skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tax is a funny thing. I think I'd feel better if my taxes were actually visibly useful for the every day persons life. Like for Health care, for instance, or fixing the unhoused problems in the state, or maintaining the roads and sidewalks that seemingly always have potholes in them, etc.

I'd pay 10% more if the quality of life perception was there, but it feels like all that goes to nothing
Seems wild to me that a CEO would be using his power to make sex jokes on a customer's profile... How is this acceptable?
I've skimmed up and down and read some sections a few times - I'm still not 100% sure what the main conclusions are. A summary section would make the article more accessible and valuable to others.

My understanding is that the main point here is:

- some problems require reasoning through many steps of computation,
- transformers have limited depth, so cannot solve problems that require many steps.

Am I missing anything else?
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FAA Orders Nationwide Ground Stop for Southwest
"Southwest called the problem 'intermittent technology issues' in a social media post to customers. Several have taken to social media to complain about delayed flights."
what threshold would you find convincing? it performs all conventionally defined functions of money, it is legally recognized as money in some jurisdictions, it is useful as a store of value and medium of exchange. japanese yen might as well be 'toy' to me since i can't pay taxes with it. at this point i feel like i'm arguing about the utility of automobiles with an equestrian in 1920.
I recently switched to Mac OS and I won't go back to Microsoft.
> And chatting as an interface is so much better than navigating every different user interface and app associated with these tasks.

This is may be your opinion but it certainly isn't mine, I do not enjoy chats and find them to be worse than a UI in many cases.
It's what others are doing, so I go there to participate, I don't get to choose.
Ruff will be getting more autoformat capabilities: see the link in parent poster and also read the first comment there, from one of Black maintainers.
When were they ever a great OS builder? It was always mediocre at best, and that not very often.

For many years, I had hoped they'd pull an apple and run linux under the hood with a graphic shell that made it look like Windows. But times have moved on, and it will never again be an important enough product for them to fix in that manner now.
The problem with disk encryption on Linux isn't that it doesn't work.

It's that while there is well working reliable core tooling, all the tooling around it, especially more higher level tooling is, well, not so grate and often incomplete.

This makes it a "expert" topic even through there is no fundamental need for it being such a topic.

At least for full disk encryption (encrypted `/`), `systemd-homed` is it's own, different, can of worms ;=) (and given that it add no benefit for a single user non-server laptop system with properly done full disk encryption I didn't use it yet, so I can't give feedback)
> I think there's a nascent industry in converting biomass into biochar and sequestering it

To expand on that, biochar seems to be the majority of carbon removal delivered commercially to date:

https://www.cdr.fyi/

Of course the entire CDR industry is nascent.

Bio-oil via pyrolysis is another option. Charm Industrial is trying to scale that up.
This is just a minor defect in democracy; representatives are chosen by people that already live there, so there is no strong electoral incentive to advocate for new residents. Sure, they will get more property tax revenue which pays for ... everything ... but, if you already have enough, you don't really want more. I don't think anyone in Cupertino is suffering from lack of government services, so there isn't a strong reason to vote in change.

I think people are also irrationally afraid that building new housing will drive down the price of their existing housing, but do we really see that happen? (Why do real estate prices always go up? Because people will be stubborn and not sell their home for less than they paid, unless there is a Detroit-like crisis, which Cupertino is definitely not in danger of. At that point, things like the federal prime rate are really what put a damper on housing prices, not Apple employees moving into apartments built on a vacant lot.)

To some extent, everyone is aware of these factors, which is why California said "enough is enough" and moved some control to the state level.
Loan example doesn't work because it's not revenue used to buy the lathe. That type of loan situation is exactly what depreciation/amortization/MACRS is for. If the company brings in $500,000 but buys a $1,000,000 lathe with a loan, they have a net cash flow of +$500,000. Their NPV isn't immediately affected by the loan liability because it's offset by the positive value of the lathe asset.

Then they pay taxes on $357,100 of adjusted earnings because under a 7-year MACRS depreciation, it's assumed the lathe lost $142,900 of value in its first year of ownership (under double-declining or straight-line methods).

Your first part is accurate though.

Anyways, this tax law is fucking terrible. W2 Wages should not be capital expenses because you generally won't be using loans to pay them.
Debian-based distribs are very beginner-friendly and Ubuntu's forum is full of helpful users.
Good question. I'm not an RL expert, but those kind of models are sampling the possible space of game states, based on the rules of the game, to learn a winning policy. Complex games can have effectively infinite different states.

What we're talking about here is approximating a distribution from a finite and comparatively small set of images. There's no "game" you can play to get new images, the training data is fixed.

The analogy might be say sampling images from a computer animation, which shows the object your interested in in different plausible poses and backgrounds, lighting, angles. There's a question of making sure this generalizes to "real" images, but that can help. But it relies on the animators knowledge of what the object can look like in different poses. That's how information gets added.
It might be fine if that's how it long had been, maybe. What's definitely not fine is the sudden change of rules that an entire industry had been relying on for all their expense planning.
sorry, but what internet community are we talking about, Usenet?
There's three relevant speeds for linters:

1. Fast enough to be live updating as you type in an IDE.

2. Slow enough that running a linter has to be a separate action you take, but fast enough that you don't go do something else while it's running.

3. So slow that it's an asynchronous task that you launch and then come back to later.

Ruff is in the first category, while most other python linters are in the second. This level of performance enables a qualitative difference in how you interact with the tool. If you are invoking it as a separate task, then going from 500ms to 50ms is indeed not very interesting, though.
Plenty of us at MSFT won't even use a windows desktop because of decisions like this. I don't know who's in charge here, but way to go on killing the goodwill of everyone elses work with stupid features everyone actually hates.
>The issue here is in the way it is deducted.

The issue is that the rules changed. Businesses that relied on the former rules are now faced with a (possibly insurmountable) challenge to accommodate the new rules.

Washington loves to fiddle with tax rules, and lobbyists spend a lot of time and money encouraging it, but nobody can anticipate the ripple effects. It all looks great on CBO spreadsheets and congressional press releases, but the real-world impacts can be devastating.
I’m not sure what the imagined application is anyway, but some advantages for to randomizing the IDs could be:

* Better support for people born in an area without an internet connection (or with a spotty internet connection).

* No need to agree on a single issuing authority.
For videos, it might be this: https://www.mckusick.com/courses/advdescrip.html
No, it's not a correction. It's additional information that makes it clearer what a full time worker is likely to be on.
Yeah, they’d have to exist but it would be for quite a different purpose. I wonder if that would mean we could implement them in different ways, e.g have a health check service that everything pings and if a ping isn’t received for N minutes, assume it’s dead and trigger some replacement routine or alert.
Iirc, you can click start using and then cancel it to clear the notification.

Also, if you signed in at some point and later sign out, the notification doesn’t appear. My work machine isn’t connected to an iCloud account.
I wonder if the eventual goal of this is similar to deno, where it's about building really good, no-hassle tooling/ecosystem for a language and then making it very simple to deploy/host (if I'm misspeaking about deno please correct me, I'm not well versed on it).

One thing I like most about Go is actually the Go tool; having a ubiquitous linter, formatter, test framework, dependency management, etc, all built in and not having to install various tools is huge imo. I think a lot of languages are missing this ease of tooling. I think (?) this is what deno/astral is trying to address for javascript/python and then the business model is once you're using it, it's simple to host with them. Curious what other think
It would be a closer analogy, but analogies aren't true or false, they are more or less useful in making a point. As it happens, my analogy was not that useful because apparently many people didn't understand it. The point I was trying to make was that flexibility, cost and location are actual things of value being provided in both cases. The fact that the duration differs is no more germane to my point than that one of them is mobile and the other not. And in no wise does the consideration of when it becomes more prudent to buy a car bear on when it is prudent to buy a piece of property.
For the actual article see: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/03/08/canadian-police-b...
As a hobby or as a career switch?

I've been programming embedded systems for the majority of my career and if you were to tell me that you just learned assembly, I'd wonder why you were wasting time like that. The last time I did more than glance at assembly language would have been around 1999.

If it's for a hobby, grab an arduino clone board and go for it! I'd suggest something ESP32-based though.
After 4 years are you back to where you started? With the fifth year stacking on top of the other 200K chunks from the first four years?

(If your hiring keeps accelerating I guess not, so major scaling of your team would seem to be discouraged by this change.)
hmm, that is true, but hey maybe not if you don't know the order of the alphabet ;)
Looks like they updated it just now
I think rods from gods is oversold. The classic version of this is a "telephone pole of tungsten", or something along the lines of a 6 meter long cylinder, 0.3 meters across, which works out to 0.42 cubic meters of tungsten, which would be just over 8000 kilograms. If you do the math, rods coming in at orbit speeds are barely worth talking about; the actual rods from god USAF proposal had these tungsten telephone poles starting in orbit and impacting the ground at merely 3 km/s, equivalent to 11 tons of TNT.

Faster then: the kinetic energy of such a mass moving at 12 km/s, faster than escape velocity, would be 'only' 137 tons of TNT, approximately 1/15th of the 2020 Beirut explosion. Even if you throw the rods into the ground at a blistering 50 km/s, that only gives you the equivalent kinetic energy of 2.4 kilotons of TNT, or 1/6th of the Little Boy nuclear bomb.

Then there are the terminal effects; such a tungsten rod is basically an oversized armor piercing dart like tanks shoot at each other. It will drive itself straight into the ground and most of the rod's kinetic energy will be spent pulverizing bedrock and itself. Such a weapon would be great for taking out bunkers, but I think very wasteful for any other purpose.
> The Desktop Experience on Linux is years ahead of Windows

[citation needed]

And is also relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35325280
> I and many many people are sick of using 5 different transportation apps 4 different food ordering apps, etc.

Where in the world requires 5 different transportation apps and 4 different food delivery apps? I only need one
also I don't think eye tests work if you lie?
That would make much more sense.

Here's my most recent bill detail FWIW

Access Charge $27.00
Energy Charge 1,000 kWh @ 0.0725 $72.50
Energy Charge 725 kWh @ 0.0913 $66.19
Power Cost Adjustment 1,725 kWh @ 0.0465 $80.21
Subdivision Lighting Large $2.80
Light PCA $0.37
FLA Gross Receipts Tax $6.38
Florida State Sales Tax $0.23
County Sales Tax $0.05
Operation Round Up $0.91
Total Current Charges for this Location $256.64
>WebAssembly Tail Call

Nice!
Ok, but in year five, it would look like this again:

1,000,000 Revenue
- 1,000,000 1/5 Salary expense x 5 years rolling
-----------
0 Profit

So really, it's removing (deferring, or peanut buttering) the startup and ramp up "invent new things" subsidy, while not really affecting steady state R&D if you're not growing talent ahead of revenue.

So even in year 5, it's an adverse incentive for putting new/more talent to work.

Even big business may not be able to make as many growth project budgets work.
Everyone assumes big companies are immune to weaknesses in their workflow. It's hard to know what's inside while on the outside looking in.
Did you check the date of the article you're complaining about?
> All form of governments, no matter how small, tend to grow into huge socialist monsters (the usa is the largest employer in the world, second only to China, maybe).

The USA have 330 million citizens and 10 million people without valid residency, in total something around 340 million citizens. The public sector clocks in at 15%, which includes the military and USPS. That is, seriously, not much.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/votervital/public-servi...
In a world where you venture-fund software development, this is fine, since the venture funding isn't revenue. In a world where you fund software development with revenue, this hurts a lot, particularly for young companies (and especially for companies that get research grants, which are revenue).

Established companies can probably debt-finance development the way GM would debt-finance a lathe (yes, large enterprises often use debt to buy everything possible). Small companies likely won't have that benefit. Particularly because that software isn't necessarily a capital asset that can back a secured loan, the way a lathe is.
> On the other hand, no it doesn't. If you shine light into a tube, it doesn't fill up with light until the tube blows apart. This is what is being talked about in this thread, so try to understand that context.

I don't see what that proves. If you pour water or CO2 or whatever into a normal tube, it doesn't fill up until the tube blows apart, it overflows. And you can easily show those fluids exert pressure.

To blow up a tube you need to have enough pressure at the fill valve. And if you do that, you can blow up a tube with light. It just happens to be hard to concentrate light that much.
This is a fascinating blind spot I didn't know I had!

Difficult to do much with as so many request/response load balancing software is inherently push based, but it's a great eye opener.
Should be something that could quite easily be added to a uWSGI subscription router - subscribing node periodically says “I have N slots available” and the router keeps track of how many requests are in flight.
I mean, Elon's really really good at making these kinds of splashy statements.

Actually putting things together and making them work? Yeah, he's not the best at that.

We can debate what 'truth' means here and what ol' Elon is really talking about. Sure, whatever.

But the guy's got a bad reputation now for being a lot of sizzle and no steak.
Someone should ask ChatGPT to summerize it. It might give away its plans!
Snow from Atmospheric Rivers out west is starting to melt; flood risk is rising
This is no longer a problem for me since I switched my parents from windows to mac, but remote desktop login to troubleshoot their problems would be a huge bonus.

Other cool things I could do if I dropped a raspberry-pi w/ tailscale onto their network:

- Need another public IP to test something? Route my laptop through their network for awhile.

- share files with them or backup some of their devices to a fileserver I control.

- send print jobs to their printer, I don't keep a printer but they do because.. and I shit you not, they hate doing crosswords on their ipads, they print the damn things out every morning and work them on paper.

- Put it on their phones and have them route their requests through one of my exit nodes.
If it were not for the fact that this has happened multiple times, and that each time the cryptography community was openly skeptical, I could believe "normal bureaucratic apathy and inertia."
I've felt a bit of heat from the radio waves, especially during the fMRI sequence. Personally, I get a bit claustrophobic during brain MRIs because of the restricting face coils, and you have to go pretty deep into the tube. No idea why people get weirded out by seeing pictures of their brain. I've never felt that. I think its cool.
What do you mean climate change is over?
Grammatical English has about a bit of entropy per character (Wikipedia has it between 0.6 and 1.3). Most passwords won't be fully grammatical, or even close, but it's a decent worst-case bound for passwords chosen by English speakers to be memorable. If you have a specific scheme it obviously goes out the window.
Startup subsidy?

This seems to be penalizing competition and new competitors, for literally no reason.
Summate.it
In another context, I gave a back of the envelope calculation that WWII comprised approximately 1% of human history -- roughly 20 billion person-years were lived during that time, and heavily influenced by it, compared to around 2.3 trillion person-years lived since anatomically modern humans first arose a couple-three hundred thousand years ago.

Vietnam lasted longer, but only was a salient issue for a much smaller fraction of the world's population at the time, so probably less than a tenth of the person-years lived in the shadow of WWII were similarly affected by the Vietnam War.

Unless there is a WWIII, the second World War will probably be the war of the human species, and a significant part of our history for centuries to come.
Open Shell has been around for a long time -- it's basically done so it doesn't need many updates. That being said, it actually isn't designed to work with Windows 11 (as the entire Taskbar has been re-written) but it does it actually work with it. Requires some extra customization of the settings to get it to look right.

I've used Classic/Open Shell since Windows 7.
If I used Windows I would definitely use that cursor pack!

Only partially related but Posy is a great creator, his DSM LCD video is one of my all-time favorite videos. https://youtu.be/eGQQWIbD-nM
R&D == research and development. Now, what do software... developers... do?
> that gives license to both abort before physiological wholeness occurs (so no issue with Plan b and similar treatments)

I've never had an issue with that.

> and to abort right up to the moment of birth for any fetus with imperfections past a certain criteria (to be clarified later), right?

To be documented and assessed by a pathologist at another location, with charges to be filed against the abortionist and woman if it turns out the kid wasn't anacephalic?

Sure, why not?

I have principles. I'm willing to abide them. You just have outcomes you want to see occur though. I doubt compromise is possible.
Code is not food. You can create a great product with shit code (Or just mediocre code!). Does that make someone a good dev, or a bad dev?

How you come to the conclusion he's "just a damn good developer" is a very fair question.
I think that's where the craft of programming comes in. I feel like after 30 years in the field I have a reasonable idea how and when to optimize but it's not something I learned from classes or textbooks.
I think the original saying was longer, and something along the lines of, "the customer is always right when it comes to taste".
Pretty bold to try to replace Flake8 and Black with one tool. I hope they succeed. Would be great to have a tool that does both and is substantially faster.
Show HN: My 10 Gb/s Router
I mean, autoplaying music is annoying, but I feel like if you clicked on a website called “The Fuck Cards” at work that’s kind of on you :)
There are lots of good replies already, but I'm curious why you would even want to do this. Web applications have been moving away from stateful servers for ages. Ideally your server instances are completely disposable. If you need to persist and share state between them, there are great mechanisms: the database, a queue, cookies, etc.

The 12-factor app describes this well: https://12factor.net/processes
Yeah, it's a reference to how "category theory" generalizes "group theory". So if transformations in a group are called "symmetries" then you might call the transformations in a category "generalized symmetries" or "non-invertible symmetries" as in this article.
For DOS development, I loved Borland Turbo C++. But for windows development, Borland's OWL never really clicked with me. I eventually got into windows using MS Visual C++ and MFC.
Show HN: All-in-One, Free React/Node/Prisma GPT SaaS Starter
Assuming everything stays the same, this rule actually results in marginally lower tax burden (since progressive income tax means that 5 years of tax at $800k < 4 years of tax at $1 million). Assuming that it changes, no. In a worst case scenario, you may be paying a lot more if you do most of your development in a peak year and then lose the revenue stream later.
What masters programs take 6-8 years and a million dollars? If you spent that much time on a masters you're finishing it part time. If you spent that much money, you got conned.
I don't think it was necessarily a sex joke. They objected to being labelled 70% government-funded, so he kindly revised it downward by a whole 1%. Still a troll, though not undeserved. CBC is entirely an arm of the federal government, and wildly biased to the left.
Plants only capture carbon temporarily. When they die and decompose they release that carbon back into the cycle. Using plants to sequester would require either maintaining significantly more plant mass for the rest of forever, or finding a way to prevent wood from decomposing forever on an industrial scale.
All I want is for people to spell it correctly
Semi-related: do you just run a static IP out of your house?
[1] has a video[2] along with some slides[3].

[1]: https://stevengong.co/notes/F1TENTH/#about-the-f1tenth-car

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV8lAwcIW0I&list=PL868twsx7O...

[3]: https://linklab-uva.github.io/autonomousracing/assets/files/...
> If we can't reliably deliver electricity why should I trust the ability to reliably deliver electricity _and_ natural gas?

To state the obvious, because if one or the other is out at least I have the other one.

That said, while electricity outages are pretty common here (California, thanks PG&E), natural gas has never had any kind of outage or problem.

So with gas I can still cook (gas range) when the electricity is out and I have hot water (gas water heater). I could even heat the house because the furnace fan doesn't require that much power so it can easily be powered by my small generator while all the heating BTUs come from the reliable natural gas line.