skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does that scenario look like in practice?

Suppose I'm the evil coercing person. I have an artificial kidney and $X, you have (still in your body) a real kidney, and you're short of money so you prefer (artificial kidney + $X) to (real kidney). We make the trade.

Why would I do that? Presumably so that I can (evilly) treat someone with kidney disease by giving them a real kidney, which they prefer to an artificial one. In fact, to make it worth my while they must also be paying me at least $X more for the real kidney than they would have for the artificial one.

So the incentives work out provided my patient prefers (real kidney) to (artificial kidney + $X), and my victim prefers (artificial kidney + $X) to (real kidney), and what I'm doing is (evilly, coercively) enabling them both to get what they prefer.

It's hard to see how I can be doing anyone very much harm here. Presumably the idea is that the victim is worse off, having been persuaded to give up their precious real kidney for an inferior artificial kidney in exchange for mere money, but also-presumably they are poor enough not to have the luxury to use phrases like "mere money" and $X is a life-changing amount for them. Which probably means their situation at the outset is very bad, but that isn't my fault.

I expect there are possible situations where the existence of artificial kidneys enables some things to happen that look good to all participants but end up being bad ideas in the long run. But it seems super-implausible to me that these could outweigh the benefits of being able to make functioning artificial kidneys.
That's irrelevant to this discussion.

a) If they screw up payroll and the numbers reported to the government are wrong, you'd have to correct that even if the government sent you a pre-populated form (and if they screw up payroll, but the numbers are still right, then that's also what gets imported into the tax software).

b) If you don't have a bank account, you didn't earn interest from the bank, and there's nothing to report.

c) Robinhood, Webull, and Coinbase all integrate with TurboTax. If you were trading crypto without using an exchange, then yeah, that'll be harder to report. But this will be equally hard regardless of whether the government sends you a pre-populated tax form (which won't include these trades).
it look like a creature from Spore
Awesome article - thank you
Very cool app and super clean design. Did you use SwiftUI?
Is it? If I'm not mistaken this is exactly what journal editors, and reviewers, claim each and every time a new scandal blows up.
It's not a conspiracy theory when they literally come out and say it.
I find it interesting that 2 of 3 comments mention the word "love" because I was going to post "I love this so much!". There's something magical about such found objects, and is a big reason I still have a huge, unweildy physical library of books. They remember things that digital copies don't. Plus I have this weird thing where I can remember which side of a book something was on, which cuts the search time in half! I daresay that we'll see this digital everything always on screen era as a fad, like the era where everyone smoked.
Cmd+click! Right clicking to open a link in a new tab is uncivilized.
Given Nintendo still exists as a company 12 years after launching the 3DS and the latest wave of VR has died out because of disinterests rather than lawsuits I can't imagine it's significantly worse than a standard display.
Just wait until you find about digital media distribution.
That looks more like it! But not quite there yet. Thanks for sharing
The concept of rights is not binary, but at a certain point there cannot be multiple conflicting “rights” — 1 must get preference.

The maker starts with a right to make a product as they see best. The buyer has a right to purchase or not. The “public’s” rights are an interesting concept.
You’re right, and eloquent to boot.

I think what I meant to say was more something along the lines of “does anyone really build a business around Discord?”

We’ve been seeing time and time again, especially in recent times (Twitter, Reddit, Apollo) that building something on top of another platform can often end in tears.

This being said, I do believe that if you’re building an integration, you might end up in a different spot than random end-users. Although the way Discord handled API changes and the whole bot scope debacle doesn’t inspire confidence.

And I say this as someone who maintains a Discord bot.

Reflecting on this all, I don’t believe this user got banned out of a random regex match. I think this user’s messages got reported for doxxing, and the moderator who reviewed it concurred.
Fundamentally, kind of a GitHub for lawyers, at the core of which is a collaborative document editor that provides features for lawyers similar to those that SWEs take for granted in their IDEs. But it's really the platform play that gives it a lot of potential.
My comment was specifically to rebut this weak claim you put forth:

> We could have IRS forms and the IRS maintaining an expansive database to cover all tax-relevant events and amounts, but that hardly seems desirable.

If it’s tax relevant, why would they not be collecting and then storing a record of it for the relevant period of time? That is their responsibility: to store, process, and maintain this tax-relevant information in order to compute taxes or refunds due.
The website specifies its criteria for accepting an answer. Just use that threshold instead of whatever you in your mind deem “useful”.
If you take a 6 year old mushroom foraging you tell them not to eat any mushrooms without showing you first, because it requires an expert ;)
1: Sync
1a: Plug in device via USB, right click, send to device
1b: with your android/ios device connect wirelessly with the calibre companion app, right click, send to device

Tips:

calibre companion avoid the need to fiddle with a usb cord and worry about your device properly talk to your computer something that is harder than it ought to be with phones/tablets

ondevice:false shows you all the books in your library that aren't on the connected device and can be combined with any other query eg tags:scifi and ondevice:false. If its harder than this you may be selected a device that was not only proprietary and shitty but also uncommon so that calibre don't know how to work around its shittiness.

2: right click book book convert individually/bulk convert

Tips:

If you want to know what things are not in your preferred format say you want epub and not mobi you can search for formats:mobi and not formats:epub. This makes it easy to ensure everything is in a format that for instance works well with your device.

Don't expect conversions to and from PDF to work well. If might turn out readable but it wont be optimal. It works MUCH better converting between more standardized ebook formats.

3. You CAN configure calibre to strip DRM on import automatically but this is inherently going to be a continuing struggle because its an arms race. Consider just not buying books that are protected by DRM. You can virtually always get a book without DRM, get a pirated version that doesn't by its nature have DRM, or a physical book. Hell if you like buy a physical book and donate it and enjoy your pirated book without guilt.

If you find the interface confusing in the settings you can literally customize

- the items that show up in the toolbar
- the items that show up in the toolbar when a device is connected
- the context menu that pops up when you click a book in each type of view if need be

You can further customize short cuts including single key shortcuts

If you do 3 things you can have 3 buttons in the toolbar or if you please 3 single character shortcuts. Want e to edit the books info and s to send it to your connected device then configure it so.
What if a buyer wants to lease the product under the seller’s terms. Should it not be their right to enter that agreement?
Why is asking for requests to be in writing an "act of bad faith"? Literally cna't see a single outcome that would be an act of bad faith here.

If the project fails, and the manager tries to blame it on you, they are de facto acting out of bad faith given the request. Documenting it just identifies this. If the project succeeds or fails, but no one blames you, then the documented request is just there for the record.
If HR is going to throw it out because of the title alone, they're going to be obnoxious to deal with even in the scale of HR departments.
> That's over 100K lines of code a year. Think of the unnecessary complexity.

I've got a colleague like that. It's all good and management praises him, but this is a time ticking bomb. When he leaves, someone will have to maintain that code.
The US is also "pay as you earn" and automatically gets deducted from salaries. For most people working as employees, the tax return is just for you to confirm your numbers with the government's, specify any deductions if necessary, and see if you owe any extra or are entitled to a refund.

I am honestly surprised that learning how to fill out the IRS form is not part of the high school curriculum.

The 1040 form is only two pages long:

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf

The software to make this isn't too complicated. This has more to do about being able to legally distribute it since an open-source solution could have been distributed already, but there is too much liability in doing so.

If you want to add e-file to the software, you have to be approved by the IRS and that's where the lobbying/corruption comes into play.
I literally posted a video from Rheinmetall demonstrating their drone defense system shooting down a group of drones using a single burst from an AA gun and they are hardly the only corporation in the defense industry working on such systems. You're welcome to contact them to insist that that's not possible and that their system will never work, if you like.

The idea that 200 mph drones cannot be shot down when 300 mph WW2 aircraft can be shot down by WW2 era technology (flak does not care what size the target is) or that drones cannot be detected by radar (even flying birds can be detected by radar) merits a similar dismissal.
Starting at $300k, wow, yikes.
My point was that this did not look like a business. It looked like a gaming server.
I promise you there is a middle ground between govt. propping up a valueless industry, and outright communism.

…wait.

Anyway, plenty of other capitalist countries have significantly easier filing.
I could be brief.

Or I could elaborate, expound, simplify, and expand my solution.

It depends what I’m getting paid for.

If I’m getting paid for lines of code, guess who’s going to re-implement functions that could have been a single line of code?

Why bother writing a loop function when I could just copy-paste the same code as many times as needed?

Turning one line of code into 3,000 - easy.

Turning 1,000 lines into 100 - that’s when you know you’re working with a professional.
You are advocating for “mob rule”. History is replete with examples of this being a bad idea.
> even if you compare with RAID0 of high perfomance NVMe.

Do you mean a RAID0 of just two or four NVMe SSDs? It's absolutely ridiculous to count aggregate DRAM bandwidth across two CPU sockets and not do the same for PCIe lanes. A fair comparison is that Genoa has about twice the DRAM bandwidth as it has PCIe bandwidth, though in a fully-loaded database server some portion of the PCIe bandwidth will be used for networking rather than storage.
It makes me wonder about the amount of commonality there is in the toxins in mushrooms, and if some quick litmus or chemical sniffing test could be developed.
This[1] discussion from a month ago seems much less definitive.

[1]: https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-discuss/%3Cjwvfs5o9e0f.f...
Is that a higher level position ("promoted" suggests that)? In my FMCG IT department I am the TL & "technical architect", but I am on the same level as a senior developer, just having in the top 3 priorities the coaching and mentorship of all technical people in the department and no code expected (I do write some as examples or templates). What is the TL level in Google vs developers and architects?
I would feel so violated if I accidentally left very personal handwritten notes in a library book that I returned, then have the library scan it and very publicly turn it into social media fodder. These notes are not for any of us to read.
I think you need a grammar of gestures. Without that you can't really replace CLI or GUI (or the new talking interfaces.)

Sign language is a language.
Caffeine helps you focus because it's a stimulant and it increases dopamine and norepinephrine levels in the brain. It's similar to how Ritalin and Adderall work, just weaker.
Works flawlessly with my reader/feed-combination that I call Really Social Sites. RSS needs a new name that winks at the social opportunities, I think. Thanks!
P.S. Space content, always nice to read!
AI generated misinformation needs to be regulated in goods sold on tech platforms period. This is going to harm people
It's not that I didn't think "it was easy enough to use PyPI do analytics and analysis": it is near impossible for the layman to use PyPI to do analytics and analysis in it's current form. The volume of data is very unweildly, there are numerous quirks with extracting packages and no tooling exists to help you in any way.

This means no analysis has been done on the contents of PyPI. In turn this means malicious packages are harder to detect (and for sure still present somewhere in there), it means people publish an absolutely crazy number of credentials to PyPI on a daily basis without ever knowing (+ no simple way to find concrete ways to improve this) and it means there is a lack of exploration on the impacts of language features/changes on the ecosystem.

To me the GitHub aspect isn't important or interesting. Would it make any difference if it was distributed from a series of git repositories hosted on S3? It's the git apsect that is interesting, because it lowers the barrier for anyone to access the corpus of already public, already mirrored and already automatically-scanned-by-bad-actors code that is on PyPI.

While this project is more "a number of things glued-together" than "a groundbreaking invention", I have to disagree with the triviality aspect. Most problems we deal with can be reduced to 'copying X from one place to another' (sorting?), and the devil is always in the details.

> I don't like this, it's this kind of stunt that makes me reluctant to publish my code in general.

Isn't this quite circular? People using code you publish publicly makes you reluctant to publish code publicly?
I'm sorry, but I disagree with this assertion. Evaluating the source of any information is the very first part of comprehension, and The Heartland Institute has a very well-established legacy of communicating in extraordinarily bad faith. It's far better to identify deliberately dishonest sources before you start kicking their junk around in your brain.
Tax accountants still exist in countries where self filing is easier. And they’re still accessible to the every-person.
I explain it in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37344926. Something can't become a black hole just because it is moving fast. If it is a black hole, it is a black hole in all reference frames. Including the one where it is just sitting there and the rest of the universe is going the other way.
Yeah that’s literally the point in the CSAM case.

For regular people taking photos the government won’t have their plaintext.

For popular media people are uploading the same copy of it saves a lot of bandwidth.
It's CPS time! Related:

IRS moves forward with a new free-file tax return system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36804710 - July 2023 (221 comments)

IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax prep giants - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35950836 - May 2023 (567 comments)

Call on the IRS to provide libre tax-filing software - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35705469 - April 2023 (129 comments)

60M Americans have taxes so simple the IRS could do them automatically - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35476709 - April 2023 (277 comments)

Lobbyists begin chipping away at Biden’s $80B IRS overhaul - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35381701 - March 2023 (214 comments)

Intuit pouring money into lobbying amid push for free government-run tax filing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34840039 - Feb 2023 (178 comments)

IRS builds task force to explore running its own free e-file system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34764952 - Feb 2023 (199 comments)

IRS Free File: Do Your Taxes for Free - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34462122 - Jan 2023 (247 comments)

IRS will look into setting up a free e-filing system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32753099 - Sept 2022 (408 comments)

The IRS could be on the verge of changing the way Americans file their taxes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32550841 - Aug 2022 (17 comments)

IRS will study free tax filing options - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32502321 - Aug 2022 (25 comments)

TurboTax’s fight against free tax filing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31072202 - April 2022 (394 comments)

Filing taxes could be free & simple. H&R Block & Intuit lobby against it (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30856968 - March 2022 (114 comments)

FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30846071 - March 2022 (587 comments)

Ask HN: How does TurboTax get away with dark patterns? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30409523 - Feb 2022 (122 comments)

Why do Americans have to pay much to file their tax returns when the IRS knows? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30267361 - Feb 2022 (22 comments)

Filing Taxes Could Be Free and Simple. But H&R Block and Intuit Lobby Against It (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30185484 - Feb 2022 (18 comments)

California tried to save the nation from tax filing, then Intuit stepped in - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28944200 - Oct 2021 (283 comments)

The IRS has a big opportunity to fix the way Americans file taxes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28177289 - Aug 2021 (12 comments)

--

GOTO https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35970518
I wonder how good this sort of chip would be for (parallel capable) compilers. They have lots of branchy cache-missy sort of code and can often scale up to a lot of threads if they're compiling a big problem.
those crawling critters have a lot to teach us
LLM statements (distilled into logical statements) would not be logically sound. That's (one of) the main issues of LLMs. And that would make logical inference on these logical statements impossible with current systems.

That's one of the principal features of Cyc. It's carefully built by humans to be (essentially) logically sound. - so that inference can then be run through the fact base. Making that stuff logically sound made for a very detailed and fussy knowledge base. And that in turn made it difficult to expand or even understand for mere civilians. Cyc is NOT simple.
That was the rumor, but there's more recently been reports that Apple has taken up all 3nm capacity.

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/apple-bought-all-of-ts...
Desert ground is hard and mostly impervious. That 1" of rain will mostly run off from the surrounding area into the now not so dry lakebed. There's a dry lakebed not far from me a little smaller than up there and an inch of rain can easily lead to a foot of standing water if the rain happens over a widespread area in the watershed of that lakebed. I hope they packed stilts!
They are rumoured to have booked the first EXE (latest and greatest) machines from ASML. If that's true, then yeah, even Apple might go back eventually. Just for the fabs, of course. Not use Intel CPUs. I believe this is what Gelsinger meant when he said he would like to win Apple back
> Does it say they were foraging or that the mushrooms were wild?

Both: https://charter97.org/ru/news/2023/8/31/561949/

They say that on 9th of August he went foraging, on 10th of August he ate the mushrooms and went from his dacha to Moscow, he felt bad on that day. In the morning of 11th of August he had ambulance called for him. He was in hospital until 30th of August when he died.

> It's very common for people to die of mushroom poisoning in Russia?

According to official stats https://www.rospotrebnadzor.ru/activities/recommendations/de... around 30 people die of mushroom poisoning in Russia every year. (And around 1000 suffer from such poisoning every year.)
Are you getting easy dopamine fixes? Read up on supernormal stimuli and the hedonic treadmill.
Well there are shifts of perspective other than labeling. Just as abstracted and deranging. Those are good to pause too.

Buy ya, we are good to pause the entire mess.
Seems like a non-story. This is obviously by design.

Extensions may need to access the DOM, including password and other sensitive fields (e.g. for autofill and password managers).

That's indeed what Google has said in response:

>A Google spokesperson has confirmed that they're looking into the matter, and pointed to Chrome's Extensions Security FAQ that does not consider access to password fields a security problem as long as the relevant permissions are properly obtained.
Is there any chance someone reported you (the message, more specifically) for doxxing?

I use Discord with a variety of clients, and there’s _a lot_ of technical logs, including lists of locations, and in some cases even addresses. I’ve never had an issue. I also run a small community of a few thousand users, and haven’t seen anything like this… unless someone was reported.

In any case, commiserations, and I hope you weren’t the only owner/admin of some servers.
Gen10 microserver?
My father owns a used bookstore and he's always finding objects in books left there by previous owners.

One time he found a folded handwritten page in Latin which he sent me because I know Latin. It said

registrum baptizatorum succursalis ecclesia de Borlo anni 1807 /
registrum mortuorum de Borlo

It was a handwritten record, kept in Latin by a priest, of all baptisms and deaths in Borlo (now Gingelom, Limburg, Belgium) in the year 1807. (There are a few issues with the Latin.)

I framed it and put it up on the wall as a decoration, but later I realized that it could have value for people's present-day genealogical research, so I mailed it back to the public library in the town. The librarian said it would be kept in the provincial archive.
When's the last time you saw a durable textile bag hanging in a tree? Washed up on a shoreline? Stuffed with trash, ripped up by rats, birds or cats, next to a rubbish bin?

Now same questions for a 'single' use plastic bag.
Lol I saw this phenomenon happen at the Abby the other night.
If you’re on iOS, the University of Minnesota (USA) has release an purpose-built app for this sort of thing. I’ve enjoyed it on many flights:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flyover-country/id1059886913
What value to society does making companies carry dead weight provide? It raises the company’s costs, lowers productivity and morale, all to protect someone unfit for a particular role?

The unpredictable layoffs and terminations of US companies are their own issue, but companies pay unemployment insurance to let people go with some safety net. I can’t imagine UI is more expensive than keeping an underperforming employee.
What it looks like for those curious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wLHcrPA8uI
It's exception groups[1], with the syntax `except*`.

1. https://peps.python.org/pep-0654/
its hard to judge how deep and unique your conjectures were.

I did similar testing of GPT4, and my observation is that it starts failing after 3-4 levels of reasoning depth.