skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same lawyers who removed Ireland's infamous "Double Dutch" tax-avoidance scheme also wrote Apple's favorable replacement tax-avoidance scheme.

Man with money, wins.
Seen some of patio11’s comments and they suggest there was some part of the business that wasn’t working. What it is exactly was never said. Could have been a myriad of things: financials, product market fit, founder relationships.
oh boy, i love jetbrains except youtrack.

goto linear pls.
It was called trickle down economics and it failed.
That’s not what I said.

There’s no need to risk death to drive to the doctor. There’s also no reason to risk death by getting ripped off or getting substandard care from a doctor of questionable ethics and ability. It’s pretty simple - you see an online provider in your state or a state with reciprocity.

I used to be familiar with medical frauds. Doctors who “see” 600 patients a day, etc. Online medicine is pretty bullshitty to begin with, but kneecapping the primary controls that we have to address fraud and abuse is not progress. Anything that undermines trust in the name of supposed convenience is a net negative.
Most green lights in the US have a blue tint so that color blind people can see the blue. Most but not all, which is really frustrating as a colorblind person. More than once I've been sitting at a light until my wife told me it was green as there is one light near me without that blue tint. (we are making a left turn so light has both the round red stop light and the green left turn arrow on at the same time)
I believe what the author is bemoaning is not the business or customer realities, but the "art of engineering" being traded in for the bottom line. In many ways, this is simply the way all disenchantment works, the hard truth is that art doesn't really matter for its own sake. It needs to sell, and what makes it sell is not what makes one love the process of building. The elegance, the simple beauty, none of those "matter" to the market. Unfortunately, writing up articles stating how much you can't do what you love probably won't garner much sympathy (clearly), but I suppose that's why we have passion projects instead.
We don't understand how human neurons in particular are so good at what they do. We have some understanding, which has been mathematically approximated with back-propagation algorithms and transformers. That's why we have diffusion nets and LLMs that are as good as they are.

But the nuts and bolts of how neural systems give rise to reasoning or even what consciousness is... we only know that neural systems are responsible for reasoning, and we don't even know definitively that neural systems cause consciousness. We only know that if you suppress their activity consciousness is retarded, and if you damage them enough consciousness is snuffed out.
I made a positive statement to myself, as I left my teens, that I would never become that old man that hides from technology and gets left behind. But boy, I think I'm getting there. Between crap like this and the massively unethical "gig labor" economy and VR headsets, I want no part of what the world is becoming.
Orange PI 5 Plus is about 2x the cost of Raspberry Pi 5.
I'd be interested in knowing more about that. Is there a summary of current progress anywhere?
I've heard heard many different versions of your story over the years of working in this industry. I'm firmly convinced that the h1b system is exploitative to the workers who use it. IMHO we should do away with it in favor of simply granting green cards (and later citizenship) to people who wish to come here based on a strict points based system like Canada. Sadly, our government is so captured and dysfunctional I doubt that will happen.

I wish you the best of luck with your issues.
The problem is you get 10% of a tiny number because most of the profit gets outsourced to other jurisdictions. This global minimum tax idea allows you to charge taxes for profits in other jurisdictions that are undertaxed so it lets you hit the numbers on the global revenue. Apple for example has a tiny fraction of profit in the US because they move their IP to a low tax jurisdiction and license it to themselves at high prices which makes their profit in the US very low because most of the profit from the phones goes into the technology licenses making it profit in the low tax jurisdiction rather than in the US.
This is fun, did you create?
Just a data point that I want to put out there.

I have long heard that Japan has blue traffic lights.

Earlier this year I visited Japan.

Because I had heard about the blue traffic light situation, I paid special attention to the traffic lights.

They all appeared green to me. In both Tokyo and Osaka.

Okay maybe a tinge of blue if you look at it and wonder 'is this blue?', but the only reason I wondered was because I had heard the blue traffic light trivia. If I had never heard about it I wouldn't have given it a second thought.

However, the picture in the linked article seems to have an unmistakable blue color; I don't understand what's going on.

Beautiful country by the way; would love to visit again :)
(I'm the video author)

The focus was more on how the Sony drive became the standard and less about all the competing formats. The CFD was the only serious competition and, in the US at least, it never reached the levels of putting up a fight like the ZipDisk vs. SuperDisk or Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD.

The Amstrad was the only system OEM I found that really used it, so while it did have some market it definitely wasn't wide spread to other systems like the BBC Micro, Acorn, or (Proper) Sinlcairs.
TinyGS: Open Ground Station Network
ChatGPT + wikipedia suggests that payload to LEO, dry mass for ascent (engines, fuel tanks, etc), and dry mass for return (wings, landing gear, etc) were all in the roughly 30 tons.
As someone who has spent a fair bit of time both in the EU and the US, one thing that continues to puzzle me about the average Western European voter is his unshakeable trust in government institutions. Given what happened in living memory, I would expect a very different relationship with Big Government.
While I think many would agree that Schmidt has done some questionable business things, the undertone of the article is just distasteful. If all you do is do head-honcho stuff, then why is it unusual that you would date another like-minded person and do a "side project" together? Also, why is his poly relationship being tossed out there in the same context as this 100M venture going sideways? Lots of companies go sideways, especially when you've been too used to working at a nice big one. This is probably going to be a learning curve for anyone coming from that world, to get used to being small and scrappy again, while holding onto what knowledge they gained before.
I even use this technique to find difference of two strings like encoded text, one printed above the other.
Maybe. Let me know if they're tasty. Best wishes.
Not news. This is tabloid.
> it is a regressive tax

We already have a "progressive" tax system in which ~70% of Federal revenue (not including SS & Medicare which are separate line items funded separately) comes from individual income tax.

Why can't we have a corporate tax that actually works and is evenly distributed instead of "progressive"?
So what you are saying is he is a big proponent of D&I?
>such an obscene amount of money that giving it away is going to take years.

If you earned, untaxed, one dollar EVERY SECOND (non-stop) it would still take you over thirty years to "earn" a billion dollars.

A million seconds is only (just-over) eleven days, for comparison.
Got it (there's another linked further up the thread). Let's think!

The NASA article claims our planet became greener from 1982-2015.

The new study agrees the earth became significantly greener in the 80s and 90s, but the trend started reversing in the 2000s.

I think they do not necessarily contradict each another.
Of the old-fashioned sort, where a wife just tolerates various mistresses for as long as the husband remains discreet and doesn't embarrass her.
Reminds me of this talk [0] by artists living on a ship trying to wrestle with software rot and the creeping complexity of modern digital systems.

https://100r.co/site/weathering_software_winter.html
> If you aren't buying a thousand of them, how much does "price point" really matter to you?

A lot of recreational tinkerers are already giving up their free time, and accepting a slightly inferior product to the commercial options. To also spend more would be a step too far :)

Getting my 20-year-old mono laser printer network-enabled with $20 of hardware: Smart, e-waste-reducing move, even if it only supports 300dpi.

Doing the same thing with $100 of hardware: Why waste the time, when a brand new mono laser would cost less, offer better print quality, and have built in wifi?

Setting up a DIY networked camera with $50 of hardware: Fun little hobby project, maybe more secure than the sketchy cloud options and cheap imports that never get firmware updates.

Doing the same thing with $130 of hardware: Just buy from Axis or Pelco or whoever. They'll have figured out the waterproofing, and the night vision, and the PoE, and nobody will call you a dumbass for buying the "wRoNg tYpE oF mIcRoSdcArD"
> I think it's fine to complain about the framing of the article
The tech-friendly lawyer hidden behind a letter to Congress on AI
Yes, I am seeing this as well. A lot of tech job openings are even explicitly excluding people from SF (but not less expensive parts of California)
I am the same--green traffic lights are nearly white. Normally, it's enough to know it's not the red or yellow light. Sometimes at night--face with an array of white lights in the distance--it can be an issue.

At my last eye test at the RMV, the clerk tried to tell me I wasn't color blind. I mean, sure, I've been able to drive with it for 40 years, but I know damn well I'm color blind.
There are plenty of solutions within the law that aren't a grey area.

As an example, send a DMCA/C&D to shopify.com - do they have to take down their homepage? Of course not. Did they set up a robot to take down their homepage when it receives a request? Of course not.

> DMCA has no concept of fraud prevention

Yes it does. The safe harbor requirements require that material removed expeditously upon proper notice. A bogus notice is not proper notice. Acting on a bogus notice is against shopify's own notice and takedown procedure. They are creating more harm for themselves by doing this.
It's just that it's very hard to do. A customer can always contest the charge and many customers pay with payment methods that don't allow rebilling.
I think it could depend on your life circumstances - perhaps you have just had a child and want to increase your chances of being around long enough that they may remember you vs being older with grown up children.
Yeah I've always been a bit of a data hoarder. One file is broken due to data rott which is a shame but I have some of the old source files so I might be able to recover most of it. But everything else is on a ZFS pool now so should stick around.

I need to dig into some old zip files and see if I still have some of the old downloaded copies of some of games I used to play around
And there is a much more powerful Raspberry Pi (model 3) available at the original price point of the Raspberry Pi. Or others like the zero that are even cheaper, and still more capable in some ways.

I'm not sure having a new one available that is quite a bit more powerful and costs $25 more is hurting those kids.
Fair enough :) My work reality did not factor that possibility in.

I don't think it would change all that much. It might make it easier to justify the measure, but you would still have high bars to claim. In the end it would still be an unusual recording, which might negatively impact employees privacy and in a work context lead to conflict. As it is completely possible and way more common to just have text documentation, logs and meeting outcomes, I really am quite confident that even just a regular voice recording of meetings in a real office would not stand in court.

Also, "it's part of our process and employees have no say in it" as in parent's comment would be without any doubt not legal. Given the requirements you now saw I think we can agree on that now :)
Not sure what the point of this article is. Billionaire potentially wastes a small % of his own money on his girlfriend's business. So what?
I am not going to make the claim that Rust devs are better, but when most people on this website make these sorts of claims, they are often referring to http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html

Note that a lot has changed since 2004 :)
The whole point of proposals like the one the entire linked article is about is to make it seem like vast sums of money can be raised from seemingly small taxes on a few wealthy people by definining those taxes as an annual percentage of total wealth rather than income. The framing is meant to trick readers into mentally comparing the 2% tax it proposes and the 0-0.5% tax it claims the wealthy are currently paying with the familiar 20-40% or more they have to pay on their own income, when in reality the two are calculated in vastly different ways and the article gives readers no way of putting it in any more meaningful context.
The phrase that first comes to mind is "Steely Dan" which has amusing origins.
$30/month to chat with a porn star AI chat bot? Can I use my FSA?
A social network with a decay mechanism
AI Powered Malware Scanner
https://web.archive.org/web/20231023120923/https://www.nytim...
> It used to be people lived near their extended family.

Maybe in very early human history, but research suggests that humans had already moved beyond Africa 180,000 years ago. For all intents and purposes, people have always left their family in search of a better life.

What is recent is the practical ability to keep in touch with extended family even when afar. It is possible that hinders the creation of supportive communities to stand in for where biological families are missing.
$ echo "pypipe" | ppp "line[::2]"
ppp

This is an incredibly confusing first example!
I slightly edited the original title due to its length: "Exclusive: Google confirms with Notebookcheck it blocked benchmarks during Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro review embargo period".

Historically, I have witnessed a lot of odd, problematic, a
downright maddening issues connected to smartphone launches and marketing. From Samsung releasing promotional videos falsely stating the material their phones are made out off [0], over Huawei and others using DSLRs for camera samples [1], to Google's consistent Tensor promises [2] and LGs marketing forgetting to mention that the V60 supported styluses during the review period, thus keeping an important feature that may be the decision maker for certain customers from even being mentioned, I am hard-pressed to find any smartphone company that hasn't made major missteps in communication. Heck, even Fairphone had quite a stumble trying to justify [3] the recent removal of the headphone jack on their devices.

I don't think any of these instances are acceptable, and I find it ridiculous that there are people who have an almost fanatical devotion to one of these major brands.

This benchmark "strategy", combined with their continued issues handling EMS calls [4], makes it even harder to understand Pixel fanatics. I get people preferring their devices, but I don't quite get defending all the clear issues, as one would suspect fans may want to see improvement the most.

[0] https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/samsung-galaxy-note-10-...

[1] https://www.dpreview.com/news/5946150727/huawei-caught-using...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37969512

[3] https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/983618898804...

[4] https://www.androidauthority.com/psa-google-pixel-911-emerge...
You can only pick two out of the three from the triad of optimization (time, monetary cost, quality).

Industry prioritizes functional solutions (requirements) over efficiency. If efficiency is one of the requirements, it will be addressed (e.g. video games). Optimizing for efficiency takes additional effort. The article argues that the software industry is stuck with inefficient tools and practices. Engineers can and should do better, aiming for better apps, delivered faster and more reliably with fewer resources. However, economy dictates that as you optimize two variables from the triad, the third will get de-prioritized.

Edit: I can see the downvotes but no idea why. Would you care to explain?
Very much agree, but don't despair: a vast record of this pseudo-rational, pseudo-scientific, and very effective propaganda is digitally archived, just waiting for someone to assemble it into a presentation of how the world really works, a legitimate Theory of Everything, not the bogus one science has sold to an indoctrinated public.
Disagree. The way the utter depravity of the Usher family leads to their ultimate doom is the spirit of Poe, even if the details differ. And using an opioid-pushing empire as the framing device is the cherry on top that modernizes the whole thing.
It depends on the state I think. Sales tax is only implemented per state in the USA.

I know Boeing gets an explicit sales tax exemption from Washington state on planes it sells. But things would be really weird otherwise.
Smart home and smart city and smart classroom gear are all just future e-waste.

Once read an article critical of Google's smart city plans (Toronto?). Author pointed out that all this digital crap is useless after 10 years.

Time for another upgrade! Woot!

I'm pondering residential PV and battery. Rated life span of 30 years? Really? (I'll be dead by then, of course.)
What part did you work on?
I hear this a ton, yet in the past decade, I’ve never looked at more than a resume before filtering into the yay/nay buckets for tech phone screens.

Do you all actually dive deep on every resume?
Yes 100%. Plain text editing, especially with any sort of highlighting or parsing, is hard. But I'm also struggling to think of a common and modern "text editor" with high latency like that. When I think "text editor" I think of something only capable of saving and loading plain text, with some plugin support. Stock VSCode is exceptional at this. So is neovim. So is Microsoft Notepad. So is Sublime Text. So is Nova.app.

He has SOME editor in mind, I'm just curious what it is.
It's generally a lot less than VAT equivalents though.
Bridges the gap between all the explanation of the internals of transformer architectures etc. and the (good/bad/imagined) uses. Suitable for non-technical people, but does explain what GPT does and what that means.
maybe some statistical analysis software is more useful - for e.g. minitab
Programming languages. Developer tooling. Debuggers. Cross platform libraries. Everything could be orders of magnitude better than what we have today. But our world is ruled by pragmatism, and duck-taping mediocre technologies together results in barely "good enough" solutions that make money and solve real world problems.

Even open source suffers from the same problem. Making really high quality software takes 10 times the effort (if not more) and nobody is willing to make that investment up front. And so half-baked software becomes popular and now we spend years or decades and untold hours trying to turn bad software into pretty good software without completely breaking backwards compatibility.

The root cause is probably the incrementalist approach we take to developing software. We start with something small because of time constraints or because we don't really understand the problem yet. Once the software has users who demand bug fixes and feature additions and this results in software organically growing instead of being intelligently designed for a purpose. As a result, you get stuck in a local maximum.

And that's how we spend 500,000 hours debating strategies for removing the GIL (global interpreter lock) in Python when the first version of Python was made 30 years ago as a side project during a holiday break.
Maybe it was spillovers from "Brexit" arguments where some UK people thought any critique of the EU was in support of Tories? I mean, since when is complaining about the EU controversial otherwise? You can still see some bitterness regarding Brexit where brits are mocked for choosing the wrong path etc.
The "build" step of an Electron app doesn't build Chromium, so this wouldn't be very feasible. Building Chromium requires an insane amount of computing power.

According to Google, a Chromium build on normal hardware takes 6+ hours.

And alas, even if it was feasible to custom build based on what you need, it would have to be done via configuration--since there's no way to know at compile time which language features will be used, since your app could (and probably does) include remote scripts.
Amazing, project. Could you please tell more about it?
My geometry teacher gave this to the class in high school. I love this sequence.
I know dividends aren't capital gains. This is why I went to the trouble of explaining that taxes on dividends are trivially avoided (by firms choosing to pay low or no dividends) so shareholders only have to worry about CGT on share price appreciation which can be deferred for a very long time (and is often at a lower rate)

Its open to question whether the more important aspect of dynastic wealth is quantity of bling consumed per annum rather than the proportion of the economy controlled. But what isn't debatable is that if corporate profits aren't taxed much of it stays out of the taxman's hands for a long time, which is a matter of interest when we're talking about governments not realising as much tax revenue as they hope for.
I have been on both sides of "inspections" and know that my own personality has often been my own greatest challenge. I am oil-and-water to/with the emissionless dieselbruh contractors.

Thanks for allowing my vent, and re-enforcing some of its basis.
I'm not sure you can reduce a complex political situation down to such a simplistic maxim.

That's like saying that the US was wrong to enter into WW2 because two wrongs don't make a right and war is bad therefore the US is bad.
I miss the point of those "advantages" - so what if I know how much water my guests used? Should I run over them in the bathroom and stop them from flushing? Should I let people only come in summer, and tell them to bring their own batteries? Should I stop having guests at all? All because the smart meter told me they pee at noon? And same for my usual electricity usage. I know what I have running and I know what I should shut down, I'm living in this house right. Not like some device sneaks on me and plugs itself in when I doze off. Ok, when I become a solar producer I will probably be helped by smarted devices, but until then I'm totally missing the point.
coding as in java or coding as in information theory?
The US. They are mostly green, but a lot of them have a blue tint for the colorblind. I suspect other countries as well, colorblindness is very common and this is a simple adaptation.
Both can be true, and often are. It’s just like normal acting, sports, etc. Its a meat grinder for most but a few actually do win those lotteries and their appreciation of that is completely understandable
They both have meaning, a distinction is the degree to which free will (or, System 2 in Thinking Fast and Slow) is in play. But now we have two problems!
He certainly is willing to stand up for the 20 something blonde ladies and make sure they get a fair go.
When I was a broke college student I would have just not bought the top of the line system, which is what we're talking about here.