skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those interested, this website provides a great listing of TV licensing letters:

http://www.bbctvlicence.com/
I think a lot of the problem is the aged technology where the regional news is routed via each region. Even just upscaling the local output requires massive changes, and any money for Engineering is rarely invested in old fashioned technology like over the air broadcasting,

There's then the spectrum costs, especially on satellite, to broadcast an extra 13 HD channels.
Baden Würtemberg doesn't give a damn about the complexity of the assessment, they already have to assess land value for estate taxes. The assessment argument is actually complete rubbish. The assessment rules for the rest of Germany are significantly more bureaucratic. Assessing building value is an even bigger nightmare because you cannot automate the majority of assessment work. You also don't have to asess every single building. You can asess the value of bigger plots of land spanning multiple properties and allow an appeal process for special circumstances.
The Feynman Problem-Solving Algorithm:

1. Write down the problem.
2. Think very hard.
3. Write down the answer.
Yes indeed. I can't find this information online but I remember an anecdote according to which Cordwainer Smith had explained the entire timeline of the Instrumentality of Mankind in terms of current goings-on on the international stage. Of (some of) which he had a certain privileged vantage point, of course.

I mainly read his works translated in my native Greek at a time when he was not that well-known among English-speaking SF readers anymore. I consider that lucky, for me, and sad, for everyone else. I think of him as one of the greats, one of the authors of SF whose imagination was not bound by cliché and trope, perhaps thanks to his having a day job, unlike most SF authors. I suspect he never really reached his full potential either, again because that was not his day job. His life experience certainly shaped his writing in any case.
I sure hope not. I don't want my government to tell me what I can and can not compute on my computer.
And that's the problem China and governments banning it have. There is no easy way to force someone to give it up, since it can't be taken by force.
Tell HN: Jobs posted on Stackoverflow are finally asking for Julia
I use to track trends on Stackoverflow jobs[0] and just recently I found jobs with Julia as a requirement. I also track package creation rate on major languages and Julia is now on the same level as Elixir, R or Swift.

Disclaimer: I'm not involved in Julia. I don't even use the language, it's just some "trivia" and trend recognition.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/jobs?tl=julia
The BBC traditionally isn't "State Run" any more than PBS is "State Run"
I don’t know a single person who pays the TV loicense anyway…
Microsoft is more diversified than any of the other big tech companies, except for Amazon.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-big-tech-makes-their-bi...

The previous poster is probably 10+ years behind the news.
So why would it then matter to make mining illegal? Tax evasion and theft are already illegal.
So they become state tv?

Then why have them at all?

Why not call it <INSER_CURRENT_RULING_PARTY_NAME> TV?
Take a look at this video of Michael Dearing on pricing.

https://www.heavybit.com/library/video/harrison-metals-micha...

The website is really weird: there's no obvious way to play the video. Clicking on a word or paragraph plays the video at that place. So you can click on the letter "I" in the first sentence "I was just telling the" of the first paragraph.

I suppose you can directly access the video here: https://d3aeja1uqhkije.cloudfront.net/2013-07-16-michael-dea...
This is Lisp reinvented (arguably poorly, but people have different tastes, so who knows).

Obligatory link to Slava Akhmechet’s ‘The Nature of Lisp’: https://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html
You can in "applications" you cannot in "apps." For example there's no way of opening multiple Settings windows and Teams is still extremely limited.
The BBC's version of the article at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60014514.

> The BBC has declined to comment.

Nothing more BBC than the BBC writing an article about the BBC saying that the BBC haven't commented.
Taxes infom the market about externalities.

Taxing carbon emission significantly sends price signal to every actor in the market that uses products and services that have carbon emission upstream to maybe reduce usage of such products and services or switch to another.
Yeah, isn't it kinda on purpose ?

I always understand it as a way for anyone anywhere being able to join just with a computer and electricity, without having to beg any existing centralized entity for permission to exchange their "real" money for the crypto tokens.

And it seems to have been right, as exchanges are indeed where most fraud happens a what is actually targeted when a government does not like a cryptocurrency.

Still not sure how one is supposed to avoid this without handing over the given crypto network to a centralized entity that decides who gets what.
The SerenityOS people are implementing their own browser. It's nowhere near usable for the modern web yet, but it's slowly chugging along, inching closer.

Of course the difference between building an OS and a browser is that for an OS, you just have to build something that is usable, how you get there and what that looks like is up to you, and you can really get creative with it and break norms.

For a browser engine, by definition, you have to build something that behaves basically exactly the same as any other modern browser. So you're implementing a gargantuan spec to a very high level of precision (since you have no control over how it's used), and the end result is a technical feat that's only impressive in the fact that it was done, not in that you get to use it now, and it does anything a reskinned chrome wouldn't do.
Surprise, you don't get to choose anything at all on that list.
This is just basic nihilism.

Nihilism is easily rejected for things that matter. It’s easy to reject the abstracted Apple when you are not hungry. Bur when you are hungry, you are very glad you have access to these apples; no matter what social projections of privilege or not you thought these apple were representing when your belly was full.
The landlord can't exploit you, only the land owner can. It just turns out that they are usually the same person. In the case of the homeowner they are not.

Also, if we consider taxation exploitative then we should limit it to resource based taxes like land value tax.
Probably referring to this behavior from TFA:

> Previously you could choose to “never combine” apps so you had one-click access to each document. Now you are required to use two mouse actions to open each.

If you have "foo.txt" and "bar.txt" open in, say, notepad, you get one notepad icon on your taskbar that you click on once to open the list of windows and then once more to actually switch. Previously you could tell windows to never combine the taskbar icons so you'd have two separate icons you could change to in one click.
Mate, you're going to spit blood when you hear about all the roads, hospitals and armed forces you're paying for but not directly using.
You can, but there is just one icon to represent the group of windows of that given app. It's visually hard to tell when there's more than one and impossible to tell how many (there is a little border suggesting there's more).

But it gets worse. If you have only 1 window with some app open (browser, terminal..), and this window has two tabs inside, clicking on the taskbar icon representing this window won't bring the window up. It will first bring up these small previews above the taskbar for every tab that you then have to click again (pick any) and then finally you get the window brought up. This is horrible because when you have tabs side by side in the window (terminal example), it doesn't matter which tab you choose as the same window pops up showing both tabs anyway. However you have to click twice (or hover for a bit to get the previews and then click again).

Congratulations to "Windows" version where switching "windows" is painful.

FWIW, I'm a Microsoft employee (not in Windows org) and I complain about "never combine" in any feedback forms we get. Maybe it will make a difference somewhere. (opinions are my own)
Governments have a role in taxing negative externalities. What alternative do libertarians like you have? Forgetting whether or not you believe in climate change, if it does indeed exist as a possibility, what would libertarians like you do about it?

Your comment is blatant virtue signalling -- it's taking a moral high ground without providing any alternatives.

[edit] At least you've provided an alternative now: nuclear energy. Then again, you only did it when pushed to.
Is there any irony is his surname?
I remember receiving a fair amount of threatening letters about the TV licence as a student, shortly after I moved out of my parents place to attend university.
It was extremely confusing and made me a little anxious.

Not only did I not own a TV or watch TV of any kind, even online, any effort to make this clear fell on deaf ears and the threatening letters continued.

Eventually it became normality and I learned to drone them out of my conscience but it was such a strange concept to me back then.
I'm just thankful I never got anyone knocking on my door demanding to check my room.
He also repeatedly states the events of 1997 happened 35 years ago. Heh.
Satoshi has been selling bitcoin to pay expenses every year. You just don’t know it because “Satoshi’s coins” is a myth. He wrote off the identifiable ones but still had years to mine cheaply.

Bitcoin is not ab attack in banks but on inflation.

It is undermining government ability to create poverty and oppress people.
I reviewed your SaaS startups and side-projects and they SURPRISED Me
Some trivia: TV detector vans https://hackaday.com/2021/01/18/tv-detector-vans-once-prowle...
These are the issues that limit ability to draw conclusions in this study: No pre-registration, No randomization, No blinding, No allocation concealment, No idea who did/did not fill prescriptions, Prescription writing was based on "judgement"?!, No uniform follow up, No idea who was followed up or lost to follow up
I think the vector based UI should be on the list somewhere. Really smart solution to the HiDPI problem that gives you easy arbitrary scaling without any awkwardness
Each Social network is kind of a tribe, that's how they are all different. Tumblr has successfully maintained its own tribe over the years. Same goes with all platforms including HN.
Do you think hair dryers should be banned? Are clothes dryers indefensible? They all are unnecessary- just hang clothes up.

And use dar more power than bitcoin.
The economics of dog walking
I couldn't agree more.

I'm a die hard fan. I started watching Stargate SG-1 when I was a kid in 1997 (season 1). I've seen ever single episode of every series. Every movie. All multiple times.

I REALLY don't want to see a modern reboot that is like Star Trek Discovery. I'll be so disappointed if they do.

I do think it is possible to revive the franchise and make a compelling show. However, it would be tough to pull off. I love that the show never took itself too serious. Stargate Universe was the opposite and flopped because of this.
I'd be happy with upscaling but sure, can understand that may be difficult. I haven't renewed my license in a while but every-time I visit my parents they're watching the non-HD channels due to not getting the local news on HD.
who the hell buys a salmon everyday?
Not being affected by relativistic problems such as time dilation and mass increases would be a benefit for travel at relativistic speeds within the Solar System.
I have issues with the BBC - especially its partisan news reporting on the current government and its performance during the Scottish independence referendum, but would still like it to exist

I find BBC drama is consistently of a high quality - and unlike the paid services i can watch 6 episodes and its pretty much ended. Everything on netflix/prime is like 10 seasons of 20 episodes

Sad times - but im sure Rupert Murdoch will be happy
>Nothing more BBC than the BBC writing an article about the BBC saying that the BBC haven't commented.

Could've ended with "other news organizations are available".
One of the great things of the Licence fee was that the Government does not get to control the national TV like it does when the one who pays is it directly.

In places like Spain the national TV(and regional TV too) becomes a propaganda machine for the exclusive service of the Government(s, national and regional).

It is awful to have your taxes redirected for the private interest of the Party in charge.

In fact with the crisis and private TV also being subsidized, the Media is being captured like the Gramma, Pravda, or Global Times, when the government never can go wrong or do mistakes.
These authors have had one article retracted by the Journal of Intensive Care Medicine and another refuted by American Journal of Therapeutics.
https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/Fulltext/2022/...
> average job, with average life and average family

having those is also luck and lots of survivor bias
I don’t accept that view of how taxation works. Taxes are levied to the extent that they are tolerated, and expenditure is made to the extent that it is demanded. Both are subject to independent political processes.

Imagine for the sake of argument that there was a bumper year for vehicle / fuel tax and the tax generated multiplies more revenue than expected. Would the money be spent on diamond encrusted highways or would it instead be spent on other areas that are more in need? Cars are taxed because they can be.
You spend time in Egypt and Sudan? What do you do there?
My favorites are „last real man“ and „outer space“ and „I can’t forget“(remix)
Actually it depends on the country/working place. Some of the companies still pushes this.
That is exactly correct. And proof of work solves a problem that was thought unsolvable. So no other solution is likely to appear soon. None yet. (Proof of stake just recreates the problem.)
State TVs don't necessarily represent the current party. I've seen plenty of examples of state TVs siding with the opposition in various countries.

Media and journalists mostly have a left bias and when there is a right government they won't side with the government, unless the government is a de facto dictatorship and you can't go against it for safety concerns (Russia comes to mind).

Not that I justify state TVs at all - I'm against all forms of taxation - but bias is not one of the issues imho.
That solution feels like it needs refinement...

- In a commercial / industrial district (taxpaying companies, but no residents), do those taxpayers decide?

- Is the "Residents...have to decide" voting weighed by how much each one is paying? It seems reasonable for Walmart to have a bigger say than any of the little stores & restaurants across the street from Walmart.

- Is there some "I don't need" opt-out? A farmer growing 640 acres of corn across the road from Walmart probably doesn't even need the road to exist - the dirt roads along the other 3 sides of his field are good enough for tractors.
If the use of it is banned in just a few major economies (ie banned in the sense of blocking contact points with the regular economy in the conversion to traditional currency or purchase /sale of goods or services) then the value of BTC would tank, no?

BTC doesn’t need to overcome its energy needs, so long as people just stop wasting any energy. There is an infinity of things with massive wasteful energy use that no one does (such as sending rocks into space or boiling lakes for fun) simply because there is no financial gain.
You can charge for the presence of the hospital through a land value tax.
I can think of at least one highly successful person (Creator of several household name open source projects), who has dealt with rather serious chronic health conditions throughout their life. Won't name names since it's a somewhat sensitive subject.

For an example from the business world that is a matter of public record, Steve Jobs was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer in 2003 and he still had an active role in the development of the iPhone and iPad before eventually dying in 2011.
It is a cool story. I was unaware of these queens. I suspect that we may hear more, soon enough. This article is probably timed to raise interest in her forthcoming book.

I lived in Baltimore for several years. Always good to see a hometown girl make it good, and wish her luck.
This doesn’t scale. If your app reaches any level of success, you don’t get one email per night, you get 100. When my app was small I responded individually, but after I hit a threshold I had to use a template response for feature requests just to stay productive.
Show HN: I noticed the negative sentiment on Web3, so I made a useful Web3 app
I legitimately thought I was looking at a parody when I first saw a still from a TV interview of him
I really hate the biased terminology and implied accusations that always follow these articles. Imagine McDonalds getting similar coverage back in the early 90’ies with them talking about their “dangerous growth at all cost strategy” and evil “psychological tricks of putting billboards on the roads that pass by the restaurants locations”
Or the ever present toy commercials sprinkled in between childrens tv shows.

There’s no grand conspiracy or evil masterminds here, and teens aren’t being exploited. It’s just marketing targeting the target audience.

If we bought into the premise that adverts for teens where bad for them or that Facebook itself is harmful. We should not be discussing which ways they carried out their advertisement, we should be discussing how the government outlawed all forms of advertisement, print and media for teens and children and shut Facebook down along with all other social media.
> In places like Spain

Spain? Spain pales in comparison with Poland. Where they collect the license fee, too.
Not all companies or projects needs desktop apps. If you have to have all of them you "might be" right.
I've never been a big Tumblr user, having only occasionally found my way there through links and search results.

So I am not someone for whom this matters.

However, I never did like the way it would present other Tumblr feeds that I would click on in the page I was on in this side bar navigation way, rather than just navigating me there. The UI felt all rather convoluted to me.

Anyone know why they have stuck with this pattern in particular?
"labor of love To scratch an itch To explore an idea"

that by no mean is a bad thing, it just means doing things for themselves, to express, to learn etc, typical of creative work.

People do that all the time. However in OSS there is this thing when people feel they need to present their work as useful to others eventhough clearly what drives their work has nothing to do with other peoples' needs, it's just their itch.
I think the point of the experiment would not be to see if you CAN give it a go on Mars, but rather an early indication that you can't. ("If you can't do it here, you can't do it there.")
Gratuity (Still) Not Included
>I'm not sure if that's a helpful way of looking at things. Something is legal (for a person) if it is not explicitly illegal.

which itself is a constitutional provision
You definitely need to watch the video of the OS in action. Ten minutes well spent.
> The last paragraph sounds like something we’ve all heard before. Anti-progress and looking at the past with rose colored glasses.

Building cities around cars is not progress, and arguing for making them pedestrian-friendly isn't "anti-progress". Suburbanization is just one possible development path and one that's not particularly smart.

To fight suburbanization the only thing that will work is taxing external costs. So you want to live 30 km away from the city but enjoy all the benefits - work there, have access to culture, entertainment and services on demand? Pay for the infrastructure that city needs to maintain to let you do it. This would make suburban lifestyle very expansive and would stop suburbanization. But people won't vote for this, because they want the profits and someone else to pay for the costs.
> Bitcoin is actually cleaning up the environment. At at this point still uses only a tiny fraction of the energy thrown away every year.

This is not true.
>- A health start-up targeting a condition that affects 1 in 100k people, usually quite mildly and benignly, but involves surgically implanting a device onto a nerve in the jaw.

What's the condition? Seems like a serious intervention for a mild condition?
My bad, I'll word that kind of sentiment differently in the future.
Author of the original medium post here. I had simply never heard of COSE at the time of writing this. There was no conspiracy to bury the spec.

There are a bunch of vague accusations that I'm trying to profit or rent seek off of one of the specs I did write about. I didn't create and I don't maintain any of those. I also wouldn't trust any crypto designed by myself.

The original context for writing this post was discussions around using JOSE in the context of signing container images [1]. I was against it and preferred something simpler.

https://github.com/notaryproject/notaryproject/pull/93
Jonestown was significant internationally - nearly a thousand people died by suicide and murder, many of them children. It didn’t take place in the US (Jonestown is in Guyana), although the cult originated there.
Microsoft has been reinventing their GUI constantly starting at the API level. Maybe they 'll get it right after a few more tens of billions of dollars. Meanwhile when I open the file manager in Windows 11 with Microsoft's own dark theme, it flashes white before it settles. I guess it is hard to get it right when you are swimming in an ocean full of your own excrement, and even harder when you have other priorities, like inventing more garbage protocols on top of your "Chromium: Reskinned" browser to make it harder for me to select a different default web browser.
You give everyone equal amounts of co2 tokens. CO2 pollution costs tokens. You have now democratized CO2 pollution. Every single person gets to decide how much pollution they want in the world. Replace pollution tokens with dollars and taxes and you have the same democratic system.
To me, TDE ... a fork of KDE2, is even more so this.

A very active community, too, and so far, no real change. I don't want change, managing my windows, my open programs, is a decades old solved problem.

I don't want the new sexy, the flashy this and that. I don't want new styles, changing methods to interact. My Window Manager is not something I want to notice, or spent 10 seconds on.. for the next 20 years.

It needs to be in the background, while I do real work, or enjoy other apps. If I have to do things, configure it constantly, modify it due to new versions, it has failed in its task.

Anyone trying to vastly change, or improve this, is bananas. It needs no massive change, for 1000s of years.
If I recall correctly, heating up the atmosphere to scorching temperatures is a major concern. It's better to heat up one spot than half of the globe.
if you read the keywords (defn, cond, let) it would be a coincidence if it wasn't a lisp in xml clothes :)
The other two quotes you’ve posted suggest that mining is a significantly smaller issue in this particular scenario. The principal culprits for climate change instead seem to be government-sponsored majority-coal energy expenditure and irredentist nationalist policies.
Oh my god the name just clicked. I knew some of the history but didn't catch he named it after himself.
Because effectiveness is not binary.