skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a narrative that's easy to believe in because audit rates are going down. But when you think about it... why should be they going up?

In the 1980s and before, the IRS literally had no way of knowing if you're telling the truth without auditing you. Everything was done on paper, cash was king. So the audits were indiscriminate and invasive, and needed a large army of employees to orchestrate.

Now, the IRS knows almost everything about your finances. They get electronic data from your employers, your bank, your brokerage. Most of commerce is settled electronically. Paypal and Venmo send them your info if you receive more than $500 in a year. There is nothing to be gained by randomly auditing the average family if the numbers on their report match what the IRS knows. The IRS can zero in on specific activities, such as people claiming unusual business deductions. But they no longer need to routinely audit most of us, and they don't need funding to that effect.
I don't know where you live, but here in Europe, the driver would lose the driving licence for 1 month for this little stunt. Specifically, changing lanes near the intersection over the solid line, and cutting those waiting in line.

What you call first-principle-thinkers, the rest of the world calls dicks. Everybody sees that manoeuvre, it doesn't require a genius. Most of the people don't do it because they are afraid of repercussions (if they get caught) or are civilised enough to realise that their time is not more important then the time of others. Yes, that manoeuvre doesn't "save you 5 minutes", it steals 1-2 seconds of everybody else's time.
I think I'll take the deal offered: I can choose not to pay the IRS and they can choose not to answer my calls. Just like Google.
I think many taxes are there to prevent behaviour/close loopholes e.g. the 10% penalty on early retirement account distributions or some of the pigovian taxes like the ones on plastic bags or taxes on tanning salons
Get some slim touchscreen laptop with Linux on it and you're sorted.
What.... What happened to SA? Is there a unique set of circumstances that gave rise to this particular kind of violent lawlessness?
It seems like they had some sort of software/oversight issue, in addition to inadequate filer service. Why do you believe that giving them more money will cause them to improve? This seems like some sort of Stockholm syndrome.
llama3:70b using llama.cpp (used under the hood by Ollama) on a 11th Gen Intel i5-11400 @ 2.60GHz - no GPU, CPU inference only.

"Write a haiku about Hacker News mentioning AI in the title"

Here is a haiku:

AI whispers secrets
HN threads weave tangled debate
Intelligence born

eval time = 30363.04 ms / 23 runs ( 1320.13 ms per token, 0.76 tokens per second)
total time = 34294.80 ms / 33 tokens
Is the sound coming from arc itself or the metal that its touching?
Julian Assange: Freedom This Time, No Thanks to the Media
Autosport Labs ESP32 board: 2 CAN transceivers and an automotive power supply
> if you nail the memory management technique all the other items will tend to work themselves out.

From my experience, implementing a language runtime for a GC'd language in a non-GC'd language will lead you down one of two well-trodded roads full of footguns and booby traps, which includes either conservative-on-the-stack scanning or a huge PITA handle system which has a bug tail measured in decades. So you want to implement a GC'd language in a GC'd language. But that's probably not what you meant.

To the larger point, no, absolutely not. There are so many other considerations for systems programming that this whole "GC or not" debate is a waste of time. Read the comment again. System programming deals with constraints imposed by other hardware and software, as well as the need to look at the implementation guts of things, generate new code, etc. Solving the language's memory management problems is only tangentially related, meaning, if you do solve it, then you still have these problems left over to solve.
Before Smearing Chomsky, Try Reading Him
> WAY more old people can still drive than can walk a mile round trip carrying bags of groceries

Groceries are not a mile away when you live in a walkable neighborhood. My grandparents could easily walk to the corner store to buy their daily groceries until they passed away. Chances are that walking a little every day for their whole lives helped them stay in better shape.

> I mean, if y'all like "walkable cities" so much, why not just move to one

The few walkable neighborhoods where I live are, unsurprisingly, highly desirable and thus unaffordable. In my forties I don't feel like immigrating yet again to another country.

> But no, everyone else has to conform to what you think is best

The immense majority of the large metropolitan area where I live only allows single family homes to be built. I would like walkable neighborhoods to be made legal again so that offer can meet the existing demand.

Don't you worry, car-dependent suburbs are not at any risk of disappearing in North America.
> The Supreme Court is supposed to be the last-resort, the fail-safe, the watcher of the US legal system. But somehow it has become infected with partisan BS and now we have to wonder Who watches the watchers? How do we get out of this mess?

That's a lot of words for "the court doesn't lean my way, so let us act like the entire system has failed". Extremely low quality bait.
Estate liquidation.
Figma is already my favorite way to design presentations, but the lack of presentation tools like presenter notes has prevented me from switching from traditional tools.

Happy that the Figma product team identified this as an opportunity worth investing in. Figma's overall product trajectory is exceeding my expectations.
Toys 'R' Us Spits on Its Own Grave with AI-Generated Trash
Can't find a single other source that claims this, is it real?
I wonder what we'd see if you could only check boxes that are adjacent to already checked boxes (you'd obviously need to seed the array with some "anchors"). How long would it take for people to clear it?
> For this portion I don't necessarily do TDD, because I remain unconvinced that writing unit tests first is inherently better than writing unit tests afterward.

I would argue that TDD doesn't imply writing unite tests - it's about writing any tests first.

If you have acceptance tests already written out, you're already doing TDD.
Steam Game Recording Beta
Because scaling up linearly is relatively straight-forwards. If the problem is a shortage of people answering the phone, you hire more people to answer the phones. If you don't have the money to hire more people, you don't get more people, which means you don't have more people. When you don't have more people, you have a shortage of people answering the phones.

It's not rocket science.

I have no idea why paying them less (which, not-increasing is the same as, given increase in population and inflation) would make them do better. Are they a petulant child and we're trying to "teach them a lesson"?
> The benefit is less data going over the wire. I get it--100 KiB doesn't sound like much these days, especially given the page weight of almost 800 KiB. But it's still an extra 100 KiB that doesn't need to be transferred and it adds up over time.

How much does that save, after the Brotli compression, and how much does it contribute to your supposed TTB? And why would it affect the page performance once loaded? And how does your alternate of CSS grids change that? If it is responsive, it is still going to have to define a bunch of CSS to explain what the layout is and how it changes.

> If your design results in you having to be that specific, it means you're doing something wrong.

Does it really? You keep making these assertions like 'you're using fake smallcaps' and then not backing them or explaining them, or giving any examples whatsoever of a site doing it right.
Farming contributes to a third of Denmark’s CO2 emission.
So why can't I use documentation as a requirements spec and just feed it to a LLM for implementation ? With lots of examples in the documentation that can serve as test cases for the generated code.
Can you expand a bit -- because the AOAI is so slow? What exactly helps you speed things up?
CSS has had a similar issue with naming classes, which is one reason for how TailwindCSS’s design. I wonder if we’ll see more AI tools for these kinds of use cases.
I feel like you should get a couple code for an automatic 2 week extension every time you call and can’t get someone on the phone…
I'm guessing covid lockdowns crashed their visitor numbers?
Sorry for the unsolicited advice, but I wanted to share something that was counterintuitive and made a big difference for me.

Not sure what types of exercise you are doing or your background (I could be more specific if you shared, feel free to email me) but in general I find most untrained to moderately trained people exercise at too high an intensity most of the time. Feeling like exercise is torture, and having lower cognitive function afterwards are also strong indicators of this.

Most exercise should actually feel quite easy — perhaps an 80/20 split of easy exercise days to hard exercise days is ideal. For example, if you were running you might switch between running and walking to keep your heart rate at a pretty low level (zone 1 or 2) in some sort of structured program that ramps up intensity over time but keeps you in these lower heart rate zones 80% of your exercise time.

For me personally I started enjoying exercise and getting a lot more out of it after making most of it feel "too easy"!
Australian Bank Monitors How You Tilt Your Phone to Detect Scams
Thanks for letting me know, I'll work on performance and memory optimizations. I was developing on Brave.

I used an iPhone 15 and Insta360 one rs with the Leica lenses -- without tripod. I actually went through and edited the humans (including myself) out of every shot, but you can see where I missed some. I'm hoping to go back through and fix them. I put up other tours on the website just from 360 video, and they're much less edited, so I'm still hiding at the bottom of most of the shots until I can edit myself out.
Just curious, why do you use Figma over other slide making tools?
Just for architecture diagrams, or your familiarity with the tool?

I'm not a Figma user and have no clue, and am wondering if it's worth giving a shot as a new user.
This is a potential solution, but the problem isn't solved until the market actually adopts it.

Without a financial incentive to follow through (for example, a carbon tax on gassy animals) to offset the added cost of feed supplements, then most farms won't see the business justification (carbon footprint is largely externalized).
I Toys "R" Us still a thing? I had thought they closed down a while back. Is this some zombie thing using the old name?
"But any general tips on when the consumer needs to cancel the rest of the work because of an error?"

Yes, another channel which everyone watches for cancellation.

In modern Go, that should be a context and it's .Done() channel.

This is another "I'm not saying you suck because I did this myself a while before I figured it out", but having a channel around just to cancel things is fine. It doesn't cost anything significantly extra. I have some still in my code bases where I've just never had any reason to upgrade to contexts.
so how much GPU RAM does need to get the 70B going fast (ish)?
Does this help with compute, or just MEMS and radio?
for future readers, i ended up swapping things out and batching my updates. spooky to do live, but helped a lot with performance
SciPy 1.14.0: Highlights of this release
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rig-CSEz6f0
I’m talking about the quasi-religious view that individuals have these God-given “rights” as against society, just waiting to be divined by judges (i.e. mullahs of secular humanism).

The fundamental unit of democracy is the polity, not the individual. Democracy is neutral as to religion—i.e. religious motivations are no different than all the other motivations the majority may have for any particular law.
What you seem to be advocating is treating the symptom rather than the root problem. It can feel myopically effective, but it isn't great governance. I think there is also a case that segregating populations on socio-economic lines creates a host of additional problems.
The strategy that society chooses is hugely important. And it is decided to a large extent by public opinion and debate. Thus participating in that debate can make a difference.
If you are an American citizen, just call your US representative. They will have you on the phone with an actual person at the IRS in a day or two.

Literally, I've learned this lesson the hard way. The moment I have to wait more than an hour or so to figure out a government service or agency, I immediately lodge a formal complaint with my representative. They have a large staff dedicated to constituent services, and they have internal connections. They also follow up, and if the agency isn't doing well, they track it.

I've literally been begged by federal agents to leave good reviews with the congressman in order that they don't get their budget cuts. It's a welcome change of pace to be speaking with an agent that wants to help me.

As an example, my son's name was mis-spelled on the birth certificate and thus social security card. We waited for three hours in an SSA office to change it but the woman did not want to help us at all, and insinuated we were committing fraud.

I had it. I called my US representative and my two Senators and e-mailed them a full portfolio of the details. Within a day, I had their office calling me with a special SSA representative on the line. They were able to make me an actual appointment for next day service at the local SSA office speaking to a much more intelligent SSA agent, who was so friendly and helpful, it was almost unbearable. The best part was, I didn't have to even wait in line or at the front desk. She took my materials, told me she will personally investigate and get back to me. Within a day, she called me back, had everything figured out and had completed several steps of the process for me.

In sum, never deal with the agencies if it's becoming antagonistic. Contact your representative. It is literally their job.
Let's see. Putin doesn't have enough ammunition. He doesn't have enough tanks.
He doesn't have enough troops. So he's importing ammunition, importing troops, and pulling tanks from the 1970s out of storage.

He could impose a conscription, but he hasn't. I suspect he can't - not without causing pushback. And he doesn't want that, because once the pushback starts, it may not stop...

So I think Putin is maxed out. This may not be as much as he can get out of Russia, but it's as much as he dares.
Yet they seem to be the only people capable of making software that can render text on translucent backdrops at 144Hz.
> without having to solicit for it

Countless journalists solicit classified information all the time. They don't just sit there hoping a story falls into their lap. They make connections in government and actively seek out information, including classified information. This has been completely standard in American journalism for decades.
TIL thanks for commenting, I'll make a note to fix this.
Finishing the job that citizens united started. This is how democracy dies.

The Americans better start using those rights they seem to wank off about, cuz if they don't they're about to get sold to the highest bidders
Hi,

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I use this pattern a lot (and I often find myself wishing I used it more). Another way to think about this is "noun-ification" (aka the Command pattern) - instead of invoking a function directly, capture all of its arguments, serialize them to some "store", then provide the ability to rehydrate them and actually run it.
> I’m confused that somebody would respond “as an EE” and ignore the grid.

This thread is generally talking about electricity, and give that most 'traditional' methods of generation involve boiling water to make steam, there's nothing special about coal or atoms generating the heat.

Dispatchability is an important element of the grid, but that is also possible with nuclear: one can keep the reactor thermally running, but have mechanisms to divert the generated steam away from the turbines and quench it. Given the up-front capex (and low marginal cost of megawatts) of nuclear this is not economically ideal, but it is not technically impossible.
Bootstrapping a cloud estate is called "Day Zero". Tasks include things like creating the resources for an initial IaC statefile, which in turn is used to setup the scaffolding for larger deployments. Some day zero resources are temporary and can safely be removed.

Also initial high level "root" keys are created and safely stored away in case a break-glass emergency ever happens.
To ensure that member is itself still aligned properly in "global space". The start of the struct is assumed to be universally aligned (malloc, etc.. make that a requirement in fact) or aligned for the requirements of the struct itself (eg, array). Thus any offset into the struct only needs to be aligned to the requirements of the largest type.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/core-api/unaligned-me... has a lot more general context on alignment and why it's important
The only people willing to support Mac stuff is people who use Macs, because apple mandates that you do so. No cross compiling allowed.

Just use linux.
If you send details about a particular case (rather than a general political issue) to their constitutent services department, they will often get back to you in a day.
[People for the Ethical Treatment of Robots joins the chat]

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[Ukrainian Defense Ministry/Munitions Acquisition Division joins the chat]

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This seems to be a bait-and-switch argument. I can't see how any grid feature can handle all of the media-query things you highlighted as wasteful bloat like "the drop caps and the other flourishes". How does that handle dropcaps, sidenotes & margin-notes, popups vs popovers, utility classes like disabling on mobile vs desktop, the different styling of the header, plus all of the small adjusts like fonts or line-heights or justification...?

Nothing in your first link addresses that, and this grid approach sounds limited to just moving a few blocks around to be a rectangle instead of a square or something. (Like, I am looking at random moments in these 5 hours of videos, and it all seems to be like that, like "What do CSS features like CSS Grid, Flexbox, Multicolumn, Flow layout and Writing Modes mean for our design medium"? Well, for Gwern.net - they mean little. Most of the media queries have nothing to do with putting something into various kinds of grids...)

How is this is a general replacement for media-queries - as opposed to a minor technique good for rearranging some carousels or some columns?

Again, I think you would benefit from being specific. How, exactly, does CSS Grid free us from media queries and breakpoints for the things we use media queries & breakpoints for, like dropcaps or switching between popups & popovers? And what is an example of a site which uses just CSS Grid for all this and avoids downloading all that crap as you desire?
I used a Mac for 30 days, and I'm glad it's over (video)(2023)
You could use it to earn money to spend on GPU to improve llama...
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Apple could do it without Valve. They could actually make a big effort to bring tons of game devs into their store with a system that doesn't require them to modify their games to run on Mac or iOS.

But they haven't, and I'm not sure they care enough to actually follow through on such a project, both technologically and in making and maintaining all of those publisher relationships.
Around two months ago I stopped by the building and saw through a window that the interior seemed mostly untouched. So, out of concern for the condition of any items that may still be inside, I snooped around the perimeter looking for a way in until a very loud intercom told me to get off the property. Probably not the reason for this announcement but I can’t help but feel partially responsible.

The RE-PC vintage computing warehouse nearby also has a small museum with equipment going back to the 60s, you can’t touch anything but other sections of the warehouse have plenty of 90s and 2000s desktops set up that you can play with. It’s a good place to look for ancient cables, obscure controllers (I saw two SideWinders there last time), and older displays, I’m planning to go back to pick up the Apple Studio CRT https://everymac.com/monitors/apple/studio_cinema/specs/appl...
Baader-Meinhoff
Wow! Yeah, I would have taken a shot at that. The seller seems legitimate, judging by their other listings.
> wind and solar, with all those subsidies, continues to fail to displace fossil fuels in the grid

You are offering this as a fact, but the fact is incorrect.

"Analysis: UK electricity from fossil fuels drops to lowest level since 1957": https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-electricity-from-fos...

"The CO2 footprint of the EU electricity grid was cut in half, from 501 grams of CO2 emissions per kilowatt-hour in 1990 to 251 grams in 2022." https://eu.boell.org/en/2024/04/03/100-renewables-way-forwar...

"China’s Carbon Emissions Are Set to Decline Years Earlier Than Expected" https://www.wsj.com/world/china/chinas-carbon-emissions-are-...

China in particular deployed about 217GW of (just) solar PV last year, and they're on track to meet or exceed that this year. https://www.pv-tech.org/chinas-installed-solar-capacity-660g...

Right now everything looks set for continued exponentially-shaped curves on renewables deployment, which will drive coal and eventually the majority of fossil generation out of the grid. None of that is happening in nuclear, unfortunately.
"If humanity ever makes contact with alien intelligences, will those aliens possess computers? In science fiction, alien computers are commonplace. If that's correct, it means there is some way aliens can discover computers independently of humans. After all, we’d be very surprised if aliens had independently invented Coca-Cola or Pokémon or the Harry Potter books. If aliens have computers, it’s because computers are the answer to a question that naturally occurs to both human and alien civilizations."
Worth noting that the IRS budget has not been significantly cut -- not by Republicans or anyone else. You can see their inflation-adjusted annual expenditures over the last 10 years here[1]. Those expenditures were reduced about 7% during the Trump years, and then increased about 15% under Biden.

I guess you could say a 7% reduction is bad, but it certainly doesn't explain the disasters in their operation. And in any case, the cut has been reversed (and then some) under Biden while their functionality remains terrible.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/statistics/irs-budget-and-workforce