skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can pay taxes on one dollar. It's the principle.

In my country our threshold is significantly lower by the way - it's around a million, so bog standard houses get hit by it.

I think that inheritance taxes are wholly equivalent to wealth taxes, e.g. "you have a thing, I like that thing, give me that thing", and therefore morally wrong.

I could agree with them on the basis that the money were minimal and solely used for security e.g. police and military, it's an insurance policy against theft, the Government has a monopoly on force and that's better than warlords.

It's not used that way though, so I reject the premise.
I think this plays out where it becomes a luxury to drive oneself. Over the next 10-15 years it looks like self driving will continue to advance and will likely become safer than the alternative.

Once that happens insurance companies will start charging more for people that drive themselves compared to people that let the car drive.

I can see some states outlawing that practice. Then it’s left to see who is still underwriting insurance in those states.
Hoping that this leads to lower rents in many places in the U.S.. Coupled with a multifamily construction boom, there should be a glut of nice, new apartments for rent.
There must be a way to do a mash-up between a spreadsheet and other languages like FORTRAN. Perhaps the language could be pluggable. You could mix and match and the spreadsheet formulas are the glue. Cell values abstract away the details of how that value got there. But, it accepts a refresh request.
I like this take. I'd be interested to hear more what you gained from studying them. What ways do you model your companies after Valve and Wolfram?
I think more in terms of enjoyment than pure typing productivity. If I'm using a text editor that I found comfortable and fun, I am more likely to feel good while working. So a text editor is more like a chair -- the gain in productivity is indirect and maybe a little subjective.
Call me a skeptic but this whole charade about privacy aware infrastructure seems more likely to be about plausible deniability rather than genuine compliance.

If it’s truly such a complex and monumental effort for a global company like Meta to adhere to these standards, how the hell does the EU plan to detect non-compliance?

Many of us here are keenly aware how easily private data can be laundered through ML models, obfuscating provenance beyond reversibility.

Incentivizing whistleblowers by sharing a % of the fine could be a good start, but as far as I’m aware no such provision exists under the EU DMA regulation.
The main issue there is that the mantra something you know, something you own, something you are is completely wrong in the authentication context. The issue there is that the biometric “something you are” cannot be revoked and also depends on the relying system having some kind of secure path to whatever sensor measured it. So in the end as an authentication it is only useful as convenience feature (eg. how TouchID/FaceID works on Apple platforms). Identification is another thing and obviously biometrics are useful there, but well, there are not that many ethical uses for system that does identification without authentication.
Hmm, interesting. Am I understanding it correctly that you're doing some kind of reset on the RX PIO from regular C code, and the time for "RX finish -> interrupt CPU -> reset RX PIO" is longer than the gap between packets?

If so, might it be possible to use two RX PIOs, automatically starting the next one via inter-PIO IRQ when a packet is finished? That'd give you an entire packet receive time to reset the original PIO, which should be plenty.
the problem is, unlike with altavista and google, we still have a lot of use cases where we aren't asking questions. I just want sites that contain keywords.

I'd even say that part of the problem with modern search is answering questions instead of matching keywords and getting rid of junk and spam.
for training, but for the interference apparently they use their own chips
It doesn’t seem at all weird to me that paintings have completely different standards than films. Using a ghost painter does seem a little like cheating, if the painting is sold as being the creative and manual work of the named painter. It seems slightly dishonest to advertise it and talk about it as the creative manual work of one person, but create it using other people. I mean, I’m sure it really does happen and that some people don’t care, but still it doesn’t seem clearly and cleanly ethical unless they advertise the paintings as cooperative works and credit the painter.

In the art world, painting and sculpting are known as ‘fine art’ partly because they’re supposed to be singular creative works that aren’t reproducible and that came from an artist, or in other words they’re judged by the purity of the discipline (according to the Wikipedia page on Fine Art). Prints and photography are second-tier because they use machinery to duplicate images, and they go to lengths artificially limiting the number of copies and including certificates of authenticity just to try to sit above commercial art and ads, closer to fine art. Directing a ghost painter isn’t that far of a step away from selling a print as though it’s a unique original. Artists caught doing that would quickly lose any notoriety.

Films inherently take many people to create, and more importantly many people get the credit. The lay public knows that films are created by large teams & production companies. Paintings, on the other hand, are supposed to be a one-person show, the sole painter gets all the credit. Painting is taught as a solo creative endeavor, the public thinks of it as a solo process, and the narrative of the artistry includes technique because it’s a manual solo process.
The line from Chicago to Seattle is literally called the Empire Builder
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41405676
:slaps_forehead:

Of course, it would be long term (20%) and estate (40% but on slightly less), not one or the other. Mea culpa.
So what do you think the solution is then?

If the fines are small, people complain that they have no teeth and that corporations just see them as a cost of doing business.

If the fines do actually have teeth, we have your comment here.

What would you consider acceptable?
Thanks! So it is a bug :-).
This had been on my todo list for a while now.

It’s like the perfect match between event triggers and logical replication. Would love to hear any feedback and/or other ideas folks have tried in this space.
If I'm reading RCW 46.29.560 correctly, you do get the interest, and I think you can shop around to hopefully get a decent rate on a CD to deposit?

That said, if you expect 10% returns on equities and 5% interest on a CD, you still need to be paying around $3k/year for insurance for that to be a good deal on expectation. It could make sense if interest rates are really high, or I suppose if you use a loan to buy a CD, you'd just be paying the spread. Seems like a lot of work and extra liability to maybe save a few hundred dollars when presumably anyone doing this would consider that a rounding error.
That's correct! The text is presented on the source web page as a story, and it does not claim to be factual.

Alexander Grothendieck was indeed awarded the Crafoord Prize, which he rejected. (It was never worth 40 mil francs as the translation above claims. The original French put it at "40 briques" = 400,000, currency not specified, which is much closer to the more accurate 800K SEK ~ 800K FFr that he would have received. The fact that the full amount, 1,6M SEK, would be split between him and Pierre Deligne, whom Grothendieck had denounced, might have contributed to his decision.) Grothendieck's rejection letter was remarkably lucid and articulate: https://www.fermentmagazine.org/quest88.
The transcontinental railroad was highly significant. Past atrocities don’t negate the unique role the railroad played in a centuries-long process, especiallY when a major stage of it was enabled by the railroad: https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/TRR
Is there a special name for these purposefully imprecise meme like terms? "4 day work week" means 10 different things to 5 different people.

People sick of capitalism are like, finally some kind of relief?

Business owners are like, yeah great everyone can work 12 hours days and i pay less office heating.

Japan is like, if you are a good quiet slave you may get fake praise for your incredible dedication worth well over 100 hours a week crammed into 4 days.

Greece is like, enough of this communism they will work more days by force!

Everyone has their own different flavor of propaganda around it: like people stating "studys" without thinking for one second people arent so desperate for change they would try to game that study at all costs
> It would be quite straightforward to make your biometric identity a public private key kind of setup.

How would that work? Maybe the biometric part acts as a domain name from which the public key might be downloaded? Who is the custodian of face-public key pairs?
Really interesting perspective
OpenAI doesn’t operate without the enormous amounts of funding MS gives it.
"Merging" as in ~25 is the new class size after merge or two classes of ~25 will merge to a new class size of ~50? I never really considered it before but on looking it up it seems some places have average class sizes <20 whereas where I went to school 25-30 was typical so I genuinely don't know which applies in this case.

Even 30 I think worked out towards the later years but, looking back, I have no idea how grade school classes of 25+ held together. 50 would have to be just nuts for all but maybe the final year or two.
The market share for this is probably 4 people. It amazes me that ColdFusion is still around. I have a client currently that I just helped upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion 2023. I even asked them if that looked into switching over to Lucee to save that obscene licenses costs from Adobe, but they said that they couldn't because of some of the incompatibilities. I didn't get into what they were, I should continue that conversation.

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At least where I live, the LC companies offer more interesting work, lateral movement, better staff amenities, and, of course -- are far more lucrative. I'd probably walk if it's just a run of the mill company trying to cargo cult the hiring process.
> The back-end database of Tumblr is reportedly very simple

I'm not sure what your source is for this, but it's not correct. The combination of scale, age, and number of product features makes it quite challenging.

My knowledge of Tumblr's db infra is about 6 years out of date, but by my math they hit the milestone of 1 trillion distinct relational rows (on primary databases alone, i.e. excluding copies on replicas) a few years back already.

During Tumblr's peak popularity (~2012 to early 2013), the daily posting rate at times exceeded 100 million posts/day. For sake of comparison, Twitter reportedly received about 5x that at the time, but Tumblr posts are larger and far more media-heavy on average. So it's accurate to say the total volume was almost comparable.

That all said, the scope of this migration pre-announcement isn't totally clear. My assumption is they just plan to move the public blog network front-end to WordPress, possibly using some sort of shim layer. But an important point here is the blog network is a minority of Tumblr's traffic, and always has been. Most HN users who have never actually created a Tumblr account fail to understand this: the popular part of Tumblr is the social network / logged-in dashboard experience, not the public-facing blog network.

If they plan to move the entire site/backend over to WP, that's a much more challenging migration. The ID mappings and differing sharding schemes alone make this an absolutely massive effort.

source: long ago I was personally responsible for Tumblr's database and cache scalability during its original period of hockey-stick growth.
> For example, Mark Zuckerberg has a lot of money. So much that he can buy a mega-yacht and it not really affect him financially.

That phrasing deserves a pause. If someone has money, it came from somewhere - income - which is taxed. If you play that in reverse: someone who paid no tax had no income, and therefore no money.

Zuckerberg paid 13.7% tax [1]. Ballpark figure income [2,3] for that effective tax rate is $95K/year. You couldn't maintain a yacht on that income, let alone rent or buy one.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/13/wealthiest-a...
[2] https://smartasset.com/taxes/income-taxes#9S4WHcw5WA
[3] https://www.taxact.com/tools/tax-calculator
This sounds rather holistic, and avoids many pitfalls of the "leetcode hazing" approach.

I do want to point out that anyone trying to line up their next job while staying employed, would probably not be able to take 2 weeks off their existing job. It would then come down to "quit your job and take a leap of faith".
They will be bailed out before rents are allowed to decrease. Number only goes up now
How so? As far as I can tell, Microsoft has a large equity interest in OpenAI, and OpenAI has a lot of cloud credits usable on Microsoft’s cloud. I don’t think those credits are transferable to other providers.
It's so very HN that we get into fits about Google and Facebook and Apple and so on tracking us to make a buck, but the idea of an insurance company deputizing millions of cameras to perform mass surveillance to make a buck is suddenly okay because drivers that make us angry on the road get hurt by it.

The obvious answer to this proposal is that I believe that I have a right to not be monitored and penalized by autonomous algorithms, and I'm not ready to compromise on that right just because some people drive dangerously. All of the same arguments HN will reliably raise against algorithmic anything apply here, but apparently that all goes out the window when cars become involved.
I think this is precisely what I am ranting about.

These two usecases is what makes Tailwind so useful and accessible for drafting stuff up, but also bear the pitfalls of tech debt to actually maintain and iterate the design system of complex ui systems

What irks me is that so many people seem to be utterly unaware of this intent, and rather regard Tailwind as some sort of "better css", on the basis of not knowing much about CSS

But a truly good and flexible design system needs all of it in the end:

- a top layer config that allows definition and maintenance of design tokens

- an intermediate layer of abstracted presets to ensure portability and maintainability of design system specific patterns

- a lib-level layer of utilities to avoid having to force one-off declarations like the layout of a specific view into either of the other abstractions (Ex: "search results as 3 column grid on desktop" is not a design system concern, it's neither a "style", nor relevant to any other components or visual styles)

When it comes to keeping styles & markup together, this has always been possible with simply using `<style>` tags in your templates or components. The performance impact is absolutely negligible IRL, and any leakage or selector naming concerns have also become a none-issue with `@scope`

Don't get me wrong, Tailwind has the RIGHT IDEA! It solves to top level layer of managing the design system, which also is the main reason for it's success imho

The big issue is that it is constantly being used the wrong way, @apply which would allow for proper abstraction of component styles is largely being ignored, and thus instead of forcing utility into superfluous class bloat like it's common in framework-less vanilla CSS integrations, most of it's users rather force the intermediate abstraction into the utility-only layer, producing unmaintainable garbage markup and utterly illegible and repetitive style declarations.

And to get back to my original point:
This comes imho from the widely prevalent fallacy that Tailwind ought to replace the "traditional way" of writing styles, and failure to understand that it is meant to merely extend on it & utility classes should be employed in moderation and for specific purposes in design-systemized UIs
I merely pointed out what you were doing, hoping you’d get it, but alas.
I wasn't sure if they did or not, as I do not own a mega yacht. I was more just posing a question as to whether the purchasing of mega yachts was somehow tied into these tax strategies (which it sounds like it's not).
Yep I agree with that. I will say though that people, teams, and even entire companies (like what happened at Inflection) get poached everyday so maintaining a moat that way is tough. Also, even though it could happen in the future, is OpenAI's lead due to a moat of scientists with ideas so novel that no other AI company can compete? Certainly not because even though ChatGPT took the world by storm, numerous other companies built LLMs in a very short time span that now perform at very similar levels, both subjectively and based on benchmarks.
We're in a thread about passing laws though.
> Call me a skeptic but this whole charade about privacy aware infrastructure seems more likely to be about plausible deniability rather than genuine compliance.

It actually is that difficult. I have worked at a few big tech companies now on these projects and it would be insane to expect a startup to do something similar.

I do not think these regulations were crafted with any semblance of care for feasibility or implementation burden.

> If it’s truly such a complex and monumental effort for a global company like Meta to adhere to these standards, how the hell does the EU plan to detect non-compliance?

These sort of regulations are often enforced by demanding internal audits.

Most of the evidence used against Meta in fines has actually been disclosed by Meta.
Agreed, the requirement for currently employed people who have to take a leap of faith is the main issue with our hiring dynamic, IMHO.
You don't give blood only to those who are dying, people that are treated for disease sometimes also require blood transfer. Even then it's no excuse to willingly give a polluted blood.

If you were dying of thirst I would give you water from tchernobil nuclear plant and you would thank me.
> Emphasis on "utility classes". This is what makes Tailwind different from e.g. Bootstrap.

Just FYI that Bootstrap 5+ has really good utility classes:
https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.3/utilities/background/

This plus their component classes makes Bootstrap a lot more practical for most needs imho, and without needing some build step.
I’m past the edit time, but “unless” should be “and”
Bike construction is a key variable. My gravel bike is a smoother ride on crushed gravel than my hybrid or electric are on city streets.
> "It would be one big machine (with lots of energy) extracting (and hopefully recycling) earth elements to satisfy humans."

See also that machine in fiction, breaking down: E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops" from 1909, available free at Project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/72890/pg72890-images.ht...
Glad to see policy makers coming to their senses.
I look forward to getting cyberrailed on the hypertrain
I did open an issue on GitHub with the CPython implementation and it's being looked into. The crash happens for sure in the debug version of Python. However we're seeing valgrind and address sanitizer fire off for the upcoming 3.13 release in release mode when using the C API as I showed in my example. However, this behavior only appears to occur when embedding python directly, not via extending it, into an application. Because of how the (hidden because it is experimental) `_xxsubinterpreters` module works internally, it's extra internal bookkeeping seems to give enough time for the race condition to disappear.
> These two usecases is what makes Tailwind so useful and accessible for drafting stuff up, but also bear the pitfalls of tech debt to actually maintain and iterate the design system of complex ui systems

Tailwind is really rotten for complete design systems, (I'm not just talking about an app's theme like colors and fonts)
Cute

My sister's department reviewed every line of code in every product for date/time issues, and corrected them. But she was probably anomalous, by all the anecdotes. She ran a tight ship, and did things that actually needed to be done.
Did you read the article? The sentence OP objects to is the lead-in to a conductor on a trip telling him about how rail passengers were encouraged to help reduce the native population. It's a bit of context for an anecdote, in an article that is entirely compared of lightly contextualized anecdotes.
> My interview consisted of about twelve minutes with a laconic, mustachioed, middle-aged Arthur Andersen manager named Dick. (One of the services Andersen had been asked to provide was to help hire the Conglomerate’s Y2K team.) “On a scale of one to ten, what’s your knowledge of computer software?” he began. I paused for a moment, unsure of whether our interview would include a demonstrative component, as had so many previous interviews for jobs I had not gotten. But his office was empty. I couldn’t see how he would test me. I said eight.

On a private forum I'm part of there was an engineer who ascended into upper management at a startup. He had an entire thesis that modern tech interviews were bullshit and could be replaced with short conversations and asking candidates to self-rate their abilities.

He posted long and confident writings about how he was going to save his company so much time and attract the best talent by having the shortest interviews and trusting candidates self-ratings of their abilities.

He disappeared for a long time until one day he came back and wrote a post-mortem about his hiring experiment. The quality of their new hires had collapsed. It was so bad that some of their previous top employees were quitting because they were tired of all of the unqualified people joining the company.

As he learned, if candidates sense that their interviewers aren't going to examine their claims too closely, many of them will inflate their claims as much as they think they can get away with.

In hiring, it only takes one candidate grossly exaggerating their experience and abilities to push the truly qualified candidates into 2nd place (aka not getting the job).

We all like to think that we can separate the liars from the truth tellers, but when you're trying to do it in extremely short interviews with questions going both ways, there isn't much time to deep dive.
Seems like a small web deserves a small client. Why use a "big web" client to read the small web. "Big web" clients are funded by advertising or advertising companies.

Bias disclosure: I have used a text-only client for the last 30 years.
We have lots of commuter trains near large cities in the US. Many people who work in NYC, Chicago, Washington DC, and the like take commuter trains into and out of these cities from surrounding towns and cities. The issue is outside these big metro centers, most of the US isn't as densely populated to make this feasible.
Ask HN: Calculus Refresher for AI/ML?
From what I gather, much of AI is gradient descent, which appear to be matrices of PDEs.

I took calculus/linear algebra/PDEs decades ago, but remember little of it. Are there any resources for relearning the parts useful for AI in an efficient manner?
They're doing bare minimum and solving that problem with technology. As if well intended regulations could drive the civilization forward and benefit all. Strange, isn't it.