skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you name any such (famous) people?

I think we're not talking about exactly the same thing though, which I'd say is my fault. I would like to modify this:

> stop (or ~isolate/manage) non-intentional cognition, simulated truth formation, etc.....not perfectly in a constant, never ending state of course, but for short periods of time, near flawlessly.

...to this (only change is what I appended to the end):

> stop (or ~isolate/manage) non-intentional cognition, simulated truth formation, etc.....not perfectly in a constant, never ending state of course, but for short periods of time, near flawlessly, without stopping cognition altogether (such as during "no mind" meditation or "ego death" using psychedelics). Think more like a highly optimized piece of engineering, where we have ~full (comparable to standard engineering or programming) access to the code, stack, state, etc.
how can the US president remain in power, aren't there checks and balances? Does he have absolute command of the army?
A uniform tiling that fold-transforms into another uniform tiling
I always thought of title insurance as a complete farce. However, I did end up with a scenario where title insurance paid out (to me) to the tune of several thousand dollars when I was sued by a neighbor.

The neighbor accused me of infringing on her property. I, in turn, proved (enough to the title insurance company, anyway) that the neighbor had also infringed on my property, and had done so in an invisible way (underground) since before I purchased the property. Since that infringement was not disclosed to me when I closed on the property, the title insurance company agreed to compensate me for that infringement to save the expenses of litigation.

At the end of the day, I ended up net positive to my own pocket as a result of their litigation. Unfortunately, a lot of lawyers made a lot of money in the process and everything (insurance, etc) ends up being more expensive as a result of crap like this.
> But if he orders Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival, that is an official act. This example is specifically stated in the dissenting opinion.

One of the key things about a dissent, is that it's not the opinion of the court, but just that judge.

In general, one would hope Seal Team 6 would not follow such an act as they owe allegiance to our system of laws before any presidential order.
I just got reminded that round(0.5) is poorly defined across different languages and your results may vary if you use this algorithm without properly understanding what round() does in your language vs. what is expected by the algorithm.
Your solution to corporations using tax havens is to eliminate all corporate taxes?

How does that help?

They only pay 6% now, you are saying, so let's have them pay 0%?
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I'm just going to leave this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40848935
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Generally, courts can strike items from the transcript, if someone misspeaks / reveals things they were not supposed to reveal / if a witness speaks to things that were not part of the question, etc. That mechanism would slip a lot more often if there were multiple recordings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_to_strike_(court_of_law...

I'm pretty sure committees examining confidential materials routinely have someone review the transcript for accidental disclosures.
> The definition of words

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These days I wouldn't expect anyone who makes an attempt to "neutralize the president" to live long enough to see the inside of a courtroom
>> "It does."

I am sitting here looking at a new entry added from a button click that creates a network call. Either you are wrong or confused about what the discussion is about.
Something the article doesn't touch on (which I've experienced after going through the AWS grinder)

Everything on LinkedIn is just flooded with junk resumes. Every single IT position will invariably have "see how you compare to 500+ applicants!" in it

Is LinkedIn just overrun with bots?

Is it people from overseas trying to get on the H1B train?

Did the years of "learn to code!" just flood the market with kids who desperately want a "tech job" to escape the crushing reality of capitalism?

Does the public (government) sector suffer from this same kind of 'applicant stuffing' problem? I'd gladly take a pay cut if it meant I could simply go work somewhere in peace until I'm old enough to retire. I'm sick of ping-ponging around

I'd gotten so desperate I even shared my resume on Reddit the other week. It's exhausting
Two reasons. First, it's the office that's immune, not the person. If you prosecute a person for something they did "as president" then you're prosecuting the office. Second, it's not to be fair to the person. It's to protect the government from collapsing. People forget that happens all the time, often due to ineffective executive leadership. Look at Haiti, etc. So, I think it's true that Presidents will get away with a few things here and there that they shouldn't, Congress can still impeach and remove them. If Congress is on-board with what the President is doing, then that's a decent safeguard that "at least whatever the President is doing isn't going to destroy the country."
Counterargument: At the end of the day, the ones reaping corporate profits are themselves people, who should be paying their income taxes, no?
When a measure becomes the target, it ceases to be a good measure.

Insert here some analogy with paying Indians for catching snakes.
Can’t edit: chickens are awful animals, and having known a handful of chicken farmers, they’re universally despised.

Cows are the opposite in just about every way.
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>Imagine you already live in aplace like Illinois, and you think well, at least I'm cheaper than somebody in California so I'll be employed.

Did you forget what happened to Detroit and the rest of the rust belt back in the 2000s? Being slightly cheaper than California was never going to protect you from competition from Mexico or Asia.

>Then after the company makes 10 billion dollars last year, they decide to cut 600 whole people in Illinois just to take a little extra profit in a move to Mexico.

When you're working at the scale of a multinational company with $61 billion in revenue and 83k employees, every single decision is going to be like this. Sure, you could easily fund that one factory with 600 employees with a tiny fraction of your overall profits, but you probably have dozens of such factories. You can't keep all of them, and there's no reason to privilege any particular factory.
This is not really true though. Congress is responsible for granting authority to the President regarding valid military targets. This is why drone strikes are only legal against targets recognized by Congress as security threats. It cannot realistically happen for the President to start targeting individuals outside of Congressional authority.

For your hypothetical situation to arise, Congress would have to declare members of Congress themselves as valid military targets.
This is a really cool idea. I especially like the math blocks where you can add blocks of information that actually do things. I could see this potentially even growing beyond math, but other types of functionality as well.

One optimization that might be interesting is to simply use Markdown as your main document all the time and then when you want to add special functionality like the math block to simply have that as a code block in Markdown. For example, using the triple back tick followed by the word math. Then anything inside of that math block works just like you already have.

This also makes it easy to add other types of blocks incrementally.

One challenge for me in reading the sample document was that it wasn’t clear that a math block was a math block without the comments that you wrote. Using the triple back tick with the block type would solve that problem
Appreciate the advice.

I'm doing most of those things.

My only use of healthcare has been at the ER for chest pains - turned out to be anxiety. Scheduled months ago for a new PCP after moving cross-country and my appointment is still 2 months out.
> human reason as an incredibly inefficient

I have yet to see a single AI system that can learn to produce the word "mama" after doing fully self supervised training, and being fed only the cosine transform of the audio it produces and a few hundred hours of video/audio feed showing a mom saying the word and becoming very happy when the word is finally uttered. Did I mention the output must be produced using an array of mechanical oscillators, resonance chambers and bellows with unknown and highly variable acoustic parameters, that need to be discovered and tuned at runtime?

I have seen this "human intelligence training is wasteful" line and I think it is complete nonsense. The efficiency with which humans can acquire any language with barely any training data is unfathomably better than large scale statistical models.
Both are abstractions. They’re just different types of abstractions. Your question makes no sense.
> They are irrelevant for the question of this thread.

Then why did you mention it? And, you made a claim in response to my question...so what gives? This technique seems a bit unfair.

Regardless: is relevance objective? How is it measured?

Also: note that "are" is a conjugation of "is". This creates a bit of an epistemic problem does it not (considering your comment above)?

> No human can observe unobservable things by definition.

Religion is a classic counterpoint to this. Nonexistence is another. Relevance is another. Omniscience another. There are tons of examples, with new ones coming online every day!

Plus: does defining reality to be a certain way necessarily mean it takes on that form, or might it only cause it to appear to have taken on that form?
I think a question only you can answer is will your stress fade away if you quit this job? Usually the answer is no - the mind is a tricky thing - it can find something new to latch onto to cause you feelings of anxiety.

Before you quit, try really hard to enter a different headspace then you're in now and answer this question for yourself.

When I was doing my undergrad, I called my dad extremely distraught as I really believed I was going to get an F in a class for my major. He gave me what I thought at the time was irritating advice, but looking back on it he was right. He told me "Just fail the class if you have too, if you work in X or as a cashier at a grocery store I promise you'll have stress. You've put in a lot of time already, might as well see what happens here".

All this said, if you're literally having physical health issues, you might want to calibrate the above and put your health above everything...
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> Are you sure?

Yes. What I said was accurate.
Historic as in since ww2. He US is a young country but it that young. Before the 1930s total tax take was under 10% of gdp
Winning elections? There was only so much they could do without cooperation from the other far-right parties and especially Hindenburg.
While I don't agree with the strikes, such action was generally authorized by Congress (thanks to the "war on terror") which was never since rescinded by Congress. So was not unconstitutional.
Trump's running again because his first pass in office was wildly profitable, and he thinks he could get another shot at it. And that's just considering the stuff we know about (emoluments violations, government loans/grants to family members, "investments" from Saudis). Who knows what he got for access to those documents stored at Mar-a-Lago or things we don't know anything about.
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I think the saddest thing is that judges are expected to answer how they would rule on specific cases to be confirmed. What is even the point of an independent supreme court, if politicians can have guarantees as to how specific cases are decided?
You mean Europe is about 248 years late, according to this article.
Stabbing your political rivals, marching armies at one’s own capital, etc are definitely considered less honourable in these fallen times.
This is easily in the top 5 of my favourite HN comments of all time. What a beautiful way to express how things were and have changed. I know I hearken back to the days where trust was the default and I felt in control, rather than fighting for it, with every service and device I engaged with.

I have idealistic reasons for being so insistent on running linux, etc. and never connected them with a romantic feeling for the internet of yesteryear.
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Europe's lifestyle is subsidized heavily by the American defense industry and they had better buckle in if Trump wins and starts more seriously winding down America's defense commitments there
Wireguard had no user management (or rather, some kind of identity you can cancel). This is not useable in an entreprise environment without some kind of complicated backend. Something like tailwind.

I live WG though, a magical product.

Same for openVPN, though there are some extending that help.

Compare this with a commercial VPN that will directly plug into your identity system.
i'm a little busy cutting through the actual opinion at the moment. maaaybe i'll get to this Vox journalist's own interpretation of it when i'm done. no breath should be held though.
Authoritarianism is when the appointed judges vote 6-4 for an interpretation which at worst is an extension of existing principle.
Thank you for sponsoring this. There's so little buzz about this hardware despite the fact it's clearly amazing for AI use cases. I don't understand why not. Maybe this is why Nvidia is the most valuable company in the world - nobody can be bothered to try a competitor.
For what purpose? Given how many people are literally dying to sneak into the US and live an undocumented existence (ie. menial jobs paid under the table), I'm going to go on a limb and say even the bottom decile of Americans are better off staying here than trying to sneak into Mexico. Maybe you want to move to Cancun (and continue working your remote desk job) for a few months as some sort of protest against the corporations/government, but it's not a prudent or even realistic option for most people.
> Other languages I enjoy include Haskell, Elixir, and Rust. [...] Rust is great because it has a phenomenal type system with good type inference; it’s metaprogramming story could be improved though.

I agree with the author about Rust in that it has a beautiful and expressive type system. The fact that it can be used for systems programming, has a modern package system, and can be deployed as a single static binary are bonuses.

Rust is a perfect little Go/Java replacement for microservices and web servers.
No.

A flow hood or air box helps but you can do it without. I'd recommend using mycellium to make a liquid culture vs. a spore solution, though. Less chance of contamination and faster colonization of your grain spawn.
Kavanaugh was not forced to lie under oath, he chose to.
But the immunity is only presumptive for acts within the outer perimiter of the president's official responsibility. For core constitutional powers, like giving orders to the military, the immunity is absolute.
Which calculator? And does it have a C compiler?
Federal law defines "machine gun", a bump stock clearly doesn't meet it.
Wow. So, the system doesn’t work. It’s almost as if education isn’t the “cure” for the “social problems” of 2024 and beyond.

Who knew?
The Executive branch does have the authority to enforce laws, but that authority is not absolute. The President cannot go to the Justice department and say "hey, that guy who committed murder, don't prosecute him, because he promised to pay me a lot of money if I let him off". The President cannot go to the Justice department and say "stop investigating me and my political allies or I'll fire you". That second one is what led to Nixon having to resign.

At least, that's what I think should be the case. The majority in this case disagree. They seem to think that any usage of the powers of President is free from any criminal liability.
My PhD suggests otherwise lol
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As it should be. If someone is going to make a broad claim about an entire political party - be that Republicans or Democrats - they need to show the evidence. You don't get to make sweeping negative statements about large chunks of the country without backing it up.
It is more clickbait-y when the title alludes to a conspiracy by one or a small group of "evil" organizations, instead of a title that allude to tax policies implemented by democratically elected leaders, which make people's eyes gloss over.
If president has gone rogue and is assassinating members of congress (or rival candidates, why would they need legal immunity? Assassinating opponents is already the action of someone that refuses to relinquish office and has de facto immunity. They don't need the validation of the Supreme Court to do this; nobody is going to charge them in the case that it'll bring a death sentence.
Tax the shareholders instead.

At a minimum tax capital gains at the same rate as labor. Ideally, don't tax labor at all either, they are taxed plenty by inflation.
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I think the saddest thing is that judges are expected to answer how they would rule on specific cases to be confirmed.

That’s the sad part? We have different perceptions reality.
Abstractions go over things. An abstraction is something fundamentally layered on top of another thing. Two things cannot be abstractions of each other. If you encounter such a concept and you still think they are both abstractions then it is you who is not making sense.
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Whether laws can be applied retroactively is decided by the constitution :)

But yes, what I meant is that the supreme court has the power to interpret the law and uphold the constitution, but it is on the legislation to draft precise laws.
They switched their approach when they decided to turn the browser into an independent project, because that was the only way to get it done. Of course it's ok to change, but you can also consider that as a precedent and take anything they say now with a grain of salt.
A U.S. corporation that directly does business around the world is also subject to tax on its worldwide income.

Most companies big enough to be doing business around the world do so through separate companies.
There's no winning if you're on the side that kind of leans towards playing fair.

We can't protect democracy by throwing it out the door, and hoping you still get elected come fall. If Biden would take advantage of this ruling in a way the American public doesn't like, he won't be elected. So he would have to further throw out democracy the way Trump is comfortable doing, by ignoring the election results.

But enough Americans seem to be leaning towards re-electing Trump such that he'll have 4 more years in office to perform official acts to his heart's content and set himself up for whatever he has in mind by the end of his term, January 2029.