skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Marginal rate discontinuities in the UK income tax system [0] are driving highly undesirable (from the taxman's point of view) behaviour. The increase in marginal tax rate from £100K p.a. upwards has already led to:

- doctors going part-time to keep their income below £100K, in the middle of a shortage of doctors across the health system

- employees turning down promotions because with the combined effects of income tax, student loan repayments and loss of childcare subsidy the effective marginal rate of income tax between £100K and £117K is > 100% (!)

- single high earners (core voters of the present government) effectively subsidising families of middling earners (the opposition's core voters) because the discontinuities apply to single person's income, not combined household income

The behaviour changes are simple first order effects. The second order effects on public service workforce availability and overall tax take were also highly predictable.

[0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03270/tax_327...
It's TSMC. Their rise is waaay before Apple or ARM. Plug and play fab model made getting into semiconductor design as a start-up possible. Broadcom, Qualcomm, Nvidia, Conexant etc all used TSMC in 90s, way before smart phones and ARM-mania. Intel saw this coming but they were ahead and they didn't worry about it. At the end they got stuck at getting bad yield from their FinFETs, which is invented by Intel, while TSMC and Samsung moved forward. Iphones would have been using Intel processors if Intel had a competing product to be honest. They screwed that up too. TSMC and Samsung just had the right mindset and focus, and a lot of smart and hardworking people.
Regrets are hard to measure - the things you didn't do are usually hypothetical and often only occur due to perfect hindsight - using information you didn't have at the time you made your choice.

Optimising for immeasurables is not a good path to success in my opinion (and I have some external measures of success in my own life, plus some failures).
I recently did a Kaggle experiment and finetuned a LLM to classify SMS as SPAM or HAM. It was not so difficult; following the text classification example in the Hugginface transformers docs was enough. Without trying hard at all, accuracy was above 90%. Impressive even though even the messages marked as HAM seemed to be quite trash. The model itself was small - few hundred million parameters only. Models of this size run well on CPUs and an even smaller might have workd too. And non-neural classifiers might also do fine.

You could do something similar and unleash it on your mailbox. The tricky part are integrations. At work, I don't even bother since interacting with the email system there is way more tricky than with GMail.
Hi :) Yes it's in the post url or here: https://github.com/mlecauchois/micrograd-cuda
Don't forget about FAT32 to NTFS long before that.
It's a bit like the EU thinking that by forcing websites to surface their advertising partners/personal data practices it will encourage people to visit less privacy-invasive websites, when instead it's now rare to find a website that doesn't have the privacy click-through, making the web that little bit more tedious. Amusingly EU's favourite children epicgames.com and spotify.com have to show these pop-ups due to their data collection practices while "evil" apple doesn't have to show these pop-ups because they're not abusing visitor data.

As for 3rd party app stores: Despite the EU's head-in-the-sand approach, I do expect that 3rd party stores will abuse direct access to customers to use dark patterns to exploit additional unwanted purchases, stymie refunds and make it difficult to unsubscribe. Why? Because this is what businesses such as Epic Games, New York Times and Spotify already do with their direct customers. It doesn't have to be malware to be a scam. People cheering for Epic Games seem to forget that just over a year ago Epic Games settled with the FTC for over half a billion dollars in fines for abusing their customers with predatory practices and invading the privacy of children(1).

Side note: It's also rather sickening to see EU's DMA regulators such as Thierry Breton(2) using the marketing hashtag #freefortnite on their tweets. What a perfect demonstration of their lack of neutrality and promoting a company found to exploit its users. They clearly are not working in the interest of consumer protection, that's just a red herring for protectionism.

(1) https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/12/...

(2) https://x.com/ThierryBreton/status/1766167580497117464
Something isn't right here. Blackrock will do whatever their clients tell them and the largest share holders of fossil companies like Chevron, Exxon and Shell. It seems the school district is upset that Blackrock runs ESG funds as well as their index, growth, etc funds.
It probably exists, but not very well known, or is too expensive to use. For example, I wrote a SpamAssassin extension that adds some score to messages based on whether LLM thinks it is a spam email. It worsk very well, but it's a bit pricey when it comes to API costs. Maybe if I switch it from GPT3.5 to Claude Haiku it will make more sense.

I think we still need to see prices of LLM tokens go significantly down and performance increase before such web filtering solutions make sense. The Claude Haiku is a big step int he right direction, but the price is still high for this kind of high-volume usage.
Yes, it's better to stay put for quite a while, the roads and highways will be stupidly full as almost everyone rushes to leave the moment totality is over. Then party through the night after the eclipse, share with others what struck you the most.
I wish there was a list lihe this to block AI-generated spam that wasn't evangelism against anything AI-related. This blocks a bunch of discussion subreddits for no real reason.
> Without Newsome and the gov of IL, ESG wouldn’t exist.

"Without California and Illinois, a Republican would have won the presidency in 2020." Sure, but that's not the universe we live in.
That’s fine, but that’s not why they said they’re pulling their money.
Your link indicates a $1.7T deficit for FY23 which is not "less than $1T". That's roughly twice the figure you offer as " sustainable" ($700B).

It's been widely reported [1] that the US debt reached $32T in June 2023, $33T in Sept 2023, $34T January 2024, achieving those milestones roughly every 100 days. The projections indicate an exponential increase, which doesn't help the case for sustainability.

Sovereign debt and fiat ultimately are confidence games. Being unable to offer credible long-term math is a problem.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/01/the-us-national-debt-is-risi...
Paris is mostly flat. As long as you aren't racing to work, sweat shouldn't be an issue.
Great article more about different approaches to building software that languages themselves.

My two cents: it is improbable that C++ will be ever replaced because it is a mastodon as a programming language: super complex, where complex includes complexity as difficulties and also its vastness. This doesn't mean that it will increase its usage since it is common nowadays to use specific programming languages (e.g. Python) for specific purposes and rely on C++ and others for very specific areas. Personally, I really liked SWIG [1] as a wrapper and interface generator. Don't know how much it is used today.

Other experience but similar conclusion than the article.
I agree. Only my public repos are in the data set.
Wonder why they don't put it on github... I feel MUCH more comfortable browsing "open source" code on somewhere like that than I do downloading and extracting a .zip archive from a random website.
I do not believe scaling the existing models will reach human intelligence.
Agreed. I remember the town hall meeting where they announced the transition to being Alphabet. My manager was flying home from the US at the time. He left a Google employee and landed an Alphabet employee.
I know it was probably meaningless in any real sense, but when they dropped the Dont Be Evil motto, it was a sign that the fun times were drawing to an end.
True, humanity has big problems. But those aren't caused by resources diverted to space exploration.

And more importantly: diverting those resources elsewhere would do little to solve those problems. History, politics, dictators, colonialism, economic inequality, greed, ethnic/religious conflict, etc etc. Nothing that eg. NASA or a bag of $$ would fix.
You write like a zhopa or zhopoi.
There are plenty of alternative solutions compared to outright banning cars. Nothing beats telecommute for speed, safety and emissions for example, but even EVs can mitigate air pollution in cities. They also comfortably beat human powered transportation as soon as someone looks into the carbon footprint of agriculture. Efficiency can differ by orders of magnitude.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-kcal-poore
> Compared to this, ext4 is rock solid.

Ext4 is the most reliable file system I have ever used. Just works and has never failed on me, not even once. No idea why btrfs can't match its quality despite over a decade of development.
It's very nice. I couldn't finish the hardest difficulty: I must be missing something.

I've found some issues:
- when refreshing, all progress is lost, including previously solved puzzles. I guess that you could store the current state of the daily puzzles in a cookie or on the drive.
-

And I've some suggestions:
- maybe add a grid like this one[0] in a tool or something to help us solve the hardest puzzles. I don't know if it's relevant, but i feel it is. I didn't need to use this kind of grid until the hardest puzzle, but again, I couldn't finish it, so I'm not sure it's useful.
- make the coloring of the grid optional: they're distracting when solving the puzzle, I think

Anyways, very nice! I can't wait for tomorrow's puzzles :)

[0]: https://murdle.com/
Now 404.
Salt in the desalinated water not salt in the ocean.
I'm not going to argue the point that cars aren't loud they are!

However, in Manhattan the city is still very loud with 0 cars. Meaning in the middle of the night in midtown, not a single car, the city itself hums with a constant noise that is not healthy.

Witnessed this during covid when I didn't see a car for hours on a typically busy midtown avenue, but the city is still very very loud compared to a suburban setting.

So, we get rid of all cars, then what? You still live in a noisy city. No thanks.

Credentials: 5 years in midtown, 15 years downtown Manhattan.
at the third or fourth round? By talking to them, obviously?
The post you replied to said it is GETTING WORSE. Paris is getting worse in his lifetime, in his expirience. You can't then come along and say

> I would argue that the relative freedom of movement forces residents in Europe to confront the inequality in their everyday lives.

Imagine you see China today, let's say Shenzhen skyline. 20 years in future you go there and all lights are out, windows are broken and homeless people everywhere, streets are filled with dirt and woman are scared to go out when it gets dark. If I then tell you "well, looks like some poor people moved there, everyone is moving closer together, that's why we see some problems here"..... Nooo! It would be some massive government failure that is responsible.
Parrots are the original stochastic parrot
You can now get birth control over the counter in NY pharmacies
not really, RAII/shared_ptrs is still manual memory management, just less footguns
That person is unable to provide us with a repo name either.
Biden's EPA Gives Automakers More Leeway to Phase Out Gas-Engine Cars
Valve Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED launch trailer
I think some of the larger payloads cannot be launched by ISRO at the moment
Makes sense, we internally use GritQL as a super linter for some codebase-specific patterns. It's pretty easy to set up: https://docs.grit.io/guides/ci

We've looked at both LSIF and SCIP from SourceGraph, though I expect we'll end up building our own index to allow for more complex queries. We're also incorporating some LLM functionality to express conditions you can't program deterministically.

If you're interested in being a design partner for some of our auto-review features feel free to email morgante@grit.io.
That's pretty amazing, the fact he's able to click the pause button with his brain alone is insane to me - that's like Apple Vision Pro without the gigantic goggles.
> Chicago-based firm’s units include Merriam-Webster, Melingo AI

I'm guessing it's the last two letters that are going to get them that valuation.
Because I believe safety critical places like aviation are the ones that actually get things right. You can't pile on every demand on the human in charge and expect improvement. We're just not great at taking every possible detail into account. Doing lots of grunt work all the time reliably is what we have computers for.

In my old age, I find the more permissive a language is, the more painful it is to code in long term. Perl is great for simple things, but C++ was a vast improvement because it catches a lot of nonsense that Perl will compile just fine.

And debugging is so expensive that eventually writing code fast is near worthless. Whatever you gain you more than pay for in debugging afterwards.

C++ unfortunately doesn't go far enough.
How often do you see a full car? Average vehicle occupancy is 1.67, and has been for years.
"Download the simulator" dumps source code for a proprietary (and very expensive) tool. I see no examples on how to run this. Some of the links on the linked page 404.

It's hard to take this submission seriously...
Yes, but I think Mozilla may have started with code from Foxit.
> Imagine having to deal with them making a mess every 30 minutes for 70 years. How many poops even is that? Yikes.

If my math is right, over 70 years a parrot would give 1,227,240 shits about you.
I'm curious what you think it is telling?

What are the alternative incentives?
Well, bosons also have mass and can distort space. Theoretically even the (rest-)massless photon distorts spacetime, think it's called a kugelblitz. Also how would fermions be the force carriers if they don't physically move through space themselves to interact with far away fermions, ex gravitational waves? Unless you're advocating for a relational model of space which hey I'm all for but introduces other issues afaik
... and so?

Evolutionary pressure is present in any situation and is unavoidable. It still has an effect even in cases where treatments are effective with a success rate of 100%: the selection of diseases for which there is no cure.

Entertaining such a perspective can lead to an extreme and undesirable conclusion, that the only logical outcome is to do nothing and dismantle the entire modern medical practice.

It's not very constructive.
Automatic Differentiation in Machine Learning: A Survey (2018)
They don’t. What they do is create a system where the system protects itself from human error. They don’t know better than me: I agree with what they’re doing. Automatic enforcement of good things, plus an escape hatch for emergencies, is better than no restrictions ever.
The real argument is when is AI re-use of copyrighted material a violation of copyright. That is a large grey area that will probably be determined in favor of large corporations and not in favor of individuals. (As in, Disney can use AI writers to copy you, but you won't be allowed to copy Disney)
Show HN: Personal Knowledge Base Visualization
My personal knowledge base is hosted on GitHub at https://raphaelsty.github.io/knowledge/. It scans the documents I like every day using GitHub Action, Zotero, HackerNews upvote and Github Likes. It's not yet optimized for smartphones. It cost me $5 to host it for a year.
Nice. Unfortunately for my use case I can't use physical storage devices. I need a something similar to a qcow2 that can be created and completely managed by my app.
Well, from your data (100 error-free hours, sample size 1) alone, we can only conclude this: “The bug probably happens less frequently than every few hours”.

Is that reliable enough for you? Great! Is that “very rare”? Absolutely not for almost any type of user/scenario I can imagine.

If you’re making any statistical arguments beyond that data, or are implying more data than that, please provide either, otherwise this will lead nowhere.
Cars are very loud, Cities are still loud with 0 cars.

Source: Manhattan, NYC
This is a classic... This isn't the first time this piece has been posted before either. Here's one from FT last year[0] or Bloomberg[1]. You can find more. Google certainly played a major role, but it is too far to say they invented it or that they are the ones that created modern AI. Like Einstein said, shoulder of giants. And realistically, those giants are just a bunch of people in trench coats. Millions of researchers being unrecognized. I don't want to undermine the work of these researchers, but that doesn't mean we should also undermine the work of the many others (and thank god for the mathematicians who get no recognition and lay all the foundation for us).

And of course, a triggered Yann[2] (who is absolutely right).

But it is odd since it is actually a highly discussed topic, the history of attention. It's been discussed on HN many times before. And of course there's Lilian Weng's very famous blog post[3] that covers this in detail.

The word attention goes back well over a decade and even before Schmidhuber's usage. He has a reasonable claim but these things are always fuzzy and not exactly clear.

At least the article is more correct specifying Transformer rather than Attention, but even this is vague at best. FFormer (FFT-Transformer) was a early iteration and there were many variants. Do we call a transformer a residual attention mechanism with a residual feed forward? Can it be a convolution? There is no definitive definition but generally people mean DPMHA w/ skip layer + a processing network w/ skip layer. But this can be reflective of many architectures since every network can be decomposed into subnetworks. This even includes a 3 layer FFN (1 hidden layer).

Stories are nice, but I think it is bad to forget all the people who are contribution in less obvious ways. If a butterfly can cause a typhoon, then even a poor paper can contribute to a revolution.

[0] https://www.ft.com/content/37bb01af-ee46-4483-982f-ef3921436...

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/features/2023-07-13/ex-goo...

[2] https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1770471957617836138

[3] https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2018-06-24-attention/
"I'm just curious about the goals for open sourcing this"

I suppose, continue to make money with the proprietary editor, but have an open source renderer to deploy and enable an ecosystem, where other people target this renderer, as it might be superior. I am definitely interested, I routinely hit the limit of 2D drawing with my limited 16ms per frame (currently I use the canvasAPI and pixi).
Opt-out consent is the equivalent of assuming a partner consents because they haven't said anything.

Consent is not Opt-out == Yes means Yes
And the stupidity of lack of diversity.

Texas funds should be avoiding oil&gas: otherwise they are exposed to a double-whammy if the sector tanks.
We've had keyboard navigation in PDFs for a long time. This is caret browsing in PDFs which is a different feature that lets you keep the editor caret on for arrow navigation on a page.
You're spot on and I totally agree with you. But pushing hard for remote work might backfire for current IT folks. If bosses get comfy with everyone being remote, they'll wonder why stick to local talent when they can hire from anywhere in the world.

Sure, companies can and do hire globally, but at the same time managers still want most of the people to appear in the office from time to time (for whatever reason). But if IT guys demand working permanently from home, then it changes everything. Suddenly, being local doesn't cut it anymore, and the job could be done by someone halfway across the globe. Be careful what you wish for; demanding remote work is a double-edge sword which could make lots of positions way less secure.
For Apple specifically it's called "Sherlocking".
What do you mean when you say that the money would have previously been invested into China?

Was the US federal government previously funding fab development in China?

That is to say, it seams like this investment is to meet a very specific need, and wouldn't have happened otherwise. Similarly those paying aren't the same either.
I have a few blogs where I post useful content with human written articles, but the images are AI generated. They make the article better and add visual context without me having to pay graphic designers for stuff i'll never make money on.
What saddens me is the fact they still haven't managed to put ZFS into the Linux kernel tree because of licensing nonsense.
Higher sea levels are a good counter example to your point. Nobody thinks of normal housing lasting the thousands of years that process takes when you are think in terms of ice ages and warming periods, but a relatively modest rise makes a big difference when you’re thinking about things like how much a given house is exposed to storm surge.

Similarly, forest fires are always a risk but the fires are bigger, more frequent, and hotter when climate change had been drying out previously wet regions. That means society needs to plan for huge increases in response capacity in much larger regions than previously was the case, so again while it’s technically possible for there to be a fire anywhere those are very different situations from the prospective of everyone on defense.

Think of it like the way armies had to change going from flintlocks to automatic weapons, only we’re doing it much faster and are going to have to make hard sacrifices.
I just wish Google Scholar would be a bit more open in terms of debugging why a site isn't picked up by the platform
TBH I don't know what they were counting on. 4090 has almost 3x BF16 tensor ops/s vs 7900XTX. So you can just buy a regular PC with 2x4090 for half the price and have basically the same training performance with much less headache.
Software Heritage aggressively insists on French law... which does not have fair use.
This is a good point. Seems like a likely candidate for an S curve in tech development. i.e. next 15 years of VR are improvements to camera, display, and tracking technology. Following 15 years are brain implants.
Do you need to really learn if it works and ships?
This article will explain, in a tutorial-like manner, how to integrate SwiftData with modern programming concepts smoothly into SwiftUI applications and provide strategies to address the current challenges faced by developers.