skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was wondering why Texas keep coming up when new US fabs a being talked about. From an outsider it just looks like the low energy cost comes from failing to properly manage and upgrade the Texas energy grid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_in_Europe#Summary_li...

Sort by Maximum Income Tax Rate (3rd column).

I should've said personal income taxes and contributions not just "Income Tax". There is a nightmare of other things you can see there but effectively it's taxes on personal income.

Employers pay a lot too before this. For example in Spain they pay almost 30%.

https://www.bankinter.com/blog/finanzas-personales/del-salar... (note this is for <50k/yr, but employer contributions don't have bands)
I don't see what is challenging about any of what you mentioned, furthermore parsing a language is not the same thing as verifying that what is parsed is a semantically valid. Python is almost a context free language with the exception of how it handles indentation. With indentation taken into account, the entire language can be parsed directly from the following grammar using something like yacc:

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/grammar.html

JavaScript is not a strictly context free grammar either, but like Python the vast majority of it is and the parts that are not context free can be worked around. Furthermore the entire grammar is available here:

https://262.ecma-international.org/5.1/#sec-A

It isn't trivial to work around the parts that aren't context free, but it's also nothing insurmountable that requires more than 120 hours of effort. The document explicitly points out which grammar rules are not context free and gives an algorithm that can be used as an alternative.

Parsing is really not as challenging a job as a lot of people make it out to be and it's an interesting exercise to try yourself and get an intuitive feel for. You can use a compiler compiler (like yacc) if you feel like it to just get something up and running, but the downside of such tools is they do very poorly with error handling. Rolling out a hand written parser gives much better error messages and really is nothing that crazy. C++ is the only mainstream language I can think of that has a grammar so unbelievably complex that it would require a team of people working years to implement properly (and in fact none of the major compilers implement a proper C++ parser).

For statically typed languages things get harder because you first need to parse an AST, and then perform semantic analysis on it, but if all you need is syntax highlighting, you can skip over the semantic analysis.
Why are people concerned about energy and material costs? Semiconductors are probably the highest margin manufactured goods on the planet, with materials and energy being the lowest cost input to the process. The only good that can compete is bottled water or movie theater popcorn.

This is 100% politically motivated.
Making then ceo of the largest bank in America kowtow seems pretty confident to me. They’re just flexing.
Well, the site has caused some really insightful comments from knowledgeable people, which will definitely helpme choose a VPN.

So in that sense, the site has already succeeded.

All they need to do now is prettify this HN thread and replace the current garbage with it. ;)
Maintainable Code Explains Itself
I don't think that's actually a solution, just a way of making the same underlying problem harder to spot.

In general, I am extremely distrustful of this as an idea:

> Sometimes there is an engineering solution to a social problem.
Based on the wording on the website it's not clear what to do with the credit card, what the benefits are, what or how it affects growth. What is special and added value about this new service, can't businesses not just go to their bank and apply for credit card? How will be service be less painful or time consuming since you probably have to do the credit validation, paperwork. Yes, credit card for small businesses makes sense. Unclear if your service makes sense.
Overengineers will find an edgecase or an hypothetical future scenario to justify their overengineering.

unless there is an org level commitment to not using "what if in future" type scenarios, overengineers will win everytime.
How much you raising?
Today. But many first-world regimes seem to be on the cusp of ending that perspective.
When their power grid isn't held together with blu tack.
What gives a chain value is the network effects which are notoriously hard to establish. So yes, you can fork it, but can you get people to actually use it? Really doubt it.
Money in your bank account is just a number in a database somewhere.
> She killed a presidential nominee in a ritual

Any source on that one?
Introduction to Identity – Part 2: Access Management
I see your logic but in the US the right wing is just as responsible for globalization and the transfer of manufacturing to the 3rd world. I think that’s why their current rhetoric appears so nativist, the same people attacking immigration were the ones sending jobs to china 20 years ago.
'Art Is the Opposite of Spectacle': The Notebooks of Gabriel Orozco
Good summary but slightly out of date. What they rely on now is QE, with the central bank buying assets from banks to free up money for investment. Ends up similar to lowering reserve requirements, but without the drawbacks of lowering reserve requirements.

Japan is dealing with it by massive infra projects like the new maglev Shinkansen. So when we are talking about loans, we aren't just talking about consumer credit, although that can be a major component in a consumption-led economy.
>Privacy information on the vaccination passport app reveals personal data of users will be shared with NetCompany, Service Now, Jumio, iProov, Albasoft, Amazon Web Services, CFH Docmail, Microsoft Azure, Gov.uk Notify Service and Royal Mail. It is claimed that not all of the firms can “access” the data, even though it is "shared".

How many services is it hosted on? It's a QR code, why does it need so many different services? If it were just AWS or just Azure, that would make sense but this many different companies? Why is it necessary?
[0] is an electronic switch, not a physical switch. A physical switch is hard-wired into the wall and you physically switch the circuit open or closed.
Yes, I am aware it has been 'superseded' but in my experience for lossless compression it's still usually better.
People conflate clicking on a button that says "I accept" with some kind of moral or legal obligation or agreement. One doesn't necessarily mean the other. In the EU, for example, if there wasn't the option to decline, then no permission is being given even if you click on "I accept".
China is now much more open then they were for a long time and as it happens their growth really started when they did that. The are 1.4 billion people who have embraced mostly 'typical capitalism' that is comparable to most countries in the world do. Its not like they are the first to have the idea of tarrifs or helping strategic industries. China has continental scale and 100s of millions of people living on the coast with billions of people in close distance to export to. Of course they are gone do well, the internal market they generate alone is absurdly gigantic.

Just like the US in the late 1800 century, they also had some protectionism. But it crazy to suggest that is the main reason why they were successful.

Nobody says government should make important technology investment, have some strategic supply chain and so on. However just blanked Trump style protectionism across random industries is not really the solution to anything.

> Putting your own first is common and healthy.

This is a myth of what protectionism achieves. You protect some sector but potentially damaging other sectors considerably. The US protects Flordia suger farmers and as a result everybody else pays more for sugar.

Most of the time its groups that can lobby effectively that get tariffs and those groups then profit against the benefit of everybody else.
It would also be "convenient" to leave your door unlocked, but "convenience" must be balanced with security.

No lock company can be expected to harden their online systems enough to justify "unlock with an app" level access. It's bananas.

The same goes for alarm companies. ADT has been trying to get me to "upgrade" to an Internet-connected alarm brain for years. Hard pass.
If you're going to use a different currency, why not just use USD or EUR?
I used to do my share of vim in the past, but I really don't have time for this shit anymore. I just want something that works out of the box across languages, without having to tinker around.

Vim is a great text editor, and that is exactly what I want it to do. The IdeaVim plugin gets the job done for me.
Keyword highlighting is explicitly called out as an antipattern in the book Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs, which I highly recommend.
In fact India now has so many male nurses that they enforce an 80% female quota to "protect" female nurses' jobs! https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/national/male-nurs...

This is equivalent to enforcing an 80% male software engineering quota.

The men's rights movement in India really has its work cut out...
My understanding is that you could use that to auth with a site where you already have an account or where you’re signing up. But if blockchain enables me to go to a site I’ve never been to and be already signed in with a unique name I reserved on the blockchain, I’m pretty sure that would be a novel thing.

Maybe not enough to swing me over to being a crypto-booster, but this is the first time that someone has shown me anything at all that makes sense.
> am reminded of the P2P/decentralized nature of Napster and how it was going to be a revolution

Torrents still account for a massive share of internet traffic. Furthermore, I think it's reductive to just consider it a tool for piracy. Blizzard uses (used?) BitTorrent in their game launcher to alleviate server costs. Not to mention that a lot of bittorrent traffic lives in the fuzzy area of sharing lost media and abandonware. Gabe Newell famously referred to piracy as a service problem, and the success of services like Spotify, Steam and Netflix undoubtedly prove that to some extent. Like yes, the easiest way to dive into the Disney back catalog is through Disney+, but there's also Disney content which, for various reasons, you can't access through the service but still has historical value.
That's why I was wondering about not doing that, and literally minting new cash and using handouts / UBI instead. We can't expect people to borrow money to spend on consumption, even at low interest rates, because they'll be worried about paying it back. No wonder they always just put it into asset purchases. Give them the money no strings attached and they'll spend it.

Normally the downside to that is inflation, but since that's the goal anyway it seems like a win-win.
No, seems like we are all pretty aware of the kickbacks and bribery.
Perhaps. But if it is well known that the third rail carries ample electrical power to fry an elephant, then no one intelligent enough to be CEO should ever risk touching it. "The design was not safe, and should not have been..." arguments cannot bring you back from the dead.
Ha ha.

This is why I used to throw things into simple kubernetes setups (that I just ran the same terraform scripts to create) and just tell the management "yeah, now it's ready for all of your features".

I argued for a while, then realized I didn't have to.
Practically, what does this look like? There's $3M beautiful coastal homes in my area, and a few miles inland, you can get what might be called a 'starter home' for $900k. Is my wage going to be based on the extremely expensive coastal area, or the marked up, but still comparatively affordable inland area? It's all the same 'location' if we're talking at the county level.
> Your comment changed my mind about the debate in California:

>> Sooner doesn’t necessarily imply “higher standard”

Thanks! The critical word in my comment was necessarily. Seems like most of the comments have been polar.

> To be clear: I don't know enough detail about the proposal in California to judge it

It is available online as are interviews with some of the people who wrote them, which include mathematics professors and other educators. Seems like most of the objections are from people who are reading the headlines and drawing immediate conclusions based on their preconceptions.
How many networking cards? I know we tend to think of internal buses as infinitely-fast, but a single PCIe 2.x lane is saturated at 500MB/s, which begins to look a little skinny once we're considering 10GE or even Wifi 6.
> How can it be too slow on modern hardware?

It can be, because it is :) If you want a really technical explanation, you can profile the application. If that is too much work, I'll generalise and say that the tendency for the UI to lock when performing CPU heavy computations makes it feel slow. Because of the things you will be asking it to do (i.e. solve modern problems), sometimes such computations exist and lead to blocks of 1s or more. That will never feel fast.
Thank you for making such wonderful adventure games!

Will your games ever be ported directly to app stores or game stores such as XBOX Live? I think you would get thousands of new fans.

Any updates on your Lyme resources?
Yep, in Canada there is two "thefts" generally: over $5,000 and under $5,000.

I was charged with theft under 5 when I was 14 after stealing two candy bars and a drink from Walmart. Same charge as I would of had if I stole a 70" flatscreen TV, or a top of the line computer.
Back during the 'Capcitor Plague', when HP lied and denied there was a problem, Costco replaced 3 out of warranty HP laptops for my clients who bought them there. Their customer service, quality meats and they pay their employees well, are a few of the reasons why I prefer to give them my money.

Related: MSI replaced 15 OoW mainboards without proof of purchase, too. They merely asked for serial numbers and shipped them out in a timely manner. Can you guess who's boards I used exclusively when building towers over the last 15 years?
That’s the magic of HN (or maybe it’s a form of the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon.) When one topic reaches the front page it seems like a couple more based around it hit the front page the same or next day, which allows us to expand on what we’ve learned.
Over engineering is a form of bad engineering, at least in my book. Fun starts when some parts of a product are over engineered while others are under engineered... One of the cases good averages get you nowhere...
Although it is annoyingly and quite critically missing a replacement for `sudo -e` / sudoedit (or was last time I checked).
Based on some quick* testing using z-order instead of going row by row ends up taking 1-10% less space. Most images were on the lower end but I didn't run into any taking more space.

* Swapping to z-order requires about 5 lines of changes if you ignore all the little edge cases like non power-of-two image sizes. Images used in testing may or may not be representative of anything.
Yes, that would be a perfectly reasonable legislation. The burden would be on the legislators to clearly articulate their viewpoint, and provide reasonable justification for why those materials are inappropriate for any age.

Currently, some of the 850 "suspicious titles" they are "looking into" include books like We Are All Born Free: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Pictures [1]. This does not lead me to conclude that their chief concern is safety and curation.

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[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/10/28/1050013664/texas-lawmaker-mat...
quote is from oct 2021
Mainframe = behemoth

Minicomputer = wardrobe/fridge size computers

Microcomputer = your idea of minicomputer
So we both agree - the ledger is "accurate" only in the sense that the ledger matches... (drumroll) the ledger.

Which is entirely true, and there are some useful properties to that, but the whole thing falls down the second you have a real dispute over the trade of goods for value (which I might remind you, outside of the pure speculation/gambling that occurs in bitcoin pricing, is the point of actually holding a currency).

So how do I go about safely spending these things? Oh - it turns out that still only works in the context of a central authority and the legal system they support.
Are you a teenager? Believing after college age that that "rule" is some kind of law is kind of ridiculous
What's to stop China moving in with theirs? I mean after all they're friends and that's what happened during the lasy war...
Forwards compatibility is basically non-existent in the software world. It's not like you can compile a Win 10 program and expect to any time run it on Win 7.
What finance guy will ever approve this? I doubt that the service agreement would ever be approved with that clause.
I have two hue bridges ( because I have over 60 lights) that have been working for a long time now and I have never seen this problem. It’s worked flawlessly.

I also have another zigbee dongle with zigbee2mqtt and zigbee2mqtt is what gives me problems particularly if the power goes out over the house.
I strongly disagree. It’s true that people who do not understand how to use something basic to accomplish their goals are far behind in terms of fundamentals compared to those who do, but it’s provably false that primitive tooling is superior to modern IDEs.

Even just adding NERDTree or ctags to vim dramatically improves productivity. Repeat ad nauseam and you have the modern IDE.

The advice “get rid of the toys and learn the tools” doesn’t do much other than reveal your (subjective) bias for “toys” vs “tools”.
I might have agreed with you, until I saw an experienced Java/Kotkin guy work with IJ and a large code base. He was narrating his thought process and coding at the speed of though / speech. It was a thing of beauty that no text editor can help you achieve.
(not an economist)
If most bitcoins are bought with USD, all else remaining equal, wouldn't this automatically happen?
Too bad really, I use SingleFile daily, I'm going to miss the webfonts embedding.
https://www.tuned.com/all-features has "a car without BREAKS"

That should be "brakes"
>So far, only apple has bothered to make an Arm CPU which can compete with "PC" hardware.

Also Amazon: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/
Sorry to hijack the post, but how do I learn to write for CRPG such as Neverwinter nights, Baldur's Gate or Pillar of Eternity? When making mods for Neverwinter nights, the biggest obstacle is to write proper dialogues and interesting stories.

Maybe (as a foreigner) I should get my grammar straight first? I do work in an English speaking country and use English everyday, but my writings (emails, posts on HN) always show amateurism in one way or another.
WHO CARES?

Any cryptocurrency's monetary value is derived from exchange with the others — wasteful PoW titans like BTC and fraudulent wildcat banks like Tether.

By participating in ANY openly traded cryptocurrency, you're participating in that economy that AS A WHOLE is involved in wasting power, fucking the GPU market, and massive financial fraud.

Viewing any coin in isolation is completely stupid. Coins don't exist in a vacuum, you MUST have a holistic view.
Crypto Design Challenges
I wonder if the siren thing varies from location to location,

In my experience (former firefighter here), it absolutely does. It also varies by call type, time of day, etc. So if we got a call at 2:00 AM and there was no traffic on the road near the station, we might leave the station with no siren out of respect for the people trying to sleep in the homes very close to the station. This would be more true if the call was a lower priority call in the first place. OTOH though, if the call as "residential structure fire with occupants reported trapped" our focus would not be on sleeping neighbors and there's a better chance that we'd be getting on the Q pretty much right out the door.

Another factor for us was that our station was right next to an intersection that was very busy at times, and known for many traffic accidents. So any call where we had to turn left (towards the intersection) out of the parking lot, there was a better chance we'd be hitting the siren and air-horn pretty much right from the jump.

Anyway, yeah, net-net, this is going to vary based on lots of factors: department policy / culture, geography, time, traffic, etc, yadda yadda.
This is like saying that the goal of the Manhattan project was to reach new heights in our understanding of atomic physics. The people paying for the work had very clear expectations in mind.
First of all I don't get why one would take such a dismissive stance on animals while still knowing so little about them. The fact that something stupendous as learning that parrots acknowledge currency is a front page article in 2021 is a mere indication of the poor state of knowledge that we still have.

Regarding the points you make, imagine if there were a evolutionary algorithm that learned to interact with animals such that it can "teach" animals to use certain things to their advantage, and evolve with them. Yes the algorithm has the true intelligence, but these critters have learned themselves to interact with such a device. Now apply this algorithm for generations and make the interaction with such an algorithm part of their nature. I am confident that you'd be suprised how far complex behaviour could go when provided the right stimuli.

Mind you that humanity was a simpleton organism a couple of millenia ago compared to what the modern era human are now. It took millions of years for us to reach this pivoting point where one is able to create the things you mention. I think you attribute a lot of the seeming intelligence humanity has that is learned over cultural habbits, than is intrinsically present. Sure you might argue that culture is part of intelligence.
The vast majority of humanity has no access to credit besides borrowing cash from Uncle Pedro, no access to any other financial instruments besides cash and keeps their savings under their mattress or in a shoe box. You don't understand who has this problem because you don't know anyone who has this problem, but outside of our comfy western countries most people have this problem.
You're conflating two issues with each other. One is having a decentralized currency with a fixed monetary policy. Another issue is the counterparty risk.

Bitcoin is not designed to solve the counterparty risk, it's just a digital cash that has a fixed emission schedule. It can be stolen just like regular physical cash can be.

Smart Contracts try to solve the counterparty risk issue, but it's just an extra layer around cryptocurrencies, that has it's pros and cons.