skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps the blog you could store in the cloud somewhere, along with regular backups in the form of physical media? Over time, make backups on any other kind of new storage that comes along. I think redundancy would be key for this.
For someone outside the universe to know what happens in it, they must run the code.

For someone inside the universe, their observations are just part of the function. To know the millionth digit of pi you have to calculate it, but the digit is the same regardless.
Indeed. At a former employer, when they announced removing free soda, I assumed they were about to stagnate very hard. Compared to the costs and profits of flying hundreds of sales engineers around weekly and any executive-level expenses the cost rounded to zero. It was routine to hear about the $200/person dinners for big groups of leaders when courting visiting customers. So when they start cutting something as cheap as soda maintenance, they're definitely desperate and going to cut all the wrong expenses.

Coincidence or not, their stock has slowly fallen and they've lost their shine since then.

I think "broadly cutting tiny costs" means the company is done believing in itself.
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I understand that receipts are required by law, but in my experience, no one checks for them unless you leave your laptop in the box (or declare it). If you put it in a laptop bag or simply say that it's a work laptop, you will likely not be questioned. I have traveled to over 25 countries with a laptop and have never had any issues.

It seems that everyone buys laptops in the US and brings them home this way; whether they are in Australia, Costa Rica -- or even the EU -- on a personal level, nobody wants to pay more, especially not more taxes.

The only time I have paid import taxes was when I sent a used phone and laptop to a person on Reddit who needed them in Canada. Even though the devices were over five years old, the Canadian tax authorities wanted me to pay new retail prices for them. I paid the taxes so that the kid could receive the devices. I'm pretty sure I could have just declared them as having a value of $100, but by the time I got involved the kid had already said it was an "Apple Laptop" and the Postal Mounties just assumed a new sticker price. Frustrating.
and totally observed that I never said they weren't both prohibited, so not sure what the latest smart HN person to correct me is on about.
Hey, person behind this project here. Thanks for posting.

The changes to Section 174 are a massive problem for companies that build and sell software because now all software development -- which includes both building new products and adding new features to existing ones -- must be amortized. (Time and resources spent on fixes can still be expensed.)

If you're unfamiliar with the issue, I have an explainer thread here. This thread was fact checked by tax experts before posting. [1.1]

This includes salaries as well as other expenses, like servers. I did an example breakdown in this post.[1.2]

There's a lot of confusion with this and the R&D tax credit. Software development falls under what the tax code calls "R&E" (research and experimental), which is a much broader category than R&D. This article [2] does a good job explaining the difference.

Reverting Section 174 to allow companies to expense software development has widespread and bipartisan support in Congress, but unfortunately they feel no urgency on the matter. Big companies have been engaging with Congress on this for four years, but it still hasn't happened -- likely because it's seen as a big business issue even though it impacts companies of any size. This is where small software companies come in, and this letter specifically.

The goal of sending this letter on Tax Day is to make Congress understand that these changes are already making small software companies' tax bills skyrocket to the point where they may have to go out of business. It makes funded unprofitable startups profitable and taxable (and who can raise extra capital right now?!), and lean but profitable bootstrapped companies are taking out lines of credit just to pay their tax bills.

This is not a hypothetical issue. People are already receiving these astronomically-higher tax bills. [3,4] We have to join together so Congress knows this is an urgent problem.

NOTE: Please only sign this if you're a US citizen with a US company. There will be a point later when we'll bring others into the effort. But for right now, in order to get small businesses into the legislative conversation and shake things up and hopefully speed this along, we are focusing on founders at the moment. Small businesses are politically sympathetic but horribly disorganized as a bloc, and we have to change that first if we have any hope of this ever coming to a vote.

[1.1] https://twitter.com/mjwhansen/status/1640696365637419008

[1.2] https://www.indiehackers.com/post/this-us-tax-change-could-k...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/lynnmucenskikeck/2023/03/24/fiv...

[3] https://twitter.com/LandonB32/status/1636026627887964162

[4] (Paywalled) https://www.wsj.com/articles/small-businesses-face-big-tax-b...
OK thanks for that. I am tinkering with it and noticed that it makes use of KVM and just found out that WSL2 has KVM support so I'm going to give it a try there and see what breaks, ha!

https://serverfault.com/questions/1043441/how-to-run-kvm-nes...
There’s also a pretty popular podcast called Drink Champs where they get the guests super drunk
Quite, it’s about a 90/10 split right now. 80/20 would really be something.

Edit Just to expand on this, the current 90/10 split (500 miles gas/40ish electric) has cut my long distance drive gas usage down by something like 50-75%. If it were more like 500 miles gas/100 miles electric that’d probably cut it down to 2-4 gallons of gas per month or less. Around my house is already fully electric with the 10%.

The numbers I have not done are would simply going inline series with the gas be better than having the traditional power train and electric. In line meaning a generator to fire up the amps needed when the batter gets low-how modern trains work. I’m guessing it’s not so obvious since BMW cancelled their range extender.
looks like it is using https://www.usebracket.com/pricing which I found from your "about" here https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vinarun so it's kind of like self-promotion, which is fine? i am just pretty sure the vibe here on hackernews is you should be upfront on who you are in relation to the product/why you are posting it instead of being like "look what i randomly stumbled upon with no affiliation"

not that i care, just for others
Hi Jeff, I just sent you an email from hello (at) jasonriddle [dot] com. I'm a DevOps engineer and perhaps this isn't the right time, but just wanted to be at the top of your mind when you do need a DevOps Engineer.
It seems that Verizon needs to better train their employees on ID verification. Drivers licenses have become quite a bit more complicated. Also, most mobile providers require a account password before accessing/changing anything on the account. Either the employee never bothered to confirm the password or the author never set one up.
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>The major point I make is that the posts online that purport to come from Slaren do not show that they had "distanced themselves from [the] situation".

It's evident from simply looking at the PR that the user @slaren on the Github distanced himself from the situation. Days had passed with no one discussing the stolen code until I brought it up in the original PR (which jart rebased off of and created the infamous "Make loading weights 10-100x faster" PR)

> Yes, I can see that you were one of the key people that created drama, by asking "I'm wondering how much was written by you and how much by jart?" [0]

I didn't create drama. Jart created drama. By stealing code. Plagiarism. Then shameless self-promotion, to this very moment.

Do you have absolutely no integrity whatsoever?

>and then when they publicly said they didn't want to start drama, trying to get private comment from them by saying "My contact info is in my profile if there's more to say."

They didn't contact me, and I simply went through the public Github history to document what jart had done, and continues to do.

>I think somebody could choose to believe this, but somebody that reads the GitHub and desuarchive.org threads might also feel that @InconsolableCellist and @slaren had a part to play, too.

Yes, correct. I told you my part, I noticed what jart was doing. Why have you continually ignored what jart did? Why do you seem to think it's some minor issue that she stole code, bragged about it, took all the credit, and damaged the community with unnecessary drama? Why are you so focused on everything except the central ethical issue?

>Yes, it's technically possible that somebody pretending to be Slaren investigated the GitHub and was able to correctly infer exactly what happened chronologically including that they had collaborated on jart's Discord. However, Occam's razor suggests it was Slaren themselves and not a very clever troll.

Even if that were true--which it isn't, to my knowledge--it changes nothing about jart's behavior. Even if every user also used derogatory slurs, it changes nothing about the wrong was committed (but adds additional wrongs).

Fortunately, for anyone level-headed enough to look at what's been discussed so far, you can see the unethical behavior of the user that stole code, the aftermath, and the appropriate reaction for that user to be banned. The behavior that you've ignored and seem wholly unconcerned with, as if blind to it. Plagiarism.
There doesn't have to be an upper layer at all. Everything you can possibly observe is determined by merely specifying the function. You have no way to determine whether or not the function is being evaluated anywhere. It wouldn't make any difference.
I impulsively purchased an HP Dev One laptop a few months back, and expected I'd try Pop for a minute and end up with Ubuntu.

I've found Pop to be mostly similar but preferable (seems more Desktop oriented).

I've also had very few issues with (IME )typical Linux stuff (doesn't sleep, doesn't wake from sleep etc.) I can't say the same about my Ubuntu desktop, which struggles to maintain two weeks of uptime without one of these issues.

Pop shall remain for the foreseeable future.

This laptop does have issues with external displays, unfortunately, but has been used as a laptop 90% of the time so it's not a big issue. Fear that's the best one can expect with Desktop Linux.
I think this is just called "making a VC-funded startup"
I'll be devil's advocate.

> It could be ran in a VM or even using windows compatibility layer.

The overwhelming majority of folks using this software seem to be extremely non-technical. Any of the options you listed would work for HN readers but not the general public. If it doesn't "just install" it's useless.

> The story calls the creator a genius, but really it's just a guy that had a passionate project.

Arguably, creating software that nobody else has managed to create that is beloved by its users is genius. He was clearly an exceptional engineer to have made the software and exceedingly business minded to get it into the hands of users and delight them. It's not hard to make mediocre software, but it's a terrific challenge to make it so good that your users are lost without it. You don't need to be in the running for the Turing award to be a genius.
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Some comparisons.

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

ran an organization promising to help people debug their minds from an approach that is reminiscent of "lesswrong", it's fairly hard to judge Korzybski because his seminal work has been effectively out of print for a long time. The remnants of his organization are rather rag-tag and disorganized and managed to produce a terrible new edition of Science of Sanity. Folowers include science fiction writer A. E. Van Vogt and S. I. Hayakawa, the first Asian-American senator.

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

in that many of Korzybski's followers abandoned general semantics for Dianetics and Scientology. Scientology has numerous front groups (ABLE, Narconon, Criminon, ...) just as Yudkowsky does (lesswrong, Effective Altruism, longtermism, ...) Many coercive groups have a history of making numerous turns to ensure that only true believers are left behind: Effective Altruism jumping into longtermism which invalidates the whole idea that you can measure the results of your giving is a good example, although Lyndon LaRouche and the 3rd international also provide great examples (e.g. Stalin through his support behind Chiang Kai-shek just before Chiang Kai-shek attacked Mao's organization in Wuhan in 1927)

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

In the 1970s there was a fad for UFO cults which were generally preoccupied with some form of higher intelligence taking our problems away; Timothy Leary notably gave a lecture in jail on the topic which is talked about in this great book

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/406348

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

If you think that "it's getting better all the time" you might think the universe evolves to higher forms of order in which case God is at the end of the Universe as opposed to the beginning. Unlike anyone else on this list I'm not going to pin any crimes on him, but if you imagine humans are going to create some higher intelligence and have a religious orientation towards it he's the best example you can pick.

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

At best you have the Millerites who thought it would end in 1848 and became the inoffensive 7th day Adventists, they hate it when you compare them to the Jehovah's Witnesses but you can easily find examples like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_gro...

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

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

that should have you perceiving apocalyptic talk as a "bad smell".
> it is all pushed down an output port that goes to the "transmitter". whether that's an actual FM transmitter or a server that broadcasts the signal, it's the same experience.

But it's not the same experience at all. What happens to the signal in the end is the most important part of the experience.

That said, I think a lot of pirate radio people simulcast over the internet as well. The internet is certainly not able to replace radio for their purposes, though.

> The audience isn't there any more is the point.

Sure it is. Pirate radio stations very rarely drew large audiences anyway. Most of them cover very small geographical areas. I can't imagine the audiences they can draw are much smaller than they drew in the past.
Surface laptop with the same specs is 1129 EUR in Germany (Mediamarkt). And M2 is going to have a better performance than i5 inside Surface. It’s the same price class. You can get ridiculous and compare both to something like Lenovo V17 for 479 EUR, of course…

P.S. And we haven’t even touched Razer Blade.
There are many good ways. Best way is very subjective.

Let me suggest what I did. Our company partnered with a local chapter of Habitat for Humanity and we (my colleagues and I) volunteered to help our local community housing projects with cleanup (yard and street cleanup, powerwashing sidings etc.,).

This happened on our own time. If you and your company are willing to utilize bench time, that is great.

When my son turned 16 (his birthday falls in November), we decided to go to the soup kitchen downtown and spend time helping out during the Thanksgiving holiday.

There was this time when we were raising funds for a cancer foundation. I announced I would shave my head if we crossed a certain target. It was nice to see every one of my DRs rallying the troops and campaigning to attain the target. I kept my promise when we reached the goal.

Personally, for me, putting in the hours directly in the communities was fulfilling; more so than contributing cash donations (which I have done), although the cash might have been even more impactful upon rational analysis.
The Surprising Benefits of Sitting on the Floor Every Day
Yea, but the Tesla can brake faster automatically in an emergency faster than I can realize an emergency is happening.

And again, when I drive cars that don't slow down without input, or creep, it just feels more out of control and dangerous. The Tesla is inherently safer by quickly slowing down when no input is applied.
At some point you run out of places for people to immigrate from unless you just empty entire countries.
In Europe, you have 14 days to return a good you ordered online. That includes a Tesla.
the small changes that form habits don't come out of willpower and thin air that's a myth. the person was already in the mindset for positive change and motivated
The examples in the article are

> In the U.S. though, the police have been called, women arrested, and children taken into custody for finishing out a stroller nap in an enclosed backyard, using an iPad in a car for a few minutes, and playing in a park.

So, which ones of those are property damage to neighbors?
Maybe you should start shopping the business case for it around then.
Ah recently then!
No, they've gone with flatpak instead. It's one of the better reasons to use it, if you were considering Ubuntu.
Microsoft Cutbacks: The 1993 “Shrimp and Weenies” Memo (2009)
A couple things:

That census definition of urban/rural is different from the colloquial definition. The census link allows an "urban" classification as low as 2,500 people.

Colloquially-defined rural areas have been decimated by globalization in the last 40 years. The "rural" area I grew up in had thousands of manufacturing jobs; now it may have 200. The drop in GDP goes far beyond urban sprawl enabled by ICE vehicles.
Hampton (joinhampton.com) was just announced last week (no affiliation). It’s structured mastermind groups.

This is a new business by Sam Parr of The Hustle newsletter fame.

Check out the recent MfM podcast that talks about it. I think some CEO folks may find it beneficial.

Short summary seems to be that it’s a small community of folks in a similar but unique place in life. Specifically:

- Can be open and vulnerable when it might be tough to do so with others (e.g., employees, investors, friends/family who are not in the same line of work, etc.).

- Addresses some of the loneliness that some ceos feel.

- Highly structured meetings run by professional facilitators.

- Peers can help with finding quality service providers like lawyers, copywriters, etc. as well
as using their networks to help with hiring.

The podcast mentions some specific examples.

$8500 per year, iirc.

Edit: Due to the downvotes, maybe I need to elaborate more. Specifically, I think they mastermind groups can be something productive, rather than mental self gratification, when done correctly. I think most of the mastermind folks don’t come close to doing it correctly, but (possibly) Hampton does.
> GCC has long has nested functions as an extension to the C programming language

I know. Yet, it still hasn't gotten into the C Standard. I've also never seen it used in practice, whereas in D we use it everywhere. I constantly find handy new uses for it.
how much work/how long will it take before the kernel is not a fork/everything is upstreamed. 12 months?

also, on my raspberry pi i at least stood a chance of running a headless chrome for some silly scrape job i had. RISC-V pretty much guarantees that's not the case, right?
This model has far fewer, what you would call "explicitly set", limitations in place. That's why it's able to go into dark/explicit corners of conversation. That's literally its selling point. Your recommendation seems, logically, backwards, if you want "consequences" for things "explicitly set", since a completely unlimited AI would mean no consequences.
pfft ppl cant remember what they were outraging about last week.

As Info explodes attention collapses.

The only predictable thing about the attention economy is it keeps propping up the biggest attention craving buffoons of society with each one trying to outdo the other.
I don't use Pop_OS, but I do use the tiling gnome extension.

It's godsend. I ran out of time to fiddle with i3wm years ago, but dearly missed being able to tile. It's a perfect middle ground.
SPA is just "a way" to do things. You're describing them as older/modern, but they're simply different approaches to achieve different things.
I think that the law is woefully unequipped to handle this situation, but there is definitely an ethical concern over training your models on copyrighted work. Adobe isn't going to scrape images off of social media to train their image generator and that will always put them behind companies that do. I can't say whether that's fair but I have very little faith that regulators will understand this issue enough to find a solution.
Diesel has an average shelf life of 12 months if stored at a temperature below 20°C (68°F). As the temperatures rise, shelf life goes down. Additives (biocides and stabilizers) available to extend life but maybe maximum a few years. NFPA 110 diesel standard is "1.5 to 2 years of storage life.".

> all you need is a tank in your shed

Maybe two tanks so you can rotate fresh fuel - now deliver and pumping is a regular operation? Must be designed so water doesn’t condense (not just drums?). Or underground to help if you in warmer climate? Keeping diesel around for decades while waiting for a disaster is going to be a hassle.

Perhaps solar on your roof and an electric car is likely to be more practical (depending on your personal constraints).
The way to stop illegal imigration is to legalize the status of much more hard working imigrants who deserve a good life and kick out people who are not hard working / law abiding immigrants.

Currently most of immigration works by enslaving the hardest working people for years by not giving them a chance for proper health insurance, bank accounts and a way to live peacefully just because they were born on the wrong side of an imaginary line, it’s disgusting.
Sweden is at 42th place when sorted by Deaths per million (total). The article I linked shows death excess, where in Sweden the least extra people died.