skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I just hate the argument that government inherently because it's government is inefficient and will never be effective

The more general argument is that monopolies are inefficient, and most instances of government programs are monopolies.

> In the US half the people in charge of the government hate it and want it to fail.

This is uncharitable. It's more accurate to say that they expect it to fail and hate government programs because they regard them as inefficient and net harmful on average.

> If everyone agreed that, once we make a choice on what the government is going to do we should do it well, we could have government services that are just as effective as whatever private enterprise example people always like to cite

The inefficiency is caused by the principal-agent problem more than anybody's ideology. Even if every politician wanted and expected the government to be effective, you still have the problem where a government program is providing a service consumed by e.g. 5% of the population and is serving 20% of them poorly. This is only 1% of the voters, who themselves have to balance their vote against their positions on every other issue on the ballot, whereas in a competitive market the company doing that would be losing 20% of their customers to a competitor and a competitor would be available to satisfy that 20% of the customers.

Meanwhile if a program is inefficient but its total cost is <1% of the total government budget, nobody is paying attention to it, but the same is true of most other programs which causes the average efficiency to be poor. Whereas the proprietor of a small business which is <1% of the economy is going to care quite a lot if it's wasting money and be paying attention to that business in particular, because it's their business and it's their money.

We don't have great solutions for these in the public sector. The best you can say is that sometimes it's worth it. For example, every taxpayer can use tax filing software and it has no unit cost, so even if the government is less efficient than a private company, that could still be worth it because you can spread the fixed cost of developing it over so many people. This is a general argument for the government to create and publish open source software whenever there is a reasonable expectation it would be widely used.

What it isn't is a general argument for government programs, because products with zero unit cost are relatively uncommon and so are software products that are both widely used (as opposed to having a particular niche) but not already well-served by existing free software. Software in the service of regulatory compliance is unusually well-suited to being published by the government. (And they should definitely be publishing the source code.)
Any of the newly engined Max models are involved, even the Max 8 and 9. The problem with the de-icing mechanism was only found _after_ the 8 and 9 were certified so they've been allowed to continue flying with the "pilot fix" in place (this is ludicrous btw).

The Max 7 is being blocked currently because it hasn't been certified yet.
The fact that some countries don’t give free speech (no matter how reckless, dangerous or untrue) the religious status that America does doesn’t make them authoritarian.

The American constitution says: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The Canadian one says: peace, order, and good government. Different strokes for different folks - you do you.
> if philosophy can't take

It's got nothing to do with what philosophy can't take.

The context of this conversation: science is not self-sufficient to be a force for good in this world without the aid of the humanities.

Scientism is naive and self-undermining.
I'm amazed at how large the Exposition was. And consequently, the moving sidewalk.
It would seem like Ward is no stranger to this sort of public candidness. But it doesn't particularly seem like the sort of transparency that actually puts users, or employees, at ease.
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You're suggesting the half that wants smaller government impedes the day-to-day productivity of the half that wants it bigger?

Some things work well in government given limited resources. Other parts of government seek bigger and bigger budgets to implement ideological goals, no matter their efficiency.

(Any amount of money spent is justified by the end goal since the purpose of government is to print however much money is required to ensure complete social welfare.)
This looks featureful and polished, nice job!
Hundreds of online applications, response only from 50% of them.

Each response requires scheduling a phone call with the recruiter a few days out.

After each recruiter call, there's a round of interview - either with a software engineer or with a hiring manager.

Then some take home or such BS.

Then an onsite with multiple rounds.

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The ideal interview as a service will take care of all the rounds prior to the onsite rounds.
I'm not using one!

I usually copy something only in the moment and immediately "clear" my clipboard by CTRL + C'ing a single character from some textbox/selectable field :-)

For me, it's not a buffer but just a line of communication between two programs. When I have tried to treat it like the former I have found that mistakes are common and the benefits are very slight.
Ha, from 2021: https://nitter.net/paulg/status/1356643841659572227#m
Tesla lowers Model Y, S, X range estimations following exaggeration complaints
An airplane falling out the sky is something like the equivalent of the wheels falling off of a car traveling at speed. It's not that it can't happen, but it's hardly the only possible result of a malfunction.
Weird this happens right before Alaska Airlines is about to replace Hawaiian Airlines Airbus fleet
The oscillations of charge in the glass.
Good news, everyone: The United 737 Max 9 I’m supposed to board tomorrow has “already been checked out and returned to service.”
> systemic attempt to dodge responsibility for the problem.

If it was widespread, the NHTSA would have forced Tesla to recall the cars. Tesla sold 1.8 million cars just in 2023. It's hard to impossible to hide accidents, injuries and fatalities resulting from wheels falling off.
That is not at all what the labor force participation rate means.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART

> The Labor Force Participation Rate is defined by the Current Population Survey (CPS) as “the number of people in the labor force as a percentage of the civilian noninstitutional population […] the participation rate is the percentage of the population that is either working or actively looking for work.”
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You are indeed correct. Imagine writing a whole screed “I’m so smart but everyone else doesn’t think so and they’re wrong”. Imagine being serious about it.
The important part of playing the lottery in this case would be to not play with garbage tickets, right? In the sense that, if you catch a user on any hyper-specific page which seems to have appeared on their search/advertising preference results, you want them to not feel like they looked at spam...

If not, this approach feels like it would be easy to abuse!
As noted elsewhere, the EITC is a so-called "refundable" credit. It wouldn't serve its intended purpose if it wasn't refundable.
I'm not talking about LFS.

The Linux kernel comes with thousands of different drivers for all kinds of devices which adds weight and such that even slows bootup times. For the home user, sure, default works best.

Why use a kernel with bluetooth modules, wifi modules applied when the actual server has none of that hardware? Not forgetting added security risks. It's all clutter and bloat that's not needed at all.

Do you really need to support a 1998 3Com IPX network card on your production server?

It's about understanding the system as a whole not just the userland or /etc/. Sysctls parameters and fine tuning the cogs that drive the system; the Linux IP stack is abystmal without tuning.

The default kernel works, but your not going to get near best performance without fine tuning and minimalizing the kernel. It's not a bragging excercise, it's a real excercise to ensure the system is secure and to ensure smooth operatation. You'll find these excerised in enterprises where such performance are a requirement.

Knowing how to compile your kernel is key piece of important knowledge to know and you'll find that someone with that knowledge will end up getting hired than someone without.

The saying is true: SysAdmins treat servers like pets; developers treat servers like cattle.
raw grayscale downscaling is not the best possible lossy image compression

i have a high-quality 1280×720 color jpeg of macaulay culkin here which is 99191 bytes; that's 0.86 bits per pixel. recompressing it with the gimp with quality set to 15%, 4:2:0 subsampling, arithmetic coding, no color profile, and no progressive reduces it to 13269 bytes, the only visible effect being a subtle posterized blockiness in low-contrast areas of the photo; subtle details of the facial expression and hair texture survive. that's 0.115 bits per pixel

the same compression ratio at 144 bytes would be a 100×100 full-color image. jpeg can't compress small images that well, but plausibly something could
He's so shameless.
> “break the glass” system

That begs the question, when is that system supposed to be used? In what sorts of situations would it be beneficial to Carta'a clients for another company (Carta Marketplace) to access their confidential information?
It's not just about the discovery - though that won the Nobel Prize. You have to be able to reliably lay down sub-100nm thick layers of material. A tall order pre-1960s.

You also need to develop separator films with the correctly sized pores with very few defects or the battery eats itself. Pores big enough for lithium to pass but nothing else. And a stable non-liquid electrolyte.

No one could even conceive of such ideas in 1900 let alone attempt to make such things. They didn't even know where to start looking to grasp the problem, let alone any solutions to try.
It’s funny how in a lot of these corporate missteps it’s the response which tells you more about the culture than the original incident. This is more likely to turn me off using them than the original incident.

Apologising and saying you will put processes into place to prevent it happening again is corporate comms and emotional 101, and it would have blown over in a week.
The commenter's point is that History as an academic discipline organized by institutions is part of the humanities departments.

It's not a deeper point.

Of course science has its own history and that history is examined (sometimes) in the course of scientific education. That's not what's at issue.

What's at issue is that History as a subject and other Humanities disciplines are systematically devalued in STEM disciplines and by scientific cultural mouthpieces and participants in STEM endeavors.
A proper automatic litter box. Something that can be easily taken apart and hosed out to clean, and won't smear feces all over itself if a cat doesn't have the hardest stool. Also something that doesn't use the litter enclosure itself; so if a cat touches the side of the enclosure, litter (and other stuff) won't get into their furr.

I've designed a few ideas, and thought about it for a long time; but honestly I haven't come up with a novel solution to what's already out there. I'd pay for just the design, and build it myself at this point. I'd probably pay 1000 dollars for it, and dedicate a lot of space to it; I hate scooping litter that much.
Is there any documentation on how an average person living in the US files their taxes ?

Are you forced to use third party services ?

How exactly is it hard to do your taxes on your own ?
This is a pathetic twitter slap fight between two dorks. It's so incredibly transparent that I honestly struggle to believe anyone could consider this a genuine exchange with a common goal of resolution. It's public shit slinging dressed up as humble, sincere tweets. It's plain embarrassing.
Karri Saarinen tweeted this today (Jan 6) at 8:36am https://twitter.com/karrisaarinen/status/1743672776643535015 he provides a helpful perspective on why Carta might be tempted to leverage customer information to facilitate transactions.

This buy order was for $2.5M, they take 2% transaction fee
from the buyer and seller.

We pay them about $10k a year for the cap table management
but this transaction alone would net them $100k.
So I can see the temptation.
They are building the Boeing KC-46 Pegasus. That is the big refueler and they are gone build 100s of them in the coming years.

They is very much competing in lots of different competition for lots things.
Are you sure thats not just the toxoplasmosis gondii talking?

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii#Behavioral_d...
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If you can, start your own company. Ideally in tech. When you're the boss, they have to deal with you.
I agree with you in theory, but, it’s a pointless exercise. If those children ever get a drivers license, the DMV will turn around and sell all the personal information they collected to whoever is willing to pay.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/a353kj/experts-say-change-la...
and be blamed for every (bad) thing that happens :)
On macOS you open the IOKit device and post/receive messages or use transfer buffers. Only one program can do that at once since the OS doesn't know anything about the protocol, but it works without a driver.
The weights have finite precision which means they represent value-ranges / have error bars. So even if the weight is exactly 0 it does not represent complete confidence in it never occurring.
Damn me too! Guess I'm more like Elon than not
His publicly visible behavior by itself should worry them, even setting aside what might be exacerbating it. I don't know if this is them actually being worried about his behavior but needing a business-friendly fig leaf to complain about it, or if they actually believe that his behavior has been just fine and it's just drugs they're worried about.

(The illegality element may only matter from a business standpoint for government contracts.)
It was those dang millennials, they ruined everything. Somehow.
Yes absolutely - keep the skilled folks below the VP level and perhaps some of the Directors. Generally garbage flows from the top down, and they've been putting up with it this entire time.
What Apple forgot to market was the fact that it was only scanning photos that were destined for upload to iCloud Photos, which most people turn off because they don't want to pay more than $1/month for iCloud storage (or $4 if you happen to have a family).

Thankfully, they went forward with "encrypt everything in iCloud E2E"[0] despite not having a way to detect CSAM anymore, probably much to law enforcement's chagrin.

0: https://support.apple.com/en-us/108756
I cannot decipher what you are saying. Can you expand?
> Wouldn’t it be great if there were a libc in the JS world. Something portable and standardised.

I mean, it’s not necessarily “in the JS world”, but WASM is basically that.
Drug usage and whatever Epstein was up to are not the same thing. Also, I read the article. Illegal drug usage is a violation of federal law, too, but that doesn’t mean anyone is truly at risk, especially someone like Musk.
Is this CEO 13 years old? What a terrible response
Yes I believe so. Founders will claim your interest is aligned with theirs to keep the cap table clean, but in my experience you can't determine the true market clearing price for your owned shares without marketing them outside the current set of investors.

Founders may not like it but it's kind of on the startup scene's current proclivity for keeping companies private for much longer than in the past and therefore restricting employee and investor liquidity. These services are responding to a market need. Carta may have broken their agreement with the startup but it is, in my opinion, generally a good thing to allow more price discovery for all investors.
IMHO, needs an appropriate stack of single row of microfluidics display[0][1] instead of single crt row.

An appreciation of 'Alice in Wonderland' quantum decision making might help too.

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[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncfZWqPm7-4

[1] https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/lc/c9lc0...
>it will make AMD lazy.

AMD is lazy, or more to the point AMD can't software at all.
That's certainly true in the sense that flying from NYC to LA is 750x safer than doing the same as a road trip, on a fatalities-per-km basis. But on a per-trip basis, boarding that flight will be about equally as safe as taking a 5 km trip by car to the hardware store, and above-average defensive driving can certainly boost that radius considerably, maybe to 50 km.

Some would argue the per-trip comparison is invalid, but often the travel distance is not fixed, such as if you were weighing between vacation options of flying to NYC vs camping at a local campsite.

On a danger-per-hour-in-vehicle basis, airplanes of course still come out ahead, although not quite as overwhelmingly. NYC to LA is about a 5.5 hour flight; an equivalent drive would be about 350 km, and it will be very hard to match the safety of that flight even with defensive driving. You'd need to drive 70x better than average, even with the fatigue of a 5.5 hour drive.
Can you elaborate on your update tweet? I can’t believe that Carta is gaslighting you and victim blaming instead of saying they won’t do it again. Somewhat troubling that they say an employee potentially self-approved a “break-glass” procedure and in response, they’re “looking into it.”

https://twitter.com/karrisaarinen/status/1743824345334714587
Seems like a particularly grim manifestation of the worst-case scenario in federalism. It would be quite easy for either side to claim that "people died because *the other side* did/didn't pass this law!".
I mean there's already human feces up there. Would Romans get angry if we tried landing on Mars?
That is why the government offers 6 different unemployment measures, plus the labor force participation rate.
How different are these results from canned responses?
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> it handles queries and documents differently to embed them in the same vector space

I assume this might be behind the state of the art, then. As of a year ago OpenAI managed to get an embeddings model that can do both without any special flag or dual model to treat queries and documents differently.
Unfortunately his heart is in the wrong place.
Well, you don't write in complete sentences, and you write off all nuclear power as a bad faith con in one unexplained sentence. When you take an unpopular stance, prepare to put in effort to defend them.

Either there exists some people who think your "argument" is weak, or Big Nuclear is monitoring the thread.
I'm surprised any of them are still in business. High fees, food delivered cold if at all, 0 hiring standards, very poor customer service.
Just like act like it doesn’t exist to begin with, so you’re not disappointed.
What an odd comment. According to your link the journalists were employed for a LinkedIn feature called LinkedIn Daily Rundown. This is seemingly a journalistic endeavor, and as with any product offering would be a strategy to keep people engaged with the site. Why not also point to LinkedIn offering direct messaging as "clearly a strategy to get people to spend more time on the site"?

I say this because your dangling comment seems to imply that LinkedIn's employment of journalists is so that they may practice their journalistic dark-arts on unsuspecting users in a ploy for them to spend more time on the site.
The headline is slightly misleading. The range estimations are lowered for these two reasons instead (buried in the article):

> First, are “comfort and functionality improvements” made by Tesla that require more energy, and second is the implementation of revised EPA testing requirements that result in a “higher consumption and a slight decrease in overall range.”

Personally I think the second reason is the main one. EPA gave automakers way too much leeway to tune the tests and report an inflated figure. It's good that they are tightening the procedures.

However, it's quite possible that without the exaggeration attempts there wouldn't be any changes to EPA testing requiments.
These people are all so insufferable (praying hands emoji).
Icelandair 737 Max 9 Aircraft not Grounded
Ugh. I'm so divorced from social media, I didn't even consider the marketing use case for "share your genetic data with your friends"... I wonder if this hack was just someone scraping an API for that (?!!)

It's gross. On a side note, when I asked my father (an educated man in his 80s with a law degree) why he put our genetic information online without asking us, his response was that he didn't put it online, he mailed it, and it was just his own. I only say this to illustrate that the entire setup here resembled a con game to collect genetic data from unwitting people - which if they represented only 25% of the population would be enough to let you deduce the rest. The abhorrent fact that the was handled so flippantly is just icing on the cake.
Gig work would fall under U6 unemployment if the person believes they are underemployed and would prefer a full time position with benefits or otherwise only marginally attached to the labor market and would prefer better employment.

Someone working gig jobs (even multiple) and satisfied with hours worked/pay and benefits would just count as employed.
Nabokov wrote in his autobiography that music was all just noise to him, and that his drawing tutor considered him the worst student of his career.
Teachable Machine has existed for years: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/10/9/16447006/google-teac...

Its last real update (AFAIK) was in 2019: https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/7/20953095/google-ai-traine...

Like a number of Google projects, this one lives on without any clear direction. It probably will get axed some day, but the technology in Teachable Machine today is so “old school” already that I don’t think it would be that hard for someone to recreate or improve upon.
A better idea would be to simplify the tax code so that you don't need complex software to calculate taxes. Maybe even simplify it so much, and make it automatic, so that most people don't have to file tax returns, which is how it works in the UK [1].

[1] https://www.gov.uk/income-tax/how-you-pay-income-tax
Yes, I have seen somebody with ADHD fixate on something and the memory issues remain present while actively engaging the subject of fixation. The difference between the compulsive behaviors versus the obsessive behaviors only comes down to motivation and personal interests. This is where the dopamine cycle is impaired either way while in some cases motivation is sufficient to push through the limiting effects of supremely low serotonin. Consider the flip case where a ADHD person absolutely cannot be compelled to do something important because the lack of motivation is a greater driver of behavior than cognitive reasoning can compensate for.

There is a greater than 60% overlap in symptoms between ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder. The distinction is as clear as ADHD is more directly tied to memory issues and ASD is not while ASD is more directly tied to lost processing of social framing and ADHD is not.