skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of secular arguments against abortion. I'm not sure why both sides are acting like this is an obvious question with an obvious answer. Abortion balances the life, health, and happiness of the mother against the life of the unborn fetus. IMO this is one of the most ethically challenging questions that we're still arguing about as a society.
They want to spook you into being honest, by not telling you what they know.

If you knew the IRS missed something , you could safely not report it.
>If you simply must redesign a site, make sure all the existing URLs still work and take someone visiting to the same equivalent in your new site.

looking at you, vmware
Fun! I enjoyed experimenting with different kinds of squiggles.

I wish there was a reset button, then again page refresh works too.
My partner and I are both W2 earners and filing our taxes takes like under half an hour.

Are we doing something wrong? It seriously does not seem hard to file taxes.
This is not a tragedy of the commons.

Some companies will enforce RTO. Some will not. The market will decide how valuable that is, and remote-capable companies should benefit for it.
Kafka, unlike Mongo DB, relies on recovery/replication instead of fsync:

https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2023/4/24/why-apache-kafka-...

Kafka has never tried to hide that fact and it does not, in any way, make Kafka unsafe.
Being copied isn't much of an issue if the company isn't relying on features to make themselves competitive.

To grow without being acquired they would need to avoid funding from investors and be extremely disciplined. That's probably never going to happen in this space.
Opinion: Can today’s AI learn on its own? Not likely
Yeah the USDS is one of the only romantic/bright spots for good application of tech in the US government.
Sure, if you’re building Figma, SPA all the way. If it’s a dashboard or a semi-static document, SPAs are misused and that’s when basic functionality gets replaced with JS, but typically in a broken fashion.
Just imagine a Beowulf cluster of them, amirite?
What is their policy? Full time in-office?
I recommend that you re-read the constitution.
The only watch brand I buy is Casio, nothing smart, nothing for show off, it’s reliable, cheap, and certainly you can change its battery:)
Of course, all this is because everything has been done. Read Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales". Read one story half way, and ask yourself how it will end. You'll be right.

In 1483, there was so little published entertainment that plot twists were unnecessary.
> it causes a bunch of copying and pointer indirections.

That's correct. As you said elsewhere, lot of it pins down (!) to design of Java. There's direct byte buffer, but you have to architect your code around nio APIs to utilize it.

But we were talking about working with native threads.
So, my take is "according to our current understanding" and "artificial". Was a bit distracted. Now, theoretically, is it possible that an alien probe beaconed this solar system 3 billion years ago to a much more advanced civilization and next year they'll arrive and subjugate us and destroy us for that sweet, sweet real estate that's sulfur-poor (as it turns out, their biology is not amenable to it).

Now, is that probable?

No, I don't think humans are the limit. We're apes banging rocks together. Now whether those rocks will be better than us, generally intelligent and (this is important) adaptable is what I doubt.
This is not a study. It's a poorly backed/argued opinion piece.
Nit pick because this is HN: what logic tells you there should be as many short and tall people? You're assuming the distribution is not skewed.
You've convinced me. Just ordered an ESP-BOX :p

Got a Home Assistant Yellow not long ago, so would be nice to get some decent voice control for it.
This looks interesting, eagerly looking forward to learning what IPC will look like compared to python multiprocessing, Golang goroutines, C++ threads, and Java threads.

I wish there were a way to do away with the GIL entirely ^^.
Sure, but all of the above regarding making input look human is trivially easy -- because, again, AI.

More stringent hardware based input systems are likely non-starters due to ADA requirements. For example, disabled students have their own input systems and a college will have to allow them reasonable accommodations. Then there's the technical challenges. Some authoritarian minded schools might try this route, but I hope saner heads will prevail and they'll be able to re-evaluate why take-home work exists in the first place, and whether it's actually a problem for students to use AI to augment their education. Perhaps it isn't!
Unless you are a homeowner at an expensive metro. It used to be basically every homeowner, but the changes in 2018 led to a massive reduction of people itemizing. The standard deduction went up a whole lot, and along with it, the deduction for state and local taxes was capped to a relatively low number. So if you owe, say, $200K in your mortgage, chances are that you are going to need non-trivial bonus itemization to get to the cap, when in 2016, that was definitely enough to itemize.

In practice, about half as many people itemize today than they did back in 2016.
The US basically has a privatized version of this.

Pretty much all I need to do is upload a 1099 for my bank account interest & cap gains, everything else is autouploaded.

The main difference you have to realize is not that our system is actually super shitty, we just have 4x the number of people to complain about things.
It merely suggest that those are not art.

And going back to the original question, making those dodecahedrons would have required considerable expense, skills, and effort. That's not the kind of thing that can spread as a low-effort fad, and an artist who's going to spend that much time on something would be even less likely to make an exact replica rather than something original.
As a parent whose student has worked with multiple essay entry editors/forms, they're almost all terrible with most students having to revert to writing the essay outside the system or risk losing their work multiple times. And this was with a simple editor - not more complex connections to even more sophisticated systems.

The budget available for educational technology is not sufficient to maintain the operation of the software, let alone sufficient to pay technical staff adequate to assess and select reliable systems.
Journey Platform: A low-code tool for creating interactive user workflows
My taxes have been getting more complex every year, and after this year I no longer trust TurboTax. There was a situation where Turbotax did not recommend a tax form to me, despite me answering questions in such a way that it was clear the tax form would have been impactful and applicable.

After I filled out all of the tax information my taxes were clearly off many thousands of dollars. I had to review my tax forms, do research, talk to an accountant, and then specifically request a tax form number in the help bar of TurboTax.
I had to prove I wasn't AI to load the page.
You can scale with the average number of sunny days in a season or year, and with improving grids and longer batteries, why not?
Is RTO being driven by the government? There suddenly seems to be huge push this year and not much in 2022. Allegedly commercial real estate is something that many banks have exposure to and will not be solved unless RTO is implemented. This is just my hypothesis and obviously correlation isn't causation.
that's an interesting approach

i think you could probably get pretty far by creating a new x11 socket with fresh xauth for each new program launched; then, instead of opening new floating overlapping windows for them, embedding the display of whatever windows they create in your notebook, just below below the command that created them

a bytestream protocol has some real advantages, including being able to forward it over a network socket, including an ssh-forwarded socket, or providing a gui for whatever little embedded electronic gadget you build and connect to your terminal over spi or usb serial

i had previously rejected it as too inefficient for the localhost use case, but in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35693474, and some later protocol-design ideas i haven't shared yet, i convinced myself that you can probably make it efficient enough for anything that doesn't use custom shaders

is this something you'd be interested in talking about in a less hostile environment
Bugs bunny using seltzer bottles as a firefighter!!! Love that!
IMHO, your job as a higher level engineer is to:

1. Quickly understand the problem and details
2. Come up with a plan to solve the MOST IMPORTANT problem(s)
3. Work through the plan with the implementation team, to identify any gaps / things they can't do
4. Cover the gaps, to ensure the project can move forward without you
5. Regularly check-in after you shift off, to make sure it's still moving forward

2, 3, and 4 are most of your value, because they're where you can use your experience and skills to produce better outcomes.

I'd care less about whether your boss likes you, and more about whether he thinks you're doing valuable work.

And one way to clarify that with him would be (every time he puts you on a new project) to decide what the end goal is. Project started? Project done? Team gets over a hurdle?

Then when he moves you to a new project, politely remind him of the project you're currently on, and the end goal you two discussed, the fact that it's not done, and the time until you expect it to be completed.

He can still move you, but hopefully he'd start realizing he's prematurely shifting you around.
But why should educational instutions care? Education is a business, students are the customers (or in countries with state-funded education, the government). If AI helps people graduate faster, that's more money to the institutions, less effort to the students, and nice statistics for the governments.

At least in my country most degrees aren't worth much anyway, they just open you doors to internships where you really learn stuff. AI isn't going to make the situation any worse.
"Networking" (cold emailing, cold DMing, interacting with people on twitter) will be more beneficial for getting a job than just going through the courses. The courses will be helpful too, but I might suggest weighting it at 80% of time to networking and 20% of the time to the courses, at least until you get to the point where you know multiple people in AI companies that you're excited about. Then you can ask them if they think you're an easy hire as is, or if not, what skills they need.
This is one of those types of “mistakes” that cost people’s mental health, family life, damage the environment and cost their employer talent.
I keep hearing these kind of arguments about in-depth reporting being costly.

Vice went bankrupt when it stopped producing those stories.

Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_Media in 2016, Vice was making $1B ($10^9) with 3000 employees. ~$330,000 / employee. Can probably afford some plane flights and investigative telephone calls.

Per standard work year, every employee's 'supposedly' working 2080 hrs a year. ~6M work hours. You can write a lot of interesting stories, and follow a lot of leads other people are not looking at with 6M hours / year.

If you follow the "copy sensational click" route, you end up with a lot of local media, where it looks like somebody just copied the local police arrest report.

You don't stand out by just copying / dopplegangering whatever looks shiny.
As one would expect from any serious composer: lots of Bach…
I got "dullmindedness", which maybe isn't a dictionary word stricly speaking, but makes sense gramatically.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/dull-minded
"A Confederacy of Dunces" struck me much more as a chronicle of weird people and their foibles with a large dose of regional flavoring--sort of like Napoleon Dynamite but focused on a city underbelly.

I don't remember "fatness" being a signal of evil, and I don't remember any of the non-fat people being any better than the fat ones.

However, it has been quite a while since I read the novel, and I really didn't like it very much. So, my memory may be faulty, and your mileage may vary.
What is a self discipline workout?
It’s probably the same deal as with LLMs generating code: it can crank out something that’s probably broken, and the person using the LLM needs to be able to know how to code to see where it’s broken. Companies might be able to reduce the headcount of programmers / copywriters / artists but certainly not replace them right now (or possibly ever).
It sounds like it should be designed in the opposite manner. Present those requesting meds a complicated process to obtain them, and grant the requests for those who demonstrate ADHD by failing to complete it by forgetting, not following up, etc. Those who complete the process quickly are denied.
Yeah, I know, tax money going for stuff that other people might benefit from more than we do ourselves, the great tragedy of our times. Never mind that any system that improves compliance could raise more money than it costs.
Google is experimenting with desk sharing for employees that want more WFH and permanent desks for those who want less wfh.
Neat!

If you don't mind my asking, what do you mean "if it hears something interesting"? Is that based on wake word, or always listen/process?
I just want to make sure we're on the same page here. The JSON example I linked to isn't inferring the types of JSON that's already been parsed and deserialized, that would be trivially easy in any language (including TS). If I have an object that's been parsed from JSON, I can just use the typeof operator in TypeScript to infer the type of that object.

The example I linked to is taking a serialized JSON string, and parsing the literal characters in the string (characters like double quotes, commas, whitespace, etc) into a type, purely using type annotations. And the structure of that JSON can be of arbitrary nested depth.

All of this is accomplished using template literal types which allow you to make assertions about the contents of a string. In TypeScript you can assert more than just "this value should be a string". You can make detailed assertions about the structure of strings, and that's what allows these parser demos to exist.

When you combine these template literal types with recursive types, conditional types, and TypeScript's infer keyword you can do some pretty interesting type level programming.

Just to further demonstrate the point, there's an interpreter
for the BF programming language, written entirely using TypeScript type annotations [1].

> There's a lot of prior art described in literature as well as practical programming implementations with much crazier, yet successfully working type inference.

Has any of this been demonstrated in Elixir?

[1] https://github.com/sno2/bf
LLMs are useful for a variety of things. What you're describing would only be useful for students cheating on assignments. I doubt that it will attract the many millions of dollars spent on training GPT-4.

But more importantly, LLMs are always available over the Internet. If students need to use a physical device to cheat, that's already a big step forward, since it increases the chance of detection — a key factor in deterring misbehavior.
Out of curiosity, what did you do as "self-discipline workouts"?
No you’re doing everything right! The point is that you shouldn’t even need to do anything. The IRS already has your information. Unless youre changing something that they won’t know about (for example not using the standard deduction), then ideally you would get an automated return and possible refund without taking any action.
Agreed completely. One good development from the last 25 years was that at least Vancouver became a backdrop for so many shows, so there was somewhat more realistic weather appearing in many productions.
> I don't think it does though? Figure 4 on their link shows the transit-oriented cities in Europe and China doing a lot better on that metric than US cities.

The axes have different scales, look again. The Figure 4 shows that the US cities cluster around 500000 jobs accessible by car. And cars are the main mode of transportation in the US.

Figure 3 shows that European cities cluster around 100000-200000 jobs accessible by public transit.

It's also true that many European cities are actually competitive when you do use a car. But we're looking at transit vs. car use.
https://archive.is/Sz6fU
IMO it's because everyone is in a panic about the other side. One side believes that the other side is "grooming and sterilizing children" while the other side believes that they are working to "replace democracy with fascism". In turn both sides get more extreme and work each other more into a frenzy as extremists on each side will in fact say outrageous shit. Abstract values like "free speech" get lost in the war.

Edit: even on here we have a comment openly calling for fascism (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35950813) and I'm sure others attacking the Christian roots of US society in comments here makes people on the other side who see that as the core of their value system feel equally threatened.
That's certainly also a possibility. Could also be a combination of factors.
In theory yes but nobody would apply the rules to a major religion
> I cannot help but conflate this with how overwhelmingly present "mental health" issues have become.

Just because they are more present doesn't mean they are being faked. I believe that mental health issues were largely ignored before.

Now people are paying attention, so more cases are caught.

> To quote: "The busy bee has no time for sorrow".

The busy bee I picture when you say this also lives with high stress, is easy to anger, and doesn't talk about their feelings in a health way or at all.
Funny. It doesn't take an eagle eye or a chef, or a botanist, to figure that out. Any home cook can tell an onion from a garlic.

I'm sure this has been noticed by many visitors and curators. It sounds like everybody just assumed that the title meant something to someone and didn't bother to pay much attention to it.

I do hope the chef is getting his 15 minutes of fame for it. The dish mentioned in the article, "poached red cabbage and a smoked garlic creme with a vinaigrette of lemon balm, tarragon and absinthe", sounds awesome.
> it generates random proteins, checks whether they look like you, and if they don't, figures out how to bind to those

What is the antonym of "machine learning"? because this looks like machine learning to me.
in your defense, there’s a non-zero carbon footprint just to build new cars and holding on to old ones longer reduces the impact of having a new one built. And the moral impact, battery tech is still way too dependent on inhumane conditions for miners in Africa. I’ve always been a little worried the kids there are getting sucked into it[1].

For older cars, you can get some milage, engine lifetime, and emissions improvements by using a in-fuel cleaning product like Seafoam from the auto parts store.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/01/1152893...
I make a lot more than that, but as long as I remain a simple W2 earner it is still ridiculously easy to file taxes and I shouldn't be charged extra for it.
Ironically, the best detector for plagiarism would be a 15 minute conversation asking the student about their research and opinions on the topics written, kind of like interviewing someone who claims redis expertise on their resume.
> The vast majority of people take the standard deduction, so offering a "here's what we think you owe, but if you disagree feel free to do the full return" form would be a huge efficiency gain.

> Your comment seems like a prime case of perfect being the enemy of good.

And the comments advocating for automatic tax filing seem to be ignoring Chesterton's fence. They seem to be viewing it solely through the lens of revenue collection. However, IIRC, for better or worse, one of the big levers the US government uses to influence individual behavior is incentives implemented via tax policy. It stands to reason that mechanism would stop working if individuals could avoid interacting with the tax rules.
And also, I'll note that:

Generally the startup hiring market is slower than normal

There aren't that many exciting AI startups that are hiring a lot. Midjourney has a tiny team, Runway ML has a pretty small team, that's a common pattern at the moment

So, consider also a) building the company you wish you could join and b) getting a job that isn't in AI and building AI side projects to stay involved.
> The tragedy of the commons is a phenomenon described in economics and ecology in which common resources, to which access is not regulated by formal rules or fees/taxes levied based on individual use, tend to become depleted

Okay but with remote work, what's the unregulated common resource being depleted or ruined?
Some feedback to make your project easier to install and integrate better with Home Assistant (I'm the founder):

Home Assistant is building a voice assistant as part of our Year of the Voice theme. https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/04/27/year-of-the-vo...

As part of our recent chapter 2 milestone, we introduced new Assist Pipelines. This allows users to configure multiple voice assistants. Your project is using the old "conversation" API. Instead it should use our new assist pipelines API. Docs: https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/voice/pipelines/

You can even off-load the STT and TTS fully to Home Assistant and only focus on wake words.

You will see a lot higher adoption rate if users can just buy the ESP BOX and install the software on it without installing/compiling stuff. That's exactly why we created ESP Web Tools. It offers projects to offer browser-based installation directly from their website. https://esphome.github.io/esp-web-tools/

If you're going the ESP Web Tools route (and you should!), we've also created Improv Wi-Fi, a small protocol to configure Wi-Fi on the ESP device. This will allow ESP Web Tools to offer an onboarding wizard in the browser once the software has been installed. More info at https://www.improv-wifi.com/

Good luck!
I find it useful to disable or uninstall extensions that I don't use every once in a while. Additionally, if your project directory has tons of files, it helps to minimize the explorer pane or switch to a different one.
Here in Poland the tax form is pretty much "here is what we know, re-type that into the form and add whatever is missing for deducations".

Which you can use free app to download, file and send the filed one.

weirdly enough official site also have instruction on how to use PlayOnLinux to run it under Linux
Do you have investments or businesses of any type? Do you itemize your deductions?

My biggest time sink this year was sorting out how to file crypto gains/losses. After two hours of struggle, I found that I had to pay income tax on about 15 dollars of capital gains.
Could you not cut the wires and connector from the existing bad battery and solder it onto the new one?
I agree wholeheartedly, and maybe a bit to the extreme. Worked in pizza shops and factory jobs in and out of HS until I figured out I really didn't want to do that type of stuff the rest of my life. So I enlisted in the 2000s and carried a rifle for five years, one of those for a year in the ME. It was terrible, but it paid for a CS Bachelor/Masters and gave me a perspective on how shitty things really can be.

I am completely aware of my viewpoint being extreme and keep myself in check when someone presents something that I would consider a first world problem. But make no mistake, many people in the US and Western world should be counting their blessings much more often.
RSUs don't really complicate anything, they are straight W-2 income.