skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"the wealthiest Washingtonians have gotten out of paying what they truly owe in state and local taxes"

State taxes were 0% - They paid 0%
Still, most likely passing 50+ waypoints in the URI might cause other issues
What you truly owe = author doesn't think some people pay what he thinks they should
Someone inside explained a situation. The army denied a f* up. Is your read that this f up never happened?
The US federal government has a similarly high conviction rate, especially considering the number of plea deals (90% of defendants plead guilty). https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/06/11/only-2-of.... I went to Wikipedia to find more information and it seems that your characterization of it as very unjust is a common misconception:

> According to Bruce Aronson of New York University School of Law, Japan's conviction rate is misleading because it is the rate at which defendants admit guilt in the cases they are charged with. According to him, if the method of calculating the conviction rate in Japan is applied to the United States, the conviction rate of federal defendants in the United States in 2018 was also over 99%.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_justice_system_of_J...
If all companies workers that can work remote work remotely there will be a reduction in doom scroll during commutes, and that has all kind of implications :).
AI to Assist Mathematical Reasoning: A Workshop
Enclosure worked perfectly well as it consolidated productive land in the hands of the powerful without the attached commoners that they were at least notionally responsible for. I cannot think of a greater disenfrachisement in the Western world other than chattel slavery.
Aluminium is crazy for wiring... You can wire up a whole house in aluminium, and it be fine for decades, and then suddenly catch fire.

The cause is that over time, aluminium joints become higher and higher resistance, and get hotter and hotter till one day they fail.

There is some special gunge stuff you can get to put in each joint which supposedly stops this happening. But personally I don't trust the gunge to keep working for the 100+ years the wiring might remain in use.

Particularly if there is a water leak and the gunge is washed away - and then your 10 year timer starts ticking till a deadly fire.
Ok..then what is it caused by? Provide your sources.
Easier said than done.

Dig into the data all you want. If you dig deep enough, you'll most likely find what you're looking for...

Anything political like this is going to have competing "sources of truth" which are largely funded by Super PACs and essentially just arms of political parties.

Either party can "show you the data" now to come to whatever conclusion they want.

This is a useful gambit to game all the people who claim to want to be "data-driven".

Sometimes, it's useful to zoom out to a 1000 foot view and simply observe that something is clearly broken, and the current solution does not appear to be making it less broken.

Maybe this is something everyone can agree on - but, that won't be very helpful - as there's unlikely any changing solution that both parties will agree on.

I'll simply note - at the 1000 foot view - there are 115,000 homeless people, and $17B was spent on them.

That's $147k per person. And all that happened is the problem got worse at MUCH faster rates than it did in almost every other state in the US, nearly all of which are spending much less on the problem.

Draw your own conclusions...
If you give housing to mentally unstable people, they are just going to trash the place. Vancouver has been building and rebuilding support housing because the units get trashed and literally ripped apart after a week.

Vancouver is doing a lot more for homeless people than SF/LA and it is still not working.
> they are just printing a string after some formatting

There's (at least) one language in quine-relay that's not that simple: Piet. It's a visual 2D language written as an image file.

https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html
>They want to blame drugs or mental health or something.

Because the actual solutions involve taking a scythe to property prices and rents and thats the last thing investors want.

They, and the media outlets they own, would prefer to see people dying on the street than that, but theyre not comfortable admitting it.

Hence drugs, mental health crisis, yadda yadda anything except real solutions - 20ccs of rent control stat, taxing the hell out of their fattened up property portfolios and an exercise regimen of Singapore style social housing construction.
It sounds like you're asking for a whole book. That's valuable, but not every newspaper story can be that in-depth.
All those other professions have preventative value. It is wholly desirable for cities to run homeless shelters - the incentives are rightly aligned to make it temporary to keep down costs. Involving private outfits as contractors, just as with private prisons, skews the incentives terribly. (I also have nothing against private healthcare, security, or fire houses as a luxury spend for those who want it.)
When I was at Microsoft during the time I had X86, Alpha, MIPS, PPC (for a short time) and Itanium. We only did the builds for Itanium once in a while because the developers and the testers shared the expensive hardware. I believe the only versions of the product (Systems Management Server) were for the X86, Alpha and MIPS.
I prompted it "small heavily forested islands in rough seas" and it gave me one large forested land area in snow, with a bunch of rocky treeless islands in calm water. <shrug>
Learn and master fundamentals and not technologies.

Html, css and javascript will be useful forever. As will basic computer science, architecture and so on.
That’s about what happens in Canada, Vancouver gets the homeless fromt he entire country, sometimes bussed, but mostly because the climate is hospitable all year round
Ask HN: SEO vs. Social Media
We're a young K12 education startup with 50k to invest on either

1) SEO (optimizing content, building DA and writing new content)
2) Social media (creating engaging content and posts on social channels.

For a variety of reasons, I'm going to prioritize organic SEO or social media over paid ads on Facebook or google.

With this very limited context, where would you put your money?
SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) does this. It's the biggest thing I've missed after moving to postgres.
> Several fires involving large amounts of unsellable hand sanitizer have broken out across the country in the past year, from Dallas to downtown Los Angeles.

It's not quite clear why there have been so many fires, especially when we've been making and storing and shipping hand sanitizer in warehouses for a long time. Is it:

1) Something about these new companies wasn't following safety protocols, because they were new and/or rushing to market?

2) Existing safety protocols were being followed at the same rate, but the manufacturing and distribution network of hand sanitizers grew exponentially, and so fires grew along with it and this is a non-story?

3) The fires were a result of storing hand santizier intended for disposal rather than sale, so in different warehouses/locations that had different/less safety regulations or compliance?

4) The fires were set intentionally before the products were officially classified for disposal, so costs could be recouped through insurance fraud?
Both of these approaches would work for some people, but neither works for everyone -- it's a very complicated and dynamic problem that has many causes, and many symptoms that are often mistaken for causes.
People and resources are concentrated in certain areas

https://xkcd.com/1138/
Wait what? Can you elaborate?
A hard requirement on what OS we wanna use is not a luxury most of us can afford. Good for you though to be along the few who can.
Logic Programming is Underrated (2013)
It's worth trying, assuming you have tons of time to burn and don't mind getting a mostly zilch response rate.

The key is to start your cover letter (in fact, you can even deadpan) by mentioning that you've never had this role before, but think you'd be good at anyways based on the factors mentioned. Couldn't hurt -- and again, most people who got into management did so through some mix of dumb luck and/or persistence.

The latter being a virtue in and of itself, so they say. Which some people just might pick up on, in your cover letter.
It's a big merry-go-round and someone is clearly making bank.

NY -> Hawaii

https://nypost.com/2019/10/26/nyc-homeless-initiative-sends-...

WY -> UT

https://www.deseret.com/utah/2022/11/4/23440578/jackson-wyom...

NV -> CA

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/10/nevada-settles-...

SF -> ??

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/sf-expanding-program-that-ha...

And more recently:

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/15/greg-abbott-texas-ka...
I might believe you if we were 'talking' directly to the model, however this is a chat box and clearly something is aware of usage questions and how to answer them. If you've been granted plugin access, enable some and ask it what plugins are enabled and how to use them, 'it' will tell you.
RE: "the other thing", you can do multiplayer for free in VSCode using Live Share or pay for a DeepNote account. (I am sure there are more ways to do it.)
In some cases, these are indirect corporate subsidies. After all, who will work in low-paying jobs in SF, if they have to live far far away?

Where could people move that would give them more opportunities? Rural areas often lack the social resources to support people in more precarious situations, and big cities is where the opportunities are.
It's a matter of (perceived) fairness.

There is indeed the law, and at the end of the day that is what determines what you must pay.

The very wealthy have long supported income tax structures that treat capital gains very differently than employment income, with much higher rates being applied to employment income. For the most part, the very wealthy do not receive much employment income. This means that as a percentage of income (all types added together), people who primarily earn via capital gains pay far less tax than those who primarily earn via employment.

It is an understandable position to say that this tax structure is unfair and that the very wealthy are not paying what they should pay. You can disagree with it but it is not a difficult position to understand.
Yes, but notice you have to imagine yourself single for this other reality to make sense.
In 1997 nVidia released the much anticipated Riva 128. It was built on a 350nm process, and had 4 million transistors. This will be built on 3nm and have maybe 90 billion transistors.
You're just... repeating the same argument. Maybe you're not understanding the use of the terminology?

Your point is a "de jure" argument, you're telling me what the law says (and for the record: I don't disagree). I'm making a "de facto" point: regardless of what the law says, owning large unbroken tracts of land in this area is a practical impossibility. And since the entity refusing to sell the land is the government itself (the body that makes and enforces those laws), I don't think it's at all a stretch to categorize this as de facto illegal: any action that resulted in big ranches not being impossible as a matter of practice would be by definition an act of lawmaking.

Stated slightly differently: if the government needs to change a law in order to make something possible, then that thing was "illegal" previously.
I think the word “truly” is doing the heavy lifting here.
I wonder if it’s any clearer now that hand sanitizer does jack shit for every other respiratory virus too, like influenza.

The “wash your hands” was a great way to blame victims for catching these diseases and push the liability to them.

Easy to say to an employee “you got the flu because you didn’t wash your hands for 5 minutes” and disqualify their paid sick day.

Much harder to blame them for… breathing at work. If we admit its airborne, then employees (and customers) have claims against the the business for work-acquired injuries.
So, prove it's AI content, that's going to be the hard part with a ton of false negatives.

I look at it the other way, AI answers should be fine where tools like Code Interpreter are in use and they can provide a verifiable solution. At the end of the day people copying from SO are generally looking for something that works, and the problems of this being best practice can be fought out by the people down thread.
And on that same page it says the Android version didn’t even require an exploit. The sneakiest thing that was required on Android was to write the word “Samsung” on the app icon so that users would click it.

Near the end, they say:

> This campaign is a good reminder that attackers do not always use exploits to achieve the permissions they need.
Why learning to disagree can be a competitive advantage in your career
1. Disagreeing earns you respect and builds trust
2. Disagreeing makes your opinions more sought after
3. Disagreeing positions you as a leader
FWIW, most of the message boards where this story was posted, including ones prone to conspiracy theory type discussion, quickly figured out that no physical human was harmed.
Happened to me once in college in New York. A kid smashed the vending machine and chips were everywhere.
Fire code and building code, like everywhere else in the US. It isn't like the US has nonstop city wide fires raging on for decades.
It might be better worded as "have gotten out of paying their fair share of state and local taxes."

Depending on your definition of fair, of course.
I would regularly leave my mask on in the car just from being too lazy to take it off and put it back on again in the span of 15 minutes. I definitely had a couple of instances where people who saw me drive by yelled something at me in anger about how I had it on. I am kinda surprised to see a similar complaint crop up in a thread on HN. I'd usually forget I had it on anyway. I guess some people count down the seconds until they can rip it off and have what they perceive as "freedom"?
first sane response - yes its a generational to multi generational problem. We are dealing with the outcome of decisions made long ago. There are now two issues: (1) all the currently homeless (2) the people in the pipeline to be homeless. The people homeless now require a completely different solution than the "pipeline" of people we need to help stay out of homelessness.

Unfortunately, politics is too short sighted to ever solve an issue that will truly take a decade+ of good policy to fix. And, as you mentioned, tackling the now problem is almost too toxic to touch, politically. Rock and a hard place.
High Performance Academy looks great! Thanks for bringing that up.
Everyone wants the system that is least unfair to their group.
Definitely that too. It was very gross.
The skill is "don't take useless payouts" you'd be surprised at how good many people are without practice.
Also, the "build more homes" makes a big assumption about _where_ the homes should be built.

There are already small towns across the US where homes are ridiculously cheap because no one wants to move there, and in fact people are moving out.

If you were to spread the homeless out around towns such as those (or create a new small town a couple hours away from a big city) you'd end up with a lot of supply.

Now, would the homeless be willing to move to such a place to get a home? The ones who really want to pull themselves up probably would.
People have a choice not to invest in companies that have multiple classes of shares and you can also buy these types of shares as people divest them.
You’ve correctly identified the issues with media today. Rage inducing articles are easier to read and get more views. As soon as you introduce facts then very quickly it becomes a nuanced debate on the issue which is far less interesting because and worth less revenue.

We really need some kind of regulations to disincentivize companies from producing drivel and more incentives for well researched material.

I don’t know what those regulations would look like. But without them we are drowning in material that does society more harm than good.
this is just local journalism, except from some random blogger and not trained journalists.
Map of Lower Manhattan, to be precise.
I think a case could be made that if there is a "valuable use" for elite horses that stimulates breeding more of them, horse meat would decline in price from the availability of surplus horses (similar to there being plenty of greyhounds to adopt).
Also, Venezuelan oil, before they shot their industry in its foot.
You are drowning.

I jump in and help you to shore.

You immediately jump back in and start drowning again.

Someone else helps you to shore

You jump back in and start drowning again.

Eventually everyone who would help you wants some kind of evidence that this time you won't just jump back in before they help you.

You drown.

Are you saying they should have done more?
It is actually non-trivial to get GPU run fast, especially on SoC with strong CPU like M2.
zero-copy with mmap was added to llama.cpp, but the way it was implemented sparked controversy.
A lot of gastrointestinal viruses (hello norovirus) are non-enveloped viruses and survive alcohol sanitizers.

And non-enveloped viruses (like Noro) aren’t easily inactivated by time and sunlight like other viruses (flu, corona).

Makes me really worry about dependence on alcohol sanitizers when it’s the difficult to deactivate viruses that easily pass the stomach and cause you bigger issues.
too much too much rework,
just slap a `.atom` on the back of your GH URL
and be done with it.
Imagine the AI dystopia being like the entire Earth. We are only about a few shovel fulls deep. But don't worry, tech companies are spending billions of dollars on tools to dig even faster.

Buckle up, because it's going to be a wild ride.
They knew all along it was closed source, but that doesn't mean they believed all along (or at least were confident enough in their belief) that closed source resulted in higher risk of extant exploitable flaws.
Well yea, but OP wondered where are these cheap drugs.
While it's true that analog computers have limitations in terms of precision and error correction compared to digital computers, they can still offer some advantages in certain applications. For example, analog computers can be faster and more energy-efficient for specific tasks, such as solving differential equations or simulating physical systems.
Interesting idea, but do homeless folks actually end up working for corporations? They have a hard enough time getting any job in the first place (and remaining presentable enough for their job if they do get one)
Have you revisited it recently in the last 2-3 years? OpenGL, Vulkan and DX12 drivers have been completely rewritten from scratch and share a common hardware abstraction layer. They pass all Khronos conformance tests, OEM and ISV certification tests and have similar performance as Nvidia on SPEC benchmarks.
If the money is just going back to the drug dealers I would think that would just exacerbate the problem and make it even worse, as it just encourages drug dealers and producers to make and sell more.

There definitely needs to be case workers or someone involved to help provide these people a path to recovery.
I've received two broken AMD cards in the last 30 days. It's also the very literal definition of "burned", as they're consistently hitting >110°C hot spot in minutes. The RMA process is also god awful and the software isn't that good.

It feels like there's actually no other option than Nvidia.
What point are you trying to make? Do you think the wealthiest Washingtonians truly owe 0% to society?
Utah school district banned the Bible
> MacOS insists that if I want to switch focus, surely I want all the windows that the other app has to offer, which feels like a but mishmash to me.

This had not been the case. Command tabbing would bring forward only the last active window. It was very handy to switch back and forth between text editor and browser that way. But then, they decided command tab should bring forward all windows, which ruined usability for me. Now I use BetterTouchTool [0] to directly switch to an app. Doing so brings forward only the last active window.

[0] https://folivora.ai
Mostly rhetoric, but it gestured towards some mathematical/modeling intuition.

I was picturing a graph with time on the x axis, difficulty on the y, and a fairly constant value until recently, at which point things began to increase rapidly. I had in mind instability and explosion, a mania like for tulips, and self-destructive involution, like a society locked in competition with itself to pass the Emperor's exams.

Why an exponential? I know that, in contrast, finance people speak of things going "parabolic". But there may be reason for literal exponentials, for dx/dt = x. It's not that difficulty begets difficulty, but that difficulty arises from economic concentration and concentration of opportunities, and economic concentration begets economic concentration.
you can build cities with that money ... with businesses and schools and what not ! governance
No. I bet you could make a slightly better one and increase diversity in the online humor world.

https://xkcd.com/927/
> the only difference between a canadian and an american is a line on a map

Kindly keep this kind of ignorant viewpoint to yourself.

There are a lot of differences, and if you can't or won't see them that not our problem.

As a Canadian, I don't want your two party political structure (soon to be one maybe?) and your supreme court of mostly old clerics making decisions based on their religious views in my country thanks. Or shall we talk about your daily mass shootings?

If you guys think that is working for you, so much the better for you.
In the beginning of your career, I do think well-timed jumps are very effective. But overall yes, in capitalism (whether you like it or not, this is what we got) the most important skill is getting people to agree/compromise with you. And for people who (for perfectly valid reasons) can't develop this skill, we have institutions such as unions and recruiters that help delegate it somewhat. I don't think standardized non-negotiable tiers of deals are as helpful to us as we seem to think.