skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “Most people, the 99%, they’re afraid of the IRS,” said an attorney who works on large corporate audits. “The other 1%, they’re not afraid. They make the IRS afraid of them.”

I noticed this pretty early on. The IRS isn't really an adversary, it helps you. It just depends where you are on the socioeconomic ladder.

At the bottom, you avoid it and get inconvenient disagreements it the form of random threatening bills that break your budget. An audit being the worst thing possible because you also are hiding some money or reporting it incorrectly.

Somewhere at the upper middle, you unlock the circumstances to begin telling the IRS how you wont pay. You file 83(b) or 83(i) elections, “hey we’re going to treat this as long term capital gains in the future, instead of ordinary income!” okay, thanks for telling us! “but good thing ‘vesting’ isnt actually regulated, so we’re going to give ourselves these options at a huge discount and vest in 3 days!”.

You file your self directed 401k. Just a little form.

You file your non profit and they grant you income tax exemption,

or you file your hedge fund spanning 4 separate jurisdictions, two of which are offshore. You’re not hiding anything, forget about the offshore banking, you just tell the IRS what you’re doing in advance and they help you set it up! Oh no the carry has to be held for 3 years for long term capital treatment. Okay, can do!
Without a meticulous food diary for comparison, you can't substantiate that you are eating the same or fewer calories. And if you can't do that, then there's no mystery here.

If you are eating 3000 calories of healthy food and you used to eat 2400 calories of junk food, why would you weigh less now?
Appreciate the criticism, are you referring to the text on the landing page?
Can you elaborate? Would love to hear more.
Legality has nothing to do with ethical. I by force could make it a law that you have to pay me to eat, most reasonable people would consider that an affront to ethical behavior.
> This will be hard to implement.

Sure, we do need to think about it for more than 30 seconds, but I don't think it makes any sense to punt to personal addresses.

Physical mail doesn't have a history, so why should "housemail"? It expires after k days, you need to forward it to a personal address if you want to save it.

"Housemail" doesn't need to receive arbitrary information, only information that can't be shifted to personal email because there is no registration step. So e.g. things that aren't opt-in, and things where you are legally expected to check what you receive. So, traffic tickets, backup communication from utilities (e.g. water is getting turned off), etc.

I think constraining it to only the necessary use cases makes it a lot simpler than what you are imagining.
wrong, they do, but on a long timescale (million years), through hydrocarbures

of course obviously, people shouldn't extract and buy fossil fuel and all those derived products (plastics)
"All at $1 a month." but the cheapest plan is $1.50 per month, something doesn't add up.
Bitcoin stolen from FTX being converted to cash via "mixer"
It's almost like laws can have good or bad effects based on their details.
You can't have democracy if people are persecuted for their voting preferences, and with total surveillance a bad government could identify ahead of time people who planned to vote against it and punish them.
Feel free to reach out any time. I highly recommend you use the free trial.
Again, obscure and jargon are a function of context.

Spitballing...Keep in mind, without context, "accessibility" is also jargon in the sense not everyone is going to know what and how that means. My mum certainly wouldn't understand a11y, I agree. But she also would understand "accessibility" or even "website accessibility."

Full disclosure: I'm 5x more picky than the next person when it comes to comms. Absolutely, words matter. But one of the foundations to comms is context. The context in this case is HN.

Let's move on now.
So now malicious users can give bad proposals, get it rejected, and block other potentially good proposals for 5 years? Sounds like a good DoS scheme.
The way Jackson structured it (day-by-day) made it very amenable to watching a single episode over many days. My wife and I would watch a day or two per night and it took us a couple of weeks to watch the whole series.
People have been trying to stick Linux and the AOSP for the same reasons, but it's quite obviously never worked. Linux and Android are not popular because they are superior security tools, they are popular because they are free and accessible. Governments play poker, they don't want you to know what their hands look like. Condemning any particular software is the equivalent of folding their hand; it's an admittance of defeat. It won't happen unless they face a hopelessly equipped adversary, like Huawei.

GrapheneOS is likely not a secure system, but neither is any smartphone OS. I'll compliment anyone taking steps towards transparency that makes governments and global-scale corporations tremble at the knees.
Somewhat related, I heard from a contact that Accenture needed consultants with my skills in the US/Canada. I got a referral, and put was contacted by someone in HR.

I said I wanted to work in the US. They told me that they aren't sponsoring visas in the US right now. I was thinking, they're Accenture, how can this be possible?
Alternatively, the actual date can be rendered on the page and if people want the relative they can hower over.

Rendering relative dates instead of actual is not a good user experience in my opinion.

Personally, if I'm looking at a date at all that's because I want to compare it to another date.

Why it's important for work-related stuff doesn't need explaining, I guess. But this is relevant even for personal matters -- e.g., was this photo taken before a friend's wedding or after, etc.

Given how imprecise relative dates are they are not of much help for that.

And in the case I'm not looking to compare dates, seeing relative dates doesn't really add any value for me either.

Also, it's quite obvious something happened 1, 2, 3 years ago from seeing the actual date.
"1 year ago" may not be precise enough, but "11 months ago" often is.
When implementing such a function we tend to avoid "1".
Instead of "1 week ago" it is "6 days ago"
In the paper they say that the daily energy expenditure matches well a function of the fat-free mass (a power-law function, at high masses the energy per mass ratio is lower than at low masses).

Therefore all their data is based only on fat-free mass, i.e. total body mass minus fat mass.

So all their conclusions are not influenced by the amount of fat vs. muscle.
How do you define “number of laws”? Laws usually consist of many individual rules, and one can just make the law “bigger” to reduce the nominal number of laws without actually reducing the contents. In addition, I don’t see how this would cause the laws to become more in the interest of the citizens than of the legislators.
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No, but it's size and focused power does, which is why the EU isn't trying to copy it 1:1
Haha, it looked cleaner that way in the subtitle. The official price is $1.50 though. Still the cheapest on the market.
> One problem might be that we teach everyone about the dangers of fanatical explosive totalitarian movements like Hitlerism and Stalinism but not enough about “softer” creeping authoritarianism that is less easy to identify or oppose. Both are a risk but the strong man cult type is easier to mobilize people against.

This is entirely the problem in my opinion. When you talk to Europeans you'll notice they tend to be very concerned about the dangers of things like extremism and hate speech, but not at all about state authoritarianism. But why is that? I'd argue that today your life is much more likely to be ruined because you hold the wrong social opinions or political views rather than your neighbour denying the holocaust[1].

And there is an ugly righteousness developing here too. I'm finding it increasingly difficult to defend people's right to dislike Islam or be homophobic, for example. A lot of Europeans genuinely believe these views are so evil that people deserve to be punished for holding them.

But how can I really blame them? The media here constantly reminds us about the dangers of terrorist and and extremism. It constantly tells us how evil it is to hold certain opinions. And most people don't reason about this stuff from first principles. They just assume that the extremism is a threat so end up contributing to the problem by demanding the state does more to suppress our freedoms.

It's difficult to see this getting better and if it did it would be because we put equal effort into warning about creeping authoritarianism. Obviously this isn't going to happen, but that is the solution.

[1] I'll note that I'm referring explicitly to the illegality of holocaust denialism here. I'm not talking about people who deny the holocaust and are planning to commit mass murder. The difference here is someone who holds unfavourable views vs someone who's genuinely a danger to the public.

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Legal note: I do not support any hateful ideologies, but I do believe people should be free to express views which may be considered hateful. My comments are not intended to undermine how awful holocaust denialism is in any way.
Populism at work, no surprise since Brexit was tze same thing.
All of this has to be proven in court, which is really complex, but rolling out features seems definitely a legitimate interest of your business, especially if it can break your software.
It sounds like the same reason you are allowed to log the user IP, to prevent malicious attackers
And what about the Council of the EU?
35+ years ago, the ancestors of these people tried to force OSI on the world. The Feds in the US even "mandated" it with GOSIP.

While there were giant Interop conferences in the 80's and early 90's for TCP, where every vendor had to demonstrate they could interoperate with everyone else, OSI never managed anything remotely close, because it was too complicated. Like the EC's structure.

Instead, the tech community just proceeded with TCP and the Internet suite of protocols. Even when forced to buy "OSI-compliant" equipment, they actually ran TCP on their networks. Eventually OSI just died. Some vestiges survived, like LDAP and the notion of the "seven-layer model" (mainly 1-4).

It's deeply, deeply ironic that, now that the Internet is global, the Eurocrats are back trying to take it over.
> A simple example is file access times on a (database) server.

This isn't a issue if you use `relatime` which is the default.
I haven't checked the statistics, but I suspect you're mistaken about the DEI angle here.

Until about 1 year ago, I think many companies were paying new-ish software developers well north of $150k. Especially VC-funded companies.
I'm surprised nobody in the comments (that I can find) has mentioned another problem of relative times: am I the only one who considers of the ambiguity of _when_ was the page rendered and therefore what is the reference point for the relative time?

Also, to be honest, I hate seeing times without timezone info. As someone often scheduling with people far away, it does not help me to have the calendaring tools silently convert times into my local timezone and display them unqualified. Particularly when everything tends towards a flat rendering style where it isn't always clear what is metadata from the system and what might be text written by the human far away.

Generally, I dislike when designs fixate on "simple" and blithely ignore real failure modes. I have to try to get into some weird headspace to imagine how the UX designers failed at their job so I can try to predict the right failure mode and recover what I can out of the tools...

Times are not universal. Displays are not always rendered at the moment the user observes them. Location of the observer is not always well known. Things fail. Doubly so with mobile.
I don't understand your solution. The actual content is still being scraped, is it not?
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Can you expand on why, please? From the outside looking in, most European countries seem much better at most things than where I live in the US (unless you're very wealthy, I guess).
That is because of the fatal flaw of democracy: The demos is people and the majority of people are stupid.
> AI smart mouse assist that makes the stuff you want "grab" the mouse

I recommend trying out an iPad with a mouse — there the cursor sort of locks into the closest clickable element, and has to have a sort of “escape velocity” before it will leave the given button, only living as a free-form cursor in-between.

Apple has here a unique way ahead - due to those UIs being designed for touch-first, they have surplus information compared to desktop-only software (e.g. certain apps understand touchpad gestures as well, simply from the appropriate swipe gesture on mobile).
Swarmpunk
I would love it for Europeans to end Lèse-majesté laws but I have little faith of that happening.
I don't think they have trained the model from scratch on images too, but more like Flamingo or similar methods, and the LLM model is at most finetuned but not trained from scratch.

If the model was trained from scratch then I would expect it to be able to develop new emergent behavior like being much better at ascii art, SVG, OpenSCAD scripting at least in the case the model was trained on the usual masked objective but not only on text tokens but image tokens too.
Lets hope it makes noise in the future of medicine.
I mean, your response basically proves the point of the comment you are responding to.

First, salaries are still local, so 140k may be an "insult" in some places, but not in others.

But more importantly, this is the market at work. If the recruiter can get talent for what she's willing to pay, more power to her. If the ex-shopify person can get a comparable job for 175k, more power to them.

But there is an adjustment to be had. The free money spigot has dried up for many companies, and so the salaries of the past 5ish years are in for a reckoning.
Generating AI Images for Blogging
A tree is a local air conditioning, air purifier, air humidifier, so always better than nothing, it hosts so much life like insects that are vital to other lifeforms and trees indirecly
I don't see the reason you should get a refund if you break the rules that you agreed to when signing up.
I have spent a lot of the last five years traveling the MENA region by bike, and the random local people I meet overwhelmingly want to exchange WhatsApp contact info (and are shocked to discover I don't have it, as I use only Signal). Sure, Telegram is around too, but WhatsApp's position is strong, and in any event Telegram is not a locally developed solution.

Your claim that people trust Telegram more is a stretch. I daresay the masses in the Global South think little about where their apps come from and are poorly informed about tech matters, just like in the Global North.
This just feels like throwing the baby out with the bath water. For one, they're slowly adding more joins to queries, and two, a lot of times there's almost no performance difference.

This has been much discussed in many GitHub issues. People get stuck on joins because it's how they've always done it. Same with now Vercel convinced everyone they need SSG and not just a cache
Yea, but the lack of world wars is pretty nice.
I think it's unrealistic for someone to post "evidence" in this case. Not worth the risk of doxing/etc. Think all we can do is take people at their word, or explore the market ourselves and get data from our own experiences.
Seriously? Your complaint is that you have the extra mental overhead of having to know the time?
> It's common for shooters to want to guarantee that if it looks like you shot the other player on your screen, the game will react as if you shot the other player, even if the server would have considered it a miss due to timing differences. Those things can really only be done by trusting the client not to lie, which means verifying that the client hasn't been tampered with.

Why does server-authoritative backwards reconciliation require trusting the client not to lie? The server keeps a history of the past N states and client claims to hits are verified by the server using that history. A client could lie and say it made a hit in one of those prior states (but not an state the client invented whole cloth.) But if the client is doing that then from the server's perspective that player is lagging and backwards reconciliation makes lagging players easier for other players to hit.

Obviously if you're doing client-authoritative unlagging then you need anticheat, but AFAIK competitive shooters have used server authoritative backwards reconciliation ever since the early 00s.
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$180k within four years is more than reasonable if you get into FAANG. I've had plenty of kids right out of college asking for $140k and getting it from other companies, and this was 5 years ago, so within four years of typical ZIRP job hoping I'd say that's relatively normal.

Please don't assume anyone is hired for diversity reasons. That's really awful.
Also: include the year. I’ve been bitten so many times by web forums not showing the date on comments (“5 Jul”), only to find the comment was written years ago that I no longer even trust dates without years. I find myself hunting around to try to get a year to be shown to me if it’s not there upfront.
So far so good I guess? The Euro/single market has made trade and daily lives so much easier and grasped fiscal control out of individual states' incompetent hands, Schengen makes travel a breeze. EU funding continues to equalize development throughout so that we can function more fairly as a continent (in economic terms). Erasmus programmes letting people study across the EU are great, the food safety regulations and support for farmers are pretty good and GDPR has been fantastic so far.

The current Commission does impotently scream its fascist views, but luckily they can't do shit without the Parliament's approval, which unfortunately for them happens to be an actual democratic entity. As long as the checks and balances continue to work we'll be fine.

Obviously there hasn't been anything done in terms of a centralized military, but we'll get there eventually and NATO is a decent stand-in for now. And the train network is also still quite a train wreck when it comes to international connections which I'm also hopeful will be eventually addressed. But it won't ever be without a federal authority demanding it, because each country fundamentally only cares about itself.

And of course the EU's greatest achievement, forcing Logitech to finally drop microUSB lmao.
More targeted ad campaigns, as per the article. The interests will always be there.
I want actual time stamp / date format rendered on page. The relative is completely useless and I do not want to have to hover over everything to see the dates.
Click the "stories" dropdown to see the new options.
I really detest that many Google products like some of their Chromebooks just list as having something vague like "Intel Core processor" or whatnot. No model, no idea what class chip (ultra low power? Low power? Mainline?).

It feels incredibly consumer hostile, not telling people what they're getting.
>I wonder what would happen if there were not politicians, if the parliament of Europe were the sum of all its citizens voting for laws in some sort of mega-stack-overflow consensus system

There's another way to achieve something similar less chaotically: demarchy, which was used for some things in ancient Greece. This involves electing people at random for a limited time period; if the selection is truly random, then the outcome of a couple hundred randomly selected people voting on something should usually match the outcome of the whole population voting on something. And due to it only being for a short period of time, you avoid anyone accumulating too much power.
I don’t think the salary level was due to diversity.

I think it was due to the person being hired by a hyper growth VC backed startup which was acquired by UPS/Shopify (who then went on a cost cutting campaign post-acquisition)
Heh, it does in fact calculate the MD5 checksum!

In total, the fields in the LAION dataset are:

image_path
caption
NSFW
similarity
LICENSE
url
key
status
error_message
width
height
original width
original height
exif
md5

https://huggingface.co/datasets/laion/laion2b-multi-vit-l-14...

Note that LAION is a metadata dataset, it's not an image generation model itself. (But it has been used to train one)
You can install apps from Play Store with Aurora Store, which is in F-Droid.

I'd say it's a toss up whether specific apps will definitely work. But if they don't I'd recommending segmenting between different physical devices, and making the one that lives in your pocket as secure as possible. It's likely that you don't need to run banking and government apps on the same device that's privy to your movement.
I sell apples at the market. Someone took my apple for free and made a pie out of it. They said it was not theft, because my market stall was in the public.

I sold an apple with DRM. One person bought my apple and gave it to a Chinese hacker, whom stripped the DRM and duplicated my apple for everyone, for free. They said it was not theft.

I grew an apple and put it on a cloud provider's server. I sold access to many duplicated apples, until a technology update forced me to change providers. I found out I could not take back my apples from the cloud providet without paying exorbitant fees. They said it was not theft.

I made an encrypted apple, I sold it on an app store. The app store banned me and my apple, the virus software flagged my apple, the TPM chip stopped my apple from being played, the government cracked open the encryption and duplicated my apple for national security purposes. They said it was not theft.

The only way to sell apples, is through perfectly-black, 'black boxes'. Putting apples on computers, gets them stolen. End of story.

It's been forty years now. There's nothing to be 'unsure about'.

'Benefit of the doubt' for intellectual property theft is deader than a dodo.
Re your last point: There is some well researched material, along with scanning electron microscope images of edges, that says this is incorrect. When sharpening to say “working sharp” you leave a burr on the edge that can quickly be folded over, and reduce longevity of the sharpness of the edge. The most durable edges have been deburred to the true edge apex, and this often will give you an edge that would rate “razor sharp” or ~50 BESS on a sharpness tester. This has been proven out in a real life commercial setting, slaughterhouses. The edges that Dr. Kraichuk sharpened would stay sharp for 7 full carcasses, rather than 4-5 done with previous methods that can leave a burr on the blade.

For more information about this, including the proof with SEM photos and extensive testing via scientific method, check out the work of Dr. Vadim Kraichuk

https://www.amazon.com/Knife-Deburring-Science-behind-lastin...

There is a lot of discussion about this in the Tormek forums, where Dr. Kraichuk was a frequent contributor. I can attest to how well this works, every knife and woodworking tool in my house is hair splitting sharp, and they stay that way with little effort.
Is size and power the important thing?
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> I need to get around to this

Being a long-timer in the Postgres community, I was hesitant to enable this. But trust me, the 5 minutes you'd spend enabling this would be completely worth it. The breakage reports for your commits, if any, are worth it because they save community's time finding and reporting those bugs to you.

I only wish this system was not tied to GitHub and CirrusCI, though.
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