skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Real estate taxes are a necessary expense to earn income in the first place, and therefore make sense as a deduction.

It's the multitude of exceptions that prevent individuals from deducting necessary and customary expenses required to earn their income that are the problem. Glaringly - a W2 employee needs a car to get to work? Or more recently, a W2 employee needs a home office to work remotely? The tax code says fuck em, they can pay for those twice!

The disparity is why the plebs get all uppity when some ragebait article highlights some seemingly-ridiculous expense that businesses write off. When the right answer is to make it so that individuals can deduct expenses the same way businesses do.
Apple Sets June 5 WWDC Where It Plans Mixed-Reality Headset Debut
Wow! works perfect on my iPad, it could be a little more responsive to rotate but it’s great.
Only indirectly. I take quite a bit of notes on what I read, so what's going on in my life inevitably finds its way into my notes. At a minimum, it's reflected in what I happen to be reading at the time.
That doesn't fit the data though. Dobbs v Jackson was in 2022. The increase starts in around 2012. That's before Trump and the current wave of politicians who are behind Dobbs, etc. In 2012, Obama was President, the Paycheck Fairness Act was passed, Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, Pelosi had recently been the first woman to be speaker of the house, two women were added to the supreme court, etc.
https://archive.is/ma26n
Yes, blender is mainly a modeling tool. You can plug it into many different renderers (technically, including an Unreal engine game where you exported your models). Epic subsidising it should hint at it not being a competitor :)

There are other niche tools in a creative pipeline, like Substance Painter for texturing and applying surface shaders. Blender has image and material edition capabilities, but they are more entry-level than competitors to Substance and GIMP/Photoshop.I think there's a niche for a lot more tools, including "AI" stable diffusion-like tools.

Also, blender used to have its own "Blender Game" engine.
That's very relevant: some people here are discussing the viability of VR and/or online games - these already exist, and are not commonly thought of as the meta verse. You don't need the meta verse to create a game!

The metaverse is businesses pushing for a platform which brings nothing of value, just for them to extract rent from those using it.
For anyone just getting started, no video tutorials really clicked for me until I found Grant Abbitt's: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn3ukorJv4vuU3ILv3g3x...

Obviously no guarantees of instant savantism, but never say never!!
I believe the good news is that now they have a way of sustaining the product while giving up a free? service. Does anyone has the link about that article about the marginal costs of inference of LLMs? I wonder how much profitable it is.

Overall interesting times to come. I just hope llama, Alpaca etc will soon be improved, fine-tuned and commoditized.
That rounds to "all sentient beings" for any level of approximation you choose to pick.
Luma Labs seems to be doing very well, they just raised some big funding
There is a big divide between the young who think the world is over climate and the older who know better
ask Elon if he will stop working on FSD for the same period

not all AI is LLMs

take a deep breath folks, GPT does not have the launch codes
The FTX bankruptcy trustee is charging $18 million in fees (or however much he's charging) to run a team of people who have been auditing and unfucking FTX's and Alameda's books for the past four months, and will continue to for a long, long while going forward.

He's not paid $18 million to deal with any single problem with the money of a firm that kept no ~books, but had >100 offshore shell companies to conceal the flow of money, and a million people screaming at it that they are owed money. He and his team is paid to deal with the whole thing.

Also, about $10 million of that has been legal fees. [1]

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/08/ftx-bankruptcy-fees-near-20-...
Add increasing concentration of wealth in less and less people, increasing job insecurity due to technological advances rendering many jobs completely useless (and transfers even more wealth to those that are already haves and removes it even more from have-nots), the instant access to compare yourself to millions of others around the world...

I seriously can't understand why some people scratch their heads around the youth's mental health crisis. I'd be baffled if they weren't depresesd.
Rate of hospitalization seems like the sort of thing that would be affected by if society frowns upon getting help or not.
now imagine spamming their phones with tik tok videos about the end of the world due to ____________. In your example, it's climate change. Maybe it's that, but it could also be that we can now mainline hours and hours of highly provocative content directly into a growing brain.
As a phrase it's fine, it just that in the context of "random internet commenter on random HN thread", no one knows you and has no idea what you said recently.

My horse is also really high. We've been smoking weed together.
s/moderately wealthy/already highly taxed/g

Fuck that noise about capping the SALT deduction. Seriously. I live in a place that has high property and state taxes because we pay our fair share to give residents of my state a decent life. Property taxes for fixer-upper starter homes in my area exceed the SALT deduction cap. The cap hits people who are "moderately wealthy", but that definition of moderately wealthy cuts into what is decidedly the middle class.

You can try to twist it like it was some win for the working class, but it was aimed smack at blue states as a punishment for doing the right thing.

Good schools, effective municipal services, and so on. The bullshit federal money sucking states, with their lower property and state taxes, discovered it's easier to just get the federal government to pay for your stuff. Poor people do worse, rich people do better.
https://archlinux.org/news/grub-bootloader-upgrade-and-confi...

In regards to this specific incident, The Arch team did release a statement on how to handle the update.
I feel like this could be a reasonable explanation for the race piece, but I'm unsure how it connects to the female & liberal pieces. I'm not sure being a conservative male has gained a lot of social status in the past decade, though I suppose it's definitely possible.
If the ban itself is stupid, there is no justification or argument for banning it ASAP
And as some categories converge others change. Aesthetics can be dynamic. I thought this video recently was interesting discussing the way that modern computer animation became homogeneous to capture that "pixar" look – and subsequently how it's now changing with Into the Spiderverse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l96IgQmXmhM
Hrm, engineering via applying Conway's Law: figure out the right architecture for your program, and then shape the organization to resemble that architecture. The result will organically and inevitably take that shape.
> One interesting thing a lawyer pointed out to me is that a lawyer has a duty to ensure that the money used to pay them wasn't from the proceeds of a crime.

I don't think this is true in the US. Lawyers do not have any obligations under the Bank Secrecy Act or laws that would require this and there are other things like the text below that would make prosecuting a lawyer for this very difficult,

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1957

> (1)the term “monetary transaction” means the deposit, withdrawal, transfer, or exchange, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, of funds or a monetary instrument (as defined in section 1956(c)(5) of this title) by, through, or to a financial institution (as defined in section 1956 of this title), including any transaction that would be a financial transaction under section 1956(c)(4)(B) of this title, but such term *does not include any transaction necessary to preserve a person’s right to representation as guaranteed by the sixth amendment to the Constitution;*

https://www.justice.gov/jm/jm-9-105000-money-laundering

> Because the Department firmly believes that attorneys representing clients in criminal matters must not be hampered in their ability to effectively and ethically represent their clients within the bounds of the law, the Department, as a matter of policy, will not prosecute attorneys under § 1957 based upon the receipt of property constituting bona fide fees for the legitimate representation in a criminal matter, except if (1) *there is proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the attorney had actual knowledge of the illegal origin of the specific property received (prosecution is not permitted if the only proof of knowledge is evidence of willful blindness);* and (2) such evidence does not consist of (a) confidential communications made by the client preliminary to and with regard to undertaking representation in the criminal matter; or (b) confidential communications made during the course of representation in the criminal matter; or (c) other information obtained by the attorney during the course of the representation and in furtherance of the obligation to effectively represent the client.
I also think they miss the point on AirBnb in that all those AirBnb's that have "brooklyn" style now is because it's a trend, and will need to be updated in 10 years for the next new trendy styling if they want to keep targeting those same global travelers. Ask anyone in the boutique/trendy hotel industry what their ROI is on their refreshed looks. (Might not be 10 years, but it's defintely less than 20)
Corporations are only bad when they are powerful.
Just irrational Musk hate or is there any reason we want people to freely be able to share all code and open up for leaks involving everyone using a site or software?
Things only exist if they are made. The ubiquity of this convergence then implies that those who make have similar tastes and those who have dissimilar tastes lack some fundamental capacity to construct.
Linux Mint is an Ubuntu offshoot that doesn't use Snaps but does include Flatpak support.
I know are trolling, but I'll bite. India is very very different from all Western countries with it's own unique problems and requires unique solutions. If police were to prosecute every small criminal, the already overloaded justice system would come to a grinding halt. A lot of wanna be criminals stay straight fearing the police cane.

I'm sure a lot of poor Americans languishing in jails because they couldn't afford a good lawyer and just accepted the plea deal offered to them would rather have had a couple slaps and a cane to the calves.

Edit: also don't forget the police is doing what the general public wants. A lot of victims would rather see the perpetrator get beat up by police swiftly rather than wait 10 years to see them get sent to jail.
Try it out! We have simple scripts that you can play with and compare with GPT.
It's called globalism, and it's depressing!
Why would this be? It is obvious the existentially complicated things create anxiety.
Omega fatty acids profiles of leafs and grains are entirely different. That ratio directly translates into the composition of cellular membranes of cows and eventually humans who eat them. Plus there are very different vitamin composition and even amino acids ratios are different.
Arthritis and inflammation in general can be caused by many things. For some, it can be the good one eats. Nightshades are a real problem for some people.
Enjoy your posts - agreed!
Thank you! I'm happy to pay for good content. I'll take a look.

In fact, If I could make a targeted donation towards Blender that only goes towards funding documentation I'd be up for that as well.
I think 32GB RAM maximum and highest mark somehow do not match.
Absolutely not. Variety is the spice of life, uniqueness is what gives it its verve and essence. The sameness of everything everywhere is absolutely suffocating.

I have long argued that we humans are obsessed with data when we shouldn't be. Intuition, taste, and artistry create the variety that gives everything character, and we systematically and violently beat it out through endless focus-group testing and lowest-common-denominator sterilization.
That’s not surprising at all. Each of those groups (white, liberal, female) is individually correlated with being more depressed. It’s not surprising at the intersection of those groups is the least depressed: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2023/03/how-to-understand...
What bitching? My comment was purely descriptive.

The winner takes all nature is a result of those high taxes and the services they provide. Arguing for lower state taxes in rich states is arguing to destroy the very thing that enables these subsidies in the first place.

NYC for example couldn’t survive without the infrastructure its taxes pay for.
That account is only the perspective of somebody who obviously didn't feel included and left the town. I bet people who like living in that town would describe it differently.

What else do we really know? For all we know, the guy who left was a teetotaler and would characterize any social gathering with a few beers present as "everybody getting drunk."
This is bone-headed NIH move from Canonical, but I don't think either of those are good examples. Both Unity and Upstart were released prior to Gnome 3.0 and Systemd respectively and had a quite a significant investment in development time from developers and Canonical as well as an existing base of regular users and corporate users.

The original Unity DE was released in 2010 prior to the release of Gnome 3.0 in 2011. Upstart was originally included in Ubuntu in 2006 to replace sysvinit, and writing upstart scripts was a huge breath of fresh air. Systemd was released in 2010.

As a developer and user, I hate snaps _and_ flatpak. Both are user-hostile and constant source of problems requiring hours of Googling (especially the Flatpak sandbox!). I ended up purging both from my system a month ago and have been much happier since.
Old man yelling at cloud on...a generic blog
Tech Sector H-1B Workers’ Spouses Can Work in US, Judge Says
Yeah and I can get impossible burgers at every store and burger king, but are they competitive with regular meat? I would say no, and the companies are struggling.

I think the majority of people won't buy animal-free meat unless it is both tastier and cheaper than beef. Most people care about animals but not enough to commit to blowing out their budget.
I prefer made in nj, which is expressed as a series of cryptic two letter symbols and line noise looking stuff thrown between.
Ironically, it's "another" one of "those" articles that populates the popular landscape.
> I'm always surprised on r/linuxhardware (another good resource) the number of people that ask questions without doing basic searches online.

This is a problem with reddit in general. For example, some variation of "how do I reduce System Data in iOS" has been asked 37,000 times. All one has to do is search. But redditors don't search.
launched in 1946. The area had no wireless or telephone links, so the state was given 200 Belgian homing pigeons and proved to be the only reliable means of communication during natural disasters in 1982 and 1999. Makes me wonder what more we could do to make sure vulnerable areas like this have reliable, essential, disaster-proof remedies that fit their needs/circumstances.
> There is an underlying narrative that goes almost unquestioned that Some Evil is necessary to prevent a Greater Evil. That's how we get things like the fucking Patriot Act ….

There was an awful lot of questioning about the Patriot Act; it just got shouted down. I'm sure there is as much questioning today, it's just that the people who prefer you not question things have got better at shouting you down (or, well, more than shouting).
There's no real limit, since you can just keep dumping stuff in forever. There is however a soft limit that the stuff has to be close enough to get dumped in, and this one is extremely old so we aren't sure where it got its mass from!
Can an AI be created that executes a bitcoin data ransom schema without getting caught? asking for a friend...
$33K is still cheaper to any comparable Tesla Model 3 at slightly higher expected range (plus the benefits of solar charging).
It's hardly widespread, but it's absolutely happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moWe3rk7LzQ
To me it looks like the rate of change has already slowed having played around with gpt2 and used copilot a fair amount, chatgpt, and now chatgpt with gpt4.

There's also not orders of magnitude more existing data we can feed it anymore.
The US is so close to a near ideal mixed economy. If the cartels holding oligopolies on housing, healthcare, and education were disbanded life would be dare I say pleasant in America. Today GDP keeps rising because of a few free money trees, while quality of life for many is deteriorating. Becoming middle class is stressful here, and while it shouldn’t necessarily be easy it should at least be formulaic. Young people seem to sense this formula is disappearing before them.
Isn't the whole claim to fame for AFL that it largely mitigates or avoids that problem by tracking branch coverage so it doesn't waste time permuting the input in ways that don't change the program behavior meaningfully?
The 4th sentence:

> Needless to say, there will be spoilers from the show.
A lot of it is pretty related to company internals and is tooling specific. At a large company there is a lot of infra and tooling that can break in all kinds of fun ways, quality is very mixed, so helping the team become experts in this is very useful for productivity and unblocking oneself.

I see people on other teams that seem to be stuck for days sometimes, on a really basic error that they haven’t really tried to debug at all. Seriously, just read the error message or dig into the code!

My team also has a strong culture of just pushing code changes. This is including tons of deletions and simplifications, it’s not just writing a million lines of code.

It’s also a very senior team, so I can’t take credit for everyone’s growth from junior engineers. Another part of it is creating an environment that productive senior coders want to join, so that they can avoid process-heavy teams and get stuff done.

There is an extreme level of trust on the team because everyone is senior and frankly extremely good at their job, which allows us to be even more productive.
I’ve switched everything off Ubuntu but my servers. That bit is just too much effort and I can’t be bothered yet.

Next server though. Not Ubuntu for sure. Probably Debian?
I hope the whistleblowers can substantiate or provide enough evidence of the claims well enough for regulators to go after the bank, individuals at the bank, or folks who utilized those services. Especially in light of the bank apparently violating the previous agreement.
I think if Asahi Linux delivers, Apple laptops will take over the Linux laptop market. Good performance per watt, fewer models that sell in great numbers, great displays, and they aren't shitty plastic boxes that flex and creak. If you have a hardware problem, reload macOS and you can get it fixed in the Apple Store across town.
Please do not use Manjaro. They are known to ship half baked WIP patches that cause massive breakages in their distro. Here is one of their latest instances:
https://fosstodon.org/@alyssa@treehouse.systems/110049699665...

I personally have had them ship out WIP patches not meant for production, which has wasted a lot of my (volunteer) time chasing down phantom bugs in software I maintain. This has personally happened to me on at least four different occasions. A lot of other FOSS maintainers I know have similar stories.

More info:
https://manjarno.snorlax.sh/
Yes, good point. I was thinking as I was writing that it isn't exactly the world wars, something like the leadup into it and through the interwar period. I was more thinking of the post-industrial revolution in general, which was associated with tremendous societal change in general, not just militarily speaking. But you're right that the idea of a uniform "Victorian" period is a little weird and/or misleading.
This is most certainly not it.
I can’t actually seem to find this with the search term “Vocode”.
The state of open-source in 3D printing in 2023
All clouds do that for databases
I recently picked up SmileBASIC for the Nintendo Switch. I haven't done anything yet with it but it's kinda wild it exists.
I care more about hypergamy and dying alone than climate change as a young person.
I wonder if any earlier prompts asked about Honda – feels a bit weird to ask what the cheapest car overall is and have the chat bot say "well let me tell you about some Hondas overall"

And if the user did specify Hondas then why would Honda pay for it? Wouldn't the Chat bot give the same answer regardless of whether it's paid? I guess you pay for the CTA link?
I think I found a minor mistake. Close to the beginning, there is a paragraph "The further away that line is from the center of mass, the easier it is for the force to rotate the object. In the following demonstration, you can apply two forces of the same magnitude to two identical boxes. The only difference is the distance to the center of mass at which these forces act:". Below that is a simulation of two boxes.

If you apply the same force over the same amount of time to both boxes, the same amount of energy goes into both boxes. As one box is rotating faster, it has a higher rotational energy than the other box. As both systems (boxes) got identical amounts of energy this means, that the slower rotating box should move faster to the right because more energy goes into this movement. Becaus E_input has always to be the sum of E_forward and E_rotation. Am I wrong and why?
The imminence comes from the China side where their point of view is "we take Taiwan and claim the south china sea and we will go to war to do it".

There are no options with which to avoid war but make sure we are so constantly one step ahead of China that they never decide to wage it.

The TikTok ban and preparations, in this case, help to prevent war.
And spin/charge, no?
> Why would two independent governing bodies group together to oppress a single country?

Not that it’s the same, but have you looked at either of these countries’ pasts? Even relatively recently— the Marshall Islands, or still ongoing, in Mauritius/Diego Garcia.
GMOs are awesome but monsanto is still a garbage company, just for literally everything else they do that isn't food and plant science.

I also think patents on plants and seeds are morally wrong and unjustified so that is an input to my opinion.
I had no phone as a kid, I tinkered with PCs and programming, but spent most of my time outside, with friends. Riding our bikes or skateboarding till the sun came down. We played basketball and met new friends at the mall. We explored abandon buildings and found places on the map we wanted to visit when we got cars. None of us had ADHD, depression, or were on SSRIs. Nobody made up mental illness or gender identity. This is so obviously a result of our screwed up culture and social media, and prevalence of phone usage from a young age. I have several young cousins and they are in bad shape. Fat (like real fat), sedentary, addicted to anime, rarely play outside, and of course, have all the mental illness acronyms.
I think there's some delusion, but there's also some sense to it. Facebook is slowly dying - pushing for a new concept could be a way to regain relevance. They already have a platform for games, so this can be seen as ambitious next step.

Not that I think it will work.
but it seems that only happens at the cost of shitting on people who are like them. Who would have expected this could lead to depression?
That is already implicitly there - tons of SEO content probably was used to train this model. Information available in the internet since forever.