skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah and no. I would see intellectual dishonesty as worst and the fact that we did not called it that for years enabled these people. They were giving all possible benefits of the doubt. And calling them dumb is kind of benefit of the doubt.
It doesn't. It has never been. Trump is a liar and a crook and is bullshitting you.
On a tangent, Trump decided to punish Brazil be setting the import tax on ethanol as whatever Brazil sets for importing US ethanol.

Now that our government controls the domestic price of fuel in the US, it's too bad Lula doesn't seem to be in a trolish mood...
Note this is NASA/JPL, not NASA-wide, JPL is a NASA center (FFRDC).
As a European, I see it as a blessing in disguise. America is a reckless country that goes from crisis to crisis due to being terminally greedy. And now, they're even unable to keep a stable political landscape. The fewer economic ties we have, the better.
The majority of Americans have not been exposed to VAT. Most people see a thing that has value and don’t want to think of each step in manufacturing, and try to reconcile that. To even educated Americans, it takes some thinking to understand both what VAT is and why it’s beneficial over us based sales tax.

The mistake I think Vance made was assuming that Europe doesn’t tax its own vehicles 30%. If he wants to “reciprocate” by impose higher taxes on BMWs, Mercedes, and Audis so I don’t have to deal with their drivers egos every time i go on the highway, let him. This is not a product class that is adding much value to our society in my opinion. I would hope they aren’t so difficult on Honda/Toyota since both brands provide good reliable cars while US manufacturers try to get their shit together
What kind of org doesn't require any accountability internally?
Erlang was designed for running telephone exchanges - about as deeply embedded hard realtime a system as you can get, that needs to be fault tolerant otherwise 911 goes down.
How does this compare to gemini thinking experimental with apps?
Logic doesn't matter, these are all power plays. Truth be damned.

Just like Trump exclaiming that it's "unfair" that Europeans don't buy American cars - we don't have big enough streets and fuel is 4 x as expensive.
Allow me to present a possible theory:

1) Assume Social Security has a field called "verified birthday by US birth certificate" which is a timestamp measured in days.
2) Assume this timestamp starts on May 20, 1875 which was once a COBOL epoch standard.
3) Assume if someone does not have a verified birth certificate that field will be 0.
3) Assume one of Musk's junior engineers runs a query against the SS database on this field.
4) Assume said engineer runs the results through an AI trained to spot various kinds of fraud and asks it to spot anything unusual.
5) Assume the AI spits out "We have found X million records matching fraud parameters since ages are over 120 years old."
6) Assume said engineer excitedly runs over to Musk with the results and Musk does not bother contacting anyone at the Social Security Administration to see if there is a logical alternative explanation other than fraud since he never bothered to check the $50 million worth of condoms to Gaza claim.
The websites opening an audio context without using it to play anything are probably doing bot detection.

Different browser engines and operating systems implement audio processing differently, so if you play a completely inaudible sound and then record it back (from the API not the microphone) you end up with a signature.

You can use that signature to see if the browser is lying about its user agent, running in headless mode, or all sort of other interesting edge cases that are not a real user buying widgets.

https://github.com/fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs/blob/3201a7d6...
By weakening its ties with Europe and other allies, the US is undoubtedly taking actions that benefit both Russia and China. That's not to say the president or his team are in cahoots with one or both of those countries, but these are the kinds of actions the US would be taking if that level of conspiracy were to be true.
fairly normal for consumption taxes, right? us sales tax has similar carve outs for food and personal care and meds etc
Gina references that on the page.
it was worth imo
I don't get why you believe the liars who told you an American car would pay more overall VAT than a domestically produced car. I mean, you are getting lied to your face, by someone who is a serial liar, so why are you trying to find an explanation for something that doesn't exist?
Everybody pays VAT. As a business you charge VAT for everything you sell and pay that out to the tax authority, and you get VAT back for anything you buy. As a consumer it's just an item on the bill.

Say the VAT rate is 20%. Now if you buy something for $100, install it and charge $100 to your customer, you get back $20 from the tax authority and pay them $20, so if billing cycles align no money actually flows to or from the tax authority. But if you add value, say by buying $100 in parts, assemble them and sell the assembly for $150, you get back $20 for parts purchased but collect $30 for the sale, creating a net flow of $10 to the tax authority.

If everything happens under the same tax authority this nuance doesn't matter, in total there's always a $30 tax on a $150 part, no matter how complex the supply chain. But if more countries are involved the difference matters: if a company in Poland makes parts worth $100 and a company in Germany assembles them and sells them in the German market for $150, that's $20 in taxes for Poland and $10 for Germany. With a sales tax that's only collected when selling to a consumer it would have been $30 for Germany and $0 for Poland.
Oh and automotive tyres cause rubber to accumulate in the ocean.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/25/tyre-dus...

There are just so many arguments for public transport over cars where possible.
Operating under that sort of nihilism, why bother saving babies if they are just going to die of old age at best?
Most sports pretty much have a playoff system to a greater or lesser degree.

That said, basketball has pretty much always been one of the major US sports that can rely on a fairly small number of really good players and the rest don't matter nearly as much. Stars (pitchers, QBs, receivers, etc.) matter elsewhere but probably not individually as much as they do in basketball.
Do more than you think you will need to do. The economy for software engineer hiring is changing rapidly and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future for reasons independent of AI.

I got shaken out quickly (but am planning an epic comeback). The math doesn’t work out favorably so being ambitious is probably a good idea. But if things get too advanced then it also gets easier to automate an entire company, and enough automation means more viability for solo ventures. That ambition comes in handy there as well
DevOps is a meaningful term. You understand DevOps because you use it everyday.
Wow, this white noise has been driving me crazy for a long time but I could never track it down.

The tab doesn't show the "playing" icon, and muting the tab doesn't stop the noise.

Even using the Windows volume mixer to mute Firefox doesn't stop the noise.

Edit: The addon is actually pretty bad for a desktop user since the white noise starting/stopping constantly is far more annoying.
Just switch to Kobo. Download the books from their site in ACSM, then remove the Adobe DRM. It the same process if using Calibre.

https://www.reddit.com/r/kobo/comments/169djct/kobo_bookstor...
> trading just doesn’t make sense to me.

it's not complicated. suppose Bob wants to buy an Acura NSX and Kazuo wants to sell a Honda NSX. enter trader Joe. he knows Bob, and he knows Kazuo, and he knows that the Honda NSX was also marketed as the Acura NSX. trader Joe can buy the car from Kazuo, obtain an export license, arrange for shipping and tax duties, and sell the car to Bob for a profit. that is called trading.

you're thinking of "speculation." one could argue that the market needs speculators to take the risks that hedgers want to reduce. speculators might also find interesting information and improve the efficiency of market prices. traders intermediate between speculators and hedgers.

now does it make sense?
In a way, that's all of them :(
it is regressive, it impacts small earners more than rich people, since a larger share of their income goes into direct consumption.

But many countries have different VAT brackets for different goods, e.g. in Italy at different times (I'm not sure of the current brackets) "staple" goods like bread or milk had 4% VAT, health and education had 5%, fish or meat had 10%, generic services have 22% and at some point "luxury" goods had 30%+ vat.

This offsets the regressiveness somewhat.
>When companies fuck you over you should keep buying from them

Yea this is dumb advice. Are you a stock holder?
I feel like one of the mistakes being made again and again in the virtualization space is not realizing there's a difference between a competitor possibly running containers on the same machine with your proprietary data, and Dave over in Customer Relations running a container on your same machine.

If Dave does something malicious, we know where Dave lives, and we can threaten his livelihood. If your competitor does it you have to prove it, and they are protected from snooping at least as much as you are so how are you going to do that? I insist that the mutually assured destruction of coworkers substantially changes the equation.

In a Kubernetes world you should be able to saturate a machine with pods from the same organization even across teams by default, and if you're worried that the NY office is fucking with the SF office in order to win a competition, well then there should be some non-default flags that change that but maybe cost you a bit more due to underprovisioning.

You got a machine where one pod needs all of the GPUs and 8 cores, great. We'll load up some 8 core low memory pods onto there until the machine is full.
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That's not too bad but it is probably an above average mid sized sedan weight in a compact body.
He's not anti-vax, he's pro-vax. He just wants to make sure the risks are actually known before we do things like mass-produce a new vaccine.
> I looked at your prompt history with the German article, and I can see that the reason it fails is that you prompt incorrectly. When you want to give certain information or context to the LLM, say, your codebase, or some documentation, or some article, you gotta put it first in your prompt, and at the very bottom you should put your instructions. This apparently makes it easier for the LLM to parse your request.

Good to know — I somehow failed to be aware of this before now despite playing with these models since the days of AI Dungeon (for open source models) and text-davinci-003 (from OpenAI).

> I was able to translate your article this way using Gemini, not sure how accurate it is though.

The second part is important — checking the translation was how I knew the it was making things up in the "translated" timeline.
No it's not. The issue with our society is allowing the people who built the system and created the incentives that caused it to get off without jail time.
Just a note. If the manufacturers can get solid state batteries to the point where they are economic then EV's will be as heavy or perhaps lighter than gas cars. Actually a 50% increase in energy density is enough. And solid state batteries have twice the energy density. So likely lighter.

Jevons paradox says cheap EV's are maybe not so great. Consider if a cheap car cost a $100k most people wouldn't own cars. They'd walk or take the bus or subway. You wouldn't usually have to walk far, buses and subways would come often.
"Nothing can be done" says the only place on the planet where this happens.
>now it’s essentially a “fact” that Social Security has been paying 150 year olds

From yesterdays submission "The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/hitler-oli... :

> To this end, Hugenberg practiced what he called Katastrophenpolitk, “the politics of catastrophe,” by which he sought to polarize public opinion and the political parties with incendiary news stories, some of them Fabrikationen—entirely fabricated articles intended to cause confusion and outrage. According to one such story, the government was enslaving German teenagers and selling them to its allies in order to service its war debt. Hugenberg calculated that by hollowing out the political center, political consensus would become impossible and the democratic system would collapse.

mmm sounds familiar
This isn't true: local (to me) jurisdictions vary between an 8ish% sales tax and a 10% sales tax. In many states, there's no sales tax on food but food is taxed in Alabama. There's any number of variations of this in the US.
Yeah, that's absurdly scary. That's a huge social engineering/social control risk of there's a non trivial number of people using it like that...I mean imagine influencing the LLM to subtly pump and dump assets.
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> VAT rate differ based on the origin which is the issue

Which is a lie. They do not differ based on the origin and that is not the issue.

The issue is that American top politicians are used and enabled to brazenly lie and their voters spread it happily.
To answer your question, starting with Pokemon Legends Arceus[1], battles take place in the same overworld that you explore in.

You can see an example of this in action at 3:12 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR7ZooH9Zos

[1]: This also carries over to Pokemon Scarlet/Violet, which is the latest mainline entry and will presumably remain the new standard going forward? Arceus was seen (and received) as more of a paid beta test for the system since the overworld was a bit empty at times
It's Saturday
> OPENAI_BASE_URL

> OPENAI_API_HOST
Are you talking about NBA basketball? Golf is more exciting.
52 times 7 days (+ 1 or 2) yes, but the last 4 days of 2026 will be the 53rd week of the year ;)
They do. But if you brake too agressively, they switch to friction brakes. It pays off to avoid this: more mileage, marginally lower charging expense, lower cost on brake maintenance and fewer complaints from passengers.
and moreover inasmuch as their oil/gas is replacing coal and even sulfur-heavy sources like athabasca sands, it's some of the cleanest (net energy to extract, transport, and refine) carbon energy available.
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I don’t care about speed runs at all, but that channel always grabs me.
Even if the VAT tax ends up being the same for imported goods versus domestically produced goods, that is still a discriminatory tax against the import. The reason is because the imported good already paid taxes in the country it was produced in.

It makes sense for a German car manufacturer to pay taxes to Germany, since the German state provides it with services (roads, police, infrastructure.) It makes no sense for an American car manufacturer to pay taxes to Germany since it gets no services from Germany. (And no, earning the "privilege" of unloading the car from the boat isn't worth 20%.)

If the EU has an interest in making this fair, they can remit the sales tax they collected to the US government. Or they can just accept that this is a discriminatory tax and may incite another discriminatory tax on the US side.
Probably the ones that have very little of it today.
Is there something for converting pdf to epub?
> Before, we browsed recipe online or watch them on youtube. Now, we just ask ChatGPT.

It's fine to use as a brainstorming tool especially as a decent freestyle cook. It's equivalent to reading three recipes for the same dish and going from there.

However, if you are a strict recipe-follower or lack kitchen confidence, like my wife, you're gonna need a recipe that has actually been cooked by a human before, ideally one you have some faith in.
Nothing lol but people tend to be obnoxious about using it
NASA often forget they use it.
Amazon is killing "download and transfer to kindle by USB" in 9 days (on 24th of February, 2025 - that's 2/24/25 for Americans), so you might want to hurry if you want to read your Amazon titles on other readers.
The Polish company invoices the German company under the "reverse charge" regime. The German company treats the parts as if they were supplied by another Germany company, charging itself German VAT and refunding itself an equal amount of German VAT. There's nothing collected in Poland.
Is it on purpose that the analogy lends itself for arguing "and that's why we need the technology: we won't stop the group that still does this"?

I'm probably more optimistic about global warming than about the other "environment-warming" thing!
thanks, will consider this
Simple but tedious
See "end-consumer"
> These are still problems that can largely be solved by applying the right economic incentives.
>
> It seems more than reasonable to require producers to have some minimal level of weatherization

Regulation on a minimal level of weatherization is not an economic incentive.
Absolutely.

The danger is that people will think that AI is thinking and reasoning in a way that they are. But it isn't. It's a glorified template generator, at least for now.

Our brains and minds are fat more sophisticated and nuanced than the LLM models we've built in the last few years. It'd be crazy if they weren't.
I don’t see any evidence here that AI has helped the poster, or his wife, at all. He also does not say a thing about how it has hurt his critical thinking ability or changed his biases.

I look at posts like these for evidence about whether I should use AI more than I do. (I use it little and don’t pay for it.) What we have here is a devotional post on the order of “I prayed to Jesus and my life is better now.”

The basic problem is that this form of writing and testimonial cannot carry the information necessary to meet the needs of a critical thinker. For instance: recipes. Googling a typical recipe takes 5 seconds. It can hardly get any easier! And it takes me right to someone's specific website. But with ChatGPT there is some significant probability of hallucination, and the answer I get is one no human stands behind. How is this even worth mentioning as a benefit?

That the poster includes recipes tells us about his unserious standards.

Among all the problems of LLMs in society, the noise created by people who are likely in the throes of sunk cost bias, endowment effect, ostrich effect, and other biases is not helping matters.
You can't look at this as having logic. It is a mob shakedown of everyone, including you.
couple of feet is not enough. the line needs to move far enough such that vast majority of the players (more than 95%) shoot less than 30% from there. so probably 8 to 10 feet back. absolutely should happen but they will likely do something awesome like shortening quarters to 10 minutes
I don't know the initial incentives, but VAT is much harder to evade (businesses have to keep track/declare things if they want to reclaim the VAT they paid).

Also it's a consumption tax, in the end the end consumer is the one paying it (through higher price). The businesses in the middle are mainly collecting the tax on behalf of the state.
From the US’s perspective, what does it matter? The fact is VAT is applied to US imports.
The UK is also typically 20%. Basic items such as bread and feminine hygiene products are VAT free.
Exactly. When the products ARE good, Europeans use a ton of them. See iPhone.
> Sean

Shawn, my mistake!
Yeah the distinction doesnt mean anything from the US perspective.
I work in HR for a large company. A third party system was chosen to use for part of the HR functions. This third party system uses an integration system that involves dragging and dropping components and doing some config work (think of Nifi, or, at a super basic level, Scratch). So, it is all UI work, very little to no written code. It will be a long long time before this kind of work will be automated by LLMs. We are still in the process of building out hundreds of these integrations. Just the building out will take years. Then there will be even more years of maintenance. Large companies are like large ships, they pivot exceedingly slowly. I figure I can maintain this system for a long time. That’s one way to get job security.
Not a team player, I see. This will be reflected in your next performance review.
Yeah and also one that I'm not very impressed with.

The criticism is (mostly) super contrived and totally misses the wisdom behind why some of these rules were made in the first place. A lot of the author's points are very reminiscent of the same classic rebuttal against criticisms of the C language for being insecure: "It's perfectly fine if you're good and don't make stupid mistakes." That's just not a very mature view of working with groups of human beings.

Most of these rules are designed to reduce errors that are difficult for humans to see by making the code more readable, deterministic, and avoiding situations that can lead to unintended behavior that is subtle in its true complexity. Creating a series of "Gotchas" where it perhaps negates that idea in an obscure situation doesn't really mean that the rules don't tend to produce code that is more reliable and auditable.

Some of these rules really do seem kind of anachronistic, but... then again there's still a lot of old FORTRAN code and the like running on NASA hardware.
I suspect it's even more complicated; if the particulate matter is different in size, the relative amount delivered to a human lung might depend on the distance.

So if you want to model somebody being 10 meters away from the street, you might need to use different ratios than for somebody being 100m away.
Unless I missed something, this is the entire explanation of why the VAT isn't like a tariff:

>>>VATs are border-adjusted, meaning they rebate tax on exports and impose tax on imports. Despite the appearance of subsidizing exports and punishing imports, however, a border-adjusted VAT is trade neutral. A border adjusted tax leads to currency appreciation for the imposing country, which would make it cheaper to import goods, more expensive to export goods, and thus would cancel out the apparent benefits of the tax on imports and the rebate on exports.

The rest of the article is just about how US sales tax sucks. So VATs are not like a tariff because they put pressure on currencies to adjust in value? Huh? Can someone explain what taxfoundation is talking about?

If I make two ford fiestas, one in the US and one in Germany and they are otherwise identical--identical labor costs, identical shipping costs, etc etc--do I have to sell each ford fiesta in germany at a different cost to the consumer (so including all taxes levied on the consumer) for me to make the same profit on each fiesta? If so, then I dont see what is dishonest about likening the VAT to a tariff.
This is one of the best demos of Game of Life. I guess its just looping, and not all the movements are calculated, since you can zoom out till infinity?

Correct me if I am wrong.