skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For people who aren't aware of this, the IRS is so underfunded right now that funding IRS enforcement has an ROI of between five and nine, that is, for every dollar we put into funding the IRS it would be able to claw back up to ten dollars in unpaid taxes. That's the kind of number that you usually only see on "the next Google" type unicorn startups. It would take eighty billion dollars, invested over ten years, to fund the IRS to the point where diminishing returns bring the ROI back down to reasonable levels; those eighty billion dollars would return almost 200 billion dollars in newly collected taxes. Almost all of that would come from high-wealth taxpayers, large corporations, and partnerships, which are currently very under-audited due to lack of resources - the audit rate is currently lower for high-wealth entities than it is for random poor people simply because auditing people with a lot of money is complicated. The current audit rate is currently dramatically below where it was twenty years ago.

Source: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57444
I am not familiar with what you're talking about (but Cliff may already know), I'll have to look into it. But Hubris is a synchronous system, and also, these faults aren't catchable, so I'm not sure how directly relevant it is. What's the specific issue you're worried about?

Your Erlang vibes are there for good reason, it's certainly an influence.
Withholding too much is literally required under the law. If you don't withhold enough, at tax time you could be liable for penalties unless you also pay quarterly to make up the difference. This counts for all of your income, not just the income from a W-2 job.

Fixing the withholding system to account for the real world would go a long way toward simplifying reporting and would improve compliance.
Your reply feels unkind. They just said they lived in Sweden for a time. I don’t think it implies luxury or that they’re a wealthy jet-setting cosmopolitan. It could be for one of many reasons.

I also don’t know what’s wrong with hearing the opinion of a jet-setting cosmopolitan anyhow.
https://websim.ai/ is the project's website being discussed in the article
It was a fun distraction. That you for share!
A Paradigm Shift in RAM
I always say, I was so stupid/pointless - it had to be done!
Look into the "Nuclear Triad". The US has three ways to fight back against a nuclear attack - land-based ICBMs, bombers, and submarines.

It is unknown how the US would react to a missile launched from NK, but for various reasons, it is likely to respond with a massive counter-attack. This is partially for deterrence (the whole idea behind the MAD doctrine), and partially for fear that if ICBMs are not launched right away, they could be deactivated by an incoming first strike.

Indeed, in the scenario laid out in the book (Spoiler Warning), after launching an ICBM, NK also launches missiles from a submarine that take out various parts of the US in minutes, far faster than the ~25 minutes for the ICBMs to get to the US from NK. Had the ICBMs not been launched before, it is probable they would be destroyed, taking out one leg of the "triad".
>unacceptable to any business

Either be secure, or get ransonwares on a week basis plumetting down any profit. Their choice.
It's a different overload. Encoding is not an optional parameter: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.file....

Enforcing an overload of the highest arity of arguments sounds like a really terrible rule to have.

Culture-sensitivity is strictly different to locale as it does not act like a C locale (unsound) but simply follows delimiters/dates/currency/etc. format for parsing and formatting.

It is also in many places considered to be undesirable as it introduces environment-dependent behavior where it is not expected hence the analyzer will either suggest you to specify invariant culture or alternatively you can specify that in the project through InvariantGlobalization prop (to avoid CultureInfo.InvariantCulture spam). This is still orthogonal to text encoding however.
> Costs me $0.5 to send an image or other MMS

> Even a txt costs me if the Android is overseas

Sounds like your telecom sucks. Why are you demanding something of Apple. Why don’t you get your government to regulate your own telecoms?
> All that matters is what ARM chips are coming out this year

We'll find out next month, with back-to-back launches of Apple M3 iPads and Qualcomm Elite X (ex-Apple team) laptops from Microsoft & other PC OEMs.
"That's the secret"

Those tax prep companies like TurboTax spent a lot of marketing dollars on making it seem they are finding you secret deductions and other crap.
There isn't. It's all pretty straight forward.

Some of it comes from the pre-online era where tax accountants did and still do commit fraud by falsely claiming deductions for individuals. And you eventually hear of a hundred million dollar IRS fraud arrest.
> transformers that had access to external memory searchable via KNN lookups

This is common, and commonly called retrieval augmented generation, or RAG.

edit: I did not pay attention to the link. It is about Wu et al's "Memorizing Transformers", which contain an internal memory.
You should read the article. He talks about how worker leverage has dissipated, making it not-so-easy to negotiate that 2X raise versus in the past. It's kind of the point.

See also, the surge in recent tech layoffs (which he cites in the article).
> He was my senior. He disappeared for 10 days and returned with about 10,000 lines of 68000 asm code that utilized all 16 32bit registers to pass parameters instead of the stack. I was tasked with testing it. I never found anything wrong with it that weren't minor nits.

The places I've worked at would chew me out for "re-inventing the wheel", which is what this would be seen as. How do you vet a workplace ahead of time, that lets you do this kind of "mad scientist" tinkering and engineering?
I suppose I'm not the intended audience since I don't have prerequisite knowledge of whatever the governance issue at hand is, but I read this and the linked statements and to me it all falls in the category of 'vagueposting'

Anyone want to break down what is at issue for the spectators?
Wand not having charges makes it seem like the best thing to rush. Income per level went way down after buying bow

Melee knockback always a tossup, especially since freeze can be chained, goes much nicer on Windforce

Observed pacman glitch: running towards projectile can cause it to miss
> It's an awful book. In the scenario, the US does launch SLBMs from a submarine close to North Korea, and they hit in minutes. But for some reason the author thought that's is plausible that the US would also launch 50 land based ICBMs. Why?

See my other comment, but to summarize - because they worry that an incoming attack would destroy the land-based ICBMs before they have a chance to launch them, taking out one third of the Nuclear Triad.

I don't think this was the book making up stories - the book is half fiction, half interviews with actual people who worked on these plans and gave inside info on them. This unfortunately appears to be a realistic scenario.
It's kind of funny to watch these complaints, when the thing covering farmland isn't in for profit utilitie's interests.

Massive real estate development has already covered huge tracts of fertile farmland. See, "The Real Dirt on Farmer John":

https://angelicorganics.com/watch-the-movie/

With more housing per capita than at any time in US history, somehow we still have a "housing crisis" that requires paving over farmmland, but the possibiity eco disaster somehow doesn't justify the same...
This is the entire point of a representative government.
Why wouldn't that be the case? People put up with raises in all kinds of expenses without really noticing or complaining. Why would it be any different with taxes?
Solar could be great dual use with grazing livestock.
> I really wish net installers were still popular.

Ubuntu still has netinstall available as an option, it's ~80MB.
I am reacting to the latter as well. Not sure how many corporate lawyers / attorneys you have dealt with but it’s brutal. And they usually are not technically savvy. Better off keep reapplying
It is worth googling for other things this guy believes.
Exploring Rust and SDL2 and Emscripten: A Showcase of SDL2 Extensions
While working on an opinionated Pac-Man clone in Rust using SDL2 (plus the Image, Mixer, TTF, and GFX extensions), I was having trouble getting things to compile and work properly.

So I created this demo to ensure I had a working baseline example that compiled to all platforms, as well as used each of the major extensions.

I find it fascinating because:

- It utilizes all four SDL2 extensions supported by Rust's SDL2 bindings (Image, Mixer, TTF, GFX).

- There's seamless platform interoperability for data loading and saving (localStorage in the browser, files on native)

- It lays a solid foundation for implementing multi-platform HTTP calls atop this framework.

- Thanks to GitHub Actions, it offers automated builds for major platforms (Windows, Linux, MacOS).

- My project is not 'amazing', but it is somewhat rare; I could not find another open-source project like mine.
Electricity, unlike oil, can flow through a transmission line.

Leaks are not an eco disaster...
It's like the 21st century "China town". Many new migrants prefer avoiding downtown and the old China towns so have built new ones, complete with huge parking lots.
Weird they need to present this as a moral panic.
This applies even more to teh chinese EV import bans.

It seems if the USactually wanted people to drive EVs and put photovoltaic on their houses that they would embrace Chinese government subsidized products. Why wouldn't we want the Chinese subsidy to advance the US's electrification?

WRT the the security vulnerabiliters, this is just another case of protecting US surveilance companies.

A law to ban all user data collection and exfiltration would be the most benificial to the population, but I think goggle would have a few complaints.
Too bad this isn't open source.
Wow!
Ubuntu netinstall is ~80MB...
Let's assume a cloud datacenter context, using GCP as an example for real, verifiable numbers.

An L4 GPU node (with 4 CPU cores) is approximately the cost of a 16-core VM. So for the price of 64 cores, you could have ~4 L4 nodes (or perhaps one VM with 4 L4s). Each GPU has 300 GB/s of memory bandwidth, which is approximately 60 cores worth (at ~5GB/s per core). In fact, the 64 "cores" are typically 32 physical cores only, so you would expect lower than 300 GB/s for a 64-core VM.

Let's say network I/O is between 10 Gbits/s and 800 Gbits/s.
PCIe 4.0x16 is 64 GB/s, i.e. 512 Gbits/s. PCIe 5.0x16 is double that, which would easily saturate the network link.
Also, L4 GPUs have RDMA enabled, bypassing the CPU when ingesting data.
I also highly doubt that a 64-(v)core VM can access ">100 PCIe lanes" unless you have some kind of sole tenancy setup.

Then, what if: instead of 4 L4 GPUs (which would have a similar cost to the 64-core node), you used 2 L4 GPUs and found that setup to process just as fast as your 64-core node? You'd have just halved your cost.

Of course, this depends on whether or not the GPU nodes actually process your data with the same SLA, but generally GPU network ingest > CPU network ingest (per $ of processing).

Here's some benchmark results from Voltron Data (I'm not affiliated with them): https://voltrondata.com/benchmarks/theseus

Here's more data from PayPal: https://medium.com/paypal-tech/leveraging-spark-3-and-nvidia...
what correlation would you expect to see?
While I applaud the OP's exposition, imagine that instead of having axis names live as single-letter variables within einsum, our arrays themselves had these names attached to their axes?

It's almost like when we moved from writing machine code to structured programming: instead of being content to document that certain registers corresponding to certain semantically meaningful quantities at particular times during program execution, we manipulated only named variables and left compilers to figure out how to allocate these to registers? We're at that point now with array programming.

https://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/NamedTensor

https://math.tali.link/rainbow-array-algebra/

https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.13196
There is a similar, better known riddle involving the north pole and polar bears.

It probably hallucinated the answer from that.
I had my large box of older microelectronics wrapped in some layers of aluminum foil to make a fun postapo party thingy. Still have it wrapped. There's hundreds of CPUs there, few full PC computers, hard drives and CDs with Windows XP, Linux and DOS, and a lot of microcontrollers + related components.

Don't scavenge raid me please, I am open to trade.
> no one's going to bother writing apps for iOS anymore

Bullshit. By that logic there would be no Mac specific software. There was Mac software when Macs were 1% or less of computers. 2022:

74% of computers worldwide run on Windows, according to StatCounter. This dwarfs macOS, which accounts for 15%
And just so do uncaring and bigoted people the world over justify shutting disabled people out of so much of regular life.

"Non-central", that's a new one. A very detached way of making sure you never have to consider the situation of people who aren't as lucky as you.
I didn't know Garry Tan, the current Y Combinator CEO, was such a nut job...

The quotes cited are straight up fascism...
> It’s amazing that 54% of adults in the United States have a literacy below 6th grade level,

AFAICT this is a mis-interpretation. IIUC the actual study says "54% of adults in the United States have a literacy IN ENGLISH below 6th grade level". They might be highly literate in some other language but that wasn't tested.
Seems to also apply to their 3d equivalent, boxes, and to larger cat species. https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=cats%20boxes&imgurl=https%...

My guess is the function is two fold - camouflage and protection from cat attackers like dogs, and camouflage for pouncing on prey - mice, bits of string etc.
Is there a write-up, a web site, and some benchmarks?
Thanks. This is just in the labs stage, but moving closer to releasing it, exactly so that you can play with it! I have one angel investor involved in supporting this and it's intended for commercial applications in the para legal space, initially (controlled, structured environment) But you just gave me the motivation to "put it out there" so people can just play with it. It'll take a bit of time, but I will do a Show HN then when it's ready for people to play with. Otherwise, it would be just teasing people to talk about it on the main HN stage without giving access. Hold tight! And thanks again!
So, inverting is just swapping the left and right pointers for the entire tree? Why would you ever do that? That will flip the ordering of the tree and none of your search or balancing functions will work anymore. Shut up! Don't ask questions! Uh, ok.
100$-200$ per VM is a fair price I think. Most of the revenue generating on-prem orgs can afford it. If you think it is expensive then you are not the target segment for VMware.
It's even worse than that, because even if a new proposal had no concerns from a language & library point of view, it can still be crippled by vendor concerns because of short-sighted, entirely unforced errors the vendors made, often decades prior.

It's part of why I don't believe the C++-compatible C++-successor languages will deliver on their promises nearly as well as they think. They only solve half of the problem, which is that their translation units don't have to accommodate legacy C++ syntax.

They still have to reproduce existing C++ semantics and ABIs, their types still have to satisfy C++ SFINAE and Concepts, etc. so they're bringing all of the semantic baggage no matter what new syntax they dress it in.

And anywhere they end up introducing new abstractions to try to enforce safety, those will be incompatible with C++ enough to require hand-crafted wrappers, just like we already do with Rust, only Rust is much further along its own maturity and adoption curve than those languages are.
When the electricity leaks and starts a wildfire, that's a disaster.
>Was there ever a case of a mobile operator launching their own software store on Android?

I believe Verizon launched their own app store at one point. It was called V Cast.

A quick search led me here: https://www.pcworld.com/article/498393/verizons_android_app_...
Thousands of miles of transmission lines seems reasonable though? We have hundreds of thousands already.
Ethanol corn might be stupid stupid, but midwest farming is far more valuable than a stupid government subsidy program (ethanol i mean).

The midwest has water.

Or at least far more of it than Arizona or California. If we're going to cover the Midwest in silica, it should be to build greenhouses for water extensive crops and not for panels.

In fact there shouldn't be an acre of farmland with a solar panel on it until every every inch of roof and parking lot of LA and Phoenix has a solar panel first.

EDIT: typo. s/Id/If/
That was one of the major events, but in general there has been a steady trickle of immigrants from Japan and China to American and Canadian west coast settlements for the past 150 years or so. As with most diasporas, the way it usually works is that the first people come there because it's cheaper and/or because there's work available, and then once they establish a local community, more immigrants start coming there preferentially because they have friends and family, because there are services available in their language etc.

In BC, Richmond in particular has been a recipient of many of those immigrants from Hong Kong, which is why its population is still majority ethnic Chinese, and even many official signs are bilingual.
How is it "charging a 30% margin" to keep more of your own revenue? Epic wants everyone to be able to keep more of their own revenue; they proved this by rejecting the sweetheart deal Apple offered them. If a company's revenues are 30% higher they now have the ability to lower their prices (unless one of the major players demands price parity to thwart competition, as does happen)
Neat! What’s the easiest way to make something like this?
The compiler can still do optimizations on intrinsics - clang passes most through its regular optimizations, so you get things like loop unrolling, CSE (quite powerful if you have multiple invocations of the same SIMD thing, deduplicating constant loads or whatnot), and some genuine improvements/reducing what you need to pay attention to (don't need to manually merge to 'vpandn', 'vpand a,b,c; vptest a,a' → 'vptest b,c', sometimes improving shuffles, moving out negation from movmsk of negation of vpcmpeq), though it can of course make things worse too as regular compiler tax.

An example of something that inline assembly would handle badly would be broadcast, which x86 pre-AVX-512 only can do with a value already in a SIMD register, or directly from memory, but the programmer almost always will want to provide it as a regular scalar variable, i.e. GPR.
The irony is that before I realized it was so easy I would just open source the code - not on Github, mind you, since the likes of Akamai would DMCA pretty quickly, but playing a little bit of jurisdictional arbitrage I put it on Gitee - the Chinese copycat of Github. I don't have a background in any of this, but companies like the brag and it's not hard to put two and two together. It also was a practical way to enable me to place wagers on sports automatically - which was more or less my actual day job - and was pretty good for learning programming quickly in your late 20s.

Instead almost immediately I got inundated by sneaker botters in China and in English from somewhere that doesn't use it as a native language, judging from the idiosyncratic use. I kept the code up for a bit but took it down not because of any legal threats (good luck with DMCA-ing a platform endorsed by the CCP, even though I have no love for the party, I also find the American attitude that places intellectual property over real property in practice - from my experience as a defense attorney - to be just as screwed up in terms of priorities, just a matter of degrees. What made me take it down was the fact that I did not want to work in a customer service job or really for anyone, and judging by the requests, it was mostly consisted of "you do the work but we'll split the profits", which I can't believe anyone would fall for.

But since the internet is forever, some parts of code that specifically worked to emulate Cyberfed-Akamai from 0.8 to 2.3 are probably still floating around. My bad. I don't wear shoes normally - flip flops or nothing after having to wear a suit to work for a decade - and have no idea beyond what happens in NBA2K. Although cybersecurity firms making products that someone who learned how to program in their mid 20s and put online within 3 years and had it work should be pretty ashamed of how much they charge, considering that I haven't even taken a math course since 11th grade and had too much of an ADHD problem to watch videos or even read more than blog posts or documentation. Everything I learned, I learned by copying from Github and similar services until it worked. There must be a lot of snake oil being sold out there, maybe most of it, since the insidiousness of the whole thing is that selling bunk solutions seldom gets you in trouble anyway, while actual crime - rape, murder, robbery and the like - are largely lagging because the police simply prefer to complain about culture war bs instead of actually, you know, do their jobs. Who knew Judith Butler was THIS spot on.
Terribly boring but super polished!
Last time this came up I wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39934120:

A few weeks ago I rented a Model 3 from Hertz in San Diego, and the car didn't come with an SAE J1772 Charging Adapter (this covers most level 2 stations). That's crazy. I was staying primarily at UCSD for cancer treatment, and there are a million level 2 chargers that I couldn't access without the SAE J1772 dongle. The Tesla my wife and I have always has a SAE J1772 dongle in the center console. I complained about the lack of this essential part.

Hertz would charge for the dongle and then refund upon its return. The car itself was good!
I’m curious, wouldn’t doing away with such corn subsidies for better farm land usage be another alternative? Seems like a false dichotomy to make this about solar vs corn?
I junked a VMWare based infrastructure upgrade plan last week because of this kind of thing. Life is too short.
I'm using a 75" 4K "monitor" as I type this.

For some reason they call it a "TV", whatever that is...
Browser (version) and OS would be probably helpful.
M-x snake

Use the emacs keybinds to play it.
I think it’s weird that governments would regulate a company on behalf of this reason.

A bunch of teens got together and decided that some things were social stigma aren’t.

I’m sure there’s some schools where you can’t be included unless you are wearing Abercrombie clothing, or have a MK purse. Is it time to step in there too?
Twin of woman found dead in A&E says death was avoidable – NHS
Technically, you can vote for anybody you like, including yourself or Santa Claus. But no, LaRouche was never going to make it.
The RUR thing is basically because that specific example is used as an example of interesting etymology.
Why doesn't this git repo contain any actual source code? Nor do the "src" archives on the download page (both contain a single, empty file).

Yes, I realize I can unzip the xpi and see JS source. But... just curious.
Homelab [video]
For me, it's being able to do much, much more than the "standard" editor keys, and the (mostly) coherence. And the ability to easily add more to do what I want.
This is an amazing game. Nice work!

May be adding mouse control? Turning with arrow keys are kind of clunky.
Google up images of Arka Kraków (or duckduckgo up), one of the famous brutalist churches in Poland