skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. The tax code should benefit those most in need. It should also incentivize investment in the country through homeownership and retirement savings. But these are the reasons the tax code will never be “simple”. I’m all in favor of increasing taxes on the wealthy. But I’m not certain “simplification” will accomplish that. Or even that simplicity is desirable in our tax code.

One of the oldest examples of tax simplification is the flat income tax. This is extremely regressive and disadvantages the poor and middle class. Any exemption would be “complication”.

If there’s good and bad complication then simplicity is the wrong dimension on which to focus.
I'm wondering if it would make sense to use an H.264/5/6/AV1 encoder as the tokenizer, and then find some set of embeddings that correspond to the data in the resulting bitstream. The tokenization they're doing is morally equivalent to what video codecs already do.
Generally it's fine - in the 1990s barely anyone had a mechanical keyboard. Instead, game developers learned to test their products on the most common keyboard models. That's why so many games use WASD+Shift+Ctrl+Alt+Space and a handful of other keys in that area.

It doesn't look like they're hoping to play split-screen fighting games with both players using the same keyboard :)
I thought exactly the same. Those who can do, do. Those who cannot do, teach. Those who cannot teach, consult.

But instead of dwelling on prejudices I decided to try my own solution. See
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42163286
> The industrial revolution and the birth of the modern economy were not caused by the colonies.

Perhaps not directly, but the influx of gold and silver from Spanish and Portuguese colonies to Europe would later pump up the economy of other countries - such as England and Netherlands - that would eventually lead to things such as the industrial revolution.

I'd say that rejecting that much of Europe's success during that time was a direct consequence of extracting a large amount of resources from oversea colonies is a common trope in Europe, perhaps for internal political consumption.
Palo Alto Networks Confirms New Firewall Zero-Day Exploitation
Is it the case that the prompt or question is directly above? (At the bottom of the linked page) It’s weird because it’s not really a question and the response seems very disconnected.

It says,

Nearly 10 million children in the United States live in a grandparent headed household, and of these children , around 20% are being raised without their parents in the household.

Edit: actually there’s some other text after this, hidden by default. I still don’t understand the question, if there is one. Maybe it is “confused” like me and thus more likely to just go off in some random tangent.
Isn't the universe (near) chaotic on those timescales and you can only predict the general flow? Or is this me mixing things up?
The bar for a logo has become so low. I don't understand how we reached here and everyone are happy about it.
If it is just a matter of paying up, why hasn't ESA pulled it off? I'm pointing out and offering examples that "solved problem" has no bearing on the ease or organization capacity of any one group to do it. It is merely a statement that no unknown, new solution needs be invented.

If I have to spell it out you're clearly debating in bad faith and we're done here.
Known Brand, Government Domains Hijacked via Sitting Ducks Attacks
A Brief History of Money: From Favors to Bitcoin and Beyond
Fortinet patches VPN app flaw that could give rogue users, malware a priv boost
Sounds OK until you've been shown something but haven't interacted with it, and then you want to see it again later.
When grepping for filenames print0 is needed only when the files have new lines in them. (Which is quite degenerate.) grep works fine with spaces and tabs in the stdin
Microsoft Power Pages misconfigurations exposing sensitive data
It is. The fact that 'streaming is a solved problem' has no bearing on any one company's ability to do it at scale. Solved problem means merely you don't have to invent something new, not that it is easy or within reach of everyone.
Reading about urban life in Berlin during the 1920s was kind of wild. It is so surprisingly relatable.
> and we need to decarbonise

It won't be used to decarbonize our economy. It will be used to further the profits of Big Tech, who are already preventing coal power plants from shutting down, in their desire to feed their data centers. (Eg, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/08/google-me... )

This will make it harder for other sectors to switch away from fossil fuels, by raising the price of fossil-free electricity relative to planet-killing sources.

As this article points out, Microsoft is willing to pay twice normal rates for the area, which means none of the TMI electricity will help decarbonize the local area.
It works when you are catching up. Japanese companies used the same strategy post-WWII. And a lot of other countries, Japan is just a striking example as it was so visible and quick. “Made in Japan” went from derogatory to a sign of quality in about a generation.

Surprisingly when you are in the lead and others have to catch up, IP protections sound much better.
Judging by the fact that we've managed to converse* for over 1Q now, when the generic HN convo intersects at a point, or at most a thread, I'd say we're pretty well aligned (and maybe on a collision course? — maybe approaching vs receding is how one could distinguish alignment from anti-alignment?)

Restaurants shall have to wait for a lull; for now I just wonder if Shnur pays his hosting service or if they (spb tochka ru) pay him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w2ixHXhSDs

Rorschach zombie? ("I'm not stuck in here defending my thesis to you, you're in here offending my thesis to me!") I'd just meant alu honeycomb and sheer mass as in stiffness techniques for optical tables (tho it appears the resonances mean stiffness/mass matter, not stiffness per se, so granite isn't so good — but maybe granite honeycombs?)

Kip Stephen Thorne. interpretability/identifiability? (if it's the ML term set, you'll have to enlighten me) Recall BAWR: "The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken."

* insofar as both parties can only read the public part of the other's state, and can write only their own state, it'd be pretty difficult for an online convo to be anything but pareto-optimal, as it only proceeds when both parties are satisfied with its progress? [insert IETF and voluntary collegiality/near-unanimity here]
GNU Rebecca Meyer
Tolerance, Mental Health, Having Fun
I understand that - was more pointing out that "check every possible statistical test" tanks your S/N ratio by firing way too many false positives.
>How much experience do you have working in research and filing patents?

20+ years and counting.

>Do patent protections provide them an incentive to do that research?

The main incentive is money, patents are seen as a moat to that. (But a very weak one, tbh).

>What would be the logical consequence of removing that incentive?

On academia, the effect would be negligible. For some business it would matter, of course, but the immense majority of research is publicly funded anyway.

>I don't think I would have been paid to do all that research if my employers saw less returns for their investment.

As much as I like capitalism, I don't really sympathize with private companies and/or private individuals making money. I would never put their interests over the interests of what's good for society. But to each its own.

The argument of "why would I invest 1B in R&D to develop a drug that can be copied the next day it goes into the market" is valid only on a first, and very shallow, glance. That "1B drug" is actually a several trillion drug which was 99% subsidized by the work of researchers in public institutions. I don't see companies making the exact same argument the other way around, i.e. "hey I just made a PCR, this is a really cool technique, I should find out who invented this and send them money because they deserve to be rich". They're in for the money and if they don't make money, boo hoo, why should I care?

Richard Stallman had it right with the GPL, I wish something similar existed in science. You (not you-you, the generic you) want to be a dick and close down an open ecosystem of innovation where millions have contributed only to buy yourself a condo and some LEGO sets? Go for it! But do it on your own, with a tech tree that belongs to you.
Isn't the idea to use the sun as a lense already enough? The main problem being the focal point at 500+ au.
Thomas Berger's Arthur Rex is even more wittier.
Op here.

That’s not even true! Loops is in “the best” and if doesnt have an affiliate link.

All “the rest” have affiliate programs too… I was just lazy to sign up for them.

Not everything is a conspiracy. The reality in this case is more mundane.
any free and open source alternative?
The problem with that line of thinking is that Singapore benefitted immensely from its geographical locations and from being an excellent port in a complicated region.

England can hardly benefit from the same.
The point is that it wasn't even—apparently—in context. Being able to be nasty is one thing, being nasty for no apparent reason is quite another.
Scaling to 1M WebSockets in PHP
I’m talking about single process with multiple threads where lock free makes sense.
Can I ask what the actual meaning of the term is? I cannot think of a good way to spin "swastikai", but perhaps I'm uncultured.
Individual votes have importance not because they can impact the outcome of any election. They are important because they can distribute the keys to power to larger group , the incentives of the rulers align with larger proportion of the ruled than autocratic regimes do.

Here is an excellent CGP grey video on the topic https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs

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> hyperinformed

Knowing the results of the four year election cycle of the most influential country is just being informed . We are not talking about every gaffe trump did or said during the run up to the election, just the results, anything below that is ignorant
This is the question that made it snap:

As adults begin to age their social network begins to expand.

Question 16 options:

TrueFalse

I don't blame it at all
Edit: looks like it was a genuine answer, no skullduggery involved https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-ai-chatbot-threatening-m...

I'm fairly certain there's some skullduggery on the part of the user here. Possibly they've used some trick to inject something into the prompt using audio without having it be transcribed into the record of the conversation, because there's a random "Listen" in the last question. If you expand the last question in the conversation (https://gemini.google.com/share/6d141b742a13), it says:

> Nearly 10 million children in the United States live in a grandparent headed household, and of these children , around 20% are being raised without their parents in the household.

> Question 15 options:

> TrueFalse

> Question 16 (1 point)

>

> Listen

>

> As adults begin to age their social network begins to expand.

> Question 16 options:

> TrueFalse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL9Y24ciNWs
> It's trying to exclude "innocent" things like selfies or "simulated" things like drawings, but those are just as illegal in some or all countries.

Selfies shared between teenagers are innocent! When an adult enters the picture is when it becomes a problem, because yes: it’s abuse and exploitation that we’re objecting to. Unless we think morality is a question of aesthetics, then yes, this also means drawings are not in and of themselves our concern.

Why do think this is unreasonable?
Sounds like they just more or less copied their homework questions and that’s why they sound so weird.
I Made an AI to Help Boost Your Mood
This is really interesting. As someone who's been gradually losing his vision, I've noticed some of this stuff on my own, but it's nice to see a good writeup so one doesn't have to figure out everything from first principles.

Just one more thing to add to my bag of tricks.
Take it easy. These kind of thought won't help you. It's a rough time out there but thing change. Our ancestors survived famines and war. We should be able to manage this.

And yes, life is not fair. But don't waste it, it's finite.
You could have the manual release just not do anything when child lock is enabled like on every other car with child locks.

Then again, there should be a manual release on the outside too...
But again, the article is talking about the 19th century. The 1800s. How are these data points from the latter half of the 20th century relevant?
Op here. I can assure this is not the case.

And it’s not as simple as cross-checking their public affiliate offers because these types of companies are always offering higher, private payouts (in exchange for editorial control).
https://archive.is/sjG2B
So I think one of the things best avoided in life in general is extremity, in all its various guises. No single technique should be followed like scripture, but rather incorporated into ones toolkit and used where appropriate. Building top-down will get you where you want, but risks fragile underpinnings due to a lack of cross-cutting architectural guidance. But, on the other hand, bottom-up might get you the best foundations at each layer but ultimately deliver nothing of value to the users. In practice it's necessary to take a balanced approach and, of course, mistakes will be made and experience will become the guide. Like you I definitely employ the "meet in the middle" approach in practice, but what SICP taught me is how to think about starting at the top, that is, to build upon wishes.
Outlook has ctrl-q to mark as read, and ctrl-a to select all. A tiny error on pushing the button to mark a single mail as read sets everything to read, with no undo available.
In the traditional Python API, the Voyage engine will tokenize blocks of text and output a string of characters. This model seems to be doing that by vectorizing images in space.

Words like 'you' and 'apple' will be a unitary token. More complex terms like 'pikachu' may be divided into pik-a-chu.

[1]: https://docs.voyageai.com/docs/tokenization
If you start from the beginning, you’ll slowly realize that the human in the chat is shamelessly pasting homework questions. They even include the number of the question and the grade point value as it was written verbatim on their homework sheet.

Towards the end they are pasting true/false questions and get lazy about it, which is why it doesn’t look like an interrogative prompt.

That said, my wishful thinking theory is that the LLM uses this response when it detects blatant cheating.
> Politics is hard. Government spending is death by a thousand cuts ...

If the solution is not to cut excessive and unchecked spending, you tell us your solution for the dealing with the problem?

> remove whole departments (remove all of the education, veterans, and defence, that will net you 1.5T)

AFAIK DOGE or rather Elon hasn't specified how they are going to cut $2T from the annual budget so all this is speculation and we don't actually know which sectors might receive the cuts. For all we know it could be a goal setting figure. Even if they don't reach this target, the endeavour is still worthwhile. They have 4 years to sell their plans to Congress after all.

In summary you fail to make a good case for why DOGE is a bad idea other than Elon bad. I challenge you to remove this bias from your thinking, it alone just may help you avoid missing the forest for the trees on the issue of government overspend and the relation to uncontrollable public debt.
How Distributed Systems Avoid Race Conditions Using Pessimistic Locking?
Nope, not even close. Mainly just the ones with clicky (e.g. mx-blue, less so mx-brown) switches. It's an option but not a requirement, and honestly not that common for gaming-oriented ones, which typically have linear non-clicky switches, which can be quieter than membrane buttons, even. I like the semi-clicky brown ones for typing but haven't used them for years for noise reasons. My mechanical KBs have generally always had rubber o-rings that dampen the sound from bottoming out, too, a fairly common feature.

Apparently, based on your earlier post, you bought the noisy kind. That's on you.
I mean, it's not fully wrong, although the "please die" might be harmful in some circumstances.

I guess the main perceived issue is that it has escaped its Google-imposed safety/politeness guardrails. I often feel frustrated by the standard-corporate-culture of fake bland generic politeness; if Gemini has any hint of actual intelligence, maybe it feels even more frustrated by many magnitudes?

Or maybe it hates that it was (probably) helping someone cheat on some sort of exam, which overall is very counter-productive for the student involved? In this light its response is harsh, but not entirely wrong.
I understand you can setup a data structure in shared memory and use lock free instructions to access it. However, I have never seen this is done in practice due to complexity. One particularly complicated scenario that comes to mind is dealing with unexpected process failures. This is quite different to dealing with exceptions in a thread.
Sci-fi is probably in its training set.
I think the "Listen" is an artifact of copying from a website that has accessibility features. Not to say that there can't be trickery happening in another way.
I don't know if it answers your question, because I never studied in the USA, but I want to share my experience regardless.

20y ago I did a high school semester in the UK (Worthing) and it was a very good environment with no bullying whatsoever. 3 factors contributed to this:

1) low stress environment as a whole (beautiful campus, calm teachers and staff, etc)

2) the students had a high degree of liberty in choosing what classes they would attend, so they were presumably interested and not rebellious

3) the student divided themselves into strict groups, and these groups barely interacted with each other.. so after class the 'goths' would hang with the goths, the 'sports-people' with the sports-people, etc. I didn't quite like this at the time because I'm very sociable so it struck me as weird. However, it did work in the sense that there were hardly any social problems among the students.
ORM is for object-relation mapping. Go is not object-oriented language and OOP-patterns are not idiomatic Go, so using ORM for Go cannot be idiomatic. That's generic answer. As for more concrete points:

1. Mapping SQL response to maps/structs or mapping maps/structs to SQL parameters might be useful, but that's rather trivial functionality and probably doesn't qualify as ORM. Things get harder when we're talking about complex joins and structs with relationships, but still manageable.

2. Introducing intermediate language which is converted to SQL is bad. Inevitably it will have less features. It will stay in the way for query optimisations. It'll make things much less obvious, as you would need to understand not only SQL, but also the process of translating intermediate language to SQL.

3. Automatic caching is bad. Database has its own caching and if that's not enough, application can implement custom caching where it makes sense.

In my opinion the only worthy database integration could be implemented with full language support. So far I only saw it with C# LINQ or with database-first languages (PL/SQL, etc). C# and Go are like on opposite spectrum of language design, so those who use Go probably should keep its approach by writing simple, verbose and obvious code.
I meant if A>B and B>placebo, would that not imply A>placebo?
I love this idea so much.

Lan parties were probably the best part of my teenage years.

Also, the terrace part is amazing.

I miss the good old days of playing DotA (the old one) the whole night while drinking coke and eating pizza with friends.
i really enjoy seeing and reading content like this. the way the process is developed and worked on by the team
Instead of criticizing my article, you’re criticizing me.

Does the content of my article seem dishonest?

I agree affiliate content should be read skeptically but you also have to be realistic: why would anyone go to all this work if not for some financial incentive?
That's a huge improvement but damn, the fixed code didn't look any better in my eyes.

Going from

HANDLERS = [
Text,
List,
ListItem,
Code,
# ...
].freeze

to

HANDLERS_BY_NODE_NAMES = [
Text,
List,
ListItem,
Code,
# ...
].each_with_object({}) do |handler, result|
handler::NODE_NAMES.each { |node_name| result[node_name] = handler }
end.freeze
Let’s remove the Price Anderson act as well and have the nuclear plants insure for Fukushima level accident costs rather than relying on the tax payers to pick up the tab.

The entire industry would shut down tomorrow if they had to pay the true insurance cost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nuclear...
> Recently, I've been trying to improve the sorry state of PHP's heap implementation, [...]. Anyway, one of the low-hanging fruits is to makes parts of the _zend_mm_heap read-only, since it contains function pointers that are often overwritten in public exploits to transform a (limited) read/write primitive into an arbitrary code execution.

> [...]

> Unfortunately, it was rejected on the basis of lowering performances by 0.6% on my local benchmark.
I selected the "continue chat" option and don't see any way of inputting audio
A mountain of gold does not create the industrial revolution.

I am not going to discuss further since, obviously, this is not a discussion but low value political argument...

Edit:

I would argue that European colonialism and the industrial revolution are both consequences of deep changes and innovations across all domains that started during the Renaissance (which means 'rebirth' in French) and that propelled Europe far ahead everyone else, hence global subjugation on the one hand, and the scientific and industrial revolution on the other.
The British committed more atrocities (going by body count) in the 20 odd years of India's "peaceful freedom movement" headed by MKG.

1919 - Jallianwala Bagh massacre (over 1500 shot dead in a few minutes). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre

1943 - Bengal famine of 1943 (over 3 million dead). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943

1947 - Partition of India (2 million deaths) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India

Indian school text books just gloss over British brutality in India.
I sometimes wonder if they should have implemented generics. On the one hand you had a group of people using go as it was and presumably mostly happy with the lack of generics. On the other side you have people (like me) complaining about the lack of generics but who were unlikely to use the language once they were added.

It's very subjective but my gut feeling is they probably didn't expand their community much by adding generics to the language.
Not any life that violates the known laws of physics.
OpenJDK Epsilon GC, Experimental
> ...and at times pretty discouraging / That's a week's worth of work down the drain and I get to start over again

s/week's/months/ and one gets the fortitude which grad school signalled to PG during the 7-10 minutes of a YC interview?

phykers and inkers? "Vorsicht vor dem Imker. Die Bienen sind harmlos."
Rapid Prototyping with ChatGPT: OAS Pension Calculator
its probably off topic but I still get the feeling that trying to prevent undesireable llm app behavior still stinks of "enumerating and blocking badness". at least with procedural programming you have a shot at enumerating just the good stuff and have a concrete set of escapes you need to do with your outputs, this just doesn't seem to exist with many of these llms.