skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was ran in the nine departments where there's the biggest concentration and likelihood of pools. Additionally, these 10m in receipts include fines for not declaring the pools. The actual yearly returns are much lower. Looking for swimming pools in the Creuse is not going to bring in a lot of cash.

The DGFiP is hit or miss with these projects, and they rarely hit well.
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Shocked that modern conservatives would resort to just picking a name out of an hat and projecting whatever their current grievances are onto it.
So I was CTO of a bootrapped startup (10s of millions ARR ) growing approx 70% YOY, likely a unicorn but never discussed on HN.

What I would say is the argument isn't false, but the assumptions often are.

You will for example have diminishing returns on the CaC. Spending more will make the number go up usually.

This explains why you wouldn't just spend it all year 1 and refinance.

Finance is indeed more expensive, and black swan events can cause mass churn, this why pulling out costs might sound good on paper, but in reality could potentially screw yourself over.

Indeed the payback of the customer needs to be short enough to validate profit. The longer it is, the more likely one of those black swan events will distrupt lifetime.

But I suspect there's more businesses out there doing this that are discussed here.
If it’s in relation to abortion cutoff times it’s an important question to ask. I’ve never met someone with a rational answer to that question. It mostly boils down to what they personally feel comfortable with emotionally (and that’s fine, but not something you can apply in law for all people).
> So what happens in practice is that investors capitalize income by keeping one eye on capitalization itself.

Is it right that this long essay is saying (roughly) that share prices are not really related to future earning expectations, but to future share price expectations? Well, blow me down with a feather. I'd never have guessed that stock markets were mainly about speculation.
Most of that will be fixed costs. It won't cost nearly so much the next time.
Sorry, really, as I was very willing to consider cancelling my Netflix subscription when they 'cracked down' in my country. It happened two weeks ago, but my girlfriend wants to keep Netflix, so we're keeping it.

I only retained the subscription over the last five years, as the quality and worth of the catalog dropped, because I could share it with my mid-80s father and his wife (and two friends, though my father's share was the main motivation).

Sadly this probably also applies to the Reddit crunch, which will rob me of Apollo in 20 days time, and cut my Reddit usage by about 80% - I guess no-one ever went broke relying on the stickiness of lowest-common-denominator users.

The outlier life is really starting to suck. I already de-Googled and de-Dropboxed myself last year (well, 90%) with Fastmail and Syncthing; went back to the high seas and dropped Amazon; but I'm kind of relying on some new movement or surge of enthusiasm to save Reddit's utility in some other form than the random and non-indexed chaos of Discord (since Discord is about three years away from its own enshittification, if it gets enough traction).
Ovhcloud is French. Telekom is a German company and they have open telekom cloud. We actually use this on a project (and I don't recommend that to friends).

Gaia-X is a european initiative and consortium to build some standardized cloud ecosystem. The goals are a bit hand wavy and since Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are actually part of the consortium, it's not really clear what the goals are at this point. I haven't heard much about this since it was announced a few years ago.

I've used AWS, Gcloud, Hetzner, Telekom Cloud, and a few other things. My view on this space is that it needs disruption. Amazon was disruptive when they launched in 2006. It was great and it enabled a lot of companies to stop worrying about maintaining infrastructure. That's 15 years ago. It's a commodity product at this point.

The problems I see:

- Companies overcharge for their services. AWS especially is very expensive to use. To the point that the monthly cost of some of their more expensive things about pays for the hardware they give you. Of course it delivers a lot of value. But it creates an opportunity for others to offer cheaper services.

- Most providers try to lock you into their platform with a combination of complexity and convenience. Once you are on a platform, switching it out for another becomes really expensive. Things like openstack exist of course but are a combination of complex and not that comprehensive.

- The services offered by these companies are very hard to use for what they do. You end up micro managing lots of bits and pieces and you need expensive devops people to do that for you. There are better ways to deploy software to server these days that feature higher levels of automation and convenience.

To disrupt the big providers, you'd need to be as good but an order of magnitude cheaper. Instead of focusing the commodity things that everybody has (buckets, vms, load balancers, etc.), the real value is in the more advanced stuff they offer. Things like Fargate or Google cloud run. Basically Kubernetes without all the moving parts to worry about. Don't offer database servers but scalable elastic data bases.

In short, that's where the money is and the reason Amazon is so ridiculously wealthy. They overcharge for this stuff and they don't get any real competition so they get away with it. If you think about it, a lot of this stuff is very resource efficient. So it should be cheaper than getting a lot of hardware that you then under utilize. Instead, it's more expensive. AWS pockets the difference.

That's what needs disrupting but it will be a race to the bottom once this starts happening. I think that's overdue though. So this Swedish company might be onto something.
see The Space Merchants (1952)

Bernays (IIRC) goes into detail about how detailed segmentation (a century ago, they had to hand-craft theirs, often with the help of push polling) is useful to "triangulate" a targeted segment by saturating neighbouring segments (pre-astroturf astroturfing).
I m not sure if the idea of going after pools is a good one though. Is the water shortages really that big that people are not allowed to even have blow-up tubs anymore?

Pools are good for cooling down in the summer. Is it better if they use electricity and A/C instead?

The worst thing is that other countries are copying this anti-pool thing because it's populist .
All animals continue some early behaviors but not all early behaviors are maintained by all animals.

The default is thus “we don’t know” instead of inferences from known data.
“It’s also much less exciting than you’d expect. The vast majority of classified information is less “here’s the latest CIA report on Putin’s strategy in Ukraine” and more “because we carried out the radio test with encryption on, all data from said test is now Secret”.”

-- https://www.navalgazing.net/The-American-Secrecy-System
Taxes are pissed away in France in gigantic useless bureaucracies, useless projects and vote-buying redistribution, to the point that core state functions (police/justice, army, education or healthcare system) are paradoxically starved of funds and dysfunctional. Sadly the only way to curb this spending incontinence seems to starve the state of revenues.
I never tried Rider. Would you recommend it over VS + Resharper? Or do you then need both Rider and VS, to still have access to VS design mode or other visual studio features?
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Big $$ begets big Ads begets I am outa here...
Why not take infanticide seriously? A 23 months old human is generally less intelligent than a dog and has a consciousness vastly different from us. If the lives of people (and everyone else) got better from killing such a being, then why not?

Certainly seems less cruel and unnecessary than forcing a pig live a tortuous life until it's killed solely for the taste of its corpse.
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A couple of jobs ago, I was working somewhere where the big niche app they used was based on an Intersystems Cache DB. Cache is literally actual commercialized MUMPS. It had a SQL translation layer, but it was still...very weird.
That's related to HDCP rather than HDMI. Though it does mean that any video you move to a non-HDCP monitor ends up being just a grey rectangle.
Sure (kind of)! Make a donation to the Mozilla foundation. https://donate.mozilla.org/ It's not directly paying for the product, but it also does show as "this user wants our vpn" in the stats.
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...when will the next 20.000 swimming pools be done?
Also don't underestimate the amount of Roman influence in what is now considered Cristian morals
To be precise: Freenode didn't, Libera Chat did.
The rate at which species are going extinct right now due to human activities is unparalleled. And I don't remember total war on all the living things being declared by humans. The result is just by product, not the intent.
> I actually don’t like any of Jack Black’s solo albums

NB: Jack Black and Jack White are not the same person. In some ways they're opposites.
>> One must be brave and do things to break through anxiety.

You must do this on your own terms, when you are ready. Having others force you into situations where you are uncomfortable will not work and will possibly make things worse.
Water restrictions were common last summer over europe. True last year was particularly torrid and following a very dry winter. But this year seems likely to follow.
It's pretty clear, no? Ukrainians seek the destruction of Russia as the political system that we know today, Taiwanese seek maintaining the status quo.
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This is not trade, it's more like slavery.

That would be like in the "The Matrix" movie.
It has the best (and most reliable) integrated AI-based web experience. The Bing side bar can read what is in the open tab, etc. It's useful but it probably not worth the trade-offs
In an scenario with 2 employers, even ignoring market dynamics of an oligopoly/monopoly, once you are rejected by them you have nothing to lose.

The risk of your app being banned when there is only 2 marketplaces is way way higher than the risk of being laid off when there are many more companies.

IMO OPs argument breaks when they equate a bit of risk to a lot of risk, as if any risk amount were the same as any other.
Blow up tubs are not targeted by this, because they're not taxable. Pools only get taxed if they're dug in the ground (fully or partly), and are more than 10 square meters.

It's not even going after pools in particular, it's just that pools raise the property tax. you're supposed to ask your city if you can build that pool, and your taxes will grow in consequence. Undeclared, no taxes.

And yes, filling up pools is banned in most of the country right now because we're going through a year long drought.
Sorry but this is terrible advice. LastPass had a huge breach with website data included along with many breaches over the past years. Please look into them further.
Why "sadly"? Starving it also gives it less power, and more power and freedom to the individuals. This is even truer in France.
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In Amsterdam they've been using drones for this kind of things.

An office of a client in worked in build a small wooden extension on the roof without requesting a permit (because that's so easy)

A drone detected it and they had to break it down, not sure if they were also fined.

France is a bit more spread out :)
I'd rather become homeless than doing such shitty work.
Who knows what takes place in a person's mind? They may not be clear themselves. So, no, unlikely, unless or until the 'it' is objectified.
But these are physically locked to the supercharger. The original comment was claiming a vendor lock-in for the Combo 1 to NACS adaptor that Ford and GM would be providing.
They aren't the first famous rock musician to seek a quiet life instead, and likely won't be the last. The most well-known example is Syd Barrett, formerly of Pink Floyd.
Descriptively, yes, the shape of the language determines how you can structure an interactive compiler. There are at least three wildly different ways to do that:

https://rust-analyzer.github.io/blog/2020/07/20/three-archit...

Which one can work depends on the language in question. Java, Rust, C++ lead to different answers, and that’s not because of the “interesting” differences like borrowchecker vs gc, but rather due to the “boring” differences in name resolution and module system.

Prescriptively, whether we _should_ do this (or, rather, how much), is unclear.

My biased answer is that, while language designers talk a lot about making languages tooling friendly, there’s little of that actually happening (at least with “current” languages, “next” ones seem to fare better). Like, it was said that “rust macros are designed with tooling friendliness in mind”, but overall the language is pretty tooling-hostile, mostly for accidental reasons. It seems to me that if we _actually_ co-design a tooling-first language, without trying to innovate too much, but by just ensuring that existing techniques work robustly, we might arrive at a close, but meaningfully different point in the design space.

Specifically, here’s my version of IDE-friendliness diff for language design:

Push conditional compilation far further in the pipeline, such that it is done after all semantic analysis. This is a pre-requisite for making automated refactors which are _guaranteed_ to work.

Similarly, push meta programming further down, such that code analysis doesn’t invoke user-defined code (which might be arbitrary slow), but, at the same time, meta parts can fully reflect on existing code, including resolved types. C#-style source generators are an interesting design here.

Have strong signatures on micro and macro level. Macro, have well-defined compilation units with explicitly specified dag of dependencies and signature files. Micro, annotate types of the functions. Use tooling to reduce double-annotation burden.

Ensure that each source file can be somewhat deeply analyzed in complete isolation. The last two points should unlock both embarrassingly parallel (distributed) compilation, and snappy completion.
We set up now 14 years old laptop for my parents who hardly used anything like that, total tech newbie level.... With Ubuntu 14, it was running with minimal maintenance since then, recently upgraded it to 21 because repos were too outdated to install chrome that worked with JS on weather forecast site they visited regularly. Nearly 0 problems with the upgrades except it took half a day to download and install.

Put SSD in it, it's flying, parents can tell the difference. I set up one way SSH via tailscale to it so I can install updates and fix things when I'm not at their place lol. Going to keep this laptop running as long as it refuses to die.
I would guess that most people from outside the states are familiar with the geographical size of the country, and that this frequently comes off as patronising.

Besides, the fact of the matter is that English dominates as the main language in the US to a far greater degree than Europe. I’m not sure that your analogy really highlights anything except that Europe has many more culturally distinct zones than the US.
Unfortunately, plastic cards are out these days, replaced by NFC, except in some technologically backward countries like US of America. These wallets also can't carry cash and are too thick and heavy. I use tyvec wallets for cash, they last ~two years but are really thin and weightless.
It's not only Capgemini. Most of French digitalization is horrendous.

We have a Social Security card (Carte Vitale) that you show when doing medical activities (so to speak). It could have been a great driver for centralized patient documentation (results, prescriptions, ...). What they did instead - a totally fucked up system nobody uses (including doctors and pharmacies) which was architected and coded by an intern with a liberal art diploma.

Not only logging in is a shitshow but then you cannot add ANYTHING useful inside. Nothing.

OK, this failed so now the govt decided to launch a new program (for the same thing) and nobody understands what this is is how it is supposed to work.

At the same time, in Poland, I saw a perfectly well working system that centraizes everything (the public medical world sucks there but that's not the point). Why not reusing this instead of inventing a merdouille again?

When COVID blew up, we had the luck to have a brand new exchange platform for schools. When I had to use it, my children said "oh, I did not know that word" when i started to yell on the screen. It is so bad that by just typing here I risk to break my keyboard.

We have idiots in digitalization in France. I am sure other countries are the same but here this is a tradition since after the Minitel. If you can fuck it up, they will - with our taxes.
That's 10M extra per year. You pay property taxes each year.
The $10m comes from about 10% of France's territory that was used as an experiment.
As people positioned to understand this stuff, we have a duty to explain it to people if we believe it will have a positive impact on society. I'm not oblivious to the fact that lots of people have lots of questions about decentralised social media, I'm saying the answers can be very simple. That should be enough to realise that the fatalism some people seem to experience in the face of this new technology only exposes their own intellectual laziness -- not the confusion of "normal people" and not the insurmountable complexity of that technology.
This alternative to coffee looks very interesting to me. Are there any alternatives or even homegrown alternatives to Rasa you are aware of? I don't feel comfortable paying $49 for a bag while I can get the ingredients at my local market.
https://old.reddit.com/r/kbin/

Even more, you can visit any NSFW subreddit in old site (eg nswf411), click 'view 18+' and now see any age gated subreddits. Though if you access it through from any GDPR country then you need to accept GDPR consent first on new site and only then move to old.
It costed more to create the AI with capgemini then they recoverd.

One of the reason many of us hate taxes is because they always have a "punishment" mindset.

They rather lose money and punish someone.

Why tax swimming pools anyway?
No, because you could just run Usenet and nobody wants to.

What's always been hilarious about the controversial nature of giant social media companies is nobody has ever been forced to use one. It's not like the monopoly of telephones or roads or municipal water or anything else you have no choice in and still need to live. Social media is 100% optional and there is always another way to do what you need without them. The fact that they exist is merely humans not being able to control their urge to simultaneously be entertained and socialize. You might as well complain about TV.
Another commenter pointed out that having a pool influences the property value and thereby tax, so they should be able to collect the tax yearly, not just once.
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Me too, because I wasn't captured by the story of that young woman, but the writing is so much better than on most of the blog posts that get to the top here every so often.
Social media is weird when it comes to taxation. Are you for taxes or not? Is it the poor that are buying these un-taxed pools?
Capgemini and Atos are the worst that happened to French tech. Atos managed to turn me from liberal to communist when in comes to public services and general interest. I would rather deal with slow, 'lazy' bureaucrats than greedy little shit who can't own their mistakes. At least, when the corruption is within the government, it can't be that huge and blatant. A state secretary can say 'it would be easier to get that subvention if you used Atos Bullion' and fear nothing.

By the way, Bullion software support is them emailing redhat support, but more expensive.
Gardens must be taxed too then.
Knowing that, say, some file contains a sequence of zeros you can run through RLE is information. That part is usually not part of the information content calculation, but without it you can't do compression because the file could just be 100% entropy. Ergo it's useful information.

That was sort of my original point anyway, knowing you don't know something makes it a known unknown instead of an unknown unknown. Or in this case a known known.
It’s an educated guess, not the word of God. You don’t have to know it precisely to produce useful results. The entirety of physics is wrong, so what, it still allows us to build rockets, skyscrapers and computers.
You misunderstand, this is 10M euro extra tax revenue each year and it was only a pilot project covering a small part of France. The payback time is basically less than a year.
Yeah, I know. No idea how I typed Black instead of White.
This generalising misses the point for me.

If you're trying to scale, fast, into the global stage "half a rack of colo" isn't going to cut it. You're going to need presence everywhere and that can be impossible to deploy fast.

If you're targeting say a single market, say North America, with fewer larger clients you're likely to be able to manage it from two DCs and can realistically manage it yourself.

It's just "right solution for the right situation". Cloud is absolutely not always the right solution.
Queinnec's attitude was that ALL forms of scoping are useful. In the 80s there was a class struggle between Lexical scoping, which prevailed, and everything else, which Q. detailed.
Mmmmm strict bureaucracy....
Either way, all those files need to be marked dirty and reindexed, so I suppose I'm just not sure how the topic at hand is relevant. Is the proposal that we attempt to treat each dirtied file as though incremental edits were imminent? Because this is precisely the wrong assumption you're raising. Ultimately, if you need to reopen a file in order to see changes on disk reflected, that's a bug with your lsp server, nothing more.
200 sq ft sounds great, just don't fill it with crap.
> Then they need to be recycled and we have basically no capacity for that today

Do you have any reason to believe making a batteries starting with batteries will be harder than making batteries starting with rocks?
I remember Intersystems Cache ads. I dreamt about how nice it would be to use as I grappled with hand crafted (remember to escape untrusted inputs!!) SQL statements in the “Lower Level Business” layer of a ASP.NET1.0 app. Sounds like it wasn’t such a silver bullet?
He perhaps meant bandwidth and not requests. Netflix and youtube alone must constitute the bulk of the volume and I believe they are fairly aggressively cached, then you have all the assets stored on CDNs.
Honeyguides, the birds, definitely trade with us (well, with the local populations who co-evolved with and understand them)
If they’re unhappy with their own API, this could provide an abstraction layer for the app. They rewrite their client to use this API and it frees up two teams to work (almost) independently. The UI team can work on their roadmap while the backend team fixes the internal API or retires the logic and implement it into this new layer.

I’m not saying they’ll do this or that it makes sense. But I’ve definitely done it in much smaller projects.
Working class and even middle class people in France (and most of the world) definitely don't have swimming pools. No doubt you're right about the general case, though.