skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of the quickest way to get your kids into youth services even if you provide better education yourself.

And IN youth services, something like half of kids don't even go to school, and aren't homeschooled, so let's just forget asking about the quality of education.

The purpose of the state here is to sabotage your kids to their own benefit (in this case: make the education system easier to administrate, to underpay teachers, and above all else protect the power and jobs the system has). They will actively fight, to the point of using violence against you and your kids, if you reject the school system. Be very careful with doing this.

And if you do, you're probably better off pretending you're a fundamentalist christian, or better yet, muslim or hindu or ... objecting to sex ed classes. Seriously.

This is with parents and kids rejecting the school system being big exceptions. If ever 10% of kids become homeschooled, it will get a lot worse.

You'd think this wouldn't happen. Statistics are very clear, for example, that a LOT more kids are abused at school than at home. This is 100% the fault of the school system (failure to prevent personnel from plus failure to supervise kids, and please do not: school do traumatize kids, as everyone kind of knows and research confirms. It's just not something talked about), and has an obvious result: actions by youth services to make kids go to school increases child abuse, rather than decrease it. Likewise, it reduces schooling. You would think this strange if you assume their purpose is to protect kids, rather than their real purpose: to protect schools and the state from kids. If they actually intended to protect kids, obviously, they'd refuse to interfere in these cases.

And for the love of God, DO NOT ask help from youth services under any circumstances, but above all, don't ask them to help with your kid being traumatized or bullied at school. They will 100% blame the kid, refuse do take any action whatsoever in school, and most definitely will not make teachers pay attention and prevent bullying in the playground or anything like that.
Fair enough. Although being the median with such a large country is still pretty divergent from the popular narrative I was comparing to. Those sorts of generalized nationwide numbers wasn’t my point anyway, rather proper data analysis and putting data into the wider context of the various communities/finer demographics/etc leads to far more useful conclusions than national level ones alone.

Similar to critiques of the GDP as a metric for success.

It’s not surprising the default critique on Reddit/Twitter is always using some European country with a homogeneous culture and a small population centered around ~2-3 major cities at most vs the entire US.
I wonder if the result would be that it would just lag out for spawn but players outside the area would enjoy a full performance game. That seems like an acceptable penalty.
It's really just a proposal, there would have to be some associated enzyme that targets genes at the well-known splice site (maybe something like a CRISPR-related Cas etc. enzyme?)and inserts the intron sequence. This seems to date from this 2012 study:

> "Birth of new spliceosomal introns in fungi by multiplication of introner-like elements (2012)"

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22658596/

These are postulated to be relatively rare events, so catching one in the act would be difficult:

> "However, dating of multiplication events showed that they degenerate in sequence and length within 100,000 years to eventually become indistinguishable from RSIs. We suggest that ILEs not only account for intron gains in six fungi but also in ancestral eukaryotes to give rise to most RSIs by a yet unknown multiplication mechanism." [ILE's being closely related intron sequences, RSIs being the regular jumbled-up types]
Turns out LLMs are not so inaccessible for individual users.
Version control and diffing (programmatically or mentally) is a major stumbling block. The only graphical language I know of that doesn't suffer from this issue is PLC ladder logic, where the visual representation is forced and it's easy to programmatically show the differences between two versions of a given program, or mentally know exactly what given logic will look like. Pretty much everything else is miserable to compare code in, and this is especially painful when you're initially learning and the examples you're referencing are unhinged LabVIEW spaghetti with no real way to make it any more pleasant to read.
The internet is awesome. it will free everyone.

Didn't work out.

Technology can't correct human flaws.

It's always the same error to think it will work, but in the end it's just a reason to reduce funds for education.
Education is general has gotten dumbed down with time. I dropped out of college almost 20 years ago and am almost finished with my degree after returning.

The difference between then and now is staggering. The mentality is if you can't make people smarter just lower the standards.

The reality is perhaps the top 15% of the US population by IQ should be receiving a college education. The rest is just credentialism and a waste of societal resources.
You need to add “-march=native” to turn on SIMD at the highest level your processor will support, otherwise it will just use SSE4.1 by default on most compilers (the lowest common denominator, as all x86-64 processors have it).
The flow in most other countries is:

- Various sources provide the tax authorities with your taxable income, already withheld amounts etc.

- Your tax filing system, which can be the authorities' or a third party's, pulls these numbers and shows them to you.

- If they look good, you press "send" and you're done. If anything is missing, you amend it; if anything is wrong, you correct it.

- If you omit anything that wasn't included, that's still tax evasion and punishable in the same way as omitting data or forms on your IRS return.

An important scenario here is "I have nothing to amend, and I'm sure you got it right" – in which case you don't need to do anything but are still liable for any omissions. Not filing a report is the same thing as filing a default report. And if the tax authorities find anything unclear or suspicious, they can still require you to file one.
Yes it can. And I know this, because it already happened (the US became a signatory in 2000, but repudiated any intent to ratify in 2002.)

Are there potential circumstances where the US Constitution might conflict with obligations under the Rome Statute? Maybe; that certainly fairly regularly happens in practice with the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, but the US has signed and ratified that treaty.
Why not ban the offending behavior instead of one particular company?

Oh, that's right, because the US and other western governments still want access to that sweet, sweet data for themselves... Also the US-based tech giants have deep pockets.
A prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. I've been on a grand jury, and the indictment rate is >95% in most cases.
Google donates something like 350 million every year to Mozilla Corporation. Some would say it's the only way they can stay in the expensive area of norcal, and maintain their competitive salaries there.
Yes, if you commit a crime, petty or not, rich or poor, you should face a court. If you park in front of a fire hydrant, whether you're a mom picking up her kid or the president, you should get a ticket.

If there is no attempt at equality in the face of the law, then what's the point?
Well, technically you could draw seven perpendicular lines in 7D. It's just the coordinate system.
No, Treaties have an effect similar to (but not quite identical to) federal statute law.
>Honestly thats exactly what Democrats want too, as they would rather run against Trump than Desantis or a Never Trumper.

Isn't this the kind of thinking they had back in 2015, which resulted in Trump winning?
Macs have almost always been reviewed higher than PC.
I wish they would have split the format into multiple filetypes, SVG for static vector imagery and SVGX or whatever for all the other bullshit. I shouldn't need to worry about logo.svg being some attack vector.
I just tried with Bing AI (in "precise" mode), it ran a search, then answered:

> There are many soccer players whose names contain a Z. Some of them include Zlatan Ibrahimović, Zinedine Zidane, Zico, Zvonimir Boban, and Zé Roberto ¹. Would you like to know more about any specific player?

Source: Conversation with Bing, 3/31/2023 ...

I also tried: "Can you name 14 soccer players whose names contain a Z?" (At 15+, it answers "I’m sorry, but I don’t have 15 names of soccer players whose names contain a Z. However, I can provide you with a few more names")

> Sure! Here are 14 soccer players whose names contain a Z: Zlatan Ibrahimović, Zinedine Zidane, Zico, Zvonimir Boban, Zé Roberto, Zbigniew Boniek, Zakaria Aboukhlal, Zlatko Zahovič, Zubayr Amiri, Zico, Zé Luís, Zećira Mušović, Zsolt Lőw and Zah Rahan Krangar. Is there anything else you would like to know?
This is actually impressive. But I feel its very subjective to come up with a product design which is coherent to the rest of the website. I can see this to be useful if I am building some sort of MVP.

Also just curious, Is there a way to import our existing wireframes maybe Sketch/Adobe XD?
https://archive.ph/oOxGy

props for the prince ref

and ending on a high note.
> had to support Apple's video streaming format

It's a little weird to call an open standard (like H264) "Apple's format".
Is it worse than a Siggraph paper or Rust post in that regard?
My question is if SVG could be viable to make GUI, and if is possible to use it cross-platform without a web view?
I don't think anyone has ever accused donald trump of 'ostensibly conservative' social values. Everyone who voted for him knew his behavior in these areas and voted for him despite it, not because of it.
Do you occasionally get offers or bids on these domains?
“We shouldn’t hold politicians accountable for their crimes because their supporters won’t like it” is one of the weirder takes I’ve seen in this thread. Obviously someone’s followers won’t like seeing their hero held accountable for crimes, but having a lot of followers shouldn’t make someone immune from consequences for their crimes. That’s one hell of a slippery slope.

> Now if you go ahead and jail the populist leader, you are going even closer to complete political fracture especially after a good chunk of the population believes the election was stolen from him. If you think this will convince any Trump supporters they're wrong (lol), I have a pipe dream to sell you

This post has a high density of non sequiturs. The purpose of the indictment wasn’t to convince Trump voters that the election wasn’t stolen. It’s unrelated to basically anything you wrote about. It’s about enforcing laws and following up on crimes.

Also, you seem to have missed Trump’s recent decline in popularity. He hasn’t been very popular for a while now, outside of the staunch core supporters. Even Fox News has started moving on and isn’t afraid to criticize him any more.
A lot of bookshelves get you meaningful response down to ~40hz or a little below with the help of some boundary reinforcement, which is enough for a lot of people and/or music.

The number of subwoofers I own has become a running joke between my brother and I, so I don't need to be sold on their value but they definitely add bulk, cost and complexity so I never want newcomers thinking they absolutely need them to have fun in this hobby.
Free WiFi equivalent exists when you call 112 emergency services.

No sim required, any cell tower from any carrier will allow the call.
Definitely could have worded that better, but my point is that I found YC to cultivate a density of smart + ambitious + nice people that I haven't found in quite the same quantities in most other networks I've been a part of.

Tons of incredible non-YC folks out there too.
That seems like the exact opposite of “holding the gun.” Like they literally didn’t force anyone to do anything and as far as I know didn’t even try to use their influence to persuade any other company to remove the jack from their devices.
What liberty are we protecting here, exactly?
Some nations make it obligatory for soldiers to follow illegal orders, some make it obligatory to follow them even if they are blatantly criminal.
Paying hush money is not a crime and no one is claiming it is.
For B2B Generative AI Apps, Is Less More?
thanks, first time seeing "EXPLAIN ANALYZE"
Improve your health, like many others have said.

Habitual brain exercises work too. Crosswords, mental math, etc.
The theory as I understand it is that the payment was a large unreported contribution to his presidential campaign. It's not legal to do that, and the prosecutors believe they can demonstrate that's what happened.
Finally a sensible comment that 'gets' it. People are too eager to punish fellow Americans, and uninterested in understanding them.
> Isn't this the kind of thinking they had back in 2015, which resulted in Trump winning?

No, I don’t think so. Trump was actually the weakest general election candidate of the major Republicans, what resulted in Trump winning was institutional power in the Democratic Party aligning betwern a candidate that was, equally clearly, the weakest general election candidate of the major Democratic contenders, and whose negatives were much firmer than Trump’s were as a relative political cipher.

Also, Democrats didn't get Trump nominated, a Republican nomination system designed to build sipport for the early leader by providing disproportional delegate majority’s to the magnitude of popular victory—a system designed to favor the pick of the institutional party and cut the knees of “insurgent” campaigns—did that, because the institutional powerbase couldn’t unite behind a candidate.

Were Trump to be nominated in 2024, he will face the same problem as in 2020—he won’t be running against Hillary Clinton.
> Most FFI boundaries incur their own performance cost. I’m not sure about Python, but I wouldn’t be surprised if FFI to rust in a hot loop is often slower than just writing the same code in Python directly. And it’s not always easy to refactor to avoid this.

They definitely do, but I’d usually suggest that if you find this an issue then perhaps the function you’re exposing from the compiled language should be higher level, with more work done in the compiled code to avoid the overhead of returning control back to the interpreted language.
I thought it was Timor Leste still makes sense I guess.
>> Even better: let the IRS prepare your taxes for you. Accept their filing or file your own (optional) return.

That's the way it has been done in Norway (and probably a host of other countries) in later years.

I received my tax return for review a few days ago; all income, debt, possessions of note, deductions for kids, tax deductable gifts &c were already filled in; after a few minutes comparing key numbers to my files, I simply clicked 'Submit', and that was that.
I don't think this is the case for grand juries...
I disagree with some of what you are saying. I won’t address it though. I have learned the hard way it is pointless. Nobody wants a conversation.

I’ll just say US politics, from every angle, has been royally fucked for decades. Our politicians have made lying to us a virtue. Our laws protect the with immunity. High level example: Obama’s promises about Obamacare. Lies. He is a multimillionaire now. No consequences. No legal recourse whatsoever.

Our media is no better. They lie and manipulate 24/7, sometimes working with or under government supervision.

While Americans yell at each other online while convinced they know what’s going on (sad joke of unimaginable proportions) the country is shredding itself from the inside out. The Chinese are watching this and shitting themselves laughing at the stupidity of the American voter and politicians.

I don’t know what to say any more. Keep looking at the shadows on the wall. One day they will be replaced by the sad reality we are creating.
A LaGrange point would do, and Professor Kipping suggested putting a telescope near the JWST at L2.

At that distance you would be sampling light that has passed through the Earth's atmosphere at an altitude of 14km. About 8% of the light would be lost, but at that altitude there's little weather to disturb the image.
Nicely, the Ruffle project (flash player written in Rust), seems like it has legs and plays a substantial amount of Flash content:

https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle

They released their first "progress report" a few weeks ago:

https://ruffle.rs/blog/2023/03/12/progress-report.html

Seems like good news. :)
I'm probably wrong, but google indicates statute of limitations for misdemeanors is only 2 years in New York. Curious how this ties into things, the stormy daniels fiasco is what 5+ years ago? Surely there is a felony charge in there?
hnswlib (https://github.com/nmslib/hnswlib) is a strong alternative to faiss that I have enjoyed using for multiple projects. It is simple and has great performance on CPU.

After working through several projects that utilized local hnswlib and different databases for text and vector persistence, I integrated hnswlib with sqlite to create an embedded vector search engine that can easily scale up to millions of embeddings. For self-hosted situations of under 10M embeddings and less than insane throughput I think this combo is hard to beat.

https://github.com/jiggy-ai/hnsqlite
Well that's a bigoted attitude. As long as we acknowledge that taxes are necessary for the functioning of a country, I'd rather our tax agency be calm, professional, and boring.
On the flip side... England did actually arrest, try and convict the King once. Also did the same to an ex-queen, in Lady Jane Grey. After first having un-queened her, which is also a thing that cannot be done.

The thing about Britain's constitutional arrangements is that there are many things which 'can't' be done, which it turns out simply 'aren't' done.
it's a shame that this is limited to digital, and impractically slow digital at that
> it was a battery stuck because there was no HW acceleration. Additionally, the software was very very bad. Used a crapton of memory, was really slow, and horribly insecure.

Surely lack of hardware acceleration and poor implementation are incidental, not fundamental issues. Just as browsers eventually got their own PDF implementations because Adobe's sucked, I expect the same would have happened for Flash eventually.

> We also have ~3 major open source browser engines that independently implement the web compared with one closed source vendor.

We have WebKit and Gecko, and the latter barely exists on mobile. I'm not convinced we're a lot better off in practice.
Not even GPT-4 can do it. It starts with two correct names, then just adds a bunch of names with no letter Z in them. When prompted to fix, it makes the same error.

My theory is that once it starts making a list, it falls into a different mode and forgets the filtering rule. Like mode collapse in GANs.
This argument is weak. If we agree that the production is infringing, then selling a machine that produces infringing works on demand is also infringing to the rights of the author. For example, if I sell a karaoke machine that comes with pre-recorded famous melodies without the original vocals (thus, derived works), I definitely cannot claim "only the agency of the users matter". No, even the on-demand production itself is an act of infringement.

Regarding your fair use point:

> add something new, with a further purpose or different character, and do not substitute for the original use of the work.

This is a test that can be applied to the works produced, and I think that, by and large, it applies to most of them, they are sufficiently transformative to be seen as fair use, especially since they are produced and published, as you say, under the agency of a human user of the system.

But we're talking here about the system as a whole, not a certain production. The ChatGPT model database is not a creative work (other that its source code), it's a binary compressed representation of the works used to train it, for the purpose of on-demand production of works that mimicry, to a varying, and sometimes strikingly infringing degree, the originals. There is no question such a machine competes with the originals in the market place, there is no real question it is a derivative work of the originals, that fully supply its artistic features and without which the machine could not utter a single intelligible sentence.

Also, the "one word out of 1000" analogy defense does not apply, since a single isolated word is not a work of creation, while a certain shape, brush stroke or cromatic set are. AI does not create using disparate pixels of the originals, it uses entire creative features, more like publishing a book where each page or chapter is copied verbatim and adapted from other works, or if characters, plot devices and story structure are reused. These latter cases have long been recognized as plagiarism.

So the legal question seems to be if mass-scale algorithmic remixing and derivation by a non-creative competitor is fair use. That strikes me as far outside the intended spirit of fair use and the balance it seeks to achieve between author protection and beneficial social progress.
> Why do I have to mail them, on paper no less, the same forms all over again?

I mean, you don't.... I haven't mailed a piece of paper to the IRS in about a decade.
Yes I'm curious too
Show HN: Random Aerial Airport Views
Hi HN!

Sharing Random Airport

Inspired by RandomStreetView (which I find weirdly addictive), and a passion for air travel.

Probably not for everyone, but I hope some of you find it interesting!

Needless to say, open to feedback!

Enjoy clicking!

Further reading:

TECH: It's Build in React, NodeJS, with a Notion DB. The code is public on Github. It is spaghetti though ... Especially open to feedback here.

DB: The db is publicly available (and editable), I can add the link in comments if anyone would like to have a look .

KNOWN ISSUES: I would like to improve the design, pic loading performance and quality of (some) pics.
Here in Sweden my employer reports my income tax and my investments app reports capital gains, to the Tax Authority. Last week I could log in, review the data, and e-sign it in less than 5 minutes. It turns out that I payed 53.80 dollars to much tax last year. Since I filed my taxes early (before March 30) they will pay it back on April 6 (instead of June 9).
Maybe I‘m lacking the imagination for truly nefarious things, but what would be the problem with raw socket access in the browser?

Modern browsers can already communicate peer to peer (via WebRTC) and DDoS other web servers (via CORS failures or good old embedding).

Is the main concern the increased attack opportunity of non-web servers?
"Human readable" in XML lingo means, actually, "Human readable after transformation". Or: add some CSS to it and it's easily consumable.
Why would we change it to make the rich richer and the poor poorer?
The idea is to be able to compute 1.0 - h * z + (z * r - x * y) in high precision.

If h * z is slightly less than 1.0, then w = 1.0 - h * z can lose a lot of bits of precision. To recover the bits that were dropped in subtracting h * z from 1.0, we compute which bits of h * z were used (the high bits) and then subtract those bits from h * z to get only the low bits. We find the bits that were used by simply undoing the operation: 1.0 - w is mathematically the same as h * z, but is not the same as implemented due to limited precision.

So (1.0 - w) - h * z is the extra bits that were dropped from the computation of w. Add that to the final term z * r - x * y before that result is added to w, and we have a more precise computation of w + z * r - x * y.
?? Are you suggesting we should damage the economy? Or that we should be cavalier about risking it?