skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_India, India has a fixed set of GST rates and classes. It does not look like each city can have its own additional GST. The only "local" tax I can find is property taxes, and the US has those too. But we're talking about property tax, we're not talking about interstate taxes (which are illegal under the US constitution), we're talking about what you or I (I'm originally from NZ) would call GST, or the UK would call VAT (the UK adds so much value :D).

The whole point is that there is no set sales tax that is present everywhere.

I will try to make this clear, step by step.

In the US, the federal government does not, and can not, set any kind of federal sales tax, service tax, or similar.

Every state is free to set its own sales and service taxes. The states have set sales taxes from 0% to 7.25%.

In each state, each county can also set their own additional sales taxes.

In each county, each city can also set their own additional sales taxes.

So that total combined tax for any given location in the US can range from 0% (in four states) to 13.5%.

That 13.5% number? That's in Alabama where the state sales tax is only 4% and the average sales tax (state + county + city) is less than 9%. That's just one state.

The 7.25% sales is California, where total sales tax varies from 7.25% to 10.5% (the 10.5% is only in one city).

For a product in the US to include an MSRP that included all taxes it would have to include hundreds, if not thousands, of prices and the cities, counties, or zip codes that those apply to.

This is before you get to those taxes changing regularly.

When we are talking about the insane numbers of tax rates in the US here, we are talking about GST.

When we talk about cities that set their own tax rate, this isn't some population driven thing, its a specific legal entity.

To try and reinforce this, let's consider just the San Francisco Bay Area in California. In this region there are 101 municipalities, each of which can have their own additional sales tax rates, on top of the sales tax rates from nine counties. The population of these municipalities range from 1500 people to a bit over 1 million. For the bulk of these there is literally no space between the cities. Take my house, it's in Oakland, but if I walk past one house on the corner, and then about 10 houses west the houses are no longer in Oakland, they're in Emeryville, which can have it's own sales tax.

Just in my commute to/from work I drive through I think 10 different sales tax rates. This is ignoring any special sales tax rates: some but not all cities have different tax rates for soda, cigarettes, etc.

And understand this cannot be changed, any law that tried to change this would fall to the CA constitution (which limits state government control of local governments), and any thing that tried to remove this control from the states fails due to the US bill of rights (the part of the constitution that also guarantees freedom of religion, guns (sigh), etc). This restriction on the control higher level government has on lower level/state/local governments is fundamental to the construction of US government.
This is a quibble, but if 1password goes down, your vaults still exist on all your devices and the app will keep working, it's only the syncing of modifications between devices that won't work.
Yes. I think it is very helpful to try to develop your weaker sides, in order to become a more balanced person. For me, partner dancing has been fruitful in developing my emotional and moving parts.

And, if you need to process some traumatic experiences -- and practically all of us probably could benefit from such work -- if psychoanalytic psychotherapy does not work for you -- I would suggest trying other kinds of therapy that works more through our emotional or somatic parts.
They look cool. Would be great to have an oled version without a backlight.
> Sure, we could drive German tanks into Moscow. But all that's going to do is galvanize the Russian people against the West, and cause Russian military to fall back and dig in in the rest of the country.

As much as I'd love to see the Ukrainian flag fly on the Kremlin and Putin dragged in front of an international tribunal: No notable voice I'm aware of is calling for / advocating for Ukraine to actually march onto Russian territory beyond quick skirmishes (such as the daring raid on the Belgorod fuel depot), and all Western weapons come with the official requirement that they not be used on Russian soil (for the Taurus, the reported reason why Scholz is holding it up is because he wants the manufacturer to geo-fence it).
All the way back to Apollo Domain.
Google infra is attacked with large scale DDoS type attacks literally multiple times a day. They’re usually a nothingburger.
The davos types don't think "brain transparency" is so farfetched.

"You may be surprised to learn this is a future that has already arrived."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfqD5aW0X5U
I haven't had any problems with dozens of devices over the years. What are you doing to your phone?
Well it can't be the total number of Mac users, which is higher than the population of some countries. Maybe it's just that there aren't many Mac gamers who want to play Counter-Strike, just like there wouldn't be many Xbox owners who want to play Mario, even if it was available for Xbox.
So far my guests are mostly puzzled by "Why'd you frame that?" until I tell them it will in fact change and isn't my most prized selection of news articles :-)
He was very pro Windows because Windows' development tools are simply much better (yeah yeah I know your pimped emacs with a stack of 25 scripts/plugins to interface with gdb is so much more productive than Visual Studio's debugger, bravo...).

It wasn't the sort of anti-linux sentiment that you're implying.
My thought on this is to involve notaries. As in you can get a notorised account. And if something goes wrong you can get a notary in the loop and by law the providers have to fix what ever has gone wrong or they are liable for actual and statutory damages.
This in itself is why web components have had such a hard time actually taking off as a viable platform to build on. You need some other library to handle the things you actually need to accomplish.
and depend on how much you put into them
At this point I doubt any language will be able to oust Python as the go-to language for machine learning. The Python ecosystem is just too strong, the value-add for the new language would have to be extremely high, I just don't think it's possible
I have both of mine in little ziplock bags given to me by the oral surgeons. I don't know why I save them.
Tablet manufacturers would do well to consider that the picture frame is the desirable form factor for E-ink tablets, perhaps more so than the iPad style hand held tablet.

Look to what hobbyists are hacking to find commercial opportunity.
So I preferred the idea of regular folks for backup, for security reasons. I thought of the idea of professional users like say your bank or 3rd party. The issue is that it's far easier for the govt to subpoena those pro 3rd parties and recover your key. Whereas, they would have to know which of your friends you used for key recovery to be able to do that. The idea was to make it tough for a bad/powerful actor to steal your key. Of course, the challenge is that a non social person would need friends or to depend on ISPs, banks (pro 3rd party providers). My goal besides security when building this project was to break the chain of 3rd party auths (Google, MS, Github, etc) :-(. They use their auth as a way to lock folks into their ecosystem and if you offend them in anyway, you could lose access to everything. Offend Google on adsense and lose your personal photos/email. Offend Amazon on sales and lose your prime streaming/AWS access. Hopefully as the idea picks up, the monopolistic corps can be tackled again to remove such power.
Just because something is easy doesn't mean the people in power have an incentive to do it. Or don't have an incentive not to do it.
Wow, interesting that just $50/month did almost just as well as $1000/month.
There's a good, simplified diagram of how passkeys work here:
https://github.com/passwordless-id/webauthn#how-does-the-pro...
Grokking as Compression: A Nonlinear Complexity Perspective
Presumably your current password manager meets those requirements. Why not just use it (if it doesn't support passkeys today, it surely will) to manage your passkeys as well?
Paper abstract: We attribute grokking, the phenomenon where generalization is much delayed after memorization, to compression. To do so, we define linear mapping number (LMN) to measure network complexity, which is a generalized version of linear region number for ReLU networks. LMN can nicely characterize neural network compression before generalization. Although the L2 norm has been a popular choice for characterizing model complexity, we argue in favor of LMN for a number of reasons: (1) LMN can be naturally interpreted as information/computation, while L2 cannot. (2) In the compression phase, LMN has linear relations with test losses, while L2 is correlated with test losses in a complicated nonlinear way. (3) LMN also reveals an intriguing phenomenon of the XOR network switching between two generalization solutions, while L2 does not. Besides explaining grokking, we argue that LMN is a promising candidate as the neural network version of the Kolmogorov complexity since it explicitly considers local or conditioned linear computations aligned with the nature of modern artificial neural networks.
Surely most LCD patents have expired by now?
How is it the same? Apple runs a closed ecosystem and has shown it doesn’t care for gaming for a long time so its user should know that by now. Linux is an open platform and the results show. SteamDeck is running on Linux and can run most Steam games. Macs still can’t. Apple users should take responsibility on this one.
I'm not objecting.

Just in the heat of the moment, hard to stay detached.

Sometimes the Suttas, can be a bit 'distant' to everyday life. Hard to relate them back to the hear and now.
Ask HN: Digital Wall Calendar?
Remember those monthly wall calendars you just write your appointments on? Has anyone seen a digital version of that, where you can jot down a note for a day in plain text?

Plain text calendars like calendar.txt are great. [1] It would be super helpful, to see that list data in a month grid as well.

There's an Android app called Calendar Notes that does something like this, but it's not interoperable with Mac.

It could be a local file, an app, or a browser extension. Compatible with Mac desktop and Android phone.

Not looking for word processing calendars like Word or Google Docs. Also not Apple or Google Calendar. Really just plain text notes with a calendar-grid GUI. Thanks!

[1]
https://terokarvinen.com/2021/calendar-txt/, discussed at
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31574125 (05/2022).

Edited for brevity.
Yah. If you are being flashed it's likely at least 1 degree upward, which is not helping a driver see the road.
Evil finds a way…
You may have a higher standard of living than a recently homeless person. Also consider that this may not be their only income, and they might share some of the burden with others.

> Denver citizens must be lucky.

LOL
> 4 Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire

I really enjoyed Doireann Ní Ghríofa's book that revolves around this keen, for anyone interested: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/51498568
Sounds like a great idea. Sometimes it's hard to be so in tune with the technology, and also be the salesperson!
> in between scripted DDoS hits they slammed the hell out of their web applications

I've heard this before, but I still don't understand what purpose the DDoS serves here. Distraction, so the actual attack drowns in the noise?
> Linux adoption is 100% incidental to to Valve investing in their own platform, which happens to be built on Linux.

I'm not sure if you realized it but you are arguing the same point many others have been in this post. Apple is not investing in gaming, especially relative to their market cap compared to valve. Valve is making gaming on linux a reality because they are investing in it.

Apple has the money, they don't have the motivation to make it happen, because they don't want to participate on an open platform. That would be counter-productive to their goals of a walled garden.

If you buy into Apple, you cannot leave their walled garden and that's by design, with no plans on changing.
Farmers plant more cocoa outside Africa
https://pastebin.com/r9bNi8GD

GPT 4 goes into detail about one example scenario, which most humans won't do, but it is technically correct answer as it said it depends on the order.
Most motorcycles made from 2017 onward have factory emissions equipment with cleanliness similar to cars (due to the Euro5 regulations from that year forward). Since most bikes have one configuration globally, even US models implemented Euro5.
> I guess when it’s a “partner” country’s corporations doing the spying, that makes it okay.

According to the government? Yes, of course.
It's just a band aid on a bleeding wound. UBI needs to be implemented as a large scale bureaucracy. A network of subsidizations that ensure citizens have social housing, rent payed, and enough to sustain themselves. Like it or not, it requires government regulation. Because otherwise renters will never accept social housing, or tenant who's rent is being subsidized.

You can't just hand out money to people.
If noise made your bike safer, you’d get an insurance discount. People say such things so that they don’t come off as sociopathic, not because it is true. Don’t parrot them.
> Do you (or anyone) know of any products that allow for iterating on the generated output through further chatting with the ai? What I mean, is that each subsequent prompt here either generated a new whole output, or new chunks to add to the output. Ideally, whether generating code or prose, I’d want to keep prompting about the generated output and the AI further modifies the existing output until it’s refined to the degree I want it.

ChatGPT does this.
1000 a month can easily get you an illegal room in some basement or someone’s adapted garage, with enough money to spare for a good outfit, a workable phone, and an internet subscription to start applying for jobs.
The massive increase seen in the control group seems to indicate that either ~5% of the money delivers >50% of the benefit, or there were some other factors that were more significant than the money.
what's your budget :)

the Lilygo T5 with Touch screen + a lipo battery would have all the hardware you need

just need to port chess to the platform after that https://www.hackster.io/Sergey_Urusov/arduino-mega-chess-d54...

figuring out NAT traversal to get them talking to each other from each other's homes might be tricky/fun, but there may be ways around that...
You obviously have never lived with unstable people who often live just above the poverty line. There’s a reason why share houses and shelters don’t work.
It had a largely secular foundation but its government is dominated by Orthodox Jews. The religious right is in charge of the government -- to the horror of a lot of younger and more secular Israelis, but they are nonetheless running the country.

That right wing government has a strong interest in settling the country, in ways that antagonize the Palestinian population. That absolutely does not excuse a terrorist attack, but we're now locked in a vicious cycle where a lot of Israeli voters put in place a government that is hostile to Palestinians, and each attack entrenches it further.

Those secular Israelis have not been able to keep power. They may be dominant in numbers and in culture, but the government sees the land as "god promised" and acts on it.
I suppose the cheapest room I can find here is $700 a month. Which wouldn't be unlivable, I suppose. There was a group in the study that only got $50 a month, after all.
But they are not giving it to everyone, just to homeless people. That does not warrant the "Universal" part of the name.

EDIT: I think I misread the whole thing, it really does not say "Universal" anywhere :) Anyway, I think someone, soon will try to use this project as an argument in favor of UBI, which is ridiculous.
And what a surprise that is, the one feature necessary to ensure vendor lock in doesn't happen was at 0 priority before they rolled it out.
Pretty neat how the brain is capable and willing to believe obviously and totally incoherent things like compatibilism.

Compatibilism "solves" only a moral and political problem, it offers pretty much no insight into the actual behavior of the universe and consciousnesses within it.
It’s so rare that I use anything other than the 1Password Chrome extension that I couldn’t really tell you! The main app seems.. fine? But like I say, I hardly use it, so I probably wouldn’t notice details like you mention.

Do you have a different workflow where you use the main app a lot?
Game preservation, options for people who can’t play CS2, keeping a clear chronology of the game’s history.

Replacing CSGO with CS2 is the oddity.
I'm not sure I see what you mean with that? Prompt engineering used to be crucial for getting good results, however with each successive iteration it has become less and less relevant.
It's a chatbot. It was very impressive a few years ago before the LLM boom (although I think it is using something like GPT itself internally when it talks to its server), but these days it's if anything behind the curve.
doesn't really need to do any of that to have negative effects. Not only are there obvious privacy issues, the 24/7 health monitoring craze of people who are healthy and don't require such interventions is just a waste of money and potentially worry. Yet another avenue to sell people 'health services' that in reality have no measurable impact.

My wife's a physician. She now routinely has to deal with healthy young people who come into her clinic with anxiety because of spurious smart watch alerts concerning their sleep or heart rhythm, despite the fact that they undergo regular checkups to begin with and such monitoring isn't indicated.
You have silent bit flips, they silently corrupted data instead of causing a visible error.
Got excited, but then you qualified it was AI.

AI art is not generative art, it is reductive "art". It requires samples of the art style you wish to cop, and it always produces something artificial and less than the sum of its parts.

On the other hand, generative art is procedural, and represents the thought process of a human being.

Better luck making meaning.
Fedora Magazine
This paper presents formal results, apparently. Also, in the case of formal results, peer review by experts in the exact sub-field makes sense/increases trust, sure, but why not share on archive instead of waiting for a year (or however long the process takes in the particular instance)?
Gopass is my current solution. Easy to sync and move around (it's just git), supports OTP generation, everything is encrypted by GPG. I have at least three devices in separate locations with it, so my DR is covered (and I exercise it frequently).
Are there any legislative initiatives to ban loud motorcycles (like they did in some EU countries)? I'd really want to vote for it.

US is all about freedom, and concern for neighbors is a necessary prerequisite to practicing freedom.

PS: I ride a motorcycle as well, there's no problem making it reasonably quiet.
What percentage of their ad revenue is generated from iPhone users searches?
Not always!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_pension
> Linux usershare grew because of the steamdeck.

Couldn't Apple do the same? Why isn't it working? You don't realize it but you are proving the counter-argument many are making. Apple refuses to contribute to an open platform for gaming, so they have to rely on converting game developers to work within their walled garden.

That strat will never win for PC gaming.
We live just barely above that line, and recently got $600/mo of food stamps revoked, which did an order of magnitude more harm than the pitiful raise that got us there.
Yeah, that's still pretty much nonsense isn't it?

2b) If you draw all white balls in these next 50 draws you would have 50 red balls, 50 blue balls, and 50 white balls out. So, you would end with 50 white balls and 50 red balls in the container.

... so after removing 100 balls, I've removed 150 balls? And the 150 balls that I've removed are red, white and blue despite the fact that I removed 50 blue balls initially and then 50 white ones.
Implementation issue. Some implementations are immune.
hmmm, if I have to hear the noise, I would like a requirement that it blare forward! (so I can step into the crosswalk)
On the quotes: wasn't even really aware I was doing it. I was using an iPad when writing that comment, which ‘corrects’ quotes by default.

Looks like Mac doesn't do it by default, but you can switch it on (“Edit” -> “Substitutions” -> “Smart Quotes”).
Is it also Apple's fault that Steam takes 34 seconds to start up on my Mac with four 3.2 GHz cores?
This link gives a brief explanation: https://gamefromscratch.com/urho3d-is-dead-ish/

You can also see that the Urho3d repo is readonly on Github. I don't know which fork is the most active but there are a few that sprung out of the mess.
The least they could do is offer to take control of my brain over a 3.5 mm jack.
This is a mix of a witch-hunt against Musk and political maneuver as Breton is said to be eyeing the job of President of EU Commission in next year's EU elections.
Pretty cool at $36.36 USD

https://www.lilygo.cc/products/t5-4-7-inch-e-paper-v2-3

It would be great to be able to buy this in a size that would mount easily into common photo frame formats.

Ideally with a battery that could last months and optional power.

If I was retired it's the sort of project I'd happily waste time on.
> Isn’t any kind of attack where a little bit of effort from the attacker causes a lot of work for the victim an amplification attack?

That is technically any HTTP request that requires processing to satisfy. For example if I find a page on your site that executes an expensive database query.

Amplification attacks are generally defined as packets that can be sent with a spoofed source address that result in a larger number of packets being returned to the spoofed victim.
It looks like regression to the mean.
I’m not sure about this pre-LLM AI being disappointing take. What are we considering as AI? AI encompasses all manner of fields. The face detection in my iPhone, nest doorbell works fantastically. The DSG in my car learns how I shift, fraud detection in finance is heavily driven by ML and typically very effective. It may not be helpful to you, but product recommendations and targeted advertising are ML driven and incredibly effective. They may not be exciting uses, but they’re incredibly helpful.
Is this the same Apple whose new iPhone SOC has hardware ray tracing?

Apple has a gaming strategy. iPhone makes developers too much money to ignore, and since adopting in-house silicon across all product lines their handhelds, tablets, laptops and desktops all use the same APIs and CPU/GPU cores.

If you target iPhone, there is not much additional work to add a keyboard/mouse/gamepad UI to target the rest of their ecosystem.

We've started seeing Console games get ported to iPhone, which I don't think anyone was expecting a couple of years ago.

> Resident Evil Village on iOS Is Legit. I Forgot I Wasn't Playing on a Console

https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/resident-evil-village-on-io...
> If you're still talking about it 24 years later, it did what it was supposed to.

Grandparent comment:

> Now, watching NFL, the commercials are actively grating, annoying, and the complete opposite of entertaining.

These are not mutually exclusive. Perhaps toeing that line is a key to good marketing?
Fun video to watch, "double the height double the people". Good ol' fashioned slapstick enjoyment