skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> no onerous American reporting requirements

I'm sorry but US LLC reporting requirements are not onerous in any sense. Hell, some states like Arizona have no annual reporting requirements at all.
I work on multiple projects from PHP 5.2 to PHP 8.3 and everything in between.

Statistics based on packagist(composer)

https://stitcher.io/blog/php-version-stats-january-2024

Statistics based on web servers in the wild

https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php

https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_details/pl-php
People found businesses with the idea of making money. At certain points in the growth of the business, you expect you'll weigh whether it's more interesting to continue your work there or whether you should sell it and start from scratch another business. The question is why a government or a society would wish to suppress people who actively start businesses... not to throw shade on anyone who starts a business because they might want to make money by selling it later
> it has increasingly become a right wing echo chamber and place to promote conspiracy theories.

In what way? I still only see the very same industry-focused information that I first started using Twitter for. If anything, X has improved in pulling in information from more industry players than I was seeing before, so I consider it to be an even more compelling product now.

But perhaps that same algorithm improvement is what you ultimately mean? As in, that X has become better at finding the information you want to see, so if you have an interest in "right wing" or conspiracy content then it is a greater likelihood of it exposing you to that than the Twitter of yore did?
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I suspect the same thing. Rather than LLMs “learning to play chess,” they “learnt” to recognise a chess game and hand over instructions to a chess engine. If that’s the case, I don’t feel impressed at all.
They often teach it in schools nowadays because busy parents will often not teach their children.
Well, those would be nice too. But I'm happy to not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
what do you want done about it? Hallucination is an intrinsic part of how LLMs work. What makes a hallucination is the inconsistency between the hallucinated concept and the reality. Reality is not part of how LLMs work. They do amazing things but at the end of the day they are elaborate statistical machines.

Look behind the veil and see LLMs for what they really are and you will maximise their utility, temper your expectations and save you disappointment
> Laws are best when they are abstract ...

Laws are only as good as their real world consequences.
Haha! Exactly.

Some beauty might have been gotten left behind on the headline writing table. The body’s response to the mycardial infarction – a cascade of signaling proteins – is beautiful, and the response to that cascade being induction of deep and restful sleep is also quite beautiful.

I have an eager immune system and I’ve known TNF-alpha as a pretty brutal card in the game. There’s beauty in coming to see it as a signal to repair and rest. Not just a “we have a problem” but a “let’s call ancient repair processes in”.
I'm German and had a startup in Germany (standard UG holding + GmbH).

My one advice to anyone thinking of starting a company is: don't do it in Germany. Tax burden, insane bureaucracy and a conservative, tech adverse local market put you at a disadvantage against UK/US peers.

>German founders are incentivized to move abroad before exits

Don't do that. The tax office will treat that as a sale and will tax the current valuation at 20%.
You zag when others Zig
You’re not just one thing. Not only a professional, or only a partner, or only a parent. Not only someone who works, or someone who runs, or someone who paints in their free time.

Don’t box yourself into a box, and don’t box yourself into a box that’s not yours.

We’re told to niche down. To be specific. To narrowly define ourselves. But often when we do, we end up neglecting or even disowning the very aspects of ourselves that hold our biggest potential and strengths.

And anyways, being all of yourself is niching down.

Own your complexity, your quirks, and controversies.

You’re who you are. Some people will get it. Others won’t. If you’re the fast and agile type, you’ll be too fast and agile for some. If you’re deep, focused, and slow, you’ll be too deep, focused and slow for some.

Your challenges are not the result of who you are, how you think, or how you do things. Your challenges are the result of you telling yourself that there’s something wrong with this. They’re the result of you trying to adapt to standards and expectations of people who just don’t get it.

You’re a trailblazer. You are here to create a world that doesn’t yet exist.

And some people just aren’t ready for it.

You see things other people don’t see. You get things they don’t get. You are here to challenge the conventions. To show people that there’s a different way of being and doing. Some might get it after a while, others may not.

Stay true to yourself. Have the courage to be disliked. Have the courage to go against the grain, to push the boundaries, test the waters.

You’re drawn to exploring new lands. Honour the pull. Honour yourself, honour your intrepid, adventurous nature. Stay true to who you are.
You Americans are the last people who will be affected by whatever
will happen to Ukraine. Even if Putin will punch through the whole EU up
to Spain, you are still safe behind the great ocean, don't worry. Well,
maybe he'll take Alaska. ;P
Jesus, is that true? You can get flagged for putting too many work hours into your startup? Or are you joking?
> but that doesn't solve the tax problem

It solves the tax problem that TFA is talking about i.e. it makes selling the SaaS a share deal instead of an asset deal.

If you mean taxes in Germany are generally too high, that is an entirely separate discussion.

Fun fact: Before Trump's tax cuts, the US corporate income tax rate was higher than in Germany.
Finally I can sleep again. I hope they will take this menace out of public for a long enough time to learn.
Even science fiction can't cook up a story quite this stupid.
> In federation some messages may be missing and arrive out-of-order.

Doesn't "some messages are missing" trait defeat the point of a
reliable communication protocol?
> Not for builtin PHP functions which already throw errors on arity mismatch.

It still only happens during run time. Having a never-called function with an incorrect number of arguments is not an error.
I have no idea what you're talking about. I don't know a single person happy with the tax rate or the general performance/effectiveness of government spending. Practically every single restaurant, bar or other kinds of brick-and-mortar shops is evading VAT and income tax, it's so normal that when I was buying winter tires this morning, they straight up asked me whether I need a receipt or want to skip the VAT over phone. Every single aspiring entrepreneur I talk to asks me how to incorporate in one of the tax havens and otherwise lessen the tax and bureaucratic load. My city is full of immigrants from western EU countries who wanted to pay less tax.
In fact, the effect you describe is very complex, so there is a whole open source project that allows you to evaluate the actual contrail climate impact for each individual flight: https://github.com/contrailcirrus/pycontrails
The issue then becomes your greenfield -> legacy time horizon.

Unconstrained, C++ becomes legacy quite quickly (relative to simpler languages)
Those two exams being their preliminary exam and their dissertation defense.

Failing either is most certainly catastrophic.
CEO here - check yourself. The role /you/ were hired for requires essential social skills such as understanding that some people are night owls and some are morning people. The category you're missing is the one that will naturally wake up later than you.

Also, women require more sleep than men on average.
I don't think working hours are limited for c-level management.
Spatial Pixel: a new kind of social computing
CD Projekt Red?
The rust version of this has an inherent complexity that is very similar to your requirement. Processing at most X requests at once is the job of a Semaphore, until there's none left to process is the job of join_set.

let mut tasks = JoinSet::new();
let semaphore = Arc::new(Semaphore::new(12));
for i in 0..100 {
let semaphore = semaphore.clone();
tasks.spawn(async move {
let _permit = semaphore.acquire().await.unwrap();
sleep(Duration::from_secs(1)).await;
i * i // simulate some result
});
}

while let Some(result) = tasks.join_next_with_id().await {
let (id, result) = result?;
println!("Task {id} result: {result}");
}

That allows you to collect the results as they come in and align it to the various ids. If you only care about the final result and nothing why things are processing,

let results = tasks.join_all();

The task is written inline there, but could as easily be an async function

for i in 0..100 {
tasks.spawn(process_request(i, semaphore.clone()));
}
So what? This is a global economy. If they don't sell the company, they can offshore the labor anyway. If they sell it, you end up with money in Germany and at least a few newly rich founders who will want to start more local companies.
For another perspective, here is the local news story where I first heard about this- https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/ga-mother-arrested-after-ch...
While you have a point with the ugliness of threads and replies I do not like your example with the authenticated media. The reason for the very short deprecation cycle was that it was deemed to be almost a security fix. The Matrix team did not like how their and other's servers were used as CDNs.
Poor man's dashboard: Get your desired metrics with grep/wc/whatever shell commands from your logs, and visualize with PyQtGraph/PySide (or even gnuplot, for an even lighter experience).
Hmm, if you can make a better helicopter, using new EV technology, you've solved a problem, there's a market for that, and I'm sure this will happen.

But that's relatively niche, and the "flying taxi" companies were promising a whole lot more "disruption" than that.
It's not true. Self-employed workers are exempt.
It depends if you're employed as a managing director, or running your own thing.
Can you share your .cursorrules? For me cursor is not much better than autocomplete, but I'm writing mostly e2e tests.
Everything in medicine is a tradeoff
And one that needs a different solution.

Update: That a control doesn't solve all problems is irrelevant. By that measure, we would have no controls at all.
I'm glad she's standing up to this nonsense. My parents would have spent their life in jail if these authoritarian officers caught wind of what I did by myself as an early teenager...
They should have arrested the 11 year old for good measure.

Sins of the father and all that.
>Porsche, Siemens, Krupp, Thyssen, Bosch were all startups back in the day, just in hardware

Yeah and they all got big and wealthy by exploiting laws, loopholes, state subsidies and even slave labor back in their days. Let's not pretend the German industrialists from 100 years ago who started those businesses were some patron saints and beacons of legality and morality.

I was working for a big German scrap metal business a while back and during the Christmas party the CEO got so drunk he started bitching how much better it was in the past when he could engage in corruption and tax fraud to grow the business without being caught compared to today when this isn't possible anymore.

None of those companies you listed could have gotten remotely as wealthy in the legal and regulatory environment of today.
> You cannot have an informed case-by-case decision without spending time.

Forcing me to make an informed decision where I don't care about the result is the one of the major ways of wasting my time.

If you wanted to create a good law about this you should make it so I only have to make a case-by-case decision if I care about my privacy (as it's currently exploited) and do nothing if I don't.
Claude worked it out from that description.
twinBasic.com is a revamp of VB6 using current tech
That makes no sense. Why would you spend more money and electricity to keep trolls around longer?
I think the point of the article is that it doesn't get taxed like other things we are selling (aka capital gains), but rather as income at much higher rates
Personal Data Server

Bluesky is built on their open protocol ATProto (https://atproto.com)

One of the core issues of social media and mastodon they aimed to change is account portability. Every user has an sqlite database which is trivial to move. The other part is using DNS for DID
My thought as I read it was that there are always multiple sides to the story.

Can you please summarise for those of us who can't access it from outside the US?
Still want to make something with an rpi and 3d printer. There is time!
no careers page :(
Would interrupt my movie.
Because, follow this logic:

1. You sit down at a blank screen and begin writing code.

2. You put your own money into launching your web app, then advertising it, then managing it every day and modifying things before you see a single penny in revenue.

3. You earn revenue, now you are already paying taxes on that revenue.

4. You sell the company which had zero value to begin with, you already paid tax on all the revenue you made. Any tax the government now puts on you is a tax for the initial work which you did. This disincentivizes anyone else from creating something new from scratch.

This is why it shouldn't be treated as regular income. It was done in your free time. Everyone makes regular income, and pays taxes on that, but only a fraction of people work extra hours on passion. Taxing one's passion is essentially to kill anyone's desire to do it.

If no one in your society creates anything from passion, and everyone works for a corporation, your society will not be competitive or dynamic.

Therefore there's a societal, even Socialist interest in encouraging this type of behavior - or at least not punishing it.

Same reason the last couple Kim Jongs have allowed the peasants in North Korea to grow small plots of private vegetables. Even they know that the creative instinct can only be suppressed so far before doing so creates a negative and destructive drag on even the most tightly controlled corporatist system.
True, you need to know what is and isn't possible in the borrow checking model to avoid learning it the hard way after writing the code.

There are some gotchas that you need to learn (e.g. self-referential structs won't work, or & returned from a &mut method won't be shareable).

But besides a few exceptions, it's mostly shared XOR mutable data in the shape of a tree. It's possible to build intuition around it.
It proves that a package was definitely uploaded from the correct repo.

Without trusted publishers a nefarious actor could use a leaked PyPI API key to upload from anywhere. If the only authorised location is actions on a specific Github repo then it makes a supply chain attack much trickier and much more visible.

With the new attestations it's now possible for package consumers to verify where the package came from too.
The music/video models are cool, but It's an apples to orange comparison with GPT-4. I don't think there's really any comparison of intelligence or "advanceness" between those models and GPT-4.

I'm surprised to hear someone say that O1 and new Sonnet are "leaps", though. My impression of them is that they're qualitatively similar to GPT-4. Incremental improvements at best. I don't think the gap between GPT-4 and the new Sonnet is anywhere near as large as the gap between GPT-3 and GPT-4, for instance.
How to convince my parents that masters in IT in Nepal is not worth the hassle?
I am from south asian country.

Parents are forcing me to do masters in data science and analytics. I want to do masters, but not in my home nation. And I don't really have money for doing it in Europe/US. My best bet has been on getting Assistantships and merit-based scholarships per semester. However, I do realize it's extremely competitive and luck is a huge factor as I've some friends who got C grades in engineering getting RA in the USA.

I've a bachelors degree in computer science. And I must say it left a lot to be desired for me in terms of both knowledge and grades.

Pros of masters degree:

- Get good grades and apply for abroad for scholarship.(But extremely impossible to get good grades with full time job).

- Good connections in data field as there will be lots of eager to learn students.

- I've been self learning stuffs like data structures, algorithms, database, programming, distributed system etc. This degree will provide me with a structured approach to learn all these.

Cons of degree:

- No free time.

- Money wasted upto 7-8 lakhs. The cost of masters degree is only 4 lakhs, but I would need a laptop/desktop+books and it'll definitely amount to that much. (Note: 1 lakh=1000 us dollars). (Surprise, there are no libraries in my country)

- Can't seek a better job while at studies due to lack of time, so I'll be stuck with a job that pays me 300$/mo for the next 2-3 years..

- Extra unnecessary pressure of assignments, exams, internals, project etc on top of job. The job is lax though.

- No time for self learning.

If I join masters degree, this would be my schedule:

6 am wake up

6.30 am- 9.30 am-->Classes of masters degree

9.30 am-10.00 am-->Reach office

10.00 am-6.00 pm-->Work

6.00 pm-9:00 pm-->Self study at study room

As you can see this is extremely unrealistic and unhealthy schedule. However my parents think "I should struggle a bit more" lol. They stupid so much.
You need it to be sure that's a good thing, and to be able to evaluate and measure it. While not this time, we definitely did find out counterintuitive stuff in other research.
Mrsse
> I don't understand where you got tax evasion from my comment?

I didn't say you did, I said that many people (as I see from experience every day) think it's fine to just easily and cheaply open a company somewhere (as you did say) else and then follow their tax rules and that's it. And that's not true.

You didn't quite mention you intended this in conjunction with a GmbH, so it sounded like 'quick and easy offshore' which I was responding to.

Also, depending on the ownership / structure of this xmas tree, you might still not quite benefit from this as you think. It's complex matter and many people just do it without giving it too much thought. Which works if things stay small-ish.
No joke, I’m actually more afraid of incidents like this than I am of my child being kidnapped or whatever. I wonder how common these sorts of incidents are compared to actual kidnappings (most of which are done by someone the child knows or is even related to).

Second fear after this is becoming internet-famous because someone filmed me in public without my knowledge.
"Tortoise? What's that?"
"You can have the shares for €4m or the assets for €5m". Both sides have agency in a negotiation.

AIUI the .de rules are intended for a somewhat different situation, perhaps more common. The article describes a situation where almost all of the exit is profit. I'm happy for you if you're in that situation, but I'd guess that most people have costs. In that case .de lets you set costs from past years against the exit, and I've heard (hearsay alert!) that .de gives you more flexibility than most countries.

All that said: if you have high income and no costs, German taxes are hard on you, it's true.
Lol when I was 11 I would go on the train to another city on my own to visit my grandpa. In fact already when I was 9.
> Self driving is solved having private driver by upper class

Hah, funnily enough, Uber is basically a private driver. It's the realization of the middle class being able to have luxuries that used to be reserved to the upper class: exploitating the working class. And no need to feel guilt because the exploitation is outsourced!

Oh, wait, if I look in my history books there's this thing called a... taxi?
This is actually not true nowadays. Streaming HQ video is pretty cheap (check out per GB pricing from Cloudfront or Fastly and divide that by 5-10 to get a realistic number)
I'm not sure there is any way to completely solve supply chain risk. All you can do is raise the bar for a successful attack. Right now, we hardly have any controls at all.
Disclaimer: Not a tax professional, but have had a few businesses.

Why are you calculating the US/UK/AUS as sale of a business, and the german one as sales of an asset owned by the business?

One is profit of the business, and therefore subject to additional taxation before before distribution of funds, the other isn't. Thats why your figures are so different.

Even in your examples where they would buy the whole company, if they then wanted to roll the assets into their own company in any way, the tax liability would still exist. So all that happens is the burden moves from you to them (no doubt they would do it as efficiently as possible, but there is still a liability).

If you are selling the sole asset of your business at what you deem the same value as the whole business, then you clearly aren't accounting for the business liabilities. Account for that, and then you will be equal again.
Yes, came here to say exactly this. And it's possible this specific model is "cheating", for example by identifying a chess problem and forwarding it to a chess engine. A modern version of the Mechanical Turk.

That's the problem with closed models, we can never know what they're doing.
How is it a better balance than C++23? What would you lose by using C++23?
Glad you're not using any playbook. The commenter above us represents a growing sentiment worth considering. In my opinion, placating every negative feedback might backfire.
Of course not. It is multiplication with a reciprocal in fixed-point representation.
You'd first have to compute the reciprocal as 2**32 / divisor. Therefore it is most often done with constant divisors.

A longer tutorial that goes into more depth: https://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/bcd/divide.html
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The thing I like about WebAssembly is that it brings all languages to web.

Writing Visual Basic on the web in a C# application compiled to WebAssembly is Inception levels of great.
Or phrased positively, Big Open Source keeping the working class developer employed
This is really counterproductive policing. Seems like the big lesson the mother should take is about discussing her parenting with a police officer.
It's probably worth to play around with different prompts and different board positions.

For context this [1] is the board position the model is being prompted on.

There may be more than one weird thing about this experiment, for example giving instructions to the non-instruction tuned variants may be counter productive.

More importantly let's say you just give the model the truncated PGN, does this look like a position where white is a grandmaster level player? I don't think so. Even if the model understood chess really well it's going to try to predict the most probable move given the position at hand, if the model thinks that white is a bad player, and the model is good at understanding chess, it's going to predict bad moves as the more likely ones because that would better predict what is most likely to happen here.

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/qRxalgH.png
Curious. What age do American children go to school on their own on public transport / foot / bike? In the UK (at least this corner of it) they’re allowed age 10.