skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is interesting is that the BBC have been reporting recently on the sitting government's complete disregard for their own rules w.r.t lockdowns.

It began with Matt Hancock breaking COVID distancing rules and cheating on his wife with his aide.

Now it's a slow burn leak of more and more damning evidence that they've held parties- while the police force have openly stated that they "do not prosecute crimes retroactively".

All in all it's a bit of a shit-show and I'm not convinced that this isn't a form of retribution, especially since yesterday a tory backbencher accused the BBC of trying to incite a coup against the conservative government: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/michael-fabri...
I wonder if this could be solved by picking a widely available but fairly stable platform for it - like a Raspberry Pi, and making sure it works there. Atm, it seems like it's an x86-based OS, so I'm not sure how difficult would it be to port it to ARM.
This sounds similar to the behaviour of Internet Explorer on Windows 10 (which always felt weird). If you have two tabs open in IE, they appear as two separate windows when clicking the icon in the taskbar. Edge behaves as expected where two tabs -> one window -> one click but it seems like they just regressed as a whole for Windows 11.
Sure there is. The cost of emitting a ton of carbon should ideally be the cost of capturing a ton of carbon. Managed in a free market kind of way.

Same way you pay i.e. for electricity.

If you can get somebody to capture it for 1$, well, good for you. If there are only buyers for -10000$, then that's your problem.

We're not there yet as far as carbon capture goes, but I do think we'll get there.
Please, this idea that business is universally better at producing value than any other form of social organization has to die.

I'm pro business. I founded my first money-making venture when I was 4 years old (selling "art" to strangers on the street-- the business was quickly closed by the regulators-- Mom).

But business is best when the value created by an investment can be (mostly) captured by a single entity, and also generally when the ROI is short term.

Why shouldn't businesses provide i.e. (K-12) education? Because, unless every single student goes to work for the company, then the value they create is lost to them. So you cannot align the interests of the business with providing quality education.

NOTING that the diffuse value created by government is often many orders of magnitude greater than the value which can be captured by a single organization.

Another example: value of the internet vs value of Google. Google is an insanely valuable organization, but a) it wouldn't exist without the internet, and b) the other FANGS also derive their value from the internet. So clearly the internet's value is many times greater than that of any internet-based company.
Npcs taking over shops isn't really emergent because that behaviour is programmed intentionally. Neither is breaking the quest chains in morrowind unless it's done by an AI (which can happen sparingly but the later games had much more active Npcs). Its more about how different rules and systems can interact with each other to create unexpected and novel results, and morrowind simply had more emergence-friendly mechanics like spell building, levitate, jump, and chameleon, more alchemical potions, double edged items like boots of blinding speed and icarian flight. Probably more things I can't remember but I was distinctly disappointed with the lack of exploitable mechanics in skyrim.
It'll get there eventually. Right now, JavaScript works but it does not have the architecture-specific just-in-time compiler that speeds up hot code massively. The interpreter works though.
And that is a problem because...?

Remember that one of the original motivators behind "Open Source" is scratching your own itch.
Actually, a lot of successful artists and thinkers were pretty ill and/or depressed - e.g. Nietzsche, Proust.
How does this work with radio?
> to simply read “hello there”

General.. Kenobi.
You can be a great engineer and not need to do any recreational programming.

The thought that some devs are more respectable skill-wise because they hack in their free time is short sighted.

You literally have 8 hours a day to experiment and try all you want, everyday you have the opportunity to learn, hone your skills and experiment and good companies actually have days dedicated to experimenting.

Obviously you can't get great at this job if you don't bang your head on problems for days, but I fail to see that's a quality of recreational programming.
So I guess one should first become a stateless citizen.
> It's not a free market if we tax it to distort it.

Arguable false.

The freest markets price in all externalities so that the user pays the whole costs and doesn't outsource the externalities to others.

Taxing is one way to help pass on these externalities.

Arguably this makes it a more free market as taxes help make people pay closer to their actual costs and takes part of the burden off those who don't
Depends on what you compare. State control of television given things like the Catalonian crisis probably swing the bar.
Hal Finney (who beta-tested bitcoin before its release) flagged it almost immediately:

> @halfin

> Thinking about how to reduce CO2 emissions from a widespread Bitcoin implementation

> Jan 27, 2009

https://twitter.com/halfin/status/1153096538

Bitcoiners cannot claim they weren't told early, by bitcoin's second developer.
Well we’re in luck because, as has been pointed out many times in recent years, the private organizations I mentioned are not bound by the first amendment!
Ok, and just to be clear, you’re saying SJW (which you used) is ok because it is descriptive?

But, like, the etymology of many words is obscure; sometimes we do use words as arbitrary references, whose semantics cannot be inferred from their form, no?
No I really did mean emergent! And I'm also a huge fan of DF :)
It would also be handy if the parent used the common English meaning when writing in English.
Roads can't easily bill for usage and a vast majority of people relies on them, thus the easiest & most efficient way is to make everyone pay for them through taxes, though you do pay more if you own a car via extra taxes on car registrations & fuel.

Hospitals can technically be billed per-use but the US is a real life example of why the system doesn't work in practice. You could also argue it's a necessity for life and everyone should have the right to medical treatment.

Armed forces? We're gonna disagree big time on that one but that would be off-topic.

But the BBC? It's something that's not necessary to life, affordable and trivial technical solutions exist to make it paid per-use (pay TV existed for decades and streaming platforms have solved the "online paid subscription TV" problem) instead of threatening people into paying and producing a significant amount of paper waste as a side-effect.
That's what multiple newspapers including The Times are reporting, yes.

Since Boris' job is on the line, he's apparently panicking and due to roll out a series of popularist policies next week.
Why do people, especially developers, give Microsoft the time of day with this? Life is to short to give a shit about them, their crappy software, and their bad moderation policies?

Vote with your wallet and get the fuck off Windows and all the attendant bullshit that comes with it as soon as possible.
Product release. For instance there is for years issue with C#'s GUI frameworks mainly the lack of a multiplateform one. Microsoft disregarded developer feedback on UWP (it was stupid to propose a Windows 10 only framework at a time Win7 was still dominant and tie it to a mean of delivery - the Windows store). About a decade later Microsoft remembered with dotnet 5 and 6 that WPF and WinForms are the frameworks people are actually using and they got some improvements.
> I wonder who financed the ring road.

In the US, that’s overwhelmingly the federal government, not local property or state sales/income taxes.

> Curious that we don't build ring roads where there's no cities.

Indeed. Perhaps the city residents should chip in more because of the need to build a ring road to avoid them? Or maybe, just maybe, different choices have different cost pros and cons and taking a simple, single-variable view isn’t rich enough to capture the whole situation. (pun intended).

> The new penalty should be "you want to live in 100 km radius of a city - you chip in for infrastructure it builds the more the further you are".

I’d wager that suburbs, villages, and small towns 101-125km away would boom under such a plan.
There's a subscription feature that's in the works. https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/21/22684089/tumblr-post-plus...
For those completely unaware (like I was), lichess [1] seems to be a chess server.

Not sure whether they need AWS scale and couldn't cut costs down from 420k a year to something cheaper. Naively, this seems like something MS could sponsor by providing long-term discount.

That said, I have no idea how much cheaper this would be on other cloud providers, or whether they even have the need to cut down costs. For all I know, they might be making 10x of that in donations.

[1] http://lichess.org
>Have you ever been to any Baltic country?

All 4 of them (if you count Poland, counting Finland or Sweden would be even harder). Here is a Latvian joke about Estonia: "no sex or future in Estonia". I have been in pretty much any European country, minus Portugal. No idea where the racism idea comes from, though.
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Jm2c but I'm a great developer (I think) but I'm a terrible tech consumer. I have issues with smartphones most of my peers do not and I hate doing smart things at home.

I would also suggest that it's a matter of having an engineeristis attitude (analyzing problems and finding solutions) more than the topic itself.
That’s a tax that goes to the federal government only. It pays for federal roads (Autobahn and Bundesstraße) and badly at that - the latest numbers I could find are for 2018 and there, expenses were above 10 billion euros. (1) State roads and roads in cities are paid from the states and the cities budget, the KFZ-Steuer does nothing to offset those - it’s all financed from other taxes and fees.

(1) https://www.deutschlandinzahlen.de/tab/deutschland/infrastru...
Google maybe took the zooming technology from ART+COM
Google maybe took the zooming technology from ART+COM . But Google Earth and google maps was taken from this patent filed 1998. it was filed same month as Google registered there company
https://patents.google.com/patent/US6772174B1/en
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Well maybe there business model makes sense in a rational regulatory environment like that every charging station are fungible as they are in Europe.
Only to answer your question about the party scandals - it totally made its way across the Atlantic. The severity of the scandal has been stated but is not obvious (Boris May lose his prime ministership over this?) However, it was drowned out by the ouster of Phillip.
See https://docs.chia.net/docs/03consensus/foliage/

"farmers could theoretically create a foliage re-org where foliage is replaced"

As you can see, Chia devs consider this an impractical attack. But it's definitely a weaker security guarantee than what PoW provides.
Poland? Poland pales in comparison with Brazil, where there's a R$5.7 billion (about 1 billion US$) 'Electoral Fund' used for political campaings by the thirty something registered political parties. All paid for by the taxpayers. And let's not forget that there's also a 'Political Party Fund'. And I just love the reason for the creation of the 'Electoral Fund', but that's another story.
I wouldn't watch a live sports match online, certainly not something like an England match in the world cup / euros (think Superbowl if you're American) - you're talking 30-60 second lag. The neighbours cheer at the goal and you're screwed, not to mention things like twitter.

The difference between DTT and Satelite is just about OK, but not online.
Wasn't that filter put into place (at least to some extent) because Apple pulled them from the Appstore?
Only once, when the road is built, ongoing maintenance is paid from general taxes.
The declaration only lasts for a year or so, not to mention that out of principle there is no reason for us to help them save money on not sending their letters/goons especially considering they started the whole thing to begin with. Let them reap what they sowed.
If you look at the cost breakdown, that includes several people's salaries and other things than just hosting.

As for scale they do almost 100 million games per month and keep every game available for download and online access.

I suspect donations ~= costs, which is why the salaries are quite modest to say the least.
And now they will make bank…
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Why is he crazy/paranoid?

He has a lot of motives to be careful, especially with the current agenda to push a still testing phase vaccine at all costs
You make decent points but I'm not entirely sure I buy this line of reasoning.

A significant bulk of BBC funding seems to go into news and education, an educated and informed population is generally better for everyone.

Could we live without entertainment TV such as Eastenders? Probably, though it can often serve a purpose in education such as (poor) representation of schizophrenia and suicide which can point people (and their family&friends) to helplines for getting adequate support.

Entertainment TV maybe also lends credibility to the idea that the BBC isn't just "boring" stuff like PBS might be considered in the USA, and thus people might be more inclined to engage with the content.

I'm speculating, but even when I view the BBC coldly I don't see it as being as black and white as all that, I would say the net contribution to society is so high that you would feel it's effects even if you don't directly engage with it.
BBC is certainly the most trusted news outlet

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/media/articles-reports/2020/04/2...

Although it's only about half
This issue has been going on well before C19. The BBC have abused their power and it is absolutely ridiculous that people have to pay license fees to them when media has changed so much.
29-year-old Conway conjecture settled
I wouldn't be surprised if this is all about ExplorerPatch - this 3rd-party solution allows user to revert the "experience" of newest W11 taskbar and it's most likely an offence to Microsoft. Some devoted mod noticed comment done by Thomas and decided to act fast so no other people had a chance to test out valinet's workaround.

I expect that at some point in future, perhaps included within some W11 build that changes users workflow once again, the "never combine" taskbar feature will be added back and presented as a breakthrough.
You can even chose to pay 0.375% on your assets p/a, instead of the capital gains tax. Pretty good.
But you’re exaggerating the income tax situation. ~60% is the marginal tax rate, you only pay that for a part of your income over a certain level.
Is is true that saffron has antidepressant properties? When I first read about it, it sounded like a saffron supported science..
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Which is exactly what I said. We don't know how much it will cost to capture that carbon, so we can't set a price, so it's unfair to set any price.

What if we figure out something good to do with that carbon, and capturing it becomes profitable? Should we return all that money to those it was stolen from?
Side note:

LOC for the example API call in

JS: 13
Python: 9
Curl/Bash: 1
Swift: 60
It is draconian if you cannot show that the vaccines are working against transmission. You need to vaccinate about 80-120 people to prevent one more covid case and that is based on old data[0], pre-Delta and pre-Omicron. Now the efficacy is worse. It is draconian if you cannot show that the rules are not arbitrary. There was another player at the court who was playing while having covid symptoms[1], but this one was fine, because he was playing by the rules.

[0] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5...

[1] https://www.eurosport.com/tennis/australian-open/2022/bernar...
> People only care about somebody else's energy usage and call for the banning of things they don't use or care about.

That's your bubble, not mine. This is not my experience at all.
Interesting, thanks!

I guess most of the reputation of cast iron comes from the chunky shapes of the pans, and that the higher end stainless cookware is often cladding around copper core
I agree. The shaking and the crying is so over used. It seems like emotion has to be visible and violent for people to believe it's strong.

I garentee that the feelings of brotherhood between him and the bird went one way. This was written by someone who walks in nature, but doesn't take part in it. Like being when I archery hunt, I'm more part of nature than someone standing on their deck feeling the brotherhood of an osprey.

The CNS questions sound like something people who regularly spend time in nature would never say. Except for hipsters who want to be outdoorsy and go on a shopping spree in REI
I'm in the same position as you (don't watch license-requiring content, but appreciate other BBC content such as their website) but I refuse to pay the license out of principle as to not encourage/support their bullshit approach at enforcement.

I disagree with the idea of generating insane amounts of paper waste (and sometimes sending crooks in-person) to threaten less scam-savvy people into paying for a license they don't need, especially when said people might be lower-income that can't afford paying for a license "out of charity" if they aren't required to by law.
Thanks for letting me know Windows 11 removed the option of removing grouping of documents under one app. Its one of these basic things I do on a fresh copy of Windows. I work with many documents on a daily basis and grouping makes zero sense for me and would only slow me down. Just another reason not to downgrade to Windows 11. And so far I haven't seen a single reason ta make me switch.
Let this man in on the Bell Theorem.
I’ve been playing with https://github.com/codenotary/immudb too. Very active community and the maintainers have been super responsive on their discord.
UWP is nothing like it. Steam Deck is just running Linux with an existing DE, with some Valve-supported software and drivers.
> I hope the BBC continues to survive, just with a more modern funding approach

Difficult. There are not many ways to fund a public TV/radio program, and all of the non-per-household-license free-OTA variants have issues:

- anything tax-based is just asking for trouble aka a populist government extorting the public stations after critical coverage

- ad-funded... well that's just ordinary private TV, with the threat here being mega-corporations buying positive coverage / suppressing negative coverage (just look at the current scandal in Austria with former chancellor Kurz)

- household license but encrypted (to enforce said license), which is often enough brought up by the far-right has the downside that the viewership and with it the funding will collapse, and the government will lose a critical way of disseminating information in a crisis event (e.g. floods, earthquakes, terrorist attacks)
Are you saying a college degree isn’t worth anything? Or that you made a poor decision that someone else has to pay for?
To be fair camembert and brie look identical from the outside ( and even mostly inside).
Where is this? 9 lines for Python seems excessive. Should surely only be two, one of which is an import?
They called my cheddar a Pelardon. The barbarians.
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There are, but unless I'm mistaken no country has even close to the same amount of "great cheeses", so might as well start there.
Additionally, the pyramids at Giza are ~4600 years old and there is evidence of hundreds of houses in the vicinity. It seems dubious that they went from "no roofs" to the great pyramids in only ~400 years.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Freeview just a marketing name for DVB-T (or T2 nowadays), which supported encrypted content since its inception and can mix encrypted & non-encrypted channels in the same multiplex?
> Maybe stop using aws or google cloud?

That would save them $179 per year.
> There is no easy way to force someone to give it up

Isn't it about as difficult as asking someone for their cash? People aren't happy to part with it, but the $5 xkcd wrench usually does it.

You can hide a paper wallet or storage medium in a sock at a friend's house, but that's no different from cash. Cash is also easy to spend anonymously; try hiding a bitcoin transaction from others or make its traces vanish to avoid problems later.

I don't foresee many issues with banning bitcoin at all, it's more of a political problem.
Is radio covered by the license?

But on a technical level it should be possible with DAB which actually has some adoption in the UK unlike most other countries.
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They have a section with instructions on how to set up PGP: https://www.heavensgate.com/misc/secure.htm
Take those assumptions and spend a year burning your savings. Once you see that all your competitors raised at least a few hundred k pre-product while you’ve got a hole burning in your pocket, you’ll feel like an idiot.

If you run an already profitable business like a services company, you can get away with bootstrapping. But then it’s not really bootstrapping, it’s a pivot.
Does that mean the Middle Ages had dragons too?!?!
I guess noone is suprised from the hackernews community :)
What about the license fee prevent the control by the government? The money goes through the government, and government chooses who pays and how much, so it's pretty close to as if the government was "paying" it directly.

Poland, as mentioned by a sibling, is a counter-example.

How does the license fee prevent the propaganda?
This reads as a bizarre salty rant that othes aren’t using an IETF draft spec (CBOR/COSE) that the author is personally working on. [1]

Edit: and as another commenter here points out, it is really an incompatible derivative of msgpack named after himself (CBOR; Carsten Bormann). LOL

[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8949.html
I took me a decade to develop a healthy relationship with my phone and this is my personal insight: It's really good at delivering anything mind numbing, repetitive, low effort. Anything that fits those criterias can bring out the good from the smartphone. Memorization fits this perfectly. Learning vocabulary of a new language with an App like Anki, which tracks and gamifies your progress was a tangible improvement in my life. Anki is like an addictive mobile game to me now. Always a tap away. But the result of the interaction with that addictive app is a positive one. Memorizing, passing exams. If my mind is foggy and in no condition to do anything productive, clicking "mindlessly" in Anki is a time filling, low-effort, yet positive task, with data backing up that I actually am memorizing and recalling new things.

I am not proud of the 4 digit hours I spend in counter strike on steam, but I am in the 3 digit hours I spend doing vocab. Paradoxily I look forward to long waits in the train station or at the doctors office, because I get more time in this positive feedback loop.
Are not that funds created so taxpayers are there ones in control of party finances instead of corporations?

The USA seems a good example of what happens when politicians are fully dependent on corporations if they want to be elected, and it's servitude to the interest of the few.
While I enjoy the show, my problem was with the impracticality of keeping it all a secret that entire time.
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