skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
can't we just add following to tax law:

"if your company structure contains additional complexity which main purpose is the avoidance of tax it's a crime"

I mean law has the fundamental benefit of allowing you to define what is a crime based on the outcome (tax evasion) instead of needing to explicitly rule out any way you might reach that outcome. I mean e.g. for killing people the law also does state it's not allowed without listing every way you could kill a person. So why can't we do the same for clear cases of tax evasion?
Eh, the history isn't a secret and the reason is that they are religious fundamentalists:

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

> According to Hezbollah's Deputy-General, Naim Qassem, the struggle against Israel is a core belief of Hezbollah and the central rationale of Hezbollah's existence.

I tend to believe their own statement on this matter. Where do you see wiggle room for another argument? Or even to find the argument "curious"? What is curious about it?
In Australia, PWC betrayed the Australian government by leaking secrets about taxation plans to other PWC clients.

Such a lovely bunch of people :-/
Right afterwards, you can learn about the place called Haiti. Or Cuba. Or Venezuela. Or heck, Mexico. Oh, Vietnam. North-Korea. China. Japan. Wait until you learn about Chile. And do not forget to look up the meaning of 'Jakarta is coming'

BTW, before someone screams whataboutism: adjusting your worldview according to facts and applying your moral standards to all countries is not whataboutism. Its a prerequisite to being able to morally condemn any action.
It feels like they're spending more on pro-israel sentiments, and have for decades. A biblical quote about a beam in one's eye comes to mind whenever people go "but china!".
There are many businesses that depend on foot traffic of office workers.

There are also many land leeches that need bodies in office.

There may not be an explicit agreement where RTO earns a tax break but it certainly gives a company more leverage in negotiations with local government and businesses.

This to me is obvious. What's not obvious is how it increases productivity to force people into an office.
>What you described above is more like kindergarten

You ever try organizing and managing the work of multiple skilled tradesmen that feed into a single integrated product on tight deadlines? Do you know what works really well in that kind of environment?

Telling people what to do and then checking in on them to see if they’re doing well.

Is this kindergarten? I don’t remember being a skilled tradesmen working on building components for complex assemblies on tight deadlines in Kindergarten.

I concede that I am unfamiliar with what a normal “scrum” session looks like outside of what is said in the Agile manifesto and the many anecdotes floating around. I do know that Scrum took a lot of cues from TPS/Lean of the 80s and tried to feed it to Software.

And as far as I can see, it’s not working because the profession and the products do not fit this factory model.

What everyone seems to yearn for seems to match more closely to the model followed by magazines and other such publications. Product Management the profession mirrors more the Editor than the Production Manager, SWEs mirror writers/editors-at-large, etc.

Self respecting writers in any newsroom would balk at being subjected to daily scrums that take away from precious research/writing time. And to put some kind of regular pace on progress, metrics, etc. to what really is very bursty, deep focus work is also ridiculous. Whether it takes you 5 hours or 5 days to write the piece, so long as it is of quality and meets the deadline what does it matter. And even if you miss the deadline, you could alway be slotted into the next issue unless the piece was a cornerstone piece to the issue, in which case a good editor would have assigned it with ample time or given it to the best writer on the roster.

Hell I like this analogy. Might spend more time thinking about it and talking to SWE friends about it. Feel free to expand. Maybe this will free everyone from the shackles of Scrum.
Which version was that with? GraalVM can JIT compile regular expressions these days, with the same compiler as everything else. They implemented TRegex on top of Truffle so regex can be inlined and optimized like regular code.

Performance does indeed depend on workload. There's a page that compares GraalPy vs CPython and Jython on the Python Performance Suite which aims to be "real world":

https://www.graalvm.org/latest/reference-manual/python/Perfo...

There the speedup is smaller, but this is partly because a lot of real world Python workloads these days spend all their time inside C or the GPU. Having a better implementation is still a good idea though, because it means more stuff can be done by researchers who don't know C++ well or at all. The point at which you're forced to get dedicated hackers involved to optimize gets pushed backwards if you can rely on a good JIT.
Fair enough, but I feel that the same can be said for e.g. the combustion engine…

The only thing cars did was to save time and resources doing things humans were already capable of doing. Now, such engines are used for life saving things like ambulances and food transport, but also nefarious things like invading other countries, or mundane things like dropping off your kids at karate class.

I suppose whether you think the combustion engine actually improved society depends on who you ask as well :)
We've banned this account for egregiously breaking the site guidelines and for using HN primarily for political battle. Those things are not allowed here, even though I am sure that you have very legitimate reasons for feeling the way you do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

p.s. I suppose I'd better add that yes, we treat accounts breaking the rules from the opposite site of the war in just the same way, and have moderated and banned many of those accounts as well.
That there is no such mechanism can be explained pretty well with this extreme scenario:

- Browsers would come with the no tracking signal enabled by default (why wouldn't they?) so that tracking would become opt-in.

- Nobody chooses to be tracked.

- The whole industry built on tracking users collapses, namely advertisement

- Web sites who based their business model on advertisement go under

Because of this I bet that the industry is lobbying extremely hard for solutions that are maximally useless and inconvenient for the user. Unless the user "chooses" to be tracked of course.

In that vein, another proposal for stemming the flood of cookie consent banners comes from the German government and outlines a multi vendor strategy with very little technical guidance for centralized consent management systems:

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Consent-management-German-gover...
Here are some simple programs in assembly for the M1 chip, annotated as best as possible. Perhaps they will help?

https://github.com/jdshaffer/Apple-Silicon-ASM-Examples
This is reminiscent of the plot for Episode 1 of Season 1 of the TV Show Industry :-(
Granite ridge can currently do 8000-8400 when overclocked at a 1:2 ratio of memory controller clock to memory clock, though with some work needed to get it working.

The 9600 may be possible with DIMMs using the clock driver even on granite ridge
Who started that war again, and under what pretenses?

I'm not saying Ukraine is some golden child or whatever but they weren't the aggressor.
Hmm I think there are probably more Danish and Norwegian people than mathematicians writing about null sets.
> Nobody uses Files

What else would you use? I use it quite often.
>replicate this tactic

Permissible behavior normalized in this conflict is going to make future wars pretty ugly.
That would make sense, since there's no such thing as a one-way GSM device. GSM towers (cells) need to keep track of which devices are in their vicinity and do smooth handovers to neighboring towers.

I'm not sure how the protocol you mentioned works, but I'd imagine it still needs some info about the whereabouts of the receiver to route the messages to him.
How come I have never heard of languagetool before or maybe I have never looked beyond Grammerly. Thank You!
There is basic GraalPy support in Maturin[0] and PyO3[1], the problem is often that packages require older Maturin/PyO3 versions and/or they use CPython-isms, semi-public APIs, etc., but it is getting better, for example [2].

It is fair to say that large projects with a huge set of dependencies will likely face some compatibility issues, but we're working on ironing this out. There is GraalPy support in setup-python GitHub action. GraalPy is supported in the manylinux image [3]. Hopefully soon also in cibuildwheel [4].

[0] https://github.com/PyO3/maturin/pull/1645 (merged)

[1] https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3/pull/3247 (merged)

[2] https://github.com/pydantic/jiter/pull/135 (merged)

[3] https://github.com/pypa/manylinux/pull/1520 (merged)

[4] https://github.com/pypa/cibuildwheel/pull/1538
I mean that the world is best off if the US continues to maintain the global maritime order, and this means there being no credible way of cutting off the US military from being able to mass produce weapons.

Sure, this costs US taxpayers a lot, but whatever, it's worth it.
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The biggest shareholder of TSMC is the Taiwan government.
I understood that, and I was trying to help reverse-engineer what might have changed.
Honeycombs old tooling for Python was miles better than the Otel nonsense. Embarrassing to see so many companies drop their well designed libs for Otel instead of something like wrapping Otel so that their better libs can still be used at the top level
It is some sort of dehumanization. Since it got into fashion, I've noticed some colleges started to refer to companies in China as 'China'. Like as if they are dealing with Xi when procuring washers.
> The cookie policy

No. It isn't a "cookie policy".

The GDPR states I must give a specific opt-in approval to provide my personal data and allow it to be passed on.

You can use as many cookies as you like, but if you want to track me personally (advertisers take a bow) then you need my specific consent to do so. And so you should.

I'm amazed I have to keep explaining this to American web designers who should know better. This has been law in the UK and EU for quite some time now and is a prerequisite to doing business here.

The GDPR is a bloody good law. It makes the gathering of unnecessary personal data a liability, as it should be. See here:
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...
To summarize, as one silicon valley CEO once put it: "pay as little tax as you can legally get away with".

Same with any legislation applying to company operations - get as close to the line of what is legal/illegal without crossing it.
What is a "49ers wide receiver" ??
They have been at war since they were founded in 1982, when Israel invaded Lebanon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Lebanon_War
This is really sick and should result in major sanctions against Israel. USA should never give them another penny, take the nukes, and let them wither. They've become pure hate. This is a standard that can't be allowed and Israel must be punished.
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Indeed, by revenue the U.K. is a bigger manufacturer than it has ever been. But it’s all things like jet engines and other high value items. Whether that’s a good or bad thing is a matter for protracted debate.
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Without marketing speak, can I ask why anyone would have a need for a service like Grammarly?

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Manual corrections here, but maybe they give a clue?
It uses OpenAI, so it's not open source. Keep this shit away from me.
I'm using HaLow WiFi to connect two houses in a mountainous region. I'm only using it for a link about 800m distant, but it's done what PtP links couldn't do reliably. I only get 13-14Mbps but it's enough for the light use we make of it.

I started testing the modules but then discovered that there are companies on AliExpress selling the same thing as "Wireless CCTV IP bridge", but they can be used for any kind of data if you accept the losses.

I've more recently seen old Ubiquiti 900MHz kit turning up on AliExpress, I'm tempted to try it instead but I am also concerned about counterfeiting and/or if the firmware has been tampered with.
Fischertechnik is a great engineering gateway drug for kids
They didn't "take" it either, Apple offered it.
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People here will not understand but there is a lot of background and culture behind this. There was another case where a McKinsey consultant (IIT+IIM postgrad) who joined the firm and commited suicide (https://www.consultancy.in/news/4168/young-mckinsey-consulta...).

The story starts way back. In general the schooling syllabus in India is very broad and deep (I can say this now since I live outside India). Then due to the large population - around 30 million students complete school every year. After that there are not many good universities (you may have heard of IITs or NITs), only around 100-200K get into good unis. The competetion to get in is therefore intense. Preparation for these "entrance exams" can start at age 15 (or even earlier).

If someone makes it somehow, graduation, postgrad and MBA is another similar struggle. Now you think you surely made it. The last 7-8 years of intense work and hardship are over, this is doubly true if the person is not from a well off family in India (which is very common). Preparation schools, hostels, being away from family etc. has its mental costs.

Then you land a job and it hits you, as a new joiner in the hugely competitive Indian job market you are treated like sh* and all this while you thought "you made it" but the real struggle has just started. Long working hours, immense pressure and then the thought that all the hardwork you did in the past can come crashing down with one bad review. Combine that with the real stuggles of life as you move to a new city, manage finances, support family back home etc. it creates a huge amount of pressure. Some unfortunately are not able to handle it, they are in a position they feel that all was futile and no one can understand their situation.
Sounds like you'd be doing them a favour
Someone in the thread mentioned "China's gonna be a bit salty though."

I see what salty China looks like now.
Curiosity is when you're reaching out to find out about a thing (let's call it X) which you want to learn more about.

Feeling stupid is when you're confronted with an external you cannot understand why it works.

Curiosity can help push through feeling stupid, but you can be curious about something you won't struggle understanding it at all.
That is true, and don't get me wrong, I'm happy if that works for you -- people should make use of that possibility far more often.

It's not for possible for everyone, though, and the bar is not "is any IP loss realistic" but rather "what are the policies my employer demands", independent of if they are sensible or not. Make sure you're not getting caught breaking company policy, kids :P
I think this is an actual "supply chain attack", while the downloading-malware-from-github-automated isn't.
There’s a trick I picked up on one project and made lots of use of in the one I mentioned elsewhere in this thread. Everyone at that time was using charcoal black (#333) text on light grey backgrounds (#e0e0e0 or #ddd) or even middle grey backgrounds (#ccc), or white text on dark grey or highly saturated backgrounds and it was a mess.

You add a 1 pixel radius, zero offset 70% opacity white shadow to dark text, or the same shadow in black to inverse (light) text, and the letters pop without the shadow being noticeable except under zoom. The page takes a little bit longer to render, but at least you can read it despite the designer’s attempt to sabotage basic UX principles.

The translucency makes it work on other colors as well, if you have color coded labels for instance, like a dark blue bar with grey text.
I qualified as a CA with EY in London around 15 years ago in banking audit. Left soon after qualifying. Some weeks I clocked in over 50 hours but never usually much more. Never had to do an all-nighter though I knew loads of people who did. Part of the reason I had a good experience was that I was lucky enough to work with an excellent manager who was well organised and knew how to audit without wasting time on spurious nonsense. I had to sacrifice a few Easter bank holidays in busy season but we got back the time in lieu. Outside of busy season was fairly quiet - Thursday afternoon pub lunches etc.

Some people did far more hours than me but I think it was mostly self imposed. A small minority of the partners were twats but the vast majority were mindful of people’s well-being. Friday evening drinks in corney and barrow were sacred and on days I didnt want to work longer I just got up and left to the disbelief of the audit room - they got over it though!
Using a list combined with the walrus operator is a clever hack, but it's nice to not be limited to expressions. In JS you can define the equivalent of a multi-line lambda function with any number of statements (which is helpful when you're passing a function as a callback e.g. in a React hook).
Not to encourage the behavior, but it’s not simply “I was a victim” signal.

It’s abusive, but it’s also a sign you did something. You have to do the work asked of you, and the more work you do, the better for a CV. That’s why so many people tolerate this treatment, and why it’s not a negative signal for people reading a CV later.
Isn't WhatsApp e2ee as well? You can search that one just fine
I suppose that the fact that it's too shallow could be improved by applying this approach recursively on each sub-topic, then synthesise them and create a narrative around them.
gdpr works a bit differently. You can use cookies for providing website operations, for it you don't even need a banner.
You can't easily use cookies/trackers for ad purposes. You can still display ads but these shouldn't use cookies (this way again - no need for banner).
I think it's because the US has the clout to indirectly compel foreign institutions to cooperate in a way that other western countries can't.

For example, for a US expat living in the UAE the various branches of the US government can threaten the UAE government, banks etc. to make them cooperate and tell them how much the US citizen is earning to ensure they pay their US taxes - if you're a bank anywhere in the world, you do not want to be cut off from the US dollar system.

If the UK, France, Germany etc. tried to tax their citizens globally it might work in other western countries, but in places like the Middle East they might struggle to get foreign entities to comply making it impossible to enforce.
If consciousness is a property of mathematical systems, and such an infinitude exists, what is the paradox? It sounds quite consistent to me. Could you elaborate?
Minimal what? They just indiscriminately bombed anyone near anyone with this branded pager. It's really disgusting to see you marveling at mass civilian destruction or terrorism.
Moreover, share of GDP has been falling because prices of manufacturing goods have been all falling vs inflation, pressured by foreign competition and by productivity improvements, while rest of the economy - services - face none of that: they usually (except corner cases like call centers) can't be outsourced abroad, and output there depends strongly on labor inputs (e.g. waiters) thus making productivity stagnant almost by definition.

So there isn't a problem about manufacturing, never has been. Problem is strictly about manufacturing employment, which is of course, inexorably falling and will continue doing so and every politician promising to reverse it is a blatant liar. It's falling much like farm employment has been falling 40-70 years ago, sure it's traumatic, ruins livelihoods of millions of families many of which will never recover, destroys not just their personal finances but their source of pride and sense of self in many ways. But just like it didn't result in decrease in food output back then (quite the opposite happened), it doesn't result in dearth of manufacturing products now.
Not just re-education, genocide: https://newlinesinstitute.org/rules-based-international-orde... (link goes to the source report instead of editorialized versions)
I imagine technological progress has been made in the field of explosives as well. I guess the volume and weight can very very small when you can determine that the phone is being held at the head and the explosion can partially be directed to it. Maybe it's even possible to leverage the energy within the battery?
This fixes the issue with leaks. But it creates a much worse issue: anyone can now sequence anyone else's DNA with zero oversight or privacy controls.

The film Gattaca covers how this could lead to a sort of night are society pretty well, I highly recommend it.

It also makes it much much harder to use the data for clinical research.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_black_sites
Terrorism isn't okay. We should have that standard. Just as violence against in general isn't okay.
All taxes are arbitrary. It doesn't need to "make sense". The only reason countries tend to tax their own citizens is more because of the practicalities of enforcement rather than any stance on the philosophical nature of taxation; as this particular rule illustrates.
If an article ever needed more, larger photographs it'd be this one.

On a related topic, I have a really cool book from the 1970s which contains beautiful cutaway drawings of high technology from the era (everything from telephones to Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactors). Edit: How Things Work, Volumes I & II published by Paladdin. There's a borrowable copy of Vol II at the IA: https://archive.org/details/howthingsworkuni00vana/page/n595... (can't find if they have Vol I).
The extreme? His policy is literally to bring back as much manufacturing back to America.
TIL it’s in the files app. I always use the notes app for this. You can either long-press on notes and tap scan document or go into a random note, scan a document, and export it as pdf from there
It doesn't remove corruption. Here's an example of stealing positions in the gaokao in china:

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3090774/chin...
Depending on the type of content one consumes, those activities are a net positive, or at least neutral. Meanwhile social media is a net negative for nearly everyone except "influencers" who get paid to shill for products and services.
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This is talking about the Windows NT Workstation (or Windows 95 etc.) banner on the left of the original start menu. It doesn’t change when you add programs, and I don’t think the edition branding changes between languages (at least the French versions are still Windows NT Workstation / Server, and if the French didn’t force Microsoft to localise the edition names, I doubt any else would manage). So you could just render once on startup / first menu draw then cache the bitmap. Or just prerender the bitmap as a graphical resource and store it on disc…
Is React a cult or a framework? Maybe both? We should all take a break from time to time and ask ourselves why we use frameworks like React. React has been my go to framework for 10 years now. It is about time to consider light weight alternatives like Svelte, Inferno or Preact.
So it goes. People have been in Guantanamo Bay for two decades without prosecution or charges.
LanguageTool is not open source; it is open core. There are proprietary "premium rules," and you won't get them in a self-hosted version.
Exthalpy/State-0 – A chain-of-thoughts 8B model