skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a good book “The Dictator’s Handbook” that proposed the Selectorate Theory that explains this, among other things. The complex tax code is a feature, not a bug. And I don’t just mean that Intuit is profiting off of the complexity, although that is also true.

Politicians care about staying in office, rewarding their supporters, and maybe implementing prosocial policies. In that order. So tax cuts for the wealthy aren’t because they think it’s good for the economy, they are kickbacks for support.

Every single tax deduction and carve out is a reward to the winning coalition at a particular time. We see this with farm subsidies, which are more of a vestige at this point, but at one time farmers were an important demographic. When politicians get into office they reward their supporters.

The book is a lot better than I am at explaining it all, so I recommend reading it or watching the Rules for Rulers video on YouTube.
> 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?

It's not partisan BS, it's blatant corruption
this is not even realistic, there are 8 billion+ people in the world, what if I wanted to have a checkbox for each of them? Needs way more.
userscript to make real fire on hosted server for bonus points
Seems like Figma and Miro are converging a bit but from different directions
Which is why I said:

> The only upside is that the number of possible screen resolutions were pretty small.

But there was 640, 800, 1024. Many websites would do fixed width 800px and then you'd have to scroll left at 640 or have big gutter margins at 1024.
I had a similar issue where they claimed I didn’t pay one year. Calling led nowhere but my CPA friend said send them a letter. As in a physical snail mail dispute letter. I could be wrong but I think they have to reply within a certain amount of time even if the reply is “we’re still looking into it”. 6 months later I got a letter saying basically I was correct and you don’t owe anything.
Spotted the person who's never been a retail/fast food wage slave. You don't get 40 hours. At best you'll get 34 or whatever makes it so you aren't classified as full time. And that's a good week. If corporate is trying to save hours, you might get 8 or 10 that week. You'll need a second job, obviously, but given that there's no set schedule, you'll spend even more time trying to coordinate the two.
Danswer supports pdf natively, I’ve been trialing it and it works pretty well
I've been doing a similar thing for my Kobo with an ITTT action that fetches RSS feed URLs and adds them to my Pocket account, which automatically syncs.
I'm obviously not as in-control as this method, but it's been surprisingly stable.
Congrats on the traffic, I hope you get a high conversion rate :)

I assume you do more than one GPT call per search, e.g. rewriting user's query into multiple search queries, summarization of the results, etc.?
What? Why would I? I don't live there but genuinely want to know. It's a thing that affects many other desirable cities too, and short term housing bans are discussed often. I'd like to know how well it does or doesn't work and what variables contribute to it.
It's mind-boggling since so many 'smart' people work there, they can't get it right. Another example is their search. I want to see the latest videos posted and filter them based only on the English language. It's fairly unusable in its current form. Users must rely on the algorithm to be fed "relevant" videos to watch.
I found the grayscale filter through the blankspaces app! I found this solution to reduce my usage weird, yet cool. I can't really comprehend why it works, but it does.
Marc Andreessen Is Poor
Only building more housing will make housing cheaper.

It's remarkable how some cities will do literally anything but that, probably because they know it will work and they're controlled by property owners.
I'm with you here, doing finite -> infinite -> finite transformations logically creates paradoxes. If those infinite points have no dimensions, how do their cumulative zeros add up to a positive number?

To the risk of sounding naive, I see this as a self-inflicted paradox, much like the immovable object and the irresistible force paradox. If it's a paradox like Schrödinger's cat thought experiment, then I'm cool with it, because it points the limits of theory by carrying it into absurdeness.
Thanks - we'll merge the comments thither and re-up that one.

Normally I'd hate to replace an individual's blog post with a media site but that other article does have more background.
I built a grid-based music sequencer for the web a while ago that lets people see projects other people made in a side panel.

I very quickly realized I needed some manual content moderation because some people immediately started sharing patterns that looked like dicks and swastikas lol
On the Sega Master System there was an entire game in the ROM -- Snail Maze (the walls and floor reminiscent of the company's logo). Pressing up-left and both buttons while turning on the console with no cartridge in the slot would start the game.
How the 'Owner's Guide' Became a Rare Book
Charging exorbitant hourly rates to tell Fortune 500 executives what they want to hear and then take blame for any fallout is a killer business model. Whenever a new fad shows up in any industry, you can be sure that BCG, McKinsey, Bain & crew will be first in line to take advantage of it.
Software products usually have no publicly available development goals. Probably some of these products have internal development goals, but most of the time these goals are implicit. You can guess these goals by looking at the history of new releases for the particular product. It looks like the following development goals are the most popular among modern software products:

- Bloating the product with non-essential half-baked features.

- Performance slowdown and increased memory usage.

- Adding usability bugs to the most used functionality.

- Reducing the overall product quality.

- Adding AI and LLM features, which produce absolute nonsense.

Of course, this is sarcasm, but it is very close to reality because of the absence of clearly defined product development goals. That's why I decided publishing VictoriaMetrics development goals, so our developers and users remain on the same page.
A better strategy would be to do away with income tax altogether and replace with something easier to comply with and enforce like a Federal sales tax. States that run on sales tax alone need only to collect revenue from businesses, which shrinks their staffing requirements. And since it's a straightforward % of sales, it's easier to audit as well.
FFI from GC'd to non-GC'd languages becomes workable if you can manually add FFI-referenced objects as roots (so that a collection cycle will not free them or anything they reference in turn) and ensure that the GC can call finalizers in order to ensure proper disposal (such as decreasing reference counts or freeing memory) whenever a GC object happens to control the lifecycle of non-GC'd resources.
Apple Skunkworks semiconductor fab dumped toxic waste into apartments next door
You read the part where I said the understanding constrains the existing user base from antisocial behavior, right?

This isn't about "commoners". It's that any large group of people contains assholes, assholes restrain themselves depending on circumstances, and the new users might well lack that understanding.

It's fundamentally not about "commoners", but about a knowledge-based restraint falling away. (As for the "commoners", you might also want to read the last part of my comment, instead of outraging)
It does, both in the title here, and in the article's title. "Only" is clear, and "All that's done so far is make hotels more expensive" from the article title, is also exceptionally clear.
For architecture diagrams Ive found Google drawing will work for my use cases. And if its something fancy, lucidchart.
Thanks, I’ll give it a try!
There's just a sliver of land where North Korea and Russia share a border but it could unfortunately mean a lot for Russia's war with Ukraine.
True, but while they're not building more housing at least in this case they're making it so the people who do have a house to live in don't have to contend with it being surrounded by hotels.
Maybe I'm naive and brainwashed and so on. But one of the big selling point of crypto was that you don't get "under the opressive control of banks and the state" and such. And, I can get the merit of that idea. Banks can have a massive amount of control over some peoples life.

But at some point, a bunch of financial sharks got involved into the crypto pond. These guys have decades of experience at exploiting financial markets, and a bunch of the regulations and rules we have through banks and the state is to protect naive people like me from sharks like those. And it doesn't work beyond a certain state, sure. If you can pay millions to dudes finding loopholes to make billions, alright. But at my level of money I can trust the system to some degree. At least more than an unregulated market full of people with decades of experience at exploiting companies and people financially.

And while I like the idea behind crypto, that thought has shaken my confidence into the idea beyond repair, to be honest.
At the same time, > 100 hotels are being used as migrant shelters, so supply is down, at the same time demand is up because the Airbnbs are gone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/25/nyregion/hotels-prices-mi...
document.querySelectorAll('input[type="checkbox"]').forEach(function(checkbox) {
checkbox.checked = Math.random() >= 0.5;
});
Please show in the geological record anywhere in the last 50 million years where ruminants caused climate change.
Mythbusting Modern Hardware to Gain „Mechanical Sympathy" (2012) [video]
That really doesn't seem bad. When people talk about responses of self-hosted LLMs without a beefy GPU being unusably slow, I always assumed they meant 15 minutes to hours. I do not mind waiting a few minutes if it will summarize the answer a question that will take me many times longer to research.
Related: http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-living-computers-muse...

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40802686 but we merged those comments hither)
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78641150/a-module-that-w...
I don't remember exactly, but they were broadly "How can I do $WEIRD_NICHE_THING with $GENERAL_FEATURE of gradle / some java library?"
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> Axel Springer, Insider Inc.'s parent company, is an investor in Airbnb.

Won't anyone think of the poor AirBnB investors!?
It's an issue with libpurple and the user interfaces. It's something we'll ideally be tackling in the next few months in purple3/pidgin3 as we get closer and closer to an alpha release.
Yes, it is. Like so many other companies, Toy 'R' Us is dead and gone, but their name will continue to get milked by the bottomfeeders until the heat death of the universe.
Does this export to PowerPoint?
Next gen 3D metal printing
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I would also like to know the impact on the quality of housing left in the city. Short term rentals like Airbnb incentivize owners to update their properties. Long term rentals combined with rent control laws do the opposite.
That's not true. You can heavily tax single family homes that are not owner occupied, for instance.

This debate ends in the same way as always. It's a bit of everything. Nightly rentals, REITs, build more, yada yada yada...
I think perhaps the best side effect of the OSS movement is that software developers now are more likely to consider the impact of licensing.
What method is that? Layer offloading?
You’ve definitely never lived in SA with that comment. Everywhere in the world security is just a feeling, but SA explores just how far feelings can be from reality quite often.
Seems like there is an opportunity to make this as easy to use as Dropbox.
An AI version of Al Michaels will deliver Olympic recaps on Peacock
Reminds me of https://www.yourworldoftext.com/
All published Supreme Court cases establish precedent. What are you talking about?
If you look on Twitter it's a very common story.

Whilst many of the low-level scammers stayed in crypto promoting the next coin the smarter players moved into AI.

It's why you see the cult-like, fervent, influencer centric attitude towards e-acc, AGI, LLMs etc.
Cool. That looks super interesting. :)
You may want to see the full plugin list as well https://pidgin.im/plugins/?publisher=all&query=&type=Protoco...

If there's something we're missing, please let me know!
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The Fittest uses gamification techniques to help you achieve your fitness goals, whether you're a seasoned athlete or just starting out.

I'm so excited to share The Fittest with the world and help people reach their full fitness potential.
For sure. Also I’m a fan of a concrete covered bunker/entryway so that you can’t be shot at by someone inside the property when security visits you.
Even if more housing is built, I see some areas that are purposefully optimizing for short term rentability, meaning building luxury vacation homes in resort-like areas, instead of generic housing for the masses.

More housing doesn't necessarily mean more affordable housing. And I don't even mean section 8, just units that two median wage earners (outside of tech) could potentially afford together.
I think in this case, the IRS "raising revenue" up to the amount they "should" be getting based on the current tax law is a good idea. There is an upper limit.

This then makes me think that tax law may already account for "under collection", which might cause it to target "over collection". Increased IRS effectiveness can close this gap.
The legislature has successfully found a way to be relevant. By being the only way to solve your tax problem. They create the complicated tax law and the only solution to solve it.
Abysmal article. It doesn't explain anything about the claim in the title. Is there quantization? How much RAM do you need? How fast is the inference? None of these questions are addressed or even mentioned.

> Of course, it would be more reasonable to compare the similarly sized 400B models with GPT4 and Claude3 Opus

No. It's completely irrelevant to the topic of the article.

The article is mostly a press release for llama 3. It also contains a few comments by the author, they aren't bad but don't save the clickbaity, buzzy, sensationalist core.
I'm not suggesting you stay. Rather that you might be experiencing one of the hard times that often comes with running a business.

If you have no clear direction, why do you have 15 people? Cutting staff is one of the hard times of running a business. Cutting staff increases runway. That's just gravity.

Some other remarks:

+ If the investors are asking for their money back, then your investors are a poor fit to your business's needs.

+ The difficulty of working with your cofounder are in part because you are experiencing a hard time in the life-cycle of a business. They are also because your cofounder is experiencing a hard time in the life-cycle of a business. All the petty baggage that's built up over the years is bubbling to the top in both of you.

My best advice is to try to do the right by people. The only way to know what that actually is is to ask. Asking and trying to do right by others is also doing right by yourself.

Maybe it works out. Maybe it doesn't.

This is probably not your only rodeo.

Good luck.
I think OP is referring more to the current 2020s trend of book publishers making posthumous edits to classic books (such as Roald Dahl's) to remove things that are problematic to modern PC codes.
How does this compare with Google's NotebookLM?
> The difference between then and now was that much of the rest of life still had the humanity in it. You knew people in your neighborhood, at your church, at the bar, at the barbershop, at the grocery store. Now... not so much. There's no humanity anywhere. So people feel alienated, not just at work, but everywhere.

We are expected to be well-behaved little worker-consumer automatons.

Go to work. Behave. Don't get out of line. Don't rock the boat. Produce value to enrich the tree of people above you and shareholders. Don't talk too much to co-workers--they're competing with you for promotion. Leave (or get tossed out) when you're used up.

Go to stores. Behave. Buy things. Don't protest. Don't talk too much to people around you--they're competing with you for what you want. Grow the economy by spending your money. Believe in God so you die happily when you are no longer economically viable.

We're lines in someone's spreadsheet.
I never heard of them killing anyone. Though I am sure the resulting shock might be enough to trigger issues in those with weak hearts or injury resulting from pulling away rapidly where a fall or slip can cause a severe injury.
It has zero discussion, so I don't know why you'd link to that.
The fact that they analyzed standing is very relevant from a legal and precedential standpoint. I’d like to see your legal analysis to see if you could do better.
The problem is that no one has the courage to run a controlled trial to isolate the effect of banning short term rentals. Best you'll get is some natural experiments where you pretend you can compare NYC and Hoboken.
I think postgres really excelled at this pattern. As well as other databases implementing a query planner.
A little difficult to parse your argument. It is the lack of implementation of the cheap solution that you are worried about and raising as a problem.

Do not worry.

When enough pressure is applied on the farmers thanks to people like you , the solution (seaweed) we have found will be implemented. We have already done the difficult part and found a solution to the problem.
back of someone's pickup truck. and when i mean someone i mean random truck parked in a way to make it viable
I wish!
It's me as a child running around in a t-shirt, waiting for Santa.
Apparently that's not allowed.
Yeah, I feel like it's generally extraneous to my main point to observe that Rust isn't perfect at it, and it can be wrong, in consequential ways.

My main point is, the general concept of ownership and having to care about it is present everywhere, though. If you prefer to say that it reveals it but imperfectly, I'm down with that. But I think it's important to understand it isn't entirely 100% responsible for creating it. Every shared-state threaded language has the issues, it just doesn't have a type system and compiler (imperfectly) helping you with them. It's not a license to write Go or any other language while oblivious to ownership issues just because the compiler won't complain.
Figma, allow us to do local changes even when files are read-only, so we can fix last minute stuff before exporting to svg.
Perhaps a small part. But it's a long ways from "doing your part".
Hi Philip! This tool looks amazing!

My company specializes in selling to underserved communities in the AMEA region. Can your product help me connect with LGBT customers specifically in the Sudan and Saudi Arabia? Thanks!

PS can I get their exact addresses as well as the addresses of their family members and community leaders?
Didn't work out very well for Stanis Baratheon either.
Yeah payment history is only 35% of your score, amount of debt is 30% of your score (stupidly they want that to be below 7% of available (revolving credit) - meaning they penalise if you spend $1k/month on a credit card (and pay it off each month) and your limit is $10k, where as if your limit was ~$16k they look upon it favourably), length of history 15% (changing loan providers or credit cards hurts you here - despite flawless payment history), credit mix 10% (so if you just have credit cards this hurts you)
> are houses and long term rentals any cheaper

You'd need to do more math than that: has the rate of change in prices of those things decreased?

It could be more 10% more expensive but previously would've gotten 15% more expensive, for instance.

And of course even that is trivializing it: there have been outside factors that would also affect the baseline trend in the price of housing for the last 5-10 years, so it could be tough to measure against it.

The authors of the article don't really try: "it's not clear whether the near-ban is achieving one of its central goals: relieving pressure on the city's severe housing shortage."
Funny, I was just wondering today why Google doesn’t have an infinite canvas product. All I want is Google Slides with an infinite canvas.

Products like Figma, Miro, and Excalidraw are all great, but they’re not integrated into Google Workspace like Docs/Slides. I like comments, tagging users, auto-completing links to other docs with their title, etc.
I am curious about Elixir, but I really can't bring myself to spend time mastering a language with dynamic types. You are removing one class of errors from your application, but at the same time inviting a new one that has been solved decades ago.

I'm aware that this is a very controversial take, because lots of people love duck typed languages, but after working in large codebases, they are a hard pass for me. There's a reason why TypeScript was created for JavaScript, Sorbet was created for Ruby, and type hints is so popular with Python. I think I've seen something about gradual typing being introduced in Elixir, but gradual typing is still a long ways from enforcing type safety. Until then, I'll stick with Go.

If I am mistaken and there is a "TypeScript for Elixir", then I would love to know about it.
Of course it’s possible. That’s what discovery is for. Internal emails were cited in this case as well.

And if the Government had coerced Facebook in violation of its Constitutional rights, I’m sure Facebook would sue the Government and quite possibly prevail.
Ironically I think you got that almost exactly wrong.

Avoiding "cowboyism" has instead lead to the rise of heuristics for avoiding trouble that are more religion than science. The person who is most competent is also likely to be the person who has learned lessons the hard way the most times, not the person who has been very careful to avoid taking risks.

And let me just say that there are VERY few articles so poorly written that I literally can't get past the first paragraph, and an article that cherry-picks disasters to claim generalized incompetence scores my very top marks for statistically incompetent disingenuous bullshit. There will always be a long tail of "bad stuff that happens" and cherry-picking all the most sensational disasters is not a way of proving anything.
Being pedantic, but most heat is considered "waste" heat - aka it is high entropy energy, which is much harder to convert into the more useful forms of energy (mechanical, electrical, etc.)
spoiler: they're not rats
Once the buzzworthyness of AI wears off this ad will be old news anyway: even the best quality most impactful ads are just temporary assets.
I don't think this is the strength of evidence you seem to think it is. I would like to see some actual data and analysis, not just a throwaway clickbait headline.