skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are kind of two sides barking at each other when both largely agree on the same things. While there are a handful of people on some extreme of anti/pro tax stuff - perhaps anarcho-libertarians or communists - nearly everybody falls somewhere in the moderate middle. And here I think everybody would obviously agree that some taxation is necessary for the functioning of a country.

The question is how much? Federal revenue in 2022 was $4.9 trillion. That's more than $37,000 per household in America. The median household income in the US is $71,000. [1] So I think these sort of data are what "really" draws the dividing line. Is $37,000 per household enough to ensure the functioning of a country? Is the problem more with a lack of money, or more with how that money is being spent?

[1] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
Not only does it need water, but the water can't stop for any reason without resulting in a disaster. You have to keep that spent fuel cool otherwise it'll burn itself.
Not to mention Obama deported almost 1% of the entire American population (some 2.5M between 2009 and 2015) - more than any other president either in actual numbers or as a percentage of the population.
Weren’t there tons of devices that use Flash Lite for UI up to that era, in mp3 players and flip phone markets?
> horror stories

What horror stories?

The wages of the poor do not keep up with inflation.

> inflation is a transfer of real value from the rich to the poor

No, it isn't. It's a transfer from the rich and the poor to the government.
My resume now runs snake (page 3) [pdf]
I was looking for a way to make my resume stand out more and somewhere down the line I started thinking about what PDFs can do. I learned that PDFs do support Javascript -- though not a lot of people use it. I thought it would be cool to try build a simple game that runs inside a PDF so here it is.

Snake running in a PDF (last page.) Works on Firefox and Adobe Reader (desktop). But it won't work in Chrome and Edge.

Technical details:

(1) I used a 2d grid of input fields resized as cubes to provide a 'pixel'-like screen.
(2) Each input has a coordinate and the game code manipulates the background color of the inputs to provide a 'display.'
(3) To support input for the game there is a hidden input field tied to keypress events. The event handler listens for keys to move the snake and ignores the rest. Starting the game automatically 'clicks' this hidden input.
(4) Finally, there is an interval timer that runs every N ms to update the screen and game state. E.g. as the snake moves in one direction the game loop runs and 'draws' onto the screen. It is responsible for collisions, food, and so on.

That's about it. I think there's a lot of potential to be creative with PDFs. I know snake is only basic but I thought it was cool anyway.
So very similar to the US then. It's not that an incoming Governor of the opposition party can't be stripped of executive power it's just that no one had done it until recently.
I must've. Ran into some "we are unable to process your request" while trying to reply earlier.
I suppose because they spent 6-8 years of their early adult lives focusing exclusively on biology and not computer science
No Executable Is an Island
Nuclear fission reactor are intrinsically dangerous, no matter what amount of safety procedure or technology you throw at it. Touting nuclear is safe is like saying asbestos is safe.

I don't understand the motivation of some trying to argue that nuclear is safe, while ignoring all the obvious and huge risks that must be continuously addressed either in the technology, in the procedure or even in laws (eg. trading of nuclear material).

I guess the same will argue that nuclear is as safe as solar or wind, which is like comparing apples to oranges.
Yeah I dread doing taxes. One time I forgot something and had to amend oh man that sucked.
The problem is if the water turns off for any reason, it'll burn itself up and cause a massive disaster. Especially the spent fuel which needs water to stay cool.

It's not fail safe.
> that's going to create all sorts of perverse incentives

That's why you assign the kids to teachers at random, and an independent 3rd party does the assessment.

> It is also insulting to teachers

Only the incompetent ones. The competent ones will be happy to collect those thousand dollar checks.

P.S. Write me a check for $1,000, and I'll cheerfully endure your insults.
Thank you for clarifying. Actual raw sockets for SVG would have been absolutely insane.
He was born in NYC and lived there until college. I think either of which would make it safe to call his "hometown", unless something specific about NYC (its size?) precludes people from calling it a hometown.
> This doesn’t just make me more productive: it lowers my bar for when a project is worth investing time in at all.

This is the real benefit here. AI isn't taking jobs, it's going to enhance them - once we learn how to use the tools we have available to us.
As a run-of-the-mill mathematician and programmer, what I've found the most helpful is studying philosophy.

During my teens I went through an existential crisis, and the dread I've felt every day drove me to start reading philosophy books. I found Nietzsche, and while his books were extremely hard to read (took me years to actually go through them), I feel that it's shaped my mind in a universal way, giving me ability to "see through" all the abstractions and arbitrary rules set by various actors in this world, and focus on the fundamentals. Russell and Wittgenstein were the follow-ups, which further developed the sort-of-nihilistic view of Nietzsche into something that made more sense.

I feel it has helped me a lot with both general "smartness" and mathematics, so I'll recommend it too. Read philosophy.
If they get more achieving grade level, isn't that what we want?
I'm pretty sure nuclear power plants are safe if operated properly. I'm pretty sure they are not and will not be operated properly. Especially in Japan, where I live.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokaimura_nuclear_accidents
Let's rule out Chernobyl and look at TMI and Fukushima.
- Three Mile Island had cleanup costs of $1B (1982, so maybe $2-3B in todays money).
- Cleanup costs after Fukushima seems to be about $500B+

So, even though reactor prices seems to have tripled, cleanup costs seems to have no upper limit.
Just in case, I am hereby declaring my candidacy for the President of the United States for the upcoming election and all future elections in my lifetime.
The poor aren't starving in America. Besides, they get the free school lunch.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712 there are a lot of examples in this paper.

Also it’s not that it writes perfect code straight away and you never have to re-prompt or change anything manually. But it’s still an insane speed-up.
Hardware to Transfer Your Gameboy Color Pokemon to Gameboy Advance
Unfortunately this seems to be true of a lot of people that don't have tesla's as well ;)
Chiplets and standardized hardware interfaces are a great start.

Now we just need to solve the remaining 90%: firmware, software, security, virtualization, …, …
Was the 500B entirely of radiation, or also the well tsunami. As if we want to lover the later we must remove all people from coast forcibly and maybe make some kinds of zones patrolled by armed guards to prevent people entering there.
I agree, it also helps me to get things started, sometimes when I want to start a new project I need to learn new tools and/or APIs but the documentation can leave a lot to be desired, so the mental overhead could be too much that I get bored soon if I don't get results.

I have abused chatGPT so much that I have an impulse to talk to other programs that are not the chat bot, like the terminal and VS Code, when they give me an error that I cannot understand, just to ask them "why?", like a premonitory dream I think I have an idea how chat bot could be integrated into every piece of software sometimes in the future.
A like minded reader may want to have a look at the Go lang. math standard library source.

* https://pkg.go.dev/math
Chaos Engineering: Jurassic Park and Distributed Systems
It's what I use, but it means I have to have Thunderbird running all the time or I see all the spam on my phone. It's just kind of kludgey compared to a server-based solution.
The author said scaling up nuclear would result in 26 more disasters, so if you're trying to beat coal in the radiation department then scaling up nuclear is a good way to do it.
Yes, which is funny because there was an article on here with some pretty hard data which showed not much difference or maybe worse performance from GPT4 than 3.5-turbo.

You'll likely refute that as your mind is already made up, but there you go, another conflicting and confusing data point.
There were income taxes before 1913.

e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1861
IMO the end product looking "average" is quite different from the prototype looking "average", and Noya looks great for prototypes/MVPs.

Put differently, Noya feels like an exploration tool. When exploring, tents are fine. They do not provide a lot of comfort, but replacing them with houses while still exploring might not be optimal :-) Personally I don't mind average tents, as long as they don't leak.

EDIT: Hmmm, maybe Noya is actually between a tent (Balsamiq) and a house (Figma) - something like an RV? :-D
Right right I forgot to avoid jargon..

Though at the rate this thread is going
the only people who will read it know what an FP is ;)
It’s basically an ASIC.
The brain is a statistical model of the world it inhabits-Karl Friston [video]
> It would be great to have a free, IRS-provided alternative to the various for-profit softwares out there.

See, you've fallen for the trap too. The IRS already prepares your return for you based on all the information they have, they just won't show it to you. Instead you have to use third party software to prepare basically the exact same document and then you can risk fines or jail if yours is different.

Just send us a tax bill in the mail.
It works here on Firefox, although playing is sorta syncopated. Very likely a timing issue.
The Civil War was a fight over the efficiency and ability of the country to run itself via taxes or not?
Procedure Framework – How to Improve the Fault Tolerance Capability
Procedure is a new feature currently under development in GreptimeDB. Introducing the Procedure framework helps to record the progress of multi-step operations in the database and automatically retry failed operations to ensure their completion. This article will briefly introduce what the Procedure framework is, as well as our approach to implementing Procedure Framework.
I think you can go an awful long way with three things

- a single programmatic API wrapping all parts of a company "datastore"
import accounts, people, ...
print sales.emea.range(2023,2,1)

- a simple forward based test suite - so tests that are specified now but should pass at certain dates in future, or after certain release milestones
test.endfebruary.totalemeasales> 5M
test.startfebruary.totalmarketingemea.increase = 15%

This basically is trying to link budgets to actions in a traceable way.
it effectively takes project management and wipes it out as it should.
you don't need managers to tell people what is to be done, you just measure if it has been done.

(admittedly Inthink things also need to measure like "all posters in shops need to be chnaged by date x"

- lots and lots of talking to people
I started to write a reply, but realised it's futile arguing with someone with such low ethical standards. So I've blocked you.
This might be tangentially related - I'm not sure. I've recently started playing jazz piano, after years of classical piano.

Now, I'm supposed to be a reasonably good sight reader, or at least that's what I thought. The improv part of jazz I'm not good at but I get, but I've also tried playing from transcriptions (Bill Evans in particular), and have found I'm extremely slow at reading the music.

After thinking about it, I suspect it's because the music makes no sense to me so I can't guess what's coming ( which is what I do with classical music). So while I anticipate with classical music and just confirm after the fact/right when the note actually shows up, with Bill Evans I have to think hard and actually confirm everything.

My ears help but not much, since 'confirming' the sound is much harder with jazz than with classical music (it's unexpected , so again, there's some kind of delay between 'I hear the note' and 'ok that's right' while there's essentially no delay with classical music where my brain is kind of 'primed for acceptance'
Sometimes, sometimes not.

Deidentification is not always anonymization, and deanonymization is far more trivial than expected in many cases.

Those two search terms should get you to the studies/case studies.
> Omnissiah

I like that.
That’s my go to as well
I don't know about Chernobyl, but there should not have been any nuclear related evacuations for Fukushima. People who wanted to leave on their own could. Evacuations might have been a good idea in some places for the worst flooding and earthquake zones, but I don't know that it was even possible to get that information in advance, and even if it was the Japanese government would probably not act on it, then or now.
Funny, but it is the same here in Bulgaria. Terrible, horrible, no good, very bad governmental intervention.
If you don't care about "performance":

double my_cos(double x) {

double sum = 0;

for (int n = 0; n < 10; n++) { // 10 terms of Taylor Series

sum += pow(-1, n) * pow(x, 2 * n) / factorial(2 * n);

}

return sum;

}

Edit: code formatting
The iPhone was one of the _first_ devices to drop support for Flash, not one of the last (well, “dropped” in the sense that it literally never had Flash). Arguably the first mainstream device to have full powered browsing and no Flash, since the introduction of Flash. It was only because of this that desktop browsers were eventually able to drop Flash a decade later.
From a simplified perspective, isn't a collective "just" paying those people you work with a higher portion (and probably expecting more responsibility out of them)?
Caffeine is very different from opiates.
Nope, luckily all my bosses have got it and were remote too (one of them spends a few days a week in the office). I produce what they need, can be relied upon and will travel to customers / tech events / all-hands when needed.
I hear Sweden is also a cashless society with occasional negative interest rates -- sounds wonderful. Are there any benefits? For example if you pay on negative interest rates can you apply that to your income tax filing?
> It's pretty backwards

I think it's pretty clever.

There are a lot of usability issues with firewalls and proxies that make implementing other streaming protocols very difficult, and the HLS design basically causes the implementer to adopt a pattern that is resilient to those problems.

Networks got a lot better after Covid had everyone work from home so IT had to sort the hot-path out for videoconferencing. Nowadays I think WebRTC would be fine, but in 2009 I think HLS was pretty smart.
Well, AGI is detrimental to literally all humans. If everyone understood the facts then everyone would vote for solutions. As it becomes more and more obvious we are getting closer to this.

If one of the many close calls had gone a little differently and a city were nuked accidentally, it would cause a global outcry and there would be yet another international effort to reduce the global nuclear stockpile to zero. And there’s a very good chance it would succeed. At the very start there was actually an agreement to not initiate a nuclear arms race but the Russians went back on it. So, for something that is “impossible”, we seem to see signs of it all the time.

The reason you think it’s impossible is because most things aren’t like this. Most things benefit some people and harm other people. This harms all people. Be a part of the solution instead of dismissing real solutions when you have no logical reason for doing so.
For me it’s pasting a snippet of code I’m struggling to debug and asking it to help. Sometimes it works, sometimes it comes up with an answer that is also buggy or doesn’t work.

I find it much more useful for soft things like writing a complaint to a vendor for me, dealing with customer service, or cover letters from a job ad that I only have to slightly tweak. Takes me five minutes instead of 30+ and I got a few compliments about my “outstanding” cover letter.
> Nuclear triggers some primal fear.

Rightfully so.
The punctuated green site from yesteryear had a special moderation carve-out for funny comments distinct from the insightful contributors to keep things on track and interesting. But the parent poster dignifies neither and is better deserving of an Onion headline IMHO.

>> I've scrolled through the top ~10 or so comments

>> I'm not a lawyer and it's hard to parse the above.

>> Overall this seems like a weak comment to me.
If plants were still being built to 1960s standards, we'd have many Fukushima type reactors that can't survive a loss of plant power. The US still has some of those, Peach Bottom, Pennsylvania being the best known.

There's a lot to be said for a big, strong containment vessel. That's why the Three Mile Island meltdown was an expensive accident but didn't injure anyone. Maybe if the industry just got better at big, strong containment vessels cheaply...
> Did you notice how talk of Trump's crimes related to classified documents disappeared completely after Biden was found with improperly handled classified documents?

Well, it could also be because Biden's discovery (a) was smaller and self-reported, (b) his legal team helped in resolving the situation, AND (c) the documents have been recovered in both cases and the ball is now in competent authority's court.

It's like this - say you and I both run over someone. I hide the evidence and try my best to prevent my guilt from surfacing. You, on the other hand, co-operate with the authorities and accept your blame. Which story is more likely to linger longer in the papers? I'd say mine simply because I'm being obstinate and refusing to do the right thing as expected by the law and by common decency.

I'd say that's why Biden's story died because of this.
As a physicist and full professor in medical imaging I can ensure you somewhat authoritatively: You can simply disregard every clown on the internet who dismisses linear no threshold out of hand. This is fairly sure sign that this person relies on pseudoscientific sources, also promoted by certain industries and shills which generally lobby against anti-pollution laws and sadly adopted by some pro-nuclear lobbyists. (of course, nuclear is far better than coal and one can make very reasonable arguments for nuclear, but simply dismissing LNT puts you directly into the pseudoscience world)
There are examples out there. DataStax is a managed Cassandra provider and AWS came out with their own managed Cassandra service.
Wouldn't deepfakes be categorized as abuse?
Even if you have proper training to get your license (most people here didn't even get that) you only learn to drive while actually doing it.
> It is also insulting to teachers, as if they could have been doing a great job getting the kids to grade level, but chose not to because they weren't financially incentivized enough to do their job.

It may not be the same people though. If teaching in the US was a well-paid and highly respected profession it would presumably retain the most qualified teachers instead of driving them away due to having to find a living wage elsewhere.
In a sane tax code it wouldn't matter. Revenue = Income.
Lighting (on AC 110v / 220v circuits) also typically is specced for a lower peak amperage than utility or appliance outlets. For US codes, generally 15A rather than 20A. Lighting may use 20A, but isn't required to.

Other circuits must be 20A, e.g., kitchen outlets serving appliances.

A summary of standards here: <https://www.thespruce.com/common-electrical-codes-by-room-11...>

A 15A lighting circuit can serve up to 14 100W bulbs. Or 150 LEDs drawing 10W each....
This is an ages-old hoax: You don't need to carry an ID card. If you don't carry one but a police officer requests you to identify yourself, they can decide to accompany you to the place you keep your ID card at (at home, for example).
There should be plenty of C trigonometric algorithms made for fixed point. They usually use lookup tables and interpolation. Used a lot in embedded microcontrollers that don't have hardware floating point or hardware trig functions, and in automotive where floats were (still are?) a no-go due to the dangerous float math pitfalls and the safety critical nature of ECUs.

I remember writing a fast, small footprint, but very accurate fixed point trig function for the microcontroller used in my batcher project, many lives ago. I'll try to find it and put it on github.

The neat thing is that you can use the native overflow wrap around property enabled by C integers and processor registers to rotate back and fourth around the trigonometric circle without needing to account for the edge cases of the 0/360 degree point. You do need to suppress MISRA warning here though as it will go nuts seeing that.
> gpt4 >> gpt3.5

Leftwise bitshift would make gpt4 worse though :P
To give an example, I had 3 things on my hobby to-do list that fit together: learning some data compression algos, learning Golang and testing out Chatgpt/Copilot coding efficiency. So I downloaded slides and exercises from a course of my old uni, and started implementing the exercises in VSCode with Copilot. Whenever I had a question, I would consult chatgpt. Whenever my Copilot code didn't work, I'd go through it line by line to see what's wrong and paste it to ChatGPT to see if it knows what's wrong.

My experience:

- Copilot did a decent job at suggesting functions when I typed out comments. It got progressively worse as the compression algorithms got less common (eg. Huffman vs. entropy coding) The smaller the functions, the more manageable it was. <- You need to write good tests, you want to step carefully through every line of code it writes.

- ChatGPT got most things right, and a few things really wrong. It was always super confident. <- Super dangerous if you don't double check, basically only usable as a refresher on a topic you are already good on.

- If given a piece of code and asked "How would you suggest to refactor this?", ChatGPT gave mostly very useful ideas. <- This is something that I will keep in my workflow.

- The bigger the project got, the worse the overall codebase looked. It became a mix of styles, pretty inconsistent, more subtle bugs were introduced that took me a while to figure out. (The nice thing about lossless compression is that you know if the code is right by using it)

- My "productivity", how many lines of code "I" wrote, was way beyond anything I could usually reach. I do also feel like I got a very quick start into Golang with this, much faster and broader than reading documentation or doing a getting started. That said, that knowledge now definitely needs to be refined in order to use the appropriate concept at the right time. Comparing my code with more professional Golang code bases I spot a lot of things that need to be improved.
Probably want to check out https://www.kapa.ai/, no affiliation, just a fan.
oh god please no, if we are going out with a blast at least filter out what the AI will remember of us

training set 1:
"THEY TOOK OUR JOBS!"
"THEY TOOK ER JERBS!"
"TERK YER JERB!"
> Also hidden in the small print, the assumption that future accidents would be "no worse" that previous ones.

This is spot on. This is like saying "driving is safe because I never died so far".

Besides, it neglected to mention many other problems, including nuclear proliferation, centralization of power etc.
I'm sure the poster meant it was their first time riding a bakfiets, not that they never rode a bike before. The length of the bakfiets makes it a bit of a challenge.