skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to cleanly separate personal and company taxes. If the managing director makes significant decisions (as in forming the will, not as in executing) while on German soil, the company is taxed like any other German capital company.

Btw. despite the myth, just being 182 days outside of Germany doesn't get you out of German personal taxes. It just stops taxation of foreign-derived income.
You can post and talk about whatever you’d like and see if others agree. Others disagreeing doesn’t mean society is toxic imho
and they would also benefit from the social net the state provides plus everything else taxes pay for,
so your point is what exactly?
Not chatgpt:

"Yes, that was a duplicate question, but that's absolutely fine! I'm here to help with any questions you have, whether they're duplicates or not. If you have any more questions or need information on any topic, please feel free to ask."
Note that the 3D will not support openFPGA (and neither will the Duo), in case that matters to anyone.
Yep, private leaderboards are where it’s at for me. Global pseudonymization dilutes accountability. I much prefer the book club feel of paying with people I know and trust, who all discuss the solutions as they work through them and are happy to provide hints to those who want them.
"GPT" refers to decoder only transformer models sampled "generatively". It's a technical term for a class of LLMs. Not cringe at all.
Australian student wins James Dyson Award for electric car conversion kit
You totally missed best part of the quote.

"enjoy the party, but dance close to the door"
That doesn't make sense because tech companies are not sticking cash in ~4-5% annual return treasuries, it would make sense if this were the 70s with double digits interest rates.
The Library of AI Tasks
This is an insightful comment. I have been thinking about why I prefer CLI-based tools over GUI tools; one important difference is that with CLI the affordances are more in my head than in the tool (though the distinction is fuzzy). I just got a typewriter for my birthday, and have been reflecting on how different writing feels. When I write on my laptop, I process language less in my head and more on the screen--I type scattered fragments and then clean them up into sentences and paragraphs. Writing with the typewriter is slower and much harder to edit, so I need to do more composition in my head. I lose some of the affordances of the external medium (including whatever AI might contribute), but necessarily devote more attention to interrogating and composing the ideas.
> You can not anticipate back then that AI would train on its Q&A and then provide the same service but fully integrated into IDEs.

What an interesting interpretation of events. For years (almost since the beginning) users were complaining about the experience. The SO leadership took pride in ignoring those complaints. Remember Jeff Atwood repeatedly boasting, without a shred of evidence, that the lack of discussion was what made SO popular? They dumped resources into automating the closing of questions in the coldest possible manner. They had out of control mods that everyone hated, but the answer was always that those very mods were the only ones that mattered for the site. They knew about the ridiculous dup trolling, and they did nothing to prevent it. The list goes on...

Now that they're in trouble, the explanation is that a new technology came along that nobody could have anticipated. No. They lost their base of new users long ago to Reddit and Discord. They had enough existing users that put up with their crap because SO was a standard part of the toolbox, and it's where Google took you. They did everything to make the site awful and now they're attributing their problems to new technology.
There are some performance advantages a garbage collector can have over manual memory management. If you're just calling malloc/free or, in C++, calling new/delete in constructors/destructors (or using a class that does so, like std::vector), and nothing special, the garbage collector is probably allocating memory faster.

> controlling memory layout

Garbage collectors can compact active memory into one contiguous location and adjust the active pointers to point there instead. You can't do this in a language like C, because you can have arbitrary pointers to anything, and there's no runtime indication of what's a pointer or just an integer. You simply have to prevent memory fragmentation in the first place, which also complicates the logic of the program.

For faster allocation in C, arena allocation based on object lifetimes can be used [1]; in generational garbage collectors, you get similar benefits, but it's just done automatically. In fact, in that linked paper, they found that lifetime-based arena allocation improved the speed of their program (a C compiler) at the cost of increased memory allocation compared to naïve malloc() and free(), which is exactly what garbage collection does.

As a result of compaction, memory allocation with garbage collection is just a pointer bump in the best case, whereas allocation with just malloc usually requires searching a free list or a tree.

[1]: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/techreports/1988/191.pdf
> I realized that most recommendation systems are bad because they are optimized for the aggregate not the individual.

That reminds me of something I'm not sure is the same, but maybe it is. Anyone also feels that a few years ago the Steam "related games" section switched from being not necessarily mainstream games that were actually similar to what you're looking at to being mostly whatever the most popular games that share any genre at all with the game on the page you're at?
> No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
True, but probably not from inside. They were circulating that to raise funds.
https://stackoverflow.co/labs/teams-knowledge-ingestion/ is kinda the inverse of this: processes internal sources, and outputs Q&A rather than training itself, but it's basically the same thing. Though, note:

> * Concepts are mock ups and not actual AI generated content.
Bandcamp voted to unionize in March, although they are still fighting for recognition, as Epic has refused to recognize it so far (last I checked). I wonder who involved in that was affected by the layoffs.
Fun to see this problem tackled again, I worked at a startup during the boom around a decade ago. Startup failed less than a year (mixture of funding drying up and a shitty founder). Wonder if the technological landscape has changed enough where this is business viable.
Oshii is just way too good at that sort of scene. A similar one from Patlabor 2 also always gives me chills: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dmlwhaEEgE
I do it this way as well. Works well for me but only because I just have two identities. I think it'd get tedious quickly.
Qualcomm's mainline Linux support has been abysmal as far as I know. Community got some support upstreamed.
Idea: An electronic Rubik's Cube variant with a number on each sticker
There is also an assumption I have found, in both VCs and tech founders, to assume that subject matter experts can either be trivially replicated or hired downstream.
It's an incredibly difficult problem, and it's a people problem - as so many companies find out; they're solving people problems and the technology is really a side-note.

(This is the real answer to the "why does tech company X have so many employees" question)
It may be cringe, but at the same time it undermines the ability for OpenAI to enforce its trademark, which means the “GPT” word will remain in the public domain, so it's not entirely useless at least ;).
How to Create an Unstoppable Movement
Exactly, this thread more or less proves my point.
Good job making the post

My feedback is that the post is too short--seems like the beginning of a post, as opposed to a whole one.
Are the approval rates that harsh? It never seemed that way to me. Anecdote: I applied in 2019 when it first came out, and hadn't had a credit card in several years, and my credit score was, to my knowledge, pretty much shit and non-existent; the only reason I even tried to apply was because I had a good paying job at the time, and it was like 2 button clicks to try it, so I figured "why not, I should probably get one". I got approved for $250/month within 5 minutes and was able to use it via NFC at the store within 5 minutes of that. I was fairly surprised actually.

But you're otherwise spot on. Because I'm an American tech worker, I've never missed a payment the whole time I've had it, or even had to worry about it much. It's been great for my credit score and I've literally paid zero interest on it, ever.
I certainly don't know that their profit is in the billions. Neither do you, unless you're a high level Google executive.

The source you have for estimating the profit margin is just total guesswork. It's estimating the costs purely by taking the operating costs of other companies with different business as a percentage of their revenue, and then applying that same percentage to YouTube. That's an absurd methodology. You could just apply it to any business and show they're profitable.

(As an example, for years AWS was profitable and GCP wasn't. But applying the methodology from your link would have resulted in the belief that GCP was wildly profitable. And those business were far more similar to each other than Netflix and YouTube are!)

Also, you are making a point about a specific number: You are claiming the profit is greater than 0. It could be true! It could also not be true. We just don't know.
Yeah, most parts in simple designs do not need to be super precise. Some hand fitting might be necessary.
that article says absolutely nothing substantial, literally a puff piece, and is many months old

BLS jobs data is available to the public, go read it and you will confirm what I already told you
Sad sigh at the line "Run the Firefox Installer again. Your Windows may now allow it to install Firefox. " at the end.
Anaphylaxis doesn't care if it's a poison or peanut butter.

For allergy reactions, substances in the digestive tract get a different immune response from ones in the bloodstream. In some cases you can desensitize people to allergens through trace exposures in food. I think that stops working once you experience an anaphylactic response but the scenario I proposed would happen long before for most people.
I think this is a great idea.

People can learn a ton by answering questions. Trying to create a complete answer will make you realize the gaps in your own understanding. As an early SO user, I benefited from this greatly.

Sadly, I find this impossible these days. I've given up on SO as anything other than a mostly passive user. I'll vote, and make the rare comment, but that's it. The last time (a few years ago) I made a concerted effort to answer some questions, my experience was that many questions would be closed as dupe/low-quality while I was partway through answering. Flagging that it isn't low-quality (proven by the fact I can answer it) goes nowhere -- people are seemingly all too happy to yield their close hammer power, but not to re-open.
As someone who once in a while dabbles in Linux systems programming, is there any reason to use signalfd over timerfd when all you want is a timer? The article suggests you can use signals as timers, which left me wondering...
What I Learned Building Bill, the AI ChatBot That Reads Our Docs for Fun
That's fair enough, but it doesn't seem to be the most useful that it can be then. Low level to me could mean that we control all the details. But modern processors have microcode between transistors and the x86 machine code. And we can't control all that memory stuff.

But those aren't abstractions that we can treat as black boxes, we need to know them and how to code taking them into account without actually having control inside the black box.
GitLab team member here, thanks for sharing.

> It lacks most collaboration options for non-developer users, but we found that they are rarely, if at all, used anyway. Non-developer users can still use an edit button that points to GitLab's web editor and update the docs that way.

Maybe the wiki in GitLab provides a possible path forward. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/wiki/

The wiki uses the same Rich Text editor as known from issue/MR comments, aiding visual editing with context actions - for example, Markdown tables, rows, columns, or uploading and resizing images.

> Material for MkDocs.

I personally love this project. I'm using it for o11y.love and opsindev.news published via GitLab pages. Editing happens mainly in the browser, using the Web IDE.

Sources in case you are interested:

https://gitlab.com/everyonecancontribute/observability/o11y....

https://gitlab.com/dnsmichi/opsindev.news

PS: Tip for faster editing files using the Web IDE in the browser: Press `.` on a repository view which opens the Web IDE immediately.
It feels crazy to say this, but I find StackOverflow useless in 2023. It's crazy because ten years ago or even six years ago StackOverflow was everything. There were all the jokes that you couldn't even code without it or that StackOverflow being down would halt all programmers worldwide or whatever and they were for a large part actually true. If you tried to set up a new library or framework or whatever you would eventually run into an issue that would just take way too much time to figure out by yourself and you'd find the solution on StackOverflow in minutes (or ask a question yourself and often get a good answer.) Sure, it was a bit of a hostile community but most of the time if you phrased your question well you'd get a good answer that would solve your problem. You could even use it exclusively - restrict your searches to site:stackoverflow.com and you'd be fine. I found many solutions on StackOverflow that were absolutely not anywhere else on the web.

Today, I use a combination of Github issues, documentation and ChatGPT/Copilot - and it's way more powerful than StackOverflow, it's not even close.

One underappreciated part is that the rate of change of programming has significantly increased. Two months time today brings more change in our world than a whole year in the 2000s. Not even just AI stuff but also the frequency and magnitude of change in frameworks, best practices, services, APIs... I once learned things from paper books, now by the time you've written and published one it's already outdated. Keeping a massive resource like StackOverflow up to date in 2014 or so required a similarly massive effort, but with today's rate of change it's crazy.

I hope they can turn it around but I fear it's already dead.
Yeah, they got laid off today, because of historical slower performance, because other companies had hiring freezes from 1.5 years ago to 0.5 years ago.
And the small hope I have that BandCamp would remain a good thing after SongTradr acquired them grows even smaller.
DA-Clip: Controlling Vision-Language Models for Universal Image Restoration
That is not novel. Medicaid (for poor people, less likely to vote) pays healthcare providers less than Medicare (for old people, likelier to vote). Guess who will be likelier to see less qualified Nurse Practictioners/Physician Assistants rather than more qualified doctors?

The entire US healthcare system is well designed to direct different populations to receiving different levels of healthcare services. You don't even get the same level within Medicare!
If I had a nickel for every SO thread that came up in my Google searches that could have answered my question if only the SO moderators had allowed it to be answered, I'd be able to buy a few steak dinners.
No. We had a short lived tech bubble and it's deflating now. The people who seem to be panicking the most are the people who are currently in college or only have a year or two of experience. What those people need to realize is that their only experience with the tech industry was during an abnormal time. When all you're used to is the abnormal, returning to normal feels scary, but that's all that is happening.

If you're panicked, you need to take a hard look at our industry and realize how insane our industry was for the past few years. My company isn't even one of the FAANGs and we were paying interns 6 figures. I know people in other industries who have over a decade of experience who are paid less than the FAANGs pay entry level hires. That's not normal and that's not sustainable.

Salaries will depress a bit, but SWEs will likely still make far above average. If you're worried about jobs, just look at the stock market. Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta are all in the top 6 biggest companies in the US (by market cap). Those companies aren't going anywhere and they have a massive amount of code to maintain. Developers aren't going anywhere anytime soon.

The dot com bubble and the great recession were both way worse than what we are experiencing, but tech continued to grow.
It doesn't feel to me like much of a gain over having said team expose a specific default self registration function. Then that act can be explicit rather than action at a distance on some dependency defined global state.

I think this pattern in the standard library is a mistake.
Stocketa – An app I designed, built and never launched
Most of us are running openjdk, not Oracle Java, openjdk, which is ... open...source.
The Gaza Metro: The Mysterious Subterranean Tunnel Network Used by Hamas
Thank you for this awareness! I had to look up so many things you mentioned. I had some mind-explosions analyzing the-eye project. First of all, they were archiving 20k subreddits daily right up until Reddit changed its API. Maybe the-eye was the real reason!

Arxiv for sure. That was the first place I went, however no ability to download the entire database and scraping it would be a project on its own. It begs the question how can we as a civilization "own" our own data and not "rent" it through a website or paywall?

Which brings me to LexisNexus. That is a knowledge store we should all be able to access, crucial information about how the world works! It's only available for Governments and Law Firms...

In my hypothetical the Stackoverflow suggestion is on-point and would also be invaluable right in line with your AI strategem. We'd need some way to categorize, and order all that information to make it applicable would be the challenge I would think. Further, using your game theory of AI, it would need to also be in defense computer system ingestible maybe in real-time, so it would not be available/discoverable/decipherable/hackable up until the moment the data needed to be used. Some kind of OCR oracle for paper to digital "process" for AI defense.

I'm still following your breadcrumbs, I could say more!
Rogers is competing with all the other carriers it allows to use its network... and Bell and Telus. That's it... that's the entire list.
Would think so, better motors, better sensors, better batteries, better cells, etc...

Not a fan of the split tail (wing torsion) but Virgin Galactic does it with their massive mothership.
No! They want me to look at their videos because they need me to look at their ads. I choose the former, not the latter. There’s various way they could enforce their rules but they won’t do it because they want the maximum people they can get. I’m not asking for free content, they are pushing it to me. I just take the content and leave the ads out.
Could be catapult launched?
I was hoping they were going to somehow draw parallels from ancient (Mesopotamian) Babylon. Sadly, it's some apparently overhyped health startup, which isn't nearly as interesting, although probably a more relevant comparison.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3920748

> Egger et al. find that there was less than 1% price inflation on average

> Alaska has had a universal basic income via the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend, which has provided each resident between $500 and $3,000 per year funded by state oil assets, since 1982. Since implementing that program, Alaska has had lower inflation than the rest of the United States

So let me guess, you just "feel like" it will cause inflation and based your opinion on your feels instead of data?
Ask HN: Can someone explain to a non US resident how Matt Gaetz ousted McCarthy?
How can such a small fraction of the Republicans get to oust a speaker of the house like that?

It was like 97% backing McCarthy but still he went out.

How is that possible?
Somewhat misleading headline. The only reason 2023 is higher is that companies didn't want to do layoffs in Nov/Dec and held until Jan. Better to just look at the graph: https://layoffs.fyi/ The trend is definitely down.
The technology is impressive, but it's worth spending some time thinking of the social-economic evolution of this technology.

Initially, this will likely be used in niche areas, like disaster management. Then, as prices come down, it will start to be used in luxury areas. Perhaps, as internet for concerts and festivals. Ultimately, someone is going to figure out how to use this to run advertisements in the sky, day and night.

Then as technology becomes even more reliable, rich people with remote cabins/small remote towns are going to start buying these planes to supply internet to them. Ultimately, if successful, you will start to see these everywhere in the sky.

The end result, the sky, the commons of humanity will be polluted by devices that only a small rich minority will benefit from, but the cost will be borne collectively by everyone in society.
Leaderboard will be dominated by AI-assisted speed runners this year. I think I’ll just solve them in the morning this year instead of trying to get on the leaderboard (I can usually get in the top 100 on the trickier ones). Will be better for my sleep anyway.
Ask HN: What makes a (non-corporate) virtual hackathon work?
Have you participated in a virtual hackathon, especially one that wasn't a corporate-run event? What made it work? It seems challenging to get most of the serendipitous energy of a live in person hackathon in virtual space but maybe it's possible?
Russia doing awful shit and getting sanctioned for it is nothing new. It happened yesterday, is happening today, and will continue to happen so long as they are a mafia state that uses violence to achieve their wrong goals.
The two routes `/foo/bar` and `/foo/*` are not ambiguous and would be allowed by the router
How about US developers can’t compete with offshore developers?

Average Indian earns $571/mo. Even if devs earn 2x average you’d be able to hire at least 3 for just the average SF/NYC rent a developer in the US has to pay let alone taxes, benefits, etc.

Not particularly good for the country or economy long term; is the end game to destroy the US and start over paying people here $571/mo?
Bandcamp is where I go to buy DRM-free FLAC music. I hope they won't shut it down.
As the person who came top of a round using GPT-3 last year:

1. The policy makes sense to me.

2. It would be fun to have an AI leaderboard too. It was a decent amount of engineering work to win last year — I had 25 LLMs going in parallel, then running their solutions against the sample problem in attempt to validate the solutions. So there is still a lot of space for innovation.

For those interested, I published a version of the code at https://github.com/max-sixty/aoc-gpt.
Reconfigurable transistors for more efficient AI on-device classification
Frankly I don't even like putting my pet photos online in close connection with myself. All it takes is one psychopath and one slip or link of information to try and use something as simple as a pet against you. Pretty low risk but people are so open with information while those promoting such openness and profiting from such openness are quite closed and incredibly selective with what information they allow to be public. Unless it's required by law it's usually marketing material or the minimum amount needed to conduct business.