skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This tacitly assumes a pretty naive model of how these markets work. The dynamics of poor liquidity, dead equity, stock restrictions, intangible asset loss, etc materially change the outcomes you can expect. In many cases it may cost the government more than the revenue generated, and the counter-party as well

In all seriousness, that is extremely unlikely to be the case, especially in broad terms. I mean, to purchase public stock at all you already must do so from a licensed broker, who mind you, is already required by law to report the cost basis of shares purchased by investors. To require them to regularly move 2% of shares owned by investors, to the government's ownership, would be rather trivial in cost to do. Hell, it could be completely automated.

And the cost of it doing that would likely be much less than property taxes, which, is a far less liquid asset, and much more costly to assess than equities, but is nonetheless profitable to tax. I mean the SP500 alone has a market cap of ~$47 trillion, which is, surprising almost the same exact value as the entire US real estate market, but much more liquid.

Additionally, whether it is even profitable at all could be besides the intent of the tax here. It doesn't necessarily have to be profitable, from which perspective, poor liquidity and changes in outcomes isn't a problematic at all. It could be even the intent.

> And property taxes are deductible in the US. I’m not sure where you got the impression they aren’t.

Okay fair. I suppose you could do something similar, but also don't see why it's necessary, just because we do so for other taxes.
the name means sky in French
> Another weakness of procedural and functional programming is that their viewpoint assumes a process by which "inputs" are transformed into "outputs"; there is equal concern for correctness and for termination (and proofs thereof). But as we have connected millions of computers to form the Internet and the World Wide Web, as we have caused large independent sets of state to interact–I am speaking of databases, automated sensors, mobile devices, and (most of all) people–in this highly interactive, distributed setting, the procedural and functional models have failed, another reason why objects have become the dominant model.

Can someone explain this failure better?
I remember when the Toyota Prius was a potent symbol of everything that was wrong with smug liberals. Lazy comedians still use the Prius as a punchline. Why doesn't a Tesla Model 3 carry the same sort of political baggage? Why don't right-wing conspiracy theorists consider Musk to be part of the "WHO/WEF globalist elite", despite the fact that he's a tech billionaire who is literally trying to plug people's brains into The Matrix and colonise space?

By taking sides in a partisan culture war, he has made his core mission essentially non-partisan. Maybe he does really believe all of that stuff about "the woke mind virus", or maybe he realised that he can buy a priceless amount of political capital amongst people who would instinctively hate the goals of his project just by uttering the right incantations.
And yet you both throw incredibly weak & broad non-technical aspersions.

Casting such broad unspecific unnuanced nets, denying value blanketly where clearly some people do find value, is trolling.
Pretty sure all 3D PS1 games tapped into assembly for performance.

The most “famous” thing about Crash programming is probably that it’s all in lisp, with inline assembly.
Hey! Thanks a lot for Telik. I installed it a year ago to keep a local list of the channels I follow since I didn’t want to self-host a full server-based YouTube solution or download all the videos. Sadly, some channels have been closed by their authors, but I was able to identify which ones because the initial list I imported into Telik was still querying them. Great project!
Here is a friendly reminder that Twitter/X started cooperating way more with government takedown requests since Musk took over [1].

So obviously Musk is not protecting free speech here because he usually doesn't do it. What is he protecting?

[1] https://restofworld.org/2023/elon-musk-twitter-government-or...
Thank you!

1. Yeah I would say this was intentional. Typeforms are almost instantly recognizable, which is a good thing for a new product I think. I actually want to offer more than one form style though. If you look at the CSS file, everything is a variable so that I can add more styles/themes.

2. Haha you're right actually, the idea was slightly different and the name sort of stuck (it was originally blocksdb, which is worse). I don't mind blocks.md though, but marketing is definitely not my best skill.
Thanks for your reply. I'm currently in a stage of falling out of love with Django and trying to get my thoughts together on why that is.

I think Django seems confused on the issue of clean/validation. On the one hand, it could say the "model" is just a database table and any validation should live in the business logic of your application. This would be a standard way of architecting a system where the persistence layer is in some peripheral part that isn't tied to the business logic. It's also how things like SQLAlchemy ORM are meant to be used. On the other hand, it could try to magically handle the translation of real business objects (with validation) to database tables.

It tries to do both, with bad results IMO. It sucks to use it on the periphery like SQLAlchemy, it's just not designed for that at all. So everyone builds "fat" models that try to be simultaneously business objects plus database tables. This just doesn't work for many reasons. It very quickly falls apart due to the object relational mismatch. I don't know how Rails works, but I can't imagine this ever working right. The only way is to do validation in the business layer of the application. Doing it in the views, like rest framework or form cleans is even worse.
As the author wrote in another article, in retrospect it is almost inexplicable that Atari didn't simply release the 5200 as a keyboardless 8-bit computer, as opposed to using the same hardware but making the two platforms incompatible. There is absolutely no reason why it could not have released the equivalent of the XEGS in 1982, instead of five years later; doing so would have given the 5200 a large library immediately, especially given that it came out in the brief window the Atari 8-bits were the clear choice for computer games (after the Apple II and before the C64). It would have also protected the company from the "Why not buy a computer instead?" argument that contributed to the crash a year later. The only explanation I can come up with for this not happening was the incredibly bad internal war at Atari between the coin-op, computer, and console divisions. InfoWorld in 1984 covered the chaos in detail <http://books.google.com/books?id=gy4EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA15&pg=PA...>.

The 7800 was another mistake along these lines, with better graphics but worse sounds than the 5200 or 8-bit.
> he still sold the house. If you're not doing anything, just talking, it's not fraud

Let's edit the premise. No sale occurs. The agent spins some yarn, but you catch on and report them to a regulator. Do you expect them to go unpunished simply because it was all talk? Should they?
Good points.
For learning purpose, just understanding what a neural network is and how it works covers it all.
I had 800XL but with the joystick from the picture. It didn't had micro switches so it was very quiet. I could play while father was sleeping on the couch.
Gemini Advanced seems very promising with 1 Million token context window.

https://one.google.com/explore-plan/gemini-advanced

I haven't tried it as I use Claude primarily.
You can actually have more than one form field within the same slide. I haven't made that very obvious, but one of the advantages here compared to Typeform is the flexibility.
If ChatGPT becomes as good as a junior, it may replace this position and we will be stuck with a decreasing number of seniors. But right now it's bad, makes a lot of mistakes and hallucinates APIs which is unacceptable.

> the job of a developer [is] glorified autocomplete of what someone else prompts them with

Clients don't know what they want, need, or what machines are capable of. Managers can't properly translate that either to the developers. My job is to understand all this and propose solutions, or say no if it's impossible. Will AI do that in the future? Do you remember when Cobol was supposed to replace programmers? Same thing for me. I have yet to see a fully generated solution from the specs to the deployment that takes responsibilities for its mistakes. But not yet another ReactJS frontend that anyone can do in a few days, something real that is useful to me and that you can sell as a real product.

We currently have a large number of business guys (look it up on LinkedIn) who learn "prompting" because they believe it will make them gods in the future even if they don't know what a programming language is. And a lot of scammers who sell their prompts to those people. It feels like cryptocurrencies all over again.

Last but not least, who will create the new APIs, technologies, and languages that we use? Will we be stuck with C++2x forever? ChatGPT will need a few additional revolutions to do this and to be independent on the open-source that already exists.
> because of Safari, Firefox and other browsers that lag far behind the standard.

I could've guessed there would be a blame game.

No, neither Safari nor Firefox lag in web standards. Moreover, it was Firefox (IIRC) which figured out how to do nesting safely.

However, even beyond nesting there multiple other things that lagged in browsers. CSS Scope was completely derailed by Chrome's push for Web Components, and had to be solved by other tools.

Nesting, mixins and a lot of other tools were long seen by all browser vendors as "unnecessary and better solved by tools". So yes, SASS isn't a replacement but there are reasons why it existed and was a nearly de-facto standard in tooling for so long. And that reason isn't "CSS is so great".

> And regarding why BEM exists: it's just a flavour of naming convention for your "API", nowhere mandated by CSS itself. Its main purpose is to optimise paint performance

No, it's main purpose is to try and close the gap in CSS: CSS is/was absolutely horrendously unsuitable for any type of componentized code. And BEM was an attempt to solve that at the process/naming level.

No, BEM isn't mandated by CSS. However, it exists because CSS had literally no tools to support the use cases BEM was aimed at.

> But I'm unsure if we talk about the same things in the end, cause none of those points get any better with Tailwind

I didn't even talk about Tailwind. I was directly addressing your claims about CSS.

CSS was never great.
There may be problems in the implementation details depending on the university, but the general idea of TAs is a good one, for two primary reasons.

One, in many fields, the more advanced you are, the harder it becomes to remember or even understand why or how one may struggle with understanding the basic material of the field. TAs are still closer to the experience of having learned the basics themselves.

Two, teaching material is a great way to deepen one's understanding of the material.

It also happens to provide a nice balance of giving students a way to earn some money while working in the subject, while still being quite cheap for the university. (That last part does have a smell especially in US universities with their insanely high tuition fees. But that feels like a larger and largely separate issue.)
I'd kill for a way to apply CRT's filters to my vscode editor...
Hmm I'm still trying to figure out pricing. The "Varies" Enterprise option is just there so people who are interested and I can have a proper chat because the product is so new. Definitely not a typical sales call, although I haven't done a good job to explain that.
I live in India. Both companies are located in US, but they had employees worldwide.
Cities are efficient in lots of easy to measure ways and inefficient in lots of hard to measure ways. For example, I'd love to see studies that deduct the physical and mental health cost of cities.
For me the killer feature of django is the auto-generated admin UI. I initially started my last project using Spring boot, but I was astonished to find there was no equivalent.

I don't know how people build websites in any speed without such a tool. I guess they just waste time duplicating effort on an admin UI or pay for one of those tools that can generate one from an API (meaning they have to also build an API).

It's such a massive time-saver I switched to django after a week or so.
I think it's safe to assume that 0.0000001% of the population will bother with that.
If Apple went with Intel from the beginning I doubt they would have ended up developing their own chips and they'd probably be just stuck with x86 on Mac XSScale/whatever on mobile.

> ARM chips when they don't own an architecture license and would ostensibly only purchase one to make Apple happy

They did certainly own one. XScale was a custom core and not licensed from ARM. IIRC pretty much all high-end PDAs used them so it would have been the default/safe choice for Apple had Intel decided not to abandon it.

Is there any information about those terms? Could they really have been worse than whatever deal with Apple has with ARM these days?

The main downside with ARM/XScale is that Intel would be forced to compete with all other manufacturers and wouldn't have been able to charge their monopolistic/oligopolistic margins on their products. Of course Intel being Intel they could have just added enough proprietary extensions to solve that.

> Apple's endless desire for hardware margins drove them to dictator-states and third-world manufacturing hubs to meet their quota

Sure. But Apple wasn't really in a position to do that back in 2005-2007. It took years for them to build that because they could do it iteratively, I doubt Intel would have allowed them as much freedom as Samsung though.
I thought about the ____ syntax, but found it quite hard to fit in extra parameters in a nice way.
> This is unconstitutional in Brazil per article 5 of the 1988 constitution, so X refused the orders.

This is unconstitutional according to their interpretation of the (very extensive and vague) article 5 of the 1998 constitution, maybe. At the same time, if you disagree with a judicial order, you probably should appeal the order, rather than refuse/ignore it. Ignoring judicial orders has consequences.

> Note that the text of the Brazilian constitution explicitly says that the freedom of expression is guaranteed without censorship (it mentions “censorship”).

It says a lot of things (that can be interpreted in many ways). Note that it also says "é livre a manifestação do pensamento, *sendo vedado o anonimato*". Did Twitter/X refuse to give information about accounts, after having been asked by the Supreme Court? If yes, then it can also be said that they are breaking article 5 of the 1988 constitution.

In general, constitutional laws (in Brazil and elsewhere) tend to be rather vague. The devil is in the details. Just because it says somewhere that "é livre a expressão da atividade intelectual, artística, científica e de comunicação, independentemente de censura ou licença", doesn't mean that you are free to express your art of screaming "fire" in a crowded theater, for instance.

> If they were legal orders they would have complied, as they have in other countries.

In general, a person (or other legal entity) are not free to pick and choose what laws or judicial orders they want to follow, depending on their own interpretation of the law. Or, I mean... they can... but there are usually consequences to ignoring judicial orders.

Also, it probably is not a great idea to try to intimidate/aggravate/insult/threaten the judge (https://nitter.poast.org/elonmusk/status/1829005086606901481...) during those legal proceedings. Judges tend to not love that.
I had to scold and mentor juniors who tried to push their crappy ChatGPT code in our codebase. They believe it gives them amazing powers because they don't have the experience to know whether a solution is good, bad, or completely buggy. Most of the time it's inefficient and full of bugs.

I do believe you learn from your own mistakes, but that requires thinking for yourself, not generating random answers.
Slight sidebar based on the content of the article. I don’t like the term “hallucination” for when a LLM produces nonsense. As if it otherwise has some grasp of reality and when it is wrong it is because it is hallucinating. Everything it produces is a “hallucination“, some of those are just more useful than others.
Would love to catch a chat with you about this if you don't mind. My email is tahmid(dot)hm(dot)dev(at)gmail.com.
> I concede however that handling of SQL, the field names, the relations, is annoying. But it’s core to the problem you are probably solving (some form of CRUD). Plumbing is annoying but as a plumber I’d say get used to it instead of wishing to be dancer.

It feels more like outsourcing said plumbing to someone that has done a lot of it in the past and will in most cases save you time, even if they won’t do everything the way you’d prefer yourself.

Throw in a bit of codegen and reading your current schema (if using schema first approach) and you’re in a pretty nice spot to be, except for the times when ORMs will get confused with non trivial joins and relationships, but typically then you have an escape hatch to have the query be in raw SQL while still mapping the outputs to whatever objects you need.

To be clear, I still think that mapping read only entities/DTOs against specialized database views for non-trivial data selection makes sense a lot of time regardless of the stack (or even some in-database processing with stored procedures), but basic ORM mappings are useful a lot of time too.
> Why doesn't a Tesla Model 3 carry the same sort of political baggage?

When was the last time you were in a red state? Driving an EV of any kind is a strong political statement.

> By taking sides in a partisan culture war, he has made his core mission essentially non-partisan

Not how partisan affiliation works--think of someone who flip flops from one side to the other. They aren't seen as above the fray or non-partisan. Just unreliable (albeit, usually, useful).
I was wondering when the HN obligatory Apple bashing will start.
Great idea, I want to build comparison pages like that, challenging to do everything on my own, but trying to manage.
Non-paywall version:
https://archive.md/0lLvu
There is much more story that you’re either uninformed about or willfully ignoring. The correct move was to remove people from harms way for decisions they have no control over, hence their staff exit from the country.
Definitely want to build a WordPress plugin ASAP.
I heard something similar with Jak and Daxter, where they took advantage of the embedded PS1 hardware on the PS2 to scrape together some extra performance.

I very much enjoyed this video that Ars Technica did with Andy Gavin on the development of Crash Bandicoot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izxXGuVL21o
Someone on Twitter said: "Do not fear AI. Fear the people and companies that run AI".

After all, it's the same industry that came up with pervasive and invasive tracking, automated insurance refusals, automated credit lookups and checks, racial ...ahem... neighbourhood profiling for benefits etc. etc.
Train dining cars still seat strangers together. It’s enjoyable to learn a bit of someone’s story that way. And funny to see people panic and bolt out of the car when they realize they’ll have to share a booth. :)
Thank you, yes trying to figure out the best way to market this product. A self-hosted Typeform alternative is definitely an idea on that list.
When people say "If it was reasoning, then it would be able to know, How many Rs does the word Strawberry have in it?", but that's not quite right, but I would say this instead "If it was reasoning THE SAME WAY HUMANS reason....then it would be able to...". Humans do reasoning a certain way. LLMs do reasoning a different way. But both are doing it.

But since it's not reasoning the way people do (but very differently), yes it can make mistakes that look silly to us, but still be higher IQ than any human. Intelligence is a spectrum and has different "types". You can fail at one thing but be highly intelligent at something else. Think of Savantism. Savants are definitely "reasoning" but many of savants are essentially mentally disabled by many standards of measurement, up to and including not being able to count letters in words. So saying you don't think LLMs can reason, and giving examples fails as evidence of that, is just a kind of category error, to put it politely.

The fact that LLMs can fix bugs in pretty much any code base shows it's definitely not doing just simple "word completion" (despite that way of training), but is indeed doing some kind of reasoning FAR FAR beyond what humans can yet understand. I have a feeling only coders truly understand the power of LLMs reasoning because the kind of prompts we do absolutely require extremely advanced reasoning and are definitley NOT answerable because some example somewhere already had my exact scenario (or even a remotely similar one) that the model weights essentially had just 'compressed'. Sure there is a compression aspect to what LLMs do, but that's totally orthogonal to the reasoning aspect.
It reminds me when BMW tried to make a subscription for heated seats. The car had this capability, but it was enabled only if you subscribed. Spoiler : it didn't work.
https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/bmw-relents-on-heated-seat-...
It’s hard to compare memory bandwidth of these systems because of the various differences (e.g. different RAM types). I know that the theoretical RAM bandwidth for the N64 is way higher than what you can practically achieve under typical conditions.
Intel's missed opportunity with the iPhone during the XScale era mirrors how players without Traffic Rider Mod APK might miss out on game advantages. Just as Intel lost a critical market, gamers without the mod miss out on unlocked features and enhancements, potentially limiting their gaming experience and competitive edge. https://trafficrider.racing/traffic-rider-apk-for-pc/
Pictographs can convey way more meaning than text. Add in cultural competency (subtext etc.) and it becomes incredibly potent. Hence, memes.
Yotube user hu-po streams critical in-depth streams of Ai papers. Here is his take on this (and other relevant) paper
https://www.youtube.com/live/JZgqQB4Aekc
This was the easiest and quickest to start with. I don't know about MoRs' reputation in general, I saw Tailwind using Paddle so figured I would too. By the way, I applied to Lemon Squeezy as well, but their verification process made me wait 2 weeks and then asked for an Instagram account, which was crazy because this is such a techy nerdy product.
That's why I cannot watch anime dubs. American voice actors are acting. Original seyuu often talk like normal people (there are exceptions of course, but in dubs it's 100% acting, they use "cartoon voice" which I hate).
What is this topic that's only in vogue in tech circles? Wokeism?
I try LLMs once a month with variations of the same question on a specific library that I use. It hallucinates all the time. I can't use those tools as long as they don't give me the answers I need.
Weather from the Command Line
It's not just suggestions. On mobile front page they are showing suggestions of what people are searching without even typing word
The way I (not the previous poster) envision this working is not that you can opt out of taxes, but you can skip certain items.

So I don't pay Israel's defense budget, but that money is reallocated evenly to everything else.

I find it hard to believe a meaningful number of people would opt out of libraries and schools assuming their overall tax burden is unchanged.