skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Broad enough laws don't have loopholes. GDPR for example had the wisdom not to define specific types of personal information (such as name, or IP address) but instead any data that could be correlated to identify a person. That puts the ball in the corporations' court to make sure they stay well clear of the dividing line.

Delegated councils (like the FDA, FTC, FCC, etc.) and courts can be used to make decisions about edge and individual cases, and do so much closer to real time than Congress can act.

Governments regularly successfully define things much more vague than "is this AI?"
The appearance varies widely because everything has incompatible layers on top of freetype, some of which respect your Freetype configuration and others which take... _ahem_... liberties.

It also doesn't help when Mozilla and Google statically-link ancient font libraries in the name of security.
While a cool thing to release, it's not the same as their official enclsoure, which I believe GP was looking for
The BJP is one of the two largest political parties in India.
Show HN: Icsp – Command-line iCalendar (.ics) to CSV utility
Hey folks, I've written this pure bash ICS to CSV conversion tool after needing it for a personal use case.

It all started with realizing that the Google Calendar REST api was too much of a hassle to integrate for a one-off use case (need to change account settings, do a Oauth login & manage tokens...). I then remembered that calendar exports were just a few clicks away in the .ics format, so I decided to use that instead.

I couldn't find anything online other than half broken scripts or language-specific libraries to parse .ics files, so I then went ahead and wrote a straight forward, pure bash implementation for CLI usage.

Hope this is useful for others as well!

I put in a few examples to try out in the readme on Github, let me know if you try it out!
I'm not very knowledgeable about Firefox internals, but I recall hearing something like XUL having a C++ backend, and being able to use essentially native code to drive UI, extensions (via XPCOM), etc.

I figure this is probably faster than rendering a web UI until the SpiderMonkey JIT is sufficiently warm.
I agree MkDocs is good looking and easy to setup/extend. Some features need payment though like you said. The mobile view is a bit weird UX wise but I am sure there is some config I can adjust to fix it (it has multi level stateful hamburger menu that can leave you lost)
It's the opposite; it increases the percentage of owner occupiers. It reduces landlord/renters; see for example https://gameofrent.com/content/can-lvt-be-passed-on-to-tenan... or https://www.prosper.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Prospe...

Most proposals for land value tax are also revenue neutral, so you essentially pay rent to society/government for the land you use, but keep more of your income.
That's kind of the point. We solved this problem decades ago. You have a system package manager that installs a system-wide copy of the package that everybody can use.

But now we encounter this broken nonsense because solved problems get unsolved by bad software.
HTML/CSS is horribly, horribly bloated and that cruft cannot be optimized beyond a certain point. All the rules and rule interactions in the standards plus countless hacks and heuristics result in enormous amount of extra code that the CPU has to chew through to compute a layout.
Does not work here either. Cloudflare error page is all I get.
Let's also note that it is an investment with an expected return (capped at 7x), and gives Microsoft an ownership stake in OpenAI. It's not like MSFT is just throwing money away! Seems a very savvy move by Nadella, and a great partnership for OpenAI too - really a win-win.
No, because, again, you haven't shown that schools are teaching something that isn't CRT while appropriating the term "CRT" to describe it. In fact, we have no idea what these schools are teaching, so we have not all that much to discuss.
I was involved in discussions around this back in the mid/late-2010s when still on the Hill.

The "AI threat" that was in mind was specifically around Computer Vision - applications such as training algorithms for next-gen autonomous guided missiles, algorithms to clean/enhance military satellite images (eg. NGA), detecting anomalies in radar to find stealth aircrafts, autonomously guided kamikaze boats (tested by DoD in the mid-2010s and I think the PRC as well in the same timeframe), automated turrets, autonomously guided kamikaze drones (already deployed by Turkish Army in Syria and Libya and by Iran's Revolutionary Guard in Yemen), etc. Hence why the references to HPC and supercomputing in all these AI Policy Briefs - computer vision is a massive distributed systems problem.

That said, there also was an element of lobbying (and by element I mean a BUTTLOAD) by Eric Schmidt's foundation to make an American Manhattan Project for AI essentially.

In these discussions AGI was never on the radar.
Americans are returning to cities after remote-work exodus, data shows
Isn't linking to outdated libraries a security threat?
You post is not coherent with the one you are replying to. Without government setting the rules, capitalism leads to monopolies, like it did with standard oil.

The bigger company can kill all competition despite having inferior product with unfair practices such as - Dumping, market manipulation, self-dealing, wash trading, antitrust, insider trading, collusion, cartels, negative externalities, anticompetitive practices, misinformation, corporate espionage, etc.

If you take off the last remaining government safeguards, you will not have more competition. You will have monopolies for good we need to survive.

We will arrive at neo-feudalism.
Capital accumulation is necessary because of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall. In other words, you can't merely "create value" as a capitalist. Capitalists must accumulate capital merely to avoid losing everything. Capital accumulation is protected because capitalists literally created a government for that express purpose.
> That basically meant my options are Liberal or NDP. NDP policies seem to think if I make more than 200K, I am a rich fat cat

If you make $200k a year, you've got almost 3x the average household income in canada ($75k). You're way up there in terms of wealth, and don't need any help from the NDP or anyone else.
I think it is carcinogenic. Apparently the plant for this (or another competitor) pumps carcinogens into the air at orders of magnitude above the legal limit.
It must be seriously exhausting to be bothered by such inconsequential things.
The ones that are as fully featured as Salesforce suffer from the same sorts of problems.

Which, of course, should suggest you don't want some of those features, but people don't seem to want to hear that.
Can you share some? I've spent a lot of time looking into this, reading and posting on boggleheads, talking with accountants, advice only financial advisors, etc. and the general consensus is that there isn't much you can do as a high W2 earner besides pay your taxes and be grateful to be in such a position.
As a startup founder who doesn't pay himself much, IMO people either care about money or they don't. Depends what you're optimizing for. But if you're obsessed with cash you shouldn't start a company IMO. You're better off working for "FAANG" or whatever the cash obsessed optimizers are calling it these days.

I mean obviously if you start a company you want to optimize for it making profit, but the original goal should be, primarily, totally disconnected from money. Any monetary benefits should be a side effect of providing value. In the most ideal world, your equity turns into cash 10-15 years later, but you shouldn't set out with that being your goal.

My perspective on this is coming from someone who made easy money on a ridiculous business selling proxies to SEO spammers in college, and I didn't know what to do with the money (I spent it all on worthless shit). I've learned I'm much happier when I'm meeting some minimal survival baseline while trying to build a sustainable organization that produces a useful product.
It’s not complicated, housing is being used as an investment vehicle for narcissistic speculators to make bank, while clueless homeowner assholes are desperately clinging to their mortgages.

This is a constant across the western world, and it’s not gonna change until middle class families end up living on the street.

The sooner this psychotic, braindead and hateful housing market collapses, the better.
Yes I’ve figured out the timer. As a 2010 account, I kind of have to just yield to you.
That’s a good analogy. But it misses an important component; Every one of those convention attendees is fiercely competitive with each other. Some are even in a state of war with others. They all have different races, religions, belief systems and they all face drastically different domestic challenges.
So yeah, while they may all work in the same industry (so to speak) they are hardly likely to be working together towards some secret nefarious common goal.
Not to say that you were implying that, but many do.
Anyways, I really like the trade show metaphor.
Ultimately I suspect it will be validated by an AI too. Yeah, the average quality will nosedive, but programming will finally be open to the masses
> Mautrix/WhatsApp

I'm sorry, but that's not a good example. It doesn't even count as a legitimate client.

> Which is?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_Telegram_in_Russia

https://hongkongfp.com/2020/07/05/exclusive-telegram-to-temp...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3yavb/russia-blocks-telegra...

https://sensortower.com/blog/hong-kong-protests-app-download...

> With Telegram you have a guarantee that it is not E2EE in group chats and single chats if you don't opt into a way worse UX/features.

You're saying this as if you have a guarantee that WhatsApp's E2EE is 100% correct. At least with Telegram, I know what data the app is collecting, where it's going and how it's being stored on the device.

> True for Whatsapp as well, it's funded by business accounts and perhaps other parts of facebook

Assumption again.
Why would Firefox need to implement any of this? It's their own browser running their own engine. Why would they need to implement Chrome anything?
At least not the models we have access to
> Windows continues down the path of PMs and designers handing out orders from their Macs

Oof, that's a damning statement. Is there evidence this is a real thing? I would hope under Nadella the concept of dogfooding is ubiquitous enough that they are all forced onto surface pros and windows 11, but I've seen crazier things.
It's clear that GPT4 still isn't AGI or close to it. But the same is true for humans, our language neurons aren't the only essential parts of our intelligence. So what else is there? Well, it just needs to want things, maybe have needs, probably perceptions (that one's easy). Automomy?

At some point, with all these systems interacting, sentience may emerge so that it too can participate debates whether it's an AGI!
This comparison is pretty unfair! SteamDeck is as open as it gets! The last thing left for Valve to do finish mainlining the drivers (they have done a few in the past few months).
Well the point is that they are conspiracies, that is, groups of people scheming in secret how they can get more power at everyone else's expense.
You're right, that was very unforgiving of me, and not the best interpretation of what you said.

To continue this analogy, I think the problems are, the process to fixing it is arduous and difficult, as much as writing it to begin with, bugs become expected behavior and have to continue being supported, and the "business case" executives have too much say in writing it.
OP here - I'll provide some more context:

Why you built this?
- I was very impressed with the AI butler Jarvis in the Iron Man movies but thought it was impossible to build it. ChatGPT suddenly makes it possible.

Did it work?
- Perfectly? No. It's a Minimal Viable Product that's limited in functionality and scalability. Jarvis will help you while it can, but when it can't I'll step in and do it manually. It's sub-optimal, but the whole project is super early and I gotta do things that don't scale.

Your landing page looks crappy.
- I spent most of my time working on the backend of this. I bought the domain name from GoDaddy and rolled with it for the page as well.

I hate it/It's terrible/I just want to troll.
- Please enjoy. Happy April Fool's Day! But I'll still treat all your requests seriously.
If you prop yourself upside-down against a wall before farting, you should be safe.
Great advice, unless you’re looking exactly for a way to do something without feeling bad.

There are roughly two types of people: those who chase goals and those who seek ways. Both are valuable, but this advice only covers the former. Goal-chasers can run with a pebble in their shoes for a while and enjoy a reward in the end. Way-seekers run forever, there’s no end, their joy is in the run itself. It’s hard to “just do it” when you’re doomed to do it all your life till death and it’s not fun.
For several years, I worked in a group doing research in Expert Systems (rule based programming) AI. I wrote code, wrote and published peer-reviewed papers, and gave talks, including one at Stanford, one at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, some businesses, etc. We developed a language that was offered as a software product. I taught the language to my wife; she did just brilliantly with it, but she was brilliant -- Valedictorian, PBK, Summa Cum Laude, Woodrow Wilson Fellow, NSF Fellow, etc.

At the time and since to the present, my view is the same: Expert systems do not have promise of being useful and are an example of the OP's "innovation" that went "south", "tech that never quite worked out". Sorry 'bout that.
I found this YouTube much more actionable: https://youtu.be/i2EEnJedcYU

A better one liner from the video: procrastination isn't a time management problem but an emotion management problem.
So in other words, if we want stable marriages, we should not financially devastate men in divorce and give their wives cash and prizes and accolades for breaking up their families and pushing fathers out of their kids' lives. Got it. Most of us knew this already but it's nice to have a study to confirm it.
If they're born and live at that depth isn't the pressure equalized inside and outside of them?
Hey, at least they get to live in Sweden which is the Utopia of this world.
How often do you actually use a browser's UI elements?

When you type a URL? When you click a button? Why couldn't that be fast enough on modern hardware?
The "well historically, yes" was a silly quip, but I was thinking about the story of Saul in the bible, who was despised and endangered due to his career as a tax collector.
Why would the comparison be useless?

I can imagine situations where a pointer q might sometimes be a copy of pointer p and sometimes might point to something else, and the code wants to free q if and only if it is not a copy of p (because p has been free'd earlier).
Layouts that don't change can be heavily cached.

... and having the chrome performance depend on that infrastructure is significant incentive to do that caching and other pipeline cleanups.

(At the very least, having one fewer UI toolkits to maintain will let Mozilla engineers focus their efforts).
I think the intent is, like patents, to prevent someone else from undercutting your price and reaping reward for your investment in innovation but at the same time saying if you make a significant contribution to the greater good then you can immediately apply it to the current state of the art.

You can benefit from our innovation but only if it's in addition to your own innovation.

I kind of like that because unlike patents which stifle innovation, it encourages acceleration of innovation.
Are you apart of an angel network how do you do DD, seems akin to a lottery no?
Ironically I feel like you are the one not arguing in good faith.

> Everything we're discussing is a hypothetical. In this scenario, they would tax that and everything else

Your hypothetical is "the government taxes everything". Then someone asked, "how would that work?" and your response was "everything we're discussing is a hypothetical!".

There are many obvious ideas around taxing wealth. The problem is that when you think about how they would work in reality things get very messy and difficult. Proposing the idea is not the hard part.
As people die, etc their high paying jobs will be granted to new people. Some of which I suspect are real estate Marxists that will quickly become real estate centrists or conservatives. If you look at the math it sort of looks like this:

There are certain places people want to live and this is mainly a 2D geometry, with certain cases of 3D to a limited extent. 3D will always have detractors since it doesn't fit, it kills light, there aren't services to support the density, etc. There's a never ending conveyor of excuses, some which are actually legit. You aren'r building Manhattan again in the West. So as we grow we are forced to grow outward more than upward, and as anyone who has done a 4th grade pizza problem knows how that goes. Geometry! Applying math skillz to "real life"! Who knew?!

Now secondly, lets look at economic and class structures. We like to say "the middle class is vanishing" and that's partially true. But the implied place all these former middle classes are going, the lower class, isn't quite right. Today, the upper middle class is the largest it has ever been. Around 30% of the population (assume the top 1-2% are the upper class). That's huge and these are the people that can actually afford the "nice places in nice places". They throw a bone to a black person or a teacher every now and then via "equitable affordable housing" - just enough to keep the polls working, but never more.

So what we have here is a lot of people who think because they went to college and have an unimportant role in a middling corporation that they deserve a DREAM HOME in a PREMIUM LOCATION. There ain't that many of those. Especially when you consider that 30% of people are really pretty well off due to income in certain cases and inheritance/genes in others. A good friend of mine makes a shit wage and owns a 2M home because RICH PARENTS bought the house. They're still rich even after that! You just ain't one of them. You need to do it the hard way and earn it, like I did.

There are winners and loser and most people feel like they're a winner, or at least did all the things that winners do. But it's a crowded trade today. Good luck.
> Why couldn't that be fast enough on modern hardware?

Exactly, why can't it?!
I wonder how fast Starship could move 100 tons of troops and materiel to a war front.
I guess, but I remember even as far back as 2007, pg was excessively touting sama. During an interview, when asked which founder(s) impressed him most, he immediately replied, almost cutting the interviewer off, "Sam Altman." Which struck me as odd then since reddit (same batch) seemed much bigger, and Scribd and Justin.tv (later Twitch) had started to take off. Then there was that "Sam Altman for President" post, announcing him as the next YC president, but the subtext seemed to be that pg thought sama would make a good POTUS as well. Then there was actual talk that Sam would run for Governor: https://www.vox.com/2017/5/14/15638046/willie-brown-column-s...

It's as if his success was predestined. Loopt should have been a failure, but instead it ended up being a successful exit, made him rich(er), and became a stepping stone to greater things.
This can be described more simply as: Running native code vs. abstracted code.

Abstracted code is bloody slow by its very nature, but devs of the 21st century love abstraction so we get software that run like drunk walruses on 16-core processors with hundreds of gigabytes of RAM.
I’m not sure what you are trying to say. It sounds like you are saying that because they are factory calibrating it, it’s not needed… so then it’s not needed? What does it matter if it’s less than ideal if it produces satisfactory results? Results are the only thing that matter and Prusa is consistent with producing them so I’m not sure why this is different?
Bit of a side tangent, but why does MIT upload (or allow the upload) of these videos under the staff member's youtube. Alexander Amini in this case.

It makes it hard to find and subscribe to. And also a bit weird from an ownership perspective.

For better or worse I think it's how Lex Fridman got his initial boost, I believe his personal youtube channel contained some popular MIT lectures of him at the start.
> Please go to other countries and see how much cleaner, safer, and peaceful they are without accepting the terror of drug crime in public.

Nobody thinks drug crime is good. I discussed a solution that would instantly end drug crime, because I think drug crime is a horrible, unacceptable problem.

> but it really goes to show that we do not have to tolerate open crimes and accepting criminal behavior

It really feels like you didn't understand the fundamental concept of legalizing drugs. That doesn't mean legalizing crime. And it doesn't have to mean legalizing public intoxication any more than legalizing alcohol did.
There are a number of people/companies who have invested in OpenAI under their capped profit format, with earlier investors getting higher caps than later ones. Apparently investment profit caps range from 100x to 7x.
Ask HN: Why don't banks have API tokens like GitHub?
I haven't seen this anywhere so I figured it's worth asking. I'd really like to have a read only token that could be issued by my bank so I can have a little web client pull the balance data and update a budget for me. Yes I know there's mint budgeting and all that. I'm skeptical of handing the keys over to others and I'd like to DIY this. Is there some regulatory reason this doesn't exist? Are there any banks that have API access that clients can't use? Every time I switch banks to something that has cash envelope accounting they take it away or merge with another bank and I have to start the whole process over again. I'm beginning to think it would be easier to just do it myself if I had API access.
It fails some test cases of anaphora resolution.
We have a democracy precisely to avoid such things. I'd prefer the strategy of "decide to actually start winning at every opportunity"; it would be a novel change in strategy.

Let's stop treating this as "maybe there's a way to convince people", understand that there is no way to convince some people, and instead just win. Win, and keep winning, and use those wins to eliminate things like voter suppression and gerrymandering, and then never lose again.
Someday (soon?), we’ll employ LUxM’s (Large User Interface Models) to quickly render an approximation of a given HTML/CSS input. It may not be 100% accurate, but it will be plausible, and that’s the key.

/s
Every time I read something about tax evasion I wonder why there’s never a discussion about IF income tax should “exist” or not.
We take it as granted and always existed.
While for indirect taxation I think that’s pretty fair.
Seems a bit tough with the hiring freeze