skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am sorry I'm just going of the linked article and I am sure I am missing some nuances here however it doesn't seem like what they've done is exactly illegal.

When the linked article says they “The corporation can designate where a given transaction has taken place, separate and apart from the underlying origin and destination realities" it is correct only in the extent that, say, you can report money you spent on narcotics and escort services as “charitable donations” on your federal tax returns, in that it is physically possible, but definitely not legal, to do it.

The entire reason this is in the news is that state sales tax authorities audited Apple’s sales tax reporting and found it out of line with the law.
What a selfish comment. Shame on you. It's open source. You don't like it, you're welcome to add support for another OS, or use something else.
The “AI hallucinations is bad” is a wacky take. Feels like it presumes humans are 100% accurate, concrete thinkers. I mean; fiat currency value, nation states; human hallucinations. The list of ephemeral “truth” we hallucinate is extensive. Superman, Star Wars, video games.

AI cannot escape replicating the training material and characteristics of its creators.

Is it not a hallucination we are creating “artificial intelligence”? Human consciousness took millions of years of galactic churn. Is convincing our senses via disembodied metal and plastic we can unplug creating intelligence? Seems pretty dumb if it can’t avoid it’s own death from unplugging.
That would not replace the burned fossil fuels though.
You mean the Home Depot at 975 S De Anza Blvd, San Jose, CA 95129?
A startup actually messaged me a few months ago that is trying to do something similar to that. Basically you get paid for your ad targeting data.
You can try working on the Linux kernel, perhaps with the kernel janitors project (https://code.google.com/archive/p/kernel-janitors/ ). I recommend hanging out on the mailing list a little while to get some idea of what to do, as well as reading the wikis on that page.
It's much more noticeable when running locally. Going from something like black + pylint + mypy running in a pre-commit hook to black + ruff + mypy has been wonderful for me.

It lets me actually set up another terminal session to run ruff on every file change - where pylint would take seconds, ruff is essentially instant.

Side note: I really hope mypy can get the same treatment; it runs quickly once its cache is established, but it's terribly slow running from scratch.
Best I can do is RSS!
But there's still going to have to be a human who has the ability to form a mental model of the thing that's needing to be implemented. Functionally and technically. The results of the LLM will vary depending on the level of know-how the human instructor has.
Advising people that you do business with to not do certain things because you think they might violate the law is not the smoking gun that you think it is.
The lithium needed for those electric cars far exceeds the same strategic resources currently on the planet afaik, electric cars won't work as a viable alternative.
Solution, just use historical content.
Wouldn’t that signal competence? He has set up an amazing organization furthering his ultimate goal(colonizing space).
Now he can waste his free time on Twitter, just like everybody else
What percentage of the services provided by today's government were not around at the founding?

I'd very much like to see government downsize, but if you want to pay taxes at the level at which the country was founded, you also have to restrict government activity to that level.

Not sure if that is tenable.
Would love to see the following scenarios explored too:

- failure of a backend node

- adding additional capacity

From experience both scenarios can trigger non-obvious behaviours (especially when you have backends with different power levels).
PayPal is full of scammers, it is not crypto. Even you can say that PayPal is wrongdoing in many aspects that will not resist in court. Just an example.

Another example: land in NY, buy a mobile SIM there, go to the Central Park and in less than 30 minutes someone calls me telling me that I won the lottery. I am very lucky.
In my comments here over the years, I have occasionally mentioned how I don't do business with certain companies or use certain sorts of products because I find the companies objectionable.

What I find interesting/hilarious is how often someone will reply to me saying that my life would be so much easier if I just gave in and used them anyway, or (worse) how I'm being wrong in some way by being selective about who I support with my money.

That borg-like "you will be assimilated" sort of commentary is fascinating, disturbing, and goes far to illustrate how there are ordinary people who absolutely don't want you to exert your economic authority.
Ask HN: Saving a Workspace on Mac
I regularly work on 4-5 projects in a day. Each has an IDE tab, dev site, SFTP connection, local database, etc.

I feel like a lot of time goes to switching between projects.

How do y’all handle that? Is there an app that will let me save all the running apps to restore them later?

I’d like to be able to click a button and get everything up at once.
If you're interested in learning more about this topic, check out this R&D capitalization guide Neo.Tax put out. https://www.neo.tax/blog/a-simple-guide-to-r-d-capitalizatio...
Don't worry the PC market is shrinking.
In "research and development", that typically means "research of new ideas and methods, and developing them into commercially viable products". So are there things that software engineers do that fall under R+D? Absolutely! Is adding a sorting feature to a grid in your app one of those things? Probably not!
They don't want to reveal that they are treating all crypto assets as securities. So they are starting with the cases that are easiest for them to win, and building case precedent for them to go after bigger cases.

With the case they are giving there is no reason they don't eventually go after Bitcoin or Ether.
The content is public. Internet companies are staring to sound like Disney.

The AI is definitely giving value back.
A lot of Vinge's fiction has mechanisms to prevent his futures from being past the singularity. Across Realtime features those left behind, A Fire Upon the Deep and a Deepness in the Sky have the Slow Zone and the Transcend. His short stories have various one off, not well explained things, wars, etc.

Vinge's whole fiction career has been about dealing with the Singularity.
I am not an expert, but there are rules. If it fits the definition of doing or managing the qualified work and "no one is paying for it" than it could count. This is for the R&D tax credit,see https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-6765.

Here is a copy and paste from a e-mail from our CPA:

To qualify for the credit, you have to have what’s called “Qualified Research”. Qualifying research typically meet’s the following criteria ...

1. Was the research related to the development or improvement of the functionality, quality, reliability or performance of a business component (product, process, software, technique, formula or invention)?
2. Was the development technological in nature?
3. Was there technological uncertainty about either the capability or method of developing the business component or its appropriate design?
4. Was the developmental process experimental in nature?

For wages to qualify for the credit, they have to be for qualifying research activities such as –

1. Conducting or executing the qualified research (e.g., testing a manufacturing prototype)
2. Directly supervising the qualified research (e.g., managing a team of software developers)
3. Directly supporting qualified research (e.g., organizing test results on formulation trials)
That's because of scarcity. We don't build those anymore. We only build car-dependent American style suburban areas where walking and things to walk to are not permitted. That's 100% the only reason "walkable" places are so expensive.
EU agrees plan to boost chip production
This is specifically where bias comes in. People selectively prune the tree in ways that are either interesting (in a positive take) or deceptively based on their desire to avoid certain topics. Because the tree can be so large it isn’t always obvious even to the author whether they picked a branch because it was useful or because it served some other purpose - divert focus to a team they want to see behave differently, avoid taking blame for something, avoid being asked to fix something they don’t want to, etc.

So, in this case the real question is “will they pick the branch that blames the people that pay and promote them, or take the branches that are of the least resistance.” Something this contentious would be vetted by committee in some way or another and at that point any upward finger pointing would be almost certainly curtailed in favor of a less contentious branch.
HN is also an input to OpenAI's LLMs so look forward to being able to redeem your karma for OpenAI shares on a 1:1 basis.
Considering that this entire discussion revolves around what is and isn't a "capital asset," which itself is a legal term, I would suggest to you that the law is all we have to argue about it. And the law, in general, sucks here.

For most companies, 1221 doesn't apply, but some companies are going to get screwed on this front by having to incur a capital loss to pay for something that is not a capital asset.

In a less legalistic sense, I'm not sure if there are many companies who provide software-backed debt anyway. That would make software less of a "capital asset" than almost any other intangible asset out there.
In 2025, Microsoft will own search and Google will own the desktop OS
Man I wanted to do just this sort of thing 15 years ago but of course the sensors and processing power weren’t really small or powerful enough then.

So cool.
This is awesome! I've been looking for a good SQL Lite GUI!

A lot of times, I just want a tool to do ad-hoc CSV work, and don't want to fiddle with a terminal.
> Assuming 1mm stays the same YoY in 5 years

That's a pretty big assumption.
I don't understand this attitude. If you don't like how someone mods their subreddit then why do you want to be part of it in the first place? You can make your own and run it how you please.
I worked with Delphi for several years, and it was the first IDE I used professionally. It was truly brilliant for developing Win32 and WinForms applications. I can honestly say that Delphi 5 was a better tool for building Windows apps than the latest versions Visual Studio, at least in terms of usability, responsiveness, and debugging.

But man are you ever right about the compatibility issues! Upgrading from Delphi 5 to the (then current) Delphi 2005 was a total nightmare. Our codebase was about 600k lines, and I will never forget the trauma of trying to get it to just build in the newer version.

The comparison with .NET codebases that "just work" from version to version is night and day, and sadly it's worth putting up with a laggy beast of an IDE to have that security around your projects.
> I personally think the majority of people are more interested in being right or sounding clever than arriving at truth or understanding.

there's a term-of-hate for this "poser" like in parent's username. regardless of whether HN or the internet at large has a poser problem, drawing attention to it is off topic at best and hateful at worst - otoh we could be happy that the zeitgeist holds theoretical physics in high enough regard as to draw posers (iow we could have worse problems!)
I hope Facebook's horrendous implementation of this feature doesn't become a thing.
Not research and development in the traditional sense which was tied to the creation of a new product, drug, etc. It was intended to offset the cost and risk of invention.

I would not describe what most software engineers do as invention.

Applying this broadly to most software engineers, many who are now more akin to digital plumbers than research scientists, was a lucky break for however long it lasted.
Yes. My point is that it took the equivalent of human life to acquire the property, so destroying someone else's private property is akin to destroying their life.

Obviously they're still alive so can spend time acquiring more, but let's not pretend property crime is priceless. That said, I don't advocate for violence and would prefer to see the legal system work the issues through.
I agree so much with you, "in theory".

In practice, most of the industry has been writing ridiculously inefficient code for decades, and I wish more people would pay attention to that 20%, or the 3% that Knuth described.

Or better yet, I wish some groups don't irreversible sacrifice performance with frameworks and architectures that are impossible to optimize, no matter how the code is written.
No, it's money. Because the rule-masters you complain about are just optimizing for more money.
Could electric vehicles reshape the grid?
Don't forget the part where you actually analyze the result to see whether the needs reported to the team creating the solution were accurate, and then triage the mistakes and misunderstandings that inevitably happened.
I still feel that excitement when it's some community-maintained FOSS app.
Sometimes I wonder if it’s by design. Israel relies on penetrating everything from iPhones to social media accounts to crush Palestinian resistance and to maintain the authority of the PLO in the west bank by helping it suppress its dissenters. That wouldn’t work if social media and cellular networks were actually secure. That’s not even to mention the obvious advantage of US security apparatus having access to these popular systems.
What time do people fall asleep and wake? Use format {sleep}:{wake} e.g I'll go first with:

11:7.30
If you push electrical pressure into a capacitor, it blows up. If you push too much voltage (pressure) into a battery, it blows up.

Sound is carried by individual particles.

Electricity is carried by a conductor like copper, but electricity is not copper and sound is not a particle.

Electromagnetic radiation is magnitude of frequencies over time. There are no individual packets of light just like there are no individual packets of sounds. Photons are a useful idea in simulations because you need to sample specific paths.

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

This whole thread is about finding the path of least resistance in a pragmatic sense, not some abstract theory that you can't demonstrate. Even the wikipedia article talks about 'light particles' as an 'alternate view with no mass'.
> In one encouraging sign, some of the most recent attacks failed against users who had activated Apple’s recently introduced Lockdown Mode, which stops some communications from unknown callers and reduces the number of programs that are automatically invoked.

I'd not heard about Apple's "Lockdown Mode" (which applies to both computers and phones). Per a support page[1], there's a lot of small tweaks that reduce convenience of the devices, but it sounds like they will fundamentally still _mostly work_.

Is "Lockdown Mode" a well-known thing that I just missed? It feels like Apple has put a target on things like URL previews for malicious actors, while also labeling the defense mechanism as an expert-only tool.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212650
I don't know if you were intentionally joking or not - but I find the though of putting coal back into the ground hilarious!

Like, maybe that's how it got there in the first place. Our ancestors cut down trees for fuel, caused global warming and came up with this great idea to sequester it as coal under the ground. They save the environment, but end up living in caves and huts. 6000 years later we come around, dig up the coal, burn it, cause global warming, and then... decide to sequester it back in the ground as coal again. EDIT: It remains to be seen whether we will also end up living in caves and huts (again)
Excellent links, thank you!

I can imagine the benefit of having this as a reference, instead of needing to have meetings across departments and levels to negotiate who's responsible for what, in an open-ended way.

Thanks to NIST for providing a Schelling point for appropriate coordination to uphold privacy, and a scaffold of reasonable good, reasonably thorough thinking about how to appropriately handle privacy, and the general roles of everyone involved in a coherent effort inside or outside an enterprise. Raising the water line!
> In one encouraging sign, some of the most recent attacks failed against users who had activated Apple’s recently introduced Lockdown Mode, which stops some communications from unknown callers and reduces the number of programs that are automatically invoked.

I'm a huge fan of the idea of Lockdown Mode and have it enabled on my iPhone and MacBook, but I don't think it has mass adoption or appeal. It certainly needs some tuning before the masses will adopt it. Specifically, people in your Contacts should have the option to be trusted. Right now, FaceTime calls are blocked from them if they are not in your recent calls (an issue for me as I regularly purge my call history) and iMessage content is blocked (Live Photos, documents, etc).
It's not progressive as of 2018, but it may return to being progressive over the next 5 years.
>low-field MRI is a research area.

Not just a research area! Recently on the DXMP mailing list someone was asking about QA procedures for their 0.064 tesla scanner. You can buy permanent magnets that strong without much trouble. I was very surprised since I wasn't aware they were in production — even searching Web results for "low-field MRI" in due diligence for this comment, I still only find papers and projections. Nonetheless, the Hyperfine Swoop exists, and you can buy it today:

https://hyperfine.io/
I'm wondering what effect this has on isolated Amazonian and Papuan tribes.
In Columbus where I live there are over 200 acres of surface parking lots alone. There is plenty of space for housing. The article is probably paywalled but sometimes Reader View works -> https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2023/03/16/lots-an...
I want tailor made drugs that convince my brain all this exists while in the real world we live docile, simple lives to extend the viability of human habitation on Earth.

The material resources do not exist on Earth to switch to EV cars. The idea we’re going to live on Mars is hallucination.

Transfer of consciousness to other substrates is far more interesting than literally living out pop culture from the last half of the 1900s.
That sort of stuff is pretty common. Car guys have lots of disposable income. I'm certain there are devices out there that provide levels of telemetry that was only accessible to top-end racing teams just a decade or two ago.
The API for following a user is not ActivityPub but is actually specific to Mastodon (and the platforms using a compatible API like Pleroma). ActivityPub only provides the server-to-server delivery of messages (a client-to-server protocol exists but is not used by Mastodon or basically anyone else).

Thanks for the Mastodon issue link! The misskey ticket seems different.

Thinking about this more, it is probably easy to write a browser extension or userscript to make "follow" links take me to my own instance. I will look into it.
> There was no real investigation

Do you know this? Because I haven't seen anything one way or another.

If the SEC did an extensive months-long project researching the cryptocurrency space, the philosophy and technology behind it, and how it's used in practice, why would that necessarily be something that was made public? Seems to me that sort of thing is just doing their jobs, and not something they would need to loudly announce.

As for the specifics...I don't pretend to understand the relevant laws well enough myself to state with any confidence what the SEC does or doesn't hold to be illegal, except for one thing: whatever it is Coinbase is doing, which they clearly think is illegal. You're the one making bold broad claims, with very little evidence, about what the SEC is or isn't doing—and these claims seem very much slanted to paint the SEC as being in the wrong.

So, again: Do you know what the SEC has and hasn't done here? If so, then please share with us, as that would be very relevant information to this discussion as a whole.
Steve Scharf instead just said they should build a wall around Cupertino and make San Jose pay for it.
> This past week had a test in both N. Korea and Iran

Neither of these happened.

North Korea tested a missile which could be used to deliver a nuke, they haven't tested any nukes since 2017. I don't know what Iran tested, but it certainly wasn't a nuke. The only news of a missile test from Iran this week that I can find is them testing an anti-tank missile, which obviously isn't even meant to deliver nukes.
As an end user I get a lot of value from AI companies.

I’m curious how a content platforms TOS will matchup against a Search Engine’s webcrawler TOS.

“I want people to find and access my content, but I own it.”

vs

“I will send people to your content, but any public data I can access, I can store and process how I want.”
Related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35617763 ("Reddit Wants to Get Paid for Helping to Teach Big A.I. Systems"; an aside, but I much prefer the title of this post I'm commenting on as it describes the actual change) and it's hard to find this particularly disagreeable. Especially considering:

> Reddit’s API will remain free to developers who want to build apps and bots that help people to use Reddit, as well as to researchers who wish to study Reddit for strictly academic or noncommercial purposes.

> But companies that “crawl” Reddit for data and “don’t return any of that value” to users will have to pay up,” Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman told The Times.
I came across this user just last week from their Vin Diesel sleeveless shirt post! It was the first time I've ever seen their content.
This is already an issue with the mods of the big subreddits being partial to both bias and incentives.
remember when you paid for software to get rid of the ads?
Given the type discipline, I assume it would type to the equivalent of void **
How does this work with consultants/contractors? Are they still booked under R&D expenses?
Since they're linking to rekor and talking about Certificate Transparency, it's likely the general goal is what CT wants:

That the server cannot provide malicious response X to just the victim, while looking innocent to others. Certificate Transparency forces the signer to publish the fact that they sign something, leading to such attacks being noticeable, in the sense that "there was an extra thing signed and it's not the usual thing".

With TLS, the idea is that big corporations can tail the CT log and make sure there have been no extra certificates created for their domains.

(I can't vouch for whether this work achieves that goal. Something needs to check the inclusion proof in the client, before trusting the data. Auditors need to tail the CT log.)
Dunno about "readibility" but I fully expect ChatGPT to produce vast swathes of code that nobody understands.

While I'll cop to being more skeptical than the average HN denizen about ChatGPT, this isn't actually cynicism about ChatGPT, but about human cognition. If we do have something that produced large swathes of mostly correct code, it won't be long before the humans using it aren't even checking it anymore. Same reason that cars can do a little bit of assisting, and if they could do 100% of the driving that might be safe, but 98% of the driving is not a very good idea at all.

In 20 years, someone will ask CodeGPT 8.3 to explain what some code does, and it'll give a perfectly understandable explanation back, except the human still won't understand it because the human doesn't actually understand how computers work anymore. They'll think they understand it, though.