skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh, that's not at all how I would characterize the situation. There was no real investigation - the determination that crypto assets are securities is really a philosophical one. Like a court determining whether a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable.

And again, the implication here is that anyone buying and selling a crypto asset outside of a brokerage is breaking the law. According to the grounds the SEC is using here, if I wanted your Dogecoin there would be no legal way for us to transfer it without involving a brokerage firm.
People used to live in a relatively much safer country (which makes for all of the western world, western europe, UK, Australia, Japan, etc.) should be afraid of most American cities - especially certain areas and hours.

It's just that Americans in those cities have learned to normalize this violence all around them. They're OK with abnormally large rates of homicide, burglary, theft, rape, and acompanying ill like school shootings, police killings...
I just bought a nice Asus Zenbook and first I did as soon as I received it was installing pop os. I keep my old windows notebook near by in case I need something I can't do in the Linux machine, but its use is more and more infrequent.
Parent posted asked a "shouldn't they" question, not a "legally must they" question.
“Nothing about the Star” is the false part.
You're right they're stainless steel. There was some talk of factory wraps but don't think it's happening... would have to be aftermarket.
If you want to build a lifestyle business, go ahead and please do not take any VC money.

If you want to build a business that is large, globally impactful, and has the potential for great success or dramatic failure, VC money (or other debt/investment) is generally required for that, dependent on the market of course.
I mean it’s possible to have both clean and performant.

If you have a high performance requirement you should extract that code into its own “space” and not try to make the existing system shitty.

Use API contracts between systems and don’t muddy up existing systems.
> Their contemporary cultural touchstones are much the same ones around the world.

I find this homogenization of culture incredibly sad.
This is getting very meta.

I profoundly resent this behaviour from the BBC app and from the people who built it. I would resent it from any party. It’s no problem to clarify that.

But to the “bad guy”. IMHO behaviour is different from identity (i.e. a focus on what people do and the effect it has, not who they are).

If the premise of your organisation is existentially predicated on scummy behaviour then that does implicate identity and maybe you are the cartoon villain “bad guy”. The developers aren’t bad guys, nor are the BBC. But they are both doing (marginally) harmful things.

But “bad guy” is also common shorthand for “guy who exhibits bad behaviour”. For some that distinction might even be splitting hairs.
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What made you dislike Windows 7?
I feel like if labels like government-funded are going to be applied more commonly, shouldn't labels like media as well receive liberal and literal treatment as long as it technically applies?

Tesla's twitter account produces and publishes media for the public to consume.

Why not label Tesla's account as "corporate funded" media as opposed to "state funded" media for something like NPR?

Are corporate interests not likely to bias content as well in a way that would be worth being aware of? If so, why not be consistent about labeling for potential sources of bias consistently.

If not, what criteria should be met for being considered media that Tesla's twitter account does not meet?
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Even a 66.3% cost overrun would still make this project cheaper, and would be vastly less than the (so far) 200% overrun of Hinkley Point C. And I'm taking those numbers at your word, without poking into them for details.
It depends. If you have a truck - capital asset - the oil changes are probably opex, but replacing the transmission is probably capex. Regular sweeping and cleaning of a building is likely opex, upgrading the wiring capex. Software I can certainly see getting tricky here - is updating dependancies an oil change or a transmission?

"Betterment, restoration or adaptation" is the usual test for something being capex.
What would a software developer do that isn't research or development? Maybe my understanding of "research and development" is wrong. Is there a formal definition that I can go by?
Do people not realize how easy these are to turn off? I've been running Windows 11 for over a year and haven't seen a single ad.
> Birth rate in the industrialized world has plummeted and the demographic wave initiated by industrializaton has crested. We can expect carbon emissions for the next several hundred years to peak soon.

Except population is exploding in Asia and Africa and western nations are intent on importing as many of those people as possible.

What’s baffling to me is how much overlap there is between the “we need to reduce CO2 emissions”, “having children is selfish”, and “we need more immigration” crowds. One of these things is not like the other.
Neal Stephenson did it first!
I think early Borland container libraries had a "Object" base class for everything, pre templates. All that went away as C++ compilers started supporting templates more. I remember this era as always making tradeoffs between code size, memory consumption, standardness and performance. Not sorry those days are over...
Not really, you have so much garbage mixed in from troll-bots.
https://beta.ruff.rs/docs/faq/#how-does-ruff-compare-to-mypy...

> Ruff is a linter, not a type checker. It can detect some of the same problems that a type checker can, but a type checker will catch certain errors that Ruff would miss. The opposite is also true: Ruff will catch certain errors that a type checker would typically ignore. ...
I know we don't have much choice but is this really safe?

The recent pentagon papers are nothing if not impressive of how deeply US intelligence is in just about every conversation that matters.

So can we trust NIST? As far as I know there have been concerns in the past that they have played ball and so have private security firms.

That said maybe a US backdoor is better than all round shoddy engineering?

I imagine something like this would be a great way to slip in a weak link.
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Basically the same as the alignment problem in AI. You need to be very careful of how you define your rewards, because you'll end up incentivizing exactly what you define.
May I suggest joining some sort of sports activity where you can meet and train with others? For example, an amateur running team or cycling. Search for a mixed group - not an elite team full of testosterone loaded men.

That had helped me improve self confidence (and I'm _terrible_ at sports), find friends and ultimately find my wife.

People doing sports are typically in good mood and the activity naturally gives one something to talk about.
Hmm, several of those weren't indexed, I added them to the crawl queue. Seems like the numismatics corner of the web isn't well indexed by marginalia.

constantinethegreatcoins does show up for 'imp constantinvs' though.
Someone alerted this to me afterwards. Unfortunately I only recognize him by a different username LOL

He was so understated that I missed it lol
Ah, the mythical “regulatory capture” I keep hearing about
> The bonus with cycling is that you kill two birds with one stone: you exercise AND friends in the same activity!

Make that three birds because you can travel to places!

One of my favorite things to do in the summer is ride with friends to the city center and grab some food, maybe a drink, and hang out before riding back. It's a leisurely ride on multi-use paths through parks, so even people that aren't comfortable or new to biking are willing to do it and you get to see cool parts of the city that aren't as accessible in a car, bus, or train.
For added context, Twitter blog post on an analysis they did about amplification of specific political ideologies:

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/rml-polit...
Related to this topic, we still don't have a good, strong idea of how human thought works. Neural Networks/Perceptrons were built out of analogies of how human-like neurons seem to work (primarily in isolation studies in a petri dish or similar experiments), but it is very easy to forget that the model/analogy is not the reality when you work with those models a lot.

The current "map" certainly doesn't seem to be the territory here. Neurons are just one part of the human brain, there's also complex chemical receptors and hormonal pathways that we mostly still only grasp in the abstract of how they interplay with neurons and other signal pathways. Additionally, there's indirect evidence that brains may take some advantage of quantum effects among/between neurons such as entangled particle states, but we don't know a lot more than we know about the quantum states of human brain activity. (How do we even probe that in a living human with our current knowledge of quantum physics?)

Neural Networks/Perceptrons have been very useful models in computation, but that doesn't mean they are actually good or representative models for human cognition.
I use Wireguard and love it, but do we risk good features not becoming just as open and able to be self hosted with services like this?
This is backwards. Capital expenses are amortized because you purchase an asset that will give you value over multiple years. So, for example, if you buy an office building, you amortize the capital expense.

But what this does is says that if the product you created is an asset, the salaries that go into creating that asset should be treated as if it were purchasing that asset. The office building equivalent would be the builder having to treat the salary it paid its labor as a capital expense and amortizing it.

That sounds beyond insane.

That being said, it’s not a material change, if phased in properly, so companies have time to spread their expenses over a period of time.

But it looks like neither was this planned for (not surprising because it’s ridiculous on its face), nor does the legislation phase it in a manner that can be properly absorbed.

In practice companies will get hit hard the first year, but save the equivalent amount over the next 3-4 years. So after 5 years it will be a wash (ignoring the time value of money…factoring in that makes it a loss, but not as much of a loss). The problem is that it will create tremendous cash flow problems as 5 years of tax is paid in 1 year.
Is there a hash hounds harriers group in mountain view (https://www.hashhouseharriers.com/what-is-hashing/)? I would be somewhat surprised if not given they are everywhere. Excellent both socially and physically for all abilities. I recommend checking them out. Essentially you run as a group, but someone has marked out a forking trail in advance. Fast runners risk taking the wrong route and so have to backtrack when someone shouts they found the marker indicating the right route. Slower runners usually know which is the right route by the time they reach the fork so have a chance to catchup. On the social side, it is excellent for meeting new people. I had family members involved in HHH groups where every week a different person would volunteer to host drinks or a meal after. This is not universal but usually there is some social meetup after each run.
Please don't do that. You are valuable, even if you can't feel it right now.

You're very welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com if there might be anything we can do to help.
> its many big box stores

and you live where?

I count two: Target and Home Depot.
And SQLJ for Java should you want that: https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/JSQLJ/overview.htm#JSQL...
That photo about halfway down the page, wow. Absolute maximum creepiness.
The problem is that so many practices we have gravitated to are actively harmful to performance. Worse, they are borderline harmful for maintenance. Specifically, some practices are better for larger teams than they are smaller teams.

Difficulty in that last is that the best practice for how to maintain code changes as you get older on the project. This is easy to see in code that is a bit of a mungled mess. But it is also visible on code that it is a beautiful stalled out mess of needing too much to get small contributions in.
A voluntary tool is a tool you don't need to use.

NIST is a government organization, and it helps to explain that this is a tool provided by government for your discretionary use; it is not a regulatory framework.
Correctness?

I've not seen anyone seriously attempting to benchmark chatgpt output, without heavily cherry picking it first.
> It would be great if such a mechanism was part of the http standard, so you could easily connect compliant tools.

Not sure HTTP is the best approach to the suggested method. Since you control both ends, there are surely better protocols to use, like QUIC or something similar (or just straight up UDP).
> It wasn't even hard to avoid using a Google account.

And then you launch any of the included apps. Chrome wants you to sign in, calendar wants you to sign in, photos wants you to sign in, not to mention Google photos pushes notifications ads trying to sell photo albums.

The photo app will also try to sell you a premium subscription to store your photos online.

The phone is very much designed to be used with a Google account, you can avoid it, but the experience is limited.

Microsoft noticed that people liked having their photos automatically backed up and being able to share them with friends and family. Same goes for documents, being able to push a "share" button on a family finance planning Excel sheet is a lot easier than emailing it around.

There is a lot of crap in the start menu that needs to be removed, and the constant attempts to change the default browser to Edge needs to stop, but "please backup your documents so you don't get all angry at us when your HD dies" is not what I'd call an intrusive ad.
Awesome, thanks for the clarification. Cool project :)
No, that's a more recent thing.
> Building factories and qualification testing is literal progress.

I get ~monthly emails about the progress being made manufacturing a chair I backed on a crowdfunding platform years ago. They constantly show great progress being made ("we finally have a factory lined up", "here's the final version of the legs", "we've begun mass production"). It feels like every one of these emails has a message about how they're going to start shipping chairs out to backers in the next couple months. This has been the case for several years now. I'm pretty skeptical I'll ever get the chair, as is basically everyone else who ordered it.

I imagine the Cybertruck will eventually be released, but it sounds like it's now almost two years behind the originally announced release date. I think it matches the spirit of vaporware currently, just as Duke Nukem Forever did for over a decade.

I think it's understandable that people would describe a delayed release from Tesla/Musk as vaporware given how their promises of "full self driving" have been going.
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How would such a plan get support in Congress?
Sorry to ask a dumb question, can you explain this?

> With 17 trillion dollars currently deposited, that's $833 billion of inflationary pressure every year.

specifically, this part, what do you mean by pressure and which way is it pushing

> that's $833 billion of inflationary pressure every year.
To the extent that the filibuster's beneficial, I'd say it's only so because of our bad electoral system that stabilizes at only two viable parties, and sometimes results in minority rule.
Whose to say it hasn't happened to us already?
Honestly your Reddit comment was probably already archived on Pushshift as soon as you posted it.
http://aries.mq.edu.au/images/Copenhagen-Pett.jpg

"But what if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?"
FWIW, we at Medium feel pretty similarly to Reddit but with a yes to this question about whether authors should get paid.

AI companies are betraying basic business principles: they are taking value from datasets like Reddit and Medium without giving any value back. Fine if you can get away with it. But since AI, especially text based LLMs, relies on source material, it's pretty straightforward for the platforms that host that source material to deny access. Things like ChatGPT do need current source material.

I don't think it'll come to a war though and that the AI companies will instead give some value back. It could be as simple as citations that send traffic back. That's essentially the exchange of value that we all have with Google these days.

But if it's money, then I think the obligation is for platforms to pass that on the authors. It'd be hard for an individual author to negotiate this on their own with a company like OpenAI, but platforms are in a good position to negotiate on their behalf.
If you are paywalled, try here
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I think there's a difference between "the main cast are teenagers", vs "the entire opposed class are teenagers."
This is amazing. I just wish Islam was known for this still, instead of some other things.
this looks so cool - I'm a remote worker and product designer in NY and always looking for creatives nearby to collab with and co-work with! just signed up
So there WAS something about the Star? I must have missed that.

They gave a general history of the GUI, including IBM's room-sized attempt.
- the machine will not take your job at every company
- a human using a machine is better than only the machine
- it doesn't take that much to be retrained these days, there's a lot of resources out there
- maybe they will actually care about rights of people without tying things to being rich or employed?
- can always cross the border to Mexico
This is also prevalent with the way that Google incentivizes page content structure now. I have to get 3/4 the way through a page before I find what I'm looking for because they encourage this big kitchen sink posts.
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> And now the government is pushing back, not without reason.

What reason is that? Increased tax revenue (in the short term at least)? Because if there's no difference in the long term then it seems pretty dumb to inflict financial turmoil for no net gain.
If the images are in DICOM format, which is common, then dcm2niix should be able to convert them https://github.com/rordenlab/dcm2niix

I think it can handle a few other formats as well. Once they are .nii(.gz) files, then mricrogl (https://www.nitrc.org/projects/mricrogl) should be able to render it - of course, for a brain scan - this would be your whole head. Brain extraction is performed by more specialized software, but that would get you started.
I looked into IO a while ago. It's a neat little language, but was a bit heavyweight for what I needed at the time.
You're right, I don't know what he meant by "awe-inspiring scifi" in the first place. Like I put in my other comment:

> "It’s also a lot bleaker than it was in Matsumoto’s heyday." is also something that can't be corroborated. Ashita no Joe predates it and it got dark and was the first really big serious anime. Gundam would follow it soon afterwards and that starts out with galactic war. Ideon anyone?

Not that it's much better outside anime:

> Basically every parent is a manipulative monster.

Anakin Skywalker anyone?

I'm just happy that the original Mangaka behind Planetes has recently stated his intention that he's intending to return to sci-fi after finishing Vinland Saga. It might not necessarily be optimistic, but it'll be worth following.
> Finding everything out of general revenue means taking public-transport riding city folks’ funds to pay for suburbanites’ electric SUVs.

That's how government works. Everybody pays for things that the majority agrees are good for the people.

It's not like a gas tax doesn't cost those public-transport riding city fold money. A gas tax increased the price of everything that uses gas, from the bus they ride in to every single product they purchase. They're subsidizing those electric SUVs either way, it's just hidden from them, which is how politicians like it.
Sorry if that gave you the impression I was upset. I do think it's a little rich to consider the Guardian a "source" though.

All I'm trying to say is that the predominant type of person on this website is pretty smart and should know better. The "tinfoil hat conspiracy nut" stereotype has been incredibly effective at dissuading people from trying to peek behind the curtain. I understand that it's a tough pill to swallow, but it's a pretty serious situation that we're on the verge of dismantling and effectively criminalizing energy infrastructure that has taken decades and decades to build based on completely bogus propaganda.
I think it was part of the horse trade for the 2017 tax cut?
The Zune HD UX is godawful. Not only do you have to both press a button and interact with the touchscreen to play/pause, skip, or adjust volume, but the relevant button is on the opposite end of the device from the headphone jack. That means it's sitting upside down in your pocket and you have to reach into your pocket and past the bulk of the device just to adjust the volume.

The original Zune UX was a work of art by comparison. The buttons were on the face and recessed, so not only did they not get pressed accidentally, you could control your media right through the outside of your pants without even reaching into your pocket.
Fair point, I used the term too loosely and thought just of publishing on GitHub. Will add a license! Any feedback on HWT?
>They are also likely protected against a number of attacks that aren't public

For reference, see DES, where the NSA adjusted the algorithm to protect from a not publicly understood differential cryptanalysis attack. Many people claimed that the adjustment by the NSA was clear backdooring, though we know that was not true.

It was however purposely deficient in the length of its key, allegedly because "it was good enough" and for export reasons, but also because the NSA considered it easy enough to brute force.
> Realistically hobbyists are not going to be the bread-and-butter of Tailscale's business, so why not let them go crazy

…and do the marketing for you. (Every other sysadmin is probably a hobbyist.)
I'm not a lawyer nor a CPA, but my reading of that Cornell link is that the definition only applies to expenditures that the company deducts from their return as R&D expenses, which, again - is not the default strategy of every company.

Note this would also only affect profitable companies (i.e., not most VC-funded startups), since there's nothing to deduct if you didn't make enough profit to owe tax in the first place (modulo some change in definition of "profit" based on how software development must be categorized - but still, this would only affect companies with fairly significant revenue; it's not like hiring a software developer suddenly costs 120% more than it did last year.)
In my opinion, one is between "this needs to be remembered, I will need this later" and "I have already remembered this, immediately recover!".
This is a policy framework, not an encryption algorithm.
Meanwhile the UK is now arresting French people who refuse to share information about striking protesters in France.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/18/french-publi...
Everytime you open settings on a new apple device you get a artfully phrased reminder 'x number of days remaining to add applecare' and 'try your new trials'.