skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My parents, who's house in the Scottish Highlands is approximately 30 mins from the nearest village, have remarked of the number of tech millionaires who have moved into the area. They know about 6 of them, which is quite a lot for such small communities.

Overall the relationship is positive. They bring fiber and families, and in the Eastern highlands 'foreigners' (Stirling and south) are more welcome than in the wilder and more traditional West. There are concerns about excess development, but with so many empty holiday houses new permanent residents are welcome.

There is definitely a feeling that, with high quality internet in, more 'digital nomads' will set up in rural Scotland. I don't see why not, at least in the summer. The scenery is stunning and the weather can be amazing (particularly if you hate heat).
No, there's no market risk because the inventory is closed almost immediately. As the inventory comes in they hedge using liquid LTC futures which are available on a number of exchanges. Or they just sell the LTC spot straight away. Either way, it is a trivial task that one person can do manually after a few days of training.

Either they hire that one person themselves or outsource it.
> they really are freelancers/entrepreneurs not employees

Taxi drivers are not knowledge workers, or artists and clearly not entrepreneurs.

They are easily replaceable "cogs in the machine", like many non-specialised factory workers, office clerks, retail employees and so on.

There's a reason why humanity introduced protections for vulnerable workers in almost every society.
Wait, don't you mean the United States?

Between 1941 and 1976 the estate tax was 77%. That period of history for many would be considered "the good old days."
Not if the major players on both sides are invested in the cover-up. Are you arguing the CCP is not very effective at cover-ups? That would be reassuring if true.
Edit: after a bit more thought, I would like to point out that my critique was explicitly not at all like East German accusations of secret bad politics. Im critiquing specific bad science done in the open. You call these vague and political, but do not support your accusations at all. In fact, if there are "East German" type allegations anywhere in this thread, they seem to be coming from your comment, as I am not critiquing him politically at all, but your entire comment about mine is making up politics that I supposedly believe in.

Oh please, it's about his bad science. If he was doing bad science in the service of politics, as you suggest, that might make it seem worse, but it's no worse. The scientific crime is the cherry picking to deceive. Any halfway honest person familiar with the studies could tell that he was doing really bad science.

Why? I still don't know why he did that. But since you seem to understand the politics, maybe you could explain.
They don’t have paved roads, but they still have electricity. I stayed in a place in China off the grid on a trip (it was on a mountain in the Tibetan part of Sichuan), they still had electricity via a water wheel. When the water wheel was knocked out of alignment, the electricity went off.

A lot of off the grid solutions for electricity, getting regular gasoline shipments to those locations is much more of a challenge.
yeah the x86 is a DOS machine the way Lisp machines are Lisp machines (or something like that, I admit I cannot find a properly slick way to express it)
I believe that Apple could make this (using more than one country/locale for purchases/subscriptions) a lot better to switch between, but hasn't done so for a long time. I don't think Apple will focus on this anytime soon though.

I think the simpler workaround is to have multiple Apple ID/accounts, one for each country and linked to specific payment options. It still requires signing out and signing in, but it avoids restrictions (IIRC, something like 90 days) and the need to re-update payment information as with the other approach you mentioned. The subscriptions may not work when you're not signed in to the account associated with its country, but this is simpler than following many more steps.

I find it silly that Apple does not even consider switching between two countries as a use case that would apply for quite a number of people (it may be less in percentage terms, but surely a large enough number in absolute terms).
Gap is only for leases I think
Plenty of countries in Western Europe too have mandatory employee contributions to various social programs.
I recently had to help my parents since they could not login to their email service anymore because Microsoft silently switched the default browser to edge. And of course their saved credentials aren't available anymore. They asked me what they did wrong. I had no other words to say than that Microsoft is literally abusing their position to force them to use something else. It's Microsofts fault and we can't do anything about it. Then I had to video call them to guide them through the anti-patterns when switching the default browser. So, I do like Mozillas behavior and wish Chrome offered the same.
Trailers are ads they don't make money from. It's not about the media being ads, it's about if the media makes them money.
In Germany, consumers pay a significantly higher rate than industry.
Could we not source 'The Sun' for anything on HN? It's a terrible, terrible paper.
Thousands of professors that can't be bothered to learn Julia.
If you are going to stuff hundreds of kids into enclosed spaces during a pandemic. It seems kind of absurd to start placing rules on mask usage outside and closing water fountains. At that point all you are doing is papering over the grand canyon.
Looks like it is going to:

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts

For ".html", ".htm" and:

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Associations\UrlAssociations

For "https", "http" then:

- Nuke the UserChoice key because Microsoft put special permissions on it.

- Re-create the UserChoice key setting the ProgId to Firefox and then calculating the hash.

- The hash is calculated using, in part, a hard-coded Windows internal GUID see FormatUserChoiceString here:

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/diff/7e775ce...

The whole thing looks super easy for Microsoft to break in a future Windows release unfortunately.
I'm curious to hear opinions on this. Like the author says, young workers are underrepresented in the public sector currently. Is a program that seems to cater exclusively to them problematic?
We sleep in on the weekend. I can't tell you how happy I am that kiddo has developed the habit of getting up early and digging into a book and reading.

We had to pry the child away from reading all day yesterday to go outside.

The secret: No internet, no video games, no TV (except an occasional animal documentary or episode of Cosmos... but this is once a month or so).

I'm in tech, and I very much look forward to sharing what I know and what I love about computers and computer gaming. But not yet. Reading, writing, math, science, history, music, arts, crafts first, and no indoctrination... just learning to learn, and learning to think.
‘so they demand that employers provide them..’
Yes, that’s the situation in the US, yes, not sure how relevant it’s to this discussion, though. In many European countries healthcare is funded through a payroll tax and provided by the government/a public agency.
As the sibling says, your code's a little off; but the approach of "they're just an interface" is the way I think of them too.

We shouldn't forget the associated "functor laws" and "monad laws", but they're pretty intuitive and not much different than more mainstream rules; e.g. a 'Serialize' interface might have a "law" like 'Serialize.load(Serialize.save(x)) == x'
You are right about Wikipedia, Facebook, and PornHub. I was wrong. I corrected my comment. Thank you for pointing it out.
An interactive course to learn the terminal's keyboard shortcuts
Larry Niven's corpsicles stories never predicted this!
Increasing nuclear capacity is a long-term task, it's not possible to do it quickly in response - all the major nuke plants would be already running at capacity most of the time, there's no option for them to just generate more.
Data science students don’t know a lot about ethics – and that’s a problem
The accusations of bad conduct are in fact part of western science too. To large extend, because sometimes scientists behave badly, be it by making up data, hiding data, making claims they know are wrong, by attacking those who they disagree with.
mostly in Germany...
>a reasonable reader would assume the speaker thought said group was being persecuted

That's only reasonable because of a common understanding that black people have been persecuted because of their race. No such reasonable, common understanding exists for white people in America; it is at best an unreasonable and niche understanding espoused by people who believe they're being persecuted by Jews and Asians (whether "Tiger Family" or "H1-B”).
Eh staking Eth2 fits my risk profile and I dont care if another TheDao incident occurs resulting in loss of my Eth

A state rollback would be extremely disappointing to me, even though that much Eth in the hands of one party would undermine the security of Eth2 (which is why the other state rollback occurred)

This proof is impressive, but doesnt change anything for me whether it is bulletproof or not
> So you're okay with increasingly stricter subversion of freedom

Yes. Simple as that. Most of us are happy with the trade off of freedoms in this scenario.

Your viewpoint of what defines totalitarianism or miscarriages of liberty are fine, and you’re welcome to keep them or even share them. But you don’t get to don’t get to dictate to others why your fiercely individualistic ideals are definitively are better than the community trade offs being made.
Haves and have nots once again. The elites can make proclamations for what they want to do regarding energy generation, they will never have to live it as they will have back up generators on their compounds to deal with it.

Us serfs will be at the mercy of feel good proclamations and energy programs that are not ready for prime time.
I bet employers are wishing they never got involved in benefits. Now they're just the governments execution arm for social programs and they're stuck forever.

Looking back, the only reason employers started getting involved in Healthcare was because the 1942 Stabilization Act restricted them from raising wages and they had to come up with a more creative way of competing for talent.

Now the ACA forces companies to privide insurance by law. Under Biden's Covid plan they're now going to be the execution arm for vaccine mandates. It's crazy to think that to start a business you need to almost immediately be prepared to be a federal government franchisee.
Why aren’t more girls in the UK choosing to study computing and technology?
Fiber Optic Networking Guide: SC or LC Connector?
You think the DOS shell is in any way equivalent to a modern Unix-style terminal? Why, because they're both text-based?
There are very few things settled in the science of fire, but that's beside the point.

I'd say the science is settled on what the most effective thing was to eliminate COVID: complete and total shut down, as soon as possible: New Zealand has the lowest casualties of any OECD country and held sporting events in full stadiums when the rest of the world was hoarding toilet paper.
I wish I could give you an award or magically transport you to the MS office where these ridiculous choices are made. You hit nail on head I think.

It’s the same manager mistakes over and over again.
Do you think that's “at least 78% of all sites” or “at least 78% of sites which advertise what they're built with”? The latter case seems more likely and that will distort the numbers massively.
No, firefighting is not trivial from a decision making perspective. Deluges cause severe water damage, even in the best circumstances where they ultimately save the day. Firebreaks have a moderate failure rate and can even help propagate fire if the wind is wrong. Backfires literally fight fire with fire. They all involve heavy tradeoffs and severe uncertainty, but as a culture we accept that these are necessary aspects of firefighting, and that even with such inherent uncertainty we want timely action rather than "wait forever and see."

It's actually a good analogy, it just points to exactly the opposite conclusion from the one you drew.
Choose the Best Accounting Services in Sydenham
Where did the money go, where it came from, and how much? All of these factors fall into accounting. That is why you should only choose the best Accounting Services in Sydenham. This part of the business is not to be compromised. Keeping an account can be either very easy or very difficult. If your business is small, you might just need to keep a small register or make an excel file on your computer. However, even that task is not easy.
Yes. Also, the name "antipsychotics" is of no help either.

The second generation "atypical antipsychotics" are really not much different from antidepressants. They just typically contain an additional dopaminergic effect (e.g. modulation). As someone else pointed out in this thread, Abilify is prescribed for depression and anxiety.
That would criminalise half the people on the internet. Have you seen the trolls?
I think it's worse than the patent office rubber stamping everything. They actually don't rubber stamp things that your average, small inventor might try to patent. They seem to always initially reject applications, requiring multiple submissions with small modifications over and over until they relent and grant.

This serves to filter out everyone except those with deep pockets and highly paid patent attorneys.

When I filed for a patent a few years ago, we got back prior art from the patent office that was very far fetched. We paid $3500 to the attorney for the initial application and then each time it would come back, we would pay a few hundred more.

Our patent attorney estimated that we would end up paying around $10k, but he was fairly certain that we would get through. He said most of his applications followed this same pattern.

We decided to cut our losses at around $5k and move on. A few years later, some large company patented very similar technology. We submitted prior art but they just had to pay for a few more iterations to get around it.
0.15% turned out to be a lot closer to the real number (something like 0.3% or 0.4%) than the IHME models used to justify lockdowns (which were putting out numbers like 3.4% around the same time), but somehow no one ever brings up their wildly off-base forecasts as a reason to dismiss everything they have to say in perpetuity.
Family Sharing
Well, it should result in a net decrease in electricity demand, if nothing else..
No. I believe they're inherently cruel and shouldn't be legal
It is here in Germany. Nobody here likes nuclear. My ex is a PhD in bioinformatics and argues against nuclear using quite outdated information, even.

Nuclear is a non-starter for many. Too many people afraid of another Chernobyl or nuclear waste handling without understanding what caused the former or not being informed about how we deal with the latter, today.
I think it generally depends on whether or not you're downwind of Pripyat.
It is faster than C for numerical computing. One of the reasons is that aliasing is not allowed by the language, so the compiler can make some optimizations that C compilers can't, because e.g. the C compiler cannot assume that two pointer arguments to a function do not point to the same memory location.
She grabbed one brain of someone called "Abby." I think their full name was actually "Abby Normal"
I think Fukushima killed much of the remaining enthusiasm, but really it's the high cost of building new nuclear plants across Europe that's keeping it from being an option. If building a new plant was cheap, I'm sure you'd see a lot more happening.
Too late for the lockdowns, too early for the climate catastrophe, just in time for private prisons.
Sony Neckband Speaker
Possibly a better option is to remove these categories together. What would happen if we struck the whole concept of "Employment" from the law. As a person you just had the chance to get income. We can retarget all of the laws and benefits previously using Employment to be about income instead. If you make an income you can pay into a pension, pay taxes... Everyone is entitled to some number of vacations and sick days that can not be taken away from a contract. (any contract)

I'm sure there are some complexities due to the weaker relationship between the two, but it seems like it would be beneficial to remove this somewhat artificial cliff between self-employed contractors or employees which is almost certainly more of a septum. (For example freelance picking up jobs posted to a public job board, to a contractor in frequent contracts with multiple companies, to a contractor working with a single company, to an employee which works with one company.)
Absolutely 0. Worse than for profit healthcare, which is a feat.
Microsoft acquired github in 2018
God provided food to the Jews as they wandered the desert, after leaving Egypt. Manna, which was this magical bread-like substance, fell from heaven. The translation of Manna is basically "What is it?".

A huge amount fell. God told them to eat their fill, but don't save it. The hungry wanderers ate to their contentment, and some of them stored the left over manna in jars. That leftover manna was rotten and spoiled the next day, but God sent them more.

God could've dropped magical non-expiring bread. Instead he dropped preservative-free no-shelf-life bread, and told them to trust that he would provide for them.

I've always interpreted the "daily bread" as being a reference to the manna. It seemed like it was acknowledging that they need to trust God day-to-day. It's not a one time "Here is the solution to all future concerns", its a daily trust.

So I think the debate is, if one wants to have it, is the prayer saying "give us our bare minimum to survive" or "give us our plenty that comes with an implicit trust that the plenty will continue"

But its a weird concern to have IMO. Especially since Jesus likely never spoke the word epiousios at all, he probably said something in Aramaic or Hebrew or something. I'm also in the "This wasn't a literal 'say these words' guide, it was an example." Both instructions seem in line with the rest of what Jesus was teaching; be thankful and trust God.
I've long been intrigued by pair programming but I've never worked at a company where it was widely used.

The few times I've been able to do it, people were generally reluctant to commit code without another code review, which struck me as missing the whole point of pairing.
>then why aren't the contracts written as those formal properties in the first place?

How are you going to enforce the contract? If it's formally verified, the contract is enforced by itself.

Not to mention, I think as a developer accepting a spec that isn't verified is a tough pill to swallow, because any bug no matter the size would mean that you're breaking the contract.
Money in politics isn't a homogeneous threat in every country, so its power can very well be contained. So its power isn't an inevitability at all.
Productivity tools: Tasks management (podcast episode)
I wouldn't be surprised that if this trend increases and the push comes to shove, then the voters - especially those on marginal incomes - might decide that actually they much prefer lower energy prices instead of supporting renewables and CO2-neutral energy; and in democratic countries it's the general public who are entitled to make that choice for their country instead of accepting the decisions of elites/experts and waiting for safety net policies to compensate for the suck.

I agree that faster deployment of renewables and CO2-neutral energy does require high energy prices - however, it's not my decision to make whether that benefit is so desirable to justify the costs, it's up to the people in each specific country to decide - and taking into account the benefit to them specifically and the costs to them, not the global benefit and someone else's budget. And IMHO governments have not really asked them for a proper informed decision, it all has just-sort-of-happened without informed consent of the masses and they might just refuse that consent if the price rises sufficiently.

In some sense a clean environment and less dangerous future are "luxury goods" that societies and people want to buy if they can afford to, but should not be forced if they can't afford the expense.
What next? Upwork must employ it's workers? Where is the line drawn?

What if Uber didn't handle the money and riders paid cash?

The result is simply consumers paying the difference for more expensive taxi services.

Forcing this labour market underground trading in crypto or cash. Congratulations.
Are the cards still marked down? That used to be a thing in the U.S. until Apple merged iTunes cards with Apple Store cards a few years ago so that these could be used in an Apple retail/online store to buy Apple hardware as well as used for buying software or content from the online stores. I haven't seen these cards marked down after the change. Before this, major holidays would bring about many sellers offering discounts on the iTunes cards.
I can install apps on Mac that aren't in the store.
PHP is the original serverless. LAMP. FTP. PUT index.php. Done.
It depends on where you're going to/from and at what time. During rush hour, yeah the subway is faster than taking a cab for my pre-Covid 35 or so block commute. There are some routes that require a bus transfer or a lot of walking that may be faster by car even in rush hour traffic. For example going from East Harlem to Chelsea where you're either transferring a few times or walking quite a bit.
I'm familiar with this prayer in Arabic, and two variations thereof (one used by Catholics and the other by Eastern Orthodox churches).

The Catholic one would translate to 'enough for the day' (كفاف يومنا) and the Orthodox to 'essential' or 'necessary' (جوهري). Both seem closer to what your wrote than 'daily'
I've been wondering. What happens if Edge beats chrome?
Chromium is developed by google, and used by Edge. Will google continue developing chromium just to have Microsoft reap the rewards. If not, is google going to abandon chromium? Will microsoft pick up the slack? If so, are they going to fork chromium and develop on the form, or are they going to work on the original repo? What about the chromium name / trademark.

If this goes wrong, what is google going to think of open-source development. If the second biggest (I think) open source application turns out to have been a failure for the company backing it, what is that going to do to commercial open-source development?

I find this a scary prospect.
I wonder if it's due to the Play Framework which could be used in either Scala or Java.
In what world Windows is in minority market position? It is de facto desktop OS.
The collapse of building 7 is the subject of wackjob conspiracy theories as well, even though its collapse has been conclusively explained by studies done by real engineers.
As someone who isn't familiar with .NET, I wish this post had an example with a JSON request body and response.