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atxbcp··on The AI startup drama that's damaging Y Combinator's reputation
The article only states that the post was deliberately lowered in the rankings to reduce its visibility. "Is this true" ? What your explanation is hinting at, although you're not saying it outright, is that "Yes, that's true." The graph posted below speaks for itself.
atxbcp··on The AI startup drama that's damaging Y Combinator's reputation
Yes, that's true. The thread reached the top of Hacker News, then disappeared. I had to use HN Algolia to find it again.
atxbcp··on Large Enough
Please don't assume your experience applies to everyone. If ChatGPT can't do what I want, my first reaction is to ask Claude for the same thing. Often to find out that Claude performs much better. I've already cancelled ChaptGPT Plus for exactly that reason.
atxbcp··on Japan to introduce six-month residency visa for 'digital nomads'
Tourists expecting to form lasting connections with locals always made me laugh. How deep can these connections be if you're only staying for a month? Why would a local invest in a 'lasting' connection that's just for a month?
atxbcp··on What's New in Python 3.12
And in my experience, nesting f-strings and using quotes in f-strings is more useful than the GIL and faster start-up times, so YMMV.
atxbcp··on Illustrated JavaScript coding course for absolute beginners [pdf]
200 slides to cover loops and conditionals ?
atxbcp··on Python: Overlooked core functionalities

  - none of these functionalities are "overlooked", this is pretty basic python
  - for fibonacci you have a decorator for memoization (functools cache / lru_cache)
  - you don't need to use parenthesis for a single line "if"
atxbcp··on The world is watching in disbelief as France tears itself apart
they've been in France a few decades, France is a more than a thousand years old, how can they have been integral to building to French economy ? were they here during the industrial revolution ? the "30 glorieuses" ? no.
atxbcp··on Bard is getting better at logic and reasoning
Just tried the first prompt with ChatGPT... : "One kilogram of steel and two kilograms of feathers weigh the same. The weight of an object is determined by its mass, not the material it is made of. In this case, one kilogram is equal to two kilograms, so they have the same weight. However, it's important to note that the volume or size of the objects may be different due to the difference in density between steel and feathers." Okay...
atxbcp··on DuckDuckGo removed the ability to filter search results
> There are 10x the customers who don't have any idea about these search operators, and sometimes accidentally include one, and are dissatisfied with the results

but then they could disable them by default, and users can enable them in the settings ? Removing them entirely just makes the product worse.

atxbcp··on Medical wordlists in English, French and Ukrainian
And in the "diseases wordlist", you have "chute des cheveux" and... "voyeuriste" (https://github.com/theophpo/medical-wordlist/blob/main/fr/di...). So, yeah, I didn't look any further but these word lists make no sense at all.

edit: and "chiasse" is also a disease it would seem (L480).

atxbcp··on WAN router IP address change blamed for global Microsoft 365 outage
That's not entirely true, you can rollback a change on modern switches/routers, either via a rollback command, or with a revert timer (configure terminal revert timer X) (because the new configuration might have made the router unreachable, so you're never sure you'll be able to rollback manually if you're working remotely).
atxbcp··on How the U.K. Became One of the Poorest Countries in Western Europe
Except they do. A very few risk their lives to reach the UK (usually because they have family there), but millions choose to stay in Western Europe (e.g France, Germany).
atxbcp··on Fields Medals 2022
It is at least partially due to the education system: MPSI -> MP -> ENS Cachan / Lyon / Ulm. Very hard entrance exams to make sure they get the best students. Small promotion (IIRC around 40 students per year for ENS Ulm FIMFA) = homogeneous level.
atxbcp··on Fields Medals 2022
You misunderstood my comment. I said it felt out of place *here*, in a video dedicated to her mathematical work, hosted on mathunion.org (the clue is in the URL). Doesn't mean she cannot talk about the war in general. As for Marie Curie, I don't think they had Internet and 24-hour news channels back then. I don't need mathematicians to bring attention to the war in Ukraine when everyone is constantly talking about it already.
atxbcp··on Fields Medals 2022
I wasn't even thinking about that, but then I watched all videos, and in hers she spends more time talking about the war than she does talking about her work. I understand she's been affected but that feels out of place here.
atxbcp··on Flask Mega-Tutorial (2017)
what you don't understand is that FastAPI is not a web framework, so it is neither fast nor slow, it's just a patchwork of libraries on top of Starlette.
atxbcp··on Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash
A russian equivalent based on the fact that foreign words aren't declined: Человек человеку волк, а зомби зомби зомби
atxbcp··on Bulgaria Freelance Taxes: Detailed Breakdown
By paying yourself with a salary via your company, you'd pay 10% revenue tax + health insurance (ЗО) + social insurance (ДЗПО, ДОО)... except the insurance part is capped on a maximum revenue of 3000 BGN or something like that... so as you make more money, your total tax rate converges to 10%. Take these numbers with a grain of salt because I'm no accountant, but I know for sure your accountant is wrong, because I know how much tax I pay, and that's close to 11.5% total.
atxbcp··on Bulgaria Freelance Taxes: Detailed Breakdown
The numbers in this article are wrong, especially the company vs individual chart: you'd only pay 16% tax with a company if you paid yourself in dividends. Past a certain threshold, with a company, the best option is to pay yourself a salary every month. Then your tax rate will be in the 11 - 15% range depending on your income.

source: I've got a company in Bulgaria

conclusion: coming to Bulgaria to pay less taxes can definitely be done, but hire a local accountant and get professional advice.

atxbcp··on Why Computing Students Should Contribute to Open Source Software Projects
they are not equivalent, and they couldn't be, shouldn't be, and won't be. Most engineering schools recruit after two years of highly theoretical education in mathematics and physics (classes préparatoires) and the level in mathematics and physics is much higher than the undergraduate level in the university. You're being misled by the term "engineering school" which makes it sound like this is some practical / technical education, when it's in fact the exact opposite.
atxbcp··on Why Computing Students Should Contribute to Open Source Software Projects
The french "engineering schools" are actually considered the elite scientific education in France. They are infinitely more selective than universities and provide much better job options. Equating french engineering school with US community college makes no sense whatsoever, and saying "a university graduate has more job options than a graduate from those other schools" is plain wrong (in France).
atxbcp··on How Sex Surrogates Are Helping Injured Israeli Soldiers
For those interested in the topic of sex surrogates, I recommend the movie "The sessions" (2012, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1866249/)
atxbcp··on PEP 563, PEP 649 and the future of pydantic and FastAPI
Not sure what else they could say, when 95% of FastAPI features come directly from Starlette. Again, the code on github speak for itself. As for the remaining 5%, that's basically pydantic and the swagger / openAPI stuff: questionably useful and very easily reimplemented if need be.

The way I see it, FastAPI stole much of the recognition Starlette deserved. I find it a bit sad. Starlette is where all the async magic happens.

atxbcp··on PEP 563, PEP 649 and the future of pydantic and FastAPI
FastAPI is just a rip off of Starlette, it's obvious when you look at the code (https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/blob/master/fastapi/temp..., https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/blob/master/fastapi/test..., etc). Hopefully this change will kill FastAPI and force people to use the original project that is Starlette (https://www.starlette.io/)

As to why people used FastAPI instead of Starlette in the first place, it comes down to hype and great marketing.

atxbcp··on My simple GitHub project went viral
The "clones" listed in this project is what I deem to be good content, i.e actual creative work that took much more time and effort than putting together yet another "awesome-whatever" list. That is what I would support.
atxbcp··on My simple GitHub project went viral
Zero hosting cost, zero added value, why would you donate anything for a project like this ?
atxbcp··on English is relatively easy to learn, but not to master (2018)
here's a poem you might find interesting: Полюбила парня я - Оказался без хуя. Нахуя мне без хуя, Когда с хуем дохуя.
atxbcp··on Show HN: How attractive is your website? Check using Visual Mind AI
Doesn't work on my website: "The URL provided is not correct"
atxbcp··on I'm Open Sourcing the Have I Been Pwned Code Base
One of the tweets in the article says Github is open-source: it's not.
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