skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At best it is incomplete.

Raise taxes back to what they were back in the 1950s when the top marginal rate was over 90%.

Close off the methods rich people use to legally lower their true tax rate. Buffet famously pointed out his tax rate was lower than his secretary's. Bezos back in 2011 when he was worth $18 billion got a $4,000 tax credit because he reported investment losses.

Why are we paying for Bezos' steak?

Fund the IRS to go after rich people, instead of targeting poor people simply because it's cheaper and easier than going after wealthy ones. ("we estimate that each dollar spent on auditing an individual in the 70–80th percentiles produces a return of $9.06. Each dollar spent auditing an individual in the 90–99th percentiles produces a return of $12.48.", https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w31376/w313...)

Create a global wealth tax.

Stop paying for all this ridiculously expensive road transportation system and housing sprawl on the backs of our children's future.

And yes, stop eating steak. "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
That 13% is still more than the next 9 highest military budgets in the world combined. We're not financing our military, we're lining the pockets of the military industrial complex, on the taxpayer's dime.
> I don't think many Americans understand how 40 years or so of declining agency budgets have hollowed out the staffing of many government agencies.

Can you provide a citation for where you’re getting this data indicating that the USFS budget has been declining over time?

Based on the data I found, the USFS budget has increased steadily from 2011-2024 [0]. The 2024 budget was $9.3b [1] versus $5.1b in 2011 [0]. The 2025 budget was cut from 2024, but still higher than the 2020 budget.

[0]: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46557

[1]: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12396
This is like the tech reporter's version of stable diffusion.

Does it have some similarities? sure. Is it easier to understand than actual stable diffusion? yes.

Is this basically how stable diffusion works? Not even close.
When do Qualcomm's patents run out?
They call it mandatory spending but this is a misnomer. When you pay into a pension system and pre-pay for insurance it’s expected that you receive the benefits you paid for. That it is government run is irrelevant to how it should be viewed. Social Security is not an expense of the government. It’s a government run pension system.
I don't disagree with, say, reversing Citizens United but really what you list here is a bunch of symptoms.

> Why is this not happening?

Because Americans, as a whole, have zero class consciousness, thanks the hyper-individualism of liberalism and possibly the most successful propaganda campaign in history ie the Red Scare.

We have people who unironically will champion for the likes of Jeff Bezos to pay less in taxes and will identify more with Bezos than their fellow worker.

The wealthy and the corporations embarked on an intentional journey to destroy class consciousness and to buy the government. It's fascism, pure and simple. They even say it out loud [1]:

> "This is a tough question, but this is maybe the question that confronts us right now. There's this guy Curtis Yarvin who's written about some of these things," Vance said,

This isn't fringe. This is from Peter Thiel's alleged blood boy [2] and VP candidate, JD Vance. What did Yarvin say?

> "If Americans want to change their government, they're going to have to get over their dictator phobia," Yarvin says in the clip.

[1]: https://www.salon.com/2024/10/01/rachel-maddow-sounds-alarm-...

[2]: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/peter-thiel-wants-to...
You haven't noticed? Literally everything in web development has been in a constant cycle. Everything is reinvented and made significantly worse.

Next week: How to run your Docker React Node Babel Webpack Svelte grocery list application at the EDGE using Kubernetes on AWS serverless EC2 instances with Cloudflare workers.

EDIT: I forgot we're gonna use Bootstrap too.
They should have already based on the sanctions two years ago, Belarus also.

Some examples:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/8/23159656/microsoft-russia-...

https://www.reuters.com/business/russia-shrugs-off-jobs-impa...

https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/statement/2022/06/hpe-ann...

https://newsroom.ibm.com/Update-on-IBMs-Business-Operations-...
The US.

The rest of the world. Including many countries host to major drug companies.

Somehow I don’t think they’ll let those companies’ R&D departments starve if the US stops paying $700 for things that cost other countries $120, or what have you.
for other folks wonder what the acronym means; RF in this context is Random Forest
> Make the minimum wage livable, then any industry you want to keep onshore for strategic reasons you help out

This is a model for shit labour productivity à la the Soviet Union or Argentina. Much better to have no minimum wage and a UBI, to avoid distorting your industry through your wage policy.
"keep all the performance instantly"

Depends what you mean by performance (most vendors ARM accelerated features are never used for compatibility reasons), as upping the core count with simpler architecture is a fair trade on wafer space.

i.e. if ARM is using anti-trust tactics to extort more revenue, that budget is 100% fungible with extra resources. Note, silicon is usually much cheaper than IP licenses.

One can ask polity to explain things without being rude to people. Have a wonderful day =3
> and forget how to write the most basic stuff without needing those tools again

This is a reality for some of us already - but it's not about tools. I'm working with 5+ different languages and likely between 20+ projects. I had to lookup in the docs how to (for example) lowercase a string every single time, because every language has to invent their own name/case for it. Now I'm free - just write tolower() and it gets fixed. New string array - ["foo"] and it gets fixed. etc. etc.

There's a huge number of things that are not necessary to remember, but you just do if you see them consistently every day. But now I'm free. If I ever need to do them manually again, I'll check the docs. But today I'm enjoying the time saving.
I think windows-on-arm is fairly instructive as to how likely RISC-V would go.
I stand by the idea that it is insidious. It’s one thing for our governments to ensure access is secure, it’s entirely another to assume we all have smartphones and have aligned ourselves with Apple or Google. Being a digital serf is our new reality and we did it willingly. If we had to start up our Ford to access a government website it would be ridiculous but having to have your phone at hand is just as bad. Google and Apple both know exactly when and where you accessed a government service and stand as a gatekeeper to doing so. It is by definition insidious.
Those people are right because the minimum wage is a very bad policy, especially for the low-skilled.
Thanks for sharing this. The blog article on building your pipeline was a fun read! Your solution has a nice blend of heuristics and DL.

If you’re ever interested in revisiting this click project, you could check out DeepLabCut [0]. A blogpost highlighted a toy example of training a DLC model to recognize clock arms [1], which may or may not be more consistent than your Canny approach :)

[0] https://github.com/DeepLabCut/DeepLabCut

[1] https://guillermohidalgogadea.com/openlabnotebook/training-y...
I don't understand these points when lower in the discussion another user mentions:
> Svelte-specific syntax

React is the closest to standard JS in my experience.
> You decentralize the power. Adding more and more state control concentrates power into the monoliths

“State control” isn’t a monolithic lever. You can have a theoretically powerful but weak state if power is properly shattered. This is the lost art of designing democracies. (Not just throwing elections at every problem.)
Only in theories where it collapses, and nobody seriously thinks Copenhagen is correct these days.
Thank you for taking the time to lay out some of these issue in a clear way. It's an issue I'm somewhat new to but have taken in interest in. Where does your branch of the club meet? What are we doing?
The stuff: https://github.com/Stability-AI/sd3.5#stable-diffusion-35

Also relevant: https://github.com/huggingface/blog/blob/main/sd3-5.md
This idea that anyone who doesn’t agree with your economic policy is obviously a paid plant is painful. I just listened to an R and D both wildly misconstrue the abortion issue as if one side wanted to murder children and the other wanted to control women’s bodies. Spend a few minutes honestly imagining the opposition has good intentions. Seek out what they think they mean.

The data on higher minimum wages is not clear and it is not obvious it would benefit all Americans (or even the poorest Americans). Even if I agree with you, your rhetoric costs you an ally.

> This is not rocket science

No, its economic policy and its arguably much much more complex than rocket science. We’ve been thinking about rockets for about 100 years, political economy for about 2500.
Thanks i'll look into that. I think we have about 10 years left on the current one!
Aren't most applications NOT using the ndk?
IMO, prepaid/stored value is fine. Not everything has to be rolled into the legacy monolithic global realtime-but-batched-too post-pay credit card infrastructure.
With 100% control of the stack and an insanely good emulator in Rosetta.
Why go for the simple method when you can instead simply hand-edit SVG code then add two extra HTML elements per icon?
Nobody pays $7.25/hr in 2024, as nobody will work for that. McDonald's here is paying $15/hr and in the past 10-15 years have completely rebuilt their stores and kitchens and preparation processes to reduce labor needs.
The UK and EU secondary sanctions are new - literally within the last few months. The US has used secondary sanctions so widely that we may start seeing other countries following suit, as the UK and EU have very recently started to do.

On the other hand, I'm unaware of any Chinese secondary sanctions. Maybe there's some example, but the fact that it's difficult to even find any examples illustrates my point: the US' extensive use of secondary sanctions is far beyond what any other country does.
It's not a very good paper, even though the author has reasonable credentials in Europe.

She writes: "For example, just as legislatures rely on independent legal teams to help draft legislation that will survive court challenges, they also need independent technology experts they can turn to for reliable information. Making tech expertise available to lawmakers would go a long way toward reducing lobbyists’ effectiveness and ensuring lawmakers understand how technology impacts issues like healthcare, education, justice, housing, and transportation."

This shows insufficient knowledge of the US situation. The U.S. Congress used to have an Office of Technology Assessment.[1] It was abolished in 1995. "House Republican legislators characterized the OTA as wasteful and hostile to GOP interests."

The generic problem is monopolies, not "tech". US banks and drug stores are down to 2-3 major players.
Tough enforcement of the Sherman Act might help. Although the experience with the AT&T breakup is not encouraging.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Technology_Assessmen...
And with VM tech, and the power of modern devices even some emulator/thunking layer is not too crazy for apps that (somehow) couldn't cross compile.
I say convert it all to dispersed camping. Leave the zoos, I mean national parks, to the common overcrowding. Let us have our forests back. It’s obvious that their policies have led to many of it burning down in mega fires that get so hot it kills every living thing in its path.
I support Israel, but it's time for us to pull the reigns.
That was interesting. I was hoping for him to dive deeper into specific cases but I suppose the essay was long enough. Any other recommendations (potentially from https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/essays-and-articles.html#Laws)?
There are volunteer groups that do a large percentage of the trail maintenance in some areas. There is the Pacific Crest Trail Association with their local chapters. In Washington state, there is the Washington Trails association. In Oregon, there is Trailkeepers of Oregon, who I volunteer with almost every weekend. There are also numerous local groups across the western US.
>That score places the IBM SWE agent high up the SWE-bench leaderboard, well above many other agents relying on massive frontier models, like GPT-4o and Claude 3.

They're not even in the top half of the leaderboard. Almost half the score of the first place agent.
Yes, the author is not obligated to include that, but nor is the reader obligated to ignore obvious evidence of her hypocrisy and self interest. And when a creature surfaces from the morass of governemnt bureaucracy to complain about the threat of something much less ominous and powerful than itself, that hypocrisy is certainly something I will point out.
We're talking about stuff that exists here.
Cool anecdote!
Agreed, although seeing as the economic plans laid out by both current presidential candidates would result in an increase in deficit the political will to do so does not seem to be there. In reality it feels like the spending is just being shifted elsewhere.
It looks as though they killed the page sometime between June 7th and June 26th, although the page on June 7th seem to try to redirect to “https://oreilly.janrainsso.com/static/server.html?origin=htt...

https://web.archive.org/web/20240607220047/http://www.oreill...

Definitely perplexing, I can’t find the reason to kill what appears like a simple HTML page unless they’ve killed the project entirely.
This pattern has been played out time and time again. The next steps will be:

"Camp bathrooms are always so dirty, and there's never anyone to staff to help!"

"How can the bureaucracy fail so badly, I don't know why we even pay for the USFS if this is the best they can muster"

"We should privatize this. Maybe we could even sell naming rights. Colgate campgrounds, anyone?"

"(Private companies continue to run shitty camp, citing 'hey, at least we're better than the USFS')"

"Remember how the USFS failed so badly? You can't trust the government to do anything!"

It's been the playbook of every government agency that has not been funded properly for about a generation now (thanks, Reagan). Slowly defund a service so the quality degrades, then complain about the quality and say you couldn't possibly fund the service if the quality is that low.

It drives me up the wall how bleeding obvious this is, time and time again, and yet, here we are, doing it again to the USFS, one of the most important agencies we have in (for instance) ensuring people have access to nature, preventing wildfires, managing our timber stocks, and sequestering carbon.
I like that this one has a JSX-like macro `html! { <div>{var}</div> }` syntax. Today's other one, `rwf` uses strings.
> We need a serious talk about the strings our very generous foreign aid needs to come attached to

You’re exemplifying the problem. NPS and foreign aid funding aren’t competing with each other. They’re both rounding errors in the grand scheme. But everyone has their hobby horse that they have or must cut so we get some oscillation.
300W in a phone chip is a bit toasty.
We managed to raise a generation who think it's acceptable for JavaScript to be required in order to render a single page.

For some "web developers", this is literally how they create a page:

import React from 'react';

function App() {
return (
<div>
<h1>Hello world!</h1>
<p>This is my HTML page.</p>
</div>
);
}

export default App;
An attempt that failed miserably. (it was formally rejected a year ago)

But, by now, it is expected that Qualcomm's RISC-V designs have been re-aligned to match the reality that Qualcomm does not control the standard.
Wayback Machine has been working for the past few days, look: https://web.archive.org/web/20240607220047/http://www.oreill...
Where are these "low-skilled" people you think should be paid less than $7.25 an hour going to live? Shanty towns? Tent cities?
"an escalation" is a bit of an understatement if you try to cut the fiber connecting Russia and China. they also share a border with Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Mongolia.

what the fuck are you going to do? do you people not understand how the Internet works? unless you isolate your network from all other networks, it is accessible from any other network.
Roboflow Notebooks: 60+ computer vision modeling notebooks
I think the obvious is a world government that wants to spy on everyone.
In Australia, the minimum wage is 16.12 USD. Minimum wage employment is not vulnerable to off-shoring (shelves must be packed in the local warehouse), but is to automation.

Looking at a few studies online, it seems as though there is no long term correlation between increasing the minimum wage and inflation.
> If the government decided to make Social Security a private corporation it could

No, it couldn’t. There were promises made with the full faith and credit of the United Stares.

> obligations that need to be paid to the people who paid for them

Everyone pays taxes. Social Security and Medicare obligations are treated differently because of politics. Otherwise, they’re like any other expense: the Congress can amend them at will. (As is currently expected, e.g. with Social Security benefits beginning to be curtailed from 2035.)
What we pay for what we get is insane though. Imagine what SpaceX (or other enterprising group of engineers) could do with a guaranteed $20B of annual funding.
Can was kicked too far, it is not easy to fix. It's easy to make the mathematical problem go away by reducing benefits AND raising taxes. Nonstarter. We will need a tragedy to illicit change.
There’s a lot of good that shows up all across the economy from satellites.

For example, how important is weather prediction to you? Genuinely, I’m not sure how much it is to me, but the value isn’t nothing.

GPS is another thing like that: it’s only a little bit useful to me, but it enables a lot of economic activity (like farm automation). And the fact that getting lost went from a regular thing that happens to rarely is probably at least somewhat valuable.

Remote telecom is another thing. For sure, there are diminishing returns, but going from no access to some access for very remote places (think ships at sea, polar research stations, oil rigs, very rural communities) is probably valuable. How many ships haven’t sunk because they got a satellite weather update?

You’re absolutely right, it’s not a strategy to invest randomly. And it’s quite possible that we’re over-investing in space. But there are direct returns in addition to the “exhaust”.
If it pleases the stock market, it’s okay.
I do see the /s but I do find that an interesting thought experiment since (a) I'd guess the number of humans who can actually debug RPG is pretty small and (b) so where are these magical agents that are "gonna take muh job" going to get training data for the code or the fixes to any such bugs
If you can't put your real name on your opinion, what is it really worth?
> If Arm follows through with the license termination, Qualcomm would be prevented from doing its own designs using Arm’s instruction set

i'm not sure this is true. certainly "chip" IP has been a real legal quagmire since, forever.

but it was my understanding that you could neither patent nor copyright simply an "instruction set".

presumably what you get from ARM with an architecture license would be patent licenses and the trademark. if so, what patents might be relevant or would be a problem if you were to make an "ARMv8-ish compatible" ISA/Architecture with a boring name? i haven't seen much about ARM that's architecturally particularly unique or new, even if specific implementation details may be patent-able. you could always implement those differently to the same spec.

to further poke at the issue, if it's patents, then how does a RISC-V CPU or other ISA help you? simply because it's a different ISA, doesn't mean its implementation doesn't trample on some ARM patents either.

if it's something to do with the ISA itself, how does that affect emulators?

what's ARM's IP really consist of when you build your own non-ARM IP CPU from scratch? anyone have examples of show-stopper patents?
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act applies only to "commercial" messages. Political ads are technically exempt, as a free speech issue. But because political ads go out via the usual SMS spam services, STOP usually works anyway. The services don't want their outgoing lines blocked.
Woah generalized pose estimation seems really useful and it's cool that the example is for reading a clock. Thanks for sharing!
Ascalon (claiming Zen5-tier performance) is done, and has been available for licensing for about a year now.

It was then made public that LG bought a license right away.
Too bad this article avoids describing what some of the complex ethical issues are. In my mind the big one is that nation-states could take over the creation and raising of children, creating a population of their choosing. Of course they can already do that to some extent by controlling education, but a population created by mandate rather than the choice of individuals seems likely to be under control to a degree never seen by the world before. A nation of clones would be one possibility.
There was, in fact, no procedure for replacing the VP; the move for the amendment to correct that came about after, and motivated largely by, the Kennedy assassination and the vacancy in the term Johnson completed; historically, vacancies in the Vice Presidency hadn't been considered important enough to do something about, but the Cold War changed that.
How many medicines are required just to treat issues brought on by unrepentant greed in other industries? Does Ozempic treat obesity and diabetes or does it treat the lack of regulation in food quality and advertising? How much cancer is an outcome of greed in exchange for disregarding public health, how much depression is the outcome of greed and economically-produced hopelessness, on and on.

How have so many people lost their hearts and minds to this tail-chasing madness?
Agree on all points, but there’s on crucial thing you’re missing. The government was always created BY rich people FOR rich people. All the founding fathers were rich or well connected to rich people. Some owned slaves. Most countries are like this anyway, only a few very notable exceptions.

Singapore comes to mind, their government focuses extremely on improving life for the common person.
I think it is more of a "chicken and egg" ordering problem.

1. The RISC-V design standard fragmentation issue has been addressed.

2. A reasonable mobile class level SoC will be available for integration after any large production run of the chips.

If ARM forces #2 out of silliness, than it also accelerates #1 in the market.

In general, there is plenty of use-cases even if a chip is not cutting edge. =3
Necromanteion of Acheron
I wasn’t aware that taxpayers funded drug development.

Can you share examples? I am genuinely asking.
So, just for the record, I'm not being paid to write this, but I read the literature on minimum wages, and while I think they are probably mostly ok, I'm not sure of their long-term efficacy and there are probably other interventions that may achieve the same effect more efficiently.

I'm unlikely to change my mind by someone who simply accused their opponent of being a paid shill, but other than that I'm probably a fairly marginal "opponent" of minimum wages that you could win over with a few cited well-written sources. See if you can better model what would convince me!
Microsoft and OpenAI are giving news outlets $10M to use AI tools