skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When papers like the Sun and Mail are the most popular in the UK I think it's hard to agree that Britain overall is left leaning

As for the BBC it's firmly establishment leaning rather than left leaning in my view, and they also carry a lot of the blame for promoting Farage's poltics e.g. more appearances on question time than anyone else
This seems to be largely focused on road maintenance and property taxes.

Are those really the only factors in that area?

I know plenty of spread out small towns that do fine with such scattered developments.

I’m also a little skeptical of “our population is shrinking, let’s build tiny houses “.
I think it's more that case that it's a transfer mechanism. It transfers the irrefutability of transactions into an energy cost.

The reason it consumes so much energy is because people really don't trust each other.
> P6/7 would normally be green for in person paper

I doubt that. Are there voting schemes out there which prevent people from bringing mobile phones inside a voting booth? If not, then spouses can walk to a polling station together, and one spouse can walk inside the voting booth alone, take a picture of the filled-out ballot, and then drop the ballot to the box in view of their spouse. If there is no method of preventing photography inside the voting booth, and no method of invalidating a cast vote afterwards, then spouses can easily prove to each other how they voted.

> More importantly, however, it’s a mistake to give all of those equal weight.

Fully agreed.

> it is much harder to build public confidence in a system which a fraction of a percent of the population understands

I agree that more complicated systems are harder to understand than simpler systems, especially to laypersons. That said, I do not think that laypersons have a very in-depth understanding of how their paper-voting schemes currently work. There's an element of trust that goes into it, like surely some smart people have verified that the voting system in place is alright. If we had a more complicated system in place, then laypersons would need a bit more of that trust.

Laypersons have trust in things like online banking, even though it's technically a flaming garbage fire. People could just as well have trust in a cryptographically verified voting scheme.
Sales tax is regressive, so that doesn't add up.
> - anything tax-based is just asking for trouble aka a populist government extorting the public stations after critical coverage

Why a populist government? It seems that it's consistently Tory governments that do this, or even threaten it. If Tory politicians are populist, than the word has no meaning.
It's a personal peeve, but I find the footnote style of putting in links, rather than inline like the web was intended, to be not only hard to read, but quite pretentious.

These are comments on some web resource, not research papers.
Thanks for the correction. I apparently wrongly assumed it was connected.
That reminds me, one small thing they changed that disproportionately annoys me. They moved copy/cut/paste in the right click menu from near the middle as three textual menu items to a single row of icon buttons at the bottom of the menu. Took me several minutes to figure out that’s what they did.

Why do that? It makes a smaller click/tap target for touchscreens, it’s genuinely hard to find and hides the discoverability of the keyboard shortcut, it’s inconsistent with in-app right click menu patterns, and it’s just inane for how many other little details could have been fixed instead.
Link to the DIY air-quality monitor?
Indeed, as soon as you get into “I don’t use that so why should I pay for it”, you’re being consumer and not a taxpayer.
I never suggested I would trust a centralized blockchain.
In this case the author is talking about the person the article is about. It is relevant that the operatic Brünnhilde is more an object of ridicule, in contrast to the queen on which she's based.
Windows key+tab user checking in to say yes this is how I find myself in a sea of combined Windows or alt+tab to just cycle until I find it. It isn’t ideal but it’s my default method ever since combining windows was introduced in 7, or 8, or Vista or wherever it began..
There aren't - look at slovakia, Czechia, Germany, France. In fact, where EU is one such area?

The other post here has done a total length of road network, which is actually a good metric.
Yeah I saw his property tax of $1,600 per year and how it was already too high to raise.

Tax rates of $8,000 to $20,000 are common around me.
Sure, in the limited sense of immediacy of response to change in control input. But in the more general sense of also considering accuracy/consistency of response to a control input, not so much. If you have a low thermal mass pan on a middling heat setting on a hob with excessively wide pwm like that, you can tell when the hob is on and when it's off just by how much the contents are sizzling any given second. The pan temperature is not stable because the pulses are too wide.
> They are not neutral when it comes to values such as democracy itself, and expecting them to be is silly.

That's exactly the kind of Skinner box reflex conditioned by public news I was talking about.

You know, there are good reasons to defend a civil society threatened by lockdowns, unconstitutional curfews, contact bans, and restricting freedom of assembly. And to criticize our government's over-reaching, yet ineffective counter-measures such as contact tracing and plans for compulsory vaccination in the absence of any facts regarding its long-term consequences (in fact, when all that's known is that its effect lasts about 3 months).
They even set up legit GitHub profiles with repos that appeared in some scenes (and even their site/blog used to have regular updates lol). It was awesome.
As a user interested in three-finger middle-click and not interested in two-finger back swiping I have the exact opposite experience.

In Windows and Linux clicking the trackpad with 3 fingers causes a middle click, in MacOS this is not an option at all. Moreover, enabling it is apparently a project so difficult that the cheapest solution[0] I could find costs €8 just to add middle click functionality, nothing else.

[0]: https://middleclick.app/
If you do a perfect riffle shuffle a standard deck 8 times it will return to its starting state, and people don't tend to do plan-to-palm shuffling enough to get a good random result.

If you combine the two, at least two riffles (though one or two more is significantly better) with palm-to-palms between and before, especially if the riffles are less than perfect, you tend to get a good random result (though obviously not cryptography-safe random).
IIRC macOS’ GUI is using PDF (or postscript?) as it’s top layer
This is awesome, but one of the reasons I have started to rely on Node-RED is the web interface and the ability to run it as a service.

This would only replace Node-RED for some use cases if you could export the result as a standalone CLI app…
It's nonsense. Çatalhöyük had houses 9500 years ago (and there are other settlements of similar age or older). The people there would be unlikely to build houses with strong stone walls and neglect to build a roof.
CBOR itself is not a draft (that's the fork of msgpack).

I think COSE (which is what the post was actually about) is though: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8152
This simple fact dismantles a pillar of crypto evangelism.

No, you, can't exist outside of society and its influence, even if your "money" is digital.
> except perhaps for people with more extreme political opinions.

Like the people who supported Corbyn, or Scottish independence? You're characterizing people who were a few points from winning as extremists.
> they mean that people hold atheism in a religious way

And how many atheists actually do that? I think what GP meant was more about people who just somehow can't imagine being religionless (and "the more advanced cases" paragraph hints it very strongly), not about people who point out that some atheists hold their atheism religiously.

Anyway, your points seem wrong to me. After Wikipedia - "Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities." Absence of belief does not answer any questions by itself, and considering its provability doesn't even make sense at all. What you said may make sense for the less broad definition ("In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities"), but that's not what "atheism" usually means without any further qualifiers.

For me, atheism is a natural consequence of realizing that I have no more reason to believe in existence of any particular god than any other fictitious being - and even if I did assume that a god exists, I would still have a hard time choosing which god is it, as there are many contesters and none of them has any obvious advantage when it comes to believability. There are many believable reasons why religions exist, but none of them implies that any religion is actually true (to the contrary, the history of some well-known religions seems to make it pretty clear that they were products of human culture).
And so were coined the warp bombs and the warp shots, two weapons of unimaginable power against which no defenses could stand. Undetectable until arrival, unstoppable upon arrival. A very fast and saucy radiation souffle.
Not Hotdog (SeeFood Technologies Inc.)

What would you say if I told you there is a app on the market that tell you if you have a hotdog or not a hotdog. It is very good and I do not want to work on it any more. You can hire someone else.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/not-hotdog/id1212457521

(Seller: Home Box Office Inc.)
Exactly the same thought I had after installation. The system will get old and buggy real fast without a good package manager.
Organically. Immediate circle started one or two groups, and then was told about or invited to others via the Kevin Bacon effect.
Maybe someone can invent a cheese tasting accessory for phones. Not sure if I want to share my cheese with my phone though.
I disagree with the systems aspects, and actually think logic is more automated.

I imagine 2 advanced crafts, Design Engineering (UI), and Systems Engineering (distributed, low level, cloud native, and… data).

Everything in between (full stack, APIS, req/res handling, DB integration, data processing, etc) can all be automated efficiently.

Those previous two areas seem to continuously evolve, while APIs and their integration are pretty straight forward and have been for a long time.

I believe AI to be the reason why those two can’t be automated, coincidentally. AI applications require new architectures, AIUX, advanced UI metrics, etc.
I don't see how it can be pretentious. Usually, I do it to avoid disturbing the flow of text reading.
Their interview process is well documented (for instance, here https://clevercoder.net/2017/09/04/toptal-passed-interview/). My experience was that it was doable, though you need to brush up your algorithm skills and have luck with the problems you get.
As an atheist Heaven's Gate claims are as legitimate (and outlandish) as those of Christians or Buddhists, whose to say they aren't reborn on an alien planet?
So let's call it "assumed perished".
Why not make some for yourself? Then you'll know in the future whether it's the real deal. Saffron rice is very easy: https://www.marthastewart.com/1049924/saffron-rice

Saffron is expensive, but it takes a very small amount to deliver the flavor, so it shouldn't cost more than US$5 for enough to make this ten times.
I wonder if there are any workarounds to this, such as some compatibility layer that allows a new OS to reuse Mac or Windows drivers.

I have no experience in operating systems, so may be proposing a naive solution.

Anyone here with more experience that could share some ideas?
Anyone who writes for the internet age will be guarded or brave enough that they might actually be insane.
If heavensgate happened again today their hosting provider would definitely "shun" them.
> unless they also turned off all non-digital am/fm broadcasts, which I think is unlikely

Very unlikely at present. Tangential fun fact: the ongoing broadcast of BBC Radio 4 on longwave is (one of?) the means by which British nuclear deterrence submarines ensure Britain hasn't been destroyed.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manches...
Amazon scams are up 500% – how to spot the red flags
Remove your info from data brokers
What do you like about task manager compared to e.g. Activity Monitor? Activity Monitor has always seemed powerful and well-designed to me.
> Maybe stop using aws or google cloud?

Or, maybe start. Would at least be worth looking at to see if [the equivalents of] spot or reserved instances, Lambda's, Cloud Run, or other serverless etc. might save some money.
The Supreme Court changed it’s mind independent of any changing federal laws and has removed physical presence from the requirements for the commerce clause.

“[e]ach year, the physical presence rule becomes further removed from economic reality”

That ruling is therefore not inherently limited to sales taxes and opens the door to lemon laws etc. At least assuming the purchaser is in their home state when the transaction takes place.
The JS fetch example is native, no library. But point taken - what does a Swift file upload request look like with a (common) library?
I liked the stories of Babylon 5, but the acting is so ridiculous that I could hardly concentrate on it. It felt like watching a play with very over-the-top actors.
given how many of this cabinet are close to the likes of jeffrey epstein the 'think of the children' stuff is particularly laughable
>>So aside from coins, what's another concrete example?

What you wrote earlier is:

>>Crypto coins are unique in that you can verify them mathematically. They have no connection to anything else out in the real world so they don't have that problem.

Stablecoins cannot be verified entirely mathematically, as they have a connection to real world bank notes, so my example doesn't fit your exception.

>>This sounds very much like the buzzword snake oil I've heard many times before, but I'm willing to be open minded about your non-coin example.

I'll use the coin example, because it's easy to demonstrate the principle.

I can move my stablecoins, without having to ask a third party custodian for permission. With bank credit, I need to ask the bank for permission to withdraw it, or transfer it.
Possible points I know of: the desktop has a little-used Bluray drive. There is discussion of Bluray functionality being removed.

Also I've tried etherium mining on the desktpp gpu, which uses memory parameter overrides and overclocking. I worry that support could change?

I do some development, CUDA, python, mingw64 C++ stack. Possible WSL. Does WSL change/improve in Windows 11?
I don't know. I don't like paying any tax. Maybe you could have the government start companies to make money instead of taxing others.

>Do you want landlords to charge for public services that they did not provide

I'm not quite sure what you mean by this, but it's not legal to sell an item or service and then not give them that item / service.
The bill gates example always gets rolled out for some reason, he's an outlier. For most people, if they are at a good university, doing something they are good at, then graduating is probably a good idea. Bill gates made a calculated decision, Paul Allen persuaded him that they were about to miss out on the micro computer revolution. If you look at what bill gates accomplished as an under grad, there is a strong argument that he wasn't going to gain anything from staying on (Google the pancake problem bill gates). One of his professors remarked to a colleague that some kid bill is probably the smartest person he has ever met.

In short defining bill gates as a college drop out is a ridiculously narrow view. I'm guessing most people who drop out aren't on a path to success.
Competition is only healthy if a reasonable baseline of safety nets exist for those who lose the competition. We don't have those safety nets most of the time and it leads indirectly to harmful consequences for those involved, making it far from healthy.
A more effective approach would be to highlight how the far-right uses encrypted chat apps. That would get the majority of the media and blue-checks supporting you.

> Why right-wing extremists’ favorite new platform is so dangerous. Telegram’s lax content moderation and encrypted chats make it a convenient tool for extremists.

https://www.vox.com/recode/22238755/telegram-messaging-socia...

> In collaboration with anti-fascist research group the White Rose Society, the Guardian has tracked McLean’s activity through the rabbit warren of largely unregulated Telegram groups and found that he describes a vastly different version of his intentions.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/26/where...

> Far-right groups move online conversations from social media to chat apps — and out of view of law enforcement

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/14/telegram-war...

> White supremacists openly organize racist violence on Telegram, report finds

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/26/tech/white-supremacists-t...

> Are Private Messaging Apps the Next Misinformation Hot Spot? Telegram and Signal, the encrypted services that keep conversations confidential, are increasingly popular. Our tech columnists discuss whether this could get ugly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/technology/personaltech/t...

> A report this week found that the messaging app had emerged as a central hub for several conspiracy movements espousing antisemitic tropes and memes, including QAnon, as well as others on the extreme right promoting violence.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/15/parler-...
Statistical Rethinking (2022 Edition)
Some of those pricing seems strange, for example, OVH listed its Dedicated server Rise-2 [1] as US$ 80.92 ex. GST/month with 12 month commitment. Which is the same spec as their socket frontend listed as $110. There are other places like YoloDB and Insight with only 12 Threads. The same E-2136 Intel CPU with 64GB Memory is listed as $173 per month in the spreadsheet, while it is US$ 143.14 ex. GST/month 12 month commitment.

But yes generally speaking OVH is a rather strange breast. Much prefer Hetzner. A Zen 2 64 Thread, 192 GB Memory and 3.8TB SSD DB Primary listed as $464.00 in the spreadsheet only cost about $210 on Hetzner.

[1] https://www.ovhcloud.com/asia/bare-metal/rise/rise-2/
It seems Rich is not compatible with communism.
It's somewhat low but they've probably made a concious choice to accept a lower salary to work for a project they are passionate about.
I don't know how much time he dedicates to running the service at this point but the salary seems light if it's full time work.
Let me ask you: would you expect the quality/tone/curation of r/science to hold up 50 years from now? Would you be surprised if, in 50 years, r/science didn't have the special sauce it has now?

All things are ephemeral, especially in media. We're just marketed at to believe otherwise.
More likely "She" (or rather "They" since there are two authors).

> also repeatedly states the events of 1997 happened 35 years ago.

You misread. The article says 25 years, except this:

There are images from the news that stick out in the minds of people over 35 who watched the story unfold in real time.

which refers to people aged around 10 or above 25 years ago.
In Germany, there is no direct link of a tax and where that income is being used to - it all goes into a big tax pot, and everything is being paid out of that. What you mean is a "Gebühr" (roughly translated to "a fee"), which can be linked to a particular expense, but vehicle taxes and gas taxes are specifically NOT a Gebühr.
There are many places in the world where this is not a thing. I live in a densely populated country where it it simply not possible to get that far away from any city. If you drive 50km in any direction anywhere in the country, you would've encountered quite a few cities. I would have to cross several borders to get to a place without light pollution.
When I get a new phone, I plan to keep my old one for all the “garbage.” And have a clean phone for everyday use, with only the essentials.

Also, I have been training myself to do st least some things phone-free. Such as taking walks or running errands without my phone. It’s crazy how in just a few short years, it feels impossible to leave home without a phone!
I think there's a decent chance they inspired Cowboy Bebop's episode about the tech cult SCRATCH: https://cowboybebop.fandom.com/wiki/Brain_Scratch

...although Japan has had several really wacky cults that also could have inspired the story.
Maybe a bit low for someone this experienced, but actually its just above the median salary for a developer in Paris.

Developer salaries in Europe are not the astronomic salaries you see in the US in the major cities. Probably the highest paying in Europe is London in the UK, and even then its still less than 50% of what developers in SF make at probably around 75k USD per year/6-7k USD per month in London.
My main objection is this:

>able to produce decent images despite hardware limitations by applying black-box magic when interpreting raw captures (but not faring that well when used to shoot raw)

Not really, the quality boost in recent smartphones comes exactly from bayer domain stacking, which is scene-referred capture. You can absolutely get precise photometric values from this process, as precise as your hardware and lighting allows you to, and as long as you calibrate your device. Those apps contain profiles for specific sensors precisely for this reason, albeit you can do it yourself better, as many people do just like they do it with proper cameras. There's no black box magic here, the output is just the same ordinary DNG with the CFA photometric interpretation, but with significantly lowered noise floor and better dynamic range. Moreover, the pipeline is strictly separated into two parts: bayer domain operations, which give the quality boost, and post-demosaicing processing (auto white balance, tonemapping, skin smoothing, other features aimed at point-and-shoot users - what you call magic).

I'm not claiming smartphones are somehow better, which would be silly. I'm objecting to a claim that apps do some opaque magic behind your back when writing RAWs. They don't, you can get entirely normal RAWs with all the quality benefits of stacking (and its limitations).

And to be honest, I feel like our discussion is creeping into a no true scotsman/audiophile territory a bit. There's nothing sacred or qualitatively different about single-shot capture, no modern normal-sized sensor gives you truly unprocessed internal bucket values, and even what is counted as single shot is often unclear (many sensors are capable of simultaneous multiple exposure capture requiring the same exposure fusion to get the result; is it single shot or not?). What smartphones, and some cameras, do is essentially temporal denoising, it's a routine imaging technique employed by videographers and in technical imaging (which is as precise and scene-referred as you can get), and I'm not sure what's magical here. Same with temporal super-resolution that many cameras do.
Any tips on finding a good headhunter?