skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't feel like this is the opposite. The feeling that you are overpaying taxes because of all the boxes you have to leave blank is part of the same theory. Every time you're asked "are you using any of your land for agricultural purposes" or stuff like that, you think "why is there an exclusion for that? Can I buy a chicken and qualify? This is stupid, we should get rid of that deduction and make this faster for everyone", except that nobody acts on that last thought, and every year they bring in new exemptions and credits and deductions that apply so narrowly that all they do is add complexity without benefit for the vast majority of tax payers.

Nonetheless, seeking a legislative cure for this is something that people are just not interested in doing, making most of this moot.

The only remaining argument is that maybe legislatures HAVE been limiting the complexity and rates of taxation out of caution for the backlash, and if you get rid of it, then they'll go hog-wild and before you know it you find more and more of your earnings disappearing into taxes.
I actually think there are three categories of content:

* blog: puff pieces, time bound content

* docs: how and why to do stuff with your product

* expert advice/articles: vendor neutral evergreen content that shows the how and why of the domain space
Entering the singularity: Has AI reached the point of no return?
In fast reaction time ones.

This is a slow burner.
You can just ask it which subreddit would be good to post on in order to find out more details on this tablet from a subject matter expert.
I did already [0].

It is not an unknown fact that right-wing and religious violence are a way bigger issue than any other form of domestic terrorism in the US. It has been like this for several decades now.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-abortion_violence
One could consider other giants (Microsoft, Salesforce) and public unicorns (Uber, Spotify) as part of FAANG ("Big Tech"), not just the five companies in the literal acronym.

Unless you're suggesting that all of the tech companies smaller than that tech Fortune 500/NASDAQ tier (again, really need a phrase and maybe listing of such firms) might come to prominence?
Not trying to be snarky by any means. I'm sorry if you interpreted it that way.

I don't think the difference will show up for small N. This is an asymptotes thing. Try it for N = 100, that's what I did. For example:

>>> np.product(np.random.random(100))
5.469939152265385e-43

>>> 1 / np.e**100
3.7200759760208555e-44

>>> 1 / 2**100
7.888609052210118e-31

The underlying thing here is that random(random()) in this case is the same as random() * random(). So random(random(random(...))) is the same as random() * random() * random() and then the analysis goes on. And sure, random() * random() has a mean close to 1/4. But the dynamics change as N becomes large.

Edit - and just in case you doubt whether random() * random() * ... is a valid way of doing this, I also just checked the laborious way of doing it:

>>> def foo(n):
... result = 1.0
... for _ in range(n):
... result = np.random.uniform(0, result)
... return result
...
>>> foo(100)
1.4267531652344414e-46
>>> foo(100)
7.852496730908136e-49
>>> foo(100)
1.3216070221780724e-41
This article's point of view is a contagion that lacks an understanding of the core threat to humanity and our collective future that these models actually pose.

We don't even need to get into AI doomsdays predictions.

Just look at what has happened every single time the economic cycle stalls in history. Economies runs in a loop. Workers get paid so they can buy goods. Employers pay workers so they can create goods to sell. Some of those goods are food.

What happens when workers can no longer buy goods (food) because 2/3 of the jobs are no longer offered, and you have to have high IQ and education for the final 1/3 left?

What happens anytime there is a shortfall in a countries food security needs, historically?

The greatest incentive of these models drives the loss of jobs, the economic cycle slows as a result, and wealth inequality increases until it stalls completely and our existing systems that allow us to feed half the planet break down. It is a slow but cascading failure like a dam.

This outcome is what the incentives from these models are driving us towards.

The actions the author promotes neglect historical evidence of how new technologies have been used when they were freely available to the masses.

These models effectively are a potentially infinitely scaled 'will' multiplier on any person using them, while they may be of limited use now; everything improves over time. These models are the same as a gun but on a much grander scale. There are extreme, disenfranchised and very bad people out there which the author minimizes and discount under personal responsibility (their choice). Not everyone is mature enough to ethically or responsibly use things, especially when the potentially destructive ends are so far reaching.
Yep. Shut down these silly games of chicken.
Thanks!

You're spot on - we're happy for anyone to test and use Willow but the intended users at this moment are early adopters that can build and flash as development is moving very, very quickly.

Unfortunately we do not, maybe try "watching" the repo on github?
When my bills come due, I can't refuse to pay while I figure out how to reduce my spending/increase my income in the future. No matter how much I need to change that future spending, I still owe money today.

How is this different?
Not in comparison. That was my point, actually, that the logistics situation for lettuce is much different.

It’s mostly in the time value, but the ratio of value to weight/volume is also much lower (which is going to result in logistics affecting the price a lot more). The biggest factor is that the clock is ticking for the lettuce going bad, and also that it needs to be refrigerated at every step along the way. Logistics are expensive! It’s the difference between night and day when time/refrigeration doesn’t matter.

The logistics involved in getting a TV to a grocery store is nothing in comparison. There’s no risk factor for delays (this risk is incorporated into the price of lettuce) and the total time between manufacture and floor-display doesn’t matter.

I meant steel beams as an example of logistics with special constraints. In the case of steel beams it’s extreme total weight/size/shape.
What was the process in which the U.S. passed legislation to inject capital into the system through the Federal Reserve + Treasury during COVID relief? Why can't/won't that happen here?
I agree with you, but I think your missing my point. If I go and put something like this in the Play/iOS stores, what percentage of users looking to run a small site do you suppose run it on the phone they use everyday vs running it on a wiped old device that they have plugged in in the corner? If you think most will take the proper precautions you have more faith in humanity than I do. Personally, I think even with the somewhat nerdy nature of the app >50% will be running it out of whatever is in their pocket, no matter what kind of warning banner I might put somewhere. And I'm nopeing out of handing that foot-gun to them.
> Where does all the demand for energy come from? Does it not come from people wanting to live on a quarter acre lot with their own car?

How much steel is used in your house and your car? How many KW does it take to run an industrial smelter?

How much more steel is used if your house is twice as big?

How much steel per sq ft of yard do you need? (I suppose your fencing needs nails...)

> Where does the demand for shipping cheap plastics and electronics across oceans come from?

And do you think a smaller house will reduce that? How small of a house do you need before that demand radically drops?

> Which then necessitates transporting goods further and further?

And it's not the "last mile" (to the consumer) part that requires the energy. It's the raw materials to the refinery, the processed meterials to the fabs, the chiplets to the assembler, the boards to the injection molding plant, the molded parts to the distribution warehouse, the distribution warehouse to the seller, the seller to the reseller, then finally the reseller to the consumer.

Even if you set up camp in the Amazon warehouse, how much energy savings is that? And that is ONLY transport.

Industrial use itself, excluding transport, is huge. Building homes (and much worse for building skyscrapers). Your 250T crane wasn't built in town. Neither was the fleet of trucks to level land. Neither are the several thousand feet of fire sprinkler tubing.
There was a theory posted that democrats will cave at the last minute to republican demands when it's really the powers that be want those concessions and are just using this as cover for democrats.
> music used to be a much bigger part of our lives. Before the radio a piano was a household staple. Kids would learn, family’s would play and sing to each other. We’ve largely given that up.

Recorded music, and our reaction to it, has pretty much crushed that. On the one hand, it's marvellous that I can listen to Jussi Bjorling or Maria Callas any time I want, but we then tend to criticise anything less than "the best". Heck, the process of recorded music has often deceived us: the Wrecking Crew made most of the great US pop/rock albums of the late 50s and 60s[1].

The net result is that when people break out a guitar or sing, we tend to critique them harshly. Why listen to a mediocre performance when we could have perfection? And, of course, who wants to perform when you'll just be compared to the recordings of the best ever?

[1] An enjoyable documentary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrecking_Crew_(2008_film)
> Not letting people discuss this and instead insisting that that no, communism can't be given any mental space when to accurately describe the reality of the system we currently have requires knowing how it affected us throughout history strikes me as somewhat shortsighted.

Kindly point out where I said that. You can't. Because I did not.

General education is invaluable and good for society. Indoctrination is worthless and detrimental to society.

Topics --all possible topics-- should be covered fairly. We should not be ignorant of society.

However, there is a time and a place for this. Our secondary schools do a horrible job of graduating well-educated young adults. The average US high school graduate comes out with no marketable skills and deep ignorance across a range of topics.

As I mentioned in my other post, I had the experience, as a kid, of living in multiple cultures. As my family travelled back and forth, I would come in and out of the US educational system. The contrast was, well, jarring. I received a classical education outside of the US and what I would call "minimum viable education" in the US public school system. I was reading Plato, Kant and Descartes, while my US counterparts were, well, fucking off.

Today, I have to supplement my kids' education by exposing them to such topics. For example, we recently devoted a whole month to discussing and exploring Descartes' Meditations.

This is stuff that should be covered in high school. Universities should be devoted to what the person wants to study and the professional field they have chosen. This is particularly true in a system where a year of university schooling costs between $30K and $50K.

There are at least two ways to look at this: One, we could graduate people a year earlier --and with far less debt-- if we focused on what matters. The other is to say: If I am going to pay $50K for a year in school, the courses I take outside of those directly related to my major should be my choice. If I do not want to take humanities and focus on another year of specialized engineering coursework, that should be my choice. It's my money.

Last I checked, there are no job postings out there (in tech fields) that list specific non-tech coursework as requirements. It is OK for people to study anything they want outside of their major --with an emphasis on "they"-- not forced. We are making people spend tens of thousands of dollars on stuff that, in most cases, has zero career value.

One might say: Not so, a general education has career value!

Correct. Then, do a good job of delivering as much of that during primary and secondary education. If general education at a university level has value --return on investment-- the MARKET will make that decisions and students will willingly CHOOSE and seek that coursework...because it will be of value to them. And, of course, they could also choose to take those courses any time after graduation as they see fit and as the realities of their career might demand. The market should decide everything outside of core major requirements, it should not be imposed in any way.
Also, the SALT cap is not indexed to inflation, but the standard deduction is, so as time passes it’s likely that fewer and fewer people will itemize.
Market implies a 3.9% probability of default (US 1 year credit default swap, which is basically a product for buying insurance against the risk of a US default risk). https://www.msci.com/www/blog-posts/the-cds-market-s-view-on...

It feels like we've gotten here (to the point of massive national debt, and an economy where rate hikes wipe out banks) for a few reasons:

1) The US economy is like a big forest. Good forest management involves doing controlled burns or allowing small fires. The US has prevented small fires. So now we have a very overgrown, very flammable forest.

2) The US abusing its position as a world monopoly, basically to make money. Issuing more currency as one key way of doing that. There are good monopolies and bad monopolies. I'd argue Amazon is a good monopoly - they continually reinvest in making their product better for customers, keeping the potential gap between what a benevolent monopoly could do, and what they're actually doing, small. Then there are other monopolies like certain large enterprise software companies, that take advantage of their moat to extract value and don't reinvest much. The US govt has done the latter.

Burning the forest down would be chaotic for the world. The world doesn't want that.

The question is - how do you fix it without burning the forest down?
Is it easier? Doesn't increasing interest rates put the kibosh on cheap capital?
The "debt ceiling" and having to raise it separately from committing to spend money is basically a dumb accident that we can't get rid of because one side finds it politically useful to do this dance every time the other party's got the presidency, and the other side's terrified of the attack ads that would play if they proposed getting rid of it.
Real users don't use GTK and QT. Real users use Xt, Xaw(3d) and Motif.
> And it would take longer.

And it might take longer.

I recently sold our old house without a realtor. It's the 5th house I've sold, the first one where I did FSBO, and it was the fastest to close.

If you presented the same people with: I can get you $150k today or I can get you $300k in 45 days, it's pretty ridiculous to suggest that any reasonable person would choose the former. There are plenty of means to get short-term loans of tens of thousands of dollars, as a homeowner, without setting fire to half the value of your largest asset when you're 65 or older.
One thing that has been amazing me recently is the current state of vocal synthesis. It seems to have improved rapidly in the space of just a few years, thanks to neural network models.

For example, here's a quick clip from a synth I've been using in recent weeks:

https://vocaroo.com/125tAD40Gl6d

It sounds almost like a real voice, and that's just using the default settings, without any effort to tweak it further to improve the realism.
No school has 100% job placement. That's literally impossible. I went to a top 20 school and job placement was barely 50% but claimed it had 95%. The only reason I knew they were lying is because the one of the professors I researched under told me the statistics were falsified to make the program look good.
Like every American my age, I've been here so often I should have my own room.
Wow, I made it to the 8% mark. I'm burnt out, so I doubt I'll be in it much longer.

"One area where STEM students are needed is in aerospace and especially the defense industry."

One issue they didn't mention about this is the shitty work environment for many of the jobs. The people I talk to who are leaving the defense industry can't stand the politics and procedures anymore.
Who are you talking about? What juiced-to-the-gills 22 year old?

More importantly, what's the science backing your claim that eating meat is essential to becoming big and strong?
We've never faced shutdown due to the debt limit.

We've only ever faced shutdowns due to budgets not being passed.

Both are awful. But the former is _far_ worse.
Sure, there's a chance the "original intent" contingent says it's limited only to gov pensions and military. In that case go with the $1T platinum coin. There's also some option for the Fed to buy treasuries maturing during that period.
You're missing the developer time. You no longer have to spend hours (or days, perhaps weeks depending on the sources) stringing together random libs, munging and cleaning data, testing, etc etc.
If you think it's optically positive to keep playing chicken, wouldn't you want them to fold now and then run off the edge next year? If you do it next year, you're six months away from the election and it will be fresh in voters' minds. If you do it now, everyone will forget but will be vaguely aware that the Democrats played irresponsible games with the economy and remember none of the nuance.
What is the Fed supposed to do when Congress creates the budget and allocates money to be spent? This is Congress attempting to not pay for what it already pledged to pay for, all because they think they can strongarm a far-right agenda through in legislation.
By deciding to do it. Whether it's economically rational is another question. I've never calculated my deductions. I assume it's ok. But it's a guess, as I've never checked.
GPT4 API is still not universally available, for starters.
Oh, it's definitely an "... and also, I want a pony!" kind of wish.
The problem is that "pass legislation" part.
If we're not already, I'd expect to see lots of previously public content get locked down so it can be monetized. It will be interesting to see what the long run equilibrium looks like, as in will large players play ball?

I'd guess that the future high value application will still have lots of fine tuning on more specialized datasets, which will continue to be a bottleneck and be considered valuable, while the large scale training data will be less important (with respect to transformer llms, who knows if there is some newer breakthrough). Same way that e.g. everybody uses CNNs pertained on imagenet, and fine tunes on application specific stuff, and there was not much of a commercial push (imo) to rush out and build a better general purpose large scale image set like imagenet.
But whats the 10 year retention look like?
The show actually goes against the principles of the books, which makes it hard to accept as something called "Foundation".
The problem with a game of chicken is that eventually everyone loses. This is why having that kind of debt limit is a mistake: the only thing it does is allow one party to unilaterally force the other into games of chicken.

I'm by no means opposed to taking steps to reduce the deficit, but the debt limit has had the above undesirable effect while simultaneously failing to actually reduce anything.
I believe you have it essentially backward. Websockets consume a connection no matter what, as the protocol does not work with HTTP2 (there was an attempt, but I believe it wasn't adopted and abandoned).

The SSE requests do work with HTTP2, as do some other old methods like long polling. All the tabs will generally share one connection to that domain.
Unless the product is like still in development, right?

We're getting flooded with products that are just thin veneers over ChatGPT, which is fine. But some products require clearing a massive R&D hurdle. Sharing what you are working on, building a list of interested folks, and onboarding them when the time is right is critical for 'hard tech' products, even ones using AI.

Some of my favorite products were ones I learned about before launch. I was even an important beta tester to one of them.
Early Computer Art in the 50s and 60s
Or it could just spit out Mark Worthington's email address
CVE-2023-26818 – Bypass TCC with Telegram in macOS
> Once you agree to make concessions because your counterparty threatens to cause economic disaster if you do not, you have encouraged them to do that over and over again to get their way.

That's just a rationalization for being unwilling to cooperate and compromise.

They're both in a car heading towards a cliff. One party has its foot on the gas, the other has its hands on the wheel, and neither will move. Complaining about how unreasonable the other side is doesn't change that fact doesn't make your side reasonable except to your partisans.

If the Republicans were responsible, they wouldn't be refusing to pass a debt limit increase. If the Democrats were responsible, they'd compromise now and wait for the next opportunity to repeal the debt limit (not fantasizing about untried gimmicks like platinum coins and a constitutional challenge). Neither party is being responsible.
> Making a living doing it is harder than ever!

It's extremely easy to make a living from music right now. With a weekend's worth of YouTube training, any decent musician or songwriter should be able to invest 40hr/wk and reliably generate $5k/mo within a year.
I hope he actually gets some jail time for this.
This whole thing reminds me of Snow Crash. Its like Hiro talking with the librarian ai that comes with the infocalypse stack from Lagos. Too bad I don’t have any problems that interesting to solve!
That's very true. However people on the poorer side did what they could historically (see cigar box guitars, washboards, jug bands, singing, tap dance).
Microsoft is one of the top "lobbyists" at EU.
It's run by Quora, and for whatever weird reason it shares the same account system.
The implied 3.9% probability is lacking context, since reaching the debt ceiling is a fairly regular occurrence. Is this probability any different from previous times is what should we should be asking.
> excusing the historical incident at hand.

If the 'historical incident' is the extinction of the bison, then I bring it up because it is directly relevant to our views on the extinction of the bison?
In the case of religious organizations a lot of their assets weren’t purchased primarily as investments. Most religious organizations largest assets are in real estate sitting under their churches. The real estate may have appreciated over 100 years but taxing a church on “gains” when the building needs to be moved to make way for an office building isn’t generally what people think of as investment gains.

The same can be said for most charitable organizations. The community food pantry being taxed if it moves across town or simply trying to keep the rainy day fund even with inflation.

If a person is of the view that all good things come from the government then taxing charities makes a lot of sense. If, on the other hand a person believes that all good things originate from the people and that the government is just one of those good things it makes sense to allow room for other things that serve the people’s interests but don’t directly serve the governments interests.

I am certainly not saying that bad things don’t come from religious organizations, charities or the government. I am saying there is a belief in the US that power ultimately resides with the people. Actually with the people, not the government or through the government as representatives of the people.