skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd been working on a similar syntax for a while, mostly was inspired by some work I did in iOS back in 2015/2016. They used a constraint system and it's honestly pretty great, though some of the more complex features can be daunting.

I'd love something like this:

red-box {
width: 100
height: 100
top: 10
left: 10
}

blue-box {
width: 50
height: 50
top: $red-box.bottom * 2
left: $red-box.right + 100
}
Depression is clearly a hardware issue. So also ADHD.
Put simply, people in these brackets don’t need more options for tax breaks.
> This has not at all been my experience. When forced to do layoffs in a large company, executives tend to look at performance reviews

Speaking specifically to Facebook and Instagram, I know of more than one team where the manager wasn't consulted when someone higher up (I think they were advised by BCG) chose whom to cut.

The kicker? They frequently cut the highest paid. That obviously removed with a bias towards seniority. But it also meant that managers woke up to find their best-bonussed people gone while their worst performers--the cheapest on paper--remained.
You don't care that your government conspired to hide information that, by your own opinion, didn't have much utility one way or the other?
I hope we have freedom of race too. Rachel Dolezal was wronged by everyone, even so called liberal people.
> In European countries you can face charges of hate speech for even suggesting this

Source?
For those unaware of the significance, Every Frame a Painting was a 29 episode video essay series released between 2014 and 2016 on youtube.

The channel was widely regarded as one of the best technical analysis of the cinematic/film creative process, and was dormant since 2016 though still boasts over 2 million subscribers and growing.

They recently started releasing new content to the youtube channel preceding an impending short film release from channel creators.
2U did no due diligence. A minimum might have been to contact the author of the platform to check on IP issues (or anything else). This never happened. Lots of other things never happened either.

What they bought had little resemblance to what they thought they were buying. They got fleeced by MIT and Harvard. Wasn't the first and won't be the last.

There's a sucker born every minute
> that borrows the gold it spends.

I must be retarded because I don't see how this makes a difference.
Even if you're getting 0% interest loan (unlikely) you still have to pay it back, which will eat into future taxation? And if you don't pay it back they would be justified adding duties to all exports, recouping that way, by inflated prices...

> Their actions do not change the monetary base.

Assuming they don't find more gold...
I think so too, but many references fail to explain it in a way that isn't ambiguous at best.
Do "these people" include entrepreneurs with equity in startups with rapidly increasing value but no way to take money off the table? It doesn't take much to cross "$100m in assets" as a startup, say, $2.5M in revenue at 40x valuation (or $5M at 20x, etc.), even while loss-making.

How should the founders and equity investors in a bootstrapped high growth unicorn that is neither public nor profit-making handle this proposed capital gains tax? Does this mean VC funds would need to set aside arbitrary amounts of cash to cover impossible-to-predict taxes on cap gains during, say, a 7 year window?

It could also make it harder to attract and keep talent, since the earliest stage employees often rely on equity grants as part of their compensation. Does this mean every early stage employee has to have deep enough pockets to cover cap gains tax pre-revenue? And what happens when the company implodes past the look-back for recouping tax overpayment?

It might make sense to focus on closing existing loopholes without creating new burdens and cash flow barriers that could disrupt the innovation and growth ecosystem with unintended second and third order consequences.

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Edit to add:

It's true that a peeved Wall St donated a fraction to Biden this season relative to the past, and — surely entirely unrelatedly — partnerships and private equity were taken out of the latest incarnation, leaving in publicly traded and the $100M holdings.

If passed, this will be tinkered with, encircling ever more to offset the loopholes inevitably used.
> The tool would need to output MusicXML.

Finale does export MusicXML already. And PDF.

https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/258438881308...

> They should do more to allow the software to continue to be activated, as well.

Why? BTW, it can continue to be activated for a year, and existing activations will continue to work after that, as long as the OS remains compatible. What else do you think they should do after development has stopped?

https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/258438881308...
Needs (2016)
There is a subtlety of language at play here. When a musician practices a song they "cannot play", usually what they mean is they cannot play it fluidly, at full speed.

There are many degrees of being able or not able to play any given song.

This is what I hear when someone says they are practicing a skill slightly beyond their current capacity.
If you do a quick read of the announcement, it sounds at first like "after next year, it's impossible to use Finale anymore" (a closer read indicates that what goes away is the ability to activate a Finale install, so existing copies will keep working until you get a new computer). And for a lot of people, those who are reading the announcement that way, this is going to be a "my library of scores becomes permanently and completely inaccessible" situation. Especially because, to my knowledge, no one has a working Finale music file -> their own music file converter (people have working converters from MusicXML, but you have to open up Finale to convert from its format to MusicXML, and Finale only added MusicXML support relatively recently).

It's this library archival stranding that is driving a lot of outrage from some quarters, especially if you're misreading the announcement, as noted above.
That's your root concern, not mine. My root concern is that people are dying for bad reasons.
HR requires at our company that entire teams be removed to show that the company is changing strategy.

This gets rid of good people, but it lower the risks of lawsuits.
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> Do "these people" include entrepreneurs with equity in startups

No it doesn’t, you’re arguing using a straw man here. They need to be publicly traded securities to be taxed as I understand it. Also paying taxes is a public good, even if you’re exceptionally wealthy.
Check out the bio on her website, the lady has a degree from Harvard. She knows how to work her clientele, and besides that sort of extravagance is a Veblen good, it wouldn't move off the shelf unless the price is sufficiently high.
More that because IQ isn't genetically determined any data that makes it look like certain ethnic groups are smarter or stupider than other ethnic groups must be wrong.

The argument on both sides misses out that the IQ data seen could be a result of other factors that are only indirectly associated with an ethnic group, such as that group being descended from people who were enslaved or who practiced polygamy or who don't prevent first cousins from marrying.
same as with asking humans to do something
Further, history isn't just a series of events that happened long ago. It’s the story of how we - communities, nations, and civilizations have evolved over time. The experiences of previous generations shape the social, cultural, political, and economic structures that define a society today. Understanding this history allows a community to grasp why they are the way they are. For instance, the American Civil Rights Movement helps explain contemporary discussions on race in the United States. Without historical context, many aspects of the current social fabric would seem inexplicable or disconnected.-

Collective memory, as Halbwachs would have it, is like the shared pool of information and experiences held by a group of people. This collective memory is essential for maintaining cultural continuity across generations. When a community loses touch with its history, it risks losing the cohesion that binds its members together, which can lead to a sort of cultural amnesia. This concept isn’t just for nations; it applies to any group with a shared identity, including religious communities, ethnic groups, and even professional organizations.-

For example, indigenous communities often emphasize the importance of oral histories and traditions because these narratives carry the accumulated wisdom and identity of their people. If these stories are lost, so too is a sense of who they are as a distinct group.-

An understanding of history also allows a community to make informed decisions about the future. When people understand the causes and consequences of past events, they are better equipped to navigate present challenges. Santayana's quote, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," might sound like a cliché, but it's rooted in the idea that historical awareness helps societies avoid repeating the mistakes of the past. The European Union, for instance, was built on the memory of two world wars, which profoundly influenced its emphasis on cooperation and integration to prevent similar outcomes. Notwithstanding this whole mess in Ukraine ...
I think this depends on the library. There are some libraries that are just used in a handful of services, and in those cases I don't think that wrapping is worth the overhead.

However for some of the core platform functionality depended on by all services, we've seen a lot of value in wrapping because it:

- We can provide a more opinionated interface (a third party library is typically more flexible because it has vastly more variety in its use cases)
- We can hook in our own instrumentation easily (e.g. metrics, logging) or change functionality with config/feature flags
- We can transparently change the implementation in the future
I think you may have misunderstood the MailChimp pricing page, it has "Standard" plans all the way up to 100,000 contacts.

It's certainly not cheap at that scale, but the 10k package for $135 is comparable to Buttondown.
I would be curious to see how one could seriously argue this. People making this kind of claims tend to grasp at straws to make connections and make implications much more deterministic than they actually are.
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I saw vanilla-todo and found it much more interesting, honestly. Vanilla-prime brings nothing, just maybe a "saner" old bloated?
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I don't. The place is full of worst thieves and con artists from edX, and very few people who are competent or care.
Would you care to elaborate or provide a source to learn more?
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So riddle me this.

Hypothetical situation.

Take two dogs from the same litter.

Raise one with love and kindness. Play with it. Socialize with it.

Then take the other one and neglect and abuse the hell out of it.

Which dog do you think will show signs of depression?

Still think it's clearly just a hardware issue?
Yes, it wrong. "e.g." isn't a direct substitute for "for example". Honestly, it's best avoided as so many people confuse "e.g." and "i.e.", but if you're going to use it, at least use it correctly.
Try this in your local vim:
set rnu

Really handy for relative movements like 5j or 12k :)
> I think it's worth examining what legitimate purpose spreading health misinformation serves, and how that is beneficial to society.

"it's worth examining what legitimate purpose giving due process to criminals serve, and how that is beneficial to society"

Nobody is for spreading misinformation. The trouble is determining what "misinformation" is, and who has the power to determine that.
Well if true, that will surely end our civilization, maybe even more. But I wonder about the time-frame. If I had to guess, maybe 150 -- 200 years ?
> ChatGPT really goes into uncanny valley for me

Especially with the exclamation marks, it reads to me the way a stereotypical Silicon Valley bullshitter speaks.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41368174
The audience of HN are striving to be "people in these brackets" and far more here have experienced paper gains over $100M then seen it evaporate, than the few that end up at a place they are insensitive to marginal dollars.
What do you make of this section that claims recent research has identified an upper bound on the genetic component?

> …prediction accuracy depends on sample size, could the findings drastically change with more samples in the future? In fact, through the magic of statistics, we actually know that this claim will always to be true. We know this because we have estimated a parameter called molecular heritability, which tells us the upper bound on what a genetic predictor could ever achieve. Molecular heritability comes in two forms. “Population heritability” is a non-causal measure of the overall correlation between all genotyped variants and the trait, and it is estimated in large populations of unrelated individuals. Population heritability includes direct genetic influences on the trait that we typically think of as “genetics” but it also includes a lot of other correlated stuff that we typically think of as confounding, like cultural influences on the trait from relatives or prior generations (including the effects of parenting or dynastic advantages) or biases due to population stratification. In contrast, “direct heritability” is a measure of the specific genetic influences that are acting within individuals, and it is estimated in a large number of families. Direct heritability is immune to many sources of environmental confounding and, with some assumptions, can be interpreted as an estimate of causal genetic effects (for theory and derivations see [Veller et al. (2023)])
I think you've misunderstood the comment you're responding to.

They're suggesting that to give the optimal assistance to those countries, the IQ of the current adult population needs to be considered as an important variable in the equation, but it's taboo and stigmatized to discuss or acknowledge, so the people get sub-optimal solutions instead.

If you want to help some community in need, but you're not allowed to address certain taboo topics- IQ, substance abuse, STDs, domestic abuse, religious beliefs or cultural norms, whatever may be relevant for that group, then you're probably not going to design your programs for assistance in the best way.
Psychometric intelligence ("g") is defined correlationally viz. cognitive tasks; that is, the definition is itself a correlation. But it's robust in the sense that it correlates beyond the correlations used in its definition, e.g.: https://www1.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/1997whygmatt...
The first line of the first study the author references as "the largest genetic analysis of IQ scores":

>Intelligence is highly heritable

The author then writes this whole piece without once mentioning twin studies. Which is kind like writing about climate change and not mentioning CO2.

Also the author works for Harvard, which has been speed running their credibility into the ground as of late, for exactly the kind of highly politicized topics like this one.
On the one hand, this sounds like a lot of money, on the other, it's ~765k USD. If you just go off the rough assumption that 1 engineer/100k USD/yr then it's either a team of 7 for a bit over a year or a single engineer for a decade or so. I don't know if that's enough to make a significant impact? I'd like to think so, but a project that big, once it gets funding, is sure to have some tech debt that needs paid before anything new, so, will new things come of this?
> The heritability of IQ, from twin studies and via other traditional methods of measuring heritability, is way higher than the author of that article implies. It's as high as 0.8.

No one here can seem to be able to prevent an LLM from saying 3+5 is something other than 8, yet you talk about "IQ" as if some test cam boil down human brains to one integer and then rank them.

Also if one person is born in a stable, educated house, and another in a poor unstable house where they are not educated, how is environment separated from heritability? People try to make social science studies to do this, but the problem is they have limited data to draw on.

This ideal of a Calvinistic Brahmin chosen people is rooted in parasitism and idleness. We can have a meritocracy society where everyone starts on the starting line, or we can have one where at birth someone is either on the worker bee or rich kids of Instagram born on third base path. The idle class aristocratic parasitic view favors the very weak idea of heritability - some hidden genetic change in the past 50,000 years after behavioral modernity.
> You just get way fewer experiments per day done.

Smaller/simpler/weird/different models can be an incredible advantage due to iteration speed. I think this is the biggest meta problem in AI development. If you can try a large range of hyper parameters, fitness function implementations, etc. in a few hours, you will eventually wipe the floor with the parties forced to wait days, weeks and months for their results each time.

The bitter lesson certainly applies and favors those with a lot of compute and data, but if your algorithms fundamentally suck or are approaching a dead end, none of that compute or information will matter.
> IQ is only a narrow specific type of intelligence biased to western education indeed

I see this claim a lot, but what is even meant by "western education" here? IQ tests show similar results in most countries that have /any/ form of formal compulsory education. It's clear that education or lack of education can affect IQ scores, but not so much that IQ tests are biased by the specification type of education.

The best research I've seen on the matter concludes that education biases the results because in order to receive and participate in an IQ test you need to have some base level of language understanding of the terminology used in the IQ test itself, which implies that you've received some minimal amount of education. The most common IQ test used in the United States, the Stanford-Binet (SB5) generally recommends not administering it to people under the age of 8 years old for this reason, and there are specialized tests for children that show reduced bias for education when used on non-educated populaces.

Or, in summary, it seems standard IQ tests bias for /any/ education, not specifically "western" education. In other words, there's no cultural bias as claimed.
That doesn't sound very compelling: C is still a much more popular language than Rust and a lot simpler too. I realize the latter is somewhat subjective, but it's blatant enough that I'm willing to assert it confidently.

If you want to know how to add a feature to ls in GNU coreutils, you don't have to look very far. The whole program is in src/ls.c. It's pretty large due to the amount of options, but it's pretty simple code all things considered. If you look at a program with less switches, like mkdir, it's even easier.

https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/mkdir...

So what about FreeBSD? Well, not only does it have an official GitHub mirror, but it even accepts "simple" pull requests, apparently. And the implementation of ls is a bit more approachable, since BSD utilities typically don't have as much functionality.

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/bin/ls/ls.c

I don't think Rust is going to make things significantly more accessible. It does indeed draw people in and maybe make them less fearful versus C, but in practice a lot of the reason why contributing to these large projects is scary is nothing to do with the language and more to do with the arduous requirements of any project that is as complicated and widely used as they are.

For example, does Rust actually make kernel development more accessible? Maybe not:

> Despite more novice developers being attracted by Rust to the kernel community, we have found their commits are mainly for constructing Rust-relevant toolchains as well as Rust crates alone; they do not, however, take part in kernel code development. By contrast, 5 out of 6 investigated drivers (as seen in Table 5) are mainly contributed by authors from the Linux community. This implies a disconnection between the young and the seasoned developers, and that the bar of kernel programming is not lowered by Rust language.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc24/presentation/li-hong...

So if you want to add a feature to ls, maybe you shouldn't wait for operating systems to switch to Rust alternatives.

But when you think about it, it is not surprising that adding a feature to ls is not easy. I mean, you really wouldn't want new features being added to utilities like ls without a ton of care and thought put in, and that is true no matter what language the utility is written in. The difficulty of contributing to some projects has very, very little to do with the actual process of writing code.
> MPs and cabinet members were encouraged to use lesser-known French alternatives.

Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38481403