skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I pay all of my taxes due, and I expect the same from other taxpayers...

What are "taxes due"? And at what point does "Creative-but-legal accounting" turn into "Tax fraud"?

The tax code is complex and arcane enough that if you give a suitably complicated set of taxes to several different tax preparers, they will almost certainly all come back with different numbers - all of which are "correct," in the sense of being compliant with tax code.

But at some point, which honestly isn't that much annual income, it becomes worth having your own private accountant to wrangle your side businesses and such for the tax benefits. A friend of mine did this out of college (accounting/finance major) - on paper, he was responsible for doing some freight routing for trainloads of raw materials, but in reality he was about 25% that and 75% "keeping up with the details of the company owner's side businesses, all of which were legal and legitimate, but all of which served as tax breaks for the owner's hobbies." Hunting guide company? A reasonable amount of your firearms expenses are tax deductible for training, practice, equipment evaluation, etc. Fishing company? Same for a lot of your boat expenses and such.

I'm not sure if that really needs fixing or not, but a $50k/yr dedicated accountant is cheaper than taxes fairly quickly. Especially if they can do other work for you too.
Well, compare how to start syncthing automatically on Windows:
https://docs.syncthing.net/users/autostart.html

On Debian I could just type:

systemctl --user enable --now syncthing.service

Native systemd on Windows would be awesome. Microsoft should hire the creator of systemd...
I don't understand what the government's story is here. How exactly does shutting down cell service "combat possible threats"?
You are talking about hosted k8s, which is not what I'm talking about. If you have never worked on a on-prem k8s team, you are totally missing out! :)

k8s is brittle, all the other competing tools are also fairly brittle, so it's not like k8s is really alone here. This is why we keep replacing the newest mess of virtualization every once in a while, someone eventually gets fed up with whatever the current crap is and writes a new one. It becomes popular, breaks in new and unique ways, rinse and repeat.

k8s is not even a decade old at this point. Mainframes have been around with 5+ 9's of reliability for 6+ decades.

I'm not overselling what mainframes provide. I think you just have selective memory.

99.99% is not what Mainframes provide, they provide many more 9's than that think 7+.

Most of us don't even need 99.99% uptime, so most of us probably shouldn't be buying mainframes. If you DO need severe uptimes, then you either have a huge oversubscription and dedicated teams of people around the clock babysitting things or you buy into mainframes. You absolutely don't buy AWS or Google Cloud or Azure and say, that's good enough, because their uptimes are just marketing speak, not reality.
I try to live this way, but people have become increasingly bad at actually leaving voicemails.
You have nailed it, according to this previous HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36304407
I mean maybe not exactly, but there's a lot of Mitchell Baker hate [0], even in this thread.

[0]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
> [Gemini] sounds like a legendary space mission

Well, it is one. I wish they'd choose a slightly more unique name but camping on well-known words is a beloved tech tradition.
Octopus' sapience is absolutely not beyond a reasonable doubt: many consider passing the turning test, or an even stronger form thereof to be required for sapience
I think it really depends on where in your career you are? Like if you are near the beginning:

* read the whole intro, make sure to look up any parts of the problem description you don’t understand

* at least skim the body of the work. If you are trying to implement a code, make sure to understand all the algorithm blocks and note how each one corresponds to the overall work so you don’t end up implementing a special case.

* read pay extra attention to the conclusion and skim the results

If you are experienced, I guess you don’t need advice, but I figure it is something like:

* skim the first couple sentences (for the problem) and the conclusion of the intro

* skip to the results section to see if the person is screwing you around with gamed metrics

* go back if it looks good and skim their ideas
A lawyer working for a large organization wrote a license that nobody needed or wanted. Amazing.
mostly because people like to believe there's equity where none exists because capitalism is antagonistic to most equitable distribution
It also rhymes with Card as in Orson Scott Card.
I'm no fan of e.g. Jeff Bezos. But here are a few things he doesn't do with his money:

- Kill People
- Torture people
- Lock people up

So I'd much rather have him keep his money than have to hand it over to people who will use it for these purposes. Yeah, I know, I know, they build roads and it's absolutely impossible to build roads without extorting the entire population.
Same experience. I launched Gemini a second time, and it worked. The first message about "Gemini isn't currently available" was a bad first impression.

One thing the app really needs to be able to do is auto-submit when speaking to it. It offers to replace google assistant, and after trying it out for a couple minutes, it can replace assistant, but I have to manually click to submit each instruction instead of just talking to my phone.
I don't expect people to be fully consistent in their actions. The world is a complicated place, and people will have conflicting motives.

There's a strong belief that somehow rich people are uniquely capable of "creating jobs", while jobs the government creates don't count. Surely if we let the rich get richer, that money will trickle down on the rest of us. It's not totally inconsistent, if you overlook the fact that it never actually works that way.

Still... this one does have a strong note of "laws for thee, but not for me". Or even more weirdly, "... but not for the person I imagine I'm going to be some day, even if it's worse for the person I actually am and almost certainly will remain."
I Am Moving from Substack
Hermes is a big one as well: low startup latency, low memory usage, pre-compiled and the newest version comes with static-optimization

https://hermesengine.dev/
Beside of the model quality or whatever, I think the subscription plan tiers are structured in a quite weird way, especially for those who already use Google One. Previously, the tiers are reasonably structured:

1. $9.99/month for 2TB + other benefits. Offered in both monthly and annual plans.
2. $24.99/month for 5TB. Includes all benefits above. Offered in both monthly and annual plans.
3. Higher tiers for 10~30TB. Includes all benefits above. Offered only in monthly plans.

The 3rd option doesn't have an annual plan but other than that it's consistent and easy to understand. Now we have one more plan for "AI".

4. $19.99/month for 2TB + other benefits + Gemini access. Offered only in monthly plans.

Now the existing Google One subscribers are now put in a weird situation. 2TB annual plan users now need to move to a monthly plan to use Gemini. It's worse for higher tiers, since they don't have an upgrade option at all without decreasing the storage size. And Google Fi users are even in the worst case, as they don't even have an option for upgrade, even if they're willing to do so.

I guess they know this so they specified that high tier subscribers can use AI features at no extra charge until July 31 and probably prepare a new plan for them then, but this still create lots of user confusions. Having YT Premium as a separate subscription plan is already a pain, but Google, you don't have to bring this trouble into the product supposed to be the "One".
Perhaps we can derive the core beliefs of the Republican party from their 2020 platform. Given that that is how political parties typically express such things, it seems reasonable.
There are: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/products/.
SpecFlow (Cucumber for .NET) has been forked
It can, when cities are not built with dumb land use patterns.

I am moving to an apartment 50km away from my workplace. Commuting by car or by train will take around the same time (~50 min door-to-door), but the car will be subject to random traffic, hunting for parking spot, stress, etc. Oh, and the train is several times cheaper.
I’m playing around with something similar here https://thetrecs.com/ . But no experts yet. Even though I do science, I have a hard time understanding abstracts from adjacent fields so I’m using llms to make the abstracts easier for me and my friends to understand
Researcher figure out how to spy on cameras through walls
As long as the heat is not turned into other forms of energy (electricity, potential energy, chemical energy, etc.), it is actually not being "used". Just moved to a slightly different place. Such usage actually wouldn't speed up cooling off the Earth even by a miniscule amount since the heat is at the surface already.
Related. Others?

Why Walking Through a Doorway Makes You Forget (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17921972 - Sept 2018 (5 comments)

The “Doorway Effect” – forgetting why you entered a room - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17328740 - June 2018 (130 comments)
OK you're right. It's not an age thing, no one answers unknown calls now.

"Eight-in-ten Americans say they don’t generally answer their cellphone when an unknown number calls" https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/12/14/most-amer...

And that study is from 3 years ago, it's surely a higher percentage now than it was then.
Can Humanity Survive AI?
$6 million does not pay a few dozen engineers.
Sadly most of them kinda suck, especially for packagers.
Riad Al-Turk, the 'Mandela of Syria,' Dies in Exile at 93
now your stress is over several years, and if you fail an early one, what motivation do you have to keep on going?

plus as children / young adults, many are still developing so you want to push testing as late as possible
PWAs cannot be a share target, and on iOS so many things are done through the share many sending whatever data/image/etc. from one place to a different app. It’s a core computing paradigm on iOS and PWAs are shut out of it. Biggest blocker for me right now
McKinsey Places 3k Staffers on Review as Economies Slow
I think if you want to make an anonymous call, you need to find a party that will be liable for your call.
Have an upvote, I am dumb.
Then I get complaints from doctors that they are being shoved directly to voice mail, because they somehow have 8 different numbers to log.
The question of citizens untied, ect wasnt about if corporations get more or new rights, but if the people lose rights they had before if they are part of a group.

A person can hold up a sign, but can two people hold up a sign together.
I didn’t look into that since I was getting hung up on the more fundamental issue of the chat copy saying “here is a link to Amazon, the price is X” and then the link saying something very different.
No: the real problem is people like you who would rather defend Apple's anticompetitive practices--leaving Apple (or, at best, an oligopoly formed by Apple/Google) their own world dominance which I guess you just want to ignore for a moment--than to also fight to stop Google's; the correct thing to do now is to first celebrate this win and then immediately begin working on similar (or even stronger) attacks on Google's monopoly with the momentum, not insist that no one should be allowed to make progress against Big Tech because any first battle one choose to fight might cause a different front elsewhere to destabilize :/. #GoogleIsNext
JPMorgan: Stablecoin Tether's Increasing Dominance Is Bad for Crypto Markets
I have had non filing and delinquent tax issues with the IRS due to life events. I have been audited. I have no complaints, and resolved all issues directly with the IRS without professional representation. They are civil servants doing a necessary but usually unpleasant job, collecting taxes that pay for civilization. Disclosing my bias, I like civilization funded.
Does ollama support loaders other than llamacpp? I'm using oobabooga with exllama2 to run exl2 quants on a dual NVIDIA gpu, and nothing else seems to beat performance of it.
I guess it's not a terrorist attack if nobody knows about it. Imagine you see the news "Poll site in the Bronx firebombed" right before you head out to vote. You're going to think twice about voting. But if you don't see that news story, you'll just go vote, because you don't know there's a risk of being killed.

The logic makes sense but I wouldn't like to see a media ban here. "Congress shall make no law..."
Your comment illustrates the problem. Do you think that everyone agrees that "activist" means "hunting for cases"? What does "hunting for cases" actually mean?

The term "activist" is often interpreted as "legislating from the bench" where the judiciary usurps the role of the legislature. Some people actually want that. Other people don't want that.

Refusing to solve a problem and instead requiring Congress to clarify the law is another judicial philosophy. Is that being an activist?

Deciding that the federal government has no authority and that state authority or individual rights are more paramount is also a course of action that some people agree with and some people don't. Supporters probably don't call that "activism" but detractors might.

So I think the term is mainly used to slur your political opponent as opposed to being a succinct term for some particular judicial philosophy.
do package managers make promises that they only distribute code that's been audited to not pwn you? I'm not sure I see the difference if I decided I'm going to run someone's software whether I install it with sudo apt install vs sudo curl | bash
It's because they don't want callbacks.

To reiterate, calls need to say who's calling. They don't need to come from a number that will be answered.

It's about liability, and making sure there are consequences for spamming.
I stand by my claim.
DDIA does under "Distributed Transactions and Consensus" in Chapter 9: Consistency and Consensus.
Even faster would be just having FFI, so you could skip Rust <> C <> JS conversion every time you call a function.

This is what hermes is currently doing.
doesn't work in US on Android now. An app says "Gemini is not available"
Virtual currencies are 'fictions' TakeTwo argues in microtransaction theft suit
i guess if they're making up their mind at the last minute
> I don't believe there is a single useful use case for an unsolicited robocaller for the receiver

So, if I call my vet to make an appointment, is that solicitated or unsolicited?
I mean, you can ask the meteorologists about the process of naming, but those hurricanes actually existed, on the dates suggested, so I'm not sure what's "fishy" about it.

Hurricane Tammy, Cat 2, October 18, 2023: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Tammy

Hurricane Otis, Cat 5, October 22, 2023: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Otis

I believe that the naming relates to which ocean they're forming in, but it's probably good for you to do your own research, so you can clear up any "fishiness" yourself.
True, most connections would be within individual cities, so you would definitely need it to hook servers and satellites into the mesh so you can cross dead zones. But that would already be a huge win for humanity.
> I do not understand why it isn't open source.

Because your software project then becomes a people management project.
Posting the links as a comment

Youtube promo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJczD_EqE2E

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.excsn.andr...

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/atlas-fury/id6470216128
> It starts to ignore realities it doesn’t like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pot_calling_the_kettle_bla...
If they want to cut the spending, then they have to actually cut the spending. Cutting the revenue-generating portion of the government doesn't reduce spending, outside of the comparatively trivial sum spent on revenue collection.

Actually cutting spending is hard. It's easy to decry the overall number, but you have to cut actual programs. The vast majority of it goes to things like social security, medicare, and the military -- things people are reluctant to cut. Of what's left, it's a lot harder to find "waste" than people think. At most they zero in on programs that matter a lot to other people... and comprise a trivial fraction of the overall budget.

The budget is big because people want it to be big. Actually reducing the size of it is hard. Meantime, there is zero reason why we should allow people to break the law to avoid paying for the money that Congress appropriates.
Those things are not absolutes.
Never had a problem like this on Mac. When I shoot a video on my iPhone, it’s in the photo library on my Mac. Same with downloads, photos, passwords, safari tabs, clipboard and more. No transferring of files required at all, let alone through the Apple TV app?
Thank God "bard" was the dumbest Ai name yet
Oh wow. It did seem like an odd device, but I thought they were at least cheaper than the Airs. How strange of them.
Fastly, Cloudflare, Vercel, Fermyon, Wasmer, Azion, Deno, Netlify, SecondState, Cosmonic are paying to build stuff like this, just to name a few
20%, guess I am right

I don’t know why this is the hill you’ve chosen to die on
News was never meant for social platforms (2020)
i wish there was an additional line with each (known) previous incident
You want to replace accurate information with lies?
And don't carry ids or phones.
If it could reliably win a mate in N position without inexplicably blundering, I would be more inclined to buy your search hypothesis. But it doesn’t, which is one of the reasons the authors gave for finishing with stockfish. So whatever it’s doing is clearly lossy which an actual search would not be.

Neural nets memorize all sorts of things. They memorize ad clicks in high dimensional state spaces. Transformers trained on the whole internet can often reproduce entire texts. It’s lossy, but it’s still memorizing.

That seems like the simplest explanation for what’s happening here. There’s some sort of lossy memorization, not a search. The fact that the thing it has memorized is the result of a search doesn’t matter.
It's сука блять, you're missing ь, which isn't a "real" (phonetic) letter, more of a "modifier" indicating how to pronounce the letter before.

It really doesn't translate properly, but I'd say "fucking shit" is more in spirit than "fucking bitch". It's not an insult targeting someone directly, more of a sign of frustration.
Al Sweigart (Automate the boring stuff, Recursive book of recursion…) live codes on YT (https://youtube.com/@AutomateTheBoringStuff)
Now you are just pushing "activist" towards meaning "having a legal philosophy". And in practice it means having the wrong legal philosophy with respect to the person who labels you an "activist" as opposed to having a particular philosophy.

It isn't a particularly useful term because no one agrees on what it means. This has been illustrated quite nicely by the comments to my original comment.
Sad launch experience: I download and install the app, and it just tells me "This app isn't available. Try again later".

I'm in US, on a pixel phone and a xoogler. You'd think they would love to give me access.

I also tried going thru assistant, and through the google app, no luck, and after uninstalling and reinstalling the Google app, now the gemini app button just hangs the UI(!)
Oh wait... a reboot fixed it. Lol, google has become microsoft.
the mental step that is missing is that we can build "websites" that don't need internet connectivity. this is not a new feature, and not a mobile specific one either.

somehow we need to promote the concept of offline websites. or of downloadable webapps.

"click here to install this application on your desktop. it will then work offline just like any other application"
We have great data on legal immigrants, skilled and unskilled, and the headline is that they use fewer benefits and create more tax receipts than similar native-born groups across the board.

As discussed in this paper, due to sample sizes we have a hard time verifying anything with the undocumented population because it's a hard sample to study. But because we know more about adjacent populations, and we know that undocumented immigrants are eligible for far fewer benefits than those adjacent populations, we can have a strong sense of net fiscal impact. However, it's also uncontroversial that giving them legal status would drastically increase tax receipts as well, and that the net fiscal impact of their contribution to economic growth definitely outweighs the potential for net negative fiscal impact you'd get from direct receipts vs. benefits (if we could get good data for it). https://www.cato.org/white-paper/fiscal-impact-immigration-u...

And unskilled immigration has a considerable downward pressure on housing prices, because the single biggest bottleneck in increasing housing supply (other than policy) is the price and supply of labor.
Sort of shooting the messenger, but then again she is paid what, $3 - $500,000 TC to take those bullets… or maybe more? So that should soften the blow. I do prefer people be respectful and calm in voicing their distaste though
The funny thing about the 3D chips is that if extrapolated far out, we end up with cubes. Definitely sci-fi territory. And maybe questions from kids like "but if they are shaped like cubes, why are they called chips?".
The assertion is not grounded in reality at all. It’s a common myth among people who live in a STEM echo chamber. Personally, I don’t know why people who haven’t even done more than a cursory overview of philosophy feel entitled to make meta philosophical claims. My only explanation is that it’s a way to defend a dogma of naive scientism. Why? I don’t know, probably the same reasons why people cling onto religion.
It's a bit of a crazy point we're at that a tool for mocking up digital interfaces would be so valuable. Creating blueprints for buildings is useful because construction is slow and expensive. It embarrassing that we can't make a mockup interface in our GUI editors as fast as we can make them in a separate tool.
You're right that it's a marketing problem, but it's also a technical problem. If tooling/projects are built around the compat layer it makes it really difficult to consume those features without having to rewrite a lot of stuff. It also places a cognitive burden on developers to know which API to use. That might not sound like a lot, but one of the guiding principles around the project (and a big part of its success) is to keep the user experience as simple as possible.
> On social media, there's no good UI/UX for communicating something is AI-generated without it being too verbose and defeating the point. It sounds silly, but it's the truth.

It is silly. Of all problems in the world, I bet that one could be solved.
> Octopus' sapience is absolutely not beyond a reasonable doubt:

I mean, for the standard definition of sapience it is.

> many consider passing the turning test, or an even stronger form thereof to be required for sapience

Those many are wrong. There is nothing in the definition of sapience that would tie to to something as specific to humans as the Turing test.
The stress is distributed over time, so lower peak stress, and for those who are not cut out for this, they will find out much more quickly, which minimizes their time wasted studying. They could invest their times instead into a trade school etc., which will be of greater benefit to society.
It's great when it works, but when my mom was in the hospital and they needed to reach me, I got burned by this big time and don't do it anymore. It's too easy to miss a call that could literally be life and death (my mom is better now).