skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to admit, for the non-technical folks like not-ourselves, I don't understand why people dont know about such "simple lifehacks" -->

You're knowledge is sound, but rather than condescedingly relegate people to your 'simple' workaround - the ENTIRE premise of cookies and tracking against ones implicit desire to be private, is assinine.
Wait are these inference times real? 1 second on a Raspi? Do I get this right? This is faster than on my GPU. What's going on here?
... or juicing the economy with a little redistribution, without simply giving handouts. Or a little of both.

The CCC in the US was a similar thing: paying people to build nice things in parks and such while people were going hungry. We absolutely didn't need that stuff. Coulda just given the money away to those who needed it. Though, this way, at least, we got some wonderful benefits that endure to this day—indeed, the kind of well-built, long-lasting, and nice-to-have but unnecessary infrastructure and flourishes, for the enjoyment and appreciation of all, that make one feel like one actually does live in a very-rich country—even if the resource-allocation wasn't ideal from a greatest-good-for-the-suffering perspective.

A sincere attempt at economic stimulus, or keeping the able-bodied masses busy & fed so they don't get any ideas? Probably both.

As for the true motivations of the pharaohs—who knows.
I agree.

This is just my opinion, but I feel like stuff is way more likely to be actually be accomplished if there's a tangible goal. A goal, even an arbitrary one, helps you actually figure out the limitations of a theory or design, and if you don't have a goal it is far too tempting to handwave away important questions and live in theoretical land.
However, you miss the point of the American Revolution and the government that followed. Which specifically is to suppress tyrants. Stated otherwise, it is to limit those who are willing to act on their own behalf in a manner that oppresses the "dumb herd" while cloaking themselves in righteousness, superiority, and public good.

The view to which I am responding renders the American Revolution baseless: a waste of time and effort that was only to shift under which aristocrat(s) the colonists were to be governed. To them, it would have been of little consequence. Excepting for the important issue of War deaths.

Last, you begin from an argument of government and justify it with a conclusion that appeals to individual rights. It doesn't follow. There's zero conflict between democracy and the Bill of Rights that anti-populist rulership solves. The term "populism" being from the brand of propaganda that likes to have the word "democracy" constantly oozing out of its mouth while excusing itself to serve mostly special and politician dynasty interests.

Don't get me wrong. I don't believe that we've ever had a democracy. At the same time only a fool would allow self-styled aristocrats to claim historical just-governance. It's just not the case. Again, all this argument does is nullify most of the proposition for the American Revolution.
Why? Why should we take it at any more than face value? Why should we presuppose that Jung was super special in his ideas anymore than anyone else who could write a book at that time?

A convincing argument or narrative is not useful if it isn't backed up empirically and doesn't make testable predictions. Anything else isn't science, but pseudoscience, or philosophy. We should not base mental health on philosophy. Empirical reality does not give a shit what introspection or magical thinking or breakthroughs you had. Mental health should be based on what helps people mentally. That can still be Jungian methods for some people, but that doesn't mean Jung is a valid model of human psychology. A broken clock is also regularly correct.

>Just because an idea is not scientific does not mean it is invalid or has been disproven in anyway.

Your work is not more correct just because you thought harder about it than someone else. We know our brains to be terrible at interpreting reality. You cannot think yourself out of an incorrect model, that requires testing against reality. Our minds are also provably against reasoning ourselves out of preconceived notions and broken models.

It's not even an appeal to authority! They should not be considered to have authority because they are no different than you or I reading hours of wikipedia. It doesn't matter how "well read" you are, that doesn't make you any better at empiricism than anyone else. Jung is on the same level as the manosphere promising they have a valid model for predicting, explaining, and interacting with women, and as long as you stay within their narrative that seems true. It's only once you test that narrative against empirical reality that you can show it to be flawed.
prompt-fu, like Google-fu? I have a friend who’s gotten very good at prompt-fu.
Tim Berners-Lee is spinning in his grave and he's not even dead yet.
discord ? reddit? High school students ? Are you living in the same universe I am ?

If you said Instagram or tictoc or snapchat maybe
> who pays the cost. In the commercial product arena, the products are bought by people who make over median wage

~40% of households pay no federal income tax today. They'd literally pay nothing for this service.
> I am more concerned about not being assaulted or killed.

Don’t be — you’re safe unless you decide to make 10 of the worst decisions of your life in a row.
Just go to settings for the extension, and tick the box to allow it?
> To say that Sheldon didn't have influence on Trump akin to bribery is naive

Influence can definitely be bought. But trading influence isn’t bribery. What Adelson did is closer to a manufacturer opening plants in a swing state—despite higher costs—to curry favour with its senators than sticking wads of bills in their pockets. It’s definitely not the same. That’s the problem. But it’s a far cry from wiring Trump money in exchange for an executive order.

Blurring the line between bribery, lobbying and campaign financing not only sucks the sail out of campaign finance and lobbying reform. It also destigmatises actual bribery.
Who's tradition? This sounds fascinating.
Concurrence: the ability of the code to be self-documenting ends at the borders of the code itself. Factors outside of the code that impose requirements on the code must be documented more conventionally. The "sleep 10 seconds to (hopefully) ensure that a file has finished downloading" anecdote from upthread is a great example.
> There is an objective reality which we can only perceive subjective.

Observation is not inherently subjective though. The defining quality of objective reality is that it leads to shared, repeatable observations.
Some crypto maximalists ignore many of the intrinsic aspects of crypto (decentralized consensus, cryptography, etc.) because in their use case, it's just 'digital money.'

So when a completely dissimilar example of 'digital money' comes up, they equate it to crypto, even though it lacks many of the intrinsic aspects of crypto.
I lived in a rented room on Minna street and 7th in SoMa for a year back in 2015. I drove by yesterday out of curiosity and the area has gotten much worse. Dozens of homeless, addicts and dealers have completely taken over the sidewalks and street into a skid row type scene. Obviously selling and using hard drugs. No police presence of course. No idea how any sane person could live there. The housing is starting to look like honduras with the cage bars and barbed wires, except it’s $3500/month for a 2bd apartment on the block. I drove away scared and sad. A terrible trajectory for the city, and perhaps for the whole country if we can’t significantly shift the culture and policies around addiction, housing, wealth inequality and societal values generally.
Federal Reserve is not an elected office, nor is it a government agency. The Federal Reserve is a private organization.
I thought once a url was submitted it prevents new posts with the same url. It was only one day apart.
Hehe, I see we have been down the same route. Sad to say but ImageMagick is awful at resource usage. VIPS can do 100x better in many specific cases, but is a little brittle. I do not it that incredibly difficult to build though
> To earn your Michelin star, you’ll need to make your umami masterpiece with mushrooms and elk liver and sardine skins.

To earn your Michelin star, you need to know someone on the committee.

(Or so I'm being told. I'm not in that industry.)
Weird. According to my YouTube app I still pay $7.99/month?
You suspected you would find cryptographic primitives in a system that deals with privacy?
I've ultimately become disappointed with For All Mankind. It has its moments of greatness but literally two thirds of it is anti-exploratory, anti-science angst bullshit. I guess it's a a lot cheaper to film that stuff.
They really came out of gun targeting and were later developed into ballistic missile targeting (including sub-launched). Not that the AGC wasn't a significant achievement but the basic technology had already been proven out in Polaris and earlier.
Well, statistically women live longer so there may be more than one angle here!
>So long as you are white and don't look poor you can do whatever drugs you want and the law won't get in your way. I have literally done a bump of K with an on duty cop at a music festival.

I hope you know that US drug policy has basically been pushed onto the entirety of the rest of the world. Eg the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs in 1961. This means that when you talk about drug policy it's not about US racial politics, it's about the entire world. So when you say "as long as you're white" it's meaningless.

>This argument doesn't apply to video game gambling. Nobody is getting their hit of digital lootboxes from their dealer and the government isn't arresting players for Fortnite possession. You can have all the thrill of random drops without it being tied to your credit card, there are still recovering WoW addicts.

And you can have all of this without the government intervening either. That's the whole point - government intervention is what screwed all of it up. It's not intentional, but it's just a side effect that seems to always pop up whenever the government throws around bans that are intended to impact regular people.
Now that we have technology can’t taxes just be automatic when transactions happen?
My kids are directly responsible for a long and aggressive lobbying effort to eat ice cream every night.

Because we are effective parents and do our job, they don't get their way.

I can't see why our elected representatives can't manage to act with the same level of responsibility.
Yeah, I used it for years and it used to be better but it turned pretty trashy, which is why I switch to Brave a couple of months ago and I'm pretty satisfied now. Still glad DDG exists though as an alternative protest vote.
Indeed, for example turning Tweets and Tiktok videos into articles.
His misdeeds are the only reason why people are talking about him now.
Zelle: Fuck
This is my CEO.
Willow, and the Willow Interference Server have the option to use Vicuna with speech input and TTS
Our brains are the same way.

The me that went to sleep last night is not the same one that wakes up today or tomorrow. I'll have new experiences, maybe even changes in ways of thinking or believing. Maybe I get covid and lose an entire sense (smell).

From minute to minute sometimes it also feels like there's different beings in us, the angry version, the happy version, the loving version, the sad version, etc.. Different parts of our brain even handle some different ways we think or feel, could each of these parts stand alone on their own?

I think it makes a lot of sense that as we have different parts to our brain, so should AI's have different parts for different functions.
Pretty sure that is just the text encoding step. Generating a complete image took 3h if I read correctly.

update: "Tests were run on my development machine: Windows Server 2019, 16GB RAM, 8750H cpu (AVX2), 970 EVO Plus SSD, 8 virtual cores on VMWare."
Cash still works.
> There's no justification for these anti-filming laws other than allowing police to abuse the public.

There is, and it’s been stated in simple terms multiple times in these comments, as well as the justification for the law. You saying otherwise doesn’t make it untrue that filming police from too close is dangerous and obstructing.

You’re simply talking about a subject you know nothing about either great confidence and guts.
The FedNow project was in the works long before any serious CBDC idea was conceptualized.
You get penalties and an angry letter from the IRS if you are over a certain dollar amount and don't pay quarterlies.
I think it's the inference time per iteration.
Ironic when they shadow ban AI articles. I've written articles using 90% AI, ranked the same day for keywords, then they've disappeared the next day.
> The lower income folks have simpler taxes usually. The free products cover them generally. I may be wrong but that's how I see it.

Sure, but that's also how taxes generally work as well. People making less money will be paying less for the IRS service just as much as they would be paying less for the TurboTax system, as it currently is.
Why should EEs also be software engineers? These are two distinct specializations.

No sane person would expect a programmer to just design a lithium battery charge circuit that goes in your user's pocket, that'd be reckless and dangerous. I likewise would never expect a programmer to break out an oscilloscope to debug a clock glitch, or characterize a power supply, or debug protocol communication one bit at a time. I wouldn't ask a programmer to do FCC pre-validation, or to even know what that means.

Why then do you want to rely on an EE to produce critical software?

As an EE, I know my limits and how to separate concerns. I keep my bad C++ restricted to firmware and I simply do not write code further up the stack. We have programmers for that. Where the app needs to talk to the device, I'll write an example implementation, document it, and pass it off to the programmer in charge. It's their job to write good code, my job is to keep the product from catching fire.

If you want good code, hire a programmer. If you want pretty firmware, hire a programmer to work with your EEs. If you expect an EE to write code, you get EE code because their specialization is in electronics.

Unless you really want an EE who is also a software engineer, but then you're paying someone very highly skilled to do two jobs at once.

Electronics and software are two different jobs requiring two differently specialized people. It just looks like they overlap.
What does a development environment look like, both architecturally and simply visually?

Like: Do developers spin up entire fake economies with two banks and the fed on their latop, or is it all incremental changes to individual microservices in a big permanent test setup? Do other banks / service providers / the fed run test instances of their systems with fake money for other companies to do interop with, like a "global test financial network", or do you generally test with "real" money?

What do you see on your screen in day to day developer live? Are there like dummy online banking web interfaces? Or is it all text logs?

Is it just normal software development like anywhere else, or is there anything that really sets it apart in terms of developer workflow?
Well, one difference is that those laptops belong to the school. They don’t put in-home monitoring devices on privately owned devices.

That said, it’s still creepy, I agree.
Mexico surpassed China as the top U.S. trading partner
Sure, but have you ever been on the London Tube and noticed it's notoriously small and uncomfortable in parts? Have you also noticed how windy some stations get because the small trains fill most of the tube and act like an air piston?

Those tunnels are 12 feet diameter. Boring Co's tunnels are 12 feet diameter.

A modern subway system needs considerably larger tunnels.
Imagine if the signal were "stop praying, it makes it worse"
> Admittedly TIFF is also an overly flexible mess, but then so are Matroska (thus the need for the WebM profile of it)

Webm went way too far when they stripped out support for subtitles. The engineers who made that decision should be ashamed.
It's hard to say at this point if something like Let's Encrypt can exist in this space - but I'm for sure going to continue offering a free Cloud SaaS option with a generous set of features for document signing.
I'd love to chat to explore more about the potential non-profit solution - please feel free to drop me a line at alex@docuseal.co
almost 3 months to find the right person, get the signatures, and deal with OOO

Meanwhile another person reported in a timely manner.

plausible versus reasonable?
Usually it's called velocity, not speed, but point stands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money
Federal Reserve operates at the direction of Congress, who also directed them to build FedNow. FedNow is operated as a utility with a cost recovery (vs profit) model. Ergo, public good.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/fract.htm

https://www.pymnts.com/news/b2b-payments/2019/house-committe...
I suspect most products are concerned about product-market fit then they can wrangle costs down.

There's also a good assumption that models will be improving structured output as the market is demanding it.
Investor Charged with Kidnapping ‘Crypto King’
Actually, since you made so many terrible assumptions about me, the millions I saved the company were directly measurable in CC fees from less fraud, up to and including having numbers other people in the industry were extremely jealous of. This was done with about three people, compared to our competitors many tens of people, using kinda antiquated techniques.

I also get zero stocks, and zero bonuses. After 6 years working for the same company including many roles where I was basically team lead and engineering lead as a "Base level software developer", including being the sole holder of important legacy knowledge. I make $70k before taxes in a high cost of living area. Maybe we could build a system that rewards doing good work instead of rewarding job hopping and bullshitting. I once had a manager that did zero work for an entire month before he was asked to leave. He was made my manager because he sucked at doing basic coding. He made more than me from day one. This is very common for the normies like me who don't live in SV and basically do all the work that makes things happen not on google.com or facebook.com

I am also currently required to be working at 9am, AND attend meetings at midnight in my timezone because we have a big office in India and most of my team are there. I am also perpetually "oncall", though only for "serious" issues, neither of which I receive compensation for because tech workers are exempt and my employment contract was a single paragraph saying "You will do what we need you to do" and when I signed that I was fresh out of college with one year experience, $300 to my name and $1200 rent due in two weeks. I could leave but I am permanantly on medication just to live a normal life so here in the States I get to be shackled to my job unless I spend valuable personal time planning out a way to keep my medication going after I lose insurance.

So how about realize there are plenty of us not working in FAANG. Meanwhile, when a google engineer builds a system to improve ad targeting, how much of that money goes to the engineer, vs how much goes to the VP who made the vague suggestion of "lets make ad targeting better", as if vague, completely obvious ideas like that have value.
Still a bargain next to the private sector.
This is literally the plot for every transformer movie.
N=1, but ... a few months before Russia invaded Ukraine, I talked to a Russian girl at a party in Germany. She said she "voted with her feet" when she decided to move out of Russia. So she wasn't very Russia friendly. Moreover, young women are probably the most progressive demographic full-stop. Yet when I asked her about Ukraine, she repeated all the standard Russian government propaganda about an alleged NATO threat and stated that she was "neutral" on whether Russia should invade Ukraine. I was pretty shocked. If even young female expats think this way, what do older Russian men think? Perhaps she was a rare outlier. Or perhaps it's not an accident that so many Russians appear to continue to vote for Putin's party.
They feel they have nothing to hide. I find the “nothing to hide” argument baffling, as when they say this, I immediately ask them to tell me about their last sexual encounter, in graphic detail. After all, they’ve nothing to hide.

For some reason, they never do, and they usually get rather upset with me.
Tell her its a crystal of magnetite.
Some transactions can be rolled back asynchronously.

There are physical bank note, database from different system in trust or untrusted parties that need to be cross checked and reconsolidated
Last time I looked, all the top commiters were from Google.
I did this as a 1099-contractor, since that’s about the only way to do it as a contractor.

Paying estimated quarterly taxes four times a year wasn’t bad. I calculated my withholdings, remitted my tax payment through EFTPS, and was never surprised at tax time. I don’t think I ever got a refund or owed when I was doing it myself.

I learned that many people who have never contracted before are shocked they have to do this, lost on how it works, and had (then) no good place to go for actionable advice. I found that surprising and kind of sad in a way. We could be doing so much better with financial literacy.
My first commercial release of Iridium!!
Iridium: Secure customer access to your system without storing passwords!

We've been working hard on Iridium, a low-code Customer Identity, and Access Management system that removes the need to store passwords.

Our initial release gives you detailed docs on getting started with Angular.

https://docs.iridium.software/

And! It's all open source, forget vendor lock-in!

https://github.com/IridiumIdentity

We'd like feedback from the community on which frameworks to support next. Do you want React, Next.js, Spring, Ruby on Rails, Express.js, or something else?

As this is all open-source we'd love to get you involved in the project.

https://github.com/orgs/IridiumIdentity/discussions

Let's Gooooo!
There are two problems with that:

The one that affects most people is that the IRS system is "eventually consistent", but they do not currently have the information needed to file your return on the date your return is due.

If you don't believe me, request your transcript-of-records* on your account filing date. Then request it again in early fall. The latter will, IME, be complete while the former will not.

* - https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript

The one that affects only a subset of people is that many deductible items that go into tax returns are never shared with the IRS at all and only the taxpayer knows about them (today).
good. turbotax can/should be checked
Huh? Employers pay employees via direct deposit in many (most?) cases. This isn’t any different… Either way it’s money moving from one bank account to another digitally.
Excuse my ignorance, but is this actually implemented anywhere else? I could find that maybe WhatsApp uses it, and that Signal has their own version of it.

This doesn't seem very wide spread if thats the case.
don’t worry, someone will port it to JS
Super interesting, thanks for the response!
Funnily enough in many countries (India, China?) iPhones are definitely considered luxury/premium (compared to the competition, i.e Android).
When Greenland was green soil from beneath a mile of ice warnings for the future