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As a resident of [STATE], I'm writing to express my dismay at some very recent specific tax changes negatively impacting small businesses innovating in technology, as well as express my support for a recently introduced bill to unwind those changes (S.866 - American Innovation and Jobs Act).

As both a software engineer and entrepreneur, changing software development expenses to be exclusively treated as R&D expenses amortized over many years will harm our country's ability to create innovative companies on the frontier of technology, as smaller businesses that take up-front losses in exchange for growth and deferred income will be dramatically penalized and go out of business. Conversely, large companies with established revenue and credit will not be harmed, increasing their ability to reduce competition in the market. So many of America's great companies in the last decades have come from a small number of people working together on software and hardware, losing money up front to gain money in the future. If you cannot write off the up-front expenses as truly spent money with uncertain return, those businesses cannot start.

It's a lose-lose-lose - this change hurts the little guys, helps the incumbent big guys, and will reinforce competitive sclerosis relative to our geopolitical competitors.

I don't know what the exact right answer is, or if S.866 is it - but the current situation is certainly not correct. If we want America to be competitive and create high-paying modern jobs, we can't tax new companies to death before they have a chance to get started.
I believe the longstanding joke goes, 'Perl is a Worn language, write once read never'
I agree with your breakdown.

The problem, however, is that your third point is where the vast majority of the potential usefulness of LLM lies, but simultaneously where integration with other systems is highly non-trivial, hence my "calm your proverbial tits" position on the issue.
Ask HN: Has anybody else struggled to find any legitimate use cases for LLMs?
We know ChatGPT using GPT-3.5 "hallucinates" a non-zero percent of the time. I don't have any exact figures but could we say for the sake of argument... 20% of the time? Better? Worse?

With that, we know GPT-4 is better but... not perfect? I highly doubt GPT-4 "hallucinates" 0% of the time.

Worst case scenario/devil's advocate: Given the fact that the output can't be trusted due to relatively low-accuracy, this means we can't start replacing tedious/monotonous tasks that require humans with AI yet if we value the output being correct (which... we do). If a human has to validate the LLM output, that might take as much time (or more) as having done the task in the first place.

Don't get me wrong, I love talking to ChatGPT for all sorts of reasons. Plus, I see a ton of open-source non-commercial options popping up. Is it safe to assume those are almost always going to be lower quality than GPT-4 (which is sort of like the golden expensive standard, right?)

Curious everybody's thoughts. Not looking to start some massive "bash LLM/undeprlay the achievement". Just looking for... why are so many people obsessed with creating so many GitHub projects if at the end of the day the output isn't worth much? They are partially noise/garbage output generators, no?
I lived and worked in Portland for five years, and have been traveling back and forth recently. The downtown area is pretty sad to see post-COVID. Pretty much lawlessness rules the streets and every once in a while, a little bit of action takes place [1]. I don't know what the right answer is but many of my Portland friends have left the area citing crime and open drug use as reasons. It sucks because Portland was such an amazing place to be in.

[1] https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2023/04/portland-police-cle...
This is the way I still (occasionally) use perl. I used it back in the CGI days, but even to this day it's excellent for regex-type operations (even just called as a one-liner in a bash script).

I learned enough awk to get by, but if you actually want to do advanced processing it can be even more inscrutable than perl, which can do everything awk can and a lot more.
Not sure what your exactly looking for this to be, but you can already become eligible for citizenship via military service.

https://www.uscis.gov/military/naturalization-through-milita...
Just for the record, I agree with you. I'm not sure if I worded my response correctly.

I also think the keyboard on the Speak & Spell is better than the 2016 Macbook keyboard.
I'd be curious to know what the long term mortality effects are from joining the military vs obesity.
Are they banning Google accounts for this?

Not sure why I got downvoted from this. The link shows the message:

> You may be executing code that is disallowed, ant his may restrict your ability to use Colab in the future.

Is this restricted because your google account gets deactivated or something more reasonable?
Wow, and I thought they were pricy in Europe (Freestyle Fibre is €65 for a two-week monitor).

Between things like this and the price of insulin the US is really trying to kill off its diabetics. Not great when nearly half of Americans are either diabetic or pre-diabetic.
Had a model 3 for 4 years, have another EV now.
It really depends on the type of driving.
Sure, if you are making a long road trip at high speeds then its probably negligible though still noticeable.

But being in Northeast US with constant traffic..
I used to have to park outdoors so the car would get cold soaked down to 20F in winter, and never really have sufficient time to warm up unless I was going for a 1hr+ drive.

Winter driving local roads, below-25mph stop&go, 2-5mi trips running errands..
Could see some really crazy consumption numbers pop up like 500-800Wh/mi+ versus the rated 250Wh/mi. Now it doesn't necessarily amount to much because it's on short single-digit mile trips, but it does happen. This stacks with the general cold weather efficiency losses of EVs..
Tell HN: Domains of the Eurpoean Commission appear to be hacked
Funny it seems both GCP and Azure meet the expectations you have of their parent in this space. With Google you always got the "latest and greatest" but support was lacking. With MS you got the support, but maybe on not the latest and greatest. That seems to have carried into their cloud philosophies.

The problem for both of them is AWS, which somehow manages to give you your cake and let you eat it too, even if it's a little more expensive.
> Which I guess means the Air Force thinks they can get folks who would otherwise not qualify into shape

Seems like a safe bet? Personal trainers would probably be a lot more effective if they had as much control over your work life, diet, and exercise routines as the military does over new recruits.
I am not an expert in this unethical market, but I think competition for essays to plagiarize would be on a per-essay basis.

The competition would be between a $20 per month OpenAI membership and paying a Kenyan by the essay.

The Kenyan could use OpenAI for drafts and charge $5 per essay. (S)he would earn more than $20 per month.
What's unsustainable about it?
Compare your Rust with my JS:

let decrement = _=>set_value.update(value => value -= 1)

I don't understand your complaint about syntax. The real difference here is the concept of a move and a dereference. JS lacks these concepts and naturally has no syntax for them.
Its not particularly healthy, though many ancient cultures prior to Islam have used fasting as part of a way to cleansing of the gut. The relevance to the moon is also from Pagan cultures
There is already a path to citizenship by serving in the US Military.
Now open source TOC/OSCAR, dammit. I want my open-source AIM clone. Please!
They measure completely different things. BMI is a pure weight to height ratio--someone could have almost no skeletal muscle and have a "better" BMI than someone who works out daily and has heavy muscle density. They're strongly correlated in the statistical sense, but there's still a wide spread of body fat percentage for a given BMI.

My guess is that they use different BMI metrics for men vs women when guaging fitness--that's how they keep things gender fair.
Next step is to go wheel of fortune style, and provide a standard cheat sheet with the finicky formulas, and then let the students at their own supplementary cheat sheet
Yeah I also had cases where we made the job so specific they had to do the interview with another candidate knowing they would not hire the candidate, if you ask me it's a puppet show. I understand it protects against certain things, but also make a lot of people dance around bureaucracy needlessly.

Im sure, like many of us, you've sighed about things being needlessly bureacratic at some point in your live, this is one of those things that cause good people to feel very frustrated.
> for people bright enough to write college level essays to be wasting their time writing them for rich people studying in Western colleges?

That's an issue for the American education system, not Kenya's population.
How did Pied Piper not make the list?
Yes there is:

https://www.uscis.gov/military/naturalization-through-milita...

It's not exactly a foreign legion style thing but you can become a citizen via military service.
HealthGPT – Query your Apple Health data with natural language
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...

It's a much longer trend than 2012-2016. I remember 2011, the last time conservatives were playing the "global warming has paused" game, but then oops! It returned to trend. No Ls were acknowledged, of course.

What do the radiative flux measurements say this time around? They measure the derivative directly and are upstream of the most chaotic mixing process. Last time they said "sorry, heat is still piling up, globe's still warming." They were correct. What do they say this time?
> I’m will to bet all new gas cars ... little to do

Would you drive them? Would you own an internet connected door, vehicle, pacemaker? Some would rather find the keys out of the asylum.

You say «little to do», but the point was that we are informed of «gas cars» without wireless connection, whereas word is that for some reason all electric vehicles seem to be. We know that some «gas cars» are spared, but they say all electric ones will be bound to the wave of improper engineering, so this defines some hope or way out for the traditional making and rules out the new one.
How does this happen? are DNS servers hacked and things redirected?
Not only they might go to prison, they may risk values and lives of others, too:

https://usma.org/unit-mixups
BMI wouldn't be a good measure for this. The correlation might be strong, but very fit or muscular people (for instance, weight lifters, fighters etc) can have rather high BMI - and you really don't want to filter those out. Waist-hip ratio might be a good alternative measure.
You don't reproduce with a dishwasher.
Anecdotally speaking, there are parts of LA that are trending just as bad.

Taking it all together this seems to be a pervasive issue in larger west-coast cities?
GDP has never been a sign of wellbeing
See sheet 60: Dont waste time in trying to hit the HN front page.
What's the difference between Viogpu and the older Virgil3d?
True

And people say 'oh but BMI is not relevant' it is not if you have the physique of a (an American) Football player and even then.

For most people, BMI is not too far from reality.
It’s not cheaper.
Russia didn't lose in Chechnya, there were two campaigns and three rival military insurgent groups to combat. Eventually, the most prominent one was dealt with, and Khattab and all of his Saudi and Afghani terrorist field commanders were eliminated.
I feel like your statement is too empty to really draw any conclusions from it.
> Maybe this is a warning sign

This one wasn't enough lmao ?

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/-/media/Images/Health-Information/...

> Trends in obesity among children and adolescents ages 2–19 years, by age: United States, 1963–1965 through 2017–20183
Brit here, I always found how the state lines and even roads are organised in the US intriguing. Here it is a random set of roads and city boundaries but American ones seem to have been designed from scratch.
> relatively cheap
A friend had an idea, I don't know if he had ever implemeted it. Take a square pillow. Stick about 100 needles in it. When leaving the car, position pillow on the driver seat so that needles' points are up, but of course all of them are still invisible / inside the pillow. Don't forget to move the pillow when you want to drive the car :)
How it can be possible when a patient wants to talk about traumatic experiense to a specialist, for the sake of getting rid of PTSR, but he afraids to talk about it because of... what may happen?

What kind of pain may block even talking about it? I have built an idea while reading those PTSR-witnessers that mobilization for males is an analog of rape for females and the pain is not from killing and seeing kills but from being enslaved. I have a lot of friends who use to kill Russians in Russo-Ukrainian war, or use to be a medic, and everybody is totally happy to discuss at least some analytical problems (equipment, strategy, caveats, how to avoid being killed in combat, etc). I am just trying not to be jerk and listen more than talk to them and those people even do not claim they heavily suffer from anything like PTSR.

What kind of questions were asked to patients and participants of what military group were the patients? If my theory is wrong, then the questions is always about killing and seeing massacre. I really want to know criterions of being chosen to mdma-assisted therapy instead of other antidepressant.
Odd to conflate body fat % with bmi though.

Using the latter as a proxy for the former makes strong assumptions around how you're built
(musculature, torso length to leg length, broadness of chest, arm length, etc).
Sure, whatever. "Offloading" was perhaps a poor choice of wording, but it is related to the standardization efforts. The NVMe vendors don't want to be calling out to BPF programs in the driver if the runtime semantics are not standardized.
Foreign legion is not the same.

Arguably the Roman army always had foreigners, and it failed when it stopped trying to assimilate them and just treated them as mercenaries.
It's not that interesting yet. AltmanAI isn't claiming yet that GPT can solve unique problems.
I think a pretty large % of people can't swim.
When I was 8% body fat, my BMI was 24.8. That's when I realized that BMI, like most office chairs, is tailored for the average population.
My uncle worked for TI, so we were pretty deep in the 99/4 world. But later in the 80s I saved my pennies and bought a 600XL and later an 800XL.

On paper they were pretty similar, but there was definitely a different "feel" between the 99/4 and Atari 8-bits. Atari went to great lengths to remind people their 8-bit line were more than just game consoles, but at the same time I think they had the most flexible graphics systems and the best games.
and I think they can't output as much current like the current batteries too.
Has anyone actually hired a real hitman with Bitcoin? In pretty much all cases that I've heard of, the hitman turned out to be either a cop or a scammer.
The problem with QML is that it's not C++. Most Qt developers are C/C++/Python folks, being forced to use JS is not their idea of fun. Also, for some time the prebuilt QML widgets didn't have feature parity with the old QtWidgets. I think they're now there, but it's still a different philosophy: QtWidgets tried hard to fit in the desktop paradigm (with tray icons, desktop services, etc), whereas QML simply doesn't care - QML more or less expect to simply take over the screen and do everything on their own, web-style. Again it's a culture clash with traditional QT that QML creators seem to have fundamentally underestimated.
The form this argument always takes is:

1) undesirable_outcome will not happen, and here's a rational argument why.

2) ok, undesirable_outcome did happen but it wasn't undesirable in the first place and here's a rational argument why

dismiss the concerns, then invalidate the concerns, it's how you keep progress moving
Any insight into why morale is low? I have a lot of immediate family in the military with current and past experiences across all the main branches except the Navy and the “Space Force”. I talk to some of them pretty often and so I’ve developed my own theories, but I’d be curious to hear others.
Well, it's nicknamed "Chair Force" for a reason.

The vast majority of these recruits won't become pilots. Consider those directing drones, for example.
Rebus and the Anarchic Brain: Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelic [pdf]
Whoops, forgot the link to the blog post: https://longform.asmartbear.com/problem/
You might have wound up with something a lot like the Apple II GS.

(At least one Atari engineer I know worked on the IIGS. Personally I thought it was crazy to work on 16-bit machines when 32-bit architectures like the 68000 were just coming into the marketplace).
> Are you still waffling your nonsense on this thread?

There is absolutely no need to get aggressive/annoyed.

If you don't want to engage, then leave the thread. It's not like there'll be a red bubble reminding you about it.

We're having a conversation about something that neither of us are certain about, thus there is no correct answer here.

> Let me be very clear: the government has balked at every single initiative that would violate the Good Friday Agreement, for good reason. They’re not about to suddenly change tack here.

Are we talking about the Irish government here? Cos I definitely remember the UK gov attempting to pass a whole bunch of stuff that would violate the GF/Belfast agreement since 2016. In fact, I believe that the Lords is the only reason they haven't.

> If the Government starting checking ferries from Belfast to Stranraer, unionists would start burning ports just like they did in 2021. You can’t provide evidence for any of your guesses because it doesn’t exist. I don’t know why you waste your time trying to continue the “debate.”

Perhaps, I personally wouldn't like to see it.

However, how does immigration control work if they don't? If an Albanian/Polish person can go to Dublin, cross the border and then head to the UK on a ferry and work illegally, then ultimately the UK government will have to do something. I have no special insight into what they'll do, but I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it involved passport/ID checking.

Lets remember that the UK government basically don't give a toss about NI, as evidenced by the last seven years post the Brexit vote.
I doubt this is a viable option for Musk considering how he paid twice what the company was worth --- his estimate, not mine.
I just started my first AI experiment yesterday, you can find it at https://doogle.app .. Right now it forwards you to other AIs or services based on your request, but early next week it will go a bit deeper and will automatically create Quests (think forms, workflows and checklists) for the enquiries where it makes sense. You’ll be able to either then go through these Quests yourself, assign it somebody you know or publish the Quest for somebody else to get it done for you. You can also attach a cash reward that the person finishing Quest can then either payout in cash, a gift card or donate!
That was the Second Chechen War, though, not the First Chechen War, was it not?
Why not? Do you think that the customs of your tribe and island are the laws of nature?
Javascript has pretty solid performance, assuming the code is half decent.

Honestly, a major benefit of strict/enforced type systems is that it substantially improves maintainability of the codebase. Large Python or JavaScript projects with no typing can be a huge nightmare.
Maybe it's just that you've aged yourself into the target markets for that kind of thing.
ChatGPT passes the "my mom can use it" test with flying colors. It's extremely accessible.
Yeah org mode would be great. But please tell me how you actually make your org mode calendar sync 2-way with your outlook, gmail and Apple calendars.

Because if it doesn’t that feature is completely useless to me. Same with LSP. That works great in every ide, but with eMacs you have to do custom configs and still half the stuff doesn’t actually work.
In my defense - I replied to someone who gave the 31mpg number. I should have verified that information myself first.
Unless you're an investor/vc or writer whose income is primarily substack driven, why would you care? As a passive writer as long as I keep my content portable what difference does it make if I post of substack, wordpress, or github pages?
Some 5 years ago I worked with a DBA, Oracle DBA more precisely, who told me that PostgreSQL is generally better than Oracle. At the same time, he wouldn't switch to PostgreSQL because... drumroll... he wouldn't have a job as a PostgreSQL DBA, because it is just simpler. Oracle DB, according to him, was more complex and harder to manage, and Oracle built entire offering around it: training, certifications, etc., which sustains the ecosystem.
This headline mentions body fat, and the 2nd paragraph mentions specific body fat percentage thresholds. But from what I understand, they're shifting _to_ a system which measures height and waist size with a tape measure, _from_ a prior system which measured waist and neck size with a tape measure. I.e they're throwing around "body fat percentage" as a term, but they're not measuring it with any kind of accuracy, and are favoring a very low tech (and perhaps transparent) measure over one which would be more accurate but expensive, such as hydrostatic weighing or DEXA. To me it's a little crazy that they use a tape measure given how much we spend on the military.

https://www.military.com/military-fitness/fitness-test-prep/...
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I don't see why price discovery in an information market is comparable to essay writing in search of a social credential for someone else?
Those Nigerian Princes sure are clever bilking people out of their savings, we should think of the consequences of removing the income of such clever groups. Yes these are people but that way leads to rot lets not normalize it unnecessarily, MHO!!!
> Electron is an issue but nobody is using that for embedded

Qt works fine on embedded. Quite popular there.

> This runs a web browser no problem. No need for 32GB of RAM

Yes, 1 web browser with a minimal no js page. But 10 at the same time? 20? Animated stuff in it?
HN needs to ip match accounts like this and shame the real account.
> Exam is oudated. Human can never get rid of this mindset. Why do we need exams in the education system?

To be able to check that the student learned something.
Especially relevant on the F-16 discussion, since they'd likely only be flying over Ukrainian controlled territory.

There's no reason we shouldn't have gotten some of their pilots started in a training pipeline months ago.
A good place to view them is r/forgottenwebsites on Reddit, sort by top of all time. Choose one and then follow the links on those pages to other websites and "surf." Its a fun pasttime.

edit it seems that Angelfire is still live, so you can view sites made on that
Wow this is awesome!!!
Meaningful work (generally) requires capital, and Kenya has very little capital. Capital has a compounding effect, so bringing in external capital now can pay dividends later.
The best application I've seen for the currently available electric airplanes are flight schools. One plane I looked into has a flight time of 1.5hrs, which is plenty for training. When I last priced out instructor time, 30% of the cost was the fuel. This means that flight schools could cut prices by up to 25% or so. That being said, the plane I looked into was $250k, while a student level ICE plane could be had for $20-50k.
> Should we (by we, I mean the rest of the world) just let them annex whatever land they want, with no consequences or resistance?

Yeah why is it our problem?