skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the Section 174 text:

26 U.S. Code § 174 - Amortization of research and experimental expenditures
(c) Special rules
(3) Software development

For purposes of this section, any amount paid or incurred in connection with the development of any software shall be treated as a research or experimental expenditure.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/174

To me it doesn't sound like classification is discretionary to me, or that splitting semantic hairs will prove effective (IANAL).

(Additionally, the R&E classification is different from R&D)
There's a reason that the poorest countries trade the least. There's scarcely any economy.

> how to value people independently of their economic output.

You can't assign an economic value to people, and I suspect that's what you're alluding to - that people aren't valued unless they are compensated X amount. UBI makes this a moot point. There's no tangible actionable meaning to "valuing people", systematically, otherwise.
Why Video Editors Are Switching to DaVinci Resolve in Droves
No, that comes when China catches up in the quest for superintelligence.
I would vote for it in an instant. Population control is not something that we can just leave to the pages of sci-fi anymore. The increasing fragility of our planet and societies means we simply won’t have the luxury of letting populations grow without limit for much longer, without facing disastrous consequences.

And besides, the idea of controlling people’s reproductive capacities is not without modern precedent.
Capital T is tesla, a unit of magnetic flux density.
Community Broadband Act resubmitted, stops states from banning muni ISPs [pdf]
There's something a bit more mindblowing than that. Language models and vision models learn representations so similar that you can connect them with just a linear projection between image embedding and text embedding space(no training of the image encoder or llm required).

https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.15162
https://llava-vl.github.io/

LLMs are already being grounded.
The reddit api was never very good. It's easier just to scrape the site.
What's the data policy on this? Are you keeping copies of the prompts and responses?
The idea that drag shows mock trans women would surprise a lot of trans women drag performers. It’s not an unheard of position for trans women but it is not the norm.
Show HN: Dream – an LLM-powered no-code tool for functional web applications
Dream is an AI-powered no-code tool that allows anyone (designers, engineers, founders) to build functional web applications with natural language.

Dream is built to allow web applications to be built iteratively with prompting. You can generate the first version of your app with a generic prompt, but iterate on your app through prompts for style modifications, adding features, bug fixing, etc.

Here’s a video demo of the product: https://youtu.be/KtYbPMn3tK0

This is a two-week MVP and I’m actively exploring targeted use cases and audiences that could find value in the product. I’d love any feedback on the product UX and various use cases that Dream could be helpful in!
What's left before you'll be ready to release 1.0 and how will the project change once you've reached that milestone?
Well said. Openai is a promise unkept. Thanks StabilityAI for existing.
also .rss
> If the same workers in Bangladesh were to migrate to US I am sure they will make minimum wages, so their skill is indeed not $0.

Assuming they even qualified for immigration, would they even be employable?
They (hunter-gatherers) would be the first to tell you they don't need something from the outside world.
I've been following Yubico since almost its inception so I'm happy for Stina and her team. However I agree that this will probably end up being bad for customers in the coming years. I hope I am wrong.
For those who would prefer a link to the original paper instead of coverage of that paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2023.10994...
> Cross key syncing service.

Can’t work with FIDO/U2F, I’m afraid.

The protocol works a little differently than most people expect, which is what allows the hardware token to “store” an unlimited number of auth credentials.

What really happens at auth time is that the server (the one you are trying to authenticate to) sends a crypto package including the challenge and a key used to sign the challenge to the token. (That signing key was generated at enrollment time and encrypted using the token’s private key). The token then uses its internal private key to decrypt the signing key sent by the server, sign the challenge and send back the signed challenge.

So there is no way to transfer credentials because the credentials literally aren’t in the token (they’re stored—in encrypted form—on the servers you log in to). The only way that transfer could maybe work is by copying the token’s private key… but that kind of defeats the purpose of a security token.
Ha.

Well, yeah - I guess we're even calling into question the very definition of the word quality here. Your comment seems to imply that quality is a metric that correlates with quantitative metrics of mass appeal, rather than personal & individually diverse concepts of subjective quality, which would be more what I was referring to. But both can be equally valid given the context.
I was about to say the same thing. Hi og_kalu!

Relevant previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35598281
MSFT values business deals, security with finance attached, market branding with finance attached; institutional contracts and Defense spending; basically all the business parts with coders doing the work. For people who train to work skillfully, it is a rude awakening to interact with people who train to take control of business and get the programming done like any other commodity -- extracting the profit and control of future profit immediately with security, contracts and worker surveillance.
> Placing the earth at the centre of anything in your theory is applying a human-centric bias to your ideas.

No, it is applying an earth-centric bias. Humans are not in the center, they live between the earth and the celestial spheres.

> When talking about deep space objects (such as distant galaxies)

But in that perspective, heliocentrism is basically just as human centric as geocentrism.
I feel like I always hear these types of anecdotes pop up but concrete specific details are rarely shared.
It is fine and good to be skeptical of pure computer-based voting, but what's maddening about the Dominion (manufactured) controversy is that those reasonable concerns do not apply here. Let me explain.

In 2020 I worked at a polling place that used the same machines (not in Georgia). Each voter receives a printout with a human-readable list of their selections, along with a QR code. This printout is turned in, and the QR codes are scanned to tally the votes. In the event of any concerns with the computer tally, a recount can be done of the human-readable printouts. This is what was done in Georgia (for procedural reasons this was technically a "hand audit of 100% of the votes", which can be done at the SecState's discretion, not a "recount" which can only be triggered by certain requirements, but it is actually the same thing).

The Dominion machines are good precisely because, unlike past digital voting machines, they create a human-readable paper trail that is legible to both the voter and to (re)counters, just like it was before computer voting terminals.

Voting machines that do not create such a paper trail should be illegal, and anyone who proposes blockchain as a solution should receive a lifetime ban from making any democracy-critical policy decisions.
In large part farmers.

Their lifestyle encompasses what seems to be romanticized by primitivist anarcho-communists and other radical leftists. If the only thing missing in this picture is "hospitals", then it has nothing to do with their wages.

The crowd that bemoans consumerism and proselytizes that we "don't need" x/y/z also thinks that these independent farmers, who mostly don't participate in global trade (the poorest, I mean), need more money. Not to be conflated with what UN defines as "extreme poverty" which entails inability to provision food effectively. And the way they want to give them money, is through the benevolent progressive imperialism of Communist takeover.
Logo Design with AI
how can i create a logo for my Company with AI Chat GPT
I mean, we can look all the way back to romeo and juliet, where rebelious teens were being unfairly oppressed by adults who just don't get it and they have to figure things out for themselves and in the end everyone dies.
You're looking at absolute numbers. CO2 usage used to be accelerating rapidly. The first step to reducing the absolute number is to change the second derivative, the acceleration. We've done that, the second derivative of that graph is significantly negative. Once the area under the curve of the second derivative is negative enough, the first derivative, the velocity, will go negative. We're about there, the year on year change is now about zero. Once the first derivative is negative the absolute number starts dropping.

So yes, more than nothing has been done to reduce emissions, but you need to look at the right numbers and graphs.
I very much agree with this. Gmail seems to put every single class action suit email in my spam folder (probably because the domain that they come from are brand new, so understandable). Then the website always asks for a lot of personal information and sometimes bank routing numbers (!!). Maybe there could be subdomains on state gov't websites that are allocated for class action suits (tho that might still trigger spam detection)?
This is a really compelling idea – but I'm having a little trouble making the leap from the high level description to what it would mean for my projects in more concrete terms. Would it be possible to show off some example tests that the model generated and maybe even a story about how the generated tests caught a bug before the code made it to production?
> But the plan to live a walkable lifestyle exists. It’s just that people don’t want a walkable lifestyle as much as they say they do or they’d find a way to make it happen.

My dude, it is illegal in almost all of the USA.

Besides that, you missed the point about how most people don't know it's an option because they've never seen anything else. I also think you're a bit confused about the power that individuals have to determine the makeup of their neighborhood. Walkable neighborhoods are expensive because they are highly desirable and rare.
> my Plex server with 10x as many movies

How did you fill your Plex server? Where did you acquire the movies?
if two different users modify the same version of the same document in different ways, how do you resolve that conflict without losing information?
Ish. Trash talking is a huge thing in sports. Similarly many prudish administrators go out of their way to punish the players for celebrations and such.

Edit: And I'm curious how this relates to the topic at hand. Not that I think it is unrelated, but specifically how. We seem to be in rather strong agreement that it is the relationship with a thing that is unhealthy, with regards to sports. Why or how would that be different with regards to social media?
You misunderstand me: I agree that lazy SEO spammers are poor writers. My beef is with the GP's dismissal of writing slower than the speed of thought—when the best writers pore over these things more, not less. Quoting Thomas Mann, the 1929 Nobel Prize winner in Literature: "A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
Here's an actual quote:
“The price cap is specifically designed to reduce Russian revenues and Russia’s ability to fund its war of aggression whilst limiting the impact of Russia ́s war on global energy prices, particularly for low and middle-income countries,” - Joint statement by G7 finance ministers.

A lot of breathless headlines got published early on by non-specialist journalists that have never had to cover anything like this, but nobody who actually understands the history and practice of sanctions in the modern era believed they would actually bring Russia to their knees any time soon. Read any of the coverage of these sanctions in The Economist from last year.

North Korea has been under far more severe sanctions for generations and has even managed to develop nuclear weapons. Iran came under similarly severe sanctions and they're still a credible regional threat. The idea that Russia, a nuclear state with massive foreign reserves to draw on, even aside from the ones frozen in the west, would be beggared in a matter of months was always absurd. Sanctions have never in the modern era actually forced a state to capitulate.

Wiping out on the order of 85% of Russia's oil profits while maintaining global prices is a major success. Yes Russian oil is still flowing, but the profits are now disproportionately going to countries outside Russia, like India. They're not suffering from the sanctions, they're making a killing Good for them. Even if you don't believe that this was the stated goal, though as you can see from the quote I opened with it was the actual stated goal, it's still obviously what's actually happened.
I must admit that I've spent a lot of time walking up Scottish mountains in fairly dreich conditions - just makes me appreciate how utterly glorious this wee country is when it's not being dreich. :-)

Edit: From the comments on that BBC article:

Glasgow woman sits in the dentist's chair.

"Comfy?" says the dentist.

"Govan" says the woman.

Edit2: When I was a child I would have asked where someone was from by saying: "Far are ye fae"....
I've seen https://www.contentlayer.dev/ used for similar stuff on open source codebases like taxonomy from shadcn
Wait wait wait.

You think that all sw devs now are in R&D and not COGS?

Golly! Plenty of SW devs who work on this years revenue are COGS throughout the industry. The game is putting sw devs who work on future years’ revenue in opex.

Since you’re so attuned to cash accounting let’s change up your example.

I prepay $1mn in advertising cost for ads that will run over 5 years. I spent that cash now, but should I be able to expense that whole $1mn this year?

EDIT: Don't believe me, here's Airbnb:

Cost of revenue includes payment processing costs, including merchant fees and chargebacks, costs associated with third-party data centers used to host our platform, and amortization of internally developed software and acquired technology.
> I kind of intuitively know this, and mostly disregard the opinions of those saying that there is impending doom.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/truthiness

> It will be interesting to see if I'm right about it or not, over the coming decades...

You are wrong. No need to wait, the effects are already starting to be visible.
These seem no less confusing honestly (do they still load from the "port" side? What about yachts?). They reference a particular side of the boat but as referenced to a specific spot on the boat (where the steering is or was in the past). If you are not standing there, you still need to do some mapping in your head.
Yeah, operations is kind of where engineering's best practices go out the window for practicality haha.

We used to tilt the spacecraft when doing inclination burns so that we could get a little bit of intrack delta-v to even out our orbit. I always thought that was delightfully janky.
I think it’s entirely fair to suggest the sanctions did not achieve their desired goals.

I think it’s an entirely different thing to suggest it did “nothing”.

Oil revenues are off 45%. Its GDP was down 2% in 2022 while the thing it exports was up. Saudi Arabia’s and the UAE GDP set a record over the same time period as a point of reference. The OECD and World Bank anticipate GDP shrinkage this year as well.

The ruble is at its lowest point in 20 years (if you remove the war shock). Thats even with the heroic activity of their central bank last year and current capital flight restrictions. Their sovereign wealth fund holds 16% less today than it did before the sanctions, because its being used to backstop the currency.
You see this often in the data side of things, we delegate very laborious or very complicated tasks to powerful the powerful engines behind Postgres, BigQuery, Spark, and the like, and while they provide you with a high level interface that make common tasks very convenient, mastery can take years as you have to study the architecture and implementation behind them.

It's a huge investment on your end to do that, and people do it readily because the return is being able to process datasets of sizes and complexity that you otherwise wouldn't be able to.

People haven't found it to be a good investment in their time to commit themselves to Prolog's engine.
Probably not at all? Yubico is one of two brands that Apple recommends for securing your iCloud account.
Cool idea, but the LLM was too dumb in my test. I gave it a REST API design book and asked it for a batch update pattern, and it suggested PATCH: "...a good pattern for batch updates is to use the HTTP PATCH method. The PATCH method allows you to update specific fields of a resource, rather than replacing the entire resource. This can be useful for batch updates, as it allows you to update multiple resources with a single request." Oops!
I was just blown away. So many lovely, uplifting, funny, true-feeling storylines, balanced so well, leading to a satisfying and greater-plot-relevant conclusion and an absolutely perfect musical finale singalong (Bob Marley’s “Three Little Birds”) to wrap it in a bow.

And (spoiler) no sex or drugs, teases to the contrary notwithstanding (not that there’s anything wrong with sex or drugs, but that’s not what this show is about).

They did. Yes, they did.
Sure. Using things like loops and conditionals to stitch parts of the specification together is not a very declarative way to do things, imo. Regarding a better system I don't know, they all have their quirks, I guess. My point was that purely declarative approach has its limits and often times breaks when facing real world complexity.
I wonder why. You can buy adjustable-height suspensions for pickups, but they don’t seem to be factory options. This feature exists for plenty of passenger vehicles.

Surely some truck maker could make, and charge more for, a pickup truck with a low bed, excellent handling at any load condition, and the ability to carry increase ground clearance as needed for off-road use.

A bit of searching suggests that the Dodge Ram, the Rivian R1T, and, hypothetically, the Tesla Cybertruck have adjustable suspensions.
This first struck me as obvious, but really it's only obvious if you're already deep into generative AI. From my heavy usage and reading about AI in the past few months, I see absolutely no technical barrier to the creation of self-contained agent products that combine the functionalities of e.g. Alexa, GPT-4, Zapier, Wolfram-Alpha, Google, etc. all into one steerable package. It's just a matter of time.

Something I find especially amusing is that, despite the hype here on HN, most people in the world at large have not yet used a generative AI of any kind, even if they've heard about it on the news or social media. Because these things are developing so quickly, I think the first of these "agents" are going to hit the market before most people have even tried something like a ChatGPT. And so the experience of a "normal" person who's not in the loop will be of ~1 year of AI news hype followed by the sudden existence of sci-fi style actual artificial intelligences being everywhere. This will be extremely jarring but ultimately probably very cool for everyone.
All good points.

I suspect preferences will hinge on peoples' budgets for personal responsibility. As my non-digital responsibilities have increased, I've found it nice to be able to delegate to "the cloud" - even at the loss of independence & control.

If there were a personally-owned "cloud" setup, I would prefer that. A box that plugs into my fiber connection and provides the equivalents of the cloud services I use, with data stored locally and backed up automatically to a secure server. A man can dream.
You ask it to do this.
Slack said it had 100% uptime. Did it really?
I think it depends on how you define "uptime"...
It no longer shows up on the /all tab for most users. I imagine that is due to some rule fiddling they did, similar to how one of the donald trump subreddits kept gaming the system to be most of the me page so they changed the rules.
Yeah, but I can say we should agree with his proposals without "picking his side." We probably should take a lot of the actions he is proposing. But we should not dismiss the "other side" while doing so.

Edit: I see I should not have said "the data" in what to learn from. Rather, I am arguing that we can and should learn from both sides here. For things that are more actionable, taking the actions will let us learn even more. But, and this is huge, it could be that taking these actions does nothing. The "do something" attitude that is prevalent in all society is often wrong. Particularly about what should be done.
>what else would you have them realistically do?

Mob justice
Across the EU at least, margins of big-box retailers have gone through the roof. So producers are shafted because fuel and fertilisers are crazy expensive, and consumers are shafted because prices are going through the roof much faster than wages. The middle-man with enough bargaining power to effectively dictate purchasing prices to producers absorbs all the profit, using "the inflation" as a marketing cover.
They are seriously complaining that a for-profit company isn't going to give them API access for free?
I agree! My experience with test generation tools was also lukewarm which is why we founded Checksum.

> How is the product different from the other test generation tools

We train our models based on real user sessions. So our tests are:
1. Completely auto-generated
2. Achieve high coverage of real user flows, including detecting edge cases
3. Automatically maintained and execute with our models so they are less flakey.

> How do you check if the are testing the intended behavior

Our models are trained on many real sessions so it learns how your website (and others) should behave. In that sense, it's similar to a manual QA tester which can detect bugs. To supplement for functionality that is not obvious by the UI, we are now looking at adding LLMs to parse code, but most of the functionality can be inferred from the UI
By your reasoning, the Apple I was intended to be a mouse driven system because engelbart had a mouse prototype in 1968.

I don't think that's the case.

Also, if you talked to Jef, like I did when he was showing off the SwyftCard, he was not ashamed to tell you that the Mac was originally going to be a keyboard based system (like the SwyftCard or the Canon Cat.)

Steve Levy recorded these comments in "Insanely Great", the Wikipedia paraphrase is: "Secretly bypassing Job's ego and authority by continually securing permission and funding directly at the executive level, Raskin created and solely supervised the Macintosh project for approximately it's first year... it was Raskin who provided the powerful vision of a computer whose legacy would be low cost, high utility and a groundbreaking friendliness... it was text only, as Raskin disliked the computer mouse or anything that else that could take his hands from the keyboard."

While it's tempting to believe the Mac sprung forth from Jobs forehead fully formed in 1984, it's just simply not true. Many people were involved in it's development and it's ultimate form changed radically between '79 and '84, depending on who was leading the project.
Stop worrying about China…wow
Ire is the result of irritation.
Could also be just a random occurrence that seems significant to you without more data points, interesting anecdote none-the-less will be looking for it in my prompts