skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This graph is a good summary of why that positive thinking mindset doesn't pay off like it used to, and most people are rationally pessimistic: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/wp-content/uploads...

Also, there's a lot of context missing from your analysis. Many people find Elon Musk annoying, even a dick, but his space company has done genuinely innovative stuff and is reliably doing commercial deliveries. Bezos is an even more successful businessman, but he's also almost cartoonishly self-absorbed and increasingly looks like a guy with more money than sense. You could see everyone around him cringing today when he was 'thanking' Amazon customers and employees for paying for his Very Big Adventure.

millions of average persons dedicating 2 or 3h of their 16h/day budget on negative thoughts about other people's lives

Calling bullshit on bullshit isn't dedicating hours to negative thoughts. People dislike Jeff Bezos because his company does things like putting anti-union posters on the insides of employee toilet stalls so people can't have even a moment of privacy at work.
I trust Intuit more than the US government to provide a service like that. Have you ever used a US government web form? Who do you trust more, UPS or USPS?

Don't get me wrong, I don't support their monopoly. The only real solution is to move away from such a complex tax system and do things European style (no tax return).
And generally it isn't any more affordable for patients...here in the US you get the same insurance bill regardless of whether you get seen by a physician or not.
Reusing styles is a huge valid reason. Even today Google Docs/Slides has a convenient “Make a copy” button that is easier for me compared to setting up a template.

I just copy -> rename -> open -> select all -> delete
We're not asking police to delay response, we're asking them to delay shooting people.

But when all you have is a hammer, every citizen looks like a nail.
Its not effective enough for that but if it was people just move on to the next method.
Bezos is a businessman, rockets require engineering.

Sure, he studied electrical engineering in the 80s, but I don't think that's going to help Blue Origin catch up with it's main competitor.
> Yes, they do mention it, but I feel that the relevance of this technique would warrant a more in-depth discussion.

They do have a long section on it at the end discussing hybrid stuff.

> This has nothing to do with TBDR

You are right about TBDR vs deferred rendering on a tile based architecture, but it still seems the article did discuss TBDR too just without naming it (probably due to confusion with explicit deferred rendering by the application):

https://docs.imgtec.com/Architecture_Guides/PowerVR_Architec...

The main technique in there is described in the original article I believe:

[original article] "Some TBR GPUs go even further than that and perform perfect per-pixel hidden surface removal and thus can guarantee that every single pixel gets shaded exactly once throughout the whole subpass. "

vs

[imgtech description of TBDR] "Deferred rendering means that the architecture will defer all texturing and shading operations until all objects have been tested for visibility. The efficiency of PowerVR Hidden Surface Removal (HSR) is high enough to allow overdraw to be removed entirely for completely opaque renders."
This works if your tax situation is W-2 income and investment income from mainstream investments. You start to run into issues for anything you have to report, like small business income. There are also privacy concerns. Mortgage interest is tax is tax deductible, but should the lender be obligated to tell the government it has a relationship with you? In the case of an employer, it makes more sense because the government is taking what it's owed. For deductions, it's what you're owed, so the onus can be more on the individual.
I'm ok with this. Ideally private persons should have an allowance of around 5.000€ (or so) per month in privacy coin usage, where an invoice is the only traceable thing, and everything above that amount should be fully transparent to the authorities (IRS), and pseudoanonymously visible to the public, for journalists to be detectable.

Buy a car? -> IRS can see it. Buy a home? -> IRS can see it. Buy a Smartphone? -> None of anyone's business.

Companies on the other hand should have no such privacy allowance, unless they request and register it with the government and are forced to report any transaction made by them, where the level of detail of the transaction may vary (ie to hide the recipient of a weapons transaction, governments wouldn't approve otherwise, since they like to do shady stuff). The more detail is hidden, the more suspect the transaction will become, but will not appear anywhere public.

I'm not sure how feasible this is, but this would be somewhat similar to the distinction of cash and electronic transactions, with far better control on the amount of spendable cash and a good visibility of the transactions to the IRS.
OP said that we would have to use reflection to make this work in Java, but I think we can also make use of Generic classes:

class Pokemon<T extends PokeType> {
public T type;

public Pokemon(T givenType) {
type = givenType;
}
}

and in main():

Normal n1 = new Normal();
Pokemon<Normal> pokemon1 = new Pokemon<>(n1);
Blocked by paywall, but I'm not asking for a workaround - I'm having trouble parsing the title because of the comma, so please answer me this question:

Is the article expressing joy about Intuit getting beat, or about Intuit beating something?
Think about this number 5 for a moment. Using a simplistic statistical model it means that you have a ~0.4% risk of getting murdered by a gun over a 80 year lifetime. That's not far off of COVID as an unvaccinated individual. Now compare how people react about that news...
I'm not 100% sure this is the intent but normally (in the Netherlands) political prosecution would not require a work visa and/or immigration requirements and you can follow the normal asylum process. Maybe they would want you to follow that and this is only meant for the edge cases not covered by the normal asylum process.

As with all these things, there is a huge list of asterisks involved.
I love this in principle, but the one thing I always wonder about recumbent bicycles is how visible they are to lorries / trucks. I've seen some with a tall aerial-like stem and a flag on top of it, but knowing how bicycles can be pretty invisible to cars even when wearing a reflective top at their eye height, I think I'd always be anxious about being crushed from behind. I suppose that says a lot about cycling infrastructure in the UK in terms of being forced to ride on the same road as massive lorries.

Edit: Actually, looking at the official site - https://twike.com/en/home/ - it's bigger than it seemed to me at first, so perhaps not as bad as recumbent bikes.

Edit 2: Blimey, they're expensive - "The new vehicle price for a TWIKE 5 shall be between 39.900 € and 49.900 € (sales price in Germany, incl. 19% VAT, depending on the battery equipment)."
> I think the economic model that leads to widespread inequity is absolutely a problem, and a thorny one that will need to be solved for sure.

For sure. Let's not kick the can down the road, let's solve it now.

> I see no advantage in dedicating that mental space on hating billionaires, nor in dedicating mental space to what the Kardashians are doing. This stuff is hero-vs-villains thinking, grounded in a comic-book like view of the universe.

See, you think this is a systems problem rather than a people problem and I am saying it is both. This system is created and supported by people, it makes sense to address those specific people. This is not a "comic book like view of the universe". Billionaires should pay more taxes and people shouldn't fall for their self congratulatory bullshit hogging a news cycle.
> You have 3 sections labelled 1.

This is how markdown works. It is handy.
I bet the ladies love this guy
Do you mean superior weapons such as gas grenades?

Guns are the worst, they need line of sight, overpenetrate, protective measures are ineffective, and they might not take the actual target either.

(Only tasers are worse.)
> You have 3 sections labelled 1.

That’s taking advantage of auto-renumbering in markdown, so if they insert an entry they won’t have to change any others.
I'd like to see non-usurious finance make a comeback. Basically the idea that when you borrow $N, you pay back $N*inflation. You can give $X in addition to the amount you're required to pay back but it wouldn't be contractual. We've done these loans to fund some local companies and they were profitable despite not having contractual interest.

Does it scale? I don't think it should. Debt is deeply rooted in our society but I don't think it actually improves things. People overestimate what they have, buy things they don't need, and it raises the prices for the thing artificially. Being locked into credit card debt is nasty and should never be allowed by a responsible society; it makes people as helpless as slaves.

The VC model is awesome: you give $N and take M% of equity, but also take some of the risk.

I suppose the question is how we can transition to a society less reliant on debt.
"He went out the house with a gun, because he heard someone was on his property,"
How then, do you explain the shortages in places it has been forcibly expired?
That's wrong. A court decision doesn't create the obligation to take it down, it "merely" declares that the pre-existing obligation really exists and opens up a way to enforce it.

Without a pre-existing obligation there is no court case. What would you sue for?
> ...which is mostly due to more energy efficient appliances and decreasing industrial usage isn't impacting lifestyles.

For energy efficiency to cover the change + population growth with no winding back of lifestyles it would need to be something like a 30% increase in efficiency over 10 years, affecting all electrical devices in the country. There is reason to be sceptical that it is a major factor here.

Add to that there is an argument/observation (Jevons's Paradox) that increasing efficiency of using a commodity generally doesn't lead to reduced usage. If it made sense to procure X commodity when it generated Y, it makes it even more sensibly to procure X when it gets you (Y+something).

As for decreasing industrial use ... the default position when a country jettisons its industry is "gee, that might reasonable upset a lot of people and/or cause social problems!". The changes are rather large. Deindustrialising might foreseeable lead to such things as stagnating real wages, as the country can't produce as many goods, or massively inflated house prices as it becomes more difficult to secure useful work/build new houses.
Newspapers https://imgur.com/a/bBFzgF6
Yup, they are built roughly 5 km from where i live, and you can see one or two on a daily basis. They have this '80s eco design' charme and after a testdrive a few years ago i can say: If i had the money, i would buy one anytime.
I was happy to read your comment. As soon as the guy started describing how he was trying to achieve goals, I knew it wasn't Buddhism.
Another approach I have seen is giving privacy to the spender but not the receiver of money: https://taler.net/en/index.html
Compile your application with Electron.
This is awesome, I was just wondering if something like this exists.
TypeScript is for big simple projects, not small complex ones
"Work harder" does not mean much though. It's an empty saying.
If I click anywhere after play I get back to the screen where I can press play.
What scares me about Rust is that people put so much trust in it. And part of that is because of what you mention, the hype in other words.

I don't follow this carefully but even I have heard of at least one Rust project that when audited failed miserably. Not because of memory safety but because the programmer had made a bunch of rookie mistakes that senior programmers might be better at.

So in other words, Rust's hype is going to lead to a lot of rewrites and a lot of new software being written in Rust. And much of that software will have simple programming errors that you can do in any language. So we're going to need a whole new wave of audits.
Here in the UK I don't need to file taxes at all as an employee.
Yeah… the press loves the term “hacked”. Remember when Voicemail PIN guessing was “phone hacking”?
Copper Penny Sorter
>> Information drives financial

That's not true. Government money printing drives financial markets.
> So, it's an Nx(NxN/2) half grid.

No, it's an NxN grid. Look at the second half of my comment.

> This is easily solved on the implementation side by making sure, for example, that the enum values for the second 2 arguments are always in ascending order.

So that when somebody invokes your function and passes the defender's types in the order listed for the Pokemon rather than sorting them beforehand, you crash?
My point is that they have more data and experience on deciding whether a call is legitimate or not. More than the GP here, who read two articles about SWAT-ing before deciding to upend the entire system.

> regularly get the wrong house

Citation needed, with data? Or do you, like GP, also want us to assume that your anecdotes are data? And getting the exact address isn’t the same thing as deciding the legitimacy of a call.

> “it’s probably correct so we should ignore the problem” isn’t a sane perspective

You’ve mischaracterised my comment and called me insane. That was uncalled for. I did not say this wasn’t a problem. I merely questioned whether a person with 0 data and 0 experience was qualified to call for upending the current system. More data is needed before we can hold such strong opinions.

I would request that in future you don’t call people’s opinions insane without even understanding what they’re saying. You’re currently in violation of HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
I think Perl not having OO built-in hurt it a lot when the trend towards OO started.

Of course Perl is more functional than OO so maybe it's time for a comeback now the pendulum has swung back...
The twike is not much smaller than a small car, and perhaps even a bit bigger than a Smart ForTwo... so, no real problem here... and i can asure you: If there is one of those around, they HAVE the attention of any driver around them ;-)
"Do we believe that someone would go to the effort of setting up GPT to generate fake papers..."

I'd say it depends on what their desired outcome is.

If they know that other people are using AI to assess the literature about a particular topic, then the content only needs to be good enough to pass that analytical AI's sniff test and bias the corpus in the way that the owner wants it to.

If the owner is lazy, perhaps that affords some time against this kind of pollution. But the costs and level of effort involved will continue to reduce.
Show HN: Message-style ad space that allows you to monetize your activity
I can't speak for elsewhere, but giant cuts to the largest public expenses (healthcare, public education, social welfare) would just be political suicide here, all but guaranteed loss in the next election.
> The location is where the secret key is stored.

What does that even mean, lol?

If I put the secret key, in a private dropbox account, do I no longer have to declare the wallet to anyone?

What about if I simply memorize the password?

Its not that simple, to determine where a secret key is stored.
Billionaires became billionaires by collecting economic rent from the actual wealth-producers - their employees, i.e., the rest of us. When they turn around and spend it on what's basically the tech equivalent of bling, the resentment is fully justified.
The US has much harsher punishment than other countries. The main result is that it has 10 times more prisoner, literally, than all other countries. Has it resulted in less crimes than in other countries?
suffixes -> prefixes
I wouldn't put Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin in the same category. I think Blue Origin is actually closer to SpaceX.

Blue Origin has demonstrated a very sophisticated rocket, fully automated, with re-useable booster able to land vertically. They are the second in the world to have this after SpaceX, as far as I know. Next year they plan to fly their new rocket (New Glenn) that will have orbital capabilities (about 13t of payload to GTO).
> According to commercially available records of app signal data obtained by The Pillar, a mobile device correlated to Burrill emitted app data signals from the location-based hookup app Grindr on a near-daily basis during parts of 2018, 2019, and 2020 — at both his USCCB office and his USCCB-owned residence, as well as during USCCB meetings and events in other cities.

https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/pillar-investigates-usccb-g...
You could be asked to sign a message provided to you by the government. That would be enough.

It's interesting, because normally a bank/exchange would do that for you, but in this case, it's up to you to report which assets you own. The fact that it is possible is the interesting thing here.
Its worth reading the original press release[1]

Relevant section:

"At present, only certain categories of crypto-asset service providers are included in the scope of EU AML/CFT rules. The proposed reform will extend these rules to the entire crypto sector, obliging all service providers to conduct due diligence on their customers. Today's amendments will ensure full traceability of crypto-asset transfers, such as Bitcoin, and will allow for prevention and detection of their possible use for money laundering or terrorism financing. In addition, anonymous crypto asset wallets will be prohibited, fully applying EU AML/CFT rules to the crypto sector."

"In addition, providing anonymous crypto-asset wallets will be prohibited, just as anonymous bank accounts are already prohibited by EU AML/CFT rules."

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_21_...

Edit: More content.
SF? I wanna see it for NYC. I swear there's lot of space out there not on market.
> Mortgage interest is tax is tax deductible, but should the lender be obligated to tell the government it has a relationship with you?

Yes, the govt has an interest in knowing the source of revenue for banks. Not only for money laundering and tax fraud, but ensuring the banks have stable income sources to avoid bank failures.
A Battle for Acceptance in Elite Sports
I used to see these occasionally on the road in Switzerland and often would drive behind them, as they were naturally a lot slower on the open road than most cars.
CVE-2021-36934: Serious HiveNightmare Vulnerability in Windows 10
Pursuant to 28 U.S..C. § 1746, Jane Doe, hereby declares [pdf]
Bitcoin's goal was to help people "get out" of the traditional financial system "not inside it".

Everyone knows where the real money laundering and terrorist financing happens.

It is done by the likes of HSBC, Standard Chartered and other big banks.

This is public knowledge, as we have seen with the Panama papers and most recently the FinCen files.

Our financial institutions are too rotten for you to even assume that the intention of this regulation is altruistic (i.e public benefit).

The tradition of regulation in finance is to perform a kind of scam called "regulator capture"[0].

It is what we have mostly observed to be the goal of complex financial regulations. For it to divert from this would be an exception.

[0]: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/regulatory-capture.asp
As a comp-sci graduate, as someone who grew into computing through the late 80s and 90s, the files-based paradigm makes a lot of sense to me. But is it really the ideal model/UX for most people? Files are hard to manage. Most people don’t do library work, or habitually create relationship hierarchies. (I do it all the time; I love a taxonomy, but it’s work, and the general pattern for memory is association, not hierarchy).

I worry the “apps” paradigm focuses users on brands and encourages lock-in, walled gardens, and so on.

I think we need a third way.
I had something similar, although simpler: it's called a velomobile (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velomobile). It's a bike but with some added aerodynamics. You can easily ride at 40km/hour (~24mi) only with your muscles.

It was very nice to drive: very stable and rather fast and i did 2x20km/day to work. However its bigger weight compared to a simple bicycle makes it not suitable to mountains
Wearing a helmet is a good thing. Forcing people to wear a helmet is a bad thing.

The former reduces risk for the wearer, the latter increases risk for cyclists as a whole indirectly.
> I'm definitely not a lawyer/expert on this, even less about Germany specifically, but isn't actual financial damage required for financial compensation? While Stockfish might have suffered damage from ChessBase's behavior, if it can't be clearly specified as monetary damage, I don't really see how they could make money from this.

In the US there are statutory damages for copyright infringement ($50k per act of infringement, tripled if wilful) so you're entitled to that much without having to prove any actual damages.
Although it is possible that it isn't a problem, you haven't actually argued why beyond vaguely being optimistic. Banning older generation lightbulbs will not cause a 20% decrease in electricity over 10 years.

The default position when a country's electricity use drops 20% is to be concerned. If they do the same thing 4 more times they will have returned to the stone age.
> chanting

When I was a kid / teen, I could get into an altered state by repeating a word (any word) in my mind. After a short while, I would "disconnect" (I don't know how to describe it) :)
That's a reasonable point, but I think in many ways it's a reflection of bimodal distributions which pervade modern life.
JLL Saved 600 Liters of Water per Tap Annually Through Legionella Compliance
Just look at this danish icon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CityEl?wprov=sfti1
Depends. Would it be Thursday between 09:00 and 16:00? If so they'd have someone here in 25 minutes. If not, it'd take something like an hour until someone turned up and asked if I wanted to make a report.
These are awesome, but they are too small (and too slow) for the road and too big for the bike path or sidewalk.

I ride a scooter to work everyday. (Inokim Ox). Its legal on the sidewalk where I live. I really think scooters are the future.
5 years? Ridiculous. This person needs to be sent to a much worse place than a prison for life.
Do you think we need corroborating evidence of a fire before rolling a fire truck, or is a phone call enough there?
Standard practice elsewhere is to send the nearest foot or car patrol to investigate, and prepare intervention team as backup.

No idea why you would send an intervention team in blind, much less on an unconfirmed tip. It's a recipe for all kinds of disasters and expensive one too.
The very rich also have the tools to dodge all those transparency regulations; and the political power to ensure that the ones they can't dodge, don't get adopted. By and large, all laws and regulations are for the proles.
Thank you because I honestly had no idea what that was referring to and you gave it a lot of colour
This sounds an awful lot like prototype inheritance. Turns out people don't seem to like it - it's essentially vestigal in javascript these days, most people seem to use the class system built on top of it and that was true even in the good old days before support for it was added to the language keywords. It was rare to find code that actually used prototypes as prototypes rather than slightly odd ways of defining classes.
One unnamed company is still struggling to secure a print spooler after most of a month. I don't have the optimism you do.