skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These don't sound like "loopholes", they sound like explicit limitations intentionally negotiated by signatory states because what government in its right mind would completely give away their tax sovereignty without any kind of reservations? In that context, these "loopholes" don't reduce the extra tax collected under the agreement, they increase it by ensuring that there actually is an agreement.

> The EU Tax Observatory isn’t calling for an outright ban on green-technology subsidies. But it is urging governments to consider other policies to offset the financial gains to the wealthy from such tax breaks.

"It's okay if you incentivise good behaviour, as long as you also punish it at the same time." Insane.
It took us literally minutes to boot WordPerfect on our school PCs
Instead of scoffing at the idea of it, why not ask questions to better understand _why_ they feel that way?

Why is it that your knee-jerk reaction here is just to discount their opinion entirely in place of your own (likely entirely un-informed) opinion about it?
Off topic, but why do the pictures in the article look like that? Is that HDR? It's so weird to me that it's distracting from the text.
I think it just won the poll [1] because it subjectively looks nicer. NJS, in that video, said something like: I don't care which wins, they're all so much better than the current situation. But magma is a good choice too and it's also available in matplotlib.

[1] http://bids.github.io/colormap/
There are a few different types of colorblindness, so I wouldn't extrapolate that.

For me personally, the green light looks much closer to a white than to, say, the green of a grass.
It’s okay when the EU goes after those evil American BigTech companies since the only thing that the EU can “innovate” on when it comes to tech is legislation
How does that relate to the article?
I keep forgetting that HN skews more and more young every day.
Productivity Rate Race of 21st Century
Helpful tip, usually the second button from the top right will mute the offense.
This is the pi5, not the pi1. Technology marches on. Maybe the SD made sense in 2012, but that doesn't mean it still makes sense in 2023.
There is no getting around this. If a system of government cannot withstand foreign powers it is flat out a /bad system for a government/, no matter how well it works/could work at a smaller scale or different context.

Corporations may work well economically but there is a reason that among all of the desperate reform attempts nobody decided to incorporate an entire nation and make it publicly traded.
Let's first change the law to not let them borrow against their unrealized assets tax free. In fact the tax to get a loan should be higher then if you sold your shares at a company to discourage this crap. Or limit the total amount or forbid it outright.
You can also find interviews where she describes the way that porn negatively affected her personal relationships (family, friends, romantic interests).
> There would now be two companies offering a serious alternative to a Fossil Truck...

There are. Ford has been selling the F150 Lightning for a while.

And if you want to be generous, the Hummer EV counts as a pickup, even if it is a bit absurd. The Silverado is rumored to be shipping to fleet customers now, but who knows when we'll see it reaching consumers.
isn't it possible to pass a law on EU level or amend it's foundation in a way that prohibits any country to implement encryption control & will make any attempt to modify this law as bad as an attempt to kill a person?
oh... that's funny because i was going to share another link:
https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2436/co2-is-making-earth-green...
Privacy in the Age of Generative AI
This is why I'm an embedded programmer on small MCUs. Give me C99 and a datasheet and I'll give you the world in 64kb.

Though times are changing in that world too. Sometimes you have to use a library. And more and more those libraries require an RTOS. Just about to make the plunge into Zephyr so I can use the current Nordic BLE SDK.

Having hard limits to RAM and flash is a great way to prevent bloat. Management is happy to let engineers grind for a month reducing code size of it means the code will fit into a cheaper MCU with less flash and save a 10¢ on the BOM. Pure software has no such incentive to minimize resources because the user buys the HW separately. If anything, some SW companies have an incentive to add bloat if they're the same company that sells you a new phone when your old one becomes too slow.
> The EU tries really hard to kill any innovation

This trope is getting tedious.

The EU tries to regulate the Wild West that the internet opened up. That's not at all the same as "killing innovation". It's reasonable and realistic to try to regulate. I'm fearful of attempts to regulate the internet, because there are strong forces that want to
load the regulations with provisions that would be a dictator's wet dream. But to my mind, unregulated everything is a nightmare.
Isn't a fake DMCA report "lying for profit" AKA fraud? And it's done on a computer making wire fraud, a federal crime. AFAIK this is already against the law and can be prosecuted, no need to add a new law for fines.
Remember that in 2019, Lyft was committed paying AWS about $8.5 million a month. I found that a lot for what's effectively a glorified taxi software.

https://archive.ph/KiNbP
If I'm being honest, we all know the "rich guy sponsors girlfriend's vanity company" thing. Everyone usually knows what it's about. We can all sit here in schadenfreude but it's just the really rich version of the tchotchke and artisanal honey shop in Kalispell. So yeah, it's going to say grand things like "being a transformational mechanism for deep-lasting change" and "rejecting short-termism for true long-lasting success" and stuff like that. I bet if you go check out their website it'll be that stuff. Some people will performatively pretend this company is not like that, but it is almost certainly that.

The honey in that shop in Kalispell is not going to be that great, but at some point the proprietor will be on a TedX talk about how she's donating $1 of every purchase to fund hand-plucked honey fruit from honey trees in Africa and how this has been a truly transformational women-owned business or so on that is a vehicle for lasting change.

This is the same as that except at the big level.

It's okay that it exists since getting rich people to spend their money is a reasonable way to move money from stored wealth into the economy.
There is a small blurb about it in patio11's year in review.

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2016/12/30/kalzumeus-software-year...

I think I might've been the one referred to as submitting the excel file with the explanation... as I think that was how I solved the last problem on the stockfighter thing.
> Nah, it is the usual Year of Desktop Linux experience.

Which OS allows you to upgrade a major version and never break drivers? I guess Darwin does okay if you stay on the narrow happy path of first party hardware, but even then it's not exactly a feat of software engineering.
I wasn't commenting on any of these points, I specifically said "I can't speak to the merits or substance of the case". I certainly didn't say anything about going up against an "evil corporation".

I'm trying to reference the humanity aspects of the situation, which I've found time and time again seems to be completely lost on HN (see: downvotes). It's called empathy.
Given that the tactics use by masons seem to be an interesting amalgamation of military tactics, corporate tactics and organized religious tactics your analysis is indeed spot on.

One might even suspect you're an insider.
I mean, doesn't the set of computer controlled individual motors completely and totally contain all scenarios presented by a locked differential?

Specifically, wouldn't one line of code that says "never ever ever turn this wheel faster than this other wheel" be totally and completely indistinguishable from having the wheels on the same axle, as far as the physical world is concerned?
You've said nothing suggesting that the explanation doesn't work.

Whether you believe in collapse now, collapse later, or collapse never but the Born rule works, you get the same exact predictions. Therefore no experiment done to date represents evidence that there actually is a collapse. And evidence that the experimenter is modeled by QM is evidence against a collapse. This is all true, and is all verifiable from QM.

And whether collapse handles later or never, the math behind the MWI explains why we'd think we'd observed what we observed in the absence of a collapse.
It’s a trade off. Would you rather have more software with more features or less software that runs fast and efficiently?

The market has clearly spoken in favor of the former.

After all, the goal of engineering isn’t to produce some abstract beautiful art but rather to create something valuable for regular humans.

Also the car and building analogies are poor because they are essentially the same design that has been optimized for decades. Indeed the only “new features” in cars are usually software driven and probably just as inefficient.
I can only see them as cutouts. They never pop out at me.
The most scary aspect of unfettered accumulation of wealth would obviously be the consolidation of power. We're already seeing countries where the wealthiest citizens are saying "Screw this, I'll just move elsewhere, unless you fix those [tax] laws" - and the more powerful these people are, the easier it is to strong-arm politicians. Growth for the sake of growth, and all that.
And Peter Hammill's opera of "The fall of the house of Usher". Here's part of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dHsQekNB64

(According to one of the comments it's the 1999 recording. Probably I'd heard the 1991 recording previously. It did seem a bit different.)
What was the reason for submitting this OP? Just curious or something new here?
You don't pay property tax on unrealized gains in your house. You pay it on the appraised value of your house. If you don't like that appraised value, you can appeal it (and many people do), and it often doesn't rise nearly as much as the actual value of the house.
Problem with onshape is that most computation is done in the cloud and the free has been throttled a lot the last year or so imo, so you just constantly wait for sketches or extrusions to open or changes to apply. A minute or more sometimes.
That might fall apart for people with poor visual acuity.
Porn won't be left behind. The encumbents could be.
That, and also the plethora of search suggestions like 192.168.O.1 (notice anything wrong?) happily presented up there. No, DDG doesn't show them, so yes IT IS possible.
Toyota are also looking into switching to single casting bodies, so your comment both includes a fallacy and misinformation.
9 lane intersections are extremely common in Phoenix. 3 lanes in each direction, 2 lanes for a left turn, and 1 lane for a right turn. Often times there will be a small median where one could wait out a light, but not always. Scottsdale @ McDowell[1] is an example of one without. If you pan around to any of the major intersections (every 1.25 miles in each direction, generally), they are pretty much all this large.

1: https://maps.app.goo.gl/K4Qs5EtTp8Ms6DyC8
That still doesn't require bidirectional communication. The power company can assume that a collection of a reasonable number of households will have a fairly predictable power draw when presented with information from the power company, and this should allow the power company to balance the surplus without receiving data back from the households.

There're two issues here. The first is coordination - a lot of people might say that all they want the power company to tell them is the spot price and then let them make their own decisions on when to use power, and that anything more (such as instructions to different households to do their heating at a certain time) takes away their autonomy/sovereignty. That could be something that we just accept as a price to pay for a stable power grid, but it's more than we have now and I can see possible pushback against it. The second issue is price fairness - in the absence of another coordination method, a power company could manage demand by giving a lower price to groups of households to trigger the demand in a subset of the grid, so not everyone gets the same price at the same time. But they would have to do that in a fair way, for instance by time-sharing that lower price around.
(I've updated the page at https://docs.protomaps.com/basemaps/downloads)
Weekly Vue News #116 – Dynamic Slot Names
I was initially very skeptical, but I spent the effort researching what it is and also getting up-to-date with the Observability movement.

What I found in the fewest bullets as possible:

* The hype is obnoxious and unfortunately hides the really useful stuff. Here is my summary of the Observability movement in one sentence:

Record telemetry as unique, high-context events (unlike typical logs), containing many keys (as an alternative to having too many metrics), and provide convenient way to query instead of trying to frame it in a dashboard.

* The metrics and logging stuff is almost an afterthought. Think of it as bonus to the distributed tracing story.

* Distributed tracing is really, really useful for debugging and is should what application developers focus on first in their monitoring story. Don't inspect monitoring tools designed for infrastructure to help you much. The reason is simple - debugging is inherently reactive; most other tooling suggests you take proactive approaches which are useful for known issues. When you are debugging production systems you are trying to understand previously unknown issues.

* Otel is really simple; often automatic instrumentation is not worth the trouble and simpler libraries where you manually instrument your code are not hard at all to use. My experience is with Clojure, but YMMV.

* Otel backends can range from very affordable to very expensive so shop around. This is a benefit of having a standard!

I think distributed tracing is perfectly suitable for small projects, even one-service ones; I think one should add it to one before even thinking about deployment. And is mandatory for micro-services.
Mozilla isn't contributing anything impactful for the cause by reaching for low-effort headlines instead of putting in the work of a proper investigation.
The Internet is for Porn is a well known song from Avenue Q (predating wow)
"I've turned down job offers because they were in C++"

Yep
Insane that it has taken this long.
That's just it. This one time, Google got slapped for this kind of behavior.
John Nash's cryptography letters to the NSA (1955) [pdf]
Yes, it would be great if there were reliable publicly accessible RF networks available. I work mostly with rural US utilities and the problems they see with cell networks are (1) coverage isn't great and (2) costs aren't competitive with PLC or even utility-owned RF mesh.
I keep hearing this, and I think a charitable explanation is that scaling government becomes really hard past a certain point.

I would argue that 435 Representatives is already too much. Humans can only keep track of around 100 people. With so many representatives there is barely enough time for each of them to speak and engage with each other. Increasing the number for "better representation" will just worsen the problem.

A more cynical take is that since they just vote along party lines anyway, the number does not matter too much.
> companies seem much more picky (“you were great but we want someone with more tenure in <specific variant of field>”)

This was my exact experience. I’ve been out of work for a year and I’m more jaded than ever.

I finally got a job through what I assume was nepotism. It was the worst interview I’ve done lately, awkward, because I didn’t have any experience in the particular tech stack, but I got the offer.

What pissed me off were companies ghosting after doing the full set of rounds onsite. At one point, I was interviewing for a position a third party recruiter contacted me about. It wasn’t great, but it would pay the bill and I was desperate. It seemed like a decent fit given my last experience too. I got all the way to the final round which I had to travel hours for. At the end of the internet, one of the people even said “I imagine you’ll be hearing from us soon”. But they just ghosted me. Hell they ghosted the recruiter, who a couple weeks later was calling me asking if I had heard anything because they weren’t talking to him. If a company ghosts after an initial round or two, ok, whatever, but if I go the full distance and you don’t have the respect to even give me a yes or no, fuck you.
The porn industry has been a tech pioneer in many areas.

Twitch-like live streaming with micropayments was first seen in porn.

Subscriptions, micropayments, VR, etc.
Heh...

> ... I use a heavily-modified Gentoo ...

Need not say more :)
The request process is indeed easy enough. Now, if you also expect it having results, guess what.
I’m not sure why you are being downvoted, I think this is on point.
I'm not familiar with Chrome's architecture enough to say, but I would be surprised if all these capabilities get paged in and initialized. There definitely has to be some work to setup the web platform bindings, to let JS think this stuff is here ready to go, but I hope it's backed by late bound code.

And in the web browser, I believe v8 is using snapshots of the js runtime to avoid much of the work of initializing the js side of things: it just forks a new copy of itself.

This is one of the prime strengths of alternatives like Tauri, that use a shared library model rather than having a static library. With Electron you have a ton of initialization to do for a very excellent runtime, but then you never get to reap that existing work again. Where-as on the web, we open new pages and tabs all the time, and avoid the slow first load & get to enjoy the very fast latter instance loads. That multi-machine capable vm pays off! With Tauri, the shared library may well already be in memory and initialized. Only the first consumer of the shared library has to pay the price.
With the Pi 5 you can do better than that, there's PCIe support and an official NVMe hat. Or will be eventually, anyway.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/app/uploads/2023/09/40e82000-af3...
Agreed, It'd be fitting if it was about a retirement, but using it for someone passing away feels really unpleasant.
Just in case anybody doesn't know, "The Internet Is For Porn" is from the Tony-award winning musical Avenue Q. It's a lot more than a "WoW video".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenue_Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJRAXjHwnOk

Edit: Seeing sibling replies, I'm glad most people do know.
The author appears to raise valid points. There are explanations that they did not visit, which is okay by me. It does read like a manifesto but gets the conversation started.

> The software industry is arguably one of the most productive spaces that the world has ever seen.

I would argue based on personal experience that majority of software that comes out of the industry is unmaintainable garbage. The reason it is acceptable in most cases is that the barrier to entry is low and there are few consequences of things going wrong. Quality goes up significantly when consequences become real. At any rate, I would not call the software industry "productive".
It may the case that she has a strong enough personal brand, that her experience has been different than many of the horror stories. An analogy comes to mind of an NFL player vs an NCAA player: in both cases, the career might be short-lived and carry health risks, but the former at least carries more compensation and bargaining power, such that the career might end in comfortable retirement rather than destitution.

And/or: this could simply be the kind of quasi-Stockholm-Syndrome often seen of those in exploitative relationships, be they labor or otherwise.

But while I believe the many disgusting stories we’ve heard about that industry, I’d be hesitant to make assumptions about the motives and experiences of any one individual, in either direction.
> SV, Seattle and NY

I live in a small town in Eastern Europe and I get contacted weekly by individual investors, firms and funds. In my turn, I mentor entrepreneurs and invest (angel, seed or later rounds) in ideas that could make a difference locally.

Throw away your scarcity mindset. It's outdated.

> the only shop in town

Feel free to open your own "shop in town" to offer employees another choice. Till then, 1 is much, much better than 0.
> It also animates empty white boxes instead of showing their content because it’s the only way anything can be animated on a webpage with decent performance.

That's not the only reason, although it is one. Two of the other big reasons for this are:

1. The content is often loaded async while the boxes render, and this hides the latency of doing a network fetch.

2. Animating text looks terrible. Even if you had a perfectly fast computer, you wouldn't want to animate boxes filled with text and images, because it looks really bad.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/7y9mv9/the_iras_wa...
Don't compare the process of going online and filling out a form to applying to an actual visa in a consulate
If schools aren’t even teaching basic things like arithmetic and literacy, then what are they? Just a place to park kids while their parents work? In that case, might as well also do some programming classes, right? If the other option is learning nothing.

I mean, if you want to totally revamp the education system, I’m here for it, but I guess that seems like a bigger project to me.
I'm pretty sure that was a joke
SWEs utilizing [e.g. tools like] Co-Pilot will rapidly replace formerly dozens-large teams to perhaps just a handful [IMHO: optimistically].

I personally believe, at-present, it is unethical to not utilize LLM systems for underserved legal and medical populations. Here in the US, that is at least a small majority. To not be personally accessing these systems already will cost you thou$and$.
The DMCA arguably did not envision mass, often false, takedown requests.

The problem with substantial punitive damages however is that you will have people who do legit requests that are determined to be false per haps by algorithms. (Or that are in some gray area.)

>damages paid to the accused (covering their time, emotional distress of being targeted by a lawsuit, attorney fees, and some amount extra)

Now you're talking fining people thousands of dollars even though they may have been in the right.
Yeah, and it's like they deliberately set themselves up for failure too ?!

The way they engineered it is a bit like strapping a diesel generator on the top of an electric car as a promise to increase range... but a very inefficient one that weighs almost as much as the car itself.

P.S.: Coolers I can understand, but how come freezers use glass doors rather than a real insulator ? (+ printed out list of contents... now here might be an opportunity for minimal functionality, low power, e-paper displays ?)
Red cabbage is a bit of a weird example because its colour depends first on the acidity/basicity of the soil it was grown in, and then when you're using it on the acidity of other ingredients.

For example, if you cook it with apple (which is acidic), it will turn redder.
> Marriage is many things, but amongst them, it is also a safety net for the children of that marriage. At its best, it brings the resources of two extended families and friend networks together to support the couple and the children

At its best, it is exactly the same in that regard as coparenting without marriage is at its best. Having had both married and unmarried parents in committed (also, in other cases, failed—both married and unmarried) relationships in my extended friends and family network, the degree of support I’ve seen them get doesn’t seem to be very different.
With how prolific Riley is, her dad must suffer the most acute case of "Risky Click of the Day" with his internet usage.