skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that the constitution forbids Congress from delegating to the executive is not widely accepted. It is a novel interpretation from a Qanon-adjacent fringe group that wants to dismantle the government by making it too dysfunctional to work. It also creates a strange right for the judiciary to regulate how Congress and the executive choose to work together.
In the spirit of endless hn pedantics… Poisoning implies a certain amount of finesse. All poisons of course being enzyme inhibitors in themselves and enzymes being a fancy biological term for a catalyst… but digress and no. I think drowning is very much the apt descriptor of this phenomenon.
> Are you aware that clean water is a finite resource

It kinda is, when you're drawing it from a spring that will lead to the ocean one way or the other.
From digging into this week's numbers:

> Part time jobs UP 762,000, full time jobs DOWN 1.5 million in December
Yeah that's the one I used on Windows.
Yeah, just taxes alone doesn’t seem like it should take that long—but doing accounting for taxes can take a long time, especially if you’re self-employed and taking deductions, or have employees for your schedule-C business, etc.

Perhaps the poster is including the accounting in the tax prep.
The ATI Radeon 9700 Pro was one of the most liked GPUs of its time.

Google "radeon 9700 site:slashdot.org"
Back when their planes blew up on their own (TWA 800, Philippine 143, Thai Airways 114), and when the rudders liked to jam themselves to full-deflection (UA 525, USAir 427)?
The problem with vaccines in the US was they were and still are a low margin business. And it's a low volume business. Couple of million doses a year. Doesn't take that many bogus or maybe not bogus product liability lawsuits to eat all the profit. Faced with drug companies exiting the business Congress set up a separate compensation system for vaccine injuries. I think drug companies pay into a fund that then gets disbursed to people harmed by vaccines. Guiding idea is to keep these cases out of ordinary courts where judges and juries aren't competent and into the hands of a panel who are competent. That way injured people are compensated and drug companies liability is limited.
That's right.

Same reason why blockchain is (almost) never the answer: that's not how human systems work.

Trust is centralized. Always had been.
Leaked Data Shows China Is in Deep Demographic Trouble
I was really lucky, I guess.

I smoked around a half a pack a day for about 20 years.

I decided to start getting in shape and started swimming every day.

All of my desire to smoke vanished overnight. I don't know why, or what the mechanism was. I never intentionally decided to "quit".

It just suddenly happened that I had zero desire to smoke, so I didn't anymore.

I still work out regularly, and it's been 10 years now since I've had a cigarette.
I have a chronic illness that no doctor has been able to diagnose yet. Would be willing to pay money to the right person to help me out
Same. When I got my last job, they struggled to find people and were desperate to hire me with a high salary + a generous share package.... Then 8 months later they were getting 200+ applications for a single developer position. Then I was let go because new candidates were much cheaper.

It was like WTF. Obviously the entire economy has turned into some insane scheme. There's no way these sudden market changes are natural.

What sickens me about modern society is that whenever they cheat you, they always accompany it with gaslighting... Which is exactly what this 'record low unemployment' rhetoric is.

Just like ESG/DEI/wokeness it's pure media gaslighting designed to cover up the fact that they had started discriminating against straight white people. Now whenever a young white person tells their parents "I can't get a job because they're discriminating against me," they give a weird look and respond with something like "Uhhhh, no, no, no, it's everyone else who is being discriminated against, that's what the media said. Sounds like you're just lazy, too lazy to even come up with your own excuses."

Thankfully I'm good at explaining things and my parents are intelligent so I think they understand what's happening now but there was a moment of tension. Reminded me of the COVID vaccine mandate + media hysteria breaking families apart.

I try not to take anything seriously and just focus on survival. It's like everything is fucked in the most optimal way imaginable. Optimized for fuckery, not efficiency...
Hey! There was no intention of "stealing." I did not know who else was involved in the development of timezones.digital, and I did send a message to the designer "Mykhailov" about using it as inspiration. The only reasons for redevelopment were:

- The timezone search in the original app was laggy.

- It did not allow searching timezones by offset, e.g., 'GMT+5,' 'gmt-5,' etc.

- It did not allow timezone search by name, e.g., PST, EST, GST, etc.

- It requested location permission that seemed unnecessary.

- It was closed source.

I had been using your product for quite some time and only developed time.fyi to scratch my own itch. I will be open-sourcing it soon and planning on extending it beyond what it is today.

Having said that, thank you for your work on timezones.digital!
Some illegal drugs—especially psychedelics—should be legal: https://jakeseliger.com/2023/09/25/strange-trip-psychedelics....
I was taking issue with the comment's condescending and manipulative use of words like "reality" and "objective" to dismiss people's understanding of their own experiences. My reading may have been uncharitable but, obviously I believe, appropriately so.

I'm not taking a stance on "what is wrong with the world" here per se, but if I were I'm more aligned with what you're saying than thinking 0% unemployment is the solution to our problems or whatever.
Replace "Google" with "another leading tech player" because they're way smaller than AWS.
mix is okay but its greatest merit is that it gives you helpful historical perspective on the computers of 65 years ago

i'd mention the esp32-c3, which is probably more popular than any of the items on your list. it costs 8 dollars and can't run linux, and only has 400k of ram and 160 megahertz, but you can run it off a tiny battery and it has wi-fi and bluetooth built in. the milk-v duo sounds comparable but superior in many ways, having a built-in 8051 for things that require hard-real-time response. no wifi tho?

risc-v or especially arm is a much nicer way to learn about assembly programming than mix or mmix
Definitely hear you on that one. What's your experience been like?
Imagine if people saw only a few different colors, and few saw the whole rainbow. Those who saw red would point to the trees and discuss the fine aspects of apples there, while the rest would have no clue or wonder why they care. Empathy is a color some see more than others. Timeliness is a color. Indexing life tasks and items to where they should be or how efficiently that can be organized is a color. Math and problem solving are colors that some find a lot more compelling than others.

You are extremely fortunate if the colors you see brightly are commonly seen by others or a part of a self-training loop like math, Montessori games, programming, and language. You have it harder if your favorite subject requires funding to practice, such as chemistry/advanced physics, etc. And you’d better learn how to make millions or billions if you like space stuff or care for gatekeeper-protected disciplines like some niche academia, medicine, regulated stuff, etc.

That said, the world changed recently. GPT4 came out those who have deep interests have a sparring partner they’ve never had before. I doubt it’s anywhere in their priority list, but OpenAI can probably run a fantastic networking mesh for people with niche interests. They’d have to keep the spam /obscenities out, but a group chat for anyone in a topic would be fun and a voice group lounge would be even more amazing. ChatGPT would beat facebook and much other social media for the gifted audience. It’s already the best teacher available (if you discount errors and hallucinations, which are on the decline).
An IRS audit isn’t because you underpaid the amount they think you owe — for that they usually send you a form saying, in their own special language, “hey I think you may not have included this XYZ income in your tax return, we think you owe an extra $ABC”.

Instead, it’s because they want to make sure you were truthful in what you reported, and may have some reason to believe you were not. Often, they don’t know how much you owe in this case.
I vaguely remember George W Bush administration changing the definition of unemployment “to make it look better”. I don’t think the unemployment numbers are comparable before and after that event.
Bad hair in the gym is a no-go but being at least some amount of sweaty all day isn't?
Absolutely nobody is arguing that optional items are what is making it tough on people. It's housing and basic groceries.

In 2005 I managed to wiggle my way out of poverty by splitting a $615/mo apartment 4 ways on minimum wage (and I considered that quite lucky at the time). I ate mostly rice, soy, beans, and frozen veggies because that was the cheapest thing I could eat. Eggs were a luxury.

That same apartment is $1799/mo now and minimum wage is virtually the same. I would probably be dead or worse trying to escape poverty in those same conditions. Add in that the humiliation people must feel driving for Uber or running Doordash. You're helping others live a lifestyle that's unreachable for you, ever.

Even though I can afford it these days I still refuse to Doordash / Uber because I feel like these services are fundamentally dehumanizing. I will fetch my own food, and drive/transport myself. It's not hard.

These unemployment numbers just bury the struggle of regular people with a numerical handwave.
Needless to say, I did not get your joke. Firefox, Chrome, and Safari are not very good at running on the kind of hardware that NetSurf is made for.
> especially if the bus would normally run empty

In Switzerland we often have bus service to tiny mountain villages where the bus has to drive incredibly complex snake roads up a mountain. These buses are often not all that full. And somehow we have not gone bankrupt as a country in the 100 years this has been going on.

> A highway is a one-time cost

That is just totally false.

> a bus is an ongoing cost

Bus has an Initial acquisition cost and an ongoing maintenance, literally exactly like a highway.

The difference is that you have to pay a bus driver.

> It would be much easier to "stick a seat" on some government vehicle that already does the trip regularly, allowing a passenger or two to ride along with the mail truck.

Yes. And that exactly how it started in Switzerland. The Mail company operates the buses. But that doesn't change the fact that they are proper buses with reliable schedules.

Today these buses don't usually deliver the mail anymore anyway. The waste majority are just normal bus routes, just painted in a cool color.

See the Old-School bus: https://artifiche.com/artifiche-images/posters_extralarge/24...

Here you see a modern Post Bus station that is above the local railway station. There are 10+ Post platforms, going into all the surrounding vallies and then to all the different mountain villages. They are all synchronized and scheduled with train arrival times.

See: https://www.bus-bild.de/bild/Schweiz~Betriebe~Postauto/13802...

The city where this bus station is located has only 35k people, it the capital of that whole mountain region. The next large town has 10k people. Many of the villages in the valley, often with population with 1000-2000 are of course connected by rail. Its only once you have to go up that you need the buses. And this city is 100km away from Zürich, a much smaller city then Vancouver.

That is much smaller then even many of the small cities in the greater area we are talking about. There are many cities of 100k+ around, and many other small cities of 10k-50k range.

So I really can't see how connecting any of village in that area can be such a hard burden.

We are talking about a pretty populated region with lots of population. And we are not in the 1920 anymore. Just do fucking run real bus service.
It's not a dig, it's a legitimate question. Do you have any examples of designs used in real apps? Would be curious to check them out because most of these don't look like anything I'm implementing in my work, as a frontend/fullstack developer either.
Give him a copy of "How to win friends". I think this is discussed in Chapter 1.
It literally shows each photo set it thinks are duplicates, you can literally manually verify
I thought Kia's were stolen off driveways when the people were asleep? Detroit I believe invented modern day car jacking. Someone comes up to you as you're filling your car
at the pump, sticks a gun in your face, asks for your keys and drives off.

Or someone bumps into you at a light or stop sign. You get out to inspect the damage and exchange insurance cards and again they pull a gun and take your car while their accomplice speeds off in the attack car.

Last I checked St. Louis was the current king of car jacking although Detroit is still sadly is in the top ten.
Vibenomics.
Run a few test theories and see what resonates. Are you the kind of person who goes to the gym every day? Are you the kind of person who works on their hobbies at night? Are you the kind of person who binges Netflix between dinner and bed? Are you the person who cooks dinner from scratch, or orders takeout at every chance? etc. I think of them a bit like stereotypes but applied to myself, and see if I think I fit.
Here is a detailed response from Karri about the call details: https://twitter.com/karrisaarinen/status/1743824345334714587

This particular detail stands out as to how the solicitation actually happened: "He (Carta's CEO) explains commonly Carta Marketplace looks for sellers and buyers in their platform who have opted in to it. But in this case the employee in question, again not employed by Carta but a separate business, Carta Marketplace, was able to access our cap table data by their “break the glass” system which requires approval to see customer data. He didn’t know how it was done, he offered that potentially the employee self approved the request. The employee in question was put on administrative leave."

Lol, the employee (of technically a different business entity?) might have accessed the info through self approved request, but Carta's CEO is sure that this only happened this Friday to one company and is a one time incident. Yeah, I don't believe it.
And if you can't afford a car, can't drive, got your drivers licence revoked, aren't old enough to drive. fuck you.
It's available under the ISC-style Project Oberon license.

<http://www.projectoberon.net/wirth/ProjectOberon/license.txt>
It's comical how much of modern startup compensation is gymnastics around taxes.

My understanding is that the most basic problem is if the startup gives you stock that's viewed as income and you will need to pay tax on an illiquid asset, and ISO/NSO/RSU/409a's are resulting from various elaborate schemes to give you stock-like upside tomorrow without having to pay taxes on an illiquid today.
I don't think it's really a distraction.

It seems illogical for the government to not have a free, easy way for the taxpayer to remit their taxes to the government (or submit the paperwork that should generate a return from that government). But at the same time I think it's fine to be skeptical that you should trust the government to be honest in showing you what amount of taxes you actually owe given how complicated the tax code is, and because there exists, ahem, a bit of an incentive problem there.

Is the free-filing system designed to maximize your return? Is it designed for ease of use? Generally I agree that TurboTax is a leech, but just because they're leeches doesn't mean there isn't an incentive problem that should be addressed.

>Then, truly public-minded services can use the receipt to help people understand if their filings were correct.

Do you mean a private company does this? Or something else?
School is a very strange place for the exceptionally gifted student, even moreso if neurodiverse. The student can get 100% on tests and essays with ease, yet cannot understand basic human interactions.

From the perspective of an autistic, ex-teacher who had his IQ measured as "somewhere over 170". I probably have ADHD as well, but a psychiatrist friend says diagnosis fails with people with ridiculously high IQs.

BTW, high IQ = good at solving certain kinds of problem, not a measure of the quality of a person.
> regulatory capture

You don’t need a campaign finance problem to get regulatory capture. Only industry insiders have the context to regulate industries. They come from industry, they know and are known by all the players, and back to industry is where they want options to return. They see the world in terms other insiders do and they don’t want to burn any bridges. This is a recipe for industry getting what they want in most cases.
Love the idea of rockets full of water. Can't we all just get along?
I think GP is calling for == to only compare boolean values ("equivalence"), = to be necessary for comparing any other values ("equality"), and := to be used for assignment. Though I don't see the purpose in that, given that two boolean values are equal if and only if they are equivalent.

Unless "equivalence" is supposed to be useful for comparing boolean expressions with unbound variables? But evaluating that would require a built-in SAT solver, to be remotely performant.

Also, just because two integers sum to 0 doesn't mean they're both equal to 0, so replacing (x == 0 && y == 0) with (x + y == 0) wouldn't be valid. Regardless, it wouldn't make for more performant code: compilers already translate (x == 0 && y == 0) into the assembly equivalent of ((x | y) == 0) automatically, without the programmer having to mess with their code.
This, literally, happens all the time. Did we forget what Epstein was doing?

People are VERY easy to blackmail.

Again, if you deny or lie about it, you essentially self-blackmail.

Read the article:

>"Illegal drug use would likely be a violation of federal policies that could jeopardize SpaceX’s billions of dollars in government contracts. Musk is intrinsic to the value of his companies, potentially putting at risk around $1 trillion in assets held by investors, tens of thousands of jobs and big parts of the U.S. space program...In addition to violating federal contracts, any kind of illegal drug use would break company policies at both SpaceX and Tesla, and would raise questions about Musk’s executive role at the publicly traded Tesla, where the board has a duty to shareholders to oversee management.”

Elon is taking federal contractor funds, a very serious deal, and doing cocaine and more with it.

He’s a literal national security threat.
Unreasonable Legal Agreements
When you hear hoofbeats think horses, not zebras. A pressurization fault on the ground where the plane is not pressurized almost certainly doesn't hint at problems with a permanently installed door plug.
Hideo Okawara's Mixed Signal Lecture Series
Ah obsidian... I feel it's a very common tool. There's a whole pile of clones/related projects too (LogSeq, Roam, etc).

What kind of functionality were you looking for? I've found that once I controlled my notes, the amount of things I wanted to dump into it kept growing.

> How about you? What did you write your backend in and did that escalate into the front-end too?

I started using TiddlyWiki, and really like their approach to content (small notes, composable content, the "river" of notes as you click through links). You can add metadata (KV style) to the notes, which you can use in the markdown, which is quite powerful. The tool is meant to be "in browser" and you're supposed to save the whole HTML source when you make an edit. For me, I wanted a traditional CRUD interface to a server. They support that, but the developer isn't really focusing on it. So I wrote my own because I had a few weeks and wanted to play more with Golang.

My only gripe, and the reason I'm considering writing a new front end (which will be a big learning activity for me), is that TW doesn't support 'lazy loading'. very well, so if you have a massive amount of notes, it gets a little wonky. I discovered the issues with this when on plane WiFi and getting issues with overwriting instead of editing notes.

But once I had a CRUD API for my notes... I started going crazy. I can import photos, and link to them (pretty basic) but I can also push emails, calendar events, etc. I set up a browser plugin that lets me automatically take notes on any webpage, and adds tags/metadata to the note. The limit is now the front-end which is where I'll probably spend 2024...

I also had the idea of integrating with HomeAssistant, so the device's history was viewable in a 'note' about the device (dynamically generated from a template instead of static text from DB). Possibly with camera events as their own entry... Lots of things are possible once you control where the data comes from.
We also built a similar semantic search engine for retrieving open-source projects. We experimented with HyDE and guessing user queries based on a corpus, both of which were very successful.

For embeddings, we chose BGE, but found they seemed to overfit on Beir. CohereV3 and Voyage appeared to perform better in practice.

For retrieval, we used OpenSearch + ZillizCloud Serverless + Cohere ranking, providing us with maximum flexibility and search effectiveness.

To be mentioned, build a evaluation dataset is important. This helps me to improve the quality.
I'm less concerned about mistakes as I am about systemic failures and bad incentives.

Boeing seems to have created a political and regulatory environment for itself where its better for it to design and build planes poorly, than it is for it to design and build planes well.
But at least we have thorough audits that tell us where each of our dollars is spent…
If this highway is so 'heavily used' then there is clearly enough population around that asking for a bus isn't that big of a deal. You act like I asked for high speed rail connections ever 15min to some remote village northern BC.

We are talking about 200km distance from Vancouver, the major city in Western Canada.
Teachable Machine (2017)
The way you're using these words is at best sloppy, something akin to weasel words that position yourself as an authority and others as merely biased observers.

What does it mean for a someone's belief that they are one mishap from financial disaster to be "objectively relevant?" Are you saying they're wrong about their own precarity, or simply wrong to feel bad about it? It's certainly relevant to them that they feel this way. Whether it aligns with a measurable metric is another question but not the one they were talking about.

Similarly, what "things beyond reality" are people using to come to these conclusions? Astrology? Are they hallucinating their dire financial situation and the penurious chasm beneath them?

Using the words correctly doesn't mean you are using them rightly. In this case you are not.
Purges are self owns because the entire system is inefficient and under fear.