skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The researchers suggest that’s because the IRS set up systems that are more likely to flag tax returns with potential mistakes in how some tax credits, like the earned-income tax credit (EITC), are claimed. There is no evidence that Blacks cheat on their taxes, but they do file at disproportionately higher rates the kinds of returns that the IRS approach targets."

Translation:

Lower income taxpayers who know to take advantage of specific programs are more likely to be audited, independent of race. Black Americans are more likely to use these programs, but saying that doesn't attract clicks the same way that "The IRS is racist!" does.
mcedit.

Better, "mcedit -b"

Or Jed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JED_(text_editor)
Something I saw a longtime ago was hashing UUIDs into a RGB value and then colouring the background of the cell (at least when viewing in a DB IDE). That way you can quickly at a glance tell if it's worth going over character by character.
> Illegal, straight to jail, and morally bad

It depends on where you are: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_cannabis
Thanks for the response! I generally try to shop locally myself, so I know what you mean.

I haven't heard of Digikey before. I'll have to give them a looksee.

For the recycler, have you had any issues or concerns with reused hard drives? I'm aware of how to securely wipe them and whatnot, but I feel like my nerves would still be on end to some degree, no matter how many times I reformatted or securely erased the data on it. Similarly, is it safe to assume that they have some kind of thorough physical cleanliness policy regarding hardware? I've listened to stories of computer repair techs who receive desktops that have literal cockroaches crawling out of them.

When I think of a recycling plant my immediate gut reaction is "dirty", but I feel like that reaction is unfair, if not unfounded. I've never been to that kind of place and am not really sure what to expect.
> illustrating how misconceptions regarding its association with illegal activities should be reconsidered.

What? The entire point of being a tool against state financial censorship is that, by definition, it's illegal.
> For example, I'd never noticed until today that so much of Scotland is actually west of England because Great Britain doesn't actually go straight-up north to south but is rather "tilted".

Even as a Brit this sometimes catches me out. I live near Bournemouth which is approx in the middle of the south coast of England. If I draw a straight line due North, it's only just inside Scotland. ALL of Scotland is west of London.

Unrelatedly, the other amusing fact is that when the ISS goes overhead (256 miles high at perigee), it is much closer to me than Glasgow (450 miles away).
As a European, I don't consider this a mistake, for the simple reason that the IP address is so easily abused by trackers and people with bad intentions - the extent of abuse that we have experienced until now is absolutely ridiculous.

Hell, even a small startup with a few thousand euros can start to track and trace user behaviour on a massive scale that in reality you wouldn't or shouldn't be able to do.

The tooling (free, cheap and not) at our disposal nowadays makes everything so easy that even something that in theory should not serve as identifier can be used to identify you - so let's start with the most common ones: IP, email, etc.

The Internet in Europe is not illegal - it's just pure BS that a simple page like reuters.com contains references to 14 external scripts when loaded, when actually all you need is 2 maybe 3 scripts (the CDN to load images and videos + the page itself) - the rest is crap used explicitly to identify and market people - that's it: Ads, Ads and probably uglier things to do just to profile people online.
Some substances help me ask that all important question in the first place. Waking up, brushing teeth, going to work, doing chores, raising kids, family time, rollerblading, gardening, studying... These activities don't help me ponder my existence with the same efficiency as some substances can offer. I mean, who has the time to ask these questions in the first place?!

I'm reminded of a quote from the TV series "Weeds". A bit on the nose, I know, but when discussing peyote in the show, one character said, "It's like 30 years of psychotherapy in one night".

In the real world, the scientific community's recent renaissance around the use of psychoactive drugs like psilocybin or MDMA in therapeutic settings is further proof that "substances" can be good.
If you read the article, yes it’s because they’re more likely to use certain tax credits that are factored into the audit selection algorithm
In the same way a sphere, like the Earth's surface, is a 2d-space with finite area and no boundary.
WebGLM: Web-Enhanced Q&A with LLMs
The very top of the article stated the reason why.

"The researchers suggest that’s because the IRS set up systems that are more likely to flag tax returns with potential mistakes in how some tax credits, like the earned-income tax credit (EITC), are claimed. There is no evidence that Blacks cheat on their taxes, but they do file at disproportionately higher rates the kinds of returns that the IRS approach targets."
> but from where I stand, there's no way out.

I know how you feel!

I'm from the UK. Corbyn's Labour seemed to me to be a glimmer of hope; but he was pushed out by the MSM and a cabal of his own party's rightist officials, and replaced by a man who immediately on getting the leadership, repudiated all his manifesto promises.

So I no longer have anyone to vote for, and I favour revolution.
You only think it's civilized because you agree with the outcome.
> my kids (4, 6) have unlimited access to screens and they’d much rather play Lego or go in the pool.

Nothing is better than these "my kids are superior to yours" style posts, disguised as parenting advice.

While we're giving anecdata, my kids are precisely the opposite. They have ready access to a pool and an enormous box of legos as well, but if given unlimited access to screens, they absolutely WILL spend all waking hours staring at them.
Don’t abortion clinics do the same thing? Planned Parenthood isn’t called Planned Unparenthood. The whole abortion industry is based on euphemisms like your use of “choice” to avoid describing what’s really taking place.
> But that would not explain NodeJS, JavaScript for embedded microcontrollers, and so many more.

I'm only going to address NodeJS because I think that niche projects that target niche workloads are just unrelated.

I believe it does explain NodeJS. The idea is simple - your frontend engineers can own your edge services/ APIs. They're already heavily invested in JS and, at least at one point, there was a theory that unifying languages across frontend + edge made sense for other reasons.

Some people really just learn one language.
And not only that: when the committee for enforcing the CoC decided the CoC wasn't actually violated, the entire witch hunt continued with more and more made up reasons why this person was bad and deserved to be punished.

This included the project lead writing blog posts and then silently editing them afterwards. It was never about the rules, only about creating a body of people with the aurhority to act like total cunts in the name of civility. That's what they get off on.

If CoC sound like a nice idea to you... remember, we had waaaay less drama in open source before the people who want CoCs showed up.

Instead of just 1 angry mail on a mailing list you can ignore, now there is weeks of drama as reputations are destroyed, communities are split, and the press gets involved to feed off the carcass.

Once you understand this dynamic, you see it for what it is: the petty feuds of small minded people, who claim to love open source but cannot stand the fact that anyone really is welcome.
Quarantine is my favourite. Permutation City was great, but difficult - I think because whilst I can mentally touch the concept I can't quite hold it.
>I heard this in Germany a lot in various circumstances while seeing on my monthly payslips deductions totalling over 40%.

That's the situation with social welfare states. They're not the USA. Everyone contributes as much as they can while receiving benefits per their needs. It's a social contract where people, for better or for worse, give up their individual opportunities for wealth generation, for the sake of collective wealth and welfare safety nets. Germany is not the place to move to, if you want to make wealth and pay as little taxes as possible.

>I didn't force myself to that bloody miserable country either, but got qualified job and was granted relocation there.

You could have gotten a qualified job in any other country, nobody dragged you into forced labor to Germany kicking and screaming I assume. Once you saw the situation you could have packed up and moved.

> At which point I'm not a beggar anymore and can start posing even a smallest demand?

You are free to make as many demands as you want, most likely nobody in Germany will care. If you want change, the best way is to vote with your feet and move to a country that's already built on your beliefs (tax heavens). Trying to change a country, as na individual, is like trying to move the planet.
It’s laissez-faire pirated Photoshop all over again.
I think this is fooling ourselves. The cheap 3d Printer filament is fine.

Its weird because a mega corporation would consider the quality and if it meets the qualities, they would buy the cheapest price(with few other considerations, maybe china-US relations might deter).

In this case, the objective right answer is to buy the cheapest when it comes to 3D printer filament, as long as it meets the quality. It does.

I wonder if its some emotional decision to buy a more expensive product that performs equally.
Save, legal, and personal.

No need to put the rare in there. The frequency is nobody’s business but the patient.
Really interesting, I know there is a lot of hesitancy around the billions that are flowing to the IRS for modernization and more agents for enforcement but I do wonder if it'll let the IRS focus on the much more complex investigations needed to find wrongdoing from wealthy people who have probably filled out all the correct forms meticulously with an army of accountants and tax lawyers, but are doing some shady stuff nonetheless rather than going after the low hanging simple mistakes (and probably simpler fraud schemes) by low-income earners.
I actually thought it was a pretty decent caveat when writing for a non-technical audience. They're listing a bunch of different technologies that are (almost all the time) legally equivalent to cookies in the EU. And in EU privacy writing it's already common to use "cookies" to describe this whole area.

(The main exception to their list is scripts, which are only cookie-like to the extent that they use cookies or other client side storage)
In my experience management has a lot of anxiety over long term planning for software teams. What are we going to get built by when? Are we focusing on the right things? How do I keep things from falling apart because one key team member leaves?

Scrum et all offer what looks like systematic answers to these understandable concerns.
>> but decreased drastically as the project grew

I'm curious why?
Thanks for the recommendation. I've used them in the past at some point. I forgot about those guys! :)
The number of people who can actually pre-train a true LLM is very small.

It remains a major feat with many tweaks and tricks. Case in point: the 114 pages of OPT175B logbook [1]

[1] https://github.com/facebookresearch/metaseq/blob/main/projec...
Would this allow for Escher type spaces?
I would also go to bat for Diaspora, single-handedly re-invigorated my interest in science fiction
Crypto shows we shouldn’t venerate ‘innovation’ for its own sake
...crisis pregnancy center which offers alternatives to abortion a bad thing, they're giving resources to help people not feel pressured to make an irreversible medical decision.

It's laughable the dishonesty here. Anti-abortion businesses are precisely about pressuring people to make irreversible medical decisions. That's literally their modus operandi.
https://archive.is/ivFKS
I appreciate your correction. I apologize for my mistake and any harm caused by my lack of knowledge.
> Is there a software methodology that does away with all the ceremony and standups and meetings and trusts me to receive a task and see it to completion without management interference?

Kanban, which is an agile method. It contains the good parts from Scrum, without the pointless ceremony. Just take the most important story off the list, do it, then repeat until done. Feel free to adjust priorities of not started stories.

JIRA and the like can be useful tools to track what work is done. However the value isn't to engineers, it is to management on a large project. Keep that mindset in mind, on a large project management is hard.
Love how these universities come out with ever more findings of racism in all sorts of institutions - with the one exception of their very own offices:

https://padailypost.com/2022/10/29/stanford-defends-using-ra...
That sounds like a very simplistic framework and I'm sure you could do some metaprogramming to abstract boilerplate. Like you couldn't do database multitenancy with those constraints.

I've used the int keys and UUID public keys on multiple projects - it wasn't an issue for EF core or RoR
It took me one incidence to turn from "no one will ever conceivably even try to..." to "everyone will nod their heads and move on"
>They are just making it easier to set things up and manage. This is them knowing their customers.

Let's call a spade a spade - this is them knowing their customers, yes, but I'd hardly say they're just making things easier. It's Discord saying, "Oh, people pay for this kinda thing through Patreon? We'd actually like that money instead, please".
Those are are basically party games. They actually tried to become a Steam competitor before but gave up:

https://www.eurogamer.net/the-discord-store-launches-globall...
I'm generally pro-choice but this reckless disingenuity employed by abortion advocates is appalling. An abortion is not as routine as having a skin tag removed. It is a serious, life-changing decision that ought to come with an appropriate level of counselling, reflection, and consideration.
If Person A has a document saying that Joe Biden lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

and Person B has a document saying an 80 year old male living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has Chlamydia

do you think only Person A holds private information?
Hi Megan, Louis co-founder of Specify here.

This is one of the reason we built Specify (specifyapp.com) which is a Design API that helps you sync design tokens and assets from Figma to any platforms and formats.

Specify helps you get automated pull requests containing your design tokens and assets defined in Figma.

You basically just have to configure Specify once, and every time designers update colors in Figma you'll get automated pull requests with colors transformed exactly how you want.
Then just make a generated column that's a 32bit integer hash of the uuid for this particular case and create an index on that? Use that during expensive queries that blow up your cache locality if it matters.
I think you missed mindfulness - it's being integrated into a lot of psychological therapies (DBT, MCBT). It's strongly based on meditation, if not meditation repackaged.
You can plug its battery to a USB port while using it (according to Apple) so since most plane have charging ports next to every seat it doesn't look like battery capacity will be an issue on (most) planes. Just keep it plugged in while using it.
Betelgeuse Won’t Go Supernova in 'Tens of Years' – Or Even Centuries
I very much doubt you have all the authors, some components are RH creations, but not all. In any case, a company hiring one or two open source contributors covers a lot of gaps as they're the type of people who can do deep investigations. For systemd, for sure, there's inhouse development there.

My gripe about the original thread was bosses interrupting that investigation and telling the onsite staff to open a case elsewhere, IMO, that's disruptive behaviour.
Right? I mean "the algorithm" didn't just appear on its own? How it was developed and what it's optimized for was based on human design/development (or in the government's more likely case, procurement) choices.
We lose the ability to properly digest milk after the weaning stage.

Some have developed "lactose tolerance" but that's not saying it's great food.

We developed "lactose tolerance" in places where the winter was hard and you would get mostly gains+potatoes all winter long: in those scenarios milk (dairy products) is great! But that's "near starvation" from our modern day understanding.

We know milk has a lot nutrients, but also can literaly make us sick. 85%+ of the world population is lactose intolerant (the default). It contains casomorphine, which is addictive (so calf follows mum), hence the reactions of dairy addicts in this thread (like to want to take an addicts crack away). Dairy makes our bodies inflame, and promotes obesity.

But the dairy industry is verrrry good in promotion. So everyone and their dog know it "healthy and promotes strong bones" (which is bollocks).
> The critics were right on the first iPhone though, I remember it being a flop in my country just because of the lack of MMS support.

which country?
For comparison: Spanish has around 4000 words of Arabic origin.

I don't think anyone ever called Spanish almost Semitic.
At scale you’re probably sharded across multiple DBs and you’re already operating through replicas. Point being you’re less likely to hit a warm cache as you scale up anyway as your application layer gets load balanced to different DB endpoints.
I have to admit that those dark patterns on Amazon already saved me a good amount of money. For every order, I have to confirm that I don't want Prime (an estimated) 3 times now. Usually between the second and third click I'm reminded that I should shop around and to look for a better deal elsewhere (and usually there is one).

In that sense, thanks for your greed, Jeff.
Ease of building from scratch and long term maintainability are different concerns and maintainability can require higher complexity at first.

Eg. I would say involving TypeScript 100% loses at ease of building something simple quickly but with some experience I would not start a significant project without it anymore.
This sounds quite similar to a study published by the Economist about a month ago (and discussed on HN), though best I can tell, independent.

The Economist also found a 5% excess mortality, though on a global rather than UK-only basis.

<https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/05/13/how-we-e...>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36097246>
I think lots of us are feeling the same way about ClosedAI, regulations aside.

Scary to think how much power they have choosing winners and losers. I never got GPT4 API access.

Until the local models get up to speed, we are at the whim of this company deciding who wins and who loses.
Drugs are a revelation we're not ready for.

Old favorite: https://www.stilldrinking.org/the-episode-part-1
They protect rich people from having to follow the rules that apply to everyone else. I say this as a conviction capitalist and neoliberal, but on this my friends on the left are quite correct.
national (US) average teacher salary this year is estimated to be $68,469. zero states have an average over $100k, though NY is in the high 90s. do you just happen to live in NY and know a lot of late-career teachers then?
I agree that UUIDv7 will usually be the best choice. The one downside I can think of is that it may sometimes be necessary to let people know the identity of a thing without also telling them exactly when that thing was created.
Your ChatGPT account may be among the 100k reported stolen
I don't understand this point, and it's one we see very often. What would have happened if they'd been civilised?

1. We had a convention citoyenne pour le climat. Macron then mostly ignored it.

2. We have elected representatives who can vote on the laws for us. Macron then used article 49.3 to mostly ignore them.

3. Vote? For which candidate? None of them would cover all of the GJs' demands.

If you disqualify protests as a valid form of democratic expression, you also disqualify our famous revolution, the feminist protests that earned women the right to vote, the union strikes that earned us many worker rights, etc.

> I'll never trust people who think that violence is justifiable

Ah, that explains it. You only see violence in protesters who break windows, not in governments who enact laws on their people. Am I correct in assuming that you're ok with making people work 20 hours/week for the RSA as well?
That's actually a great explanation of why it's not easy to implement the clear function the way it makes sense for slices. However, this is a built-in, not a normal function, so they could make it do whatever they like, including doing the intuitive and desired thing, no? It seems to me that they've just created another "loop variable gotcha" type situation...
If you keep it to things that basic yeah that makes sense.

My mind kept going over the question of how does the AI truly determine what the majority consensus is and is that really good or fair to make everyone conform to.

Like where do you draw the lines is what kept going around in my head.
We utilize an array of cameras for stabilization, which you may have seen during our keynote presentation. Another fascinating aspect is our ability to replicate this process on a plane. For those familiar with the field, you'll understand that this is not a trivial task given the constant motion and changing orientations of an airplane.

The system's Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) faces a challenge in these scenarios due to the absence of a fixed inertial space. However, we've developed some innovative solutions to ensure a similar level of stability, even when used on an airplane.

This means that, even at 40,000 feet, amidst distractions such as a crying baby nearby, our system can transport you to a more pleasant environment.

(courtesy of you-know-what)
By that logic, sounds like the EITC needs to be altered as it’s disproportionally benefitting black people, then the problem is solved.

I’m being flippant, but sometimes people’s logic baffles me.
this has been an ongoing issue more than 10 years, with no end in sight