skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> LTS kernels are no longer supported for 6 years because it turns out no one used them

I assumed companies use a lot of LTS software for servers to avoid frequent upgrades that always carry some chance of breaking stuff. Could you please elaborate more or link me to some place where I can read more about this?
If the search-engine is a tool which creates ad-impressions which company#A can charge to advertisers (creating profit company#A can then spend for making the search-engine the default, perpetually driving even more attention), I don't think breaking this cycle by company#B "just spending more money than company#A earns" is a system of fair competition.
Show HN: Ask Abe - (More) Credible LLM Legal Question Answering
Get comprehensive and structured answers to legal questions from a simple plain text query. See answers side by side with exact source text and links to CA.gov legislature to instantly verify answers. No sign up, no data collection, provide your own openAI API Key because of rate limiting issues.

At this project's early stages only the California Legal Code (Statutes) is searchable. Abe is the name of the AI agent and is named after Abraham Lincoln, really leaning into the credible/honest thing.

I started this project for 5 simple reasons:
1. It's really painful to research difficult legal questions.
2. Legal Questioning LLMs on the market are either not as credible to use or behind massive paywalls (Casetext) and tailored specifically for lawyers.
3. I think there's a serious problem/stigma of LLM's unreliability/credibility in legal use cases.
4. I think this might be useful. Hopefully for regular people and not just lawyers.
5. I wanted more experience and this is cool to me.

Uses OpenAI's embeddings, GPT 4, 3.5, and a lot of disgusting prompt chaining. I'm excited to hear how it breaks and get some feedback on if this is worth pursuing more.
I like how lantisfjantis then goes on to report he's astounded that she turned off her phone for the remaining half of the lecture.

Like no shit, you try to carry on a lecture while like 20 different journalists try to call you! The youth of today! ;)
If a claim is written in the present-tense indicative, I expect to be able to download and use something that actually does what is claimed. Unless I am being very dim, I can’t see how to download anything that would e.g. make

> NeoHaskell, with its Python interoperability, lets you [leverage the power of Python's AI ecosystem].

a true sentence.
Is that a thing most people do at home? Otherwise it could also be taxed easily.
We recently added vector support to FeatureBase: https://cloud.featurebase.com/. What's interesting about using it with our existing b-tree storage layer is that I can now do set operations on the record's stringset fields before I do the similarity calculations on the vectors. I've been experimenting with laying out the vector space in a b-tree structure using this technique along with keyterm extraction, allowing for a type of semantic graph to be applied by the LLM to the vector space.
Sin taxes tend to be regressive.
Par for the course with NYC headquartered companies.

I have encountered them not paying office rent or contractors if they think they can get away with it. The scary thing is they do get away with it. Everything is a negotiation, all the time. It is very tedious.
> Academic politics is something else.

There is a famous formulation of this known as Sayre's law[1], which is often stated via the quote "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake. That is why academic politics are so bitter," which wikipedia attributes to Charles Philip Issawi.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre's_law
The OS should have the following default users: Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scott, Sulu, Chekov, Uhura. Default password: BeamMeUp123!
An event sourcing framework

I'm out.
Why bother? The FPGAs HFTs connected directly to fiber will trade the sh*t out of you.
I loved my Nokia N9 made in Finland. Great hardware and the UI was a gem!
> Capital gains is deferred every year that you don’t sell an asset

I think that's a slightly odd way to think about it, the tax is due when you actually have a capital gain, which in the ordinary course of just owning something you don't.

Of course, many countries don't want to miss out on that just because you moved before you sold, so change in tax residency becomes an event that triggers it as if it had been sold.

What's unusual about the US (currently) is that citizens worldwide are considered resident for tax purposes (as other countries would call it I suppose, since it's typically more about residency than citizenship) whatever their living and working arrangement and wherever else tax may be due.

If it weren't for that, probably nothing about renouncing citizenship would be controversial, because it would be a much more niche desire. Surely the main reason to do it is because you moved and wish to be free of 'doing taxes' (maybe you moved somewhere where that's not even something you have to think about!) in the US?
I love the comment that the move is "intended to start negotiations with lenders." How very constructive of them!
And its dependency free - Nice!

Thank you
Don't distro kernels use LTS? Debian stable never changes it's kernel through its life cycle, and there is also a LTS of Debian
OP is a self-stated job seeker. Your comment is moot.
Apple Maps isn’t great, but in Boston, MA, Google maps has been an awful experience. I think the most egregious issue Ive experienced is that Google tries to adjust your location to the route it has planned, rather than displaying your location on a map. It’s also unable to deal with the tunnels, and re-routes because it thinks I’m on surface streets if going too slow.

Finally, it’s instructions just flat out aren’t good for dealing with the complexity of Boston’s intersections.

I’ve had more luck with Apple Maps but mostly I just navigate by pre planning my routes using a map
If you eat any heavy food, you get diarrhea/vomiting. I once ate a curry while on semaglutide and I spent the whole night on the toilet, but the worst was the burps. The diarrhea cleared up by morning, but I had these disgusting, revolting burps from the food basically rotting in my stomach. They stank up the whole room and smelled like decomposition.

Semaglutide doesn't make it so you don't want to eat, it makes it so you regret doing it. I quit it shortly after, since I only have a few extra kilos I want to lose (so it wasn't worth it), and because I didn't want to lose the weight by being punished for eating. I figure that if I'm going to have a list of foods I absolutely must avoid, why do I need the semaglutide?
Unity is the best game engine. People who will sacrifice that for ideological purity are a minority. I'm sure that will work out great for them.
Your first link is to what seems to be a Christian mythology channel rather than a history channel, so I don't know what that brings to the table.

Your second link just emphasizes what I said: weiners don't universally mean "fertility symbol". I don't think the blokes drawing peckers on bathroom stalls do it either as a fertility symbol nor to ward off evil spirits, so this still doesn't address that other motivations can exist.

Also Pompeii is an actual place that was "ravaged" by a volcanic eruption, not "the God of the Jews". Unless you want to pin actual natural disasters in actual places in actual recorded history on a god of the gaps, I don't think sexuality had anything to do with the volcano.
"The minimal cost of some trivial paperwork" - the US tax filing system is a joke and the paperwork is anything but trivial. Especially given the potential consequences of getting it wrong.

> When you make an error the IRS helps you. They compute your taxes anyway and they send you a letter with your error and the updated number.

You make this sound so simple. And yet, speaking from experience, it drags out for months and ends up costing 5-figures in penalties. If they can so easily compute the correct number anyway why continue with the whole charade of making us answer a whole bunch of barely decipherable questions?
That’s great! I’ve got an old copy of visual studio and windows nt 3.1 in the closet, ran on mips, alpha, sparc and intel. Back when Microsoft was cross platform.
Elixir and Machine Learning: Q3 2023 roundup
but the suburbans have gotten bigger and heavier
He is a troll, picking fights about things he doesn't understand. This is not the first
GPT-Driver: Learning to Drive with GPT
"...We present a simple yet effective approach that can transform the
OpenAI GPT-3.5 model into a reliable motion planner for autonomous vehicles.
Motion planning is a core challenge in autonomous driving, aiming to plan a
driving trajectory that is safe and comfortable. Existing motion planners predominantly
leverage heuristic methods to forecast driving trajectories, yet these approaches demonstrate
insufficient generalization capabilities in the face of novel and unseen driving scenarios.
In this paper, we propose a novel approach to motion planning that capitalizes on the
strong reasoning capabilities and generalization potential inherent to
Large Language Models (LLMs)...

...The fundamental insight of our approach is the reformulation of motion planning
as a language modeling problem, a perspective not previously explored. Specifically,
we represent the planner inputs and outputs as language tokens, and leverage the LLM
to generate driving trajectories through a language description of coordinate positions..."
Solresol, a Constructed Musical Language
> Beneficiaries still have to pay an inheritance tax.

Only on amounts above US$ 12.9M (federally), but there is no tax if the estate passes to the spouse:

* https://www.investopedia.com/estate-tax-exemption-2021-defin...

* https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/inheritancetax.asp

How many estates are above that? In 2021, "only 2,584 estates paid a positive federal estate tax."

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_tax_in_the_United_State...

* https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-estate-tax-fili...
As far as I know, it's because you return to your poor diet/routine. That's why the drug has to be a helper to improving your diet.
How for the tax payers suffer? But yeah let’s bring back debtor prisons. That was great for capital formation.
WeAreGoingBankrupt.
Regulation Is Important
My answer is here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37738235
> It seems like by far the most common side effect is a few weeks of diarrhea. After that, some nausea.

I took it for a month or so, and those symptoms only happened when you ate heavy/fatty food. With salads and other light food, I didn't get any symptoms.
There is no incentive to remove them.
Lots of Silicon Valley inflates their corporate value to get good stuff I’m told.
I agree with this

I struggled with this formal bullshit despite having exp. with handwritten parsers for PL.
But this does highlight some hypocrisy on the part of drivers (in general).

When it's pointed out that switching from ICE to BEV has a fraction of the impact of switching to something like public transport, the response is invariably that "every little bit counts", "I'm trying to do my part".

When it's pointed out that EVs are heavier than the equivalent ICE, the response is invariably "but just by a fraction", "cars were getting bigger anyway".

Just like if you say "I can't own a BEV because [reasons]". The answer will be "you don't care enough about the environment", "you could always use [terribly inconvenient, expensive, or complicated solution]". If you suggest public transport or a bicycle instead of a car suddenly the inconvenience matters, "but the bus is crowded", "only comes every 30 minutes".

The point being that if you let drivers self-evaluate their actions they will always find the explanation that provides them, individually, with better cover. Try to propose objectively better alternatives for the stated purpose and the wave of dislike will bury you not because it's wrong but because nobody likes someone removing their cover.
> they just decided let's go back to exactly how it was before

The problem is that the "how it was before" refers to how it was 15-20 years ago. We had been building towards remote/flexible work for a long time before Covid, Covid was just the catalyst that forced everyone to break through the organizational inertia preventing progress. There was a time when you went to an office, sat in front of a desktop plugged into an ethernet jack and next to a landline phone, and ran a bunch of on prem corporate applications to get your job done. As laptops, smartphones, collaborative SaaS applications, WiFi, 3/4/5G all became ubiquitous, many of the reasons for being in a physical office went away. Now we have this meme world where I bring my work laptop from home to an office (commuting 45+ minutes in the process), connect to shitty WiFi, and get on Zoom calls with my team who are scattered around the world also sitting in offices they've been forced back to.
The one does not discount the other. In other words: disregarding the lts misunderstanding it still appears true that the Linux foundation is abandoning Linux kernel development. At least financially. Worth a look I guess.

Also: thank you for all your contributions to Linux for all these years!
Replacement rate is generally 2.3-2.4

Of 193 sovereign states, about 74 have a fertility rate greater than replacement rate.

It's widely accepted that fertility rates reduce as a country becomes richer. I believe many countries that currently have higher fertility rates, have lower rates compared to their historical highs.

I think things will level out eventually and it's probably a good thing that global populations are peaking. But countries do need to find new economic models that don't rely on continual population growth to papar over the unsustainable nature of our current economic systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_f...
Oh look, another hidden cost of cars.
'Lightning' on Venus may not be lightning at all
Underage gig workers keep outsmarting facial recognition
> What else can I do? appreciate any ideas..

Try harder to have your 4y old avoid screen time?

Play with their peers, construction toys like Lego, 3D puzzles (physical, not computer based), gardening, painting (using paint & brush, not an app), music, swimming, take kid out in nature or to zoo / musea / maker fairs & such... there's so much to discover & do in this world.

Electronics & computers have been in my life like 'forever', but I didn't start with that until ~8y.

Have your kid enjoy the "physical" world as long as (s)he can. Screen devices will come soon enough through other routes like school.
In traditional finance where machines are colocated, yes. That's not the case for crypto
Huge strawman and not at all common outside of the "we invert the norms up to 11" crowd.

The article opens with excerpts from the authors entry into The International Obfuscated C Code Contest which indicates the kind of crowd that treated such hijinks as commonplace.

You didn't see such things in dull boring let's just make simple code that works projects.

You'd see all that and more in the end of town that wanted to sketch out new language ideas ... the first "working" C++ implementations were made by swapping out the default C preprocessor for a more powerful text manipulation engine and really going to town on the macro magic.

It looked like early C++ but it went through a text mangling and came out as C and went into C compilers of the day.

ADDENDUM: I'm pretty sure the first C++ mockup I saw | worked with was the FrankenChild of source.txt | M4 preprocessor | C compiler | Asm | link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_(computer_language)

but that's going back a ways.
I see "direct manipulation of output" and some boredom/frustration from reading internals of the source code, and I think the solution you seek is a kind of repl LLM, that would understand and rewrite on user input every internal code in order to produce the effect you may want.
What happened is monpolistic businesses bought off both parties and the elite law schools.

They didn’t actually rewrite antitrust law though, so it’s still there.
>>Being severely obese can make you feel suicidal

I wonder which way the arrow of causality flows, though? Everyone knows that severe obesity is a unhealthy and effectively already a slow form of suicide. A lot of the people you see on the extreme obesity programs have a childhood trauma.
The worst part is that reporting these as a scam just results in Google replying with the boilerplate "we did not find that this ad violates our terms of service" almost invariably. As it's Google, I am basically just assuming this is because of greed and Google are profiting off the ads so they have no incentive to take them down.
What do the Japanese use the circled numbers for?
I’m sure the municipalities are on top of this one. Probably just have to raise taxes to cover the cost of the new garages. Maybe the new garages can be more dense and also have solar on the roofs. Oh, and charging too.
> A sub-optimal way of measuring is always preferable to no way.

I question this claim.
I keep getting shown fake Mr. Beast "videos" which are actually ads copying his style 100% and promising $1000 by just clicking on it, clear scams seem to be acceptable for YouTube, anything that pays good money is welcomed, I guess.
Observations on Surveillance Capitalism
`bookTicker` is realtime but the caveat is you will only get bbo (best bid and ask)
Meta pitches EU to charge a $10 subscription for ad-free Facebook and Instagram
Depending on which country you're in, there're likely one or more recruiting agencies and/or "neo-recruiting-platforms" active in your market. Not being represented on LinkedIn should not be a problem with a decent one. Look around and try out a few.
Larry?
Okay not really. The screenshot is on git now.
That's just very typical real estate agent behavior.
Losing weight isn't easy so good luck mate. I look forward to hearing how slim you are in a year or two. Don't give up!
>The only response worth serious consideration is ‘we can do this — and this is how much it will cost’. Others are either fluffing to get the business or are not serious about their offer.

On the other hand, from the service provider's point of view, the only correct answer is "No" or perhaps a price so high that it might justify dealing with a nightmare client.
It doesn't seem to be a popular explanation because it's downvoted to -2.

I'm not complaining, but rather curious why. Is it provocative to suggest that obesity can be associated with depression?
The risk of their default is supposed to be built into the price. On the other hand they suffer short term reputational damage which could prevent them from getting future loans, but they are in survival mode so that doesn't really matter right now.

I guess it is unpopular to say but I like WeWork and I'm rooting for them. We were very very early users before even their NYC Flagship at 175 Varick. Those early days were really memorable. They provided something no one else did. I think the model makes sense over the long term with some austerity, so I'm rooting for them.
Optimizing Let in Spidermonkey
Hi everyone, author here. This is a roundup from multiple projects and collaborators within the Elixir+ML ecosystem. I will be glad to answer questions where I can. :)
These often outright disturbing ads are the real reason I have to block ads. Even if I were somehow convinced that using a service while blocking ads is wrong, I simply will not take the risk of seeing another disturbing weird fake ad.
That's a fair point - even in tiny tiny Ireland there's many regional dialects, with larger countries there'll typically be far more.

I guess the simple answer to that is: how much interest is there in maintenance. I don't think there's any compelling reason not to create something: if there's insufficient interest in maintenance that's an imperfect but reasonable proxy for utility.

I'm not aware of any maintained en_US_Xyz languages but it might be pretty cool if someone started. There's precedence in a few other languages, like no_NO_NY, zh_Hans_HK, etc.
Accepted for the next version
That’s not true. The government also cares if firms engage in illegal anti competitive behavior.

The way we know they care is they are literally suing dozens of companies right now on that principle.
When I was young, I thought "freedom of speech" meant that the government should not stop you from saying things that were true or that you believed to be true that they did not like. The kind of free speech we talk about when we say the Iran or China lacks free speech.

Recently, I have grown to learn that free speech might also include flat out lies that further your own addenda and be about companies not just governments.

All that is to say, that YouTube ads for bogus Amazon strategies and miracle weightloss and hearing plans and now deep fake sponsorships are here because giant companies no longer vet anything and if they did, certain segments of our society will complain that they are being censored.
I've also wondered that, seeing MrBeast giveaway ads to fakedomains every other day.
Reporting all those gets exhausting soon.
Only if you are deemed to have "tax residency".

* https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/interna...

Further, to prevent double taxation, if you reside in a country that Canada has a tax treaty with, you may be deemed a non-resident of Canada:

* https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/interna...
> Almost all of the centrally located ones around the City have been like ghost towns.

They also seem to have quite restrictive opening times at this point.
Is IPFS working these days? I was very excited about it eight years ago, to the point where I made one of the first IPFS pinning services, but lost all my interest. IPFS is a great idea, but the implementation basically doesn't work, and it certainly doesn't work to the point where people can be running the node locally.

It used to have tons of problems discovering content from other nodes on the network unless it was directly connected to them, and it broke often. It also didn't seem like Protocol Labs worked on any of these problems at all, focusing on launching a cryptocurrency instead.

Has it changed now?
Shorts is a cesspool of unmoderated content. The amount of content that violates YouTube rules is astounding.

I got fed animal cruelty a number of times in the early days of shorts. Maybe it thought I was interested from the one I must have lingered on to report it.
Here in Norway they recently introduced weight as a component of the one-off registration tax for new vehicles[1].

For vehicles over 500kg it's about $1 per kg, so not a huge deal but it's something.

[1]: https://www.skatteetaten.no/person/avgifter/bil/importere/hv...
On FB I’m getting ads for drugs. It used to be subtle, now it’s just “we have the purest cocaine” with photos and everything. It seems like filtering ads in general is a difficult problem.
They got a lot heavier around 20 years ago, compared to 30 years ago, but since then they've been about 3 tons.
As the quoted part mentions, if they'd call it "The Public IPFS DHT", there isn't really any room for someone else to create something that could replace it, because There Could Be Only One.

With a specific name for the specific implementation of a general concept, others could provide alternative implementations implementing the same concept.
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