skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SFDPH in general has been moving in a more corporate/consulting-BS direction in last several years, guessing that will accelerate with this individual. Their transition to Epic EHR across the system has heralded a new era of squeaky-clean product/project managers who sling massive Agile jargon but don't actually understand the technical/compliance processes involved that affect orgs like mine who have to integrate with their systems (basics like not understanding the limitations of numerical precision in Excel data types affecting .CSVs, Unix vs. Windows line endings, BOMs, leading zero truncation, demanding tons of excess PHI in billing records for de-duplication).

Their response to our issues is kindly, gently strong-arming us to ditch our EHR to join the Epic monopoly if we want to keep our contracts. And this when last time I went to SFDPH in person I literally had to step over junkies shooting up on the street a couple blocks away.

On the bright side, Epic seems more functional than the Avatar system it replaced (made national headlines for its botched implementation, SFDPH made it even worse when they completely borked their internal Avatar server migration around 2019 because they didn't know how to properly load-balance using NGINX, maybe 1 in 200 access attempts would succeed).
Housman
https://poets.org/poem/shropshire-lad-xl
I think results would be rather comparable.
On the off chance that someone in Germany buys an American car, wouldn’t the purchaser be the one paying VAT? I.e. not the manufacturer
What’s going on with your family? I can’t imagine much joy without mine.
If you run away from a brown bear, they'll chase you and your friend stuck in Freeze-or-Fawn will outlive you. So the question is, is AI a brown bear or a black bear? Is it better to let everyone else run around screaming and stand still, or to book it?
The Woman Who Defeated Google
>Entry level task positions are easily automated by AI. So companies replace the workers, with AI.

This is one of the concerns I hear. Not really in a position to judge how serious it is but I've had this discussion with people in senior roles related to, let's call it developer mentoring/development.

To the degree LLMs make junior developer roles commodities and therefore less attractive financially that definitely makes bringing new people on-board at a lot of companies less attractive.

Essentially no one thinks an LLM is going to step into the role of an experienced senior developer as anything other than a possibly useful assistant. Someone just out of school? Maybe you don't replace the best but maybe you need a lot fewer of them and pay them a lot less.
Complicated? Only from a certain point of view.

The USA has a workforce of something like 170 million. No matter how this is financed, no matter what form of government you have, their collective output is that of 170 million people.

You get some of them to build, maintain, and crew an aircraft carrier, then those specific people are not going to be available for building, maintaining, and staffing 40 or so schools.
Yes, on paper VAT works out better, and it's a darling of economists. In practice, VAT requires more paperwork, accounting, and interaction with the bureaucracy. The end result is that even though the U.S. has the tax pyramiding "problem", you find much more tax avoidance in Europe than in the U.S. Grey and black markets constitute a huge, double-digit fraction of the European economy, and it's what helps sustain organized crime there, even in stereotypically rule-abiding Germany. Like many things in Europe, VAT works well for large enterprises; it's quite burdensome for small businesses, and that's probably where the complaints are coming from--small and medium-sized businesses in the U.S. who find dealing with EU taxation daunting.

In school (economics, law) I had learned all about how great the VAT system is. But about 10 years ago I wanted to buy a simple ~$100 rack shelf to fit a PC Engines APU from an Italian manufacturer. I had to create an Italian tax ID, which was annoying. I recently had to use it again just to buy some tins of anchovies from Italy.[1] In both cases I received more paperwork regarding the VAT than I did the import paperwork. It seems slight but it's actually quite a lot of friction compared to just giving X dollars and receiving your product. Dealing with tax and import crap is exactly why import/export companies exist, creating needless intermediaries that siphon value.

In that light, the "inefficient" sales tax premiums we pay in the US can be interpreted as the cost of enjoying a more decentralized taxation system that makes compliance more convenient and transactions run smoother. There's less accounting and--more importantly (because US accounting can be complex, too)--less coordination required. It's the economics version of worse is better.

[1] And just to be clear, in both cases I was purchasing through a clearly retail-oriented store website. IOW, even as an effectively retail consumer you had to provide a tax ID--the equivalent of an employer ID or social security number in the US. I don't know if this is a hard requirement for retail generally in Europe, or just the easiest way for them to deal with VAT accounting on their end when only a small portion of their business is retail.
The default for drum is less friction (gap increases, takes more pedal) over service life whereas pads default to more friction (slides gunk up and spring clip faces rust and swell) from failing to retract as well.
somehow I doubt that the person I was replying to would consider ebooks as a book.

videos can be viewed in double speed, and they can be rewound. they can be watched over and over if needed. they can describe/demonstrate information in ways that books can only project into 2 dimensions. a picture is worth a thousand words - well imagine 24 of those per second.

certainly with STEM subjects, nothing beats a good animation.

even for things like history/geography, I find animations and progressive disclosure to be much more engaging and easier to remember than dry words on a page.
Danny Green is not the father of the 3-and-d model, he's like the great nephew. Not only Bruce Bowen but you also have Shane Battier, and can also go back to Michael Cooper.

Usage rates also show there is still plenty of heliocentrism so Copernicus remains happy
If you think about it, Social Security really doesn't really need to care that much what your birthday was when you are working and paying taxes into the system. When you retire and want to collect benefits is when things would change. If you don't have proof of age at that point you may need to go through some hoops to prove your age & eligibility. So it makes sense there could be millions of people in there with a day 0 since the epoch age. Also, don't forget millions of undocumented workers have a SS# and won't be collecting any benefits later.
As I said, the one example I have is a very popular TUI library and it's a lot less efficient than the popular alternative in at least 2 other memory-safe languages I tried.
I am about as crazy of an nba fan as they come - or at least I used to be. I was averaging 80-90 games per year before, now I watch maybe 20 max, mostly in the playoffs. Surely there are people that prefer today's nba, I am not one of them. I think chucking 3's is the least interesting part of the game and it is so overwhelming in today's game that I lost interest in watching
Moving to More Ethical Software
My wife is not confident cooking—very much a recipe follower—and ChatGPT has dramatically increased her confidence without any real misses so far. Several recipes have been saved for later because they were better than what we already had in cook books.

She loves being able to give it a set of ingredients and have it suggest and create recipes that use the things we have on hand.
Just fill the ball with water.
Your second example seems flawed. All $30 go to Germany, due to reverse charge (where no VAT is collected in Poland).
Does that mean I have to stop interrupting people when I realize what incorrect premise they're operating under?
I do not understand what do you mean here?
This is not how a VAT works. An American car manufacturer _selling_ a car to Germany means that the importer on the German side pays the tax, not the American. VAT is always applied to the buyer, not the seller.
Direct URL:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2412334/episodes/16616912-the-wom...
"A calculator app? Anyone could make that."
BleachBit is a free and open-source disk space cleaner
Look at it as VAT taxing your turnover rather than your profit and you might start to see why they are different things.

A state might want to tax both of them at some level, because even unprofitable businesses should contribute. Or they might not.
"I Tried to Warn You" – Ray Dalio on Economic Collapse [video]
Like others replying to this comment, I disagree because there is much work that needs to be done which cannot truly provide purpose to most people.

However ... I do believe that any job should provide dignity and "purpose" in the narrower sense of something the person doing it believes needs to be done. Any job done full time (however a culture defines that) should also make a reasonable lower middle class life possible.
80's and 90's also played 82 games... the fact that today's players are soft and whiny is nba's fault
And yet, according to the author, it has some quirks.

The idea is that the font itself is not particularly serious, but we are used to see it in serious contexts, so we make the association.

And there is also the support, when some text is engraved on metal, there is some permanence to it, some commitment. The one who wrote this really means it. It is not like a sheet of paper, or worse, a computer screen where everything can vanish at the push of a button.

I think the titles summarizes it perfectly. It means hard work. When we see this, we imagine industrial machinery and professionals, because that's where it is used. In an alternative world where Comic Sans would be used for this purpose, it would be seen as serious.
Consumers will quickly replace these slow companies with products from new lean fast companies using AI at the core. The old large companies will just disappear.
Hundreds charged with online 'speech crimes' under 'Orwellian' crackdown
> Trump commonly mentions that the EU charges a 10 percent import tax on US vehicles while the US only levies a 2.5 percent tariff on European cars coming into the US

That seems pretty significant no? Why do we need German cars anyway?
Most people on HN work in software, but I work in the intersection of software and hardware. The software for me is simulation software, but it could alternatively be real-time software for a product. The relevant difference between software alone and software+hardware is that LLMs can't do an experiment in the real world. A LLM might tell you to do something with hardware or write a simulator, but the results of both are really just predictions that need to be checked in the real world.

I'm a theory and simulation guy, but in retrospect I should have done far more experiments when I was in training. I guess it's never too late to start...
Like… building software with complexity beyond a React tutorial? I think I’m good.
Isn't that how regular tariffs work too?
> Show me something OSI compatible less restrictive than ISC and I will use that.

I'm more of a copyleft person, so I can't help there. But I can say that copyleft requires copyright laws.
Unfortunately, this insane country has the means to literally annihilate the whole planet, loot most other countries, or simply sabotage them.
Think that’s one reason people are excited for agents that can use devices, browsers, and UIs
All taxes are ultimately paid by the consumer, companies just collect them. So German consumers who buy American cars pay their tax to Germany.

When a company buys from another company, no net VAT is collected - it’s only collected when a consumer enters the picture.
Soccer is slowly getting there. You play for your club in the series, the cup, some europa cup, now also the world club cup, then there's matches with your national team, world cup etc. They are now even contemplating having the world cup more often.

Having more games is an quick way to make more money, but in the long run it waters down the product.
When I hear someone's brake's squealing, I try and avoid them at all cost. I've been behind an old car that when it braked, I was coughing for hours afterwards.
If you are consistent then, your solution should be to move to another transportation, or to help policy transition. Because bikes, trains and bus are undiscutably better.
>and may incite another discriminatory tax on the US side.

The US already has some of these. Eg YouTubers all have to pay taxes to the US government even if they are not US citizens, have never been to the US, and interact with Google Island Ltd.

My understanding is that the basis of this tax is that it's "money earned from American viewers" or something along those lines.

Imagine if every country in the world did something like this.
> For "x" hours of work, the big whales can also potentially bring in a lot more money than a bunch of small minnows.

Your article says the opposite:

> They [audits of low income people taking the EITC] are “the most efficient use of available IRS examination resources,” Rettig’s report says.

They can either hire a lot of cheap low-level examiners to quickly audit a lot of low-income people or a smaller number of expensive examiners to slowly audit big complex returns that are more likely to be correct but have more at stake. They were doing the first one because it recovers more money per enforcement dollar.

You can decide that your priority is "audit more rich people" rather than "recover the most money" but that doesn't make them the same thing, or make the first one the only or even default thing they'll do if you give them more enforcement resources.
The rotors push the pads away from the surface if the slides and spring clip seats are maintained. I have seen many unbalanced brake systems with uneven pad wear of all kinds due to rust/dust/heat impacting the system.
Example 1 is a deficit of C with missing computed goto and switch continue. Example 2 review is ambiguous on practicality. Example 3 reads very odd, an over-approximated upper stack bound is very possible https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/157#issuecomment-76395... and tighter computation with advanced analysis as well. Example 4,5,6,7,8,9,10 yes.
Overall good read.
On the other hand, there are opportunities that are only open to you when you're young. Squandering those opportunities by working so you can be retired at 40 or 50 isn't free.

Meeting people in travel hostels would be one example. Being a young single on a beach abroad is another. Traveling in general is another.

Wandering around Prague with some beers and friends you made 6 hours ago hits different at 26 than it does as a retired 55 year old that waited to live their life.

I live on a beach in Mexico in my 30s and see both ends of the spectrum.
https://archive.is/mO3N6
How is it being fucked over if I pay for something and get value from it? I’m not entitled to my Kindle working forever just because I bought it today.
TV is definitely not near death - geeeeez

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/nba-signs-new-tv-deal-det...
I almost started laughing at the same comment. Kubernetes is the last place to know what your code is doing. A VM or bare metal is more practical for the persona that OP described. The git pushers might want the container on k8s
We are now a few years into this latest "AI revolution." I keep hearing about how AI is coming for all our jobs. But people who actually try to use AI for coding largely don't seem convinced. Can anyone cite any smashing successes for AI? Are there any unicorn startups, or candidates to become one, that are staffed by say 5 really savvy users of AI? A story like that could be convincing of these claims about software engineering becoming a domain of prompt engineering.
Trauma is one of the stated goals of Project 2025. Move as quickly as possible and make it as chaotic and painful as possible to wear down your "opponents".
> A business (supplier) that doesn't sell to end consumers pays no VAT

They indeed pay no net VAT (it's not a cost for them in the sense of their profit and loss statement), but they do remit a bit of the VAT collected by the end consumer to their _local_ tax authority.

As an example, let's consider a VAT rate of 20%, and a Dutch company that buys from a French one and sells to a German one. Their costs per product are €80, and thus they pay €16 of VAT over that to their French suppliers. If they sell a product for €100 (i.e. they add €20 of value), then they collect €20 of VAT from their German buyers (which might in turn get it from the end consumers). There's a difference of €4 between what they received and paid in VAT, and that difference is collected by the Dutch tax authority. That €4 is not coincidentally the 20% VAT over the value added by the Dutch company.
> Plus none of us know how much time we actually have

Precisely because of this, you should be making music and games now. You never know if once you reach the amount of money you desire, death will knock on your door.

If you are already doing it, that's great. But so many people defer the enjoyment and overwork themselves waiting for that future where they hit the number.
Also if you plan on owning a car for a long time, you start thinking more about maintenance and repair. Imported car parts are harder to get than domestic.
A bit like what X/Twitter is doing.
And I also pay general sales tax (GST) and provincial sales tax (PST) on everything imported from the US, or domestically made. Are you dense?
An LLM is incapable of performing an inquiry. Try making it do one. For instance tell an LLM that you want it to test a certain product and that you will be its eyes ears and hands. Then proceed as if you don’t know anything about testing. Do not correct its decisions.

It will probably not ask you any questions, but if it does and you answer it will not ask follow up questions, or if it does it will lose track of your answers or non-answers. It does not maintain situational awareness. It does not speculate on your state of mind or competence as you help it.
Right, but there's more to blocking than content filtering (which is more akin to muting in twitter nomenclature). It should also restrict the blocked person from interacting with my content. At least that's what I'd expect (and I suspect most would).
The field of economics provides many sensible frameworks outlining judicious decision making driven by a set of particular motivations and under certain circumstances, but to say it is a fundamental force, let alone one underlying everything (gravity, to choose an especially outrageous example of “everything”), seems fantastical at minimum
I think they are talking strictly about the NBA.

College players are much more inconsistent because they're younger and less experienced. There are not many 20 year olds you can depend on to consistently make 3s. There are also a lot more teams which spreads the talent pool around. In my opinion, it amounts to a more exciting product to watch, even if it's less polished.
LLMs won't be allowed to write DAL-B, DO-178B, safety critical, or mission critical code. Those areas are safe for now.
What you're ignoring is that the VAT is not just applied to imports. It's applied to all consumption, it doesn't matter whether the good was imported, produced locally, or a mix.
I think that's unfortunate: the article still has that title, and knowing it wants to lead to such an absolute conclusion can tell a prospective reader if they are interested to be led down that path or not.
People aren't getting fired and 1-1 replaced by an AI agent. It's making people more productive so you can do more with less. I don't know why this needs to be constantly repeated.
> Some people blog because it makes them happy, others do so to build brand and status for professional development.

A good way to tell which category a blog falls into is to look at the first link provided on their homepage.
Pep Guardiola 1000000% ruined soccer in similarish ways today's nba is broken
Yeah I mean I just asked it how to make a million bucks off of memecoins and it gave me an extensive list of memecoin investing tips to make sure I didn't end up as a bag holder.

The only thing I'd trust it for would be explanations about well documented concepts and strategies, but even that is better to get from a well respected Youtube channel or financial advice outlet.
You're still missing the point, by a long shot.

You get a tumor, a surgeon removes it.

The economy gets a shock, a trader helps the market absorb it.

Lots of other confusion here, but I don't really care to go point by point, since you seem pretty determined to believe that markets "contribut[e] nothing to the industries and especially society". Maybe someday you'll come back to this topic with more curiosity, but in the meantime if you don't like this sector, you don't have to work in it.
just curious , if anyone knows —

is this the same game played by FTX sam in that Michael Lewis crypto biopic ??
They don’t have the will they just want you to think they do.
Understood, but that's Nissan sucking.
It nets out to everyone but the final consumer. Imagine 30% VAT rate:

Alice digs up some copper and tin and sells it to Bob for 10€ + 3€ VAT = 13€. Alice remits the 3€ to the authorities on Bob's behalf.

Bob casts bronze bars and sells them to Carol for 39€ + 11.70€ = 50.70€. Bob claims a 3€ refund for VAT he paid Alice and remits 11.70€ to the authorities on Carol's behalf.

Carol makes a sculpture from the bronze and sells it to a customer for 1014€ + 304.20€ VAT = 1318.20€. Carol claims a 11.70€ refund for VAT paid and remits 304.20€ to the authorities.

The end customer ends up paying 100% of the total VAT (304.20€). Everyone else nets out to 0.
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve shifted to: learning how to find enjoyment and purpose from whatever situation you find yourself in should be an important priority.

Finding work that is inherently enjoyable and purposeful to you is still great if you can find it. But that’s not always possible, and I’ve been increasingly interested in the ideas in books like “Flow”, which details the ways people in all manner of circumstances find purpose/enjoyment from the work in front of them.
Yes, and yes. Though with a lower mass vehicle you may have reduced grip.
A thing I read was the Nazi's changed the rules on how much assets were needed to incorporate. That lead to small businesses either merging or dissolving.

Lenny Bruce had a joke about how people got tired of having beat up people themselves. So they hired cops. Who are perfectly happy to beat them as well.

My distillation. If you see someone do something shitty to someone else, stick around and they'll do it to you too.

Obligatory Bevis: Not me! The cow!
IIRC that was Enron’s doing. California suffered but Texas thrived despite some hiccups.
From the US perspective, US is not discriminated against when it has exactly the same rules applied to them as anyone else. So, yes, it matters from the US perspective.

It may not matter for the lies US spreads and sells, but that is different thing then perspective.
Erlang is typically used for soft realtime systems on fairly powerful non-embedded hardware. There have been attempts to use it in hard realtime systems, but no successful ones that I'm aware of.
I run an HVAC company and some of my peers have started getting tariff price increase notices from manufacturers. Trane is 2% across the board for most equipment, for example.
Programming has a very long history of tools that make people more productive so they can do more with less, with it always leading to more programming jobs. This is also constantly repeated.