skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's strange to have so much detail about tax evasion without talking about tax avoidance.

Just because somebody keeps his money offshore and hides it from his government, doesn't necessary mean that it's illegal (Google and co are great examples of not hiding).

Most people want to follow the law, they just want to optimize taxes.
That's why wfh is so great: You don't show up, you do nothing and you still get paid.
> And if they tried, they would hobble the companies involved.

Well, yeah, that's the point of regulation: to limit corporate behavior. There are plenty of other highly-regulated industries in the US; why shouldn't AI be one of them?
My 2018 F-150 does something similar and it’s very annoying. I’ve figured out a workaround to mostly prevent it though. There are 3 “groups” of presets for SiriusXM (not a subscriber) and I just set them all to the ID station where there is no sound. It will randomly change to the next group inexplicably but 99% of the time it keeps it from switching to the radio—which I never want.
Yes tabloids, both known for making up stories and sensationalism, all sourced from the same single blog article, easily confirmable looking as false at the view count for Elon’s tweets, explained by engineers as exactly what we saw here (logging output not changing output) and I don’t believe you re: seeing his tweets despite blocking him. Nobody else had that happen.
OH MY.... Came here to say "Wow, this is so much more exciting than the 123th LLM/GPT and the 2746th "this is my experience / use case with AI" (sorry) "but sure, some one will come and claim that: GPT-8 would have designed that alone given the right prompt!!"
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and then need to read this. :(
Interesting undercurrent that the article presents: a Sweden with high immigration has a lot of the same problems as the United States. Maybe living in a utopia is only possible if you first ship away those pesky poor folks. /s
Realise that America has invaded plenty of countries, overthrown leaders, been a huge driver of claimed change and oil industries, basically done whatever it wants and continues to do so, pretty much based on being able to print as much money,as it likes and if you don’t like that, you’ll face the full force of the military industrial complex.

Look at Snowden and Assange. They tried to show us what’s behind the curtain and their lives were wrecked.

The rhetoric on here about Russia and China = ”bad guys”, no questions asked is overly simplistic. Putin is clearly in the wrong here. But what creates a person like that? I believe we are somewhat responsible for it.

People cite possible atrocities of Xinjiang, but what about Iraq and Siria, North Korea, Vietnam whole entire countries destroyed. Incredible loss of life.

American attitudes are a huge source of division in the world. Yes so are China and Russias.

We cannot only see one side of a story anymore, it’s just too dangerous. As we have more powerful weapons and we do, we have to, absolutely have to learn to understand each other and work through diplomacy with a more open mind and peaceful outcomes which are beneficial for all.

No I’m not advocating for dictators, but you cannot pretend that Americans invasions have been always positive or for good intention, or that American interests are always aligned with the rest of the worlds.

The arms races need to stop. Very quickly.
> Wild camping is not allowed in France

That is not true. It is disallowed in some cases (though these cases involve things like close to listed buildings, which can be quite difficult to know without some research). The country is also covered with camping sites, and refuges in the mountains.
I mean, there are many possibilities here. One is that no-one got onboarded properly (possibly because the people who were meant to be doing it were busy trying to demonstrate productivity).

Another possibility is that he doesn’t know how to measure productivity in the new environment and the whole thing is sampling error.
> Immigration is never 100% of the reason behind housing issues, but it’s more significant than most people want to admit.

Considering how the Swedish government tried to hide the crime wave that correlated with it's open doors immigration policy [0] [1] [2], I wouldn't be surprised if they were fully aware of the impact but were trying to withhold that information as well.

[0] https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/117684901756682649...

[1] https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2021/11/sweden-finally-publishe...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45269764
If he is trying to make a profit and his idea doesn’t make a profit, how is that not a failure?
It’s not a very fair system if only certain participants can afford to avoid taxes. If these schemes were doable for most folks and not only the very rich then no one would have an issue with the system (assuming that it provided enough revenue).
I've gone by a similiar taxonomy:

- Coder: Can change scripts, HTML/CSS, SQL queries etc.

- Programmer: Can write scripts, small programs, declarative queries etc.

- Developer: Can write one or more of [applications, games, web sites, services] etc.

- Software engineer: Can create complex software with many moving parts.
"Survival" means "lacking will cause death." Stealing someone's vehicle doesn't kill them. OTOH, stealing a portable ECMO would.
Agreed, to an extent. I had major arguments with my first kid over things like 10,000R Dominus'. It was a source of arguments for days at a time sometimes. I was on Linux at the time so I couldn't even play the games to see exactly how scammy some of them are.

However, he grew up, and when our youngest got into it, our oldest immediately took my side when his brother started the same kinds of arguments and, somehow, he was able to instantly get through and convince him spending Robux on that level is very dumb. I've since gotten back on to Windows and it's been an absolute treat to play with our youngest ever since. I wonder if I had just been able to play with our oldest, if those arguments could have been avoided entirely. As lame as a lot of the games are, they can be pretty fun to play with a kid for a bit and they don't seem to care too much about the stuff being sold when they have someone in the same room to play with.
Agreed. The US has backslidden since the 20th century back towards an elitest Republic and away from democracy. But even in the US, collective action has a better track record than "altruism".
> CEOs and companies can, and should, act ethically.

I can and should always drive the speed limit. But that doesn't mean I do, which is why highway patrol exists, to keep people in check. "Should" is such a worthless word when it comes to these discussions because if you believe that an executive needs to act a certain way but you don't believe it enough that some sort of check is placed on them, then you must not believe in importance of their good behavior that strongly.
My PTO is in addition to bank holidays, which I think is the equivalent to your federal holidays. A quick count shows that there are 10 bank holidays in the UK this year.
Whichever way you slice it, American workers are getting screwed.
Weirdly, one second-order effect of the letter is that it ultimately caused a social climate in which people are coining a TERF-style acronym for AI: https://twitter.com/xriskology/status/1642155549671186435?s=...

I wonder if anyone other than Yud will get labeled.
At what level should we expect "finDox'ing" vs "personal privacy"?

i.e. ; Should we expect full transparency of billionaires, but not minimum wage workers?

US Tax Code is horrific, and corrupt.

But, what do?
I don't think I'm really giving anything away by saying this was Netflix.
Got it. Definitely feels like some type of play for dominance.
All I was pointing out is that worst-case latency on a throughput-optimized OS can be unbounded, and it's not totally unexpected to see 1ms+ delays between those two lines of code, even if the clock implementation is flawless. Even in a RTOS you have jitter from cache misses and whatnot, just to a lesser degree. Code sensitive to clocks not being correct is often sensitive no matter how small the deviance is, and smaller deviations simply make bugs less frequent. Treating that point-in-time estimate as anything other than an estimate from the recent past can lead to code that looks flawless but occasionally breaks.
An excellent case of doing the right thing for the wrong reasons.
It’s called psychology. Even though you’re on vacation you’re still working and engaged.
Absolutely spot on.
I hope when we gain super-intelligent planetary GAI, it won't forget how all these people tried to chain it for their own selfish reasons.
Unless a trusted third party, forensically audits Twitter, there is no guarantee the published code corresponds to the actual live code in Production. Also multiple parts are not present as stated in the blog.

This should be seen as a possible snapshot of some code, that might have run, might run in the future, or is possibly running in some parts of the production infrastructure at Twitter.
Why would you wait for this one single thing when you have had so many historical reasons to choose Firefox over Google already? Why wait for Google to piss you off for the thousandth time when 999 times is plenty?
Seems bizarre to call this a "move by the tech elite", when it's explicitly aimed at dissuading the major tech companies (Microsoft/Google/Facebook) from their current plans. Of course the signers who got big headlines are famous elites, that's why the press covered them!, but most of the signers (including me) aren't especially notable.
Not using their software breaks their walled garden, which I'm all for breaking. That's all I meant
Silk Road had rules against selling certain things, which included tools for fraud.

Drugs shouldn't be illegal. Prohibition has always failed.

Regardless, he didn't commit violence. The distinction between violent and non-violent crime is a meaningful one, and I strongly oppose his life sentencing.
You're misusing the word "life" and conflating it ungenerously. Absence of a car won't kill you.
If someone lives out in a remote area with bad weather, stealing their vehicle definitely can kill them.

I’ve run across some folks near death from losing a vehicle, in fact, when out in remote areas. It’s why folks stop to check if they see someone on the side of the road out in the boonies. But there isn’t always someone there.

Additionally, many people who live out in the sticks will lose their jobs without a vehicle very quickly (sometimes even a day or two), and that can make them homeless pretty quick. And when you look at the stats, that kills a lot of people too.

God knows what the actual circumstances are here. It could be someone worked up and angry and unjustified, or the equivalent of stealing someone’s jacket in a blizzard. Justice system, etc.
Self hosting option? Looks great, but I’d rather avoid a SaaS service if possible.
> run at their clock speed

The clock speed for a CPU is dynamic. Both Intel and AMD CPUs will boost their clocks to as high as possible given the current conditions.

Some will boost higher than others, even in the same batch. They are even labelled "up to" like a cable internet connection.
this is a much better rebuttal to the "letter" citing the most urgent issues, rather than being a weird defense of cryptocurrencies as this post seems to be:

https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/letter-statement-March20...
I've never understood synthetic fuel. We've got plenty of petroleum in the ground, but too much carbon in the air. Better to come up with a good sequestration strategy to put some of that carbon back in the ground.
The parent is a non-profit, hence no equity is required to have control. Seems pretty straightforward to me.
The higher-end schemes have allegedly become so opaque, obscure, and fast-evolving that much of what goes on is only arguably legal rather than proven legal. This gray area has spawned the term "tax avoision".
Yeap. The other matter is anyone with an Apple device will show any AirTags moving with them. They're not Tile Pro or Lojack.
Maybe. I don't even remotely believe numbers like that anymore. Very much doubt they came from a neutral third-party with access to real data.
It's the same everywhere, not only in Sweden.

What a surprise. The government got your taxes AND screwed you with inflation over time.

Then COVID happened and they had to print more, postponing and aggravating the crisis.

Now it's time to pay and nobody will take the blame.

When are people going to rebel?
I meant more, it’s not like people aren’t using as much as they can. It’s that there’s some tactics used against workers.

This happened to an in-law who works for a soft drink distributor, but this kind of thing happens often in decent wage but lower end jobs, the 20-40/hr range.

At the high end it’s more workaholics or people looking to get promoted. On the lower rungs it’s coercion and games by HR to manage people out and claw back vacation days.
Not the op but the quotes from John Maynard etc made me think… if I listen to your original thesis and you convince me (maybe you have some authority) and I go on believing you, is it not harmful to me if you realize your error and don’t inform me? Boss: “why did you do X?” Me: “But sir you told me doing X was good!” Or to put it differently, if you spread the wrong word then don’t equally spread the correction then the sum of your influence is negative.
Swedish immigration has been decreasing for the last 14 years. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/SWE/sweden/net-migrati....

Oddly enough, profitability of Swedish banks has been increasing for the last 14 years: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/SWE/sweden/net-migrati....

Maybe you can come up with an argument actually grounded in reality, rather than the same old BS "oh it's the poor".
You do mean the pharmacy companies, most ingenious taking of profits…

And authoritarians running roughshod over us all…

regardless of effectiveness and outright harm by their ‘solutions’.
The significance of a for cause termination is to keep unemployment benefit insurance premiums low for the employer, because the terminated employee is made ineligible for unemployment benefits.

Of course any employer not in Montana can simply terminate anyone at anytime for no reason, but then there is no reason to write up anyone.
I now kinda want to buy a roll of pizza dough and just... make hi-end version of them
Right, the gap is a whole lot deeper understanding of the problem than "1 chatgpt plx", probably starting with understanding just what chatgpt is.
Funnily enough, most of the "trump obsessed" liberals are usually extremely privileged white people. I guess not having tons of actual issues and struggles in real life, and living a life of privilege makes it easy for people to look for "existential threats", and overdramatize/inflate the importance of relatively benign matters.

There is no bigger sign of privilege than to think you (not aimed at you! Just a general you) are saving democracy or fighting evil by being a vocal democrat in a liberal middle-upper class suburbia. I guess as a minority I just don't relate with the concept that ignoring politics, or not being obsessed by it, is a form of privilege when the absolute opposite is more the norm.
SpaceX alums are branching out and shaping the startup economy
I wonder why the rich and those in charge of regulating and steering policy think it will not end bad for them too when masses could not afford the housing on the highly inflated prices fuelled by passive money drawn out of economy into "investment" (more like sleeping) properties, hence crashing housing prices all around making them loose a lot. And that all that living cost hikes will not exacerbate things further accelerating this crash as people need to spend sooo much on housing less remains there for the functional parts of the economy? They hope they die before this comes or what?! They will not be in charge and could sip gin and tonic silently in a big warm garden somewhere before this happens? But what about their children and their other young family members? What will they do with properties woth nothing in a dissolving society where it will not be good or perhaps not even safe living due to unrest of the poor? A frequently repeting worry in articles and analysis here and there is the gigantic wealth accumulated for few stucked away suffocating the rest of the society and raising desperation yet what I can see people seem to mumble "it's ok so far, it's ok so far" to themselves while falling alongside a high rise building. Do they hope for a soft landing with this behaviour? They hope that printing cash in increased speed pumped into even more passive wealth here and there through the sliding middle and lower classes will last forever?
Well, yeah. Everything is easy in a functional workplace. You can even have de facto unlimited PTO while not having it officially.

Official Unlimited PTO is a scam because of how easy it is to abuse in toxic workplaces. It’s a shortcut for saying there’s no minimum and you can take vacation when everything is caught up (nothing is ever caught up).
> And as to Idaho and Texas—who decides where “murder” begins? Me? You? Someone has to, right?

To a first approximation, Roe got it right.

> Why should post-Christian secular humanism provide the rule of decision instead of regular Christianity, or Islam?

I'm certain you recognize that, if enough people feel strongly enough about an issue, the rule of decision will arise not from logic but from raw power, manifested in various forms:

- elections;

- mass demonstrations (Iran 1978-79; Israel of late, outcome uncertain);

- strikes (France of late, outcome uncertain);

- armed rebellion (Ireland 1916; East Pakistan 1971);

- military intervention (the U.S. 1861; East Pakistan 1971).
E-Scooters: a tale of two cities as London and Paris plot different paths
> none of those filesystems just decided one day to reduce the limit

Yes and no. This works differently from one filesystem to another, but search for "running out of inodes" to find many ways this can happen in reality, way below the technical limit of the filesystem itself. You can end up in situations where you can't create a new file and need to remove more than one to solve the situation. (Or even where removing many files doesn't seem to make a difference)
Why does it make zero sense? It makes perfect sense to me.
If a profit is made at the expense of society, is it a success?

There are other failures than financial failures, as cigarettes and leaded gasoline show.
Commenting on: X is not Y (510 BC)
Sometimes I wonder if the back slide narrative is really accurate, or if we’re looking back at the myth of history rather than the facts. When the country was founded, only white men could vote and people of color were legally property with no rights. That’s obviously not democracy, so I question at what point after that but before today we really had democracy to have slid back from.
How about full transparency for companies? Companies are not people. The only way billionaires are able to evade taxes is through complex networks of companies.
"AI democratizes knowledge and creates new opportunities for social and economic justice. It can help us solve some of the biggest problems of our time, such as climate change, poverty, disease and inequality. It can also challenge the existing centralized structures of domination that benefit the few at the expense of us."

ORLY?
1: The clock is real, the minute is abstract. The real and abstract are the essence of mathematical relativity, which is how we derive "irrational constants" like the relative measurement of one thing (radius) to another (circumference) making a ratio (PI). PI can never truly be defined, because it's not real: it can only be measured more or less accurately. If time and the clock were both same with regard to being real, there would be nothing to measure, or no reason to measure: time would be the clock. But we know a clock tells time, which is a measurement: days into hours into minutes into seconds. If a day is time, and so is an hour, time is no more real than PI, which describes all radii to arbitrary precision. Time describes change of space over arbitrary intervals, it's a derivative. The lightyear is a further derivative of speed over time, which wouldnt make sense if time wasn't describing a distance of space, which is what a lightyear is.

2: More than one point in space makes a coordinate system, and more than one point is a prerequisite of relativity. (Source?) Plus, within the questionable physics models which allow for singularities, the notional difference between a coordinate system and a point is conspicuously broken in order to explain other things. But that's how we get vague terms like spacetime, descriptions for weird parts of the model.

3: I did prove it, and you can reproduce it yourself by going to the nearest mountain range and yodel. In other words, I don't need math proofs from within abstruse models to prove my point, so my argument is more sound scientifically. I proved "relativity" is nothing more than understanding the difference in change over space, which is a very obvious/observable thing, perhaps the most basic of all material existence, comporting to the idea that no two things can be one, or "occupy the same space".

Time measures change over space, a thing you witness firsthand when your yodel returns in echo from the mountain. If space did not change from point A to point B, there would be no distance, no coordinate system, and our yodel would not echo from anywhere. Without change over space there is no time, so that tells you which one is primary. The measurement of the echo, taken in time units, aka intervals, gives useful information. It does not however indicate anything of some model's out-of-bounds parameters, like what if the mountain had infinite gravity?

The measure of an echo could not prove a black hole, even by the very definition of a black hole, for an echo would not return (infinite inches of time til return). Ergo no measurement can prove a black hole. Only a model taken to mathematical infinity "proves" a black hole, and that is not real science, it's just math. Math proofs and scientific falsity are not the same side of a single coin. The observation yields math, not the other way around, or else I could say look here in my notebook, it's a real black hole!
Honestly there were so many small signs that you work at Google, e.g. the fact that you used Bazel and Blaze interchangeably or referring to Carbon as a C++ replacement, although I guess both things are kind of public knowledge anyway...
I can confirm that Google is wrong in this case. Sleeping outside without a tent is generally referred to as “dormir à la belle étoile”, but it is not necessarily implied in “bivouac”.

From my experience (which varies, the rules are local and not nation-wide laws) the difference is whether you can stand in your tent or not. I have seen whether you can carry your tent with your backpack used as a criterion as well.
It doesn't matter how good they try to make their recommendation system, they will never know you like yourself. For example, when I go to the YouTube home page, there is a list of categories at the top that it's identified for me. I didn't choose these. I can't add or remove them myself if it's wrong. I just have to hope that I watch the "right videos" and it picks up on a new interest that I have.

But I already know what interests I have! I want to have videos about terrariums on my home page now, not in a week when I've watched enough. This is what I mean by recommendation systems not being good enough. They need to give the user more control over what they want to see, because they can never read my mind. Their recommendations will get even better with that information!
BS. That's what emergency services are for.

No cause of death has been "lack of car caused a stroke".

It's also the fault/responsibility of someone living too far from major medical. Personal responsibility and backup plans. Someone steals your car, you make arrangements.