skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I meant coin flips rather than dice rolls!

But no, the payoffs don't go to zero: it's heads you double your wealth, tails you lose 40%. That's insurable risk.
(if the payoffs went to zero there would be no benefit to pooling... the only winning move is not to play)

The article pretty pointedly is about social insurance, but it doesn't make a particularly good case for it since it's a completely abstract model which bears no relationship to the actual reasons wealth and income disparities exist and feeding unemployed people might be a good idea. Rich people don't need to gamble 40% of their wealth on each economic interaction (they're perfectly capable of diversifying their own portfolios) and very rarely get bailed out with a share of lots of less rich people's earnings when their investments suck.

The non-straw man version of "mainstream economics" absolutely understands how risks work and literally invented the type of game theoretic model the author is using to show what he thinks "mainstream economics" is missing
Also they say it'll be available by 2030 at the earliest: https://pharm.ucsf.edu/kidney/device/faq
The Usefulness of a Memory Guides Where the Brain Saves It
similar to https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/why-b...

"Why Bronze Medalists Are Happier Than Silver Winners"
The point of scrum is to provide employment for consultants and non-engineers.

I left engineering for an engineering job in finance. No scrums, no POs, just trader driven development and I haven’t looked back once. Glorious.
It still basically is — the document-based app template is pretty much TextEdit minus some settings.
The GPL should really be updated to say that any code produced from machine learning on GPL code is also GPL licensed.
The article said zero stories according to Jira.

This is, of course, rectifiable in Jira by allowing a ticket to have multiple people assigned to it.

...unless they aren't using Jira and some tool that doesn't allow this.
Georgia is extremely friendly with it, and I know lots of people with garage projects. You'll frequently see these cars on the road.

(I also know people building planes in their garage. I think Georgia just has a lot of this.)

https://dor.georgia.gov/assembled-and-unconventional-vehicle...
Dota 2 – Between the Lanes: Unbreaking a Bomb – A Bug Exploded
i remember my third year of coding as a pro, i had just taken a job in palo alto and was settling in after moving. i was at my new job and a bunch of the coders at the company i was working at went out for lunch and i was getting to know them.

one guy who was younger than i was was talking about how he had a degree from a liberal arts college, and had just been coding on his own for a while, and that when he moved out there for work and was interacting with other coders in real-life for the first time (previously it had been only over the internet) he was learning how to pronounce the names of various daemons, libraries, projects, etc., and that he had understood the pronunciations differently when he was physically on his own. in my head i silently said to myself, "this guy is a junior coder and won't amount to too much" and made a note to try to associate with some of the heavy hitters to try and boost my career and status (and i guess if i'm being charitable to myself, also to learn).

that guy left the company maybe a year later. the company he went to, i think he started as a dev, later became CTO, and eventually CEO. while he was CEO, the company sold for over a billion dollars. and even when we were still working together, i did learn quite a few things from him. so yeah, i think it is easy for people to pigeonhole others, or to think that they are in a place of skill that others perhaps can't easily get to, but sometimes that kind of thinking is quite wrong. (also, at his new company he wrote some great blog posts on software development and operations practices that i really enjoyed and learned quite a bit from)
Any person smart enough to work in tech (like the majority of HN community) can teach themselves how to understand that supposedly confusing language and file taxes themselves.

Any person who do not is just valuing their time more than the cost of tax preparation services. FWIW, I only spend about four hours every year doing my taxes myself. Which is less than the time needed to research a tax preparation service, communicate with them, and then check the results.
Because it would show they don't know anything about the economy. Isn't the US meant to be in a recession right now?
I really hope Gelsinger used that as an expression, not a real goal or strategy.

Apple using an Apple chip, given the recent past and circumstances is both a technical and a political move. Going back to Intel ( or AMD ) would be an humiliation and Apple's track-record dealing with inferior products has been basically ignore the problems and put their spin machine to use.

I hope Intel gets better but I also hope they don't get much better than anyone else because the last time that happened their arrogance and anti-competitive moves were so bad even their most "loyal" corporate customers HATED them with a passion.
Just run the numbers of mining requirements and you'll see it's impossible to begin with. There won't be 1.5b EVs anytime soon, if ever, that's the number of gas powered vehicles used on earth

This is just perpetuating the myth that we can consume and grow indefinitely despite living in a very finite environment, one more cycle, rince and repeat.

If the plan is "business as usual but pinky promise this time it's green" you know for sure it's shit
Thank you for the suggestion, but Obsidian does not meet my needs. It is a completely different class of application.

I just want a basic rich-text editor that opens quickly and lets me quickly jot something down and save it as a file.

wordpad.exe is less than 3MB, while just the installer for Obsidian weighs in at 72MB.
Out of my own curiosity, which clause in the GitHub TOS are you referring to?
What consequences? The IRS sends you a nice letter saying you underpaid. You agree with them and pay them. End of story.

It's not like you are using questionable deductions and barely legal maneuvers. Be honest in the first place. Tell them you had a good-faith effort to do your taxes and made a mistake.
There's a mysterious pedestrian bridge over I-5 in North Seattle, with nothing like it for miles. After reading this post I looked it up in google maps, and sure enough, it's right next to an elementary school. https://www.google.com/maps/@47.7639358,-122.3249609,554a,35... And two similar ones over I-405 https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6594203,-122.1842507,174a,35... https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6768724,-122.187362,187a,35y...
SQLC released support for this recently!
I don't use the Calibre GUI for anything, I have my own library management software, but the `ebook-convert` command-line tool which comes with Calibre is very useful. Much respect to Kovid Goyal for making these tools.
If you don't know why the app is crashing, then you don't know enough to blame the OS or the ecosystem. That's true of any operating system.
Apps aren't magically crash free because they're on a Mac. Dereferencing an invalid pointer can still segfault you just as quickly.
I worked at companies where de facto lines of code were a metric of performance. Then when I moved to first company where "how" was more important I had a heavy anxiety where I didn't write a line of code for a couple of weeks. I was worried I'll get fired. We were just having meetings and just talking about problem at hand and throwing ideas, without actually trying to implement anything. Then when the ideas how to tackle the problem matured, we would try to turn it into code, like a proof of concept thing (tested with people looking for solution) which could be thrown away. Eventually we would get the solution to the problem and most of the time it was flawless. In the code heavy approach, company would have ton of bugs, support requests, fixes on top of fixes, sometimes it turned out the feature was misunderstood, but it was already so embedded in the system, it was difficult to remove. So things were piling on.
The other approach? Boring. We had some bugs here and there, usually when something was not covered by the tests or some edge case we didn't think of. But I never forget the anxiety...
Also see Random DOS Game Show: https://www.youtube.com/@getoffmylawn6692/videos. He posts something nearly every day
Despite the existence of shift pods, and plug and play camping, it's not "Burning Man, brought to you by Budget Rental" level of commercialized. Thankfully theres EDC and other events to take that stead.
Do you have investments in stocks and index funds?
>The maker starts with a right to make a product as they see best.

I'm pretty sure we're not even on the same planet at this point. If you think this is true, go produce some products as 'you see best' and see how long before you end up in criminal/civil court. There are myriads of regulations on what you can and cannot put in products that are sold to others. To think otherwise is a level disillusionment that only the most staunch libertarians reach.

The public has rights, the market is not a free for all do to whatever you'd like.
FWIU recently there's?:

- Increase the input prompt token limit (2023-09: 32K tokens in: OpenAI GPT-4 Enterprise, Giraffe (LLama 2))

- Fine tune [a "LoRA" atop a foundation model]

- TODO: ~Checkpoint w/ Copy-on-Write
I'm not really a fan of auto-restart on crash. In some cases, it could cause damage.

I consider a crash -any crash, to be my fault. This includes things like yanking out the power cord (which probably will just stop the program counter, as opposed to careening off into the weeds).

No matter how abusive the user is, no matter how out-of-band their behavior, my software should never crash.

I love crashes. They tend to be easy to fix (of course, thread collisions are another matter). If I can reliably reproduce a crash, I can usually fix it in a few minutes.

In iOS, Apple makes it impossible to quit an app. I have heard of developers deliberately forcing a crash to do that, but, if Apple catches you doing it, they'll yank the app. They won't approve apps they can get to crash. In fact, they have, in the past, found crashes that I missed.

Just better off, writing software that can handle always-on, and that doesn't crash.
Being responsible for making EVs popular does not give them the right to do whatever they want.

Tesla didn't push EVs out of the goodness of their hearts. They did so because they thought they could build a profitable company. Tesla's execs and shareholders are being compensated quite well already for their investment of money/time/work. No need to give them a blank check to do anything we (as a society) don't want them to do.
I’ve observed the same pattern in corporate world with folks which are close to promotion stage. Nice people suddenly become bitter and very hard to work with. Only the best stay nice.
No, they are being private about their future plans to avoid being ripped off themselves.
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No, it is "excessively" complex because it recognizes that what is fair to one industry or group of individuals isn't necessarily fair to a different group of individuals. What many people think of as "loopholes" are grounded in decades or centuries or pre-income tax financial structures, especially the loopholes related to agriculture.

For example, one of the biggest loopholes in the tax code is the carried interest exception. It created modern Silicon Valley; YCombinator exists solely because of this loophole. Most of the nation regards it as the most blatant subsidy in the tax code, but it is essential to startup financing. How would you feel if they got rid of it?

And the "flat rate" tax rate you propose is a huge subsidy to the wealthy, who derive the most benefit from a stable government and therefore should pay the most to continue it. Conversely, any rate high enough to fairly tax the wealthy would excessively tax the poor and middle-class. This is why we have a progressiv (i.e., complicated) rate structure.
Yes, but it’s also funny, and not mean-spirited or targeted at a specific person. Windows users are in no way a protected class.
While it’s very tempting to dive into the “productivity and note taking space” it’s all largely rehashing the same ideas.

PARA is a rehash of GTD getting things done imo with a few obfuscating steps.

Virtually everything in this space falls into stuff ripped off from GTD, or Thinking Fast and Slow concepts and romanticising mental models, or Bullet Journal, or Zettlekasten.
Im really not sure how though.

I'm from German too. We use algebra as the generic term for math more or less.

I wouldn't have assumed algebra would only mean fields and rings.

The Wikipedia article algebra also links to algebra over a field.
You live in a different country probably.

Or, the past isn't the present. It was very difficult to get a job in the US in 2008 and now it's easy because it's 2023. (slightly harder for some kinds of tech)
If you don’t like it, don’t publish your code to PyPI. It’s as simple as that. Their terms of use allow behaviour like this.

In the future, rather than shit on someone’s project, read.
Don't they call the drivetrain of an EV "The Skateboard"?
Turing and Gödel proving that whenever a mathematical system is rich enough to describe the arithmetic we learn at school, it cannot prove its own consistency is a bit of a barrier.

ML is sophisticated pattern matching and finding.

As we know that even defining simple rules of arithmetic is impossible, how will pattern finding do so.

Sure some company could pay slave wages to make LLMs better at it, but correctness is important in math and LLMs have no concept of truthfulness.
>There is a contingent of Congress that does not want to make tax preparation easier because it aligns with their narrative that taxes are bad. The more painful tax preparation is, the more sympathy they find with this narrative.

Had me up until here. This is what I'd dismiss as a conspiracy theory.
Drones aren't that new militarily speaking, and aren't particularly survivable against Russian EW systems: they're simply cheap enough that Ukraine can afford to replace the current rate of losses of about 10 000 UAVs per month (Meatgrinder: Russian Tactics in the Second Year of Its Invasion of Ukraine, p. iii)
Best is someone familiar with the LLM based coding tools to help the calibre team refactor their code.

IMHO, calibre components can be replaced with other tools, but very difficult to assemble and engage an open source team successfully as they have shown. I have the same view on VLC also
Well I think that is the worst that can be.

Maybe best as well because you quickly know to pack things up and look for a new job.
You'll have about 250k people at Glastonbury, but there is alot to do at Glastonbury having been a few times, so 70k sounds rather cosy, which seems so unusual for the US which normally does things bigger and better.

Going to Burning Man is something on my bucket list, which is why your comment surprised me, how can you say its peaked?
Washington's capital gains tax collects $850M, over 3x the estimates
I've only done my taxes with FreeTaxUSA, but I think I'll have to pay up for TaxSlayer for this year's taxes because FreeTaxUSA don't support a specific state form I need to file to save me money (Annualized income installment method for calculating estimated taxes). I did message FreeTaxUSA about supporting that about 2 years ago because I knew I was going to need it at some point.
You know what is depressing? Owning a house is basically trying to own your retirement old age home. Unless you start saving like 30k+ in your mid-late 20s every year, you won't actually own a house until your mid fifties because mortgages are rentals with additional cost like interest rates, insurance and maintenance costs. Not to mention even if you did outright own your home, it is still a f*cking rental, "why, because tax?" You say, no! Because HOAs! Not only do you still pay them a few hundred dollars rent no matter what, if they deem you in violation of their rules, they can just foreclose your house and take it away, even if you paid it off after 30 years!

There is no such thing as home ownership for regular people. It's just a marketing term. If you own something, there are no conditions for you to be allowed to keep owning it outside of violations of the law. If paying a private entity and following that entity's rules is a requirement then it is rental with extra steps.

"But equity!" You say? Hah! Haah!! a savings account at a bank could do better. For most people, after accounting for interest payments, assuming your home value went up, just beating inflation is difficult.

Let me put it differently, it your insurance, maintenance cost, interest payment would be more than or close to rent cost then it's a terrible deal.

If your income is a 100k then since you shouldn't spend more than a third of your income on housing, let's say $30k/yr is your housing budget, in states with decent jobs (cali,texas,ny,etc..) you would have to save that much for ten years or pay mortgage and wait like 13-15 years before it is yours on paper, and then you get to pay at least $1000/mo in overall costs on it for the rest if your life.

The best you can do is buy land without hoa or deed restrictions and cheap insurance and build. If you're lucky and can WFH then finding a rural land with internet should do the trick, but if you have to commute to a big city/suburb you're screwed. Best to pay cheap rent, save up until your late 40s (if you start in your late 20s/early 30s) until you can afford to buy/build outright or pay 60%+ downpayment and take a risk.

The true cancer is HOAs and house owning as an investment being legal. If only there were more high rise condos without messed up HOAs. HOAs have a purpose but their lack of regulation makes them enemies of the public.
I'm wondering what part of human nature makes these things possible.
Why are we bamboozled by things that, if we don't think deeply, kinda feel they'll work, but we'll never invest any interest into seeing they actually work or not.
Does it all boil down to signalling? Is it necessary just to emit enough signal to show others how aware and virtuous we are?
This extends to other things, like the whole green foods, green energy, recent pandemic. So many things seem to just be theatrical in nature, no substance whatsoever.
I foresee a future when this view from above gets popular, and people will gather around the signal of "but actually this is known not to work", and people will start to be blind of anything else but these new waves of observations, but fundamentally we'll be in the same kind of game.
Are LLMs useful for large-scale refactoring? Seems like you'd need a specific model for that.
Assuming they do, that's not enough. There needs to be a market for non-Tesla-built parts that will nonetheless work in the cars. We shouldn't allow manufacturers to lock things down so that becomes impossible (or even illegal, when the DMCA comes into play).
I trade stocks, ETFs, options (mostly section 1256 contracts which are easy to report), and I have rental property.
Yes, or there should be a ROBOTS.TXT file that describes how the code in a directory may be indexed or used by machines (e.g. malware scanning okay, no LLM training, etc.) But you're probably correct that such rights should just be covered by the license itself.

Your reciprocity suggestion could also work, since it would mean any LLM trained on even a single file of GPL code would be "poisoned" in the sense that any code it produced would also be GPL. This would make people wary of using the LLM for writing code, and thus would make the creators of it wary of training it on the code.
Texas was till recently. I have family that works at the registration office and needless to say there are a lot of people with custom vehicles that are surprised
I've asked this question a number of times now: What is the unit of work for software development?

If you work on a factory line, you can measure widgets per hour and quality. In construction, you can measure distance or area completed. But in programming, you are not making a repeatable product like the factory line. You can say that developers deliver story points; that is the product, not the work.

I invite you to come up with your own answer before you read mine.

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I think the inner cycle of development is learning and trying. You learn about a system, make a theory, try that theory out, try to extend that theory, then you test. That test will let you learn some more - was I right or wrong, was there some side effect. Then you repeat.

I don't think this learning and trying is a good unit of measure for performance, but I do think it's a good basis for an engineering notebook, which may be reviewed with a manager.

Non-junior developers are essentially managing themselves when it comes to getting the work done. So how do you manage a manager, when that manager is not responsible for widgets?
Not a problem here. Read the top level comment.

"static key-value data. ... a const (i.e. a hash table)"
What the? 16%? Of the Python ecosystem. Why is it so big?
Weird that none of the people posting here who clearly know the answer are providing it in a straightforward way. That’s a bit concerning.

It’s because 1776 is a dog whistle for a second American revolution. If you dig, I suspect you’ll find the term associated with some violent alt-right groups calling for armed revolution. Google is doing what it does around calls for violence. Deprioritizing, and generally refusing to broadcast and amplify it.
Show HN: SpritePaint – A lightweight pixel art and animation tool
This was a labor of love for a good 6 months, then I slowly abandoned it. Coming back to it a few years later, its crazy to look back on far I even got. I was completely new to anything graphics or application related in the browser and I learned a boat load.
I bet if the people had a simple way to simplify taxes, they would attack the billionaire and philanthropy, having a more effective way to understand what tax codes those entities use as well

there isn’t really a benefit in offering these tools when the alternative is another 100 years of “taxing the rich” by raising income tax on the upper middle class