skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You have to have income in order to be taxed.

That “income” is being legislated into existence by disallowing the deduction of customary primary operating costs that are allowed in any other business.

In effect, it becomes a tax on revenue in the early years of a software company. Taxes tied to revenue are notorious for creating unhealthy and perverse market incentives, which is why very few jurisdictions use them. Many small software businesses are now in the position of potentially literally paying more income tax to the IRS than the profit + asset value over the entire life of the business. It is pretty messed up to make small business owners pay “income” taxes out of their own pocket in the absence of offsetting profit.

It is yet another indefensible and unique perversion of reasonable policy under US tax authority.
that's a good reference and yes that's what i'm talking about, but i mixed up the fact that you can get simpsons and star wars without asking for it by name - the "find the difference between these two pictures" game is the result of asking for a specific movie. I stand by my point tho that this is not substantially different than querying a database for copywrited material
Just like with movies/tv you can make a lot more progress with unions.
Unfortunately, the other side of the negotiating table either already has a mafia-style cartel pushing your wages down[0], or is a monopsony already. Consolidation in one industry means everyone who does business with them either consolidates or has their margins go negative. Unions are just the working-class equivalent.

As for "mafia-style"... I mean, are we calling Hayao Miyazaki a mob boss now?

[0] Remember back in 2010 when Steve Jobs and Larry Page formed a wage fixing cartel?
the weaker and riskier position was on the ukr side...they dont want to repeat those same circumstances too often...it was effectively a near miss and if you dont learn from near misses you are prone to end up badly
Disney Imagineer Makes History [video]
My initial interpretation was that you're saying fair use is irrelevant to the situation because machine learning models aren't themselves legal persons. But, fair use doesn't solely apply to manual creation - use of traditional algorithms (e.g: the snippets, caching, and thumbnailing done by search engines) is still covered by fair use. To my understanding, that's why ronsor pointed out that ML models are tools used by people (and those people can give a fair use defense).

Possibly you instead meant that fair use is relevant, but people are wording remarks in a way that suggests the model itself is giving a fair use defence to copyright infringement, rather than the persons training or using it?
That’s exactly what a union is, a way to force the market to deal with a collective and buck wage lowering market forces. It involves putting gatekeeping licensing in place and making that license a legal requirement for any work done by that collective. This prevents rogue independents from depressing wages. With a union you give up some free agency in exchange for higher wages, better work life balance and job stability.
I don’t understand why this author completely writes off the possibility of not releasing weekly. Honestly in the era of streaming, who cares about releasing every week? Often I wait until a season is wrapped before watching any of it. As a fan I can’t imagine getting upset at a longer cadence, and at the most slightly annoyed.
As the article mentions folks like Max Weber who saw and had to deal with these new things called "states" found them all to real.

Yeah "has no origin and is a meaningless term" is not a particularly useful position, and mostly exists because he expanded the scope of the state beyond its claimed dominion. For example, certain state attempt to demarcate themselves from individuals (aka individual liberties etc). A history of their violations of their own positions does not make their stated efforts in any way obviously invalid.
Can corroborate the previous replies; or taking the initials of the words like `sls` is common these days
How do you figure? It might be tough in tech, but pretty much every sector is looking good. Unemployment rate, GDP, unemployment claims, inflation, consumer confidence, and disposal income all look good.
PHP made it incredibly easy to build and deploy dynamic websites in an era when those things were not straightforward or widely understood.

The fact that it's a pretty poor language under the hood was irrelevant, because almost anyone could pick it up and intuit how its (crummy) built-in templating worked well enough to get the job done.

Its popularity was largely rooted in how easy it made it to Get Shit Done.

Sure, there were near-apocalypse level footguns everywhere in the first four major versions, but those didn't get noticed until the project had been mostly-working in prod for months.

It got first mover advantage due to that, and that sort of lead dies off very, very slowly.

These days PHP has mostly evolved into Java-lite, with some pretty decent frameworks and tools to keep you far from the footguns lying all around due to backwards compatibility, and CLI tooling to pre-emptively warn you when you've stepped on one (not unlike ESLint or TypeScript, really, which are both projects to make using JS less dangerous).
For me, simplicity and reduction of resistance [0] were the most effective improvements. Mark is always kind enough to explain the psychological underpinnings of productivity, or its absence.

[0] http://markforster.squarespace.com/blog/2022/6/13/resistance...
small nitpick: what's the point of specifying a value for "%ProgramFiles%" if installers aren't going to respect it?

The default install location for Spotube on windows is in the same directory the installer is launched from - so if it's downloaded to the default "%UserProfile%\Downloads" then it's going to install to "%UserProfile%\Downloads\Spotube" ... and, like, who wants it there?
And my wife's 2021 Macbook Air fails to sleep if it's connected to a Dell monitor.

On the other hand my Framework is a superb dev machine.

Apple fanboys, they just can't resist barging into threads talking about how much of a fanboy they are.
Yeah, there is the noble reason you tell people - often including yourself - and there is the real reason that we don't talk or think about.
I don’t dispute the 4% figure but isn’t that based on the % that claim unemployment? Like if you stop claiming it cuz you gave up you’re no longer counted right?

I remember reading something like that which made me question what that metric really means.
Yes and I'm talking about the original 2016 house-republican DBCFT proposal which would have eliminated tax on investment in general.

Section 174 is a hack to fix a moronic tax that would have been replaced if not for the left. There shouldn't be a section 174 to even amend. And as I said, software development clearly is development, the change makes perfect sense.

If you want R&D to be taxed (even with deductions which get amortized), and you work in R&D, you don't get to whinge when a loophole gets closed so you get taxed like other R&D expenses. The people getting bankrupted by this deserve it insofar as they opposed the tax reform bill that would have elegantly solved this problem forever.
> If people were paid fairly, most productions would be untenable. There would be just a few anime per year instead of many.

>But also, how would the popular ones come to be? Every new property would be a huge gamble.

So give the artists their current meager salaries and bolster it with a percentage of profits?

Seems really easy to fairly compensate the artists.
My curiosity is piqued by the mention on the web page:

I no longer use X11.

And then proceeds to present his own framebuffer and rendering applications. I presume in order to show the PDFs and such that his processor creates.

I'm just curious about his operating environment and workflow that led to this, and, perhaps, what he is doing today.
Any luck with virtualising macOS itself on that? :)
> changes that result in immediate and massive new liabilities are unfair.

Congress knows this: the law was passed in 2017 but only took effect for tax year 2022. This very issue was widely discussed at the time.

That was five years to figure out what to do and your CFO (or at the very least your tax accountant) should have been warning you. I mean, if your tax accountant doesn't know the tax law that's a bad thing.
No they are not. They train their models on Adobe Stock content. They do not train on user content.

https://helpx.adobe.com/manage-account/using/machine-learnin...

"The insights obtained through content analysis will not be used to re-create your content or lead to identifying any personal information."

"For Adobe Firefly, the first model is trained on Adobe Stock images, openly licensed content, and public domain content where the copyright has expired."

(I work for Adobe)
I've found NASA's communication to be misleading in general. A while back I tried to dive into their spinoff claims, and there were a lot of exaggerations there. There's a reason why you hear press releases from NASA saying things like "Research done on the ISS could help cure Alzheimers!", but you don't hear Alzheimer researchers going "Man, that research on the ISS really helped us piece together what was happening."

Or "NASA says there's going to be a major announcement tomorrow about a discovery on Mars!", and the discoveries are usually "we've found yet more evidence that Mars used to be wet."

Even the missions themselves - there's been a lot of talk about how Perseverance is collecting samples as the first part of a mission to send them back to earth. But the difficulty is in launching a return flight from Mars, something we're nowhere close to being able to do at the moment. You have to wonder how much of the sample caching is really useful, and how much is just a way to look as if were making progress on something that's still incredibly far away.
> The maximum number of queries required by the protocol is n^n^n^n^n^n

With 2 people taking 1 second per query you end up with 2^2^2^2^2^2 which is 2^(2^65536) seconds.

I guess if not only the cake has decomposed and the people involved have died, but the universe itself has lost all thermodynamic free energy, I guess technically we are in an envy free state.
PHP doesn't suck (anymore)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRV3pBuPxEQ
Western animators aren't paid that terribly, just anime animators, and only some of them.

But part of the compromise that Western animation does to be more productive is that it all looks bad. There's a fake-anime style Superman cartoon on I saw that has the artistic quality of maybe a Japanese elementary schooler. And then Netflix makes animated sex comedies that look like old Flash cartoons.
(I understand that this is not a popular point, but I really want to emphasize that I am talking about what is _currently legal_ right now, not at all about the ethicality of large companies using people's data. The latter is a much harder topic.

This is mainly about what the law considers to be legal or not legal and is trying to avoid the more emotional side of the topic.)
Stoical: Extensible, interactive, passively typed language (2002)
A comment on another post linked to oldweb.today, and the first thing I tried visiting was Altavista. I loved Altavista so much, and I want to believe that the fact Altavista inspired Oldavista means there are more people who did.
This article is about a tower desktop that has ECC RAM.
Who are you asking?

Are you asking the people who quit logging in and assume it's dead but haven't seen for themselves?

Or are you asking the people who will pop up and say they're still there and it's better than ever?

Do you expect group "B" to tempt group "A" to log in again?
I like the 2008 winner most [1], especially because it is so simple and can happen to anyone but also very easy to overlook. And most other entries could have been prevented in other languages, this one isn't.

[1] http://www.underhanded-c.org/_page_id_17.html
If you use your car only couple of days a week, should you be taxed more on your car than someone who uses theirs every day of the week? What about a piano you haven’t practiced on for a few years? The expensive ski boots you haven’t touched since high school?
I love what Phind has done in this matter & at the same time I hate what Microsoft has done with Minecraft.

Phind lets you authenticate ONLY with GitHub (even though they don't really use any other github features). It's beautifully elegant solution. No need to maintain security of accounts, Microsoft will do it for you. Phind is already geared towards soft devs, so which dev doesn't have a GitHub account. And even IF a potential user doesn't have the GitHub account, making a GitHub account is free and painless. JOB DONE.

At the same time, Minecraft players had the Microsoft store versions & accounts forced down their throats, by complete removal of old Mojang accounts if the user failed to transfer their account. In result, alot of old tools just failed to work without old foxm of auth. There are still plenty of places where a normal login prompt is shown, which requires Microsoft account credentials, but it is not said so, anywhere. In result, people like me get stressed, why the noted credentials tagged Minecraft don't work. (Its because the login prompt just leads to the Microsoft store, where you need to fingure out, to which Microsoft account you've attached the license. UGH!)

There are so many stories about bothed credentials management, security & inconvenieet implementations, that one could write a whole wiki on this topic.
True, but my comment was intended to point out that the punitive nature of political oversight of government agencies is a consequence of a more general attitude of the public, and thus probably impossible to broadly change.
That’s because no one wants to draw degeneracy. You read stories about what artists had draw because “rent was due” and just shake your head
Did he just re-invent suburbs?
White sugar, from sugar beet, comes about from processing with bone char as a filtering agent.

It's not always animal bone . . .

Using dozens of contemporary written accounts in Belgian, German and French archives, three researchers including our Archaeological Director Professor Tony Pollard have come to the conclusion that bones of the Waterloo dead were plundered from 1834 onwards, and used in the process of refining sugar in Belgian sugar mills.

https://waterloouncovered.com/wu22/bones-of-the-waterloo-dea...
> But no one needs to be an animator at a big anime studio to survive.

The problem is mostly in the small studio space, where a lot of them are freelancers. There are a few studios like KyoAni/PA Works/ufotable that use mostly their own employees and pay better.
Eval is bad if you're passing it untrusted input. It can be useful in some situations if you know what you're doing.

As for Bun Shell, it runs what you tell it to, just like a shell script or command line in the terminal. It's similar to running file system functions or spawning child processes. It will let you do some damage, sure, but that's your responsibility, "with great power", etc.
Using an original name will probably make it easier for people to find your paper.

Maybe ask ChatGPT for ideas.
> On a Linux x64 Hetzner Arch Linux machine, it takes about 7ms:

hyperfine --warmup 3 'bash -c "echo hello"' 'sh -c "echo hello"' -N

On my home machine and a mid-range AWS EC2 instance, the echoes run in ~0.5ms for bash and ~0.3ms for sh.

Next time don't run benchmarks on a garbage host like Hetzner. Their hardware is grossly oversold, their support is abysmal, and they null-route traffic anytime there's a blip.
You might be interested to look into a calorie tracking app / cronometer. It's a bit of a slog as you need to (somewhat) accurately input your food intake, but even a week or so is enough to gain insight into your dietary habits (caloric intake, nutrients, vitamins, minerals).
Oh I'm well aware of the expected life of lithium cells. I have around 75kWh of lithium batteries storing capacity from solar and running my house. The batteries are a few years old as best I could tell, salvaged vehicle cells.

I wouldn't recommend expecting more than 10 years out of cells if they're used regularly. Manufacturers will happily lay out math that points to 15-20 years of regular use, or even more, with 80% capacity. Take a look at what they're willing to warranty and its usually in the range of 5-10 years.

I do expect that we can find a storage solution that would allow us to make a huge dent in fossil fuel use, though I also expect we're decades off. We likely need a different battery chemistry all together, and even if it is lithium we will spend decades trying to mine enough lithium for replacement and by then the original batteries will have aged out. Solar has a similar problem unfortunately, the materials we use today aren't mined at a rate anywhere near what would be needed to replace existing power plants and by the time we can mine materials and manufacture panels the we'll be starting over replacing the earlier panels we installed.

> And you are not gone get people to not buy new cars

This right here is the fundamental problem. We'll never see people at large give up convenience or shiny object syndrome in favor of the environmental concerns they may feel so passionate about. Reducing energy use isn't that hard, we just have to be willing to sacrifice.
Unionization sounds like the answer here.

What does Japanese culture think about unionization?
rferl? Not to be believed at the best of times.

Microsoft is believable most of the time. But not always*. It depends on whether the truth agrees with their agenda.

* FUD - Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. Used to great effect by Microsoft over the years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
American homes already have 240V circuits for large electric appliances and electric water heaters. If you want to convert one of those from gas to electric or just want an extra appliance for some reason, sure it’s going to be more expensive than just plugging it into the wall but you’re also buying a fairly large, expensive extra appliance. And many of those appliances need work done anyway: water heaters, dishwashers, and washing machines need plumbing, gas appliances need gas lines, dryers need dryer vent ducts, and ranges need range hoods which ideally also require ductwork.

Besides, it’s not like European homes actually have more heavy appliances than American homes. Americans are much more likely to own clothes dryers, despite the fact that Europeans could easily just plug one into any normal outlet.
The "blatantly illegal" part is the part I'm not understanding. I drew something, I did some processing on it, I put it online, someone grabbed it and used it without my permission. I'm not clear on the illegal part.

> Rather clearly I think most people support individual IP protection and that's not really a contested issue

I think poking around HN or just this thread alone would tell you that at least people here don't support that.
Seems like a win if you are a gardener looking to get the soil turned.
Economics doesn't use "free well" to model labor markets, but it does have search costs and monopsonies. You can't wait for the ideal job to appear because you might starve first.
I wonder how your original claim balances with something like freedom of speech/expression? Ultimately it’s art and perhaps the Nightshade-modified version is a component of what makes the piece art?
Really? You just have to look at how many people are locked in US prisons compared to elsewhere, and how little substantive discussion there is as to why that should be the case.

When they catch a mass shooter they lock them up (or execute them) rather than take steps that might reduce the incidence.
As the counterpart to printing presses, some automated book scanners also work that way-- puffer to separate the pages, vacuum paddle to flip them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmGntnfohrA
Not according to them they don’t. Too many lifetime memberships.
These arguments are so bewildering to me.

My friend, that's because you stopped reading once you had your framework set in and decided to pontificate. Let me highlight the point for you, it might be easier to grasp:

path to AGI and beyond inevitably leads to those hard questions... ... how it translates to intelligence and everything else

there is nothing simply about it, there is nothing guaranteeing anything about it and there is everything about it once we start pursuing things AGI - AND BEYOND. Notice the keywords.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value

According to Marx, value is only created with human labour. This is not just a Marxist theory, it is an observation.

There may be lots of over-priced junk that makes you want to question this idea. But let's not nit-pick on that.

In two years time people will not see any value in AI art, quite correctly because there is not much human labour in creating it.
You're really missing the point -- there's no way to know the future. Maybe your optimism is warranted, but maybe we stamped out a virus that would have given us a superpower.

The argument is _not_ that we should change our strategy of doing the best we can with the information we have. Just that we should have some humility about what we can and can't actually predict, or say with certainty.
I own a company with millions in payroll expense.

All of payroll is lumped into 1 line item when submitted to the IRS. (I’m only somewhat simplifying for sake of argument)

We would have to go out of our way to split out R&D.

When you win $500 at a casino, do you go out of your way to claim the gain on your taxes? Absolutely not. Are you supposed to? Absolutely, but you don’t. And the IRS doesn’t much care.

I feel like we’re talking past each other. The vast majority of companies won’t be paying more taxes because of this rule change.
I'm not convinced that workers shouldn't have any rights or protections. That sounds like a pretty extreme viewpoint. Or just one coming from an employer's perspective where I can see why you might desire no limits on treatments of workers.
SOMEONE FORGOT THE FIRST RULE OF SOULSEEK
For anyone else who was confused to see a paper use the same name as a commercial product, it looks like Google Gemini was announced in May, whereas this was submitted to SOSP that had an April submission deadline.
The end of the article was bizarre. This did not remind me of Trump at all. Most of it is the exact opposite of Trump who is usually criticized for being rash and not picking his words carefully enough.
ClickHouse has support for this as an "ANY" JOIN modifier: https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/sql-reference/statements/sele...
Indeed! Please dang: the original article title should be used.
That's called mukokuseki. They don't look like anime Americans, who are either black or blonde with blue eyes.

And executives getting paid super-well is an American thing. They don't get paid well in Japan either. Nobody does.
All of that is also an effective way for middle management to create bottlenecks, thus "requiring" more staff, thus growing power. I've seen that in several companies.

I can only assume they weren't all feds.
Timelapse video if it in action over 24 hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsDh92nvdzw

Given the safety warnings on that link, I was expecting something far more energetic.
Very interesting. Well done authors!
Junior techie had leverage, but didn't appreciate the gravity of the situation
Houthi anti-ship missile systems: getting better all the time
Now that I think about it, the government in my country has been experiencing a sudden boom in IT infra quality in recent years. The government tied authentication system works pretty well for all the government related tasks. Although quality of its implementation is still a bit factured & heavily reliant on fiat banking services, it is one ID system that comes to mind as 'widely & universally adopted' [among government related entities]