skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought some "Kauf" model light bulbs about a year and a half ago in a direct quest to get something "HomeAssistant Only"

The "RGB" color reproduction is...poor and the illumination they offer is a bit middling. But the biggest issue I had was the things would simply die after a while! I'd get maybe 3-4 months before they'd start flickering, then eventually stop entirely

Thankfully since you can only buy either 1 or 4 packs I had plenty of spares, but I have to admit I've since retreated from the idea of "smart bulbs" for now
This is what I do as well, I opened a second checking account so half of my monthly bills is auto deposited from each paycheck and I set all my bills to be at the end of the month so I can make sure everything is smoothly going through. I even have a Google sheet where I keep track of balances weekly and what bills are coming up like the yearly Amazon or something
https://www.algolia.com/blog/customers/hacker-news-search-al...
And proper roguelikes (Hack/Nethack/Moria) and text adventures.
Also, the CRT blended the pixels, so Max Payne with the CRT color contrast looked almost real life. Nowadays, not so much. LCD screens look dull.
Are online user revolutions a thing? I can see this happening if the future continues on a dystopian path. Maybe users would organize and threatened to leave or have a change of power structure. Our online accounts are increasingly becoming our identities to the rest of the world, which consequently gives us agency in it, and social media has evolved to literally own this part of ourselves.
"Most people who enroll in autopay choose either the minimum payment or full balance, said Wang."

This is the problem. You should always be able to comfortably make the full payment if you manage your budget proactively—I highly recommend YNAB for this. If you can't proactively manage your budget, you should be using a debit card.
Especially when I was doing a lot of traveling, I pretty much switched everything I could to auto-pay. I always found the weekly or biweekly bill paying something of a drudgery. I still periodically look through stuff but it's pretty rare I find a problem I need to deal with (and that's usually something like a charge from some payment processor I just didn't recognize).
That is absolutely not the prosecutor's fallacy.

What you're describing is closer to "argument from authority".
depends on the context. The rule of thumb I have seen is that anything under 100ms is perceived as instantaneous by a user. So for interactive editing those latencies are acceptable. Though is should be noted those latencies are only for 1 GB file, so they will get worse as the edited file gets larger. But if you are building something like a CRDT where you can have edits coming in from many sources then those will start to compound, and will destroy your responsiveness. Also if you are performing edits while doing something like scrolling you will start to drop frames. Jumprope and Xi-rope were specifically designed for the CRDT use case. As Raph points out, the latencies are what will really bite you. And latency is actually why I picked a gap buffer; the ropes have too high of latency with regex searches. If that was ever fixed I would be tempted to switch to ropes.
Laying off then hiring should be a positive. Presumably the laid-off were your worst talent and workers, while the new hires are at least randomly distributed and should be selected towards the upper end of the talent range.
Yes, as a Suffolk resident I'm wondering if there's some special thing about high house numbers.
I was curious about this one. Seems like Asahi linux has some beef with HN. They initially included a banner on the top of the page. Then that changed to a redirect to google. Looks like some other site did something similar but redirected to something less innocent. In response dang had those on a list that added norefferer, which that mutated into adding it to all links.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36230649 which includes a reply from dang.
Yes, most of the periods with no official taxation are usually dark ages :(
..Or the paleolithic.
Or it was called a tithe etc
Argentinian here. Article has some flaws that could cause a different perception of the situation:

- The income tax isn't really "eliminated", that's not right, it just has a higher starting point and is now indexed to the monthly wage. Otherwise it required yearly updates that were quite messy. It starts to apply to gross salaries above 15x the minimum monthly wage (the starting point used to be WAY lower).

- 1.7 million pesos isn't really 5k USD, as no one has access to that exchange rate. It's more like 1800~2000 USD monthly.

Overall I think it's a good measure, but it still doesn't tackle the elephant(s) in the room: Having >40% poverty, having an unrealistic exchange rate, low minimum wage, informal economy and workers, problems renting/buying real-state, unsatisfactory education results...
Why is income tax theft but sales tax not? Surely selling your time for money is analogous to selling an object for money
> Why did they think it would have negative gravitational attraction?

They didn't. There are very strong theoretical reasons (among them, CPT symmetry) to expect antimatter to gravitate normally. But it's still good to actually check.
Did I miss something or is this "article" only two sentences?
> I don't even know what you mean by that.

He means that if you write your library in C it is callable from Python, Java, C++, Ruby, PHP, Python, Perl and more.
Whenever someone says "philosophically" I take it as "I simplified the problem so much it no longer has any connection to reality, but at least I reached a firm conclusion".

Nobody owes so much to the system they despise as much as libertarians.
Weird. Your comment came through just fine.

I see your thought on emergence of self. Almost like self is equivalent to consciousness. Without a notion of self, you are part of a larger system with will.

Stemming the claim that there is no free will, I know the argument, but don't agree to it as what we observe (that people make choices at least some of the time) goes against claimed theory (that our choices are random chemistry-driven outcomes based on state of the world). I'm not terribly deep in the area, though, and welcome correction or thoughts.
Correct. We run it as a managed service now -- it's free for technical blogs and documentation sites.
Oh they know, they just discount it for some reason. Also, as a general rule, libertarians seem to care less for civilization than the rest of us. Hence why they're way more likely to be attracted to self-sufficient/off-the-grid/prepper lifestyles.
So what taxes will they have left?
I would assume genocide. The Strip stays, its occupants are liquidated.
its normal now, everybody knows how to work with it - buy with credit payable in 6/12 months, take advantage of government credit to offset it (often such credits are below inflation)

Also buy street dollar (blue) with whatever you manage to save, etc - to sell it later to preserve value

At this point after many decades of inflation every argentinian is a hobbyist economist himself (otherwise you couldn’t make it month to month)
Seriously, nobody has a right to any particular algorithm or outcome. Google can rank ads first if they contain the word "orangutan" if that suits them. Buyers should be looking at their ROI, not expecting the ad platform to optimize every aspect of it.
Social media companies try to lure users back promising them money
I don't buy this at all. There are shoddy houses in my area that were sold in 2021 for $100k that are now on the market for $250k in 2023. We're in a bubble.
Philosophically, if those services deteriorate beyond repair and are riff with corruption/nepotism, the people have the right to object, by any means necessary. The efficiency of our tax dollars, in the US at least, is prob very low. I wonder for every $1 of tax revenue collected, how much of that is used for actual public good. 20%?
Sure is a great notes app, from Alex MacCaw as above perhaps not hn ready, GitHub link https://github.com/Baarilliant-ai/ReadMe/blob/main/README.md
Thanks for providing the search functionality.
I always use it before submitting something, in case someone else has already posted it recently.

@dang It would be great if this duplicate search functionality was embedded in the HN submission form ;-)
on the contrary, it's completely unsurprising that the literal only critique to be found of the video on HN (a site made by and for VC) to write off the entire video because of one of the errors.

maybe reflect inwards a bit more
There are real use cases for pivoting data in SQL not only for presentation. Tables can be too "long".

You need data points to be on the same row if you want to do arithmetic operations on on different types of values. For example

k + 3.14* number_of_chimneys - 0.13 * age - 1.34*neigbourhood_criminality as house_price
I haven't paid bills "manually" in almost 15+ years. You waste so much time opening mail, writing checks, buying stamps, etc. I put everything on auto-pay, with the exception of property taxes (only because the city won't allow it.)
This may be a character flaw on my part, but I’d be a little bit worried or at least curious about a doctor who’s had a lot of arbitration cases relative to their career length, even if they’ve won them.
Argentina already has very high inflation, doesn't it? Won't this lead to money printing that will make the problem even worse?
Agreed that we are wealthier now as a planet and a country than during the Fordist era, but that's why it's called political economy. Our society is richer but labor is worse off. This is in line with historical norms throughout almost all of recorded history. Tyranny and poverty are the rule, not the exception.

I agree that this state of affairs is unacceptable but from my perspective it's just good luck that my grandpa was able to live during the era he did. He certainly didn't plan it that way!
It would be hilarious if the fear of being faked turned out to be the final blow to demands for privacy.
This article seems a little fearmongering. Autopay is great, and several credit card companies offer a variety of nice features to help reduce the likelihood of temporary cash flow management issues. Citi for example allows you to split your payment in 2, so if you are paid biweekly, you can arrange your payment dates to align with your paydays.
I can't speak to the economic side of this, but intuitively, the idea that one required to sell their labor to survive must pay taxes on that, has always rubbed me the wrong way.

Interestingly enough, the DPRK ("North Korea") outlawed income taxes in 1974, calling them "remnants of an antiquated society."
I had some "down lights" in an apartment I lived in in Australia that did this

Annoyingly for a single (small) room it had *three* switches, each controlling two lights. The ones on either side of the room were perhaps 8 feet apart, with two more at the near end of the room (about another 4 feet from the first two)

Replacing them with compatible smart bulbs of any kind due to them being DC proved surprisingly difficult in Australia. Though I suspect countries with larger markets would fare better
Most of the world is developing closed-source software.

When you publish an open-source project, people are going to assume you want your project to be open source. This often provides an enormous boost to the project, as people are way more willing to contribute to a collaborative community project than just donating time to some for-profit company.

I am totally fine with companies making proprietary for-profit software, but don't leech off the open-source community by pretending to be something you are not. I am at a point where I assume any company-backed project with a CLA is going to do a bait-and-switch as soon as that becomes the more profitable option. Remember kids: corporations are not your friend.
Maybe a silly question - but on the app itself, is there some sort of... tutorial of sorts? Really curious to learn how this world works but unsure where exactly to start on this app.
It's interesting that the article doesn't mention Javier Milei - maybe the intention from the Minister/Candidate was showing up as a someone who is economic liberal to counter his surging in the polls
Intellectually I understand this, but it's really really hard (for me) to consistently avoid this fallacy.
Maybe some, maybe now.

I would love to believe it was due to my excoriating writeup of the experience a decade ago:

https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/18605.html

That was just shockingly bad treatment, in our opinions (categorically not humble.)
> If you believe in software freedoms, then there will never be any reason to need to relicense, nor would you want to.

The Tivo-ization process of the 90s shows that while this might be frequently true, it isn’t without exception. From a practical standpoint, continuing to provide for user freedom would have been best accomplished (personal opinion) if many projects had been able to move to a more AGPL style license.
No income taxes doesn’t mean no taxes, most countries (and states in the US) with low income taxes fund themselves with less redistributing taxes.
Signals are such a mess - especially with a multi-threaded process/service.

I suspect very strongly you'll get a much better behaved system if you stick to unix domain sockets.

Then, at least, you get some form of authn from the permissions of the filesystem namespace.
Missing the feature to filter by amount of comments or score and sorting by date. But works well enough in a "emergency" I suppose :)
I’m really curious to see how this will play out. Even though Israel has a tentative causus belli, I don’t know if that’s going to survive months of dead Palestinian children. I realize that’s how it has been for years but there’s a lot of extra scrutiny right now.
January 2014

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7126301 ("Last Friday, we have released the new HN Search (http://hn.algolia.com)")

(Found by plugging "hn.algolia.com" into hn.algolia.com and bisecting by date).

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=hn.algolia.com
It is pretty funny that openai arguably is based on enormous amounts of copyright infringement (depending on if scraping training data is fair use or not), but they're kind of being prudes about something as clearly benign as this.
> But they're well within their rights to just roll a dice.

Who said anything about rights? What does it even mean for a company to have rights?
No, the fallacy comes from choosing the sample before analysing the probability.

The probability a specific nurse could have such specific bad luck is very low, but there are of course many nurses, and each nurse treats many patients. What is the probability any nurse would have such bad luck, over a long period? How does that probability compare to the probability of murder, which is also estimable? Only either unlucky nurses or murderers end up in the docket - so the p-value really depends on the probability that the prosecutor faces an unlucky nurse versus a murderer.

A simpler comparison: a die with a thousand faces is quite unlikely to land on any particular face. When you roll it, it gives you a sample - is it more likely that the die is weighted to that face, or that the die is fair?
I get ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Attention Sinks in LLMs for endless fluency
Various experiments on the recent Window Attention with Attention Sinks/StreamingLLM approach indicate that the approach certainly improves inference fluency of pretrained LLMs, while also improving the VRAM usage from linear to constant.

It can be applied to pretrained LLMs with little to no additional effort, and Hugging Face transformers is working on first-party support. Until then, the third-party module in the blogpost already works well.
I wish there was a requirement that USB C cables must have sort of ID chip that can be easily read that tells what the cable supports, so that we could have simple testers that you can plug a cable into and be told what speed and power it supports.
The USA had all of those things before the 16th Amendment was ratified in 1913.
That's just what Loki thought!

Humans... So impossible to please.
That would just result in warlords. Power abhors a vacuum. Hope you really like child abuse if you think this is a great idea.
Well the state can also unilaterally take your life ( depending in the country ) and certainly your liberty.

And the above is a trade-off, the state polices & punishes murder and theft etc, with an aim of reducing it overall - so you are less likely to be murdered or stolen from.

Then this central mechanism needs paying for. Tax is simply a way of paying for it - and it's not voluntary to stop free-riders.

The reality is you need government & laws when people start living in complex societies where people are no longer self-sufficient, but rely on a complex web of interactions.

Laws are there to arbitrate between people - if you live on a homestead in the mountains they may seem unnecessary - if you live in a big city, where even essentials like food and water depend on a complex web of interactions - they are essential.
I've dreamed of creating such a place of libertarians to live. I'd call it Galt's Gulch and everything will be controlled by a single for-profit corporation unrestrained by any government oversight. If you don't work, you'll starve, as you should. If any of the residents don't like it, they can live (or more accurately, starve) in a small, barren yard surrounded by a wall whose inside surface will be covered with "no trespassing" signs. It's all be fine, because everyone has a choice to voluntarily consent (or not and starve).
And a child is born in this region... tell me about their rights.
Despite being an engineer and well versed in SQL, the ability to do things quickly in Excel, including whipping up pivot tables, has been a big boost to my career, especially as I moved more to product and business management.

Pivot tables let you super quickly see how things break down across dimensions and play with that analysis in a way that makes for rapid decision making that's not matched by much else other than established tools for well-defined spaces.
They do have this, you can choose to bid for a target conversion cost (I want to pay at most $x per conversion). In general I find all of this pretty silly as a Google employee.. I don't think you can distill the complexity of any change down to one article. Say for example that Google did just raise how much advertisers paid per click across the board, why would that lead to billions of dollars in profit? I would bet that the majority of advertisers on Google already spend their whole budget, so that would mean that now they would just be getting less clicks and conversions per dollar of budget spend. Logically they would then move some of this budget to other advertising channels such as Facebook. Charging more per impression always has second order effects, but who cares about that on hackernews
> They're two tines of the same pitchfork.

If we're discussing the market, there's several billion other tines you missed.
Why do you think that?

There are no fundamental limitations in LLM technology that precludes it from having accurate recollection of the facts, isn't that so?
I left out a detail: the gift was going to be distributed worldwide. Soon, nobody would be able to imagine anything new.
or who might not have access to the video cuts at all. Maybe a costume artist or a person organizing the catering does not need (or should not have at all, from an IP protection standpoint) access to the video clips, cuts. And you are back to the multiple chat apps (at least the producers/managers/organizers however they are called in that industry), or the limited access service accounts to the team's Teams/Slack with dedicated channels.

Though I guess the productions recorded with an iPhone might not have so big and logistically complicated crew. But back to my original point: I think these small projects are organized on other, more personal channels already, so the in-app chat is redundant. For larger projects, like those I was pondering in the previous paragraph: they are already beyond this in-app chat, so the in-app chat is redundant.

I think these in-app chats are very rarely used, and are generally not worth the effort to develop, or from a user/organization standpoint to learn and adopt. (Not to mention the closed nature of them).

And this does not want to belittle this app and its chat feature, I'm just generally wondering about the phenomenon this app has particularly made me think about.
yes but in an hyperinflationary scenario it won’t last long (laws are defined in pesos)

so it could be back to sub 800 soon
Hmm, hopefully people have enough avenues to match the extra income that they are going to generate
It's a mixed bag, I think.

Good things:
* Tons of high quality small indie games that experiment with mood, story, genre. Think Cultist Simulator or Factorio.

* Remasters and emulation bring the best of the past to the present.

* New experiments in gaming hardware: Nintendo Switch, Playdate.

* Console play is more ergonomic (controllers, voice chat) than ever.

* Gaming is pretty mainstream now, so there's more people to play with, and there's less stigma.

* Twitch, Discord, YouTube all make finding a community for your game easy and fun (if your game is blessed with a positive one at least).

Bad things:

* Certain genres haven't really seen top-quality entries. After Age of Empires 2, Age of Mythology, and Warcraft 3, the only top-quality entry in the RTS genre was StarCraft 2. We just don't see folks even trying, certainly not with AAA budgets.

* Game design choices make games too streamlined, and remove fun interactions. For RPG games: quest markers, level scaling, lax loot table probabilities, incentivizing solo play til end game, etc.

* Voice acting means there's just less text and less depth. Compare Morrowind to Skyrim. But I think we're over the hump here. A game like RDR2 is fully voice-acted but had 2000 pages of writing. That's the best of both worlds.

* Bad art design makes things look really bad in low-power hardware. Compare D2 and D4 on a lower-end computer.
Sales tax has a disproportionate negative impact those at the lower end of the socio-economic scale, whereas income tax is easier to balance.
> The answer is a better quality than if they are trying to figure out stable diffusion.

Prove it. Give some newbie Photoshop and a week of time, and show me how well they can Photoshop the face of a particular person (say Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture) onto some porn.
I auto-pay with minimal and log in at the beginning of every month and pay the full balances.
Independent of spot-on analysis by @crazygringo,

my own immediate reaction was, "excellent!"

The system is working as intended. I don't want to manage my f---g credit card bills. I want my computer do this sh-t.
I started using Mint which summarizes all your transactions across all accounts which is nice. No more surprises on what is going on.
Stop confusing me, I already made up my mind.
And if you set autopay for the full amount you'll never have interest. I also have e-mail notifications for any transaction above $1 since I have yet to see a credit card with notifications for all transactions.
Agree. Autopay is an invisible gremlin reaching in and taking money from me every month. Nickelandimeism is apparently the new economy.
There's also a distinct commercial DAW based on Ardour called Harrison Mixbus.

https://harrisonconsoles.com/product/mixbus/
Blast Valve
The story for how the seashells came about doesn’t make sense. How could you reach someone while they were on the toilet in the early-mid 90’s? Unless the dude got up from the toilet and walked over to the nearest phone, which must have had a really long cord, and then walked back to sit on the toilet.