skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our failure to align economic entities that are made out of people to human values, despite most of the people actually making up those entities being decent and not sociopathic at a personal level, is not very reassuring with respect to our ability to align future far more alien intelligences. And if AI does kill us one day, it's very likely that neoliberal market competition worshipping short-term profit above all else plays a significant role.
Pagerduty Alternatives – Pragmatic Engineer
> Does the IRS actually know what everyone owes? I know it's true for W-2 employees, but what about everyone else?

Not quite. The IRS knows the income that is reported, and the taxes you have paid.

It doesn't know which credits and deductions you qualify for. It can guess based on your previous returns, but it isn't accurate and needs to be updated annually.

Once you provide your credits and deductions, the IRS can calculate what your tax liability should be vs what you actually paid.
At 642.5 light years away, no.
Yeah the code under the </> tab is very important, on first blush it looks like random isn't a uniform distribution for some reason. It's just because they plotted it with polar coordinates. It would be much clearer what's actually going on here if an XY plot was used.
ChatGPT's summary of the main points:

| Point | Category | Examples |
|--------------------------------|--------------|---------------------|
| Real/Usable Objects | Value Peak | Software coded |
| | | using GPT, hardware |
| | | products developed |
| | | with GPT-enhanced |
| | | requirements |
|--------------------------------|--------------|---------------------|
| Experiences | Value Peak | GPT-generated music |
| | | tailored to your |
| | | taste, personalized |
| | | bedtime story, role-|
| | | playing game |
|--------------------------------|--------------|---------------------|
| Solving Personalized Problems | Value Peak | Suggesting recipes |
| | | based on your fridge|
| | | contents, creating |
| | | personalized |
| | | worksheets for |
| | | students, etc. |
|--------------------------------|--------------|---------------------|
| In-Context & Collaborative | Basin of | Platforms requiring |
| Features | Success | collaboration, like |
| | | Figma or Google Docs|
| | | enhanced with GPT |
|--------------------------------|--------------|---------------------|
| Gated Knowledge/Data | Basin of | Company-specific |
| | Success | data, domain-specific|
| | | data, complex-to- |
| | | parse data |
|--------------------------------|--------------|---------------------|
| Edge Computing / Offline Use | Basin of | Applications running|
| Cases | Success | locally for privacy |
| | | reasons or specific |
| | | offline use cases, |
| | | like personal |
| | | assistants |
I'm curious if you'll be able to turn the damn thing off or prevent it from turning itself on.
This was just after the RAS made the Kessel run in under 12 parsecs.

Mixing units is fun and educational!
And that's an easy workaround, with wildcard DNS entries and certs.
No mention of training / fine tuning it through transformers?
Yes but to get all the raw data into a form that can be queried by SQL or getting a tool that can query JSON, CSV … via SQL is the non trivial part. Not to mention reconciling date formats etc from multiple sources into one format.
80% of the job is data cleaning.
And those poorer people aren't very valuable to advertisers, since they have far less money to spend on frivolous extras, so it's hard to run 'free stuff' services like this.
If you're starting buildings on fire, that's probably a riot.
To prove authenticity, be politically incorrect in a way AI never would. You'll be dismissed, canceled and fired, but at least authentically so.
I did a web app project with SSEs a while back. They worked well in the browser, but when it came time to build a mobile app (React Native), I had trouble finding a good library to use. I'm sure I could have rolled my own, but being in a time crunch I ended up using Firebase Cloud Messaging. Hopefully there's better support these days.
I’m not talking about the common law. Due to medical advances in the 1800s, abortion was illegal at all stages of pregnancy in the US by 1910.

Also, “life begins at conception,” or at another very early stage, isn’t a Christian innovation. That’s the belief in Shia Islam. Certain Sunni schools also prohibit abortion at any stage. In Thailand, a Buddhist country, abortion was illegal at all stages of pregnancy until 2021.

Same thing in Hinduism: https://indiacurrents.com/a-hindu-view-on-abortion/

Prohibitions against abortion, even at early stages, are common across the world’s belief systems. Perhaps the only thing you could call uncommon is the view that abortion is impermissible even to save the life of the mother. But that’s an uncommon view even within evangelical Christianity.
Laptop speakers when you try to drive them without any temperature protection
I think the two-layer approach is worthwhile if only for limiting tokens!

Here’s an example of what I mean:

https://github.com/williamcotton/transynthetical-engine#brow...

By keeping the main discourse between the user and the LLM from containing all of the generated code and instead just using that main “thread” to orchestrate instructions to write code it allows for more back-and-forth.

It’s a good technique in general!

I’m still too paranoid to execute instructions via email without a very limited set of abilities!
With all the discussion around whether [insert LLM] can "think" I thought people might find this thought experiment which addresses that issue.
On the article about Vanunu it reads:

"Many critics argue that Vanunu had no additional information that would pose a real security threat to Israel and that its government's only motivation is to avoid political embarrassment and financial complications for itself and allies such as the United States. By not acknowledging possession of nuclear weapons, Israel avoids a US legal prohibition on funding countries that proliferate weapons of mass destruction. Such an admission would prevent Israel from receiving over $2 billion each year in military and other aid from Washington."

Which is another very high likelihood option with regards to the reason for this policy.
Please (everyone), stop pushing cloudflare on to everyone.
I'm a little confused then what the value of this demonstration is.

The expectation marches by half the distance towards the outer edge each time, so it becomes a soap bubble at a rate of 1/2^n

Which is nice and sorta cool but I'm not quite sure what the "whoa" factor here is. It's like one of those zip cinch tops for those bags. Sorta cool how it works on observation, really cool in detail, but also sorta...meh? At the same time?

Maybe I'm a bit jaded here? Admittedly, a continuous animation of this would be an improvement on the cool factor to me, personally.
I supported a few Alpha customers in tech support in the late nineties. Our NT product was the most advanced thing we made (there were Unix and DOS versions as well) and I specifically remember a Unix admin type of guy grumpily observing on a call, "if I have to run Windows I might as well run it on a real computer."

That conversation would have been shortly after the merger, but before Compaq started gradually killing everything Alpha related in favor of Itanium. Even if Compaq had a little more foresight on that particular matchup, Alpha could never have survived very long after the HP merger, I guess. HP was already building machines for PA-RISC and Itanium, and then there were the minicomputers... how many processor architectures the world was trying to forget about could one company actually support?
Considering 5 AI Privacy Scenarios: From PII Leakage to AI Bombing
> We also collect information about how you interact with our TV,such the physical presence of you and anyother individuals using the TV at any given time

> We may share your Viewing and Activity Data with third-party datapartners and advertisers who use it to show you relevant ads andprovide you with customized content

> We may also use your Viewing and ActivityData to improve the Services and understand how you interactwith the Service

> You have the right to opt-out of sharing your Viewing and Activity Data, but unfortunately, that means you will no longer have access to the Services [and must return the television]

https://www.freetelly.com/viewing-and-activity-data-policy
It is uniform I'm pretty sure, that's what plotting a polar coordinates look like when you use a uniform distribution for the length.
No mention of the resources that are available? The most interesting models currently need beefy GPUs, but I don't think Cloudflare has those...
They could still go after you in court.
Itemized deductions are 1040 Schedule A, and you don't typically file worksheets along with your return (although there's nothing stopping you from doing so).
This is my explanation as well. I look around and I see lots of addicted adults. Everyone I've asked says they want to use their phone less but they don't. They can't. It's a bad habit. What chance do children have?
Than they send bailiffs to your home....
I've been considering a micro-grant application for some seed funds that use my platform https://www.adama-platform.com/ as their back-end; however, I'm currently focused this year on interns to help grow the platform.
Most things are interesting.
Now this IS "late stage Capitalism"!
Speaking of Illusions: Sirtuins and Longevity
Then give them something they want, like have the IRS send everyone a summary just exactly how much in taxes they actually pay. Let people know the "refund" they get is not money from the government but rather money the government took from them several months ago and is only getting around to giving back now. Make a clear comparison between the amount they're getting back and the amount the government kept, which for most ordinary people is thousands of dollars a year.

Assuming the problem is actually ideological opposition from Republicans, and not campaign funding, because then it would be bipartisan:

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/intuit-inc/summary?id=D0000...
Netzero, but with a TV and cameras.
Oh, so _this_ is why I've been getting so many hits...

I was the original creator and the original post[1] was from a day ago. Glad to see it is helpful!

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35940043
„Bodyguard“, the BBC miniseries, and „My Name“ from South Korea, both on Netflix, as well as „Your Name“, from 2016 (now THAT was one final act and ending!).
Tips: The source code can be seen by clicking on '</>'; The random() function takes an upper limit of a desired uniform distribution (from 0 to x), this shows the effect of the distribution of those iterated random functions.

I think this isn't so intuitive because the polar coordinates already imply greater density near center (which could be corrected with a suitable map).
pmOS is Alpine, not Arch. For Arch on ARM, there's ALARM.
I got a word, where as far as I know it doesn't exist, but it I'm a bit disappointed in the definition.

It seems like the unique value here would be using the roots/spelling of the word to be plausibly influence the definition. Its hard for me to think that a word with a root as straightforward as klepto would have the definition below.

So still an interesting app in it's on way, but disappointing it didn't seem to take advantage of the important relationship of the roots of words.

‐--------------
kleptoporosis

klep·to·poro·sis

suffering constipation when sleep is disturbed

"more young women suffer from metabolic syndrome due to severe conditions such as kleptoporosis"
LOL a box has to be manually filled out. I can't believe they didn't fix that for 3 straight years.
The cumulative distribution of random(random(...)) repeated k times is 1-(1-x)^k, so 1 - random(random()) should have a cumulative distribution of x^(2).

I think that should even make it exactly uniform, but somehow it doesn't look like it. I may have missed a bit somewhere.
> strong debugging fundamentals

Something that experienced (and expensive) programmers are good at, incidentally.
It looks almost exactly like the dystopian, brain-sucking, ad-laden television from "Idiocracy". What a sick world we're living in.
This is why RISC-V put a lot of effort on the boot process, and put it early.

Relevant specifications include but aren't limited to SBI[0], UEFI protocol[1] and the ongoing platform specification[2].

RISC-V is quite ready to take over the datacenter, workstation and laptop markets, while dodging the issues derived from bespoke everything which other architectures challenging x86 suffer from.

0. https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-sbi-doc/releases

1. https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-uefi/releases/

2. https://github.com/riscv/riscv-platform-specs
Most non-techies don't care about privacy.
As long as there are countries with GSM service, it's not going to stop being shipped.
It doesn't need to be popular for you to use it.
"Hoteling" is an awesome euphemism. Give me a desk that's depressingly impersonal, wasn't cleaned very well after its previous occupant left, and is always three degrees too cold. (At least there's free breakfast, right?)
SSE is phenomenal and underutilized because it wasn't supported by IE.
It is, but I think that it would lead to a lot of false positives for automated plagiarism detection.
Once upon a time K&R C function declarations were idiomatic, in C23 they are out.
I can't imagine Blizzard execs would be so stupid to think that they wouldn't lose great people to other companies. Those people didn't have a single issue finding a new position somewhere else that paid better would be my guess.
Just pointing out that the lettuce costs what it does because of logistics. It’s fresh where you expect it to be. I wouldn’t be surprised if the cost of growing the lettuce is less than 5% of the cost.

My dad used to comment often on how it always baffled him that 90% of the cost of anything involving steel beams in his construction work was just moving the beams.
Sure, if you're willing to ignore the downside of anything, then that thing is great.

Personally, this is no more attractive than any other "smart" TV -- which is to say it's a nonstarter -- but I have no doubt that there are enough people who don't mind it that they might be able to make a business catering to them.
Related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35945777
There are people in the OSM community that are difficult to interact with.
It's good to hear there are no recent issues you've encountered, so it seems that at least there is a good development.
> Wireless headphones last a couple of years

That makes no sense; why would they only last a couple years? I've had a pair of Bose QC35 for 5 years now, and they're still working great and are compatible with any devices I used them with, from 10 year old laptops to recent Android and Apple phones.
No, the browser's HTTP connection limits still apply on HTTP2, each `EventSource` per tab counts against this limit of I think 6 (?) connections.

Websockets to my knowledge have no such limit because they are not HTTP requests.
A lot of hate here for this, but honestly, I think it's just fine - they're transparent, you know what to expect, and you can make an informed decision.
https://github.com/colesbury/nogil does manage to get rid of the GIL, but it's not certain to make it into Python core. The main problem is the amount of existing libraries that depend on the existence of the GIL without realizing it - breaking those would be extremely disruptive.
Perhaps it looks nonuniform because we're not using literal points (our dots have nonzero area), so when they get too close they blend together and make the distribution look denser than it is in that area
The difference is that this TV is being upfront about ads and that it’s FREE. I don’t think the average person really cares about their privacy. I’m sure many will jump at the chance for a free TV since all TVs are ad supported anyway. (If people cared they’d uncheck the obscure setting on their smart TV that disable ad personalization)

> Plus, Telly is doing a hostage situation - Here's the $300 tv for free, but if you fuck with anything, we'll charge you $2k

Wait is this mentioned anywhere? I’m pretty skeptical of this. Even if you got the free TV and never even hooked it up or immediately broke it I don’t think Telly is going to hunt you down demanding their money back.
How about people on the receiving end? It is absolutely no secret that the use of DU ammo in Kosovo by NATO forces in 1999 led to an increase in the cancer rates of the civilian population, as well as some military units (most notably the Italian ones). It is no wonder either, DU is pyrophoric (i.e., burns on impact, spreading DU dust in the impact's environs) and should banned just as (even more than) cluster bombs and mines.
It's technically possible for tax preparation software to collect information about UI interaction (e.g., revising income downward before finishing) and send that information to the IRS. I don't know whether that occurs, and maybe all tax preparation companies decided not to do it for fear of detection and customer backlash. Still, it seems plausible that this new interest in IRS-hosted free e-filing means that someone became uncomfortable with a previous arrangement where those companies were sending UI data "voluntarily" or "accidentally" to help enable data mining for IRS audits. (Backspacing and decreasing a W-2 income value is probably not of interest, but a pattern of backspacing in something like "Gambling income" or "Gross receipts or sales" might be.)
Splitting (Psychology)
I wanted so use these in a project recently, only to find out that they aren't supported on Chrome for Android. This makes them non-usable for me, since there is no drop-in polyfill available yet.
What a hostage situation.

Get our free TV; but try to cover the ads, or mess with the Wi-Fi, and we'll charge your credit card the full thousand bucks - just like that. Oh, your internet was down for four days because Comcast sucks? Well... sorry for putting you in financial distress. Have a free movie rental! We'll also send a free cupcake if you take down your bad review!

Oh, and your kids had better not throw a Wiimote into the thing. Otherwise that "free $1000 TV!" quickly is a terrifying liability, not a perk.
Built-in client API for parsing and event dispatching. Data doesn't have to be JSON encoded.

But fundamentally nothing that Comet, steaming XHR, etc, WebSockets, can't do.
Rapid trade ins are the best way to improve everyone’s car - the rich guy gets a brand new one, the next gets one better than he had, and so on down the line until an absolute junker is hauled off to the crusher.
I guess living in a backwater spiral arm has its advantages, even if we are far from major shipping lanes.
I think the parallels that people draw with the American south are typically the northern UK, like the Scots Irish.

In terms of US-UK parallels, there's also the effect that geographical isolation has in making a sort of language "time capsule" where colonies stick with dated pronunciations or vocabulary. I've heard an attempted reconstruction of London accents from the early 1700s that sound a lot like General American or Canadian English. The same source had an early 1800s reconstruction that sounded rather Australian to my ears. One imagines that English people colonize either place at a given time, leave some trace of their time and place in speech patterns, and their relatives in England
go on to evolve speech patterns in different ways.

Non rhotacism (lack of pronunciation of R) also left some traces in the American south (and northeast). That feature began in southern England after colonization, so I believe it was generally fashionable people keeping up with the latest English trends who brought it west.
Data point: My company has this setup and it's my favorite out of all options.

I actually do want to go in the office 1-4 times a month + 2 full weeks at the middle and end of the year. People being nearby means that when we think in person is important we actually get to coordinate it.

I don't have "benches" or anything, there's literally a full dusk with multiple monitors and a nice chair any time I want it (more or less), the office is not meaningfully less comfy than pre-pandemic for me.

I will admit that I value "cheaper locales" less because my family is here and nowhere else but this is not true for many of my current and former coworkers and many of them love the setup as well.
This is the original post to the one[1] that blew up.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35944373
Even if the code isn't broken the issue is that the vast majority of code isn't written in a vacuum. Refactoring, rearchitecting, etc. is quite tricky.

And writing code is the easy part. Architecting is where things get tricky and there are a lot of subjective decisions to be made. That's where soft skills become really important.
I keep thinking the same every time specific people complain about supposed price fixing on hard drives / SSDs. Those things are dirt-cheap, even compared to other mass-produced items. If you consider the value of what's inside, it's incredible how much reliable, fast storage you can get for the same amount of money as that TV.
On Linux and macOS I change Capslock to Control in the settings. On Windows I download Power Toys and do the same thing. Makes Emacs so much more useable
You mean like covering the lower screen with some black duct tape?
> Inflation is a solution to these problems

... inflation in combination with hegemony.

My understanding is that if the US wasn't calling so many shots on the world stage, other countries would be less willing to tolerate us inflating away the US dollars they hold. But as "the global reserve" currency (for now), they have no choice but to grin and bear it, desperately try not to inflate their own money supplies to deal with the loss in value.

This is basically the truth behind MMT. Inflation actually can get you "free" money, but only because you're basically forcing it out of other economies by virtue of holding all the guns and oil.
Idiocracy had such TVs with ads around broadcast.
The issue that I have is that you have for-profit companies such as Yoti and others trying to embed themselves in the digital ID space. They feel a need to peddle their wares, and are happy to partner with sketchy politicians who are thrilled to play along in building big brother if it means that their political agenda (for example, blocking access to porn) is advanced.

Having some form of digital identity is not an intrinsically bad thing, but there are compromises at play. ePassports are a good example of something that tries to provide decentralisation and security at a large scale, but they need to be well scoped to the area that they're used in (for instance travel).

It is possible to build systems that provide short-lived attestation of facts that are scoped to a minimal level of data. We just need to choose to build them rather than allow our lives to become dictated by some horrifying future version of Experian/Yoti/friends.
Not to overuse a reference already used to death but: telescreens for surveillance capitalism. Hooray.
Granted: Intuit sucks, H&R block sucks, they are blocking tax reform, they are evil, the tax system in the U.S. makes no sense.

Having stipulated that, I do not understand why the government is creating a free product to compete with Turbotax, et al. instead of making tax returns unnecessary in the first place. I assume it is because it would have been much harder for Biden to sneak that change into the bill. But, sadly, nothing short of reform is an actual solution. And, I'm much less comfortable with the government spending tax dollars competing directly with a private company than I am with them legislating or regulating that company's reason for existing away. That feels like it's much closer to their remit.