skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My accountant defined it this way… minimization is legal, avoidance is not.

Minimization is just taking advantage of the tax loopholes and strategies that are within bounds. Avoidance is lying or ignoring.

Yes it’s possible to minimize your taxes down to zero legally in many cases, but you’ll pay a good percentage of that savings to accounts and lawyers for managing that structure.
Opioids aren't even used post-surgery for pain management? I have to think they are at least used in hospitals still. Maybe not prescribed as much for home use...
A lot of the users are people who transitioned from other habits to Opioid use. Or it is people who started out being treated for some kind of pain and then cascades into a full blown addiction. I will say that there are people who have no bottom, they can just keep digging a hole deeper and deeper.

There is also the fact that China ships an enormous amount of drugs through Mexico into the USA. They use it as a weapon to weaken society. It's sort of a payback for their humiliation in the last century and it causes issues for everyone, not just the users. Police, regular people, jails, court system, strains society and the costs of dealing with it are enormous.
Would you mind sharing the name of the data center?
+1. I am a software engineer but I double majored in statistics and wrote a lot of R in undergrad. The library ecosystem is incredible. Essentially any technique in statistics has a well-documented R package that is one library() call away.

I keep wondering if I should learn the Python data science ecosystem at some point but it just seems like a waste of time. One of my personal projects is written in Python but calls into R for statistics/plotting.

The language itself however, incredibly cursed.
I wonder if I could move to Norway as a US Citizen and live free.
For some reason AI really brings out the neckbeard rage. I don't get it. AI assistants are amazing tools. It's like the rise of the PC industry all over again. So much value to unlock and our ideas barely scratch the surface right now.
There seem to be quite a few recipe sharing sites around - e.g. allrecipes.com.
Agreed.

Even the premise that it was always cheaper to manufacture abroad is flawed in many respects as Congress subsidized offshoring over many years as part of an effort to encourage globalization.

Companies often receive massive tax breaks with write-offs to close US plants, tax credits, zero percent import duties, and lower overall tax rates by shifting their profits and losses through offshore banks.

In many respects profitability has most often been determined by the policies we subsidize. and for decades those policies were essentially all in for the benefit of offshoring.

Comparing the actual cost of production by location is far more complicated than just the cost of materials and labor when there are so many subsidies and policies involved.
I think it's an arms race, but it's an open question who wins.

For a while I thought email as a medium was doomed, but spammers mostly lost that arms race. One interesting difference is that with spam, the large tech companies were basically all fighting against it. But here, many of the large tech companies are either providing tools to spammers (LLMs) or actively encouraging spammy behaviors (by integrating LLMs in ways that encourage people to send out text that they didn't write).
Reddit shut their API access down only very recently, after the AI craze went off. Twitter did so right after Musk took over, way before Reddit, way before AI ever went nuts.
(To be read in a grouchy old man's voice.)

Come to Baltimore and check out Satyr Hill. It is very easy to leave your legs behind and not realize that until you have four to six miles to go and no energy.

(But what do I know? I haven't run Baltimore since 1984.)
The approach most people use is to tunnel into the server. You install a daemon on your computer which establishes a tunnel to log-into from outside your network. Cloudflare and Tailscale have solutions for this that are very popular among the self-hosted crowd.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/application...

https://tailscale.com/kb/1151/what-is-tailscale
I wonder why? I read it at the time since I subscribe to their RSS feed. Maybe because he actually linked to the "warez dump" that everyone is talking about but no one had actually linked to until then? I checked it out, I just wish I had the time to go through it all! :)
But then someone whispers K8S into your ear…
I'm kind of disappointed that it's only broken into major components.

They're still super cool, but to see every little spring and cog and switch represented by their own monofilament would be pretty neat.
Taiwan is still in charge of the fab.
A man in the middle redirecting to a fake web page could be enough to create an opportunity. I assume that in some countries hacking the internet could be still possible.

Or a terrorist could sell phones on the street for months, use them as sleeping devices, and wait until a big holiday or the super-bowl to spread chaos massively with minimum risk for him/her. So now we everybody need a way to be able to scan our devices and detect that risk ASAP. The Mossad still don't understand the mess that had created for every westerner by opening this door.
Sui – inject read-only data into compiled executables
If he did not know he was in pain, how would universal healthcare have helped?
Having worked with or seen up close the results of more than one of these firms in various capacities and practices they provide, I wholeheartedly agree.

There are some areas where there’s an argument to be made about cost effectiveness, but experience has demonstrated to me that if you’re retaining the services of groups in these firms that you realistically could afford much better service from somewhere else. Like direct hiring for the talent you need or recruiting your own contractors, working with vendors directly, etc.

I’ve never seen results from these firms that make me go “oh wow! That’s worth what was paid!”

I’m not saying it doesn’t happen. For my experiences, I’ve just never seen it.
fair, maybe I'm too optimistic or too privileged in that regard.

Doesn't change my other points through ;)
> "Would you mind sharing the name of the data center?"

Curious to know what you use other than grafana in your monitoring stack. We use prometheus for metrics/alerts and Loki/promtail for logs.
What's the root cause in your view?
It's just really easily available, and lots of money in the US economy. It feels good so people get hooked.

It would be the same in wherever you are from if the streets were flooded with this stuff.
Maybe recent pages this is true, but in 2013, AFAIK AI was not yet a thing.

But too bad these sites generated by AI are not tagged in some manner. But an argument could be made that these AI pages are reviewed by a person before they hit the WEB. One can hope anyway :)
It’s rather vague as to where the line is, but as you say, ‘government intervention’ is a term with political baggage in financial theory.

https://policonomics.com/government-intervention/
Do you mind sharing the details of the rack mount you use?
When someone tells you there are only two types of leaders
Anthropic's Prompt Evalutions Course
And they're all flooded with low effort trash and useless.

The only remaining reliable source - now that many newspapers are axing the remaining staff in favour of LLMs - is pre-2020 print cookbooks. Anything online or printed later must be assumed to be tainted, full of untested sewage and potentially dangerous suggestions.
Tech blogger hype has a history of cargo culting nonsense. This is nothing new. I think they killed AR by hyping GGlass as an artifact only for special people, while VR was handed a half-measured fate tempered by gaming (it's still impractical and rears its ugly head every 10 years compared to the potential utility of AR).

Centralized blockchain ledgers for immutable data storage is immensely useful to detect silent corruption or malicious data tampering for specialized use-cases (backup & restoration with air-gapped storage processes are required to assure high-confidence data integrity to correct such data problems).

GPU, server systems, and network access are so damn cheap and impressive with incremental advances that the killer apps challenges now are sanely management, planning, and cross-cutting concerns like emulation, resource allocation, configuration management, monitoring, security, and effective discovery and implementation of appropriate and benchmarked solution(s).

The application of LLMs yet aren't to the point of complete silicon & PCB design, application development, or systems management assuring a level of correctness using iterative feedback, but probably will approach something useful over time. Perhaps in 50 years, all living humans will lack the understanding of what software will have "eaten" in certain areas if engineers allow it and corporations optimize for it.
I have the same concern with those western apps too.
I understand the tidyverse perfectly well. Unfortunately it's become a habit of R users to import it at the top of every R script without thinking of the consequences of other users/maintainers.
> This was a direct attack to their survival as company. Will they sue Israeli government for turning their product into a bomb used to mutilate and kill people? Seems not probable.

Would Toyota or any other car manufacturer sue Arabs et al. for turning their pickups into rolling suicide bombs?
Papermill: Parameterizing, executing, and analyzing Jupyter Notebooks
Good observation. Can we get sales data anywhere to further correlate?

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/narcan-opioid-ove...

> In the fourth quarter of last year, Emergent reported $111 million in Narcan sales, a 22% increase from the year prior. The increase was mainly driven by sales of the over-the-counter version, the drugmaker said.

This article indicates there are still challenges about availability in a retail setting, which would lead me to believe that more work put into that would reduce overdose deaths further. I would think a model similar to ubiquitous access of AEDs is what is needed (vending distribution, app to show location availability [similar to the Netherlands for AEDs: https://en.zoetermeer.nl/aeds], etc).

> Narcan, when given soon after an overdose begins, reverses these effects rapidly: The person will usually wake up within one to three minutes, according to the FDA. Because the effects of Narcan do not last long, it’s essential to also call 911.

(this is a system, which appears to be working, but can be improved to lead to improved outcomes at scale)

EDIT: Also room for preventative GLP-1 agonist use in folks prone to this addiction: https://recursiveadaptation.com/p/the-growing-scientific-cas...
> How many of us got their workflow disrupted by AI?

Single digit percentage?
Bingo, easier access to life saving medication.
One way to tackle it would be to use LLMs to generate synthetic corpuses, so you have some good fingerprints for pollution. But even there I'm not sure how doable that is given the speed at which LLMs are being updated. Even if I know a particular page was created in, say, January 2023, I may no longer be able to try to generate something similar now to see how suspect it is, because the precise setups of the moment may no longer be available.
As I recall from work in measure and probability, there is the Poincaré recurrence theorem that says if keep stirring the coffee and cream, eventually the mixture will return as closely as please to just after the cream was poured into the coffee.
Economic systems aren't typically describable with terms like "nobody." There's an equilibrium in investment levels between capital- and labor-intensive sectors, and that equilibrium is moving. If there was a huge oversupply of labor, then it'd make it more compelling to invest in labor-intensive sectors, which would both shift the equilibrium and eliminate the oversupply (which is what has already happened/is happening every hour of every day, thus there's no massive oversupply).
Interesting anecdotal response but it’s pretty obvious that top pay attracts top talent, basic market dynamics. Obviously grifters gravitate to where money is, that doesn’t mean all to talent at high pay is a grifter. Correlation != causation
An interesting fact, though perhaps completely irrelevant since people were sent to the gulags for completely different reasons.

Fun fact. There are more people in the US education system than there ever were in Soviet gulags.

Just as irrelevant.
Trusted and Assured Microelectronics
Arguably it is a form of language evolution. I bet humans have started using "delve" more too, on average. I think the best we can do is look at the trends and think about potential causes.
> What is the real risk here?

You're thinking too literal about what to influence. The more internal divide that foreign powers can amplify, the more likely that US will not/can not intervene in other places around the world.

There's also general propaganda to make people more empathetic towards China/Russia prior to any events occurring.
nah. 23andMe actually works. they use real science to do genome sequencing, and that's provable. Theranos never worked, and was nothing but lies and hype.

But having working science does not make a successful business plan.
The Taliban was/is not a "non-state actor", they are and were the government of Afghanistan. And whether or not they were that has no bearing on whether or not a tactic is terrorism.
Didn't El Salvador convert their currency to Bitcoin ?

Edit: El Salvador not Al Salvador
I have to give Dong Nguyen credit for pulling the game when he started to believe it caused more harm then good.

Unfortunately, greed and money always wins.
One of my parents was adopted creating a much higher incentive and an increased likelihood of finding nearer relatives.

She would not pursue out of respect to her adopted mother. Outside of this I would be in the same boat as you.
They should do a social media AI play where they just friend everyone for you.
Well, my concern started to grow when two things happened:
- My sister who is not in a tech field asked me how blockchain worked since she had heard about it
- A server at a restaurant was describing that they help people buy their first bitcoin as a side hustle.

So while every example may not permeate out of the echo chambers, there are some that are reasonably widespread.
> How many of us got their workflow disrupted by AI? It's been a while since I've googled a "how do I..."

I did about an hour ago. AI answers run the gamut from boilerplate that's useful that still ends up needing tweaking to utterly making shit up that doesn't exist. I did a copilot search once that referred to an entire framework that it just made the fuck up, and you know it would've been great if it did exist, the framework would've suited my needs perfectly, it was just complicated by the fact that it didn't.

I'm off that train, I hate having my time wasted and until they can guarantee veracity in answers it's just a google search that's even less reliable than google, which is saying something lately.
The context of my comment is that the previous commenter was saying it's to do with the legalisation of marijuana.
"Deep Work Mode empowers your devs to create a distraction-free environment with one click."

How?
As with a number of other increasingly serious problems that people generally cannot or will not acknowledge as problems.

You can’t have reasoned discussions about the problems, people won’t actually engage with the topics, concerns or warnings are simply dismissed by people who won’t think it through even to only second order consequences, and in the meantime the sharks scent blood in the water and the money frenzy is upon us all, directly or indirectly.

There aren’t happy solutions to human nature at scale.
Of course, how could I forget. My DNA is also used for medical research so I'm helping develop novel treatments to all manners of genetic diseases, and helping my future relatives uncover health risks.
My plan is to blame all my bad code on AI even though I don't use it.
Snow Crash is tongue-in-cheek. The line above is the inner monologue of a samurai-sword-wielding high-speed pizza-delivering super-hacker martial artist.
The pricing is confusingly giving counts of videos of short length, rather than time per price.

The vodcasts that most need transcription are long form. After the "don't make me do math" pricing, you do have a table of minutes, up to 60, so for a typical, say, ContraPoints vodcast episode, you multiply by 3, and find out that could cost $30 to turn into the optimized transcript. (Which the creator might well pay for if they value their time, but viewers might not.)
He sold his MSFT to spend the money on philantrophy.
None actually, it’s cannabis related.

In fact the only time it’s been an issue was living in Texas, that state really embrasses discrimination against people with criminal records.
Email summarizers and such don't count as revolution, sorry.
Because the NASA budget it horrible allocated and not geared towards actually achieving specific things. NASA budget is big enough, its just that it resources are horrible allocated.

I could write a lot about this topic here, I have done before, but anybody that looks at anything other then that fact first, misses the problem. Other things that people mention might play a role, but by far the biggest is politics of NASA and NASA internal politics.
Great idea will do that
just because you are anti-social, doesn't mean the general public are
aye. fake emails aren't hard to come across. create a fake username and ID, and then claim the sample is you or your kid.
>I think there was a similar case a long time ago where something similar happened.

yes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34412080
Breastfeeding from 1 to 8 months associated with better cognitive abilities at 4
Thanks for the AMA.

I want to get my genetic data, but, like obviously I don't want to go through one of these services where they ingest all that data and keep it around forever. Honestly, I'd like to be the only person with access to it and I can destroy it at will.

Tough requirements, I know.

Anyways, do you know of any services that meet those reqs? Any good DIY ideas?

Again, thanks for the AMA
no. That is relative to 2023. There isn't going to be an absolute decrease because the chart started at 0 and we can't go below 0.

only absolute increases (increases that go over historical highs), relative increases (increases that do not go over historical highs), and relative decreases.
much ado about nothing, the code is there, edit it and use a local AI.
The author’s premise brings me to a different conclusion. First, they detail Big Data, then the building of infrastructure to support it. New technology was then developed to harness insights from Big Data, and along the way, blockchain and smart contracts were developed, which are essentially cryptographically verifiable distributed state machines. Both of these innovations have also driven the development of hardware to support those activities. This seems like a solid trajectory.

I'm a Trekkie, so having an interactive conversation with a computer still makes me smile, even if it's just a stochastic parrot. I'm also super interested to see what AR/VR and AI can do together. Additionally, I look at the Swedish model for direct democracy and see blockchain and smart contracts as viable technological solutions to make that process more efficient, secure and hopefully increase adoption of that sort of governance.

The tech industry's main problem is grifters, and I think they mostly (not always) come from other industries (marketing, finance, crime). Somehow, they have convinced everyone that tech needs them to succeed (with their grifts). To me, the actual underlying technology is mind-blowing, but it’s the grift implementations that are the problem and make everything else look bad.
I'll be glad if the people I work with just stop using Comic Sans.
Having cut my teeth on Solaris (both flavours), AIX, HPUX and later Linux in the 90s, get off my lawn!
;)
> Dentists seem to be about 5-10 years behind the research on this topic.

Generalizations are usually not helpful, I think it really depends on the dentist. I'm not sure there are proven benefits to oral microbiome testing, except in some very specific cases.

> The most significant cause for caries is S. mutans.

The 'Beyond Streptococcus mutans' section in TFA explains that the situation is much more complex than this; even if it is, good oral hygiene and reduced sugar intake (both in quantity and frequency) are still the best way to reduce the amount of biofilm present on teeth (which is a requirement for caries formation, whether S. mutans is there or not).

> Diet is the most significant way to affect gum disease.

The current clinical treatment guidelines for periodontitis[1,2] only mention that the benefit of weight-reducing diet and lifestyle changes is unclear (for treating periodontitis, obviously), and that oral hygiene is still the most important thing you can do yourself for the prevention, and, once established, to assist in the treatment of the disease.

[1] Infographic: https://www.efp.org/fileadmin/uploads/efp/Photos/Continuing_...

[2] Source article: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcpe.13290
The era of people earning more from desks and mental gymnastics is over. The era of weaponization of supply and resources has begun.

All manufacturing will need to become local in some quantity for any country serious about its security.
Crypto bros ruin every single thing they touch.
I suppose, can you arbitrarily replace portions of systemd with scripts, though?

If so, perhaps it is less of a problem than it used to be.

It still doesn't fit every need but it's better if it can get out of the way when told to.
Did you ever do anything to support that website?
Litecoin is still available from crypto ATMs around the world.
I don't think this has a significant bearing. Ambulances have had narcan equivalent for years. Addicts dont carry and pedestrians don't carry. Family members maybe, but I've never heard about it except in movies...and I know a lot of addicts.
Toyota will definitely sue to death somebody --selling-- thousands of new Toyotas modified in mass to kill their drivers. If not, they would be sued massively instead, so is not something that they could just let pass.

If the owner wants later to trow their Toyota over a cliff is a different problem and not Toyota's business.
Why we should prefer the GR model, which lacks mapping from the model back to physical reality, over a physical explanation? It's clear that GR is wrong in case of black hole, because mass CAN escape black holes[1], while GR says that nothing can escape black hole after crossing of event horizon, because of [internal implementation of their model] nonsense.

[1]: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/10/black-hole-bu...
the inflow of drugs from the southern border and maritime ports. i'm not saying we return to a war on drugs like campaign, but ffs, we need to stop drugs from getting into the country or being created. if the US can shell out billions to NATO, Ukraine, Israel/Palestine, then it sure as hell has the resources to at least attempt to curb the inbound of this stuff. also, go lax on the users, but go after dealers. dealing drugs needs to be met with zero tolerance.
“I didn’t know how empty was my soul, until it was filled.”

— King Arthur, Excalibur (1981)
Wow, sarcasm, so impressive.
This might be the best definition I will come across of what it means to be an "IT project manager".
I'd rather play without cheaters than care about running a kernel-level anticheat.
Anne Wojcicki is also the exwife of billionaire Google founder Sergey Brin.

I have always felt as if 23andMe was just her pet lil project and it doesn't matter if its ever profitable or not.
Markets cease to function efficiently in the presence of massive concentrations of wealth. But if by saying America is good at "markets" we actually mean the latter, then yes.