skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's less this specific act and more that just because you could easily locate numbers/addresses it doesn't really lessen the act of blasting it out for the world - nobody wants to be on the receiving end of that. Clearly it was an accident for this specific case, but I just found the previous comment way too flippant/hand wavy.
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He will likely get away with it regardless.

The Justice Department is extremely reluctant to prosecute unless they are absolutely sure of winning. They do not like going to a judge and saying, "We're pretty sure this is illegal." The culture is that prosecution has historically been used for persecution, and they want to be absolutely beyond reproach.

They are well aware that it would be easy for a court to say, "The specific way he phrased it does not constitute a violation of the law. It's up to Congress to close that loophole." Which, of course, they won't.

So unless they can prove a crime beyond a shadow of a doubt, they will likely not try to bring it to court. They might try negotiating a fine, but even if the fine is a billion dollars, it's just pocket change. Which he and I would consider "getting away with it".
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That depends on which court ruled against Albertsons in the above case. Higher courts are under no obligation to honor a lower court’s ruling; they can and do overturn them.
> Kubernetes is immensely challenging as a development environment platform

Glad someone said it out loud. So true. Apptainer has been a far better development experience for us.
Let's not forget Rod Temperton's song writing input on Of The Wall (and Thriller).
In my experience it depends a lot on your hardware. For some versions my msi consumer Mainboard just would not respond to wol packets. No matter what I tried.
Half of the western world is obese, eating double what you actually need in term of calories probably make up for a lot of deficiencies in micro nutrients

Malnutrition isn't as visible as obesity though, you can be a fat fuck and still malnourished in some aspects, but if you're already fighting high blood pressure and diabetes these issues are way down your list of problems. It can be very subtle like micro gut health, teeth health, long term bone health, children not growing as tall as they could, &c.

Virtually no metrics are going in the right direction in the US when it comes to nutrition: https://globalnutritionreport.org/resources/nutrition-profil...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/feb/10/nutriti...
Yeah there's the so called "Dutch Sandwich"[1] which is a well-known tax "planning" methodology that corporates use with the so called "Double Irish" being another one. There's also a slightly less-well known one involving Mauritius and India. They're all ways of moving profits between companies in order to exploit tax treaties that countries put in place. In the case of the Dutch sandwich I think the Netherlands has a treaty with the Netherlands Antilles or something so people have a company in the Netherlands which then shifts things off-shore to the Antilles and avoids tax that way.

It's nonsense of course. Companies should (in my opinion) shoulder their fair share of tax because otherwise that burden falls disproportionately on individual income tax.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Sandwich
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I would use them (more) if they had some decent icons in fonts.
Short of some unexpected major disaster resulting from it (such as civil unrest), I don't see how the results of the election would affect my business or product plans.
You can yes although the docs don't make that obvious.

https://www.blog.akhil.cc/static-jni

You can also use the FFI to avoid JNI.

I tend to feel that static linking is overrated. The moment you want easy upgrades of your app you need extra infrastructure anyway, and every tool for distributing such programs can handle directories as well as files.
Well, "no one is like you" is definitely false, and people try to rationalize it away to avoid feeling guilt or whatever.
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> Blaming or trying to shame me for "not caring" does nothing to change any of this. There is no "dark truth" here.

Who says I’m blaming you? I’m not. Just telling it like it is. I feel no shame in the fact that I don’t care or most people don’t care.

I think it’s intrinsically evil but I don’t care or feel shame about this.

I think most people are like you. They realize the irrationality of their behavior but they still try to use evidence to build a scaffold of logic to justify it all.

I don’t need to do that. I just don’t care about people in need and I can admit it. I’m evil and most people are too.
Wel,

But things are changing. It seems... These are the developments in The Netherlands. Most of it somewhere over the horizon. Interested to know if other countries with similar tax evasion rules change their rules?

It's in dutch so use your popular translation tool for these links:

- https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/brochures/2023/10/11...
- https://theses.ubn.ru.nl/server/api/core/bitstreams/a384a151...
- https://open.overheid.nl/documenten/44e45809-c66e-4378-9fc8-...
- https://www.nu.nl/economie/6286473/nederland-nummer-een-bij-...
>What's wrong with panhandling?

My statement does not necessitate there being anything wrong with panhandlers, but at a base level it's annoying to be interrupted from what you're doing to be asked for money.

>The social dysfunction that gives rise to panhandling won't disappear if the panhandlers do.

There's not a single reason why people panhandle, but if enough people give money it turns panhandling into a viable profession.
You're going in circles. That is what the commenter is replying to. You often can't just go off dev because other people use it while you're testing, and you're back to just launching everything yourself.
Gathering and distribution for that would be complicated, have to keep all the gathered items food safe while you gather and then distribute. It's much simpler to operate a dedicated kitchen with donated/discounted supplies on many axis.
Oh thanks, I totally missed that, kind of hidden at the end of the paragraph. Kinda weird place to put the author but at least it's there!
Because poor (read non white) populations will be zoned with their neighbourhoods in the direct path of the mentioned harmful pollution while the rich (white) neighborhoods will either be located better from the beginning or have the power to stop whatever actor is making pollution reach their home... This is really basic stuff on the topic...
No I think this perspective is a product of your own biases. There are plenty of people out there who care and as the article notes, there's lots of charity in the world. But it doesn't solve the problem.

The issue is that people are independent agents, so the effect of whatever we do for them is going to be dwarfed by what they do for themselves. When we examine the roots of poverty and homelessness, we find that in most cases people in those situations keep on making choices that perpetuate their circumstances. This isn't meant to suggest that we should reduce charity efforts or that these people who are suffering "deserve" it, it's just an observation that there is no solution without correcting the actions being taken on the individual level.

Unfortunately trying to solve a condition as broad as homelessness is like trying to cure cancer. Why do people repeatedly take the wrong actions? There are a thousand causes. But if you want some broad groupings, you can start with unresolved trauma and a lack of information/education. So if we want to achieve fundamental improvement we need to work on those. By the time we get to the homeless I think trauma is the most common factor that prevents them from pulling themselves out. Trauma from serving in the Vietnam War for example probably created around 75,000 homeless men.

I come from poverty and escaped it, and in hindsight I'm able to see that my family and the other people around me were making bad choices repeatedly for years. That is why most of them remained in poverty and some of them died an early death. I'm also able to recognize the bad choices I make today which limit my contemporary success, and I'm not always able to change those habits due to my own issues. Everyone is a WIP. Compassion is worthwhile but alone it is insufficient. People must somehow be compelled to change.
> the stack always grows to the point that a dev can no longer test it on their own machine

Sounds like you have a different problem.

CPU resources required to run your stack should be very minimal if it's a single user accessing it for local testing idle threads don't consume oodles of cpu cycles to do nothing.

Memory use may be significant even in that case (depending on your stack) but let's be realistic. If your stack is so large that it alone requires more memory than a dev machine can spare with an IDE open, the cost of providing developers with capable workstations will pale in comparison to the cost of running the prod environment.

I have a client whose prod environment is 2x load balancer; 2x app server; 3x DB cluster node - all rented virtual machines. We just upgraded to higher spec machines to give headroom over the next couple of years (ie most machines doubled the RAM from the previous generation).

My old workstation bought in 2018 had enough memory that it could virtualise the current prod environment with the same amounts of RAM as prod, and still have 20GB free. My current workstation would have 80+ GB free.

In 95% of cases if you can't run the stack for a single user testing it, on a single physical machine, you're doing something drastically wrong somewhere.
Preprint of the same title: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.09358
Maybe I misread it, but I don't think it says there's a universal root.
You severely underestimate mathematicians' ability to cling to older more convenient forms of expression.

I imagine blackboards and chalk will be used in advanced mathematics for a few centuries yet.
How do you sufficiently sterilize wood to protect mars from contamination? I imagine this is less trivial than sterilizing metal, plastic, whatever other materials typically go into space-vehicle production.
Duplicated:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42044403
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Your information is outdated -- Double Irish is no longer applicable according to your own source since 2010.
In short: yes, there are, but it's difficult.

There's logistical issues, like: restaurants are busy and usually can't spare somebody to go find somebody to take excess, having excess is unpredictable so setting up a system is hard, having 8000 loaves of bread or whatever is too much (nobody wants to eat that much bread), etc.

Also if the restaurant/grocery/etc. is getting rid of food, it's usually in the neighborhood of not being suitable for consumption anymore. If it's not suitable for consumption, you can't really make a great case for then collecting it and giving it to somebody to eat, even if they're hungry and poor. So you need someone to have good food, care for it safely, but not want to use/sell it but still go through a lot of effort to get it to somebody who can use it.

There absolutely is some room in there for like "yeah we're getting rid of this because we don't want to sell it but it is still absolutely safe to consume", but it's just a difficult needle to thread in an area of society where there's never enough money or manpower.
There's definitely some interplay here.

I've worked with what I consider to be true software engineers. They cared about the craft, about the quality of what they produced, and about the process to get there. But that team was broken up because it worked too slowly relative to less caring developers, and stuck too closely to established tech instead of shiny new things. Some of the people remained, but they were now just software developers, writing code to deliver features and meet deadlines, now counting down the days to retirement.

I've also seen quality focus conflated with architecture astronauts since both take more upfront time. When product requirements are vague, there's a tendency to design a more generalized system than strictly necessary. But not all slower speeds are for the same reason. Taking some time to think out how to meet current and immediately foreseeable needs is not the same as wasting time designing for all possibilities, but a lot of people don't seem to understand the difference. Also, sometimes you do have to go through a bit of overengineering just to learn the shape and boundaries of what you're doing.
My local county lists a few options for local businesses looking to donate excess food:

https://kingcounty.gov/en/legacy/depts/dnrp/solid-waste/prog...
It seems like it'd be easier to remove the cause of panhandling rather than resent the individual panhandler.
wow they're banking ~1/3 of their budget? that seems excessive.
Agreed. I feel the show you’re referring to was an unrealistic depiction of humanity. Very few people will react like that. I’ve brought many new people to the city many times who’ve never seen homelessness and nobody broke down crying. They left SF thinking it’s more of a shit hole they don’t want to live in then they did crying from all the tragedy around them.
I see. How much of that do you think comes down to being overwhelmed and disillusioned? I'm from the UK but have road-tripped around California. I've seen areas in SF and LA with intense social decay, and I imagine if I lived there for long I might give up trying to help just because it would take so much time and effort. Conversely, if I see someone in London lying on the street in a really bad way I would probably call an ambulance. But that's not happened so far.
Only on HN will I find people pickier than myself I guess. ^^

>I'm tempted to also point out more generally that all symbols are esoteric if you go back far enough

It certainly all depends on what we put as definition of esoteric and what is far enough. :) Here what I was meaning was in contrast of a choice like "anonymously".

Since you speak French, you might be interested to watch "L’odyssée de l’écriture - Les origines ": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P2nAj50LdY
16GB of RAM is hardly a gargantuan amount in 2024 - it's not unreasonable to expect someone running a local dev environment to have a more practical amount. I wouldn't buy (or recommend) any machine for dev work with less than 64GB in 2024.
Great, and I just recently move from Pocket a couple of months ago because I love how clean Omnivore is. Seems you can't escape the impermanence of digital life, so certain that it even rival death and taxes.
Short answer that is missing: we pay taxes for welfare.
> How are you becoming less empathetic by not assuming things about other people?

Because there isn't a single situation in existence where this isn't a valid excuse to not care about the needs of others.
Interesting to read through their user testing reports: https://github.com/alphagov/forms/tree/main/research
Blame the (metal) compositor unions which back in the day bargained for sinecures where all their members were guaranteed perpetual employment rather than choosing to participate in the digital revolution.

Fortunately, some folks did work to preserve the craft and beauty of books --- Dr. Donald Knuth taking a decade off from writing _The Art of Computer Programming_ to create TeX (though initially he thought he'd do it over a sabbatical) is one shining example.

Robert Bringhurst's authoring _The Elements of Typographic Style_ also made a huge difference (I've lost count of how many copies I've given as gifts to folks).

A further issue is that doing a good page layout over an entire chapter (or book if the pagination is continuous) is an NP-hard problem --- I've had a chapter come out correctly on a first pass exactly once in my career (fastest 40 minutes of my life). The usual work-flow is something like:

- check all characters to ensure that hyphens are properly set, en and em dashes replace them where appropriate, and correct the setting of any instances of what should be special characters such as prime or double primes

- assign all formatting and ensure that all heads and paragraphs have settings which will forbid widows/orphans and verify that the callouts for all figures/photos/tables are correct

- review the entire chapter from beginning to end, page by page, verifying that each ends as it should at the bottom of the page, and that a referenced element shows on that page spread

- for instances where things don't work out, check to see which paragraphs can be adjusted to run longer or shorter by one or more lines, adjusting this until one finds a set of adjustments which results in a proper appearance for the page/spread --- repeat for all future pages --- if a particular spread/figure placement is a problem, back up and see if changing previous pages will fix it --- check the last page to ensure that it is full enough, if not, adjust previous spread, if that doesn't work, see if running the entire chapter long or short by a line will fix it.

- review the entire chapter again to ensure that there are no bad breaks or stacks, add discretionary hyphens or non-breaking spaces or adjust paragraph settings as necessary, ensuring that pages still base-align

If someone wants to write an ePub reader or page formatter which can do that, I'd be glad to see it.
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There was a discussion the other day about how Python devs apparently don't care enough for backwards compatibility. I pointed out that I've often gotten Python 2 code running on Python 3 by just changing print to print().

But then a few hours later, I tried running a very small project I wrote last year and it turned out that a bunch of my dependencies had changed their APIs. I've had similar (and much worse) experiences trying to get older code with dependencies running.

My meaning with this comment is, that if the average developer's reality is that backwards compatibility isn't really a thing anyway, then we are already paying for that downside so we might as well get some upside there, is my reasoning.
> But the argument from simplicity is the same as the argument from probability.

No, it's not. One is a argument about the semantics of the rhetorics and the other is quantitative dealing with lists of claims about the world.

> The reason that a complex explanation is less probable than a simple one is because a complex explanation contains multiple parts (which is what makes it complex), and the probabilities of each of these parts multiply to produce the probability of the whole, which of course quickly makes this overall probability very small.

There is no straightforward connection between probability and the complexity of a set of claims. Sometimes probable events are very complex to explain; sometimes highly unlikely events are simple.
Better in what metric?

The problem with users, of pretty much anything, is that they're stupid. Even me! I am stupid. When I buy a car, I'm not so worried about the drive train or the complexity of the transmission or how viscous the oil it uses is. Because that I don't understand. Pretty colors, sharp lines, and a good price makes my decisions. But those are surface level.

GUIs may attract more users, perhaps that's a metric they're better in. That doesn't make them faster to use, or even easier to use! Users greatly skew towards familiarity, but typically familiarity in surface-level ways only.
It's the sweat production. Imagine someone sticking their hand in their armpit, then shaking your hand.

Vs putting a hand on their bare hip, then shaking your hand.

Also, groin sweat smells different and probably has extra hormones/pheromones in it
> I don't see them complaining?

Yeah the pronouns throughout the a/b/c/d thing are confusing the heck out of me. I originally thought it was all about you (claiming expertise), then I considered perhaps me (complaining), and then perhaps the author of TFA (hosting). It could even be that the 3rd person "they" leading into a/b/c/d and the 2nd person "you" within item d are the same entity, which would be very strange grammar, but I really have no idea other than I was the only one complaining about (but also defending) filtering from what I can tell. Names, please!
The point of preservatives is to prevent biotic life from consuming it. If the food is actively preserved--sugared or salted or what have you--it will be just as cytotoxic if not prepared in a way to dilute or remove the preservative.
During a class discussion, one of my fellow students said the classic, “but they will use the money to buy drugs.” And the teacher responded, “So what?”

I think I agree. Drugs are bad, but withdrawal is also bad. Alcohol withdrawal can be fatal.
I've got a lot of fond memories of my Packaged Smell even though I knew it was kind of junk.

I actually occasionally peruse ebay for them since I sort of wanted to build a sleeper PC and thought it would be fun if it was in a Packard-Bell case. But like most manufacturers back then the vast majority of their products used weird customer case and motherboard designs instead of standard ATX making it a tough project.
Don't "prescribed burns" fall under the category of firefighting? That's the whole reason you do controlled burns in the first place, right? To prevent a larger fire later?
If something is purposefully bad in order to prove some ironic meta narrative point, it’s just bad.
I am only arguing against "eat it on the cold wet ground often with filthy hands", as most food comes in their own packaging, not that giving them food does not benefit them long-term, I do realize it is sort of just a bandage.
Really nice track
Your computer can test better than you (and that's a good thing)
I think this is just word play.

Fact of the matter is both me and tons of people who live in sf… when we walk past homeless people… none of us feel anything.
A combination of static analysis trying to reproduce the problem 1st, then trying various fix-suggestions and verifying they work and do not cause other regressions are a few of the steps that will need to be involved. Before an experienced developer can review this "very-junior dev"/AI work before pushing to the main of any commercial applications.
The design partnership offer of https://www.linkedin.com/company/logicstar-ai/ stands if you have core Python for now. More languages will come once we get real-world feedback as a proof of concept.
Awesome. We’ve integrated with platforms like GCP BQ, Snowflake, Clickhouse, and Postgres etc. and still, MMDB stands out as the most performant, especially for enriching millions of IPv6 addresses.

The best approach might be to enrich IP addresses via an MMDB database, then dump the results in temp table and query the results as you would any table. If you haven't tried the free db, you should as this illustrate this point pretty well: https://ipinfo.io/products/free-ip-database

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Yeah I agree as an electronic music fan the idea that this track is particularly special in terms of digital stereo even at that time seems weird to me.