skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interest rates and tax policy have massive impacts on behavior and the overall economy. It's kind of nuts that we do live in a system where these rules change all the time based on the whims of a bunch of politicians, half of whom are apparently members of an apocalyptic death cult. Or in this case, kinda racist?

"The bridge from Rinkeby makes it easier for criminals to recruit your children into crime," the party told local voters during last year’s campaign.

Speaking of taxing home sales, before 1997 any profit was considered capital gains. After the "taxpayer relief act" in 1997, the first $250k was exempted ($500k if married). So that was like a big flag saying "go forth and make money flipping houses". Side effect in our timeline is the creation of infinite home flipper content for YouTube. Similar signals with zero interest rates. "Buy a house now, no matter what it costs, for tomorrow it will cost more. Oh, maybe buy some guns too while you're at it, the end times are near".
>It's only tone deaf to people who understand "undefined behavior" as an epithet or as synonymous with giving a license to compilers to screw you over. The term doesn't have either of those meaning to those on the C committee.

It's unfortunate but not surprising that the C committee isn't aware of the problems with the undefined behavior.

In fact, after I started reading WG14 meetings minutes, I completely lost faith that any of the serious problems with the standard will ever get fixed.
> You do not have your job because you are the best person in the world at your job.

I have my job as I was the best they could find that was available for the lowest cost

if the AI can do it as well (or 80% as well) at $0.01c/day and be replicated infinitely, where does this leave me?

> Although, I suspect most of the AI doomers have just forgotten to account for AI using any resources at all. They are very expensive to run if you count development costs

yes... it's a software product with high fixed costs and near zero variable costs

it may cost $100M to train GitHub Copilot, but then it can be replicated instantly across the planet for very little cost

it's pennies a day to run, vs. an expensive human that requires a means to pay for food, shelter, warmth, etc

the AI also gets cheaper and all improvements roll out to every model of the same type instantly when available

comparative advantage for humans almost completely disappears with decent AI, and you seem to have missed that entirely
It should only hallucinate when asked. Humans can do the same but when humans mistake their hallucinations for reality we usually consider it problematic. Especially if the AI is going to be considered a reference which many seem willing to believe.
I'm guessing the family unit is more fragmented in America, and the social safety net is weaker due to rugged individualism that leads to everybody having to only worry about themselves. It's a spectrum of course, but it feels that in the US being poor is scarier than in other first world countries, which might lead to one working longer and harder to ensure a softer landing on the way down.
Anecdotal, yes, but having any data is a better indication than having no data. If nobody can find evidence of the phenomenon you know you're more likely fine (no guarantee) than when people start plugging in old drives and some discover rotting.
that's where unlimited vacation days come in. You don't earn them, so you don't get them when you leave. That's the point of unlimited PTO. Remove the liability for the company.

If companies cared about getting employees to take time off, they would force a minimum. "Take 4 weeks off each year, and if you don't we will turn off your access card and vpn access in December."
And in fact they’ll thrive as more and more detritus rains from above!
The case of realloc being declared UB (as opposed to impl-defined) was not driven by the compiler writers but by the people who write the C libraries.

This isn't a case of compilers screwing over the programmers, because the people who are responsible for those optimizations are the people who are scratching their heads as to why it's UB and not impl-defined behavior.
It definitely is not. The 99.999% case for startups is you walk away with nothing, and that’s true even if you’re good enough to crush it at FAANG.

Crush it at FAANG for a few years and don’t spend like crazy and you’ll be a multimillionaire.
As an indigenous Swede with sleeping problems I find it amusing that these posts and discussions about Sweden are happening when the time is 03:20 here, we're all asleep and can't even defend ourselves. :D
Good for you. You are a unicorn.
That user name though
if the conditions were so bad that claiming that the suspect was so and so is absolutely unrealistic, isn't that reckless? eg. a psychic claiming they saw the suspect from 1000 miles?
Disagree. I now defer to chatGPT instead of reading raw documentation. Even if it can hallucinate an answer it's still way faster and better for discoverability.
I guess it's a sinkhole, but its more of an investment for Valve's future. If Microsoft comes down hard with pushing the Microsoft Store, especially since they now own how many different game studios, Valve (and the other Launcher/Gaming storefronts) will be pushed out of existence. Now, while Valve continues to hold influence in how games are distributed online, they are finding a way to exist without Windows and Microsoft. Steam is the easiest way to get games to play on Linux, and people can (and will) jump the Windows ship and still be able to buy games from Steam, allowing Steam to weather any attempts by Microsoft to put it out of business.
Can they actually be turned on/off to a brightness useful for displaying time? Modulating in a way useful to transmit data is different than a display useful for a high speed camera.
Tokyo is pretty affordable. Certainly enough to have a whole range of options for €75000.
I'll bet you it's built by a third party company if they aren't allowed to share the details.
If you’re looking for a printer to mod, why start with an expensive and well-sorted Prusa as a starting point?

I own 6 printers, 0 Prusas, because I like modding them and don’t see any reason to pay Prusa to give me a better starting point that I’ll just then undo.
Why is that? You've got to ask yourself this question, why would this happen? Because if you don't address the cause, you've got a "law of conservation of problems" and you just shift your problems from one place to another. Rent control doesn't solve problems, it moves problems to another part of the system, in this case, a housing system.

So what is the core problem? The core problem is that there aren't enough dwellings in the city for everybody that needs to be there. If there were they wouldn't be so expensive. So figure out what you need to do to build more dwellings.
hysteresis is also important to understand for working with radio networking.
Grand Plans for GameStop Keep Shrinking
If the tendency of the rate of profit to fall was the underlying problem, basic needs and housing would be dirt cheap. That's not a problem - it's a good thing for consumers (and therefore the lower classes). It's the plethora of efforts to counter this which capitalists employ (mainly monopolization) to inflate prices anyway despite underlying increased efficiency (and less labor) that's the problem. The main problem though is that labor is perpetually kept desperate enough to accept bargains which favor investors, and consumers have no other means of gaining capital, even as they get automated out of the job market.

It's a fundamentally unfair system which inevitably maximizes inequality. It's untenable without a government-enforced wealth-redistributing tax to offset that.
> Humans can do the same but when humans mistake their hallucinations for reality we usually consider it problematic

Most of the time, we don’t notice, and the popular perception is that it happens vastly less than empirical testing has shown it does.
Exactly, and it has something to do with Ken Kesey. Learn about what they did to Aaron, and you will see the parallels
One major issue is that if you as an individual attempt to go car-free, the resulting lifestyle makes cars into such an incredible intrusion into your daily life that it is hard not to become more radicalized.

That has been my story at least. My bus is late and slow, because it's stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic from all these people driving motor vehicles with a single occupant. I need ear protection on my commute because the 14th Street Bridge into DC pairs pedestrians and cyclists side-by-side with 60mph motor traffic with no noise protections. I lost a day at work because I got hit on my bike by a truck driver who was on his phone, and had to go to the ER. I am shaken and my heart rate is pounding and I am pondering my own mortality because someone gunned their engine through a left turn while I was walking across the street with a pedestrian signal - they accelerated instead of stopping to yield and I had to jump out of the way to save my own life while they sped off.

If you recognize how awful cars are for the environment and how they make city life inconvenient, unpleasant and expensive, and so you make the personal decision to forgo them to be part of the solution rather than the problem, you are taking a step into a life that will nudge you more and more to truly despise motor vehicles because your daily life will be filled with only negative interactions with them.
No, it's not generally accepted. F.e. weapons of mass destruction i.e. nuclear weapons saved hundreds of millions of lives. Your lack of imagination is not an argument against technology.
Wat? Only a small portion of services are related to land. Property tax is in fact usually considered quite regressive and hardly "the most fair tax there is."
Isn’t that universe what we know as the “domain”?
> C23 furthermore gives the compiler license to use an unreachable annotation on one code path to justify removing, without notice or warning, an entirely different code path that is not marked unreachable: see the discussion of puts() in Example 1 on page 316 of N3054.9

I don't agree with that description at all. Here's the code:

1 if (argc <= 2)
2 unreachable();
3 else
4 return printf("%s: we see %s", argv[0], argv[1]);
5 return puts("this should never be reached");

The only code path that's "entirely different" is lines 1,4,5 and in that case of course you remove a return that's after a return.

And the other valid code path is 1,2,5, which has `puts` after `unreachable`.

To need `puts` you have to imagine a code path that gets past the "if" without taking either branch?

Maybe the author means something by "code path" that's very different from how I interpret it?

I would be pretty surprised if the above code means something different from:

if (argc <= 2) {
unreachable();
return puts("this should never be reached");
} else {
return printf("%s: we see %s", argv[0], argv[1]);
return puts("this should never be reached");
}
Elysium Would You Like to Talk to a Human? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flLoSxd2nNY
https://www.butajape.com/comic/why-wont-they-cover-this/
Agreed, I have the same experience. I switched to Vivaldi lately because of tab groups, I want to switch back to Firefox because Vivaldi has various annoyances but tab groups are keeping me from going back.
That list is outdated. For example Chrome supports cname uncloaking.
it's correct to say it's more of an appliance than a distro?

it's not designed to be installed on generic hardware
You should consider a program with undefined behaviour to be the equivalent of a mathematical proof that contains an unstated contradiction. Ex falso quodlibet: from a falsehood anything follows. Also called the principle of explosion.

Undefined behaviour renders your entire program meaningless. It must be avoided at all costs. Using undefined behaviour on purpose is like sticking a fork in an electrical socket.
Might as well be complete, and filter out websites based on MIT developed programming languages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News (Note the programming language, and find what it's based on)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)
The idea that unions stand in the way of meritocracy is absurd. And of course we are ignoring that there is no objectively correct definition of what is meritable in a corporate context. Many many companies have died after doing very well to optimize their particular brand of merit.

Unions don't have to give special benefits based on tenure either. The industries where that is a a feature of unions happen to be places where it makes sense, i.e. without significant benefits for tenure nobody would ever work for somebody like UPS in the first place because you would be destroying your body for no long term payoff and not making any more money in the short term vs. easier positions that are just as easy to get. A company like UPS, if it were to crack down on unions in an attempt to enforce a "meritocracy", would very quickly cease to exist.

In the context of software development, a union would probably be much more recognizable if branded as a kind of professional association. We all know the kinds of security concerns and awful code that get pushed out because of a poor definition of "merit" on the part of companies. Unions are primarily a way for people that are most able to determine what is meritorious to actually have some influence on the definition of merit in their organization.
I agree that we’re biased to feel weird about it. But I think that’s for good reason. In a lot of modern cultures, the necessity of killing is less present all the time. In cultures or circumstances where it’s still essential for survival, I’d say go for it; there’s no sense in dying because Fred in Wisconsin feels good about eating lentils instead of beef, and you’re worried about being immoral by killing a goat. There are still moments of necessity where two lives can compete for survival.

We will all eventually be dust, but I believe there’s good reason to strive for the pre-dust period of existence to involve as little killing as practicable.

In situations where I can pick plants over animals I will every time. I have no real need to kill or pay for killing. It’s an incredible luxury that hasn’t been afforded to people until relatively recently in history though, and I don’t expect others to follow suit when they’re less fortunate or living with wildly different opportunities and resources.

So, overall I think the bias makes sense. At the same time, I won’t deny that killing to survive is a reality for many and will continue to be – I suspect you aren’t immoral or depraved if your situation demands killing to live.

But that’s all my insular little take on things and I know many (most?) disagree!
The simplest solution is a wealth tax. Once you reach a certain amount of wealth, you are taxed for it. So for instance you might be taxed 50% of your wealth above $1 billion, annually. You might be taxed 25% of your wealth above $100 million (up to the next cutoff, so a billion in this hypothetical). You might be taxed 10% of your wealth above $10 million but below the next cutoff, and so on.

We could even take this further and make it illegal to have too much money. But like all laws, what ultimately matters is enforcement. Currently the IRS doesn't even make much attempt to go after the rich for tax evasion, so writing stricter laws is irrelevant if we don't enforce the laws we already have.

I'm not saying this is perfect but it is a simple solution that directly addresses the issue of wealth inequality.
Discovered the hard way. Paying it forward. Being decent is mostly free. Appreciate the kind words.
This reads like a press release to me.
"Table stakes" seems hyperbolic here given that we've lived without input shaping at all for quite a while.

Speed boosts are welcome but that doesn't mean everyone needs to "overclock" to get the absolute best performance. And if you do want to do that, couldn't you add an accelerometer later?
If you have no empathy for them, do you have any right to demand empathy from them?
That's nothing. Dutch plants tweet:

https://www.wur.nl/en/newsarticle/dutch-tree-sends-tweets-ab...
Tesla Phone: News and Expected Price, Release Date, Specs; and More Rumors
The first two references are to the same case. An ex-employee kept his Tesla laptop with confidential information and turned in a personal laptop as his work laptop. That seems worth suing over.
With int statuses, not with bools. It’s just a twisted logic in return value you have to deal with in your head.

“If checked operation has a status, then it failed.” - ok

“If checked operation [is true], then it failed.” - wat
Wow, yet it still managed to be worse than ChatGPT. That’s quite an achievement.
Though that might just be the case for most things, I don't think it would be fair to say that for all things. Two traits could develop in conjunction with another, and trait 1 gives an advantage, while trait 2 is a disadvantage. The most in-your-face example I think is the stereotype of nerds and glasses. In short, a good enough trait could get you laid and fed even though you have a crappy trait that came with it.

edit: alternatively, a bad enough trait could completely derail the development of a good train. Maybe dolphins born with 200iq brains develop some other kind of bad trait as a result of the same mutation that doesn't allow for the 200iq trait to permeate.
Open source hardware is a great idea, but most of the executions have been pretty shoddy with stuff like proprietary parts still being used, bad documentation, and worst of all some companies just releasing products with no actual sourcing at all.

I've been very happy with ZSA for example, and they've done it right in my opinion.

Hopefully more companies work on making their stuff open standards with strong centralized production for those that don't want to build it themselves rather than arbiters of what can and cannot be reproduced by 3rd parties.
Texas man uses Apple AirTag to track and kill truck thief
You can tell a fraud by the quality of their photos in the sycophant press.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Frankens...

(don't get me wrong. love C. but in an innocent sort of way, like a teenager quite unaware of betrayals, heartbreak, love triangles, or UB, UsB, and IDB..)
I’m not Italian but if it’s a regulator that tells what you can or cannot do, then it’s government.
You can look at fertility rates across rich countries, and what you'll notice is a rapid secular decline starts literally the exact same year that the birth control pill becomes legal.

Go ahead and google fertility rates for any developed country that comes to mind and compare it to when birth control became legal. For the US, UK, Australia, South Korea, etc its the EXACT year.

Wealth doesn't seem to explain it exactly: the main reason people who want kids don't have they in developed countries is a lack of mean (wealth). Wealth itself doesn't seem to be it (all else equal, having more means doesn't seem like the obvious cause).

I wonder what percent of children born for all of human history were simply unplanned. The data seems to suggest something like 50%+ of them. As family planning becomes more accessible, we're finding that people just keep postponing having them and a big part of the reason they had them before was simply "oops".

No surprise in hindsight. There's not a single animal on earth besides us very recently that do any kind of family planning. They just have sex and offspring happen. Why should Homo Sapiens be any different.
Raising a racket: Pickleball noise divides neighbors and players
What's interesting to me is that all this happened after he already had a $17M net worth (20 years ago, so worth almost double that now with inflation, and in a low-cost-of-living area), per the Wikipedia article. That's far more money than I'll ever see. How does more money materially change the life of someone like that? It sounds like his troubles were the effect of publicity after winning the lottery, not wealth.
Indeed. And the SI defining constants are downright ugly.
And pretty-much any of those taxes would help the situation, so long as ultimately they boil down to the rich paying more per year than their profit margins and therefore shrinking inequality (redistributed to the people).

This problem isn't complicated because it's intellectually challenging. This problem is complicated because the balance of power is overwhelmingly favorable to the rich, and they have many means to both disrupt the conversation in intellectual circles and to block any political means of making these necessary changes.

See economist Richard D. Wolff for extremely simple answers to the above problem. Ultimately it is simply the math of value flows. Current system? Inherently concentrates at the top. Adjust taxes (any of them!!) to reverse that.

https://www.youtube.com/user/richarddwolff
I just took off time I wanted off and ended up taking 4-5 weeks.

Honestly as a software engineer I feel like my days "on" are close to many people's days "off" anyway. So days off just meant I could travel.
It wasn't clear at first that the concern is hardware licensing. The GPL isn't great for hardware, but I can't tell if they're objecting to it for software.

Either way, bringing back advertising clauses is a bad idea.
That requires you to view the free market as a tool to be wielded rather than a gospel to be followed.
IPFS Desktop switches to opt-out telemetry and reenables without confirmation
Maybe they just don't want somebody else to have that domain?

I just don't trust ARM management to be smart enough to pivot to RISC-V.
I was very optimistic in the first 5 years of my career, but for the last 7 years, whenever I started anything, I've had a feeling deep down that it wasn't going to work out financially. I still pushed through and produced some high quality projects but almost nobody uses them. My projects just cannot get any attention, no matter how good they are and how much positive feedback I get from those few people who do try them. Some of them do the exact same thing as some existing, proven multi-million dollar projects, yet I cannot even get a tiny sliver of their market share. I'm at a point where I'm paralyzed and afraid to start anything, afraid to even try to raise funding (I've been rejected hundreds of times). I know I will be rejected as soon as I start applying for funding; I feel that these funding application forms are designed intentionally to waste my time (and the time of people like me) and that there is 0 chance I will get funding no matter what I put there. The feeling is visceral. It's not about the projects, it's all about me. The elite don't want me to succeed.

I feel like if someone else who is elite-approved had launched my projects and did everything exactly as I did, they would have been wildly successful just because they're not me.

I'm now behaving similarly as these people who just procrastinate, complain and never try anything except in my case, I have so many failed multi-year projects under my belt. I look at any successful person with suspicion. They must have special connections; they must be elite-approved.