skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the available jobs in Dublin for e.g. Google, I don't think that's wholly accurate. Ireland's tax story does attract US multinationals, but they're not just shell companies.
I might have heard this statement from every single country in the planet by now.
Many of the Soviet-era textbooks (mainly by Mir Publishers) are now published by low-cost Indian publishers and available on Amazon.in. Just search Amazon.in for Piskunov, Irodov, Vygodsky etc.
If you haven't seen the work Nick Black is doing with notcurses [0] it's pretty amazing to see what it can do with bitmapped graphics in a modern terminal. Makes me wonder if we're ready for a resurgence of TUIs with full motion graphics.

[0] https://youtu.be/dcjkezf1ARY?t=16
> The best cities in the world appear to be very organically grown. Maybe this is an illusion?

Which ones do you think were organically grown vs. which have zealous planning?

(It would be nice if you used large enough examples that we could discuss them, as opposed to small towns known only to you.)
Keyboard = piano
Mouse = rat
I love it when art is used to point to the absurdity of some social or legal absurdity.

Another example is Linus Åkesson's http://www.linusakesson.net/pages/binart.php
Makes me want to dig out my IRIS Indigo from storage and see if it'll still fire up. I bought it when they first came out to do a bunch of work with weather satellite imagery. It was hard to beat for image processing back then. But you paid dearly for it, and it didn't take long for graphics adapters on commodity PCs to overtake the whole line and crush SGI.
4:4:4 is great, but they need to switch to hardware decode. Currently software decode slams CPU on my Macbook.
Is this the launcher you're referring to?

https://apkpure.com/evie-launcher/is.shortcut

It was removed from Google Play...

Edit: apparently, it was removed because not actively developed anymore: https://www.reddit.com/r/EvieLauncher/
>>You seem to have forgotten that we buy that from Apple. On top of the massive amount of research that we fund one way or anogher.

Yes we buy it because the money we pay is worth less to us than the product that they provide us in the exchange. That is what trade results in: both parties benefiting.

Put another way, they are not indebted on account of benefiting from this trade, given they are contributing something of even greater value in exchange for that benefit, and have no more obligation toward society, on account of engaging in large volumes of mutually beneficial trade, than any one else.

>> On top of the massive amount of research that we fund one way or anogher.

That funding is for public research that is freely given away. You can't release scientific knowledge into the public domain and then claim those who benefit from it are indebted. That would be a false pretense of "public domain".

Moreover, the tax revenue generated by Apple, its US-based suppliers and its employees, allows for significant amounts of funding for public research that benefits society at large.

>>Society can exist without them but they cannot exist without society.

That applies to every constituent of society. We cannot say that every single individual owes to society more than it is owed on that account, or else it would mean some non-existent element of society should receive payment on the collective debt of the constituents of society.
You mean if there is a positive causation ;)

But yeah, I think the difficulty of sociology makes it tough to reason about these issues in a comprehensive, logical way. And it's so hard to experimentally prove _anything_ when proving the counterfactual is "well, we'd need to split reality into two and wait 50 years".
Capital plus immigration. I've been in WA a decade ago and I was surprised by the number of ethnic Chinese people everywhere. One day China will just have to push a button to turn the country into one of its province, without any need for war.
"An individual there basically gets a job to take a mortgage and that's it regarding life aspirations."

Doesn't that describe most if not all economies that have middle class?

Private mortgage was considered a great way to increase national wealth in "rich" post-WW2 economies. And so it became part of "the expected economic life path of the middle-class employee".

Most people who are employed work to satisfy basic economic needs: 1. house 2. food 3. health and after that 4. leisure. Some even turn to 5. investment at some point.

So I'm not sure what you are trying to say? Maybe expand/rephraze it a little bit?
And NXP started in Eindhoven (spin-off of Philips) and still has a large presence:

https://www.nxp.com/company/about-nxp/worldwide-locations/ne...
US authorities must drop politically motivated charges against Assange
Wet bulb of 37C does not happen semi-regularly. Table S2 of the article shows a TW of 35+ has only happened 14 times in their ~30 year dataset so I would even hazard a guess that TW of 37 has not yet happened.

These events are usually short (for TW >35, majority only last an hour, see Sup fig 2), which is perhaps why we are not seeing many deaths associated with them.

With regards to immersing oneself in water, a bathtub is good so long as groundwater is available; if everyone starts filling their tubs for every heat wave it might start becoming more scarce. I would have thought natural bodies of water like the sea would have been a good choice, but the authors point out that in one region where wet bulb temps >35 were happening they also observed frequent sea surface temps >35 too (sup fig 16).

There are ways to survive and you have provided good ones, but they won’t be available to all who experience these events if they continue to increase in number. And excellent point about wildlife! That’s a whole additional side of it that will probably get lost in the mitigation effort…
Found the American... You're kidding yourself if you think that's it for life aspirations. Or if you think the taxes are the end of the world. I am sure most people in 'welfare states' would agree that they would rather that than the American system.
How will they monitor my emails from russian servers to russian servers?
IMO, 'A dubious writing style emerging in science' is a misleading title. It's not a style emerging in science, it's a discovery of a few more dumpster-journals, where they accept anything submitted including GPT generated text.
Fortunately Darren Shepherd came up with a novel idea of taking way the things he didn't want in Kubernetes and created a "distro" called K3s (3 is less than 8)

It's not that it is less, "3" is what you get if you take the character "8" and cut it in half vertically.
Also don't forget the racism. Aussies in general can be pretty racist, and the Chinese cop it especially. Politicians being "tough" on the Chinese (and then quietly selling off major chunks of Australia to them) seems to be a winning move.
The Welfare State may help startups to born but may help them to fade also. Few startups flourish in Europe. So many seeds, so few flowers.
I see a lot of uninformed people on this thread thinking 35C wet bulb temperature isn't such a big deal and proposing various ineffective tips to cool down.

Let me explain what the issue is, in simple words:

WET BULB TEMPERATURE IS NOT TEMPERATURE YOU SEE ON A THERMOMETER. (please, don't nitpick, I am aware of wet bulb thermometers)

Wet bulb temperature is combination of temperature and humidity.

The simple layman way to understand it is it says what minimum temperature an object can attain by evaporating water off it, in perfect conditions (forced airflow, full shade, no internal heating, etc.)

When air is dry, even if it is hot you can evaporate sweat and cool down -- the wet bulb temperature is low in dry air.

You can survive on Sahara because while the air can be very hot, it is also dry. You sweat and you cool down.

As the humidity rises, the wet bulb temperature approaches dry bulb temperature and at 100% humidity they are both the same.

When air is 100% humid you cannot cool down by sweating at all -- the sweat will not evaporate in 100% humidity regardless of temperature.

Meaning that an air with 35C and 100% humidity has 35C wet bulb temperature but so can hotter air that has less than 100% humidity. The hotter air the lower humidity is needed for the object to cool down to 35C.

Wet bulb of 35C is a limit of human endurance. Even if you lie down in shade and do nothing and are completely healthy, your body is barely able to remove enough heat to survive. Any higher temperature and you WILL eventually die.

People who need to work (like move around at all) or are sick or are small (kids) will die faster.

The only way to resolve this issue is to dry the air somehow.

Things that don't work:

-- going into shade. You are still going to die, just a little bit slower.

-- having a fan. It can't cool you down, because water will not evaporate to cool anything below wet bulb temperature. You are going to die.

-- going into cellar. The air will get cooler but the humidity will rise. You are going to die, unless you can cool the air DRY BULB temperature below 35C. At which point your cellar will have water condensing on its walls which means you can remove humidity from air. It will be shitty, wet, 100% humid, hot place, to sit half a day in with your family, kids and neighbors that don't have an expansive cellar like you, but at least you will survive. Yay...

The issue is in areas that tend to be very hot and susceptible to this phenomenon, people tend to not have means to dry the air. They either don't have money for equipment or they have open homes (who keeps their home shut in a climate like that) assuming they have home at all.

From economic point of view, the problem is that even under wet bulb temperature of 35C some people will already be dying and others will have to stop whatever they are doing, which is not good for your economy.
One small thing - you've got a link on your home page to your "Extend your home on demand" program. That link is dead (just goes to the blog homepage) which was disappointing because it sounds like an interesting concept that I'm struggling to find out about through other routes.
I won't be too surprised if authors of all those papers come out to reveal it was their novel research, to test pat.. paper review and acceptance process in academic community. /s
> All you had to do

Was get most of the worlds governments to cooperate with you, including the ones least willing to do so. Make people capable of detecting the seemingly invisible enemy either complicit, get rid of them or make chose your invisible enemy in a way so they will always make false detections!

Either make most hospital staff complicit, or simulate lots of sick people in some way (some of which will have to die to make it convincing). You can turn up the statistical death number without problem, but the local properties need to be either semi consistent or the people need to be complicit. You should also do something to get people to have symptoms (like loss of smell) which are not that common so far.

Lastly, the payoff for all of this simple setup is unclear. You can pass a law to restrict free Covid-19 testing? You can add another vaccine to the mandatory vaccines?

I mean, I am sure there are some states that have extremly overbearing consequences law wise. But in the context of Germany? It is completely unclear to me why many governments should participate in this.
So you are showing me that both Reddit and TikTok do fingerprinting on their users? There is no difference in any of the posts you have linked. You might need to read both of those posts again.

So this is not far more invasive tracking in TikTok as of 2021 then? [0] [1]

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/03/tiktok-just-gave-itself-pe...

[1] https://www.wsj.com/video/series/inside-tiktoks-highly-secre...
I love how we are now seeing suggestions to just skip the whole communism part and go straight to almost mass-murder "to keep society stable", and claim that such is reasonable to make life easier for young people. So while we're not doing communism, we're still using the same reason and central decision making to do the mass-murder bit.

If you want to see real "medical waste", by the way, you should see how much is spent on a 2 year old that gets diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. Or, up until 10 years ago, a kid born with HIV. Now THAT is wasting money. In their case, the kid has never worked, will need MUCH more (essentially constant) medical attention for 30 years, expensive medicines for all that time, the treatment will fail, it's just a matter of when, and they still won't ever be able to contribute to society. By the time they're of working age they'll be so disabled they can't work (ok maybe the HIV baby could work for 10 years, tops). It's not reasonable to even have them type on a keyboard after maybe 14 years of age.

Let's kill em all! (especially now with mRNA vaccines we're pretty close to a cure) ...
> weird how a foundational myth of australia is that we’re a nation of subversive larrikins, when in actuality everyone here is an ultracop

@tfswebb https://twitter.com/tfswebb/status/976299234491121665
This is from my own experience working at a TP call center, for a major tech client and not in Albania or Colombia.

External and internal audits are known for weeks in advance such that they could put a facade on in time. During audits you suddenly don't have a limit on bathroom break time (generally an alert would come at 15mins per day) and there would be pizza at the office every other day. Only 'loyal' employees would be chosen to any interviews/meetings about culture etc.
Other morals:

Being "nice" (copycat) is not the same as being a "sucker" (cooperator).

Suckers don't make things worse just for themselves, but for everyone around them, by encouraging bad behaviour.

Even then, people make mistakes, so don't hold grudges for too long. They won't lead you very far.
Very interesting article. It would also be interesting to see a comparison of all of the browsers and what is their energy impact.

I also think that we'd probably need some more radical data and what if analogies to motivate more people to start thinking about this.
How will this be implemented? Will my XMPP client/gpg binary become illegal?
Corporate tax rates are the same as other countries in Western Europe, and lower than the US.

Income taxes and payroll taxes are (significantly) higher though. Companies don’t need to leave the country but may want to hire top talent elsewhere if they need to keep taxes low.

For me as a Swede, keeping as little as half of my gross pay isn’t a big issue since I’m not required to pay for my kids higher education (or any education for that matter), nor do I need to save up a lot for retirement or future illness. But I can understand someone who wants to go to Sweden for a 5 year stint and needs to aggregate as much as possible because their kids will go to expensive schools etc. Moving to a high-tax high social security labor market can seem like a one way street in that regard.
The BitScope racks are neat, but the thing that makes me sad about Pi is that there's no way to network from the 40 pin connector that would be reasonable to tie this all together. So you need a separate network infrastructure and a network cable to each pi.
>and figure it out aka problem-solving.

The existence the linked thread suggests this very hard and even capable (and very involved) programmers potentially need mentorship for this.
remember Vine?
One question I have is do viruses like covid ever reach peak fitness? I assume there are properties of the virus that at some point cannot be changed because they will negatively affect the ability of the virus to reproduce and with universal vaccination maybe it can be cornered in a local maximum where it can’t optimize reproduction further without losing some ability to reproduce first. This is how I keep the thought of eradication alive :)
Is 18 degrees assuming a fairly warm duvet covers / blankets? When I was staying hostels the dorms would sometimes be air conditioned and only a sheet would be provided for cover, and I struggled to sleep in anything colder than 21, and I'd have had it up to 22-24 if I could.
This was already posted some days ago, I though HN had a dupe detector but for some reason it let it through.

I have several qualms about this proposal but the crying-wolf manner it is being presented is just ridiculous.

The author could have used the opportunity to raise the real risks (especially the false positive risks) instead of pushing for fear-mongering.
Depends on the game. Lot of games in the real world are traps. Maybe both sides dont/cant see all the info, dont have enough knowledge/skill, have weaknesses/biases, not enough endurance etc etc etc

In those games, best move is to exit the room. Cause no reward/punishment system work.
> Not sure why this comment is being downvoted.

Because they make an extremly heavy handed comparisson without making any point.

> The government would do a better job to make it freely available to all

Many did that, including Germany, and they still have the same problem. In the context of this article, the freely available vaccine is the starting point to limit free testing for everyone that could have gotten the vaccine.
The second article kind of makes it clear that there are two governments at work here, and they are at odds.

San Fran approves office space, but no housing. Thus people live in San Jose (ironically where apple was founded originally).

That said… I don’t really see how this relates to homelessness in San Fran as according to the article Apple workers don’t live their anyways.

It’s a bit of a reach to say Apple is to blame for building an office building in the commercial district of the hottest tech city on the west coast after getting government approval.

The SF government ought to either approve more housing, or reduce economic pressure by refusing office spaces. That it does neither is a systemic failure.
I think you're making a wrong comparison here. Disappearing messages is not akin to forcing the other party to take memory-suppressant drugs (wtf?), it's more akin to asking them not to record your conversation.
Think of it as a stationary bandit trying to limit various upstarts that might threaten his position.
I start seeing a pattern in Western societies: The pendulum swings between "for" and "against" mass surveillance with a period of a decade.

2001: Terroist attack, swing towards mass surveillance.

2010: Gov't went too far, surveillance seen as a greater threat than terrorism, swing pendulum back to privacy.

2021: Gang violence increases in Europe, swing pendulum to mass surveillance.

Can anyone guess what will happen 2030?
What’s your startup? I’ve been looking for something like this, the current state of web export from UE/Unity is very bad
It’s in absolute terms smaller than London etc, but relative to population it must be pretty tech-dense. Software developer is the most common occupation these days in a labor market of 2 million. That’s surely unusual?
> People on a budget absolutely pay attention to the cost of gas.

People on a budget do for certain levels of "on a budget". If you only have $5 to buy food (and no credit) and a full tank of gas, it doesn't matter if it costs more in the long term. You burn extra gas now or your kids don't eat.
A whole lot more people simply don't think about it at all.
this has been addressed several times here on HN in the past and it's still false.

No one removed digital privacy in EU.

The pirate party is desperate for attention among EU electors, it only has a total of 4 members, Breyer is the only German that was elected and the only one from a western European country.

They need to get titles on newspapers, they're good at doing it, but sometimes they go on a hyperbole.

Moreover: data retention is Breyer's pet peeve, he built a career around it so he obviously talk constantly about it.

If some of you here ever spent time in the environment of the EU elected representatives, you'd know how much each one of them lobby for their agenda, all the time, non-stop.

To add some more details: this is not a private company spying on its users, this is a coalition formed by 25 sovereign countries passing a law that harmonize the different legislation around searching for potentially unlawful digital communications.

But the article 5a) specifically states that

> Notwithstanding their legitimate objective, these activities constitute an interference with
the fundamental rights to respect for private and family life and protection of personal
data of all users. Any limitation to the fundamental right to respect for private and
family life, including the confidentiality of communications, cannot be justified merely
on the ground that certain technologies were previously deployed when the services
concerned did not, from a legal perspective, constitute electronic communications
services. Such interference is only possible under certain conditions. It needs to be
provided for by law, respect the essence of the rights to private and family life and to the
protection of personal data and, in compliance with the principle of proportionality, be
necessary and genuinely meet objectives of general interest recognised by the Union or
the need to protect the rights and freedoms of others as enshrined in Article 52 (1) of the
Charter. Where such measures permanently involve a general and indiscriminate
monitoring and analysis of communications of all users, they interfere with the right to
confidentiality of communications.
What you're describing is Quibi.
yes. More or less.

What happens is that we learn to "hide" our impulses in more social acceptable behavior.

We didn't have that many bully's when i grew up but most of them are just slightly more polished version of themselves.

But when they are drinking or emotions are high they revert back. (which is bad since 2 of them are cops now)

I am not saying that person cannot change his life and ways around. I know some that have done that. But most people (in my expirience) don't
Point taken, comment fixed, thanks for the feedback!
Look up Radburn, NJ.
Amazon's top Graph Theory books are graph paper notebooks
Not correct.
The software update that goes to the uses but if miners dont mine for the hard fork, then the user cant use it. Its a technical reality that they could update anyway and at least some miners would mine for them but that would just be causing a chain fork and 2 different chains. The miners have the power to decide where they mine. And user have the power to decide on which chain they operate on. They both have power with their choice. But the choice for user is limited to chains that actually exist. For for now only ETH and ETC exists but if there is demand for more chains because a significant portion of people disagree with the progress then more chains can fork off. This however requires miners who are willing to mine on a forked chain.

The power is split but the constant "fights" between the different parties (miners/users) is the reasons these fist-gen (PoW/PoS) blockchains can not be efficient.
There is and forever will be a misaligned interest between the two parties which drives up prices and slows down progress.

Software's auto-update feature is completely irrelevant to consensus. It obviously does not define who has the power at all. To update is always voluntary. Software devs dont technically have any power they have influence.
Few startups flourish anywhere. Or are you saying that all things being equal, a startup in europe has a lower chance of succeeding long term than in the us?

Any data to back this claim?
You can downloads the statistical datasets for german vaccination compain here:

https://impfdashboard.de/daten
> VCs

Same applies to most companies, right?