS spam text per day, hardly any spam calls anymore. I usually answer them and fuck with the person on the other end for as long as possible so maybe I got blacklisted lul.
I don't have a definite conclusion on anything, but I remember having this discussion with a friend a long time ago, and it made me think... What he was trying to convince me was that all of those things you mention can be seen as subclasses of other natural things:

Digital simulations are self-explanatory - All things simulated must have an existing thing they are simulating. Digital is one type of representation of an already existing thing. It can be seen as a subclass of concept/drawing/painting/.

Branching timelines are more abstract, but it's ultimately based on the idea of a tree. Dilemmas over branching decisions have existed as long as we have been able to think. We branch timelines in our imaginations while playing chess or doing any strategic endeavor where decisions and responses to those decisions matter. FFT: Decision tree, binary tree, random forests, etc. These don't quite cover the complexity of QM, but it's hard to ignore that there is overlap.

A nuke is a type of bomb, which is a type of rapid expansion, which is just an expansion of something (volcano, lightning, comets, etc...)

My friend's point was that of course a caveman won't be thinking about quantum mechanics, but they were thinking about the more basic things that ultimately led to their descendants thinking about QM.

Just food for thought.
What's an example of a non-union worker organization that you've seen work well for its members?
how could middle managers double the headcount by themselves? nobody above them noticed that?
It isn't redundant in terms of the amount of code written, to me. The overhead of having the utility function and type is greater IMO.

If it's in terms of performance, that seems like moving the goalposts. I also wonder if it could be optimized away.

Next time I run into it I might use this:

if (Number.isInteger(s)) {
const allowed = (s as number).toExponential()

...and keep the isInteger check close enough that it's readable.

...or this:

if (Number.isInteger(s)) {
const n = s as number // should be optimized away by the compiler I think
Oh wow, I just assumed Youtube Music was some kind of subscription to watch official music videos on Youtube (the website) for the past few years.

Until I read your comment. wow.
Rebroadcasting live video to potentially hundreds of thousands of people at once is hardly "fuck-all", that shit costs a lot of money to do well.
Hope this union will voice out any possible changes in Bandcamp's organisation which can hurt the common creator using the platform, even though I understand this is absolutely not the goal of creating one.

It will be a bleak day when BC hits the skids, as inevitably happens with any such service (unless not backed by a solid non-profit).
I guess I'm not panicked about my job in the face of AI because objective correctness is required. I dream about the day that OpenAI can write the 100 lines of code that connect the BLE stack, the ADC sensor and the power management code so that my IoT sensor doesn't crash once every 8 days.

I see the AI stuff as very different from, say, the microcomputer revolution. People had LOTS of things they wanted to use computers for, but the computers were simply too expensive.

As soon as microprocessors arrived, people had LOTS of things they were already waiting to apply them to. Factory automation was screaming for computers. Payroll management was screaming for computers.

I don't see that with the current AI stuff. What thing was waiting for NLP/OpenAI to get good enough?

Yes, things like computer games opened up whole new vistas, and maybe AI will do that, but that's a 20 year later thing. What stuff was screaming for AI right now? Maybe transcription?

When I see the search bar on any of my favorite forums suddenly become useful, I'll believe that OpenAI stuff actually works.

Finally, the real problem is that OpenAI needs to cough up what I want but then it needs to cough up the original references to what I want. I normally don't make other humans do that. If I'm asking someone for advice, I've already ascertained that I can trust them and I'm probably going to accept their answers. If it's random conversation and interesting or unusual, I'll mark it, but I'm not going to incorporate it until I verify.

Although, given the current political environment, pehaps I should ask other humans to give me more references.