skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They already kind of do this (look up Michael Army Airfield near Tooele, UT where they store(d) VX nerve gas and destroyed it over a multi-year period). How are you going to persuade civilian scientists to move there? If one of them gets sick, how are you going to keep them from going to the hospital? Are they physically confined if they have a fever? (the base was in fact locked down several years back because an accounting error made it look like VX gas was missing). What if they get a normal flu, are they under arrest? Not many will agree to those conditions, so research would be greatly slowed.
"token white person as a service" is a thing in China. It's apparently a very big deal in business circles that you have SOMEONE non-Asian in your party.
If you make a good faith attempt at filing your taxes, you won't need liability protection. If you screw it up, you'll get a (relatively) polite message from the IRS that your taxes were screwy and you owe them money (or, occasionally, they owe you money).
When the internet was still fun and creative.
So you're in favor of letting people (usually rich people) commit wire fraud?
Right on schedule. My company just announced tightening of the hybrid and remote as well. It almost as if the CEOs thought pre-holiday you won't get as much grumbling. Not totally wrong. My bonus is not horrible ( not great, but nothing to sneeze at either ) and it genuinely reminded me why I don't immediately say fuck it.

That said, I am looking for full remote.
There are certainly some locales that have a larger reputation for this sort of things than others.
I'd love to see the name calling. I've read it several times now. I see him saying that this random patch out of the blue, without any discussion, doesn't follow any of the guidelines to submit a kernel patch, doesn't make any sense (in fact, seems to reimplement things already in the kernel), and isn't being accepted without a significant rework.

He never, ever, once, demeans the person who submitted the patch or shows a pattern of abuse to that person -- if you look up the definition of "abusive" you'll see it says (emphasis mine): "extremely offensive AND insulting". While the text may be offensive (to some, to my ex-military eyes, this is being nice), he never once insulted the author.
ah yes, the notepad-as-a-mousepad technique
Every place where they do road work in Hawaii they require one or more patrol officers just sitting there in a car with lights on doing nothing. Also, I’m not sure of the details, but most cops in Hawaii seem to drive personal vehicles with lights attached. Literally what you see in “Hawaii five o”, with cops driving around in a 4Runner or a Charger or something.
Malware deployed on a blockchain owned by binance can't be blocked because...
it is downloaded from a centralized web API hosted by binance. There's a big difference between blocking malware on the blockchain and blocking it at centralized access points.
I'm not defending the practice by any stretch of the imagination (it's wrong to hotlink, simple as) but I can remember in the heady halcyon days of the early internet (back when Windows 95 had yet to become a thing) hotlinking was done out of pure ignorance about the impact it had on the hosting site and most doing it knew no better nor of the impact it had on the hot-linked servers' resources.

Given that Eternal September remains a thing to this day, I wonder if that remains the case?

As for Google Bot being well behaved - I'm glad to hear that this has changed because at the turn of the century (which is the last time I dipped my toe in to self hosting) it certainly wasn't well behaved in the slightest and it would ruthlessly crawl away, happily ignoring any robots.txt limitations applied.
It's been for many years now that eFile with IRS is free, but eFile with your State is paid.

You can always choose to print out your forms and mail them though.
Happy to answer!

native or wrapper eg. Electron/Tauri - Electron

what is your opinion of app adoption vs. web app - Could you clarify? Are you asking about Floutwork app adoption versus Floutwork as a web app, or are you referring to apps vs. web apps in general?

what tool did you use to design? figma/paper? - I used Figma
Please consider punishing the marketing guy doing this submission. This was not done by chance or mistake.
You're wrong on the basics: many people on earth are arguably most of the western world until the 19th century had families out of a sense of pragmatic and religious obligation to continue their line.[1] This is not love. But worse, nobody has built a city out of love, or completed a major research project backed by love alone; these kinds of projects require an entirely different kind of force that scales.

Money and force are the blood of megaprojects.

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1260022.The_Ancient_City
> I'd say if the government creates inefficiencies, such as for basic tax filing, it should remove them if possible

The complexity of the US tax code is certainly inefficient from the perspective of someone trying to get through their taxes, but many economists would argue that it enables a very economically efficient way to soft-enforce policy and influence behavior without resorting to regulation and law enforcement.

Whether the economic efficiency outweighs the bureaucratic inefficiency... I'm not sure. I guess that's where public tax software comes in.
I love the name, it's intuitive today and does not have any overloaded meanings or other confusers.
Isn't the Build engine also FOSS now? Edit: it isn't

https://steamdb.info/tech/Engine/Build/

IdTech 1-4 are all also FOSS these days:

https://steamdb.info/tech/Engine/idTech1/

https://steamdb.info/tech/Engine/idTech2/

https://steamdb.info/tech/Engine/idTech2_5/

https://steamdb.info/tech/Engine/idTech3/

https://steamdb.info/tech/Engine/idTech4/
FWIW, FreeTaxUSA[0] is much cheaper than Intuit and has worked great for me the past few years. I find it slightly easier than TurboTax, in fact.

[0] https://www.freetaxusa.com/
I'm 52 and recovering from chicken wings I ate last Friday. Fiber, some gut-health tea, and my daily Activa should get me back to full recuperation within a few days. In the meantime, bidet has been a lifesaver.
I mean, you could easily increase the tax credit to be progressive and not be regressive.
Real reasons companies pushes RTO are:

- they want to keep up the city model, where people might be slave of countless of services and economically by them, by their need, slaves of those who operate such services;

- they want people who can be exploited in various ways while WFH people can change far easier and so are less bound to a company.

Both reasons are AGAINST the current formal economical view since the '800s at least (The Science Of Government, Founded On Natural Law, by Clinton Roosevelt) and human evolutionary needs.

The rest is just mere organizational issues, for instance many WFH have issue brainstorming from remote, simply because they are not much engaged/motivated to, but that's not "by nature", it's just the need to learn a not-really-new but relatively new for too many, work paradigm.
You must really be a hot shot to afford this attitude, or you are one of these passive aggressive types that express it in subtle ways that do not get you fired. Let me explain something from the employers perspective. If you expect people to spend hours trying to figure out something that is not obvious, that could reasonably be cleared up with a five minute conversation with the expert (you, presumably) then you are wasting my money. I am paying both of you. I expect you to cooperate. I do not accept a toxic communication environment. Minimizing communication may increase productivity, but massively raises the risk of producing the wrong thing.
You’ll feel different about collateral damage when you have children of your own.
Awesome - and the first time I've actually had someone "post" on my site.
The ability to handle diverse data sources effectively is crucial in AI and data-driven applications. LangChain, a pioneering framework for language model applications, rises to this challenge with its unique approach. Here, I’ll delve into LangChain’s capabilities for handling unstructured and structured data, including indexes and retrieval mechanisms.

# The Data Challenge

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# LangChain’s Approach

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## 2. Document Loaders

Document loaders are specialized classes responsible for loading documents from various sources. LangChain supports many document loaders, allowing developers to connect to diverse data repositories, from local files to cloud-based storage, APIs, and more.

## 3. Text Splitters

Working with unstructured data often involves breaking down large chunks of text into smaller, manageable pieces. LangChain simplifies this process with text splitters. These classes are responsible for segmenting text efficiently preparing it for processing by language models or other tools.

## 4. VectorStores

For handling structured data, LangChain introduces VectorStores. These stores rely on embeddings and provide a structured way to interact with data, especially when working with vector databases. They are well-suited for structured data applications like SQL tables or APIs.

## 5. Retrieval Mechanisms

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Why do you find it suspicious? Not only have the Americans not been able to do it, but neither have the Japanese, the Koreans, the Germans, the Italians, the French, the British, or the Chinese. Since whomever was able to do it would be able to disrupt the market and gain more sales, I'm thinking it can't be done.

If we want to play the game of mandating things that can't be done then why don't we demand EVs be 6% to 8% more efficient while we're at it?
I‘m curious, why don’t hospitals have such an incentive? Naive conjecture would tell me otherwise.
Lotus exists in generally the same sphere as STS9, Big Gigantic, GriZ, which are all kind of the "electronic" side of the festival jam band scene. The "organic" side of that is generally made up of bluegrass and classical jam bands like String Cheese Incident, Phish, and Umphreys McGee. Lets just say I went to a Lotus concert once and saw a lot of tie dye and flat-brim hats. If you're looking for more like that, try finding an Electric Forest lineup from the last 5 years or so. Hopefully that helps.
Why not just a audio/visual recording?

Even when I took notes via laptop in class it was never a direct transcription.
> Competition benefits the consumer, and for a long while there's been limited, mostly fixed competition (via Brand awareness mostly).

I don't know that this is really true anymore. Maybe a little, but mostly just no.
It doesn't take an expert to notice that enforced types make a language more reliable in production, easier to debug, and faster to refactor.

You should be horrified by Dropbox's blog post on python in production: https://dropbox.tech/application/our-journey-to-type-checkin.... because this problem only existed and required $Ms of dollars to fix (even hiring the core team behind Mypy) because Python is being used instead of a typed language.
I think there are probably a lot fewer people with meaningful savings than you might think.
With a physical keyboard and no autocomplete, I guess ;-)
I think you missed #3 when commenting on #1

People didn't have much interesting to say before, but they didn't have much else to do. Now with #3, other platforms, they spend a lot of time on those other places writing short quips all day.
When the drum machine was released, tons of musicians said it sounded rubbish and not like real drums. Time will tell whether this falls in that same category, but generally it’s easy to underestimate new stuff.
Free market and democracy ends when it does not serve the interest of US.
It’s horrible. Around 50 million civilians were killed in just a few years prior to nukes though.
I always hear this stock buybacks thing, it's become almost memefied. Is this really the culprit here because it sounds so reductionist.
Thanks! First thank you for all the work to develop a math LLM. Those prompts are helpful. I shrank the weights down to f16 to fit on my system from f32 using the procedure at ggerganov/llama.cpp, then tried some of those prompts. From line 34:

> Problem:
> If $\det \mathbf{A} = 2$ and $\det \mathbf{B} = 12,$ then find $\det (\mathbf{A \mathbf{B}).$

> Solution:
> We know that for a matrix \mathbf{M}, the determinant of its inverse is given by $\frac{1}{\det \mathbf{M}}.$ We also know that the determinant of a product of matrices is equal to the product of their respective determinants. Therefore, we have:
\begin{align} \det (\mathbf{A}^{-1}\mathbf{B}) &= \frac{\det(\mathbf{AB})}{\det\mathbf{A}}\\ &= \frac{\det\mathbf{A}}{\det\mathbf{B}} \end{align}
> Therefore, we have:
> $\det(\mathbf{AB}) = 24

The f32 answer:
> We have that $\det (\mathbf{A} \mathbf{B}) = (\det \mathbf{A})(\det \mathbf{B}) = (2)(12) = \boxed{24}.$
> Final Answer: The final answer is $24$. I hope it is correct.

Final answer is the same, which is encouraging for quantization to expand hardware options.
I don't think governmental functions like tax collection should be subject to the free market. Where does this end? Do we end up with private militias that compete with municipal police departments? Do we end up with private militaries that compete with the US military? Do we end up with private court systems that compete with the DoJ?

Some things should not be privatized. The government allowing corporations to profit off of a civic duty like taxation, while offering no free public alternative, just anoints a handful of corporations with the gift of extracting profit from a mandatory governmental process. You should not be required to understand the intricacies of tax code, or pay for someone who does, just to file your taxes as required by law.

If a criminal has the right to be provided a public defender, then every American with an income should have the right to be provided with public tax preparation service from the same government that mandated tax collection in the first place.
Most points made in a blog post can be boiled down to 280 characters if you focus.
Yep! The Towing Capacity/Gross Vehicle Weight is the measurement used in Section 179, as this is primarily meant to help smaller construction companies and taxi companies, and they don't want people abusing it to buy a Ferrari or a Lamborghini and still deduct it as business expenses.
Yes, this is a good point. Talking to victims or aggrieved parties is something ancient history denies us.

On the other hand, what if we could -- would we cancel all those Greek philosophers, or artists and scientists of antiquity? Strike them from the classroom, or focus the lesson entirely on how bad they were as people? Would mankind be better if that were the case?
Short form video happened. I reach more people for non-commercial posts about software development that way. There are a few topics that are hard to cover that way, but very few that can't be shortened to fit. Like tweets were, it's a discipline.
Won’t somebody please think of the children!!!?

Those children over there… sending each other lemonparty (oh wait that was us)

Nah the kids now are watching cartel and Ukraine videos while going “bruh on god based uhuhuh”
> If an entire industry can be killed by a public service, it probably didn't deserve to exist in the first place.

It was created by a public service. It would be better if they'd just made a rule that those with super simple tax affairs just didn't need to file, as we have in the UK. But there's probably no pork in just making things better.
Trans pacific partnership ?
Appreciate the positive feedback!
Except it's legal to map the zero page, so this isn't actually a good way to test if the system has a functional MMU.
It's such a good idea, it is already in the kernel. They literally reimplemented already existing shit with a more complex API. You can't make this up.
Thanks dude.
Well, you could have done a variety of things that aren't reported. For instance, donating money/time/goods, winning from gambling/etc, inheriting money/property, winning things/money, face deprecation in assets like real estate, etc. Payroll and taxes have about a million edge cases and it's one of the reasons payroll is such a bloated industry.

I agree it's probably a bit much for most people though and not filing should be akin to not reporting anything else and the IRS should automatically calculate your return and mail a check or a bill if you owe.
protects you from liability for incorrectly filing your taxes.

In practice, it's not really needed. The thing is (and I realize that it's not the general perception) if you sincerely try to file your taxes and you screw up, the IRS will generally work with you to fix things. Sure, if you go all sovereign-citizen/Wesley Snipes and refuse to acknowledge taxes they'll kick in the door and take all your stuff. But if you accidentally report select head-of-household instead of single, and you can explain why you did, the IRS won't ruin your life.
"For the remote employees whom we are asking to move to in-office roles, we will provide the option to join our three-day, in-office schedule (Tues.-Thurs.) or take a severance package."

Since Roblox is in the virtual world business, this is embarrassing. Their own world isn't good enough for them.

Amusingly, Linden Lab, the company behind Second Life, was mostly remote before, during, and after the pandemic. They seem to have figured this out. They are not a fast-moving company, but, unlike Roblox, they are profitable.
can anyone recommend a serious long term strategic analysis of how this zone will look in, let's say, 30-50 years?
I think they're referring to the famous Wikimedia flower - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273741

And it's much harder now to have a caching server because everything is HTTPS, so you have to coordinate with both ends to make it work.
> For the remote employees whom we are asking to move to in-office roles, we will provide the option to join our three-day, in-office schedule (Tues.-Thurs.) or take a severance package.

This company has never been remote friendly. Posts like this are absolutely despicable because they hire people remotely without the clear intention that they will RTO. That's called lying.
Not if the laws are written against their interests.

Somehow, billionaires don’t go to prison for stealing food.
No shit, the legacy media has done everything it can to sour advertisers on buying from the site because the ad money pool has begun to dry up.
He looks like a contestant on VH1's The Pickup Artist - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pickup_Artist_(TV_series)
sorry... cheaper? surely a place called free tax usa would be free?
hmm..maybe they're related?
"Housing" might be a "solved issue" in "Asia" but that's absurdly reductionist. Quality of life is not solved. Breathing your neighbors vape and cigarette smoke is not solved. Hearing pounding bass through every adjacent wall is not solved. Lack of your own yard is not solved. There are thousands of human problems that arise in condensed compressed living.
I tend to agree with "where there's smoke, there's fire," but I'm also cautious reading too much into what a single person -- in particular, an ex-lover -- has to say when forming an opinion about someone. Obviously if it's a pattern, that's another story. But I've lived through some things, and witnessed people make claims that were stronger than what was justified.
This is great. I wished the individual states would do this too for their tax filers.
You might find the "Acceptance" section of the Blue Oak Model License handy:

https://blueoakcouncil.org/license/1.0.0#acceptance

We've published a very liberal license for use of the Blue Oak license text, as well:

https://blueoakcouncil.org/license/1.0.0#permission
The point is that there is nothing you couldn't subsidize with tax revenue and thereby destroy the unsubsidized industry, so it doesn't serve as a useful test. You could have the government provide everyone with unlimited free coal and that would be the end of the private coal mining industry, but that doesn't mean we should do that.

The reason public tax filing software makes sense is that the government imposes this cost on the public so the government should collect the money to pay for it in the usual way (i.e. from taxes paid in proportion to ability to pay) instead of imposing a fixed fee on everyone.
FYI, you can fix poor automatic changes by choosing “Edit” after submission.
The people to blame aren't the lobbyists. It's those who choose to be lobbied.
Wouldn't there just be a lot of money made by someone offering free filing and then offering to give you your return immediately for a fee of like 10%? Is anyone doing this?
The bridge will also be losing hundreds of tiny works of art painted on chewing gum by one man over the last two decades.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-london-67083141
>> Finally someone to blame for GTK4 and Gnome Shell!

Having looked at moving from GTK3 to 4, I can understand the frustration. I also read a bunch of stuff and have concluded there are good reasons for the disruption, from making things more generic which allows new combinations of widgets (like images in menus) to allowing stuff to be in a different process. That does not mean the migration or support for doing it was handled well.

I was also disappointed to see they talked about having major releases at a regular cadence, which luckily they are way behind. Stability is a very important feature for toolkits and other infrastructure software. I would argue that being cross-platform and having stability are the 2 most important features of GTK and I hope it's a very long time before GTK5 comes along - if ever. The other major feature is the C API which allows it to have bindings to many languages.
Roblox, the metaverse platform, working on the big metaverse, enforcing a return to office. Hilarious.
The tax credit could be designed in such a way to be progressive and actually benefit the poor. Honestly, most of the time when I see a 'just think of the poor!' argument against a carbon tax, it's typically from someone living in a mcMansion with a $400 power bill who drives an f250 to get groceries. I realize they'd be perfectly happy with business as usual, but that's not the change we need.
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. Apparently, personal attacks work just fine to keep commenters from replying. But I'm here anyway.