skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's sounds vain, but money is probably one of the most important things.

At my (our ?) level it's more a luxury of early retirement, but I had a friend who could never afford to move out. Her parents were pretty bad to her to say the least. She was stuck in a pattern of dating guys, moving in with them, getting kicked out and retreating to her parents.

As I told her money gives you options...
Only the luckiest guys get both at the same time.
Are you dense? The VAT applies to all purchases and doesn't discriminate on where an item is produced.

Have Americans become really that dumb?
Comparing VAT to an Import Tax is unbelievably stupid.
The author does not know basketball, either watching or playing, which is evident from their claims and from their language.

> Players are no longer do-it-alls; they are now given specialized roles.

> they not only scored but guarded defense, caught rebounds and played the role of playmakers.

Anyone who even watches games would instinctively use different language. Nobody in basketball speaks this way.

As far as the veracity, I'd really need to see some data.

First, nothing in cutting edge, 3-and-D basketball says to stop playing defense. Defense is the D in 3-and-D.

As just one counter-example to the author's claims, big players - centers and power forwards - have become more generalized. Instead of just playing near the basket on offense and defense, many now handle the ball, pass, and also shoot from outside - the old-style guys who lack those skills have taken big pay cuts. The primary ball-handler for the author's local Golden State Warriors is Draymond Green, their center. The best player in the world is a center renowned especially for their passing, Nikola Jokic.

Wing players (small forwards and shooting guards) do it all. The local Golden State Warriors also have Steph Curry, the best shooter ever and an excellent ball-handler and passer. And they recently acquired Jimmy Butler, an all-star all-around player; here is the coach:

"Jimmy, he's a real deal," Kerr said. "I mean, just a complete basketball player, methodical, under control all the time, plays at his own pace, never turns it over, sees the game and then can get to the line frequently. Great closer, not in the traditional sense where he's going to be Kevin Durant and make four straight midrange jumpers, but it's more of a complete game. Get to the line, make the right pass, get somebody else an open look, get a defensive stop, get a rebound. He's a fantastic player."

https://abc7news.com/post/warriors-draymond-green-calls-new-...

What's changed in the NBA is that 3-point shooting has become more valued, partly supported by analytics, partly because Steph Curry redefined what is possible for 3-point shooting for both playing and for being a star: Before Curry, every kid wanted to be Michael Jordan or others who made miraculous drives to the basket through crowds; after Curry, kids were heaving up shots from ridiculous distances, just like their hero.

You won't be surprised to learn that many people say, 'it's not like the old days', and are debating changing the rules to make everyone play like they did 20 years ago.

Supporting my theory of the author, here is their bio (https://nabraj.com/)

> Hi, I'm NT (Nabaraj T), a full-stack engineer in Northern California. ... ten years of professional experience

> Besides software development, my interests are in embedded circuits and astronomy. I have started my startup to research space technologies. When not tangled with 1s and 0s, I usually watch football, cheering on Chelsea.
For electricity, it seems like a no-brainer, but that's not the only emitter. I wonder what cost for carbon capture they used (unfortunately the article is paywalled).

It seems to me like the obvious solution to the problem would be a CO2 tax equal to the estimated cost of carbon capture. It should not be higher - that would be yet another example of moralism that plagues so many environmental policies. Introduce that, properly monitor emissions (especially things like methane leaks), and the problem will quickly solve itself. Anything that remains is the edge cases where it is more economical to do carbon capture - so use the tax to do just that.

That also covers cases where it makes sense to do the change more slowly. No need to decide or argue back and forth whether someone can or cannot do it faster. You emit, you pay, you don't want to pay, you don't emit. Changing quickly is too costly? That's fine, you pay. Oh, it's not that costly when compared to the tax? Guess you change, then. Also fine. Want to generate electricity from lignite? I'm not going to argue, I'm just going to watch you go bankrupt... and if you don't, there probably was some good reason for doing that and forcing the opposite would have had some unintended side effects.
Sounds bad. Is that reproducible today I wonder.
I feel its hard to articulate how broken react/typescript/the front-end ecosystem generally is unless you do a project with another paradigm.

I did an iOS app for a fairly important production use case around 2017 and once I relaxed and did the work to slow down and learn instead of just trying to get functionality to work it was a great experience.

I lost almost all taste for FE when react came around (elm was fun). Felt broken then, feels especially broken and taped together now. Somehow still the default.
Innovation is stifled when outdated systems become the norm, locking even the brightest minds into a cycle of conventional thinking that resists change and creativity. Over time, processes that once served well turn into obstacles that hinder growth and obscure fresh opportunities. Cultivating an environment that welcomes new perspectives—through unconventional strategies like hackathons, dedicated slack time, and the unique insights of newcomers—can shatter these entrenched habits and unlock potential breakthroughs. Yet, when the discomfort of the familiar finally drives the push towards radical change, just how ready are we to handle what comes next?
Yes it's highly legible at distances, but you'd never want to use it for body text. The letterforms are not well balanced -- e.g. the bowl of the 'R' is uncomfortably high, same with the top half of the 'Y'. It would be tiring to the eye to read long text in.

A lack of styling does not mean a good sense of balance.

It is ugly but highly legible. Which is just fine for the kinds of functional engraving it's meant for.
Of course it's not.

In fact the complexity of vat in europe is a disadvantage when dealing with things like small transactions. We have resorted to using an American company as a merchant of record to manage the complex invoicing for us, even if they keep a percentage of the sales.
I see they are committing the same fraud as Amazon, in that most of the titles are encumbered with digital restrictions management, but the button to 'purchase' says "buy" instead of "lease".

From their FAQ page - https://bookshop.org/info/ebooks

> Do l own the ebooks I purchase outright?

> The publishers of our ebooks require that the ebooks you “purchase” from Bookshop.org are only licensed to you. Even DRM-free books are subject to some restrictions and may not be owned outright. However, even in the case of an ebook being removed from Bookshop.org by the publisher, users who purchased the ebook previously will continue to have access to the ebook file. Depending on the circumstances, in the unlikely event an ebook is removed from your library because of a rights issue or otherwise, Bookshop.org will refund the purchase price you paid.
Not to discount Jordan in any way - but Nike and all the marketing behind him with the shoes was a big part of becoming the first modern superstar. He won championships many years later.
You pay VAT on all products when they’re sold or imported. In Germany it’s 19% and called “Mehrwertsteuer” for the domestic products and “Einfuhrumsatzsteuer” for imported products. There’s an additional Import tax on some products.
With an appropriate property tax regime you could cut income taxes.
Eh, I knew this would somehow come back to that Kent C Dodds stuff. I can respect the guy, but his opinion on valuable testing differs from mine and quite a lot of others. His opinion is "the more your tests represent the way your users use your app, the better they are". For E2E tests, yes, absolutely. For unit tests, no... not at all. As a very short example, an E2E test will prove that yes, I did indeed show a button on the screen. A unit test will prove the code that put it there worked. The code can "fail open" for many reasons. (In JavaScript for example, forgetting an `await` keyword can return a truthy value!).

The worst part about it is that he called himself a thought leader, called his approach a "best practice" and had nothing really to back that up. Now people go around repeating it all the time. It's frustrating.
It's me, your manager, quit slacking on Hacker News and get back to work. /s
No. I already figured out my expenses, a couple of millions would be well enough. I'll quit job once I have one million.
If your engineers (software or otherwise) aren’t spending a lot of time engineering, then you’ve got a hiring problem. Most jobs I’ve worked as a software engineer are 90% engineering (soft and hard skills) and only about 10% programming. With AI, it becomes about 60% engineering and 20% babysitting an AI, and 30% programming because the AI got it wrong.

Now, we can’t even hand this stuff off to juniors and teach them things they’ll hopefully remember. Instead, I have to explain to an AI, for the 60th time, that it has hallucination problems.

Personally, I’d rather have the juniors back.
Did they get the first token out? ;) Just curious, NVidia ported it, and they claim almost 4 tokens/sec on 8xH100 server. At this performance there are much cheaper option.
agree it'll never happen, but very cool idea.
> it didn’t lead anywhere

It didn't lead to a job, you mean? There's a lot out there to be gained from education other than getting a job afterwards.
That's what the reasoning models are for.
I think it's more a case of intellectual dishonesty.
VAT is simple unless your company has a very large, broad set of products. It's a PITA to deal with due to the invoicing and documentation requirements, but that's due to the volume of work required, not the complexity of it.
Tech talks and conferences to attend in Bay Area
Can you recommend tech talks and conferences to attend in bay area?
Technically speaking, it cannot be more deadly than the flu, since it is the flu.

There’s some evidence of rapidly expanding asymptomatic human -> human spread of it.

Hopefully that strain acts as an effective vaccine against the one(s) responsible for the > 50% CFR.
Corporatism allows for control.

With corporatism, a dictator only needs to control the relatively small number of guilds (sector wide corporazioni in case of Italy) to control the economy.

This is a huge step up, in terms of control, from capitalism for a dictator, while not nearly as hard to implement (and in the Nazi's case, not nearly as linked to Jews) as socialism.

The Nazis though didn't really implement corporatism to quite the same level as others. In many ways, they were quite capitalistic - "privatization" was, after all, coined to describe the philosophy of the Nazi economy. In industries related to the war, they looked more like a command economy.
Manager Performance Surveys, inspired by groundbreaking initiatives like Google's Project Oxygen and Project Aristotle, serve as a powerful tool for engineering leaders to capture honest, actionable feedback from their teams, driving a continuous loop of improvement that bolsters not only technical and career development but also overall team dynamics and psychological safety; by focusing on clear communication, effective problem-solving, and inclusive decision-making, these surveys pave the way for meaningful change in leadership style and team engagement, yet as managers act on this structured feedback to transform their practices, one must wonder: what unforeseen shifts and innovations will emerge when every small feedback loop catalyzes a ripple effect across the entire organization?
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=The%20Rule%2...
We've been developing Sleep slow-wave enhancement tech for the last few years, and studies are showing promise as a potential prevention and management of AD.

These links were not using our tech, but are based on the same principles of phase-targeted slow-wave enhancement. We have an enhanced protocol aiming to overcome some of the issues these researchers experienced with previous implementations.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10758173/ https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.10778
It's weird because almost all of the levels below the NBA are better games than the NBA. Nobody really goes out of their way to follow AAA baseball teams, but college basketball and even some high schools are great games.

The pet theory is that the NBA is a RNG for gambling now the game isn't really the game. TV is near death, so gambling is the only source of revenue that can possibly replace the big TV deal.
Very though out set of guidelines, thank for this. As I learn more optimized workflows and git usage solely through terminal these days I have come to the realizations that even the tips mentioned here seem obvious and considered good practice among many professionals they arent necessarily used by majority. So I do believe all of this is subjective to an extent because using git as objective means to accomplish version control and just that. I personally like conventional commits and have for years because of its simplicity. Keywords such as feat, fix, build, and docs tell me already what I need to know when searching history or how to version next release.
This sounds similar to claims that cancer rates are increasing.

Which is to say that it may be true but it’s a symptom of improvements. Cancer rates are increasing because people are living longer and dying less of other things. Similarly, a huge amount of work has been done to reduce the harms from car exhaust, and modern vehicles burn really cleanly. It’s no surprise that other factors start to become relatively more important.
B2B sales between European countries don't have a VAT.
On the other hand a lot of people who book expensive trips to places like beach destinations, resorts, and cruises want to escape the daily grind of planning out and organizing their daily life. They want to just show up and relax and that is completely valid.

Also, I find that a lot of times planned activities ahead of time look a lot different than what you find when you get somewhere.
> Have Americans become really that dumb?

It’s not a question of being dumb or not, but rather that VAT doesn’t exist in the US so most people don’t understand how it works, if they have even heard of it at all.

Instead of VAT, most states have sales tax, which is similar in spirit but doesn’t work the same way.
There's nothing complex in vat and in general it's paid only once, when it reaches the latest customer. Most B2Bs don't pay vat obviously.
The Mathematics of FOMO (2023)
Would working out hard (HIIT), that makes the heart rate go up a lot (~180bpm) generate enough heat in the body for a similar effect?

Basically, can I replace sauna with 30 minutes of vigorous cardio?
The sentence as written was “this is a side activity of a few employees”.

It appears to have been misread - and then interpreted as - “this is a side project of a few developers”.

The activity vs. project distinction is about whether it’s a companywide priority or just the job of a few folks.

And using the word employees instead of developers allows it to be an entirely independent activity from developers.

My read of what OP said is that this is the full time job of a very small number of people whose mandate was probably one utterance from the CEO. Executing on that is mostly common sense, thus requiring very little mindshare from anyone senior - thus, a side activity for the company as a whole.
Titan facts, https://science.nasa.gov/saturn/moons/titan/facts/
Or, write code that _can_ work in isolation. (Pure functions). You can bet when GM builds fuel injectors, they have a harness that they can place them in to make sure that JUST the injector gets tested... putting it in a car and driving around is the wrong approach.

The same is often true for software. Ensuring that things integrate is vital. Ensuring that functions run in isolation also has value.
I find it funny that a lot of people can't read the article, so here's an ELI5 case on why VAT isn't discriminatory from our lovely Franch LeChat.

Going to add TLDR for people: Vat applies to all shit on the market, regardless of where the fuck you produced it.

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The Value Added Tax (VAT) in Europe is designed to be a consumption tax that applies equally to both domestically produced goods and imports. This means that whether a product is made locally or imported from another country, the same VAT rate is applied when the product is sold to the end consumer. This approach is intended to create a level playing field, ensuring that local producers do not have an unfair advantage over importers, and vice versa.

The reason VAT is not considered discriminatory against imports is that it is applied at the point of consumption rather than production. When goods are imported into the EU, they are subject to VAT at the same rate as similar goods produced within the EU. This ensures that the tax burden is the same for both local and imported products, promoting fair competition. Additionally, businesses can often reclaim the VAT they pay on purchases, including imports, which further neutralizes any potential disadvantage.

However, it's important to note that while VAT itself is not discriminatory, other factors such as customs duties and regulatory standards can still affect the competitiveness of imports versus local produce. These factors are typically addressed through separate trade policies and agreements rather than through the VAT system.
No both pay the very same amount of taxes.
No, only the end consumer pays VAT in the country of consumption. Everything else nets out, because as a supplier you either you claim back the amount of VAT you've been charged from your local tax authority or you are subject to a "reverse charge" where the cross-border supplies are effectively treated as domestic for tax purposes.
Is it dearer than storage though? my understanding was always that carbon capture if worth doing at all is for situations where the wind isn't blowing and the sun is dim (this nearly led to blackouts in uk recently)
direnv can do a lot of that.

Nix is that taken to the logical conclusion.
Turn it into CSV, sometimes transform it, confirm it's correct, paste it into my spreadsheet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Education

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath
Agreed about SUV culture. American consumers demand giant cars. It is a safety arms race and also cultural preference.
That’s not in line with the original definition of unit test. It also sounds like a pointless test using your definition. There is no advocacy for writing pointless tests.
Whether or not some action is discriminatory is inherent to that action. Something I do can't be considered discriminatory because of what someone else does. So for example, if I shake hands with all people of all colors, you cannot call that discriminatory just because my neighbor doesn't shake hands with people. That would be completely nonsensical.

Similarly, if the EU applies VAT to all goods sold, that can't be considered discriminatory just because some other country doesn't apply VAT.
Well, I was expecting to see:

Rule 1: Don't write any code that can make the ship go ka-boom.

Rule 2: We need to consistently use the f'ing metric system and SI units - and don't you forget it.

Rule 3: ... You haven't already forgotten about rule #2, have you?
To clarify, award the offense a point when fouled shooting a 2-point shot and two points if shooting a 3.

There’s still a free-throw left to earn the old fashioned way.

Mostly the thinking is this encourages post-play since bigs are usually worse free-throw shooters. Also, it should shorten game length which is another recent audience concern.
Or a big deep hole full of pipes circulating water making dirt hot.
Smaller robots tend to have smaller problems. Even little help from the model will make them a lot more capable than they are today.
I’ve heard it’s also liked among economists because it’s like.. “sound”, somehow, or “efficient” as far as taxes go? Like a lot of special taxes, tariffs, deductions have super complex side effects, kickbacks, unexpected payees and loopholes.. but as I understand VAT is relatively “sane” on paper?

But also there was something about taxing consumption that was bad somehow.. is it regressive? I don’t remember. Feels “flat”, but maybe not?
"python is a high level wrapper"

is a python usage as intended. Being executable pseudo-code, glue language is its selling point. When has it ever been any different.

I'm not sure C++/Rust projects are easier to understand though.
Non-European companies don't pay VAT or deal with VAT compliance unless they have sufficient business in Europe that they are required to register for local tax compliance.

European customers handle the VAT themselves when dealing with non-VAT-registered non-European suppliers; this is known as the "reverse charge" mechanism and it's generally a feature of almost every VAT system in the world. (In a nutshell, the customer charges themselves VAT and pays it on their own VAT return. This is similar to the way "use tax" works in the U.S.)
I know right. On dating app, of all places. Alarms should be screaming.
I can’t still edit that comment to explain, but I meant it sincerely. When someone sees a foible of their own in others and moves to correct it, that’s awesome and commendable.
Show HN: AI Powered Grocery List Suggestor
Hey HN,

I just build this app and published it. It's my first swift app that I published on app store. I am open to feedback and suggestions. You do not need to sign up or pay anything to try, although you would need to download it.

Here is what it does:
- Given your dietary restrictions that you choose from the profile page it suggests you grocery lists.

-If you want to cook a dish maybe something spesific and you are doing grocery shopping but do not know what to buy then this app helps you if you type in the food name you want to cook and it generates a grocery list.

-The last feature is that it can suggest random meals to you from like 800 cuisines. For this part, I opened wikipedia and searched for all the different cuisines in the world after literally copy pasting 800 cuisine names in a list and by randomly selecting one of the cuisines, the app then makes an api request to openai to come up with a dish within that cuisine and to create a grocery list for that spesific dish.

It was a side project for me but I wanted to see how far can I push this but I stopped after a while and I did not add any more features. Would love to hear your thoughts and any feedback you have :)

Cheers!
Using Chrome on a mac, access logs say http 1.1 is accessing the domain.
Nothing in front of Ngnix, but I'm wondering if I have the http 2 module on Nginx...
You never had to handle cross country VAT it seems, and the stupid regulations that changed to make it require vat collection on the country of the payee :)
I think you mean Mandarin