skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are of course some of the hardest questions we have to answer for ourselves and they don't have clear cut answers. I don't know where exactly the line should be, but IMO octopi are over that line. That's a large part of the reason why I don't east any meat at home. Even worse, I also am very open to arguments for panpsychism which is a almost paralyzing thought.
>> For most tax payers in the US, the government has all of the necessary information to calculate tax liability

A couple years ago, the US government owed me a bunch of money for taxes, I overpaid, it took the government many months to refund that money, and during that period, the US government could not tell me a single thing about where my money was, or what was the status of my return, or where my money was.

Not a single thing, after many hours on the phone, hours and hours, not a single piece of information.

And from your comment, I gather that you want these people to have more power over me, rather than less.

My answer is simple, no.
Just out of curiosity, what's an example of an invalid method for getting knowledge?
Was Tommy upset?
Pair programming sounds so stressful and unproductive to me. You can't read someone's mind. Any interjections while someone is in the middle of coding can't be more than distracting noise most of the time. And I would constantly feel self conscious that I'm taking too long to write something, googling or asking Copilot stupid questions, etc. Reviewing after the programmer believes it's ready to review makes much more sense to me. Though Copilot can be very helpful as an artificial pair programmer.
What happened after the mediocre performance review? Did leave for greener pastures asap? Did you start to optimize for their performance metrics, and stop being generous with your time? Or could you manage to convince somebody high enough above you in the org-chart that they actually hired you for what you thought they did?
MacOS applications are just like applications on any other platform. Why the juvenile Windows bashing?
potentially...really good?

however there are lots of pitfalls. if your thread creation and teardown is expensive, then that limits the grain to which you can apply threading (Amdahl). if synchronization is expensive then you have a similar problem (that potentially gets worse with contention).

one of the big problems is exactly _how_ to map threads to workloads. you don't want to leave idle resources on the ground, but its also very counterproductive to generate a massive work queue.

there are also limits - memory transaction concurrency and memory bandwidth, and the costs and contention of going off chip.

cache coherency, while it seems nice from a programming model perspective, can also really limit how much concurrency you can exploit.

I know there are others here that can add to this list.
The first time you mess up with a 90Ah pack and a serious electric motor will make you wish for carburettors.
> think of all the "gun people" who think they are experts on gun safety and then they end up shooting themselves by accident.

It happens, particularly "glock leg". But to be frank a lot of those "sat down in their office/study, looked down the barrel of the gun and accidentally pulled the trigger" deaths are suicides staged as accidents for the benefit of their family. Put a cleaning kit on the desk and there won't be many questions.
people have built their own solutions to validate data like this

won't be one size fits all due to various types of data - and if you could validate all types - why do you need the llm!
The NEXT 100X for AI Hardware Performance Will Be Harder
When was NT able to play Windows 95/DOS games? Was it 2000 or XP? I remember 2000 being able to do it.
I found the Canadian process much closer to the US process than what you describe. "Everything populating from government databases" didn't happen. I entered in stuff from my T4 slip by hand. Some financial firms linked to TurboTax, some didn't, and even the ones that did took almost as long to get working as doing it by hand.
There is a link to a scan at the bottom of the article (although it currently doesn't load for me)
Yes, it's made with SwiftUI.
This was my experience as well. It's completely up to management to recognize these kinds of engineers regardless of role name or leveling.
That's why I flagged it.
I never got to play it. What was unique about it, besides the multiplayer?
If someone is intentionally giving bad advice, that sounds like they deserve some anytime feedback. (is that still a thing?) That is definitely not thinking like an owner.
This was fun until the pancake question.

> I'm making pancakes for breakfast. I added a cup of flour, a teaspoon of salt, and a few tablespoons of sugar to a bowl. I stirred it together, then added a cup of milk, a beaten egg, and a few tablespoons of oil, and stirred until just mixed. Then I put 1/4 a cup on a hot frying pan, and flipped it when brown. But they're terrible! Why? List one reason.

> Answer:

> There's no baking soda / baking powder.

Besides the fact that “list one reason” is a nonsensical instruction which it fails, it’s very common to make delicious pancakes without baking powder. I imagine the author is assuming American pancakes, but that’s far from the only way to make pancakes.

When I ask ChatGPT myself, it correctly doesn’t assume the pancakes are “terrible” without baking powder, but instead suggests too much salt, which is more likely to actually make the pancakes unpalatable.
Location: USA

Remote: Yes, please

Willing to relocate: No but occasional travel, OK

Technologies: React, Typescript, Next.js, PostgresSQL, Docker, Github (To name a few)

Résumé/CV: Can email if interested:

linkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/kendrickdrews/
Email: drewskenny@gmail.com

I'm a largely-self taught Full-Stack developer with a focus on the Front-End/Design side of things. I've got ~6 years experience professionally programming. At my last position I went from Developer => Tech Lead in about a year and before I left was leading 5/6 teams without failure to deliver. Knowledgeable in 508 compliance and architecting entire projects/Working within departments to solve issues. I'm the kind of developer who asks a lot of questions to as many people as necessary to get the job done.
curious why you referred specifically on isabelle, which looks ancient and over engineered, there are many other tools and langs in this area.

I am not criticizing, but curious about your opinion.
Ask HN: What is the best book for understanding how computers work today?
I am often baffled by talk about NVME, DDR5, GPUs, etc. I have experience as a programmer but I want to understand the current (2023) technology in a computer.

What is the best book for that?
Literally asks for comments from people who had a particular experience, gets mostly answers from people who didn’t.
Eastern European here (Romania) - I am here to give lots and lots of thanks to Christian !
When Norton Commander was not a choice anymore .. Total Commander was the replacement. I can attest that outside of Europe (living in US now) NC/TC is almost unknown. The company I was working for employed a lot of Eastern Europeans - hence we 'lobby' and got 50 licenses for it. To this day, after installing a fresh Windows , TC is the next thing I am installing (followed closely by Notepad++).
Personally I cannot browse files (comfortably) without it. Thanks again Christian !
So the problem is not Google maps but the other proprietary app. Thanks for the heads up
But it doesn't make any sense. I understand renters banking on realty, 'cause there are just so many land and buildings and making more buildings is expensive and complicated. But tax filing is just a software. Nowadays we teach kids in schools to write software.
A friend tells me that performance enhancing drug use is pretty common on the high amateur, almost pro level of bicycling. These are folks who are very good and obsessed with the sport, but not at the pro level. But there's also no testing at many of their races so they can get away with the PED use.

No one is really sure what to do because these dedicated semi-pros pay lots of fees to support the races. If they're a bit strict on PED use, the registrations could really drop off. But on the flip side, the PED use drives away others who are competing fairly but just not ready to submit their body to all of those extra chemicals.
Yes it is very possible. I have also posted asns in private channels before and nothing ever happened. It was only after I posted it in a public channel that I got banned.

There are a few competitors that are really jealous of our success.
If you are on Android I can recommend Orgzly. It ties in with Emacs' org-mode but is fully usable on its own with a sensible very convinient UI. It is open source and everything is saved in plain text that can optionally be kept in sync with Dropbox or WebDAV.
Please, please, please don't. Any of those beauties should simply be restored or used to help others to be restored. There are so few of them left.
Darklands is such an under-appreciated classic. I played and re-played it for at least a year as a kid, and still think about its complexities and interesting gameplay mechanics.

If anyone creates the spiritual successor to Darklands, I’d buy it in an instant. There is a mobile game called Occidental Heroes that’s loosely based on it, but a bit too simplified to capture its magic.
Like how it’s called “tumeric” by people in America, presumably calling it that got around some sort of patent
If what you say is true, take them to arbitration. They usually have to pay the arbitrator’s fees and you can typically do it over email/video call.
Wacken also had a attendee limit this year due to heavy rain. People who had a ticket were told not to come.
I wonder why your in-laws won't provide you with means to have children if they want you to have children.

In Russia it is customary to provide children with some kind of housing ("granny's flat") either for living or for renting out, even without any expectations.
Umass Amherst Computer Scientists Boost Computing Speed with AI
Thanks for sharing that - TIL! These blog posts elaborate with more detail:

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/vectorized-hash-joiner/

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/vectorizing-the-merge-joi...

...it seems the distinction here is that the vectorization is only present in the execution layer and not the storage layer also. I would guess that from a storage perspective, even with column families in play, everything is being streamed out of sorted a LSM engine regardless. So there isn't additionally some highly-tuned buffer pool serving up batches of compressed column files etc.
Reminds my how Basecamp use to restart their Rails app 400 times/day.

https://dhh.dk/posts/31-myth-2-rails-is-expected-to-crash-40...
The parser and renderer is a pre-existing RichTextEdit widget. Add menus and save, open, and print functionality and you are over 90% of the way to a WordPad clone.
I don't see why 3D design software and getting parts fabricated (if you don't have the equipment to do it yourself) is all that inaccessible. It may cost more than getting into computer software, but just about everything is. It may not go very quick but there's nothing stopping you from doing this.
This could itself be the beginning of a Goosebumps story.
The Glamorous, Lonely Lives of Private Chefs
The friendly infantry that you're trying to protect are going to love having friendly flak shells exploding fifteen feet above their lines, to say nothing of the fact that drones are so maneuverable that swarms will attack from every reachable direction simultaneously. Flak shells will be minimally useful (and ultimately more expensive than the drones that do get shot down; you've already lost economically). And "radar can detect birds, so it can detect drones" means nothing whatsoever unless you're willing to waste all your AA ammo depopulating the pigeon population. Again, nobody is saying there's no defense, but autonomous drone swarms are going to be as important to warfare as the airplane (which, likewise, there are defenses against). The important thing is to have planners acknowledge it.
Excellent continuation of the first D&D movies from early 2000s with Jeremy Irons et al, although a bit more comedic and has sweet fuck-all to do with D&D but fun all the same.

Hopefully someone will take Nolan’s Batman trilogy and apply it to D&D for a proper grimdark nerdfest with zero fan service bullshit.
https://archive.ph/efXgg
before doing anything drastic, just add a 30 day calendar reminder to remove the account after you've used this new app for a while. That's how I always handle things that are hard to reverse.
> I know almost exactly zero people that have an ebook reader that do not use Calibre.

Calibre is like curl an important part of the foundation of the worlds knowledge base, except Kovid Goyal doesn't have a wiki page.

While MIT blowhards came up with BS like OLPC, Calibre has helped spread books worldwide.

It was great Kovid Goyal got Calibre to Python 3 as the sole (?) developer , I'm not sure if any of the complainers offered to pay to get it there quicker?

I have no idea why the blog post is getting upvoted, but I'm sure helping Calibre along with bug fixes or $ is better than the most/all of the musings in the blog.

Experiences in FOSS | Kovid Goyal (2022) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-nFFtQt-Gg
It depends on what you mean by durable. Claiming that persistence to disk is trivial when compared to returned values is a stretch IMHO. Modern DBs still have bugs where data returned is different than permanently persisted leading to inconsistency errors.

And that is ignoring performance queries that don't require any guarantees.
And that's hyperbole.
The phrase "shade tree mechanic" was invented for people like that.
That's parent's point: if aluminium were resistant to (weak) acids, or carbonated drinks weren't acidic, there would be no need for a plastic liner inside aluminium can (and thus no BPA-present-or-not issue).
FWIW I think you have the aggregation backwards, dual socket Genoa would have 24 channels of DRAM but sacrifice some of the PCIe lanes for the interconnect. Your numbers work out right though as single socket is actually about 1:1 in RAM vs PCIe bandwidth so dual socket would still come out roughly 2:1.

I think 10x is a fair rough number though, depending on your access pattern.
The speed limit was indeed reduced, in 2020, to 30 mph on the elevated eastern section of the A40 (Westway), but remains 40 mph on the Western Avenue part.
I think what doesn't help is that vaping is treated the same as smoking. It's also banned everywhere that smoking is even though it doesn't generate particles.

I think many smokers feel that there's no real upside to vaping for this reason apart from their own health effects. I think they should make vaping more attractive eg allowing it in a vaping area at the office.

Ps I'm not a smoker nor vaper. But I'm getting a bit fed up with this war on nicotine. The current strictness the EU is taking is clearly not working for those who are still smokers. Continuing to increase the price will not either.

Just like the war on drugs is never ending and has not really accomplished much more than increase risk and this rewards that benefit bigger cartels, it's time to evaluate to see what actually works.
Having met people before, yes.
You’re largely correct but I think your comment might not nail the root cause (not saying you don’t know this, just that your comment doesn’t emphasize it).

When a market is competitive, the things that matter are roughly: hard work, candlepower, and optics/neurotypicality/maneuver in that order.

When a market is fairly sewn up that order becomes roughly: optics, candlepower, ethical flexibility, hard work in that order.

The hard-ass nerds who don’t give a shit about corporate culture du jour are treated like royalty when someone might fuck your business up.

While “purged” is a strong word, I take your meaning, and whatever we want to call it, it happens when competition is largely pro-forma.

Human beings will do anything to avoid selecting on merit except lose. That’s just human nature. Being mad about it is like yelling at the wind, but compared to even a decade ago, I’m not sure how high I’d be holding my head in today’s competitive landscape for high-prestige achievement.
>Also firearms manufacturers lobbying against control amidst an epidemic of suicides and other gun-based violence.

They do that, but the largest power block of the 2A is voters.
Setting a Direction for AGI Ethics
Yep not complaining about the implementation, just it's not the mental model you have when you begin using Databases. It took me many years to understand this bit.
While it is true that many people have simple taxes, the philosophical shift is huge. It's just much better for the US citizen to be able to tell the government what he or she owes and then put the onus on the government to seek redress. In some countries, the government sends out a tax bill as if it's a fait accompli and the poor citizens just have to take it.

I realize there are some people who just want to frame this as Intuit is just a bunch of greedy people, but they're providing a service just like others. HR Block does offer some competition and it's often possible to get a free version of their software. I've seen some of my neighbors get the free option. It's real.

I like the option to control my taxes. It's worth the extra work.
Great story. I’m glad it turned out well for you.

During summer of 2019, I was debating between Munich or Berlin - for visiting; end up going to the former. Really loved it so much that I was contemplating to move there. In retrospective, I was thinking - even though everyone was stranger to me, but I didn’t get any such vibes from them. Super friendly people, food was great as well. Did some shopping and found it to be not expensive at all.

Have u been to Sweden? For some reason, there are a lot of German expats there. Not sure if it’s better job prospects or something else.
ChatGPT is used in the paper. The problem they're solving is how to throw a loop around the LLM (like ChatGPT) to generate an appropriate input context.
1) Disable notifications on your phone

2) Delete apps that steal your focus like TikTok and Instagram

3) Stop playing online multiplayer games that require lots of attention (e.g. league of legends, overwatch) and never "end"

4) Stop listening to podcasts passively

5) Stop multitasking - even listening to music while doing a task
My account was frozen due to being flagged as spam. But I got some fine stickers. ActivityPub FTW :-)
I'm super risk averse so I would never build a business around a single point of failure like that - but I know that there is money to be made taking this risk (at least VC money, presumably real money). Look at everybody building off OpenAI, look at AWS, Shopify, etc. I'll never base my business around a platform, but I'll miss out on many opportunities, even if it's a big risk.

All that to say the warning won't stop people.
Some of the publicly available billables are outrageous though. 100 entities is pretty common.
So the stuff available on ubuntu/arch don't have spyware? I never heard about these changes, I did know some company bought it but didn't think much about it at the time as I don't use it a lot, but when I need it, it's quite handy
The point of pair programming isn't really to be talking to someone while they are coding a known solution. It's to work through and discover a solution together to an unknown. In this sense, you're kind of both in the same headspace together, and can have a conversation without necessarily breaking focus. And I would venture that almost any question that comes up in pair programming would either come up later in code review, or could be hand-waved with "yeah, I plan to fix that with X" and move on.

The important part of pair programming isn't really the programming per se, it's the discussion.

It also requires some amount of conversational art. As for being self conscious about things, you would have poor coworkers who make you think that or some unfounded worry. A good pair programmer can have a discussion without making you feel like an idiot - much the same as a good code review.
Platform risk is very real
better than gimp?
Escorts are usually hired for other things than a trip to the corner store. Saying for a friend :D But pretty creative solution!
Every industry that doesn't get consumed by a huge "tech" company that just slaps a middle-ware app on something is a good thing.

It's just endless empty-eyed bullshit that couldn't give a damn if the industry they're weevilling into is building cars or renting hotel rooms. They just want to extract a cut of whatever it is and/or siphon data. Then scale, scale, scale to impress The Investors until it falls apart under its own weight, but not before pockets are filled.
A Company of One
That’s fine. Until you consider the inability to empty the portaloos.
Show HN: Real Estate Description Generator
That’s the problem, Roe was an overstepping of the Supreme Court. A law should’ve been passed instead. That is why this Supreme Court ruled the way they did. There was nothing in the Constitution or established law to support Roe.
https://www.e-flux.com/notes/470005/open-letter-to-noam-chom...
Yeah, no, not going to happen in the UK. Software pay around here is truck driver level (happy for truck drivers, but comparatively they have less stress to deal with and if they like coding they can do it hasslefree on the side - will end up cleaner and more efficient than the spaghetti monsters i've seen in some of these companies).
The dates don't add up.

The scientist got into hospital with mushroom positioning at 11th of August. https://charter97.org/ru/news/2023/8/31/561949/

The crash happened on the 19th of August. https://meduza.io/news/2023/08/19/roskosmos-pri-perehode-sta...
This is classics of embedded jobs.
I haven’t read the study yet, but I wonder if it’s light only or light+heat from the light
This technique might yield a highly expressive MIDI or MPE controller. Silicone is already used in performance instruments as pressure and velocity-sensitive drum pads. MIDI Polyphonic Expression instruments can use five or more separate axes of control. Complex motions like bend, twist, nudge, wiggle, etc could be mapped to these axes.
Same thing happened in Slovenia to some illegal migrants who tried to live off the land while making their way further into Europe: they picked up mushrooms that looked a lot like a safe species in their home country but was in fact highly poisonous. I believe at least some died.

The general rule here is that you only ever pick mushroom species somebody has thoroughly introduced you to - books and "I think we ate those at our friends house the other day" are considered quite reckless.
Counterfeit Apple II computers (1985) [video]
CheerpJ – Convert Java to WASM and JavaScript
I doubt it as the artificial one will probably be very expensive.
That sounds even better.
We can fill out online forms for free. I do it every year. The service is on the sketchy looking freefilefillableforms.com

For most people just getting paid by an employer, they'd just need to fill out one short form. For more complicated situations, that site has the other forms you need, and some of them are set up to auto-calculate values across forms.
Navigating the Landscape: A Comprehensive Review of Current Virus Databases
HR are not going to reject an incredibly experienced senior guy with a CV as long as your arm because of the title of a blog post. Your quote doesn't even suggest they would, and I'm not going to cite any evidence because it's honestly just a patently absurd proposition.
I had the same reaction. Having one person read some personal info I'd accidentally forgotten would be one thing, but blasting it for the world to see just seems sort of disrespectful.

Granted, I'm also not a big personal social media guy in general, so maybe that's just my bias peeking through.
It's just sparkling robbery.