skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously, what the tax preparers are afraid of is that the IRS could provide system that works perfectly well for a large majority of their customers, leaving them only the people with more complex needs, or need to manage a lot of deductions, etc. No one would be forcing you to use the IRS system if you think it doesn't work for you.
Small indie companies can't be expected to retain employees :-)
I can't wait for StarCraft 3. But also, I want to point out that I think StarCraft 2 set a really wonderful model for $$$ DLC:

- Nothing that affected gameplay was DLC

- DLC was restricted to additional solo/co-op campaigns and cosmetic skins.

- The only thing I would change is there was a button to override player-chosen "colors" and set yourself/friendlies to bright green and enemies to bright red for consistency game-to-game. I'd like that button to also set skins to default.
Does Poe do Bing and Bard? I couldn't find them.
I personally think Blizzard's fate was sealed when they were bought by Activision. Big corporate overlords can never keep their mitts off of successful subsidiaries for too long.
I wish there was an Android version
Kafka is not a "db engine". zk is a "db engine" in the same way 'DNS' is a "db engine".
Aren't there platforms where pointers have additional type or space information encoded that is orthogonal to the numeric address? It's only by convention that NULL == 0 because on platforms like Intel & ARM you would typically not use the first page. But that's only a convention, and you could just as easily put a null page at the top of your address space, especially in systems with an MMU where mappings can be added, removed, or remapped as-needed.
Everyone uses terminals to get away from complex graphics, then people reinvent (uncover? I know this is old tech) a way to do that but poorly...
https://archive.is/C7Afd
This is an "everything sucks all around situation" because since real things are tied to academic performance you have to weed out dishonesty for fairness but also the power disparity between student/teacher and the black box nature of the detection makes it impossible to actually prove your innocence.

I wish more than anything that the availability of AI will at some point force schools to restructure how classes work to make cheating like this a non-issue. Higher education is actually unbelievably horrible at actually educating. I only realized that once I graduated and on a whim wanted to learn about something that requires university level expertise. If you're not there for the credential it's a monumental waste of time. If classes were designed for students who wanted to be there and the grades were only for your benefit and not used as a target for anything you might actually have engaged learners.
“Vice Media originally broadcast their news programs on HBO, which broadcast the Emmy-winning[13] weekly documentary series Vice, which premiered in April 2013.”

I’m not saying that they are interchangeable. I’m saying that Vice News programs were funded initially by HBO. It would be like if Stranger Things moved from Netflix to Hulu. It doesn’t mean that they are interchangeable terms, but that it started with Netflix and moved.
The rules around what constitutes a duplicate and what doesn't have been unchanged since long before COVID. If people complained, you probably pointed them to previous submissions that didn't have discussions or substantial upvotes - then some amount of repeated submissions is fine. If there has been, please try to avoid posting duplicates. (cf https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)
Microsoft has Seven! lobbyists with European Parliament accreditation. It must get busy in those coffee breaks. If you know the layout of the building in Brussels, you might know you can't go to the the toilet in peace without bumping into a Microsoft lobbyist :-)
Why do we need to do that?

If you can do the same task at home, at work, or on the south pole for that mater, why do we NEED to keep the office culture alive?

This reeks of "Because that's how we've always done it"

Hell, there are plenty of doctors doing consulting over video these days.
Also, there often isn't a single "root" cause. Causality is a DAG. To start, the alternator belt can simply break even when well-maintained. It can break when under stress due to another part that isn't working correctly. The alternator belt could be a well-known source of problems in this particular model, or could have been replaced by a cheap one by a previous owner, or could have been exposed to corrosive airborne chemicals due to where the vehicle is typically parked.

Likewise, in the ID parsing example, there is a quick jump to "It should ignore values past &, Because & is the field separator" without asking why a field separator gets into this parsing function at all. Is this function expected to handle strings that contain such a separator? (All code operates on certain assumptions, so it is futile to expect a parsing function to handle "all" cases -- there simply isn't a useful definition of "all" that could be the basis for that.)
Oh my God, I'm Sure! Gag me with a spoon!
I suppose they could just not operate in the UK, but that seems unlikely.
> does it matter if self reflection is possible if it is possible for the organism to experience pain?

Yes. Without introspective self-awareness there can be no 'identity, there can be no 'someone' - you just have a base consciousness that can react to stimuli, which is not morally significant.

We have the full connectome of the roundworm and were able to implement it in software and place it in a lego robot. It's going to be pretty equivalent to the actual work. Does it feel pain?

Besides which, we can kill animals humanely, so pain doesn't have to come in to it, only the right to life.
The problem is taking away benefits as a way to downside ensures that the people _most able_ to secure those benefits from other companies will leave.

If your goal is to ensure that you're getting rid of your top talent, it's a fine strategy.
Honestly I'm with you on everything you have said in this thread. I was dancing around it because I didn't want to be too accusatory, but I might as well say that what I meant is that if someone's writing little "oo what if we were eating hippos" pieces and the like, I would understand if they didn't want to become a victim of targeted hatred from the weird MAGA guys who can easily get set off by smaller things like this. It may sound silly but they can be dedicated, persistent and creative so if someone figures "it's not worth it for the $x00 I'm getting" then fine.

Note: not accusing anyone in this thread of anything like that, it’s pretty cordial as far as I can tell even if I disagree with some
That's very interesting, and I don't remember seeing it before.

It does indeed look like it supports emulating PALcode more at the hardware level, than userspace (if that terminology makes sense). However, I am unsure at how to extend...
Instead of spyware, just issue mechanical typewriters.
No. The market still thinks games are for kids and young adults. Society still frowns upon games as a hobby past your teenage years. Regardless, video games are a medium of communication. First there were pictures, i.e. paintings, photography, then moving pictures and audio, and now we have moving pictures with audio and interactivity. Of course there are still good games for adults out there, but in general the target audience skews younger but that's only because of culture, society and the momentum of industry. I'm sure that will change as the current younger generation grows older and is used to playing games.
I’ve never really understood this argument. The American states are not homogenous either, and Finland would be a mid-size state (its population is somewhere between South Carolina and Minnesota).

Not everything that works in Minnesota would work in another state. Not everything that works in Finland would work in Minnesota. But surely neither is a categorical impossibility.
Many of these words ought to exist, ha. (As in, this is fun and clever.)
The same comment applies to their YouTube channel, just with different specific titles.
In fact, other sane industrialized nations have really got it figured out:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/dreading-taxes-countries-s...
In most countries that have implemented such a system, the government prepares your taxes for you, and then you ok them or ask for adjustments. The vast majority that use standard deductions would just approve it, while those that know their deductions would exceed that can itemize it.

Why wouldn't such a system work here?

It's not like the act of doing your taxes is what makes your realize you're over the standard deduction. Most people will know if they've done standard or itemized in the past and act off that.
Ask HN: Do dynamically typed languages make developers more productive?
Do you have any idea what the installed base of Windows/Alpha was? This is not intended to be insulting, but I don't recall hearing of anybody actually running Windows/alpha -- in my circles, it was just a way to order a workstation w/o paying for a UNIX or VMS license.

We ordered all our alphas with windows. This was because we ran FreeBSD/alpha, and didn't want to pay for the DEC UNIX license. So the first thing we'd do when we got a new box was to switch the firmware from ARC to SRM mode and install FreeBSD. I imagine lots of other places did that, but with Linux rather than FreeBSD.

I do remember running Windows for a few weeks. FX!32 was really impressive, and it felt like normal x86 windows. I can't recall why I did this .. just playing with the OS, and maybe to see what it might take to get FreeBSD booting from ARC (I was one of the 2 people who did the port of FreeBSD to alpha)
The Cult of A24 (2022)
We are witnessing the rise of AI Sex
wow. New site is fucking awful. http://fed.wiki.org

What an abomination. JavaScript is ruining the internet.
My wife started teaching a class at the local university. She had a bunch of positives on the anti-plagiarism software used by the university. She ran a bunch of papers by me and man, analyzing the results are an art within it's self. People will unconsciously remember and write down phrases and smaller sentences they have read all the time. A little highlight here and there just has to be accepted. Then there are the papers that almost the entire thing is highlighted. It's the ones in between that are tricky as hell. A lot could have gone either way and it's a judgement call on the teacher whether to send it to the administration for review. I expect AI will just make it more difficult or hand writing is going to be the new hot subject taught to new levels in elementary...
Why? The guy was flying household names around on his own plane. He had connections, why wouldn't the people in the sector in which he "worked" be in that network?
This type of thing can help you formally verify code.

So, if your proof is correct, and your description of the (language/CPU) is correct, you can prove the code does what you think it does.

Formal proof systems are still growing up, though, and they are still pretty hard to use. See Coq for an introduction: https://coq.inria.fr/
> Web server is down Error code 521

I’m seeing an error message from cloudflare.

Is the website working for anyone else? Is there an archive / mirror?
Claude 100k 1.3 blew me away.

Giving it a task of extracting a specific column of information, using just the table header column text, from a table inside a PDF, with text extracted using tesseract, no extra layers on top. (for those that haven't tried extracting tables with OCR, it's a non-trivial problem, and the output is a mess)

> 40k tokens in context, it performed at extracting the data, at 100% accuracy.

Changing the prompt to target a different column from the same table, worked perfectly as well. Changing a character in the table in the OCR context to test if it was somehow hallucinating, also accurately extracted the new data.

One of those "Jaw to the floor" moments for me.

Did the same task in GPT-4 (just limiting the context window to just 8k tokens), and it worked, but at ~4x more expensive, and without being able to feed it the whole document.
Agreed. My heuristic is that GPT-4 is good for compile time tasks but bad for runtime tasks for both cost and speed reasons.
>I have a Nintendo 3DS that is jailbroken which was easy to do but I don’t know if you can still do it now that they’ve killed the 3DS store.

Yes you can[0].

This is about the only way to keep using these devices to their full extent, now that Nintendo has abandoned them.

0. https://3ds.hacks.guide/
freetaxusa.com user here as well. It's great, and cheap to file. I've paid tax specialists in the past far more with worse results.
I'm working on relevant prompts. I've managed to get it to output edits a few times, but most of the time it does ignore my requests to just give me the changes.

I think it's mostly my laziness. I found GPT-4 with default system message good enough for most use cases, so I tend to just switch over to it, start a new conversation, and blurt my request. Setting specialized "characters" for my requests? Too much hassle. Typing in a proper, explicit request to just give me diffs? Too much writing, breaks flow.

Ironically, I'm both too lazy for giving GPT-4 this kind of editing guidance, while I'm also wasting too much time catering to conversational style.
there's that $10k limit that you slam into when trying to itemize

This is...incompletely stated...the only $10,000 limit when itemizing is on SALT taxes (state and local income and property taxes). There is no $10,000 limit on deductions in general.

And indeed, the IRS itself states "For 2023, as in 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018, there is no limitation on itemized deductions, as that limitation was eliminated by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act." (https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-provides-tax-inflation-adju....)

The increase in the standard deduction means that it became more beneficial for many taxpayers that used to itemize. But many things that could be itemized in the past can no longer be itemized, which is probably what affected you (however, due to the way the TCJA was written, that prohibition only applies until 2025 unless extended by Congress, which will depend on who wins the 2024 election).
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.
you can have it written in your contract that you work from home. in some countries it's necessary to pay taxes differently, for example.
Any chatbot that has ads integrated into the responses will face an uphill battle against competing products that simply have banner style ads.
Using another protocol is the easy part. Getting everyone else to use it is a problem. If they're organizing rallies they want to have the greatest reach possible.
No, they should be educated. Heaven forbid you or I should be fired for the occasional mistake, or lopsided opinion.
> Serious question: What's the point of these testimonies?

to allow them to put their foot in it
I mean I volunteer for a church that does a huge amount of philanthropy, and as what we do comes in waves, we store up funds when we don't have a lot of community needs. Looking at the US economy I would actually expect needs to increase for some time so I think we should be saving more than we are at the moment in anticipation. I don't trust the government to personally bail me out very well and I don't trust them to do anything better with tax revenue.

Even this $100B hedge fund could be completely spent by the federal government in 6 days and a lot of that would just be servicing debt I've never agreed with carrying in the first place, or funding a military that I don't think makes the world a better place any better than my church does.
I am blind. I do rely on accessibility to interact with a computer. Yes, you could accuse me of deliberately avoiding the modern web, but I have my reasons. Primary reason is performance. Even though I feel like you are talking down to me from a pretty high horse, I still don't wish for you to ever experience how sluggish it feels trying to use the "modern web" with a screen reader on something like Windows. Don't even make me start about the hellhole that is Linux GUI accessibility. It was a nice ride once, before GNOME 3 and the elimination of CORBA killed most of the good work done by good people. Fact is, I am too used to a system which reacts promptly when I press a key to be able to switch to a modern browser by default. That would kill all my productivity. Yes, its a trade, but for now, having no JS engine by default is still way better then the alternatives.

Have a nice day, and enjoy your eye-sight.
Such a terrific book. How outdated do you think it is now?
Maybe you connect to school chat AI and then it probes you for knowledge. Same AI watches you write essay type bits and helps you out if you get something wrong. Teacher will get report how well you did and how present you were.
Nicely written.

Before taxonomies and remediation, I would watch Tim Urban's absolutely legendary TedX talk that humanizes procrastination--despite all its ills--and how to empathize with procrastinators (inside and around you):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arj7oStGLkU&pp=ygUacHJvY3Jhc...
> but i've used graphical terminals like ncd x terminals since 01994, and they provided smooth graphical interactions even over shared 10-megabit ethernet

The problem is that with the predominance of toolkits like GTK & Qt in the *nix application space, which pre-rasterize everything for easier cross-platform compatibility, X forwarding is nowhere near as efficient as it once was. Under present circumstances, the h.264 route is probably as good as it gets.
Or you know, you can quit and go to a full-remote company. Good companies need good people so this would fix itself. If most of my colleagues and the owners of the company I work for decide they prefer to work in an office, why would I enforce my will upon them, instead of finding people that agree with me? I quit my last job to work fully remote and my boss knows I'd quit the day we'd remove that.
With current tax code, not taking standard deduction is more of an exception than a rule.

It has to be supported, and you should be able to change it. But there's really no reason today for why IRS doesn't send you "this is what we think you owe, based on this data that we have. Click to accept or add more data". That process would hugely simplify taxes for majority of Americans and wouldn't impact people who have more complex cases.
Looks like it is indeed down.
This is not a new phenomenon; some thirty years ago I had moved from Europe to America only to be amused by my 12 year old punk friends ("Punk"...aka Green Day) putting on fake British accents.
Dang, sorry that came off that way. I like kids. I didn't think that sounded like an anti-child troll. I got my three nibs for the summer, so I might let them know for their own good. Parents shouldn't leave their kids with trolls!

Humans have a complicated relationship with their "instincts". Why is that? We have culture, which can (theoretically) adapt very rapidly compared to information exchange via sex / virus / "some other mystery horizontal genetic transfer". How much more rapidly? It's faster, but how much faster is a hugely debated topic in anthropology and genetics. Same net effect: humans, probably since before they were humans, have felt almost constantly at war with their "instincts", since culture is always faster to adapt.

Here's another trick: how do you differentiate between an "instinct" and a general want? You kind of don't, and this opens up a rhetorical relationship with the whole concept of "instinct" that has a heavy history and lives into the present day. But do we know what our instincts are? We could jump deep into the fMRI rabbit hole here, saying this "pathway" this, and "horrible abuse of stats" that, but I think that's a waste of effort. It doesn't matter - not in this context, I DO think it's needed science - because both instinct and culture have the same desired end state: human - and American, if possible - survival. Why not just break it down old fashioned utilitarian style? Which is why I bring up farms. Post-agricultural, an industrial state NEEDS to support birth rates via direct subsidies, as in paychecks.

This never happens, so kids don't happen either, and we start talking about three hundred grand and instincts and trolls and all the rest.

We love blaming those at our same socio-economic level for the ills that we perceive in the world, but often it's our masters who gain the most from pointing us at each other's throats. The loss of traditional values, the shattering of the working class, the collapse of masculinity, the dehumanization of the black and of the woman, the ever-shrinking family, the escalating violence of state security, the complete loss of any sense of privacy or decency - it's the same force making these things happen. HAS BEEN MAKING them happen, for years, decades or even centuries.

How this country responds to that fact decides everything, including how we respond in a peer conflict. Would the Democrats necessarily mind a losing ground war that drains the countryside? Would the Republicans necessarily retaliate after a few dozen megatons land on NYC, LAX, SFO, PDX, and SEA? That's why I worry about this shit. Because as much as we might hate <INSERT AMERICAN YOU DISAGREE WITH>, I guarantee we really need to hate the PLAAF more.
Maybe, but I doubt it. Spyware-based systems are doomed to failure as other commenters note. There's nothing you can do to prove the text came from a human. Faking inputs is extremely easy. People will sell a $20 USB dongle that does appropriate keyboard/mouse things. Worst case, people can simply type in the AI generated essay by hand and/or crib from it directly.

Schools are going to have to look at why take home work is prescribed, and if it should be part of a grading system at all. My hunch is that it probably shouldn't be, and even though it's a big change it's probably something they can navigate.

I predict more in-person learning interactions.
They're the ones that usually cost money so it can often be the target audience.
Re: too old, I think not, as these[0] people[1] aren't too old either.

0. https://www.wsj.com/articles/competitive-videogaming-esports...

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A5XlyF7UY8
That's the stereotype. Fortunately counterexamples abound, and they are some of the best companies to work for.
THIS. It's hilarious and infuriating our digital assistants struggle to understand variants of "set lights at X% intensity".

However, if I spend the time to configure a "scene" with the right presets, Google has no issue figuring it out.

If only it could notice regular patterns about light settings and offer suggestions that I could approve/deny.
If you are taking the Fifth on your taxes ("No person ... shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself") you might want to reconsider your life choices.
i think the best way to consume these things is a menubar app that can be brought up quickly with a shortcut. i recently released https://github.com/smol-ai/menubar which i personally use!
being accessible 24/7 would burn battery like mofo tho.
The 16th Amendment allows for an income tax:

> The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
There's also Meow[1], which I currently use. You have to configure it first to suit your keyboard layout, but there are pre-built configs [2]

[1] https://github.com/meow-edit/meow

[2] https://github.com/meow-edit/meow/blob/master/TUTORIAL.org#k...