skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. With full public information, bad employees benefit from being able to ask for more, good employees just flee elsewhere. Because it’s impossible to reason someone on their skills.

Full information is hell on Earth.
here's a book written mostly the perspective of an os/driver implementer:

https://www.fysnet.net/the_universal_serial_bus.htm

it's also part of a series on building an os.
Signal President Meredith Whittaker on resisting government threats to privacy
You're looking at a persons home as an economic investment and not as a social thing. It's a home. Someone will live in that house. You just want to replace a poor grandma with someone who can pay more taxes, while the use of the land/house/apartment will stay the same, even with airbnb, someone will just use that apartment to sleep in.

It's the society's best interest that people can afford places to live and not live under threat that some new fad will make something they already own (and need to survive) unaffordable.
What about computation completeness as in a Turing-complete vs. non-Turing-complete system as a marker of life? Morphology then can be characterized by the presence of features required for implementing computational operations.

For instance, Conway's Game of Life is a Turing-complete system.
I aim for well-being because I think that whatever is beneficial to others is likely to be beneficial to me as well, for example if I help my neighbors out when they are in trouble, they’re in turn more likely to help me.

There are a few common theist and theist-adjacent arguments in your post including the fine-tuning argument and the simulation hypothesis, all of which I reject due to lack of evidence in their favor.

I still don’t understand what you mean when you’re trying to identify “the meaning of the universe” or of humanity. The universe is all that we can see, nothing more. To try to assign meaning to it is, to me, exactly like trying to assign meaning to the Sun, or a rock, or the Andromeda galaxy, just at a larger scale.
Don’t know too much about the Canadian market but isn’t the convenience of not doing something illegal and it being easily accessible worth paying for. That’s why streaming service’s completely beat out piracy
Thank you! To save some of China's face here: they also push(ed) wwind and solar like crazy. And coal, but that's a different issue.
No, because they need to attract employees and employees would generally not be attracted to uncompetitively low compensation packages.

As a result, companies absolutely track how much employees of a type and level get paid elsewhere, so that they know where to aim compensation packages competitively.
I don't think it's unreasonable to point out the hypocrisy and affect on this issue the media has had in the past
> "Me two" could be ungrammatical in that language.

Absolutely :) but then introducing a new grammar for this hypothetical language is starting to push it down the road to complexity.
You're advocating for collective punishment.

Let's say 51% of the U.S. voted for a crazy President from party "X" who became a dictator (illegally), and did terrible horrible unspeakable things.

And, let's say the 49% of the U.S. that didn't support said nutjob President, vehemently protested and did everything they could to oppose him[0].

Now, let's the say the rest of the world unites to defeat the U.S. that had gone crazy.

Would you still advocate that "Americans should pay the price for X's crimes against humanity"?

Would you advocate for the collective punishment of Americans, including those who abhor and hate X's actions (and who even attempted to resist X)?

This is the problem with collective punishments. QED

[0] Keep in mind the extreme difficulty of revolting against a government that has the most technologically-advanced military in the world.
> We had a problem of isolation, so we invented the Internet.

Is this real life
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Really? Let's see a natural rock formation precisely in the shape of a human being or other animal.

There are of course natural rocks capturing living forms: fossils. And a huge number of them are completely obviously from ancient life. Nobody goes to a museum and sees a T Rex skeleton and thinks, Hey, that might actually be rocks that had nothing to do with life.

The real issue - not well stated in the article - appears to be regarding single celled life, or at least small-cell-count ancient organisms. Then there's ambiguity in interpretation because of overlap with inorganic possibilities.
What sort of place do you live that you can't host a site on your home network?
To be fair it really doesn't matter since it's quite easy to convert between lossless files.

I prefer ALAC too since I use iOS devices. However let's not pretend that Apple supporting FLAC wouldn't make things easier.
I frequently hear that talking point (about Germany) from my fellow Czechs, and it's incredible, because we need more fossil fuels than Germans and also are poorer. (Even more paradoxically, more than a decade back, Czechia was ahead of Germany in solar power.) The conservatives have just taken over.
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So more tracking basically.
> Bush had 90% approval in the US after 9/11; it doesn't really fairly reflect normal opinion.

I would still say it's not wrong to blame American's from Bush's action.
It’s not just that driving is too cheap, but the other options sucks.
Whoever is designing the inner cities clearly don’t give a shit about pedestrians.

A city should be designed for pedestrians first but in the UK, the crosswalks aren’t even clearly marked!
All we know is, he's called the Stig.
I don't think any lawyer would take that route, because the town is not being sued for applying a constitutional policy incorrectly. It is being sued for applying an unconstitutional policy at all.

Proving that he did, indeed, violate the town's statute by calling the mayor and police chief fascists is no victory if the statute itself is found to be patently unconstitutional, which it is.
Good point: what if we asked AI to find a nonpaywalled version/PDF?
Ask HN: How soon until tech giants use altered family/friends photos in ads?
I had this idea when I saw someone in an ad who strangely resembled my younger mother. I couldn't screenshot and verify because the ad disappeared.

That's when I wondered if Google or another entity might be using the photos we provide to generate AI-generated images resembling our loved ones. It sounds sinister but not impossible.

If I thought of it, others likely have or will soon.
Llemma: LLM for Math
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If you think it's bad in the US, you should see Canada. Every level of gov't and society is corrupted by the real estate industry. Worst housing price to income ratio in the G7.

Feeding on the young.
Who is the most important person in your company?
Problem is, there are many many wrong people on management positions out there.
There has been a lot of recent progress in making PyTorch AMD compatible exactly because many government/university supercomputers are based on AMD GPUs.
> People who bring up that taxes are collected “by force” are invariably libertarian types that feel any cent that goes to the government is a great injustice, and it’s generally difficult to have any conversation but that when this is the case.

I'm not terribly libertarian, but they're not wrong about taxes being collected at gunpoint.

There are lots of things (basically any governmental action) that we should remember end up being done by a police officer physically arresting someone, and if they resist, they will be violently subdued. What's more, there can be serious, often violent side effects. Cigarette taxes come to mind[1][2]. Prohibition in the US. Even property taxes results in folks getting removed from their house (sorry, their government's house) by a sheriff. And don't get me started on eminent domain and civil asset forfeiture.

I'm not saying that taxes are immoral. I am saying that we should be very careful how we wield this lever of government. And implicitly (now explicitly) that you're being rather blasé about it.

[1] Taxes Have Made New York Into an Empire of Cigarette Smuggling https://www.wsj.com/articles/taxes-have-made-new-york-into-a...

[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/brooklyn-da-23-arrested...
Many “rural” people actually live in small towns where it is entirely possible to drive less or not at all. I certainly put less miles on our vehicles even though we have more of them and kids now vs living in “the big city”.

However if all you ever do is drive to the big city I can see how that would take more time and distance.
> That's when I wondered if Google or another entity might be using the photos we provide to generate AI-generated images resembling our loved ones. It sounds sinister but not impossible.

Creepy but they have to do A/B testing first, you know.
I would actually have preferred that the old mux was left as is, and that the new mux had been a new package. This would have eliminated the need to be backwards compatible and allowed more freedom in creating a better API. I think that putting the method in the matching expression is a step back as it can't make use of the compiler to enforce correctness.
Oh yeah totally, they had a meltdown too. Though it was an idiotic operation at that time, with such a cavalier attitude to safety that I should hope will not be repeated in this day and age. They even opposed the air filters that were introduced anyway and reduced a lot of the contamination during the meltdown.

I didn't remember to mention it because it was not an energy generation installation that melted down but a military one for nuclear weapon manufacturing.

About those filters, a quote from wikipedia:

> They became known as "Cockcroft's Folly" as many regarded the delay they caused and their great expense to be a needless waste. During the fire the filters trapped about 95% of the radioactive dust and arguably saved much of northern England from becoming a nuclear wasteland. Terence Price said "the word folly did not seem appropriate after the accident"
The C programming language was often thought of as "portable assembler" code. It abstracted over an architecture of machines similar to the PDP-11. As it turned out, for many years this was close enough to the mainstream computer architectures in use to be very successful.

ISPC does the best job of any language I've seen at abstracting SIMD hardware. It is very well thought out and very usable.

But ISPC never got traction. There was not corporate support; it didn't get incorporates into any high-usage technology stacks; it has struggled to find any sustaining community of users.
Computational capacity must not be able to travel faster than the speed of light, yes?

We are told that quantum entanglement cannot transmit information, I am unaware of how rigorously this has been proven/disproven, on the off chance there is something the scientists have missed, the requirement to travel might not be necessary. Either through some advanced entanglement (a novel approach or a not yet understood state of matter), or reaching for a more exotic theory, some additional dimension enabling warp or wormhole like behaviors.

Then computational capacity would depend on some ratio of power (to entangle, set up facilities, etc.) to time spent not doing these things, and might possibly have an upper limit, or not. Perhaps this is a halting problem in itself?
See: Unity
According to the article, taxing the land at one rate and the property built on it at another rate is exactly what Detroit is proposing.
The way you phrased it I don't think that's a genuine inquiry.
If I was a Google exec I'd definitely jot this down.
tl;dr:

Meredith Whittaker, Signal's President, discusses the U.K. Online Safety Bill and its threat to Signal's operation in the UK, citing concerns about privacy.

Signal opposes the law as part of a global trend undermining digital privacy. They track privacy laws in non-Western countries through a network of experts. Signal's core focus is private communication, and they won't change their stance based on jurisdiction. Signal's encryption prevents them from providing user data in response to government requests. They emphasize their commitment to privacy and encryption.

The interview also mentions Telegram's alleged cooperation with governments and the importance of Signal to dissidents and marginalized communities. Signal is actively working to ensure access even in regions with government bans.

Finally, the interview discusses Russian surveillance, emphasizing the need for user caution. Signal's commitment to privacy remains strong despite challenges.
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Firstly, everything is only valuable in the sense of being valuable to someone or some people; nothing is intrinsically valuable.

Secondly, everyone has a career/identity investment in a language.. their first language. The one they work in, went to school in, read in, talk to their family in, consume literature in. (I suppose HN devalues literature as well).

For monoglot anglophones struggling to understand the concept, imagine if the US declared its official language was now Standard Mandarin. There would be riots. Heck, I've seen Americans get mad at the mere use of Spanish, the country's second language.
What? I must be misunderstanding your comment.

Are we seriously saying that if someone can no longer afford tax on a land they already own because the rich need to get richer, you should sell?

Basically you're asking for normal people to work, get raises forever and hope nothing crazy happens that can raise land value in their neighborhood in order to keep the land they already own.

No, this is not in "society's best interest". This is in the capitalist's best interests. Those are very different.

Comments like these make me not want to live in this world anymore. I really hope I misunderstood the comment.

Edit: removed some unnecessary harsh words.
I don't struggle to get rye starter to double in size. I don't know why. Maybe something else is at play here, not gluten. But, really, it works well (at least for the doubling in size part).

I use two starters, one fed with all-purpose flour and another one with rye flour. The difference I can see is that the rye one takes noticeably longer to "deflate". I.e. if I don't use the all-purpose flour starter right about after 4 hours, it'll start dropping back to its original size and in maybe 4-6 hours will have almost the same volume it started with. With rye starter the process takes more than a day. Also, for the same proportion of water / flour, the rye one feels noticeably thicker.

BTW, I buy rye flour from a Polish supermarket. Local chain supermarkets only have all-purpose and whole-wheat flours and occasionally the "00" (pizza) flour.
Yes, I would say that that US should be blamed. As a country, the leader represents the people unless it has been forced like North Korea. For all we know Palestinians had power to replace Hamas if they didn't liked them. If someone blames Americans for say Vietnam war, it isn't undeserved even though not all Americans supported it.

There is basically no other option if you think about it. Either we should be fine palestianians choosing Hamas or we can force Palestians to not have a choice in leadership. Second is more violent but that is what is done now.
I have 6 acres and deliberately seed all over with white and red clover as a cover crop. Never had a problem with it choking out anything, it's easily managed.

Crab grass and creeping charlie is the problem here. Chokes out everything else.

Maybe it's climate/region dependent, but clover is probably one of the most innocuous things growing here. Fixes nitrogen, is kind of pretty if left to flower, and attracts pollinators.
Depreciation isn’t free money, and the IRS isn’t giving you anything over time.

It might appear they are, but if you properly account for everything it’s not tremendously advantageous.

And it reduces your cost basis also, which means you pay more tax when selling unless you have other ways of avoiding that.
I like dungeon crawls.

Not every story has to be about emotions and intrigue and a contest of minds. Sometimes you meet a monster and kill it, and loot its corpse and the only thing that's missing is taking a selfie next to it.

Then again Call of Cthulhu is one of my favourite games. I guess it's fun seeing things from the other side of the fence sometimes. But still, it's not all about feelings: you can tell a great story about how you keep running from madness-inducing monsters.
make a checklist follow the checklist
I figured it was like regular property but after doing brief research, you’re right. It’s more difficult than just walking away as the local government can continue to tax you.

But after some time I guess it could be found to be abandon and then sold at auction. But until then you’re liable for it. And I think it makes a difference if you own outright or if you have a mortgage.

It’s an interesting question though since so much property in Detroit has been abandoned.
That sounds absolutely miserable. You can do 18 by taking your foot off the brake.
I'd like to lower the Germany part to "okay". German police, and related to that secret services, have maybe not systematic but serious problems (racial issues, corruption, etc.). Public perception isnt great and any sort of internal investigation into these problems is being prevented. Of course the US is on another level, as they are so often, both positively and negatively
The whole process is broken in the US. I was really rooting for a company like Redfin to come in and shake things up by treating it like it is for the vast majority of inventory, a commodity. Especially on the sellers side I feel like most of the process is the same. Clean the house up, maybe stage it, bring in your photographer and take pictures. List the property on MLS and then handle the offers/paperwork. Most homes are not $2mln showpieces that require a special touch, they are a commodity item.
I think the question is more why should an individual's salary be private?

Personally, I think money is power, and I want to know about power disparities to better protect myself. But I understand there are factors to consider.
I'm surprised at how many people took the bait to treat this as an either/or proposition. One criteria of evaluation is never sufficient to make a good decision - why not ask both? A smart consumer reads the product label and the user reviews.
Management’s job is to get rid of bad employees. Good employees do not have unlimited places to “flee” to. And full information is when markets allocate resources most efficiently.
It might be wrong to blow up half of DC to take out Republican leadership, though.
Did you know there are some countries where you can look up anyone's income?
There are plenty of rocks with a human form. The moai for instance. They’re pretty much universally considered to be artifacts of human life.

But I think the point is that, we know the moai are human built because we know that humans are living animals and we know their form. If you don’t know the form of a living being, then you can’t tell if something was produced by a living being based on its shape.
> These little tubules can also show periodic cycles of ascent and descent in the liquid due to the buoyancy of an oxygen bubble and its release at the surface.

You can observe something like this in macroscale with lemon pips in tonic water. The pip sinks to the bottom of the glass, as it does so, bubbles of CO2 come out of solution and stick to the pip, ferrying it back up to the top. And on it goes!
I’m doing reverse engineering work every now and then and a year ago I’d have called myself a fool but I have found multiple exploitable vulnerabilities simply by asking an LLM (Claude refuses less often than GPT4, GPT4 generally got better results when properly phrasing the request).

One interesting find is that I wrote an integration with GPT4 for binaryninja and funnily enough when asking the LLM to rewrite a function into “its idiomatic equivalent, refactored and simplified without detail removal” and then asking it to find vulnerabilities, it cracked most of our joke-hack-me’s in a matter of minutes.

Interesting learning: nearly all LLMs can’t really properly work with disassembled Rust binaries, I guess that’s because the output doesn’t exactly resemble the rust code like it’d do in C and C++.
I guess AWS just wants the analytics data, what sessions you clicked, what were your search queries, etc.
No way. Show me the proof. If it’s the inert ingredients, why don’t they kill the GMO corn and beans, too?
I build most of my Go binaries with cgo disabled for this, and many other reasons.

In case you don't know, cross-building with GOOS/GOARCH will imply CGO_ENABLED=0 unless you also specify CC_FOR_${GOOS}_${GOARCH}; I cross-build most of my code for (and test it on) amd64, arm64, linux, openbsd, and darwin.

Go will sometimes link to the local libc for network-related functionality if you don't disable cgo.
> It's a SaaS. That's a 10 person team at maximum efficiency.

This kind of sounds like you think every SaaS business has the same staffing requirements. That's a very strange claim.
Ahh yeah, I understand your frustration there. It’s sad how some communities choose to spend their taxes and I empathize with you. It’s sad when corrupt and incompetent government pisses away tax revenue instead of making the locality a better place to live with safe streets, good schools, and nice, clean parks.
I feel this is the same problem most businesses face in Canada. A small/capped, distributed population with higher cost of business driven by labour rates. Most other businesses (b2b or b2c) get around this by scaling/selling to the much larger, wealthier population down south which is not possible in this case. This is part of the reason we have a market of conglomerates (e.g., 3 telcos, a handful of grocery chains, 5 banks, etc...).

The gov't (re: JT) pushed this through to some fanfare but has resulted in oversupply and fairly botched execution as some other posters have mentioned already. I'd expect to see contraction in the suppliers / M&A as some of the growers and distributors start to go belly up.
I got ~$80 billion from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (page 14):

https://bjs.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh236/files/media/docu...

One caveat: That spend metric has a standard error of ~$2.6 trillion. With a T.

(See page 25 in same document for the error table.)
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> I'm honestly at a loss as to why some people (and organizations) are hell-bent on hampering attempts to decarbonize, and amplifying whatever tiny negatives they can whether they're real or not, as though nothing less than 100% perfect is worth replacing the awful status quo.

Thank you for pointing this out. It is indeed quite puzzling.

What's even more puzzling is: I felt exactly the same way about anti-vaxxer movement. Although, the anti-vax movement is far worse in the sense that there's literally no human who benefits from it. With climate change, there's a huge fossil fuels lobby that benefits financially from the lies/misinformation around climate change. But, I don't know who benefits from this anti-vax nonsense.

Anti-vax lies literally killed people. In the US, it ironically, even with the party that championed anti-vax lies (i.e. the Republican Party), the only effect these lies had was that they literally caused additional unneeded deaths of GOP voters. Not sure why a rational GOP would champion that, but yea I have no idea. It's insanity and madness. It's evil too, in a sense.

To have some sane/rational explanation of these things would be amazing.....
Norway is one
>This is all before you get to your own work

Isnt all of that your own work, as a manager?
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