skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
56% in favor. 15% actively against. Majority support even by members of the party that was most against it.

When Cameron first called the referendum Remain was in the lead. When topics are debated thoroughly in the public sphere and serious campaigns are run, people's opinions can shift pretty dramatically. That's why politicians campaign.

Nobody has ever spent time campaigning to keep railways privatised in the UK because the Conservatives have always chosen to fight elections on other issues, whilst Labour have made nationalisation a priority for years. If people were asked to make a direct decision on this and there was competent campaigning involved, I am very sure nationalisation would lose. The arguments are weak.

87% of Britons polled said that they are very proud of [the NHS]

The same poll showed even more people are "proud" of the fire brigade, although there's nothing special about the British fire service. They are also more "proud" of the post office than Oxford or Cambridge universities. All that poll says is that people tend to answer "proud" (whatever that's interpreted to mean) when asked about institutions which they frequently interact with and are rarely exposed to any criticism of.

Just like with the railways, British people are not exposed to serious debate about the NHS. The Conservatives have, for now at least, given up trying to debate it because they prefer to be a centrist party and because Labour consistently exploit people's emotions by conflating the NHS with healthcare. For instance the left will happily imply that any criticism of the NHS (a bureaucracy) means hatred of nurses and loving of cancer, or other nonsense.
Thanks for taking my question seriously.

I guess I get hung up on the quantum field part because I don't understand what exactly a quantum field is in a physical sense. I get that there's a mathematical concept of a quantum field, but does that map to something concrete? Is everything essentially made of nothing?
It's irrelevant what it is or isn't, people are paying money for their art. How can you tell someone like this guy https://twitter.com/deekaymotion who recently starting making good money off his work that he's a grifter?
I don't think FP has anything to do with how data is represented, it's more related to how we operate on that data.
>On the balance, Singapore is much more free in the economical sphere than the UK

Singapore is massively more favorable to investors and this gets charactized as "free".

Forced savings accounts with strict rules about how you can use the money are pretty much the antithesis of economic freedom, for instance, but it won't show up in economic freedom indices. The Economist is squarely aimed at foreign investors with moolah to invest, not Singaporean toilet cleaners pissed off that they can't access their CPF.

>As for exploitation of workers, Singapore has seen massively more wage growth than the UK over the last 50 years

As for exploitation of workers, Russia has seen even more wage growth than the UK in the last 20 years (somewhwre between 60-150% I think?).

Would you like to endorse the lack of exploitation of Russian citizens or retract your statement?

>Singapore's simulation of a free market economy has been offering more practical liberty and working better at raising living standards.

Ironically it's been the deliberately anti free market stuff they've done which has boosted living standards the most. The HDB program is practically Soviet both in inspiration and nature and dragged the citizens out of shantytown kampongs and led to an exceptionally well oiled and competitive private property market that brings a huge inflows of capital.

This is in addition to the Winsemius plan.

>Ideally, the UK would maintain its pluralistic and democratic core, while adopting Singapore's economic policies.

Ideally none of that. It's their economic policies that are partly what made it such a nasty place for me to work in. I was so glad to come home.

Just my 2 cents as somebody who lived under the "investors uber alles" regime.
I’m genuinely confused by this comment and any downvotes. No candidate is doing unpaid work for us or for this service (ie. building out their platform). It's a way to validate a skillset, pure and simple, and that's how this platform makes its money. The output from a candidate has no business value aside from this.

I can understand distaste about having a time imbalance (ie. a candidate is not investing the same # of ours as our staff), but like I said, this is a one and done thing and can be used w/ a way to cut down time working with any other companies using the platform.

For us it means going directly to the final rounds, whether they took it at our suggestion, for another company, or just did it for themselves. If they do it for us and they don't end up with an offer, they are not left empty-handed from the process.

In sum, it moves toward some sort of accreditation system, that’s the reason I mentioned it. It's a shame my comment is at the bottom of the pile as I too would love a future where the only time spent interviewing is just a couple hours getting to know my future teammates, and I truly feel platforms like this may eventually get us there.

All the same I'd appreciate feedback on why they're disliked. I've seen them mentioned in other HN threads without any vitriol.
But Adobe don't sell copies - it's a subscription that works on whatever platform and they gain nothing from people switching architecture.

So what are you on about?
You might be right, though I do not have a good reference to compare Emacs + evil with. I think by default Emacs is a somewhat mediocre editor, the one thing that saves it is the unparalleled customizability, which should allow you to slowly prune the randomness and inconsistencies. But it is a commitment, not everybody wants a relationship with their editor. Btw, I regularly play Tetris in emacs ;-)
>Sir Tim Berners-Lee says too many young people do not have internet access and the digital divide has widened during the pandemic.

Given the mental health crisis in young people (especially girls) stemming from social media use and ever present landmine of writing something inappropriate that will destroy your life later ... is that such a bad thing?
Yeah; related tangents: I think it was Dr Ben Hardy whose advice resonated best with me: "Always make decisions in your peak energy state". It means I'm sometimes overly ambitious or set the bar too high, but overall it serves me well.

Also, acknowledging and leveraging different modes of thinking: "open" or expansive, broad, associative, free-form on one hand vs "closed" or focused, directed, narrow, deep on the other. We tend to associate flowstate with the latter, but some of the most profound and impactful work I've ever produced has stemmed directly from the former.

So many thoughts here; this topic fascinates me.
Even the Aeron is uncomfortable after a while. I left Aeron chairs after 10 years and switched to standing. 15 years later, I feel so much better. Also, it’s now so much faster to come and go from my desk.
Professor Scott Galloway raises $30M for an online school
In a cop show, they'd bust everyone they could with the info they have. Then they'd say something publicly like, "the work is only starting", to make the folks they can't bust nervous enough to do something stupid.

The Galaxy brain move is maybe to realize that this news will cause the crims to move to a new network, and to have one waiting for them.

E:sp
LiPo and LFP are very different things. LiPo is probably the biggest fire risk battery chemistry in common use today. LFP is pretty safe. LTO even more so.
Ryzen isn’t popular in the high end laptop class.
I'm sure some people in the UK believe those things - just not very many.
Dropbox also has CLI. If that was the only way to access dropbox, average consumer would be out of luck too.

GnuPG has a ton of frontends. I can do three clicks in gajim and have chat secured by GnuPG. Or manage keys with some system keyring app like seahorse (https://wiki.debian.org/Seahorse), or whatever.

The problem is only education. Dropbox just pays a ton of money to put their solution in front of people's eyes via ads, and whatever.

GnuPG obviously does not do that on the same level.

Also securing your communication via asymmetric cryptography requires a bit more understanding and data hygiene than uploading a file somewhere. So it will be an uphill battle regardless of the UI.
I believe this is how Zig works. Specifically the FixedBufferAllocator. It can further be paired with the ArenaAllocator to make management dead simple.
It's a beautiful place. Stalin used to have a house there.

If it weren't for its current situation, it would be a great destination for tourists.
The moments we realized the pandemic would change everything
I Hate My New Alarm Clock
Break through your No-code limits by mastering Bubble plugins
BRA71L!!!
Would you pay for an API for educational domains (to verify edu user accounts)?
It is nice to provide discounts to educational users. The ideal way to verify the users is through email domains.

There is an existing Ruby gem caller SWOT, but it has not been updated since 2015. Also, it doesn’t cover K-12, charter, or private schools.

I am considering creating an API to cover what SWOT does not. Is this something you would be willing to pay for? Getting all that school info is a lot of work.
Or a 40L tank full of gasoline in your garage?
Did anyone suggest thinking of ker/im as "boundaries modulo cycles"? That is, homology detects "holes," loosely speaking, and a hole is exactly something that you can draw a cycle around, where that cycle is not the boundary of some disk (in 2 dimensions, for example).

To be even more concrete, if I cut out a disk from a piece of paper, I've created a cycle (the circle bounding the disk) that is not the boundary of any disk in the piece of paper (because I cut it out).

Admittedly, this gets a little funkier in higher dimensions, but for 2 dimensions, it's a good guide. (I think Hatcher's book has a discussion of how to make this idea precise in higher dimensions.)
Idris and F* have a much much more advanced type system, compared to Typescript and Rust. But even if you deem these languages not "mainstream" enough, there is still e.g. Scala which has a typesystem that beats the one of Rust by far and also the one of Typescript, minus certain special cases where Typescript is really nice.

It is great to see though that even frontend-mainstream languages like Typescript start to get proper support for type-systems (especially considering that they had to do it on top of Javascript).

Very excited to see where we go with languages and I agree with you that TDD should now by default mean "type driven development". :)
The difference between manufacturing and crypto is that manufacturing actually, you know, manufactures stuff. It makes stuff that is useful to people. It contributes to human society.

The energy consumed to power cryptocurrencies contributes nothing to society. It's literally destroying the environment in order to run as many SHA256 hashes as possible per second.
Ask HN: How would you make a service to store digital files for 500 years?
Lets say you wanted to set up an organisation or archive that promised to keep documents, images etc for at least 500 years. You could charge clients money to store stuff. Material can optionally made public, and/or set to be public after a certain date (e.g. expiry of copyright). The organisation should be expected to continue to operate in future years and receive material. The archive should be resistant to geographical political and technological upheavals, but operate in compliance with international laws. The key selling point is that unlike every other service that has been before, this will never stop hosting it.

Technology: How would you choose the right tech to ensure durability and stability over time. I imagine things would need to be upgraded, but things do degrade as well.
I'm possibly thinking it may also offer a premium service to offer real cold storage to store digital material even to survive a global catastrophe. How should such things be stored?

How would you set up the organisation? Should it be non profit?

How would it be funded? I expect most clients would want to pay initially, but I also expect the clients and their organisations to have gone extinct before the 500 years are up. Ownership would probably be done via legal deeds.

How could a guarantee of at least 500 years be granted now if the organisation doesn't have enough funds to set everything up.

How would an organisation be established which could guarantee the mission from the start? Far too often we see noble and good technology companies get compromised over time. How can this be resistant to that? I imagine it would be running when I die, and when my successors die. How can I ensure, now, that the organisation continues with the same mission?

What would be the best way to set up the infrastructure to be resistant to political upheavals around the world, whilst still abiding by international laws? (e.g. copyright).
> have more historical evidence of supranations falling apart

Debatable. But even if the EU was - or was not - a tightly integrated federated state, I'm far more concerned about the UK withdrawing itself from the world's largest free trade bloc. I see it heading towards either economic protectionism (bad in the long-term) or getting into a race-to-the-bottom (potentially even worse).
>Is the internet really to blame though?

You think kids are going to use the internet for homework and research?
Great video. It's interesting to see how far semantic segmentation has progressed since 2009.
I don't get it. It seems like selling virtual gold mined from Ultima Online macros circa 2001. Without anything of intrinsic worth, it doesn't seem like a durable investment. It does seem like a good way to dodge taxes and export drug money. I'd rather have a real van Gogh rolled-up somewhere in my FU money civilization-escape yacht.
The Conservatives are "pretty hard right"?

LOL
The NYC subway frequently has multiple stops with the same name, e.g. “23 St” (at Lexington Av, Broadway, 6 Av and 8th Av). That’s not always a big problem in Manhattan, because they’re relatively close. But it gets more interesting when you try to get to DeKalb (L) towards the extreme north end of Brooklyn, while DeKalb (BQR) in downtown Brooklyn is the one people know.
What proportion of the NFT mania is actually artists making money vs grifters and scammers making money?
Agreed - there are entire industries that simply have not caught up with secure management of paperwork, PII and financial information. To be frank, I'm not sure how that's possible with all the regulation.

The mortgage industry is shockingly one of these. I just refinanced again after doing it 5 years ago. I was really curious to see if anything had changed in the 5 years. Any advances in basic tech? Was my experience going to be more secure?

Answer: Nope. Still the same old stuff, hard copies of everything, people asking me for stuff via email. Blatant disregard for privacy. Just absolutely terrible.

Multiple times the guy at the bank asked for my banking statements (which include full account number, balances, PII, etc.) and EVERY TIME I had to ask him to resend the link to their secure email portal. Worse - they never even offered secure transmission as an option...I had to ask about that option. It's clearly not the default behavior.

Interestingly, the closing company was lightyears ahead of the bank. They had contracted a SaaS vendor that provided a secure digital document management product focused on mortgage closing, and I was able to e-sign everything (even able to scan in my signature and apply to documents). I mean, this isn't earth-shattering tech, but it sure was one hell of an upgrade compared to the bank. That's what all banks should be providing today; overall it was a far better experience than the bank.
This sounds like wishful thinking at every step.
What about VSCode in browser? Code-server is the github repo I believe. I have it on a $10 DigitalOcean instance, it can be running in 5 minutes using Docker. Your compilations would be happening on the server then; potentially you could scale it when you're using it.
You do see teams come back from unlikely deficits in sports every now and then. Not common of course but it does happen. And it tends to happen when the leading team decides to obviously just play defensively.
My biggest problem is thinking instead of building.

I’ve had and still have some great ideas, and that’s all they amounted to thus far.

When I’ve started to build, I get stuck spending a lot of time to produce very little, because I try to implement a novel way to do something simple that no one would want while deploying it easily and handling requests quickly.

My greatest dream is that I write something eventually that actually works and that people would want to use.

My greatest fear is that either that no one would use it, because I don’t need it or understand the need for it, or that it would work, not scale, and I’d have leveraged everything and let everyone and myself down.

Also, execution bores me. It’s more fun ideating, thinking and analyzing, but I’d like to be responsible for creating things that are interesting and solve problems or make life better.

I’m unsure where the risk-averse creative fits into a startup CEO role.
Zig requires the allocator to be specified for each allocation: https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.5.0/#Memory

This has a huge impact on the API design, so I don't think this can be retrofit in standard libraries of existing languages (because of backwards compatibility).
I'm on the other end of that curve; I tend towards thinking and mentally mapping / exploring permutations and implications at the expense of build/ship/iterate. I've learned to adopt a bias to action when called for, but it's a conscious effort. IMHO teams with a range of cognitive styles are the most effective.
Hahaha yeh same here. People thinking I was mad talking about it until Snowden came around
Prepare for serious astroturfing if this post gets any traction.
Relevant similar quotations: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/02/09/efficient/
Imagine what else must be there.

And all the other jewels that must have already gone extinct without anyone ever knowing about them.
For the historical HN crowd, a MacBook Air less than $2000 is definitely entry level.

My high end Dell XPS was $2600, and the M1 Air blows it away for half the price.
It's a tamper-proof prediction to the world that cannot be altered by any party
From my perspective (being Canadian, and having enough money to purchase milk) the price is fine with me. No one in my family drinks milk. My kids have it with cereal, and I use it for cooking. A price of $5 CDN for 4L of regular milk, and $9 CDN for 4L of organic milk is just high enough to ensure that it is drunk in moderation. Using Walmart, I chose Plano, TX and the price of 1 gallon of Walmart brand milk costs $2.41 USD which converts to $3.05 CDN so Canadians pay a $2 premium. I purchase 4L every 2 weeks, so I pay $48 more per year to have a milk system that benefits the farmers, and their neighbours. I'm OK with that. Plus that extra $2 ensures that Canadian milk doesn't contain growth hormones which are permitted in the USA.[1]

[1] https://bcdairy.ca/milk/articles/does-milk-contain-growth-ho...
Thank you, we want to try this. I despise subscription model software. I wish I could find my Adobe Photoshop 6.0 disk, it did everything I need just fine.
What the World Wants Today?
I love the fact that it's not just a seperate product, but it's also included in the existing bitwarden password safe. That's just awesome. I can't wait for v1.40 to be released on monday for self-hosted instances.

Best 10 bucks I spend annually, tbh...
A QA cycle probably takes 2 weeks.
Is there a solution that provides the value of the blockchain for cryptoArt without the wasteful power consumption?
I’d settle for a spaceship with life-extension tech to wander around for an eternity.
I suppose that would depend on how many of those machines were set up with Migration Assistant, which transfers nearly all the cruft from an old machine, all the way down to Homebrew packages and other CLI tools. Doesn’t really feel like a “new computer” when you’re greeted with the same desktop and console.

My anecdata last weekend was 60% to 90% JavaScript benchmarks from a loaded 15” to an M1 Air, that coupled with no fans screaming at me sure felt new.
Pinebook pro maybe ?
Cannabis is very much psychologically addictive and hence the word pothead. If you don't know the pot culture and you don't see how these people can't have fun or pass a day without pot you will change your mind
That was indeed a autocorrect issue, and if that was what caused the confusion, I apologize. I've also done nothing but reiterate the same point from the start, which you seemed quite opposed to consider. This has also devolved into name-calling, so, not sure why you bothered at all.

Even if admittedly, the word "usable" (hard to misunderstand in the context, IMO) should have been "useful", the usable part of this could very much have been for other knowledgeable software developers/designers for it to be the backend of something user-friendly. As such, not even "usable" in that context would have been wrong. Regardless, this would require some modicum willingness for benefit of doubt, which, I do not expect at this point. My only advice to you, is that perhaps don't assume people are children, and perhaps you'll find it easier to see meaning in their arguments.
Man, I’ve done the same. There are too many streaming devices. It’s ridiculous.
at a certain level, companies will hire people that execs know/have worked with

In Wales we call this “jobs for the boyos”.
>Just like with the railways, British people are not exposed to serious debate about the NHS.

They're exposed to investor dogma like yours on a daily basis from most of the investor owned media (telegraph, the mail, etc.). It isn't quite as vehement as yours because they know the limits of what their audience would accept but their owners views are broadly in line with yours.

It's a bit hard to attack an institution that cured your readerships' mother's cancer, for instance, and not lose their trust. They learned this lesson the hard way.

>For instance the left will happily imply that any criticism of the NHS (a bureaucracy) means hatred of nurses

They'll state that a below inflation pay rise does that because it does. They tried to supplant it with a weekly "clap a thon" instead. Cringeworthy.

Although, it's not strictly nurses investors and the investor backed government hate it's nursing unions, among other impediments to parasitic US-style profit driven value extraction.
A 15 W mobile chip would be considered entry level for most laptops.
> they just have some piece of paper which they use to enforce their "ownership" with violence

Technically, the state has the "monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force" and other actions, so the threat of violence to non-compliers is part of the law (and probably the largest part if you go far enough back in time to when the land claim originated).

But this is a digression, unless you're making the point that NFTs and suchlike junk are lacking even that customary legitimacy. Without it, a dollar is mere "paper fiat". With it, it's a buck.

> It's almost like a parody of private property ownership.

Yep, without backing, this is make-believe ownership.
Not technically enforceable on a .jpg image, not legally enforceable because existing property rights laws take precedence.
It killed 0.185% of the UK with restrictions in place that limited the infections to 6.28% of the population.

Unconstrained spread would’ve been a bit over one order of magnitude worse, even if that hypothetical somehow managed to avoid overwhelming the NHS with exponential growth making half of all cases happen in the final doubling period.
A MacBook Air is 100% entry level.
A yoga ball is actually a better chair than this thing.