skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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It's world famous for a lot of other things like good public transportation, good parental leaves, good social security, good unemployment benefits, good health care system, &c.

Of course to use tax money you need to collect tax money...

Most countries have lower taxes than Germany but most countries have worse living conditions. All the people like OP are quick to go back to their tax heavy hell homecountries as soon as they need anything other than sun and cheap cocktails

If Germany was so bad it wouldn't be in the top 5 countries with the most immigrants per capita
Steve Jobs Rigged the First iPhone Demo
I would have thought every manager asks such questions either to himself or to the team quite often.
Threads and the Fediverse
It has a great system for the various entities that own the state legislature.

Public utilities are essential services. “Great when times are good” literally is the worst type of arrangement. Having a public entity that exits to drive private profit is disgusting and a great example of the insanity of modern political thought.
Helping accelerate the death of Flash was probably Steve Jobs' most important contribution to computing. That said, it's appalling that Apple is getting away with banning 3rd party browser engines on iOS.
Aren't kaomoji a subset of emoticons? most western old emoticons are turned 90° CCW, whereas kaomoji are mostly horizontal and often using CJK characters.
Mary Barra Spent a Decade Transforming GM. It Hasn't Been Enough.
I am in a similar situation. IANAL either, but this is what I learned so far:

- Corporate tax and personal taxes interact in non-trivial ways. US LLCs with a single owner/partner are generally considered pass-through entities, which makes them somewhat special compared to the other options. That is bad if you live in a high-tax country, but can be great if you live in a low-tax country

- If things go well, "source of funds" can become an issue. Let's say you made $2m and want to buy a house somewhere. You might have to provide proof of where that money came from. This is where it might be useful to clearly have live somewhere (as opposed to claiming "I'm a nomad and I lived nowhere"). Apparently, there's a market for Dubai "residences" (utilities bills) because of that... So it can be helpful to have paid some low taxes rather than no taxes at all. I don't fully understand yet how corporate taxes might help in this one.

- If you can't provide proof that you lived in country X or ideally paid some taxes, there is a risk that either your home country or the country you want to buy property in start claiming taxes.

- Beware of some countries, e.g. Germany, who might retroactively claim taxes if you have ever lived there during the time the business existed. They might want to tax you based on unrealized gains...

- I also looked into Malta, but it sounds rather complex unless you actually live there

An additional benefit of US LLCs is that they are somewhat anonymous, especially in New Mexico and partially in Wyoming.

I have previously founded companies in Germany, definitely not recommended. In particular, un-registering companies is a very slow and expensive process, easily taking 18 months. US LLCs via e.g. startglobal cost only around USD 1,300 to start, supposedly.
opensuse..tumbleweed..transactional server
https://archive.ph/9d6FF
These were my predictions for 2023 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34196161

My prediction for the web is that this will be the year of HTMX.

My prediction for the war is that Russia will have full mobilisation.

2023 will not be the year for disclosure.

2023 will not be the year for the adoption of an international language.

These are my predictions for 2024

My prediction for the web is that this will be the year of HTMX.

My prediction for the war is that Russia will have full mobilisation.

2024 will not be the year for disclosure.

2024 will not be the year for the adoption of an international language.

HAHA!
Before this I only knew hylomorphism as an abstract algorithm (that can, among others, implement the factorial function). I had no idea it has such an esoteric side.
Wow that looks crazy!

Link: https://radicle.xyz

But honestly, I also wouldn't write about this without a lot of usage experience. For sure it's different from github/-lab etc. exciting and new, as you say.
There is a University of Northern Texas - a public research university in Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. It has a radio station, callsign KNTU.
This. Most of the developer teams are nothing but feature factories. There will be a point where what developers want to build and what the product needs will diverge. It is very hard to strike a balance IMO.
> Already Apple seems to have no qualms to ban Apple IDs of legitimate customers who entirely legitimately have bought gift cards and loaded them up on their account, on the simple premise that their algorithm flags accounts that top up more than $1k as suspicious

I wonder if that’s an AML thing? Buying apps from a small (15%) developer account using gift cards (paid with cash) could be an efficient way to clean money. I would guess that the number of legitimate customers inconvenienced by a $1k heuristic is fairly small.
>Ever tried installing a different browser on Win11 now?

Yes.

Running Windows 11, I use Chromium for my daily usage and Pale Moon for specific tasks, along with Edge for things I want to cordon in another browser altogether.

Windows 11 hasn't given me grief in my so far ~1.5 years of daily driving it, and I don't necessarily hold Edge's nagging against it since it's browsers catfighting each other. Chrome and Firefox also act likewise when given the chance.

I will note that I have Windows Update completely blocked and disabled via Group Policy, which means my system settings never get reset under the guise of "updates" every month unlike most people's setups. In fact, I'm still running 21H2, NT kernel version 10.0.22000.1281.

Windows 11 is quite well behaved if the administrator actually wields his administrative powers, as it turns out.
Some clever guy, can't remember who it was, once said that if there is a simple reasoning for something then it is more likely to be the correct one.

This whole article seems to miss the most obvious reasoning and that is that the education sector is absolutely dominated by left leaning people, therefore the more time you spend there the more likely you adapt to this or also the other way around, if you don't adapt to it well you are more likely to leave education as soon as possible for whatever you try to achieve.

Then there is also the fact that the highest education does not give the most wealth, in fact the most wealth comes from inheritance and for self made people more relevant than education is the time at which they started to "collect" wealth, which is later in life if they get higher education so they had less time.
If the only analogy you can think of removes the challenge of the problem your facing to be applicable, it's not an appropriate analogy.

The entire difference is that from my mobile phone I can send more traffic in an hour than most services will ever see legitimate traffic in their entire lifetime, and the cost to me is minimal.

The comparison is as invalid as comparing piracy to theft - piracy isn't theft, it's piracy, and understanding the difference between them is the key to dealing with the problem.
I'm surprised no-one's mentioned Estonia so far. I looked into it a while back, and it all seemed very easy to set up. You just needed to get an e-Resident ID (which was pretty simple) and there were cheap local companies to handle all the paperwork for you. Corporation tax was low, and importantly was only charged if you paid dividends: profits retained for future investment were not taxed. Perhaps I misunderstood things (I wound up not going ahead with it) or things have changed, but it looked like a great option, and they were marketing it for people exactly in your situation.
Quick note that Gitea has its own CI (roughly Github Actions compatible) so you don't need to use Drone.
That's a bizarre comparison. GitHub has gigabytes of pushes and pulls every minute, runs complex user-programmable workflows, and is the backbone of many of the world's companies.
That's one of my major gripes with Anki, it's just a bit too brittle for my taste. SuperMemo is not without its quirks (I mean, it's a quirky niche software to begin with), but all in all, I never had any major problem with it and I've been using it for more than a decade now.
>Most countries have lower taxes than Germany but most countries have worse living conditions.

The famously worse Scandinavian, BeNeLuxian and Swiss living conditions, that's why they emigrate out of there to work in Germany's factories.
No, but it's something a good product manager does for you, and with the economy of comparative and potentially absolute advantages. This let's you focus on the craft of delivery without encumberance of spending research into compliance.
Power generation and transmission used to be a collection of state-controlled monopolies in Texas. That ended in the 90s, but obviously there was no way to break up the distribution network.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/the-year-the-texa...
Aren't pretty much ALL demos "rigged"?
> I do wish NASA would move closer to how DARPA does things where you payout a reward to companies that achieve some milestone.

NASA already does this for a lot of things around ISS and Artemis. SLS is legacy bondoogle pushed by US Senate.
Creating better diagrams using goals and perspectives
`fscheck (berkley)` made sense for me, as does "an u where the s in, now": `fuck`.
Or better: unfuck, would be a good program name, since someting is fucked up, we let's try to repair it?
Although my first reaction is to support the idea of being able to retry cases when new evidence emerges, I can see the pitfalls if this were applied in a real-world justice system. There would have to be some pretty big barriers to overcome to prevent abuse (on the usual suspects, the poor and/or people the police/politicians just don't like) and then more rules to make sure those barriers themselves aren't used as loopholes by the truly guilty. I think it could be done, but its just as likely they do it in such a way to maximize state power without checks or balances.
Bureaucratic Leverage
That's fair. I think the problem for me is that there's no in between. We use buildkite, and _everything_ goes through buildkite. We compile native desktop apps, monolithic Kotlin web backends, deploy clients to multiple different app store like platforms, servers to AWS, and the workflow is the same. Click new build, wait, fill in the form.

That's just not an option for mac or iOS in the same way it is for Windows.
Good product managers I've worked with are better than me at navigating the domain and compliance worlds as tourists as they are tourists in the engineering side as well. David Ricardo was right, comparative advantage is a good thing.
> Some clever guy, can't remember who it was, once said that if there is a simple reasoning for something then it is more likely to be the correct one.

Dont know if you're being serious but for brevity I think that's Occam's razor!
That was my biggest beef as well. However, I spend 99% of my time in foot (a snappy terminal which I configured to have no title bar) and Firefox (which doesn’t have the fat title bar). So, in practice, it hasn’t bothered me at all.
I wouldn't trust OpenAI either. By default, their settings are so that they are allowed to use all your prompt entries for training. If you disable it, you disable the storage of you prompts at the same time as well. If that isn't evil, I don't know what is.
This sort of work feels gross to me. Just grasping and grasping at whatever random widget or piece of ad software or widget that someone will spend a few dollars on to increase people clicking on ads and dropping it as soon as it’s not profitable enough. It feels like some churn of lowest common denominator work and the software equivalent of basically a grifter working random ethically-gray odd jobs.

And this culminates in them working for (and name dropping in the article repeatedly) someone I’ve never heard of, but upon looking them up I learned that they’re basically the ultimate grifter, selling “how to make $10k from home in a month” sorts of courses.

This whole thing feels gross, from the initial work to leveling up to being able to achieve their dreams of working for some arch grifter.
This is somewhat true but it’s a reminder of how far out it was: the Bush administration had to invent a new theory of executive privilege to authorize it, did it outside of the country because they knew it wouldn’t be accept by a real court, and then they still felt the need to “accidentally” delete the tapes.
Netherlands has no risks of people losing electricity due to lack of capacity? https://www.alliander.com/nl/financieel-nieuws/ook-elektrici...
I've been watching a lot of glider videos on YouTube recently and it blows my mind that pilots can travel ~500km, even ~1000km with no propulsion, using only the lifting air.

It would be a pretty good mode of transport if the general population could be trusted to responsibly and competently fly aircraft. Very low carbon.
Fraudsters Use AI to Sell Fake Pirated Pre-Release Tracks, Universal Music Warns
Politics would be less of a shit show if people had intro textbook level knowledge about political science and/or didn’t approach it like a sport.
I have been locked out of websites for solving a captcha so quickly that it thought I was a bot. So we went from requiring humans to solve a puzzle that bots can't to now requiring that humans solve the puzzle slower than bots do.
Sure you can. Fingerprint of key is just a shorter and more convenient option to reference key everywhere, including manual verification. Article tells just that and it's commonly used in the industry.

And, by the way, signature in X.509 certificates ("TLS certificates") also hashes data to be signed - signed data input has to be smaller than sig size. Hence it also verifies pubkey indirectly.
Does someone know if you are logged in to all your Google accounts if logging on Gemini AI? That sort of thing prevented me from having a youtube account.
Medical research, especially pre-clinical, stands shoulder to shoulder with social psychology in terms of replication rates. Wiki has a brief paragraph on it on their replication crisis page [1], but this [2] page does a far better job of conveying and citing all sorts of interesting data and studies.

The pathway to profit for medicine is getting the FDA to approve your drug. This should only happen if the drug works, but the way the FDA determines that is by the data and studies you give them. Well at least in theory, there's also complete nonsense like aduhelm where the FDA even approved a drug their own medical panel concluded didn't work, leading to mass protest resignations. [3] That's probably an argument against shenanigans (why even bother?), but I still think it's relevant just to emphasize how dysfunctional our medical regulatory system has become.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis#In_medicine

[2] - https://www.taconic.com/taconic-insights/quality/replication...

[3] - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/19/health/alzheimers-drug-ad...
kind of surprised that the "What I would tell myself if I had to restart again" list didn't include not throwing all 100k of his parents "legacy" money into Tesla
Is not hard for me to see a case being built around the idea of finding value in having code to stay excluded from the surface exposed to AI so it becomes impossible for it to predate it.

It's a type of "security" that doesn't find an answer in "better AIs" or "AIs with improved alignment". The value comes out of being safe from the risk that can come out of the humans in control of these AIs.

I comes out of staying away and making impossible for any and all AIs to touch it.

Like the difference between food from a chef and hyperindustrialized food.

What if you want chef food only?

In the same way, exclusively human software creations.
If you had read my answers you would have spottet, that I wrote that the company continuned the mining due to profits. Not because it benefits the community or the envorionmen.

That nuclear is cheap is a lie. It is that simple. And if more people understand that they are told lies about cheap nuclear, they will ask for green energy.
I've always said it as "fusk", which is close to "fisk". In a professional context I've always called it fs-check though.
I think some of the blame towards Texas is due to many of their politicians denying that climate change exists. Texas is a major oil producer, and is on the higher end of CO2 emissions per capita. They should probably realize that their once reliable weather patterns are not going to be reliable anymore.
Who's talking about laws? I am talking about reputations. Men who lack the respect of others get kicked out of their family klans, among other things. And while a few crooks may rise to the top (USSR), most get beaten to death by angry mobs.
I think it's time we collectively mature past the point where taking unsubstantiated pot-shots at tools we don't "love" is seen as a value add to commentary.

In this case calling k8s a "nightmare" is a strong red flag akin to the mantra of "java is slow". It lacks the nuance of hands on XP and reeks of rules of thumb miss applied to the point of catchphrases.
Odd side note. I asked chat gpt for feedback on the screenshot of a RACI and added some color on the parties involved and the scope of work.

It provided some really good analysis and recommendations.
The number of fatherless children suggests that that is not exactly a hard and fast rule.

Given enough pressure, anything will burst; I had a colleague kill himself after being unable to find good work, leaving a wife and daughter. Some of us just aren’t cut out for all that.
In other words, in areas of limited resources where politics are innate, the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
Not in my experience - juggling priorities is usually difficult enough when you're just trying to manage the C-suite's favourite ideas, or feature requests from the highest revenue customer, etc. Factoring in synergistic engineering efforts is out of reach for a lot of PMs that I've worked with.
What exactly did they do? Just transform data or generate completely new data for training? I've seen plenty of people that have used GPT-4 to help transform data, i.e. using GPT-4 to generate summaries of texts and then using that to train smaller models. Not sure why this wouldn't be allowed, as it's not technically data that is coming from GPT-4.

If they don't allow this it just seems like they are trying to prevent people from building smaller cheaper models that will perform better for a specific use case and gobbling up the market for as long as they can.
That’s the good side of politics, and I agree: it is everywhere humans are trying to accomplish things together.

But when I say gravitate away from hard work towards playing politics it refers to something else of course. Getting others to do your work while still claiming credit is one example.
Great article with some more background:

https://newatlas.com/aircraft/dynamic-soaring-speed-record-s...
This happens at a different layer than the printer driver; you just need to modify the postscript.

Paper trays, duplex, duplex with tumble, and cutting are specifiable in postscript; this is `setpagedevice`. Even things like custom stapler options (staple first two pages, etc) can be specified. See something like https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/bpp01888 for docs
How is disabling OS updates a sensible decision?
It’s not the good side of politics, it’s how it’s defined in textbooks.
Then again, iOS is a better OS because it can get away with supporting no third party browser engines.
Thermodynamics of Information
Yes, if typical operations license is valid for 20 years, the typical life span is obviously 20 years. Because after that time it is cheaper to build a newer and improved generator than to try to renew the license. That doesn't imply a technical limitation.

You pointing to the maintenance interval is just bad faith argumenting. On that ground, nuclear energy is even more irresponsible, as the power plants get daily maintenance and supervision.

And your claim about the expansion of the lignite usage is another lie. It is on a historical low. It could be lower still, if the previous government hadn't curbed the rollout of renewable energy while accellarating the shutdown of nuclear. Blame them, not the greens.
Yes, that's the standard workaround.
For us mere peasants, there is a term "preventive detention" such they say is NOT an arrest so you do not have rich things like habeas corpus or bail.

Plus, this is usually pre-crime detention so there is no crime, no case, no enquiry, no courts.

Its fun

https://www.legalservicesindia.com/law/article/5001/5/Preven...

Another nice thing

t was held that the law of preventive detention is not unconstitutional since it has no objective criterion for ordering preventive detention, and instead relies on the executive’s subjective judgment. This viewpoint is based on the fact that preventive detention is not punitive, but rather preventative, and is used to prevent a person from engaging in actions that are seen to be harmful to specific goals that the law of preventive detention aims to regulate. As a result, preventive detention is based on suspicion or expectation rather than proof.

https://blog.ipleaders.in/extending-protections-accused-ligh...
Worth noting that in true Microsoft fashion, Windows Protected Print Mode will still co-exist with the printer driver subsystem it's supposedly replacing:

>Q: Will Windows prevent installation of new printer drivers?

>A: Windows will continue to allow vendor-supplied printer drivers to be installed via separate installation packages.

My sincere kudos to them, Apple/Google/FOSS would have thrown out the old with no regard.
Many heads at ERCOT were fired or resigned after the last outage.

And NERC is basically the same structure as ERCOT.
You’ve worked for 35 years and you’ve never seen anyone act out of self-interest to the detriment of the project / company? Either you’re incredibly lucky or you’re blind. ;)
There's a kernel of truth here, which is that "It works in <whatever>" is still just an ad hoc thing when what is really desired is first principles understanding and control over the project dependencies.

But the justification gets muddled. In fact there is no VM in docker and no "another whole computer". Containers are lightweight and great. Even if you have a correctly-engineered bullet-proof hermetic build solution for your bitwise reproducible artifacts... you almost certainly want to implement that using container technology of some form.

Use Docker. It's great. Do the hard work too, sure. But start with an ad hoc Dockerfile.
i agree, but it still kinda interests me
A 90-year-old man who built a western wear empire
If your goal is to put some code out there just to share it with others, any of those will work. There's also Bitbucket, Sourceforge, and self-hosted Fossil. The blog author seems to be looking for more of an "enterprise" open source option. You could even use Gitolite or GitWeb if you're willing to self-host.
African scientist could wipe out malaria by editing mosquito DNA
It's not always DNS – unless it is
Good examples! :)
High-impact papers from Indian researchers are shaping science
What are you talking about? Freezing weather is definitely not a freak event in Texas. Probably approaching 10% of days in many parts of Texas.

“If they had sufficiently warm clothes”… sufficient is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Besides, if freezing is such a freak event, why do you expect people to prepare and not the government to prepare.

The temperatures in many homes were below freezing for several days. There are normal citizens who cannot survive such an event.
Can't upvote this more than it deserves.