skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one will start them if they are not profitable. [1] So yeah, you can tax those a little bit, but there's some threshold. And starting a business elsewhere is an option for an automated company, so if it's more profitable (or convenient, or reputable) to do it people will do it.

Point in case #1: Delaware. No corporate income tax, favorable court system, and no questions from your business partners have made it the preferred state for US startups nowadays.

Point in case #2: Estonia and its e-Residency program. No corporate income tax, fully digital company registration and management even for foreigners, and absolute minimum of bureaucracy for SMBs (admin time is like 1 hr/year, to fill out an annual report). Not sure why we don't see more companies registered there.

[1]: If you start a business that you know for sure wouldn't bring you profit, you're starting a non-profit :^)

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And of course, in the country you live in, you're also paying income taxes on your salary, and VAT on your purchases. (I'm paying mine all right, in case you're wondering.) I don't like the notion that you must pay taxes to be considered ”bringing value to the community”, but it's not like you as a business owner can avoid taxes completely anyway.
I mentioned my situation twice, because it was relevant to both comments. I worked at a tech company. We had an internal poll when decision making was made around this, and the breakdown was about 30% prefer full time in office, 40% wanted hybrid, and another 30% wanted full time remote. The high performers who left were mostly in sales and marketing, for what it's worth. Engineering suffered almost no attrition, but IMO (and I say this as an engineer) SWEs are much more fungible than sales people even if they are more expensive.

I think the discourse on forums like this one and Reddit, dominated by highly-online folks (especially engineers), has given folks a skewed perspective on the general population's preferences regarding office work. Most folks in my personal network do not work in tech. Among them the solid majority prefer a hybrid setup, with only a small portion preferring full-time remote or full-time in-office. But that leads to a very strong majority preferring that their organization have an active and vibrant office.
Partially, I suppose.

The risk vs. reward component also needs to be managed in order to deter criminal behavior. This starts with regulation.

For the record, I believe regulation of AI/ML is ridiculous. This is nothing more than a power grab.
I feel like this is something where everyone does it to some extent I don't know. To me it makes more sense to focus on propensity towards behaviors that you find undesirable rather than labelling someone a bad name.
It's interesting how many of these traits line up perfectly with the actions of Eliezer Yudkowsky. Especially the parts about lacking humility to the point where they think their ideology will save the universe from certain doom. Or making people who follow his words say that everyone who thinks he's crazy just "doesn't get it" and is tragically unable to absorb the wisdom or goodness.
> so you are saying JPM does keep a log of video, audio, and monitor screens.

What? The parent comment didn’t say that at all.
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lots of compilers have been written by a single person, including compilers for c++, d, turbo pascal, forth, scheme, ml, haskell, ancient lisp, and so on. craig burley got g77 to the point of compiling useful fortran programs before other people got interested. i think graydon wrote the first versions of the rust compiler himself too

it's probably always better to do it with someone else, because you get better ideas and faster debugging, but pretty much all hlls are possible for a single person to implement
What? You think the Taiwanese government couldn't prevent US purchase of TSMC because capitalism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Foreign_Investmen...
TCE was originally conceived as a replacement for chemicals such as chloroform and ether, which were deemed to be too toxic to the liver for anesthesia. Once the toxicity of TCE was discovered, it started being phased out in various industries.

For degreasers, it was replaced by 1,1,1-Trichloroethane, a chloroalkane later banned by the Montreal Protocol. It's use in refrigeration was replaced by 1,1,1,2-Tetrafluoroethane, a hydrofluorocarbon banned in the EU today for global warming potential. And finally, its use as a general anaesthetic was succeeded by Halothane, which doesn't seem to have any major health affects (beyond those coming from being an anaesthetic). However, that too was later replaced by Sevoflurane, which is suspected to accelerate Alzheimers.

Also both those anaesthetisc are greenhouse gases.

So no, we are definitely going to have more problem chemicals in the future, because chemistry is complicated.
Software by Consensus
There is a California-specific law called the Subdivision Map Act that requires cities/counties to have provisions for parks when approving new subdivisions and housing.

The specifics of this is super convoluted and left to the interpretation of the city and its planning done at the county.

What would be amazing is to add a certain percentage to lakes and ponds when new parks are created--and not just green field.

Hope someone can lead and get this amended.
The author sounds like he has some jealousy issues to get sorted.

I found the last section shocking. Wanting to joust, jealous of this personality type? That’s.. really strange.
I have some copypasta that I stick in every makefile that has too many people abusing it blindly, yeah. It works but it's a real pain that there isn't a standard way to do it.

Which is an immediate consequence of make being built to make things, not run tasks. So it goes.
This is completely incomprehensible to me.
Okay, Russia's image is far from being the best now, and it's hard for many to even stand next to it. But Apple does not go away and continues to collect money.

Yes, and they speak Russian not only in the Russian Federation. Almost the entire former CIS could use it, but here they cut it down to only Ukrainians.
Disabled people from Kazakhstan, Belarus and other countries somehow guilty?
Don't you dare differentiate those weights! Hands in the air!
> The pervasive "Let's never do anything, just to be safe" mood is what I dislike the most about this era. It is suffocating so many possible paths to progress.

To evaluate such a claim with anything approaching objectivity we would need a lot more detail.

What era are you speaking of? Why do you call it a ‘mood’? A mood of who exactly?

The way you phrase it is not an accurate characterization of what people mean when it comes to concern about unintended consequences. Your phrasing is a narrow, uncharitable criticism.

You might be attempting to reference to a concept called the precautionary principle?

> The precautionary principle (or precautionary approach) is a broad epistemological, philosophical and legal approach to innovations with potential for causing harm when extensive scientific knowledge on the matter is lacking. It emphasizes caution, pausing and review before leaping into new innovations that may prove disastrous. - Wikipedia

Criticisms are well articulated on the Wikipedia page. They are worth reading and discussing. They are fair and don’t rely on mischaracterizing what they criticize.

To be clear, I’m not taking a position here on the precautionary principle. I am suggesting: don’t be vague and don’t mischaracterize others’ positions. Sorry if this sounds harsh; it seems to me that people on Hacker News have the intellectual horsepower and time to think and write well.
Yeah, I'm not sure whether they passed it or just never got to it. To be fair I guess, it's not exactly what I would call a productive philosophy, if your goal is "productivity" (by some material definition) and not the act of philosophy in and of itself.

I feel like they looked in the mirror, saw only themselves, and decided what was needed was a better mirror, because there must be something else there.
Temporal has different database options: Cassandra, Postgres, MySQL, SQLite.

> source data in CSV files; - Capillaries script (JSON file) that defines the workflow and the transforms; - Python code that performs complex calculations (only if needed).

Temporal is more general purpose: source data anywhere, and you write code to define workflows and transforms instead of JSON, and the code can be in Go/Java/Python/JS/TS/.NET
FTA:
"he made his comments three days after Soros’s investment fund reported that it had sold all its stock in Tesla"

I really, really dislike Musk.
While some areas of the firm may indeed have what you call old and crumbling tech, this is far from the rule. I expect the electronic trading arm of JPM to be far and beyond what you normally can find at tech firms. The arms race in electronic trading constantly produces innovations out of necessity. The reality is innovate or die, and no inventing yet another sloppy JavaScript framework does not constitute innovation.
Thanks, I didn't come across this one in my brief search. Would be nice to see this implemented in the awesome UI app they have.
You sound so confident that the situation can only get monotonically worse from here. Why? What makes you believe that no action or future situation could ever bring down the number of fentanyl users here?
I wouldn’t call it “the literature” really, some literature for sure. I don’t think a lot of people in the field accept that an AI isn’t generally intelligent unless it’s a physically fake human.

I still have faith in the Turing test, but I’ve been saying since the 80s it has to pass against an informed interrogator who understands how to test for general intelligence. I’m not so bothered that it has to pass as human specifically, but it needs to demonstrate credible cognitive faculties and reasoning skills.

Current LLMs still really aren’t there at all yet. They do have the glimmerings of genuine knowledge and reasoning ability, and represent fantastic progress I’d given up on seeing in my lifetime. They’re still just tools though with significant limitations.
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Indeed, the author mentions many bugs of the SciPy gradient-free solvers in the readme of the repo of Prima.
Since when is there a full fledged CPU in an RTX 3080?
Yes, we call plants invasive when we see them spreading uncontrollably, that's the word we have decided to use to describe this occurrence.

Native plants is a term used to describe plants that were present before humans got involved.

It's a human centric way to view the world but I guess it's better than us trying to dick around making everything human agnostic considering we're all human and share a bunch of human context with each other.
... ML is quite literally a sub-field of AI. That's quite literally the MIT definition of it.
Can confirm. It's the norm up here. Wikipedia says the practice was imported from the US after WW2.
Oh man, thousands of up votes for a Led Zeppelin reference. This mirrors my experience as a musician. Learning to play gave me the confidence to go into different scenarios and recognize that I had to tolerate being bad first and then I would get it. It's a journey. It's a sacrifice. Strangely, it never felt like a sacrifice at the time.
> But I got a free copy of Ableton (not Ableton Live IIRC)

Ableton is the company. Live is the product.
This is pretty fascinating, but I'm not sure I understand the benefit of using a Handlebars-like DSL here.

For example, given this code from https://github.com/microsoft/guidance/blob/main/notebooks/ch...

create_plan = guidance('''{{#system~}}
You are a helpful assistant.
{{~/system}}
{{#block hidden=True}}
{{#user~}}
I want to {{goal}}.
{{~! generate potential options ~}}
Can you please generate one option for how to accomplish this?
Please make the option very short, at most one line.
{{~/user}}
{{#assistant~}}
{{gen 'options' n=5 temperature=1.0 max_tokens=500}}
{{~/assistant}}
{{/block}}
{{~! generate pros and cons and select the best option ~}}
{{#block hidden=True}}
{{#user~}}
I want to {{goal}}.
''')

How about something like this instead?

create_plan = guidance([
system("You are a helpful assistant."),
hidden([
user("I want to {{goal}}."),
comment("generate potential options"),
user([
"Can you please generate one option for how to accomplish this?",
"Please make the option very short, at most one line."
]),
assistant(gen('options', n=5, temperature=1.0, max_tokens=500)),
]),
comment("generate pros and cons and select the best option"),
hidden(
user("I want to {{goal}}"),
)
])
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I mean is that a guarantee though? If I was looking for a random OLD supervillain to compare to Soros I'd probably go with Magneto or Saruman as well! How do we know Musk wasn't just picking some old man supervillain?

In general I'd like to try to believe people aren't just blatantly racist.
That isn't at odds with what I was saying. The only legitimate concern of an employer is that the employees are producing acceptable work at an acceptable speed.

There's no need to engage in intrusive surveillance. If the employee isn't performing acceptably well, that shows in the work.
Sure, so just to test this, could you turn off ChatGPT and Google Bard for a day.

No? Then what makes you think you'll be able to turn off the $evilPerson AI?
> Even now, in South Carolina, fans are still lobbying the state to lift a decades-old ban on people under 18 playing.

Fascinating. I had no idea the history behind pinball and gambling. Nevertheless that seems like the classic "ban the legitimate thing to stop illegitimate use cases."
There's lots and lots written about cults and cult leaders, which is worth reading, such as Combatting Cult Mind Control by Steven Hassan, or if you prefer a more traditional take, "Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism" by Robert Jay Lifton. Or any of other dozens of good authoritative takes on the subject by people who have spent their careers formally studying such phenomena, which can draw lines between all kinds of different groups and political movements that actually have lots in common.

What's wrong with this blog post is that the author does not seem to have read any books at all on the subject, which IMO is fairly irresponsible considering how much there is to read about it and how critical it is that "cult behavior" is widely understood in order for society to progress. Seems to be off the cuff musings about the topic, alarmingly even considering that some "cult leaders" are "good" (no) or that they can be "reformed" (irrelevant, but also REALLY doubtful considering what it means to be a cult leader; cult leaders generally remain such leaders well after they've been sentenced to prison for decades, their followers show up to visit, etc., there is no "reform" here, sorry), and overall a lot of muddy, uninformed and made-up thinking that will only get more people into cults.
Slightly related but I once got a 'behind the scenes' of a bowling alley, I was amazed to see (not sure if still the case, could very well be) how 'analog' the whole machinery was, with a big wheel and lots of mechanical entrapments to pick/collect/replace pins. I think the technical constraints demanded a lot of ingenuity back then.

If I remember correctly they added digital score keeping as an afterthought using camera's (+ software + screens).
I think "tickles the hive-fancy" needs to be a concept - Inwant the economist to write articles about it. :-)
Which AI products that they have actually implemented are bad? I think Siri is pretty poor to be fair and improves at a glacial pace. Pretty much everything else I'd say is state of the art from things like text selection from images, cutting out of image subject, their computational photography, even Map directions have come a long way.
Most people don’t particularly “enjoy” their jobs. They are there for a paycheck
Apparently, that backstory was invented in 2008, 45 years after his debut (1963).
How Is AI Affecting the Future of Productivity Interfaces?
> It can be "unfair" in an intuitive and specific case while still being the result of market forces (is it fair that I'm paying rent to my former landlord's son? he did nothing to earn it except inherit this building)

It's the same market forces.
Please don't do flamewar on HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Almost all of us here are in the top 1% of the world population in terms of income, not of our own national populations. Even so, those of us not in the top 1% of our national populations are in relative terms all seeing our living standards becoming more precarious, and our working conditions decline.
If I am not mistaken, the laptop causing most of my problems was a very cheap ThinkPad from the E-series, which is not quite comparable to other models of the TP line, even when buying one of the better / more expensive ones.

The one I was using shipped a very bad Wifi chip branded as Realtek. Complaints about it are all over the web (E595, Ryzen 7 with 16GB RAM in my case)

This is an extreme case, but I had similar problems with other devices, albeit not as extreme.

Using Wifi lead to a full connection drop for BT or vice-versa. To be fair, the offending device was a dirt cheap Windows 10 "convertible"/tablet from 2016.

Other devices (e.g. cheap Android smartphones) just suffered from bad signal reach / quality / channel negotiation.

Never had a smartphone with as many problems as those cheap Lenovo laptops though.

I'd expect ThinkPads and other Wintel Laptops with better chipsets to be on par with apple, so yes, it's not a fair comparison.

It's just not a problem that everyone has on their bullet list of criteria to choose a computer. Similar to TDP, battery replacability, trackpad quality, laptop speakers, etc
You have to respect evidence driven for sure.
Obviously developers who design semantically for different UIs would be far, far ahead. And Apple API's can be used there.

The harder problem is building accessibility API's for oblivious developers, so they can retrofit at the last minute before release (as usually happens). Apple's done a pretty good job there, harvesting the semantics of existing visual UI's to adapt for voice/hearing.
Are these standardized across all colleges? It’s been a looong time since college and I have no particular memory of this stuff.
It gotta be enforced. In a huge city with huge apartment complexes it might be hard to know what's going on. But in my small city with 2500 people and mostly houses, you would instantly know if someone bought a house in your neighborhood and didn't live there. And people would probably report it, as they want to keep their neighborhoods nice. But yeah, this might not scale.

And while this keeps the prices of homes lower than not having it, it gives some weird incentives. For instance it's more profitable for the city to zone more of the cabin properties, as they can sell them to developers for much more. And developers rather build houses they can sell to a larger market (people in the whole country), instead of building a house and hoping someone will move to the city soon. These things would probably also happen without the living restrictions in homes, but the restrictions haven't solved these issues.
The search results are displayed with blue text against a slightly darker blue background, which is pretty difficult for me to read.
One approach I've heard of that specifically addresses short-term rentals is to limit the number or density of such units within a city or a particular district.
Charismatic, polarizing and tactical.

I think politics only works for people with these traits.
Agreed.

But let me add the caveat that a lot of arcade videogames were designed to eat your money as well, something I always found infuriating as a teenager. Some were fair -- things like Golden Axe, TMNT or Sunset Riders can be won with a single coin if you know what you're doing. But plenty of arcades are unwinnable (or require unreasonable expertise) for you to have a good time without spending lots of coins.

Which is why I always ended up playing Double Dragon, TMNT or Sunset Riders ;)
Couldn’t quickly find it, but does it support enums/sum types?
Local network vs egress network?
Depends on how much one likes Prolog.

Then again, languages lose adoption pitches based on whitespace and tabs significance.
"State is fundamental to how these models produce coherent output."

Incorrect.
Joke's on them, I switched to Linux for good, and I'm not coming back.

Used Windows 10 for a while, mostly for gaming, while for development work I relied on WSL. While I think Windows is okay, I sort of dreaded the move to Windows 11.

So I tried moving to Linux and honestly, I couldn't have done better. Things like Proton and WINE are being excellent for running games and Windows applications. I can't find a single reason to switch back now. I've been at this for a couple of months and not once I thought "oh crap, I need Windows for that".

If anyone is in the same situation I used to be, holding onto Windows for being able to play their game Library, give it a try. With minor tinkering everything works like a charm.
Were not out here trying to ensure a perfect pristine protection of the ecosystem. This is about a toxic weed spreading into areas we don't want it.

Next you'll be telling me we can just keep drilling for oil because humans are animals too.
Does anyone actually make new arcade machines/games anymore? Like real 80's/90's style arcade games, not the ticket dispensers.
Maybe he's just done too many 16-hour days in a row.

I don't personally agree with the direction of his work. Like, Mars? Why really? But the world would be a better place with more CEOs with longterm vision and persistence, and fewer twittertwits.
"Climate Chaos" is certainly apt - things are becoming verifiably hotter but also more unpredictable and volatile. I was a proponent of using 'climate change' fairly exclusively but this comment has helped reframe that, thank you.
I recently got back into the habit of reading documentation from cover to cover.

I would say it has been very valuable in my recent learning adventure. It saved me a from numerous gotchas that would have bit me. It also gave me a base knowledge to know what to look for when I needed it.

Otherwise, I would have been Googling and shoveling crap together myself instead of doing things how they were intended.
Not lifting, but you can push the machine horizontally from your normal position with your hands on the buttons. With your hands at the front corners, you can push north-south or east-west or on any such axis. The machines are designed to allow this; the legs and feet have some flex.

What's different from people's experience of virtual pinball is that you're moving the machine underneath the ball, not the ball itself. The computer games like Space Cadet let you deflect the ball in open space anywhere on the playfield... that's not really how it works, Microsoft got that wrong, what you're really doing is pushing objects on the playfield either into or away from the ball.