skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Assuming US.)

If you will have under $7M in your estate, the slightest is literally nothing. You will not owe a penny of federal estate tax.

If you have over $7M in your estate, it's worth consulting an estate planner, but the basics look like gifting and establishing trusts while you are alive (and ideally while the exclusion amounts are high).

The current exclusion is $13.61M per person, or 2x that per couple and set to drop down to $5.6M in 2017 dollars on January 1, 2026.

If there's a chance that you'll have over $7M and die in 2026, the slightest is gift some of it now [directly and/or via trusts or 529 plans] while the estate tax exclusion is still $13.61M and file form 709.
> Food, housing, energy, healthcare, education. Real wage growth and job security measured against the prices and durations of those things. That’s what matters to people who don’t own significant real assets, those are the things that can get extremely bad (someone tries to murder the CEO of United Healthcare on the street bad) without showing up in the numbers you see in the press.

You're correct that they do matter and can get bad, but are not bad currently as regularly reported in the press.

Lower income households in the US did better than everyone else by these metrics coming out of COVID.
It is not the same, but these are proxy numbers, because rental costs will increase along with owning costs.
Documentation is probably better than readability because readability makes a lot of assumptions arising from being close to the code...for example, Swedish names are not gonna be all that readable for most programmers (this holds true for English names as well).
The results of the last election tell a much different story. If the economy was soaring for the average person then I don’t think control of the government would have changed or at least not as dramatically.
Yeah, I did go down that rabbit hole several years ago. It is what it is.

One big part of it for me are the graphics. If the graphics/UI aren't kind of shitty, it's not going to "feel like Rogue" to me. I don't need ASCII per se, for instance I did most of my Rogue playing on the Mac port in the early/mid-80s.

This isn't the full issue for me though. Take Darkest Dungeon as an example. I love that game. And it checks all the standard boxes, even my "kind of shitty" graphics. But ... it's not Rogue.
Hey, author here, glad to see it popping up on HN.

I see people started opening issues and leaving bug reports here. I’ll try to go through them tomorrow (it is getting late here).

I created it because I needed it for my generative drawings. I prefer dragging a slider and seeing how the image changes, more than typing in a number.

I really tried to keep it minimal.
That's really interesting; thanks. I didn't realize the loudness wars had "ended", though I suppose with a lot of streaming services normalizing levels across playlists, there's less benefit.

On the physical aspect - I do miss that from CDs, especially looking through liner notes. Streaming in particular made remembering albums difficult for me. I still find the convenience (especially when it comes to storage!) of digital worth the trade-off though, so now I have everything ripped or bought digitally and available from my media server. It's not quite the same as browsing through CDs, but it's a lot closer.

10k records is quite the commitment - that must need a dedicated room? My ~300 CDs were annoying enough to store, lol.
Show HN: Generate changelog given repo and timeframe
Enforcement blocked today by a court:

https://www.cir-usa.org/2024/12/judge-orders-nationwide-inju...
> But is the majority of the population thriving?

This is a good point. Aggregate GDP is definitely not the right measure for this, and even GDP per capita adjusted for inflation and PPP does not account for economic inequality.

Median household income adjusted for inflation and PPP would probably be the least bad option if we had to choose a single statistic:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/median-in...
For other platforms there is already https://github.com/nviennot/core-to-core-latency

This project works around a limitation in MacOS, namely lack of thread pinning, and makes it possible to do it without Asahi Linux, and without using custom MacOS kernel extensions and disabling security features.
France in political crisis after no-confidence vote topples government
"No evidence" - if you can't avoid misinterpreting every sentence to go off on a rant, this thread is not worth continuing.

Insurance companies spent billions of dollars on advertisements against the ACA. This is public record. They did it because they opposed all of the good things the act required - such as prohibiting discrimination base on pre-existing conditions or demographics (other than age), requiring many basic procedures to be covered, bans on lifetime/annual coverage maximums, bans on dropping policy holders when they get sick, prohibiting copays on various services such as vaccines, requiring that insurers spend at least 80% of their premiums on health costs, a wide array of reforms to constrain costs, and so on.
Isn't 100 set to be the average? How can the average be less than the average?
Downtown SF or NYC.
Out of curiosity, where were you living during the 2008 election?
This is strangely written. NL is not a character. It is an operation. Every time he writes "NL character" he means an LF, i.e. 0x0A.

The NL operation is defined differently for different OSs. Yes, CRLF is a relic of the teletype, but in practice, it's really the Windows convention inherited from DOS. L/unix has always been LF. On old Mac operating systems it was CR alone.
A gap in awareness is definitely not the same as creating a new copy of your consciousness and annihilating the old one.

Although, I'll grant that the subjective experience may be fairly similar. If you were to theoretically be copied, your copy would probably feel quite continuous with the original.
That's what it's supposed to mean, but because so many people don't report it that way the resulting data is meaningless.
> I certainly would not want household androids unless I'm completely disabled.

That's nice. I'm not completely disabled, but I am disabled, and I very much would appreciate them, as my capability to do things over the longer term is very much not going to go in the direction of improving. As it is, there are a lot of things I now rely on people for, that at one time, I did not.

Whilst I recognise its probably not going to happen in a time span that is useful to me, I do wish it could, so that I could be less of a burden on those around me, and maintain a relative level of independence.
Sooo… just as safe then?
Sorry, I wrote my previous comment after I just woke up, it's a bit messy now that I take a second look at it.

I guess the way I used "elites" in my previous comment refers more to a certain perception of society some people hold, rather than to a definite group of people.

If we take the policies implemented during the COVID pandemic as an example, those came from the government, oftentimes backed by academia. Since a lot of people think the government is doing a bad job overall, they don't trust the legitimacy of those policies and oppose the scientific reasoning that led to them being adopted.

When the economy is doing well, people put more trust into their government, or the "elites".

Therefore, my thesis is that distrust into the institutions/science comes from a general discontent of the population, and is not a natural state of humanity.
Mysterious radio pulses traced to dance of stellar dwarfs
It should not be a matter of how much, it should be a matter of when is the cost even breakpoint, because at some point and time after x number of runs, it will be cheaper to own your own hardware.
The international Berne Copyright Convention was founded in the late 1800's precisely because Victor Hugo thought artists shoudn't have to think about such things. Copyright is automatic upon creation of the work and guaranteed for at least 50 years after the author's death.

Almost all countries are now party to the Convention, including the USA.
I think the problem is less to do with imagination and more to do with being willing to fail a metric shit ton to find out how, every once in a while, you didn't fail due to some really important and surprising reason you wouldn't have found nearly as quickly only ever going after what you were already certain of.
Perhaps it's for the best that he didn't survive. Given his track record, we probably wouldn't have survived whatever he came up with next.
They are either overspending or under non-standard living arrangements: roommates, living with relatives, living in cars, etc.
I have no expertise in this area, but my assumption is that this could help for a broader sort of object/world permanence for robots - e.g. if something is no longer visible to the robot's sensors (e.g. behind an obstacle, smoke, etc) then it could use a model based on this type of tech to maintain a short-term estimate of its surroundings even when operating blind.
If it can play video games that simulate the laws of physics, could it control a robot in the physical world?
> My point is that these rich bastards are playing by the rules the American citizens set up.

Mmmmmmm.... yes and no? Like it's cliche to blame everything on Reagan but the number of modern social ills that can be directly traced to the Reagan admin and the political movement behind it really does baffle the mind. Ills such as, for example:

- The deregulation of corporate finances, that permits the massive stock buybacks that allow corporations to kick absolutely stressful amounts of money to their shareholders and executives

- The tying of the hands of the FTC regarding anti-trust/monopoly regulation, which has led to the greatest era of corporate consolidation since Standard Oil, and all the problematic things that come with it

- The citizens united decision, which unleashed the ability for corporate America to pump shit fuck tons of money into political parties that would then work for their interests

- The repeal of the fairness doctrine, which let an entire wing of disinformation networks form and spread, masquerading blatant propaganda as news (sorry, "entertainment")

And like, you're right in one way, because the Republicans didn't come out to the American people and say "hey we want to enable corporations to rat fuck you for every dollar you have, along with every dollar you don't have, and to make them effectively the funding that both parties need to accept in order to have a snowballs' chance in hell of winning an election. Sound good?", obviously. But the various "mandates" that they've received from conservative voting blocs over the years are dubious as fuck, and if you scratch them just a little bit, you oftentimes find that their voters are so incredibly bullshitted at this point that they don't even truly know what the fuck they're voting for. Citation: literally in the last presidential race, there was a shit ton of people after the fact who both:

- Didn't realize tariffs would drastically increase the cost of goods in the United States, because exporters do not pay them, importers do (and in fact, if the rumors are to be believed, neither did their candidate)

- Voted for the party promising to repeal "Obamacare" despite receiving benefits from and in fact, needing the Affordable Care Act, not realizing that Obamacare is literally a made-up bullshit name given to the ACA by Republicans.

So like... yes, technically, the Republicans (and Democrats, make no mistake, their fingerprints are all over this shit too, just to a lesser degree) have built exactly the America that Americans want. However, it is impossible to fully divorce that from the just incredible amounts of propaganda Americans injest, both from the political parties who decide what is "feasible" to the corporate media.
>seems like its only the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer and less healthy.

At least in the past decade, the opposite has been happening.

>[...] Even after taxes and transfers, the average real income of households like his grew by 110% from 1990 to 2019, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). But most of that growth took place early in the time period: in 2019 he was probably doing worse than his equivalent in 2007, before the global financial crisis.

>By contrast incomes in the lowest 20% of households, in which the fast-food worker resides, surged in the tight labour market of the late-2010s. By 2019 she was enjoying after-tax-and-transfer household income 25% higher than those like her in 2007, in part thanks to “Obamacare”. Even over the full period since 1990, the bottom quintile’s after-tax-and-transfer income growth was 77%, the same as for the highest quintile—thus, excluding the highest-earning 1% from the top 20% would show the poor enjoying faster income growth than the upper-middle-class. [...]

https://www.economist.com/special-report/2024/10/14/is-highe...
I think the misunderstanding, in fact, is in reverse, demonstrated by the above comment. The networking required for career growth is, for many people, never going to pleasurable.

My social circles don't have much overlap with, for example, startup founders. Developing personal relationships in my network is not likely to ever benefit my career growth. When people give the advice to "network" to enable my career growth, the people who would be most helpful tend not to have much in common with me, and building relationships with them often means not being true to myself, or even hiding myself.

It isn't enough to simply build relationships or even be good at building relationships. Mostly, one needs to buy goodwill from those people who actually have power to help you.
Original post talked about 5 weeks vacation each year. I suspect the assumption is that working hard in the U.S. would not allow for that 5 week vacation.

Therefore that's 5 less weeks with the kids each year — or about 1.6 years total by the time they leave home for college.
> The US, as a resident, skews wildly from the popular narrative in many ways much of the time

Much of the time, thats it, you named it. To me the worst case scenario (I work in IT, so I often think in the worst case scenarios) in few relatively common situations, _seems_ to be much worse in the US.

Common, like being ill, visiting hospital, going to school, being stopped by the police.... (headlines again).
AI-generated memes that roast your repo
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https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/01/25/views-of-the...

Views of how the economy is doing are also highly correlated with political party and where you get your news. I’m not sure where the casual relationship begins but it could be where you get your news determines how you think the economy is doing and where you get your news is from political voices you agree with
> but has it caught up?

Which year is your baseline, and why?
What planet are you on? Paycheck to paycheck means there's (nearly) nothing left at the end of every month.

Clearly you're not in that situation, and likely have never been anywhere near it with that privileged view of the world.

Many people in the States are living on the edge; i.e. paycheck to paycheck, not, "oh, well, I'll just dip into my equities if the need arises".
Appreciate these thoughts back - Every maybe eight to ten years I pick up a server-side rendering framework. Last one was go templates based, (significant impedance mismatch between go and html/json as you might expect), before that was rails (2010-era: too much magic, pre-declarative UI era), before that was tcl/aolserver. I thought tcl on aolserver did a great job, and of course HTML5 browsers are vastly more capable than IE4 was. It probably still is pretty nice, I imagine.

I think as a practical matter, when I've picked a language that has good synchronicity and impedance matching with the needs of the web, (arbitrary JSON and text processing and injection, along with keeping some sort of structured idea of the DOM), I'm usually at typescript, which I...hate...but I hate it less than writing type structs in go or, dealing with erlang, or, etc. etc.

Once I'm at typescript, I'm using react as a path of least resistance. I'll check out turbo/stimulus though, thanks for the reference. It looks promising, and a little more bare to the wire which I appreciate.
From my perspective all that chart shows is that it’s been pervasive issue for at least the last 2 decades. I don’t think that homelessness is any more or less visible now than it has been, at least in my lifetime.
> why the US accepts

Because we don't have another option. Your job dictates your insurance, not you, and most jobs explicitly search for insurance companies that don't end up costing them much (but cover enough that people still think they have coverage, maybe).

There's stories going around right now about how BlueCrossBlueShield is going to be dictating the amount of time during a surgery that anesthesia will be covered. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=blue+cross+blue+shield+anes...

Of course, these stories are happening after individuals have made their elections for insurance AND after the companies that would be choosing the various insurance companies to pick from would have already selected their projected insurance provider.
The St Louis fed has a plot of units of housing over the last 25 years. Since 2008 we're short about 15 million units of housing. Which is how everyone that works for a living is getting squeezed. Rents and mortgages have sucked up all the disposable income.
The output of an LLM is often qualitative, not quantitative, and to test that, you need something that can judge the quality.

You're not debating philosophy with the LLM, you're just asking it if the answer matches (semantically) to the expected one.

I usually test LLM output quality with the following prompt (simplified):

"An AI assistant was tasked with {task}. The relevant information for their task was {context}. Their answer is {answer}. The correct answer should be something like {ground truth}. Is their answer correct?"

Then you can spice it up with chain of thought, asking it to judge alongside preferred criteria/dimensions and output a score, etc... you can go as wild as you'd like. But even this simple approach tends to work really well.

> turtles all the way down.

Saying "LLM testing LLM" is bad is like saying "computer testing computer" is bad. Yet, automated tests have value. And just as the unit tests will not prove your program is bug free, LLM evals won't guarantee 100% correctness. But they're incredibly useful tool.

In my experience working on pretty complex multi-agent multi-step systems, trying to get those to work without an eval framework in place is like playing whack-a-mole, only way less fun.
the Texas Rangers stumbled upon a surplus of Colt's old guns. By arming each Ranger with two five-chambered pistols, they found a tactical advantage against Comanche cavalry.

A similar event forms the basis for much of Blood Meridian.
Does Waymo count?
I have no idea, but it wouldn't surprise me if there were.
Well when they said Windows 10 would be the last Windows ever, subject to online servicing going forward including the sophisticated telemetry and forced updates to accomplish it, it seemed believable at the time.

The stated goal was to get everybody on the same Windows version and keep them that way, which would seem to make lots of things simpler for so many people involved.

Lots of people took it at face value and everyone going back to some of the earliest Windows 7 machines was welcome to freely download Windows 10 whenever they were ready. After a while users began to be more strongly encouraged to leave W7 behind before eventually it was an automatic W10 "upgrade" unless unprecedented effort had been made by those who wanted to stay on W7.

And of course all the multitudes that preferred Windows 8 most of all ;)

Windows 11 continues to turn the screws in a most obvious way, that for many of these users Windows 10 will turn out to be the last Windows they ever use (whenever they have a choice). But not for the reason originally envisioned. Simply because Windows 11 came to exist. And made the user's once-expensive (and even more-expensive to replace) hardware un-necessarily obsolete. It was bad enough in its current form as of last year, and it's gotten way worse since then because they've put effort into making it worse. On top of the natural decline from the neglect to put that effort into at least staying as good as it was, if not making things better.

A lot of the stuff both then and now starts to look more clearly like weasel-words than ever.

Could end up with way more unpatched W10 machines in future years, of way more different "versions" than there ever were before W7 was declining in the mainstream. Even though Win8 was already out plus XP and Vista were not completely insignificant, there's more versions of W10 than all of them combined. When a need comes to re-install Windows, if W11 won't install, people will use older and older W10 recoveries from different years that don't seem like they might be autoupdated back to the same level of security they had before they formatted in preparation for the clean install.

On a much more threatening landscape than there was when W7 was scheduled to be deprived of ongoing correction to the security defects it had failed to fix before shipping to begin with.
What you think and what each individual reply to the survey indended are bound to be wildly different.
I wonder how Kamal compares to Dokploy or Coolify, both have GUIs as well in those times I don't want to mess with the command line just to fix something in production.
lots of people that can afford to buy many houses rent because it makes very little financial sense (for those who understand slightly-above-basic-math) to own a house in the US
Thank you for citing real statistics instead of idées reçues from the 1990s, as the above poster did.
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A baby's ear syringe, a mountain of broken trucks, and the unlikeliest tomato breeder in history.
>Should we force people to pay additional taxes on other property in order to continue to possess it?

That is generally how property taxes are supposed to function.

It's better than taxing the output of hard work - work, unlike hoarding, is generally something we want to encourage.
Not to mention that A LOT of millenials are about to inherit a ton of money from the Baby Boomers. The Boomers are just lasting longer because of advances in health care, all of whom are on Medicare which is government funded health insurance. In fact, about 40% of Americans on are federal healthcare between Medicare and Medicaid.
might be that the more onerous a taxation system, the more likely society will implode.

the stamp act, the townshend act, the boston tea party, etc...

might be "tax what you want less of" could be... citizens.
This discussion would benefit a lot from The Banality of Evil, but I'm definitely not the best one to introduce it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem

But I think it would very much argue in favor of people being on average more like loyalists. Just regular Joes trying to get a promotion and causing untold damage in the process.
I started my sabbatical in Summer 2023. I couldn't even stand to look at a computer for first 12 months.

At the end of this summer, I started working on a software project I've wanted to build for a long time. Programming is so much more fun when you don't have people breathing down your neck asking when it will done, and why are you not completing all your story points in the sprint.

I had a problem that took me three days to figure out. I wasn't stressed at all and was able to just focus on the problem. It has also been enjoyable because I can choose the technologies I want to use. There have also been a couple of times where I start working with something and say I don't like this and go with something else.

I think it has been good to have this project before going back to work. It helped me to start like working with computers again.