skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a slightly different issue though. Just saying that because the government has offered a solution to the problem of filing taxes doesn't automatically imply that no other organizations that are solving the same problem deserve to exist.

I suppose if you are arguing that the one and only reason that tax preparation software is needed is because of Intuit's lobbying then that could be true, but Intuit's lobbying is only part of what has led to a complex tax code.
In Chrome too, but that's not what I meant. What I want is tab environments (as in FF), combined with tab groups.
Lobbying by the tax prep companies is a big part of how it got so byzantine in the first place.
In my experience drumstep tends to just be a cross between dubstep and DnB, whereas half-time is usually just DnB but at half the tempo. Some of it almost could be considered hip hop instrumentals but with the sound design of DnB. The two groups in that scene that come to mind are Ivy Lab and SHADES, though lots of DnB and IDM artists have half-time tracks (voljum, Noisia, Chee, Kursa, Seppa, and so on).
Ehh I can see GP's point though, 'can' comprises public opinion, taxpayer money; you can (try to) nationalise internet service provision say, wiping out ISPs, but it'll be a political issue and need support.
> I find it hard to understand how using a tool to do the heavy lifting actually imparts the skills onto you directly.

My primary skill is as a software engineer who builds complex systems that solve difficult real world problems. That overarching skill encompasses a wide body of sub skills, from UX to doing user case studies to writing blog posts about my work. The actual writing of the code is a non-trivial portion of that, but ideally the code falls out naturally from a correctly planned approach to the problem domain.

Futzing around with some broken API that has a bunch of "gotchas" that can only be gleaned from reading a dozen blog posts on the topic (because the official documentation sucks) is a huge time sink that is not related to any of my core competencies.

I've previously spent days going through annoying stupid code doing work that an AI can do in hours.

> Why should there be multiplicative returns when you haven't actually learned anything?

I do fear this for the generation of coders coming up now. The best way to learn is to build it from scratch once, which already fewer and fewer people have a chance to do, and AI is only going to make it worse.
US Bans Exports of Nvidia's A800 and H800 to China, Blacklists GPU Developers
Bazzite: Run Steam in an Isolated Container
This guy chases down lost apples on old farmsteads:

https://www.carolinacountry.com/departments/departments/feat...

https://applesearch.org/
> I don't like most electronic music, but I really enjoy Caribou's music.

> As an entry point, start with the song Melody Day

In perhaps a fit of grand irony, the first comment on this album on BandCamp:

> richly textured and passionate psychedelic music. mostly not electronic at all.
>is there precedent for that, the government just buying a private company for its IP?

The government's preference would probably be to contract with them and license it.
Hey, author here.

You can check out our evaluation library (https://github.com/wellecks/lm-evaluation-harness) for the exact benchmark implementations we used, including prompting.

In particular, the prompt that starts at line 27 in this file (https://github.com/wellecks/lm-evaluation-harness/blob/maste...) is quite good for high school/olympiad problems. We took this prompt from Google's Minerva paper.
Show HN: Neil DeGrasse Tyson teaches you about vector search
This is an AI generated TED talk from a system we built at the TED AI hackathon this weekend.

It's built on top of ElevenLabs, SDXL and Wordware (https://wordware.ai/).

We also have a custom index of over 2 million arXiv papers and 6 million Wikipedia articles.

All open source:
https://github.com/ashvardanian/extrapolaTED
Yeah, it is for similar reasons that you (legally) shouldn't set booby traps against burglars.
I don't think you are actually disagreeing - the GP was saying that if they can't differentiate themselves enough to make consumers choose to pay, then no real loss.
I recently learned about Piped - liked it so much that I've made an iOS shortcut [1] that replaces YouTube URLs with piped.video

edit: iCloud link

[1] https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d8ee1ef618da423e889272f9c0f...
Not only this, but I imagine some of the less tech savvy end users (kids, grandparents) would be the ones who found the game from one of these parasitic sites inundated with ads. The goatse image doesn’t help those users. They probably won’t realize what that’s about and then just stop playing altogether.
This is actually great for me to know, and thank you for saying something about it. I have also been hearing from users of the product that a "show all tabs" functionality would be valuable in case they lose track of where they are. I was thinking of adding that option in case occasionally you just want to see everything in one shot. Ideally, if you are going task by task, you would only see tabs open to complete a particular task. However, I can see how sometimes you might just want to see it all.
> If an industry exists because of the government and it can be replaced by a public service, then it doesn't deserve to exist.

It's a start, but I'd need to think of examples. I'd say if the government creates inefficiencies, such as for basic tax filing, it should remove them if possible regardless of the effect on businesses profiting from them.

Off the top if my head, there could be cases where government makes a change that shifts the demand from one industry to another (that donates more to politicians).
Bring back the death tax, IMHO.

I may get a few hundred thousand from inheritance, but even that feels really unfair. Society shouldn't operate that way.
A lot of these services offer a “if we can find a better refund, pay us; if not, no charge”.
That model could still exist and if you are right, these business will still continue to be useful.
Generally speaking, if you are in a position where deductions and credits matter (ie. not standard deduction), you really aught to seek a professional to review your filing before submission, or at a minimum use two different softwares to compute your taxes and look for any disagreement (in theory, they should have the same output).

Either way, the $49 to use the software is trivial (under this situation) and often is only paid if you use that software to submit your taxes (meaning you can "get a second opinion" for free).
`mypy` originally had first-mover advantage, `pyright` has late-mover advantage.

Now that we're in the mid-to-late stage of Python typecheckers, `pyright` has a better intercept and slope than `mypy`.

I think there'll be one last typechecker to rule them all written in Rust – but we're not there yet, so use `pyright`.
The interrupt vector table on x86 sits by default at 0000:0000 and the CPU uses it to handle interrupts and other exceptions by jumping to the address entry corresponding to the event. Entry 0 is division by 0, but there are also entries for illegal instruction, hardware interrupts and so on.

The address can be changed with the LIDT instruction and operating systems nowadays will just put it wherever, but for backward compatibility it is expected to still be at 0000:0000 (not sure how this is handled nowadays in UEFI, but it should still be possible t o set it up that way).
> "Planting a lot of trees" has been proven dead wrong because of simple math

Planting a lot of trees and let the trees grow still looks a much better plan that most of the other options and magical solutions. We just need to find the courage to try it seriously.

Forest fires are a crime in 90% of the times. The idea that we can't do what we need to do because criminals exist is not acceptable. We just need to make this crime much more expensive, painful and unprofitable for that people
Why clinicians are natural bayesians
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37920655
> but nobody was hurt

You actually have zero idea who or how people were hurt because this is one side from Feynman. It's bad for the same reason that a goal of making lots of new friends and then backstabbing them is bad. Sure, it can be highly successful to making new friends. Not so long term beneficial, friendly, or moral though...
> i've been around the sun enough times to know that when things are too cheap, there's usually a reason. history is full of pills being sold that weren't what they claimed to be on the box.

We know most of the reason though, and that is that the insurance model of the US is completely broken and blows prices completely out of the water. The Amazon pharma prices are only 'too cheap' relative to the base US inflated price. They're much closer to the prices you see in perfectly peer level countries in Europe where they have perfectly safe drugs.
The problem's continued existence was one they were largely responsible for. It's a bit like saying someone who prevents the installation of trash bins then offers to pick up litter for money is providing a valuable service.
How We'll build sustainable, scalable, secure infrastructure for an AI future
Cost of policing is close to or possibly the highest expense for any city. That did not put security guards out of business.
Shouldn’t it be “shat”?

Either way, considering the submission we’re commenting on, the author of the blog may appreciate your humour.
So because trucks cannot be electric at the moment (doubtful, btw, but let's accept this premise), we should not try to electrify other parts of the global fleet? Every little bit helps, plus the research that goes into that will create these lighter and more energy dense batteries you speak of.
What would be an accurate and neutral title?

(Edit: I've taken out the "98%" bit per the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
I'm not one to ever defend the institution of policing or the court system that feeds and protects it, but cops do not have general immunity. They have qualified immunity from civil cases in some places. The primary friction from prosecuting police for criminal behavior has been and will continue to be DAs unwilling to prosecute (for various reasons, some reasonable, and some nefarious).
Great read. I think the shift in internet culture towards everyone being an “expert” in their domain as opposed to sharing their experience (or sharing “vibes” if you will) has been very toxic.

One example: was talking to my cousin the other day, there was a YouTube feature she misses called video replies. Around the 2010s, that feature was used in hair and makeup communities to share videos purely about an experience or journey. So you wouldn’t necessarily be reviewing a product for general purpose, just saying “this is how I used this thing and how it worked for me.”

Now? It is so (potentially) lucrative to be an influencer making normative statements that not doing so seems pointless, even looked down upon as possibly spreading misinformation. Something critical has been lost.
The kernel can write almost anywhere. (Well, actually, nothing can write on most addresses in a 64 bits machine, but if it's usable for something, the kernel can use it directly.)

And yes, some addresses are special. (AFAIK, on all current mainstream architectures.) This is the expected way to set those signal handlers, output (and input) data, configure devices, etc.

That said, there are some gotchas on using specific addresses in C. AFAIK none apply to x86, but it's something you usually do in assembly.
This seems like a fancy name for an ages old practice. Isn't that what Linux was doing even before git was developed?
I have 90 PRs to Mypy configured repos this year, across 10+ python repos which are a mix of services and background jobs. All of them have some mix of pyright/jedi+ruff+black. I have implemented these tools either via CI or in my ide like experience in NVim.

TLDR; BE WARNED. this basket of bandaids is NOT a replacement for a strongly typed language. I would NOT recommend Python to teams or for services. No amount of mypy, pydantic, pyright, ruff, black, can convert python into a production language. This collection of bandaids is complex to maintain, upgrade, standardize, and has infinite edge cases where type annotation errors are just wrong.

The worst part about this basket is that you get all of the above features for free and are REQUIRED with go via gopls and gofmt. Gopls "is the official Go language server developed by the Go team." good luck achieving parity of this in python.

If you implement a service/app/anything production, use anything but a dynamically typed language like python.
There is a Coursera course on this book, and you can find a community there.
My blog is for the purpose of just having a blog. I love to write medium-long stuff there.

I’ll go from life updates to some technical thing I learned or am learning. I have various topics like keyboards, photography, typography, and other interests that I will write 2 or 3 posts about and then move onto a different topic.

I find it impressive that people can have just one topic to write about but I can’t stick to one.

I also don’t have a lot of readers. Anything between 100-200 unique visitors a month, nothing to monetize off of.
There are many great bloggers out there. Some of my favorites:

- nullprogram.com
- zserge.com
- eli.thegreenplace.net
- smalldatum.blogspot.com
- rachelbythebay.com
- muratbuffalo.blogspot.com
- sirupsen.com
- brooker.co.za/blog/
- jack-vanlightly.com
- utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/
- jvns.ca
They already have this in some form, its called “free fillable forms”, and it sucks. For example if there is any minor issue like something off by a cent it fails to submit and won’t tell you which field has an error or what the error is. Although its not officially maintained by the IRS, I don’t think… if i recall Intuit maintains it as part of an (arguably nefarious) agreement with the IRS. It’s presumably intentionally made to suck and hard to find.
And supposedly new features are written in JavaScript and then ported over to Unity.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XQVdR8mJrds
Well I’m a centrist so I hope people get there eventually. You need a good balance of empathy and decisive action. I think one of the flaws in the progressive mindset is that care and love can solve most issues which it most certainly can’t. That and pushing evidenceless delusions like the trans issue are the only flaws with the left right now. The right on the other hand is a hateful, regressive, conspiratorial pit of snakes with no real plan other than being against any sort of egalitarianism.
Pyright doesn't work with Django, as Django's so dynamic that it requires a plugin to infer all types correctly. Sadly, even mypy with plugins is a mess to get set up in vscode, especially if you want it to use the same config as you use for ci checks from the command line.

We use mypy + [django-stubs](https://github.com/typeddjango/django-stubs) (in a huge Django + drf project at day job) which includes a plugin for mypy allowing it to recognize all reverse relations and manager methods. Mypy is still really rough around the edges. The cli args are poorly documented, and how they correspond to declarations in a mypy.ini / pyproject.toml is mysterious. Match-statements still have bugs even a year after release. Exclusion of untyped / partially typed files and packages we've had to solve with grep filtering mypy's output for our whitelisted set of files, as it's been unable to separate properly between errors you care about (in your own codebase) and errors in others code (dependencies, untypable dynamic python packages etc).

The largest issue IMO is that mypy tried to adapt a java / OOP style way of type system onto python, instead of recognizing the language's real power within duck typing and passing structural types around. Typescript chose the right approach here, modelling javascript the way it is actually written, favoring structural over nominal typing, instead of the archaic and now left-behind way of Java-style OOP that has influenced mypy.

There was a recently accepted PEP which allowed for limited dataclass transforms, enough to cover the @attr.s usecase for both mypy and pyright, but nowhere near expressive enough to cover django's models and ORM sadly. It's probably impossible / undesirable to allow for such rich plugins, so i see the future for proper pluginless typing to be more akin to how pydantic / normal dataclasses solve typing, by starting with a specification of the types, deriving its runtime implementation, instead of plugins having to reverse the type representation of a custom DSL.
To the majority of humans (women), he was distinctly not all around friendly and approachable. That is the point.
Everything T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Critics Predicted Has Come True
6. Entities on the internet either copy your work and claim credit, harass you because of your opinions, or use your works against you(mining, social engineering, marketing).
* deducting turbo tax fees from your refund amount incurs a 59.95 convenience fee (hopefully they don't do this anymore. They did it to me a few years ago and wouldn't refund the charge when I didn't notice and called to cancel it).
There is a good chance it sucks and is wonky as hell, making the value proposition of proprietary solutions even more attractive.
Welp perhaps you'd enjoy an album of other people seeing goatse for the first time:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrneutron/albums/1568481/
Completely agree that fixing the government is the real solution, but until that is done, why shouldn't private companies be able to produce (optional) tools that make filing easier?
This whole thing reads like insanity to me lol, I live & work as a contractor in the UK and I'm taxed directly through PAYE on earnings. Beyond that I just file my tax return through the Gov website.
The blogging-SEO connection is also so unnatural to the way capital thinks, yet it's developed because it works.

I mean, tell a Realtor that nobody gives a f2k about a Realtor in their town and you'll never get a link to a plain ordinary web site and that they should blog if they want attention and the vast majority of them will think you're insane. Except for the Realtor who runs a blog about your town and ranks #1.
If the author is not trying to make money, but rather “write creatively and have fun,” then why consult startpage.com or other online lists? Those are written for people who want to make money.

If you want to blog for the hell of it, then just do it. Write about whatever you want. Baldur’s Gate, whatever. I have a two-post blog about some esoteric math I thought was cool. Very few people care and that’s fine.
You are right, and should not be down-dooted.
True, but I should note that 9x9 games balance with Komi better in my experience, rather than stones.

Some combination of stones (~4 stones on the 9x9 board), followed up with severe Komi (30+ stones of Komi) is probably better for both players rather than giving the beginner like... 15 stones... on the tiny board.

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The 19x19 board is reasonably balanced up to 9 stone handicap, but I think at that point it makes sense to balance with Komi rather than stones to push the handicap further. Not that I've tried this myself, but severe amounts of stones make the game play very differently and are possibly bad for the beginner player's development.
My goodness. The guy put in at least a man-year of design, product management and software engineering, which is no less than $250k US market value, and somehow dumped it because of 499 USD/month bill for the finance data, the foundation of the service.
Thanks for surfacing this. While your friend has better things to do with their time, I hope someone with the time and money to challenge this will try to run a drone photography business just to levy this lawsuit in Florida. If I lived in Florida I might be intrigued.
IBM AIX is a Unix-like system on which dereferencing a null pointer for a read is guaranteed to return zero. But writes will crash. It’s pretty weird.
There is also PyTorch mobile [1]. I'm curious how these two relate.

[Edit] And here is the answer [2]

> PyTorch Mobile uses TorchScript to allow PyTorch models to run on devices with limited resources. ExecuTorch has a significantly smaller memory size and a dynamic memory footprint resulting in superior performance and portability compared to PyTorch Mobile. Also, ExecuTorch does not rely on TorchScript, and instead leverages PyTorch 2 compiler and export functionality for on-device execution of PyTorch models.

[1] https://pytorch.org/mobile/home/
[2] https://pytorch.org/executorch/stable/intro-overview.html#ho...
Reading the article and the threads below, I have to wonder if there's something unique to Detroit or other areas of the country exploring this land value taxation concept... for example, in my (WA) residential tax statement, there's already a breakdown of the value of the land from its enhancements (IE: my house). Similarly, an alfalfa field (bare land) is going to be taxed at a different rate than that same field having been rezoned as residential and ready for the construction of 200 new homes. That same lot, zoned commercial in the middle of our little town, would have still another tax rate. The state of Oregon is even so kind as to tell you both the value at which they are taxing your property, plus what they believe the market value for the property. So... does Michigan and/or the county and city do something different here? Really trying to understand whether there is an actual tax policy / structure problem, or as the quote at the bottom of the article indicates "We currently have an assessment division that’s not doing its job".
The "you're going to work with this guy" is obviously illegal, and part of the racket. I wouldn't be surprised if there was value exchanged there along with it.

You understand that protection rackets will 'work' with government officials, right? That this is part of it? And they'll try to codify their existence as much as possible.

And even if it was completely legal, its very obviously bad, and that's why its illegal in the first place and we try to combat such outcomes, which is part of the point of the article.
It's still a class A misdemeanor though and they will arrest you for it.

Also it becomes a felony if any theft has been committed more than 3 times: `(D) the value of the property stolen is less than $2,500 and the defendant has been previously convicted two or more times of any grade of theft;`

In those other states its hard to get the police to even respond to shoplifting calls let alone make an arrest. And even if they did, the prosecutors will dismiss the charges or give them a slap on the wrist (which is why the cops don't bother anymore).
I'd go for tumblr, pinterest, reddit, and twitter as well, I'm sorry to say.
Hopefully you've since grown up a bit and discovered some hobbies that don't involve being a dick to annoy strangers?
That's when you collect your check, step off the train, and start anew. Companies can do it too if they invest in new initiatives.

There are no practical physical limits to wealth creation since ideas can be monetized with only energy expenditure.
The ToS saying you will be banned even if you don't cheat doesn't make the thing a cheat. You can try to disclaim the harms from your defective anticheat system but that's certainly not the same thing as there not being any.
Then you click Cancel, followed by another 30 second animation of the progress bar going backwards while "Un-Optimizing Deductions" flashes on screen.