skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes, I heard somewhere that Brian Karis at Epic was partially relying on prior work by an academic when he developed virtualized geometry for Unreal Engine 5. (I can't remember the name of the researcher though.)
Well, I'm a little disappointed but not surprised that your posts are more "taxes are immoral" arguments without any substance about how we're supposed to do things without them. Even this latest post is like small quibbles and straw men about completely centralized societies. Feel free to round out your position on how we're supposed to run a society without taxes or just how we can spend money more "competently", but I think this is just another paper libertarian argument here.
Ah yes, I’ve had that too: I still wish editors would make it more visually apparent when you had unsaved changes.
Built it this morning on Gentoo!
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This. I don't understand why this is up for debate. Working hard does not buy a house, a convenient apartment, a promotion to higher income, equity at low prices, a lifestyle where one can find partners and settle down, kids, kids education.

We are talking about the basics, not avocado toast or international vacations.

The juice just ain't worth the squeeze in America any longer.
Specifically, you have to get them to sign a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement (BAA). The good news is that Amazon makes this an automated process in their compliance portal, so you can knock that out in 5 minutes and then go on with the rest of the planning.
So? We should not just throw the baby out with the bathwater. God forbid some people get it wrong, the current education system is not exactly the shining beacon of 'good.'

If there's one thing I hate about social media especially, it's that we must skip all nuance to yell in absolutes.
fixed. I love my iPad and then I don't.
We may admire what he did, but we despise what he is: a tool in the hands of others.

Chomsky can be so full of shit at times. I’d like one piece of writing from before the 19th century, perhaps just a morsel of evidence that this was a “common belief” among anyone but the elite that have time to sit and write things all day.
In Germany duelling was a legal grey zone until 1953, when it was clarified that fighting with sharp weapons under agreement to cause mutual harm is OK, as long as it not as away to settle matters of honour or kill each other.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6ttinger_Mensurenprozess
Isn't the problem the audience? We use art as entertainment that has to appeal to a big audience. The education of artists is so good that a genius cannot stand out by their skills. Among all the Tiktok and Yt videos, how do we identify the deep innovations? Only in hindsight, when our culture has changed, will we identify the ones who initiated it.

It would take something like HN for cultured people to identify the geniuses of our times and to give them a platform.
One of my favorite old songs: Big Rock Candy Mountain (https://genius.com/Harry-mcclintock-big-rock-candy-mountain-...) covers it well. The last verse ends in:

There ain't no short-handle shovels
No axes, saws or picks
I'm a-goin' to stay where you sleep all day
Where they hung the jerk that invented work
In The Big Rock Candy Mountains
Ah! That worked, thanks.
Roman road brought to you by McDonald’s (2017)
Right, but again, tax revenue hasn't change over time as a percentage of GDP. The government is taking in the same percentage as it was during WW2.

And if you look at the percentage of all taxes paid by the wealthy, it's actually grown over time (become more progressive).

Of course that doesn't mean that some rich end up paying less than expected, but overall, the data doesn't support the idea that the rich overall aren't paying a substantial amount of taxes.
Per the current laws, but what about per objective ethics? I don't care what is written in the code book.
Consider reading this: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.

> Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.
Sure they are, we just need a wealth tax. Done and dusted.
If you aren't familiar with Ray Dalio's Principles for a Changing World Order, I can't recommend it enough (both the book and the YouTube video). You'll understand a lot better where the U.S. is in it's history and why so much is the way it is.

https://youtu.be/xguam0TKMw8
Am I the only one that doesn't like the win95 look anymore but still appreciates designs that are similarly conservative about whitespace? Is there any design system out there that is like that?
> As a tech lead, the big problem I see now is that people are not hungry anymore. The best engineers I've ever worked with were consistently asking for more and leveling up the team at the same time. Now, the post-covid hires, especially the junior engineers, just do the bare minimum to scrape by, and they seem totally unbothered by it.

Because they see management not pulling their weight for the pay they get. Why should lowly paid junior engineers work harder than management who are just sitting back, dumping poor decisions on them?

> One new hire on my team spends upwards of 2 hours per day "walking her dog." I even called this out during a formal performance review and her behavior hasn't changed at all. (Work-from-home abuse is another component of this observation.)

Wow, blame someone for having a healthy life.
The perennial nature of “kids these days” being insolent and otherwise generally poorly disciplined is that discipline is something to be cultivated within and not imposed from without. As a result, children who lack years of practice in discipline are not particularly well behaved. Adults tend to forget their childhoods, remembering only bits and pieces. In truth, every child was scolded for his/her bad behavior, and each generation tends to have the same bad behavior as the one before it. If each generation of kids were perfectly well behaved there’d be no need for raising, and there’d be no statements from old people such as “children are to be seen and not heard” or as “do not speak unless spoken to” or even as “get your elbows off the table”. That such statements are uttered and remembered by multiple generations proves that kids have made roughly the same “mistakes” over the course of those selfsame generations.
I wonder if workers, at some point, will be able to start demanding compensation for commute to work, when there it is perfectly possible to work from home? E.g. these tech companies that are starting to require employees to return to office.

On the other hand, we don’t get compensated (fully [1]) for the utilities cost from working from home.

[1] Some reimburse things like internet, but that’s about it. We can’t even claim taxes on expenses from WFH unless we’re independent.
From a small business perspective, turnover is a lot higher, and a lot more of it is because the employees are simply not doing their jobs and have to be let go. I think this is the tight labor market at work, actually. Good workers are being retained because there is enough demand for them. If they move, they are not on the market, they're recruited and cherry picked. The available ones responding to ads have usually been let go before for cause.

A single example of people complaining each year does no more to debunk the observation than the complaints do to affirm it.

This forum frequently talks about the 10x performer, the 1x performer, the 0.1x performer and the negative performer. In other industries, maybe you won't have a 10x, but you can definitely get ranges from impressive performance to destructive interference in your employees.

What we really need is to study engagement and effectiveness in various industries to determine whether there's trends of more hard work or more slack, but in lieu of that we will find journalists interviewing the guy at the diner for the story, and that will become the zeitgeist.

I personally feel like things are more hectic and busy than ever before, and I don't know how much of that is due to the increased distraction power of all of our "tools". Or whether it's a symptom of aging or long COVID or whatever.
There’s a difference between blame and prudence. It’s not blaming him to suggest he is empowered to change his conditions. If someone eschews prudence once aware of it, then they do bear some accountability for their outcomes, but even accountability is not blame. The confusion of the two has become commonplace as our society tries to avoid any conception of accountability.
Thanks for contributing to anti-cesnsorship, I respect anyone who puts that effort it.
Does intellisense like autocomplete now work out of the box? Is company bundled in, as of recent versions? Is there any dependency on Clang to get it working for C/C++ code?
The left-hand title bar button in Windows 3.x was not a close button, mind, it opened the title bar dropdown menu (which was changed to a right-click context menu in Windows 95).
>Here, take all my money!!

Yes, except when something is too good to be true I tends to be very skeptical of it.

While it would great if FDA approves it, I generally take the EU perspective in terms of Food Safety.

At the same time I am also wondering, if this works, may be it is time to tax Sugar?
Well, they really need to up their SEO, because I found one
My 30s self also runs circles around my 20s self when it comes to work (writing code), but I’m confident that’s thanks to the knowledge, experience, and wisdom that’s accumulated in that time.

If it were somehow possible to grant my 20s self these advantages, he’d run circles around me. Not just because he’s cognitively faster, but because he’s able to work for longer periods without feeling fatigued and can focus more deeply thanks to having fewer mental background tasks constantly running and not yet feeling the various time-related pressures that come with age.

Giving my teenage self current knowledge would also be interesting. Even though people aren’t cognitively complete yet at that point, at that age I had the ability to get lost in a project on a dime which was was amazing.
A better Customer Service bot would be one that's trained on data other than what's publicly available. A support bot that has read and "understands" the code itself may be able to offer suggestions, or confidently determine there is in fact a bug, and either report it or fix it. Imagine a customer speaks to HelperBot and says the sorting is broken, and as a matter of fact it is. The sorting broke when the last change to SomeApp was shipped. Don't fear, HelperBot has rollback authority. "One second, I'll see if we can get that working for you..."

Working at SaaS companies I've seen countless "somewhat fluid" exchanges of information between customer -> support -> product -> developer -> support -> customer -> support -> dev, etc. The different modes of communication and long round trip times make things slow, bug reports take minimum of hours, up to weeks to absorb and resolve.

This is just one case but there are boxes drawn everywhere. Every level of intelligent organization within the society, including it's artifacts, has assumptions baked in. Now that the unit economics of applying `intelligence()` is being shifted by orders of magnitude, there's all sorts of stuff that's ripe for recrafting.

Disclaimer: Don't give HelperBot launch authority to offensive weapons etc. You know, make decisions consistent with a world line where the continuation of the civilization is pretty darn likely. Unless of course your project is to replace the current civilization, ... I don't know. Just don't do what Donny Don't does.
> No, it is a consequence of poor engineering on the part of the user of the service,

The entire service going down for 24 hours due to a reboot is not a consequence of poor engineering on the part of the user. A production service which people rely on for critical data failing on the _textbook_ example of running a live service is poor engineering on the services part.
Brilliant.

It should be memorialized forever somewhere easily accessible by everyone.

That way, when silly people complain that "nobody wants to work anymore," they can quickly be shown how uninformed and unoriginal they are.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Or, as The Who succinctly put it: "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
Came across this interesting take:

> When I see an "X" in the corner of an image I see on screen, it feels as though clicking on it will make it go away. Now, clicking on an "X" is supposed to feel like a way to take me onto The Website Formerly Known as Twitter. But my instinct is to click when something is annoying me, not to click when I want more.

https://althouse.blogspot.com/2023/07/a-problem-with-x.html
Instead, use the redis acl commands to modify permissions you don't want executed by a user (i.e flushall, flushdb) as opposed to renaming commands.
I have a feeling the ~$2b wasn't his

Still, good reminder to speak up about the products to leadership and see if we can get them to donate.
Well china currently has a larger population, but here's Noah asking us to make enough bullets to change that.
Right. The current low rates provide much stronger incentives to accurately report income vs. less efficient tax shelters and in-lieu-of-cash benefits. So we expect taxable income statistics to more accurately capture real earnings than under earlier tax regimes (particularly pre-1986).
The article stated half of a million, so very likely yes.
I think it is costing me less than $2 / day. In the world of supplements, it's not that much.
Induction stove. Electric car. Heat pump. Those are indicators of being born in privilege. What about your AC in car and hotel and home?

USA setting off nukes and Britain fire bombing Dresden are examples of energy use which is wasteful and polluting. There are always exceptions to one broad indicator, in this example energy usage.

Technology improvement typically brings more efficient use of resources and less pollution. Energy consumption, as one indicator, tracks with increased GDP and increased standard of living.
i remember the example of "you can't comb the hair on a coconut without a whorl".
It doesn't break physics as we theorize it, but physics as we practice it. If someone found a working room temp and pressure, within a few years it would be used in labs around the world. Which is why the superconductor claim is such a big deal.
I always hear that European economies fall under the socialist rubric, but they seem pretty capitalist—at least a lot more so than the economies of any Marxist-Leninist government throughout history. I imagine scholars have a reason for their taxonomy, but I wish it made more sense to me.
What do you consider a fair pay for junior engineers in order for them to contribute at the capacity they're expected to? Our fresh college grads are paid a total compensation higher than $200K. Is that not enough to expect working, at minimum, 8 hours a day?
Birds are among the most diverse and beautiful creatures on Earth. They play vital roles in ecosystems, pollinating plants, dispersing seeds, controlling pests, and providing food and shelter for other animals. However, many bird species are facing serious threats from habitat loss, climate change, invasive species, hunting, and pollution.
Nothing kills it!
The full theorem is a continuous mapping back on itself. So, only the water in the glass mapped back to the glass. Pour it out to another glass, and you no longer mapped back to the glass. Pour it back into original glass, and you are back to having a fixed point possible. And, obviously, only with respect to the mapping in the glass.
I suppose it depends on how secure the password manager is and how much security is built into it. I am using 1Password for most of my 2fa stuff (bar my personal and work office 365, plus Authy for some backup 2fa codes and stuff that won't export). Everything in 1pass is secured using my yubikey.
He's helping SF by selling everything not bolted in his office at an auction, defacing it with random changes and not paying rent.

The friend who's here to stay when you're in need. A true hero.
Open Source Mac GPT desktop app
Have you ever wondered how India has become a global leader in tiger conservation?

In this blog post, we will explore the reasons behind the rise of the tigers in India and how India has become a global leader in wildlife conservation and will also look at the challenges that lie ahead.
Well, this did happen in machine learning. There was a theoretical argument that neural networks "should" terribly overfit according to statistical learning theory, since they have very large VC dimension, but they don't. Practice did race way ahead of theory in AI. Another example is the Chinchilla scaling law, which was discovered empirically instead of being derived from first principles.
I want to live in a world, where no one have to work in order to live a decent life, but I dont want to live in a world that has forgotten how fulfilling work can be.

I live for my work because it is engaging, challenging, and is my way of contributing to society. I want to live a life that contributes more to the world then it consumes. The Anti-work movement has a lot of good criticism of our capitalist society, but also throws the idea of work as way of contributing to society under the buss. People who work long hours arent suckers.
Definitely not a non-argument. Its a circumstancial argument, that does not prove a whole lot, but its perfect against a unsubstantiated claim like the one its used against. It doesnt even have to have happened to be a good argument, because the counterparty does not give any facts either. Just a hollow statement. I love the Monty Python sketch on this subject:
https://youtu.be/VKHFZBUTA4k
It is better for a country to be realistic about it's place on the world. I live in the UK. There are still people here with an exaggerated idea of our importance which helps no one.
That wouldn't change the end result though ... which is that for kids in America, we aren't going to get everyone at the same level of performance as Asian kids by money alone.
I mean maybe I have work ethic or am lucky. But I don’t struggle to pay mortgage, buy cars, or go on vacations and I am the sole breadwinner for my family… but I also started programming in 3rd grade in the 90s, didn’t go to college so have no debt, and live a pretty non materialistic punk rock life.
US manufacturing is an all time high and the population is still growing. China has been below replacement levels for birth rate long enough that their population is actually shrinking.
It’s not “work from home” abuse.

You’re not really paying people to be at a computer working exactly 40 hours a week. You’re paying people to solve problems and create value. There is not a 1:1 correlation between time and results in this field. Most days I only need maybe 3 or 4 hours to take care of work related stuff.

As long as people do what is asked, why should they worry about burning out the extra time that remains?
I can confidently say that Elon's X won't become Japan's WeChat.
Yeah... executive stakeholders will fire you on the door spot if you come in with that sort of excuse. "How do you assure that our intellectual property, which is worth billions of dollars, is uncompromised?"
Isn't iron in spinach insanely difficult for humans to actually absorb? Quick googling says it's around ~2% of total iron in spinach which we can absorb, so instead of eating 100g to get 2.7g you'd need to eat 5kg of spinach per day.
As in we’re taxing way more!
If you a new to GeoGuessr this is probably a more interesting video from the author [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p5Eb4OSZCs
It boils down to economies of scale.

The DoD requires a significant percentage of war materials to be manufactured in the US for strategic reasons. You don’t to be unable to make bullets/boots/etc in a war because all the factories that manufacture that stuff are in the country you’re fighting. But that also extends to the components to manufacture that stuff like shoes laces, optical cables, screws etc etc.

However having small scale manufacturing in the US inherently means less automation and high labor costs. Meanwhile China which is already manufacturing most things at scale doesn’t need to pay a premium for this stuff.

It’s debatable how much this is necessary, but war is more about logistics than most people assume.
> For me the gross smells are artificial fragrances like soap, deodorant, cologne/perfume, and dish soap.

Its meta data on peoples health. Look at long covid and the loss of smell. Symptoms indicating what people are missing out on dietary wise in order to improve their health. Thats why I say Covid was a biological weapon, and there are plenty of people who know what they know, but they dont know what they know...

> I think dogs don't smell bitter scents as strongly as we do (it's how they can eat feces)

Coprophagy and bacterial analysis studies suggest there may be a need for certain vitamins, namely vit K.
What a beautiful dream Noah promises us all.
FFS, change the intent.

What is it about this topic that renders people unable to think rationally? Imagine if software was written with this quality of thinking.
There are multiple definitions of "liberal", but in the American context it's really stopped meaning anything about classical liberal concepts of personal liberty (in speech in particular) and more about perspectives on moral and identity issues, it seems. It's really, from my mind: not-conservative, defined almost entirely in opposition to the aggressive reaction from the religious moral right in US politics. Anything beyond that is just a huge mix.

Liberal across the Atlantic means something closer to its classic definition.

One of the first challenges I have when discussing politics with Americans (and increasingly other Canadians) is precisely trying to define how I, as maybe a more "traditional" socialist radical, do not fit on the spectrum they've defined there. I share a disgust with the conservative right, am secular, and broadly call myself a feminist or anti-racist but when it moves to bread and butter issues, gun control, or some identity politics stuff... there's basically no correspondence...

(Here in Canada, it's muddled in different ways, where "Liberal" is a political party, defined mainly by "whatever will win an election" than any constant ideological focus. Right now it's vaguely "left" (in so far as it takes "left" positions on cultural issues, combined with some kind of neo-Keynesian budgetary spending model, but combined with low corporate taxes) but in my mind it's really just a kind of croneyism... but that's a rant. We have a separate, sometimes-successful, social democratic party which sorta muddies any kind of comparisons to the US, but comparisons to the UK also don't work because our NDP isn't really like their Labour party, either... though it might want to be)