skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Businesses are traditionally taxed on their profits, not their turnover. Being a turnover tax, DST acts more like VAT does for consumers. Mathematically it has to be passed onto the customers, it just makes Google the collection agent on behalf of the government. This is why turnover taxes are such a bad idea.
We had the same in The Netherlands. Several weather apps that requested to share all your data with a bunch of partners, had ads, etc.

Then our national weather institute launched their own app without tracking or ads, and the existing weather apps all immediately joined up to sue them over it. Thankfully they lost the case.

https://www.rechtspraak.nl/Organisatie-en-contact/Organisati...
Google Ads specifically.
> Yes, and where do you suppose experienced developers come from?

Almost every time I hear this argument, I realize that people are not actually complaining about AI, but about how modern capitalism is going to use AI.

Don't get me wrong, it will take huge social upheaval to replace the current economic system.

But at least it's an honest assessment -- criticizing the humans that are using AI to replace workers, instead of criticizing AI itself -- even if you fear biting the hands that feed you.
I'm not really sure actually. But to be honest, I'd rather see these tools be public instead of private; you can't really block this kind of thing anyway. Better have it out in the open where others can benefit/learn...

This whole thing is a Pandora's box. We can regulate, forbid, anything, but we all already have models downloaded locally (you did too, right..?). So unless there's some client-side "computer says no" we will never be able to block this anymore.
I can already smell the terrafoam
Google is not going to put me in a concentration camp, enslave me, or send me to die in a trench on the front lines.

(If you're reading this, please note this comment was written in 2025)
Our proprietary format was a header followed by a raw sensor dump.

Despite this, people eventually used it for photographic purposes.
What if you don't have to?
I have what probably qualifies as the relatively-recently-named "severely deficient autobiographical memory".

Notes, notes, notes. Then review them before an interview. Not bullet-point notes of things that happened (that's fine too, but not just that) but make stories when they're very fresh, like, right after they happen. You won't be able to turn raw bullet points into a story later, you'll forget too much.

Then take some time to match stories to common interview questions. That's your prep document. Feel absolutely free to fill in gaps where needed, most folks' "real" memories of these things are half wrong anyway, and there may be times you literally couldn't have an acceptable answer to a common question without making some of it up, because you didn't take useful-enough notes. What are you going to do, fail every interview that asks that question forever? No, just make the story you need, connect it to reality as much as possible, and move on. But do it ahead of time. And you only need to do this once per such question. Perhaps you'll even manage to take notes on a less-invented story later (I've found that nearly all of these stories need a little invention, though, even if you have perfect notes, to fit into the acceptable range of responses)
In the tattoo business people have no other places to go. Charging 1k€+ for half a sleeve is extremely overcharged. If people are paying they often simply don't have enough alternatives.
If there will be a change it will be driven by technology for better or worse. Maybe not change but replace, robot and ai companions come to mind.
We need to bring back spiral cables.
Actors are handled by the CPU where shaving 10MB can mean that more things can now fit in the cache leading to dramatic improvement.
i don't think it's an either/or situation
A quick Google search tells me that this just isn’t true at all.

https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about-us/our-portfolios/natio...
"Be yourself"? What does that mean?

What if wearing a suit is "being myself"? You'll be penalized in tech for that.

Not everyone views the wearing of suits as some kind of punishment.
The United Nations has a flag and anthem too.

The umbrella interoperability initiative that includes Bizum is Swiss (neither EU nor Eurozone).

Maybe you have a radical viewpoint, or maybe you're just unfamiliar with the subject matter, but individual EU countries are very much separate entities, notwithstanding many helpful treaties.

There are lots of transnational entities like the EU and monetary unions like the Eurozone.

There's nothing so special about this arrangement that means it couldn't happen elsewhere.

https://empsa.org/news/leading-european-mobile-payment-solut...
> “Power creep” doesn’t necessitate or justify the behavior of this administration.

Well, neither one of those words showed up in my comment. I said that, based on the growth of this technology, power abuse was inevitable. Not justified, not necessary, simply the natural outcome of such things as history has shown us time and again.
Just like organic and non-organic vegetables. All vegetables are organic!
Well, I was playing tennis, but that's what caused it.
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A bigger start menu is not really what I would consider to be a major feature request, but maybe that's just me. I want windows to add more customizability options so I can effectively natively restyle the entire PC to look like W7
It's not that weird. In English we had a similar idea called emoticons, which started as ascii/your local encoding and then evolved to be pictures. When emoji hit the masses, it was only natural to assume the two were related.
> “...For instance, we salvage parts from old laptop motherboards, such as capacitors, mouse pads, transistors, diodes, and certain ICs and use them in the newly refurbished ones,” says Prasad.

This highlights the problem of parts availability, especially for older laptops (10 years old or even older). Since no one, the original manufacturer as well as the "dup(licat)ors", is going to make parts for laptops that old.

During my own attempt to revive my old laptops, I had to buy three different keyboards, each costs around $8, from 2 different recycling shop, to "Frankenstein" a working and fairly new-looking one. And then the screen bezel and palm rest is another struggle. One total revival ended up costed me around $50 and 2 weeks, and give up on another one.

I imagine in order for laptop/electronic repairing to work reliably, manufactures needs to create standardized parts, like what happened to desktop PCs. But that hasn't happened since ...ever?
> Because all their competitors have to pay the same tax, it's just a status quo.

That may be correct if every company spends similar amounts on traditional advertising, but this isn't true. In reality, such a tax would hit companies with larger traditional advertising budgets harder, and make some companies choose to shift some of their marketing spend to other communication methods.

For example, I work for a company that has a small advertising budget with no traditional advertising. We have a website, publish papers, and occasionally have a booth at a conference. Some of our competitors have significant advertising presence in trade magazines, social media, news sites, etc. Therefore this tax would impact them more than it would impact us.

More importantly for the purpose of the tax, it might shift our competitors' behavior. Ad buys that were of marginal utility to the company before would be even less cost-effective so either advertising platforms would lower their prices or the company would not buy the ad. In some cases this lower price would make it no longer profitable for the platform to display, eliminating the ad enteriely.
> Advertising is a tax on the rich.

Even if advertisers make more money from the rich (citation needed), the poor are still disproportionately negatively effected. I would argue that it's less ethical to persuade someone with $100 to their name to spend $10 on something they don't need, than to persuade someone with $1,000,000 to spend $500 on something they don't need.

To bolster this argument, look at the things that are most advertised to the poor: alcohol, gambling, fast food, and predatory loans (including predatory auto financing).
The wealthy, meanwhile, are more likely to be targeted with ads for lifestyle goods: health foods, travel, gym memberships.
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Huh, the coffee table reminds me of all those cheap e-retailers who very clearly (and badly) photoshop their clothes on to same 2 or 3 stock model images. If you thought shopping online sucked before, it's just going to get even worse now.
> Unseen were all the sleepless nights we experienced from untested sql queries and regexes and misconfigurations he had pushed in his effort to look good. It always came back to a lack of testing edge cases and an eagerness to ship.

If you do this you are creating a rod for your own back: You need management to see the failures & the time it takes to fix them, otherwise they will assume everything is fine & wonderful with their new toy & proceed with their plan to inflict it on everyone, oblivious to the true costs + benefits.
Actually, there are two main problems with AI:

1. How it's gonna be used and how it'll be a detriment to quality and knowledge.
2. How AI models are trained with a great disregard to consent, ethics, and licenses.

The technology itself, the idea, what it can do is not the problem, but how it's made and how it's gonna be used will be a great problem going forward, and none of the suppliers tell that it should be used in moderation and will be harmful in the long run. Plus the same producers are ready to crush/distort anything to get their way.

... smells very similar to tobacco/soda industry. Both created faux-research institutes to further their causes.
Story of coincidences, I guess: I'm adopted, but a total car nut. My adoptive family weren't really car people except my uncle. A couple years ago I found my birth family, and they are all car nuts. My half sister was a test driver for Audi, my mom and much of the family worked at the local drag strip.
This is all good advice, thank you. I saw an ortho doctor, he recommended weight training, which I am doing, and cycling is my favorite cardio, so I need to do more of that.

Basically, I guess "exercise the thing up to the point where it starts hurting" is the general advice for this kind of thing. I just hope the pain can go away so I can enjoy tennis again.
It could be more a subtle change. Instead of taxing advertising, what about stop advertising costs from being counted as business expenses. You can spend all you want but you can't claim that cost as an offset to revenue. Doing this now amounts to a subsidy on advertising, so just remove it.
Except it’s not true.

https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about-us/our-portfolios/natio...
> If you have to click or browse several results forget it, makes no sense not to use an LLM that provides sources.

I just searched for "What is inherit_errexit?" at Perplexity. Eight sources were provided and none of them were the most authoritative source, which is this page in the Bash manual:

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Shopt...

Whereas, when I searched for "inherit_errexit" using Google Search, the above page was the sixth result. And when I searched for "inherit_errexit" using DuckDuckGo, the above page was the third result.

I continue to believe that LLMs are favored by people who don't care about developing an understanding of subjects based on the most authoritative source material. These are people who don't read science journals, they don't read technical specifications, they don't read man pages, and they don't read a program's source code before installing the program. These are people who prioritize convenience above all else.
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OMG! Please don't remind me about trying to source control SSIS. One tiny change cascades into 1000 lines of source being different. Total nightmare.
If you are an amazing programmer but can't function in the 1 hour sitdown meeting which is part of your job activities then you are de facto worse candidate than the next amazing programmer who can, that's just how it is.
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> [Porting Linux to s390] marked the birth of "enterprise Linux", i.e. Linux running the data centre

Did it though? Or was it the gradual phasing out of mainframe-class hardware in favour of PC-compatible servers and the death of commercial Unices?
It's kind of clear that for every request, it generates a new image entirely. Some people are speculating a diffusion decoder but i think it's more likely an implementation of VAR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02905.

So rather than predicting each patch at the target resolution right away, it starts with the image (as patches) at a very small resolution and increasingly scales up. I guess that could make it hard for the model to learn to just copy and paste image tokens for editing like it might for text.
No, I don't have any models downloaded locally. I've tried a couple of models in the past and found they aren't that useful for me
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OK, Row 2 Column 2 has to be a mashup of George Bush and Barack Obama right?

https://www.tokyoweekender.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/oj...
How about diamonds? We are able to make diamonds and yet people prefer naturally created ones for some reason.
What "institutions of democracy" would that be, if the state is fascist or communist? And I think you severly underestimate the reach a totalitarian state has. Hint: it is total.
Some things really are bad, and "badmouthing" and pointing that out can be a productive thing. Thinking that anything that is against the "mission of the company" is toxic is a stance that I do not share.

It feels like your opinion is "boss is always right, just do what they say" (I apologize if I'm misreading that). The truth is that bosses are often wrong and need to be corrected.
Well, to be fair, the second half of your statement is true. Uber did buy every last fully autonomous Tesla available in 2020
Making an assertion without arguments does not necessitate counter arguments.
This is what the headlines say but it's not true. For example look into regenerative agriculture. All of the small scale farms around me are moving to rotational grazing systems because they improve the pastures and fertility of the land over time.
Not having cons lists makes Janet non-lispy?
If you haven't seen it, I recommend the movie "Cane Toads: An Unnatural History".

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130529/

The "Peter Pan" mutants sound clever, but biocontrol has such a dodgy history. I wonder what the impact of a permanently paedomorphic sub-population would be on the water insect population (both good and bad)? I take it since they're at the point of running field trials they'll have some data on that soon.
Amazingly, this was made extraordinarily explicit on Fox News yesterday.

"When you sit behind a screen all day, it makes you a woman" with the chyron "Trump's Manly Tariffs."
I don’t speak French but BdF presents a side by side comparison: https://www.banque-france.fr/fr/a-votre-service/particuliers...

As far as I understand SEPA ICT was developed by the Euro Payment Council. An industry body. ECB TIPS, albeit maintaining compatibility with the scheme, provides an harmonised service across the entire Eurosystem and beyond.
As of April 1, 2025, approximately 60,000 federal employees have been forcibly terminated or laid off as part of the Trump administration's workforce reduction efforts. These terminations primarily targeted probationary employees—those hired, promoted, or transferred within the last year—who lack full civil service protections.

There are about 3m employees so this is about 2%. 2% is not vast.
> Maybe it sounds a little harsh, but a programmer who's been working professionally for five years has likely already revealed their potential.

I do bristle at that. You typically get what you are served in your work environment. If you haven't been given interesting marketable work then I guess you are written off in this world.

I really do like the vibe of their "37 signals" though. It does sound "just so".
That is a fair criticism of this kind of thing in general, but in this particular case I wanted to combine the Pigovian "tax the bads" idea with the more modern idea of a feebate, which is intentionally revenue neutral (to the Government) in that the fees levied on the "bad" side of the ledger go to pay subsidies or other incentives on the "good" side of the ledger.
It is based on the same set of assumptions the entire world is working off of, and the strategy described is what has been done so far. We won’t get better than that unfortunately.
Malawi doesn't have a functioning economy. It has a nominal GDP per capita of $464. It is heavily indebted and reliant on international aid. 80% of the population rely on subsistence farming and 70% live on less than $1.90 per day.

Giving those refugees citizenship just means more mouths to feed; if they remain as refugees, then they're the UN's problem.
They did the same to Norwegian rail. In fact, one of the main companies that got involved in the enshittification of Norwegain rail was British Go-Ahead Group.
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Without rules, metadata, systems to organize files even the most valuable data can be stored as a steaming pile of poo.
In my case I was diving into a compressed tar containing compressed tar-s, which again may have giant uncompressed data files inside.
The whole pile of crap had premature EOF so for sure some non trivial amount of data was lost.
And on the top of it what was preserved should have a prefix: "unobtanium_". Storing several tar.gz several terabytes in size on some puny domestic use NAS made extraction of the files a crying game.

In another site I found a mix of some old version windows disk images with data. With more crap inside.

In the end: storage may be cheap. Storing piles of disorganized crap is very costly if you want to find something
Management: "devs aren't paid to play with shiny new tech, they should be shipping features!"

Also management: "I need you to play with AI and try to find a use for it"
Correct. Also, because I output all the formatting and do the processing/filtering/joining on the server, a lot of data is removed before get into the client.

This is the most beneficial thing related to perf.

I don't yet render fragments (only return full pages) so Is there a lot of potential for a speed up untaped...
I actually wonder how I can get them out?

Every background service wants some screen estate in the menu bar, but the app that I need is always hidden behind the notch of my MacBook. Why can’t I hide the ones I don’t frequently need?
> Battery storage is the next act, mostly in the form of hybrid inverters and lithium-ion packs tucked into homes and businesses.

That should go in parallel if they don’t want experience grid faults.
European law has established various rights regarding data concerning an individual since 1981.
I'm always confused by the need for humanoid robots in heavy industry.

isn't it always easier to build factories machine first ?

same as the idea of building self driving cars enabled tracks with sensors and all instead of trying to resolve self driving cars in the wild.
I suppose, but they are free to pirate Disney movies or whatever. Maybe "freedom" wasn't the right word for lack of IP protection.
Children run into their huts

Hail their father, drip with sweat:

"Fukuyama had deceived us!

History has no end."
I am very explicitly arguing that master keys shouldn't exist, for the exact reasons you mentioned.

>> Because whatever technical method the government has to break encryption will leak.

The government cannot break encryption(at least I hope they can't!)

>>The myth here is that a magic key that invalidates encryption can ever be controlled.

It's the same key you have.
This is also your school's problem, you should talk to them.
Great analogy at the end! I'm going to have to steal this, because it hits right at the heart of the problem with relying on LLMs to do things outside of what they were designed for.
> Idris is strict, unlike Haskell.

"The next Haskell will be strict." — Simon Peyton-Jones
Resist the urge to label outside opinions as ridiculous before you’ve done the necessary research.
This is fascinating. As the article says, sometimes the most unglamorous things can be among the most interesting.
Doesn’t the US already have direct bank transfers with Zelle?

I don’t know why cashapp and Venmo took off but Zelle stayed unknown
Quite dystopian thinking how a full factory and beyond could be run completely in the dark, just robots running around doing their thing. Faster, stronger, more accurate, never tired, never sleeping. Add in a small nuclear battery like the one from Betavolt coming up and mass produce it. And you have an autonomous "thinking" thing in the physical world capable of almost anything that humans are capable. Endless possibilities...

Never has the future been brighter and darker at the same time.. lets see.
You don't need a permanent residence, but to use PIX you have to get an ID called CPF. This is your IRS number, as you said, tax number. It's easy to get but it takes time, you can have one as national from different country.
100%. Multimodal images surpass ComfyUI and inpainting (for now). It's a step function improvement in image generation.

I'm hoping we see an open weights or open source model with these capabilities soon, because good tools need open models.

As has happened in the past, once an open implementation of DallE or whatever comes out, the open source community pushes the capabilities much further by writing lots of training, extensions, and pipelines. The results look significantly better than closed SaaS models.
I love this! I did not expect to love this.

Wow.

The cards are exemplary. Any Ojisan[0] featured on a card should feel honored. I looked at the cards shown to us and immediately was struck by the artists ability to both see the beauty in these fine people and deliver it on the card in a compelling, clearly respectful way.

And the motive! It is simple and noble: Elevating Town Fathers in the eyes of those for whom they often serve.

The idea is pure,[1] uncluttered by unnecessary detail and expectations. The only real complication came from the kids, who naturally wanted the game aspect to make the whole thing fun!

Of course they did.

Humans being beautiful. That is what this is and as much as I want this sort of thing where I live, I know it would not be this organic thing of beauty and that makes me sad. I am not sure enough of us here have what is needed.

I am definitely sharing today. What a delightful story!

[0] Capitalized because local heroes

[1] Pure is the word I use in this context. There may be better ones. Please share.
Six arrested for AI-powered investment scams that stole $20M
I'm more confused but why seems to be ignoring (or just being modest?) the technical feats of Quake and Quake 2 and (what I read to be) some sort of "well we just somehow made it work, but the game development (maybe artistic) was the thing" - and I mean, he wrote them - but for Q1 and Q2 working so flawlessly, not crashing, good netcode... for the huge amount of multiplayer I think the revolutionary tech was more important than the art style, even if it pains me to say it. We also played it long after better looking games had come out.

I doubt you'd get the easy moddability into an engine with AI, one of the huge points for the longevity.