skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Early on I liked Linq2SQL, and I think I still do, but it might be just looking back with rose colored glasses.

When I thought I needed better control and performance I wrote my first ORM. Which wasn't really all that ORM-y. It would use reflection to map to an object, but queries definitely weren't linq-able or using IQueryable and walking the predicates to dynamically generate queries. It was more like dataBase.TableName.First("id=@id", new {id = 1}); Which would generate "select * from TableName where id=@id" nothing earth shattering. Joins were done through dataBase.Join(new [] {"table1", "table2" }, new [] {"on table1.id=table2.table1_id"}, "table1.id=@id", new {id=1});

It was ugly and I eventually just replaced it with straight ADO.net.

I tried various other ORMs over the years, I eventually just settled on EF since it was not bad, and generates almost sane SQL most of the time.
I’m in the same boat. C# and F# are excellent languages. But C# jobs are as you describe. F# jobs are practically nonexistent. So, I’ve moved on to other stacks. I do miss LINQ. Other than that, I’m quite happy with Go and Node+TypeScript.
The potential for taxation is just a more presentable way of selling such a plan. Saying “we want to track your every movement” isn’t yet palatable. In another 10 years and some overhyped criminal incident later, it might be, though.
Attempts to make the police more accountable are the cause of pedestrian deaths?

Do you have any data showing this causal link at all? Maybe broken down by place so we can see links like the pedestrian death increases match the places that did those things. Since you actually list several causal things, it can be broken down by places that limited enforcement for covid reasons vs those that defunded vs those that didn't do those things? Bonus points if you bother to break out the overly broad "defunded" category into actual policy change groupings, there were a lot of reforms that got lumped into that term, many of them having nothing to do with money to enforce laws.
That too. Mario levels tend to be designed such that you have segments where you run through and if you play the intended optimal route you'll collect all the coins. They mark the path.

Sonic does this thing where there's just a bunch of rings and you almost certainly won't get all of them.
Possibly huge as it increases the chance for a global conflict in the coming years.
I live and work in a home office in Western MA, the road outside my office is somewhat busy but is hardly the main road through town. Even so, the number of horns honking and brakes screeching has increased enough that I find myself wincing on calls when it happens. It could be that I'm simply more sensitive since the dramatic decrease of traffic during the pandemic, but my perception is that people are driving more aggressively and are quicker to anger.
Do UK cars not have odometers?
At OrgPad (https://orgpad.com), we approached the problem a bit differently. We way more emphasis on the visual connections - the part that our brain has been optimized for about as long as we describe ourselves humans and quite a bit before that.
Also, having the graph really in your sight, you might remember the pattern/ recognize it after a long time too. That might help you when searching for a place to put your notes in.

Happy to answer questions.
Disclaimer - my job is literally to take on the long term maintenance of those green field projects.

I wouldn't necessarily blame it on a lack of seniority or inexperience, it's a matter of not knowing the initial style, decisions, and limitations, as well as the vagaries of time. I find myself creating duplicate functions not because I wouldn't reuse the ones that exist, but because the original one was hidden away in a different place than I'd ever think to look for them. My approach is different and drifts even further over the years, I can't help it, so that the project starts to look stranger and stranger comparing the old code to the new. The original designers would find their style drifting too if they had to take care of a system for that long. They are just lucky enough that their style drift has project cut-offs, so each slice seems more cohesive.

I also don't know if this is a current maxim or not, but there should be a software principle that matches Peter's - every successful system will grow until it reaches a point where it's no longer successful. More and more requirements get added on, and unlike initial requirements where you could justify keeping scope tight due to staying lean, a system needs to grow beyond it's current limitations or it dies.
I feel like the structural parable of Nineteen Eighty-Four is often missed in comparative analysis of the book. The social order of IngSoc did not place everyone under strict supervision. Only the "Outer Party" members were so pursued.

This does bear an unsettling resemblance to the state of party discipline in this country. Whether it's Adam Kinzinger, Tulsi Gabbard, Mitt Romney or Bernie Sanders, intraparty dissidents are increasingly strung up in public as an example to the rest.
> ~75% of the petrol price in the UK already is basically tax (fuel duty + VAT), and even more if you add indirect taxes too.

it’s close to 0% tax if you’re using an electric car. which is why governments around the world are trying to figure this thing out.
Which is fair, but also don't assume everyone is addicted because you are. Don't assume everyone is trapped by their addictions because you are.

Most of all, don't try to legislate away everyone's freedoms because you have a problem with something.
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Competitive in the sense of 'competitive compensation'. I occasionally compete in running races and invariably perform terribly. I'm a competitor in the sense that I'm competing but not in the sense that there's any risk of me winning.
Anecdotally it seems to match my (and my Nextdoor neighbors') experience. As if reckless driving wasn't enough making the cars noisier is another thing that is bothersome.

People buying old cars and putting money in them is yet another recent trend everywhere that even I've participated in. It's fun to pass time trying to fix older cars.
Separately, I can't help but wonder if there's some overlap with V2X https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-to-everything

Many countries have already allocated spectrum for it, and it's supposedly in all new cars (anyone chime in?). The report has left out implementation details because that depends on how the Govt would want to do the data capture, but I hope motorists don't get a bunch of additional devices piled on... I might be thinking too much in terms of software development but I'm always looking for efficiency in reuse.
You don't think the author makes that point simply because it is their opinion?
A friend of Conor White-Sullivan (Roam's creator) propped up his own take on how to do a notetaking system that does support edges, and then he went a step further and opened it for everyone to edit, so it's just a single shared graph:

<https://github.com/w2g/w2g>

Mek works at the Internet Archive, and it clearly follows the same spirit of "we'll operate the service, feel free to bring your own frontend if you don't like ours". I wasn't happy with the way that one at graph.global tries to subvert/duplicate native browser features, so I put up a minimal "client" for browsing existing nodes that feels similar to the default one, sans annoyances on those specific axes:

<https://graph.5apps.com/LP/streamline>

I never got around to allowing editing, unfortunately. You'll have to use the default frontend for that (annoying, since it's buggy) or write a client of your own.

The key issue I see with the graph.global model is that you have to use triples. I've found that this results in big hurdles for throughput—i.e., the opposite of notational velocity. The ideal thing would probably be to allow a Roam-like system where you can start out by simply linking two related nodes, and then fill the edge details after the fact. You could sort of approximate this with w2g as it stands by just using a generic is-related-to connector and then reify the relation. This does mean you would lose the ability to query by relation unless you add further attributes or went back and edited the original connector to replace it with something more appropriate before reification. Stopping in your tracks to find the appropriate connector is something I found to have lots of overhead.
>has to pay all the interest and principal on them.

With the money they create out of thin air.
But this could also horribly backfire, with people driving ten miles to get gas or to the shopping center across town.
Original title is:

> All cars could be fitted with black box trackers under new tax plans

Maybe adding 'UK' somewhere is warranted, but not 'Gov': as others have pointed out, this is based on a report from a parliamentary select committee.
> everyone should be more than freaking out about this.
Yet nobody does. Because everyone is living too comfortable a life to dissent.

Just ask the Chinese. (general populace, not the government)

And that's basically a reason why I'm a libertarian, but unfortunately I don't see the future as more libertarian, unless there's a massive paradigm shift. The general populace will put up with whatever governmet oppression or tracking or whatever, as long as they can keep living their cushy, comfortable lives.
>>and antisocial.

OK And? I fully admit I am anti-social.

>>The other issue here is that you still pay for the roads, maintenance, police patrols, rest stops, expansion, environmental degradation, snow removal, insurance for cars, gas infrastructure, and all of those things related to roads but since you don’t get a specific bill in the mail with the line item for roads that you don’t think you’re paying for them or a huge cost for them.

The cost is not the problem for me, and I would prefer to get a bill for every single one of those items. Honestly if city employed people to remove the snow from the sidewalks and sent me a bill like they do trash collection I would have less of a problem with them. That is not what they do though...

>How much does it cost to have car accidents as the leading cause of death of teenagers?

Solve that problem by getting teens off the road.
Not knowing the answer I just read 3 and a half page. It seems the Dutch police only obtains location data in real time and only when someone is a suspect.
I live outside Philadelphia and tend to follow the local PHL news (as opposed to NYC's). A couple of times per week, there are reports of hit & runs, as well as an occasional the driver stopped.

In any case, anecdotally, the hit & runs tend to happen a night, late at night. I often wonder if the pedestrian and/or driver were under the influence.* Or, at the very least the car's headlights were off (as I was nearly hit a few months ago because of lack of headlights on).

* afaik, drug and alcohol usage has increased in the last two yrs "due to Covid."
One of Buffett’s built-in edges is access to cheap capital through his insurance companies [1]. That matters less in a low-interest rate environment, which has been the dominant regime for the last 20 years.

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3197185
Let's face it, the parts of academia where that discourse is most popular are not exactly focused on refined scholarship. The whole thing is essentially a legacy from the 1960s and 1970s when universities throughout the West were hotbeds of radical pro-Maoist (or more generally leftist, but Mao was very popular) sentiment. (This is why people who blame the Frankfurt School don't get it; some ideas from the Frankfurt theorists might have become popular, but the broad mindset came from elsewhere.)
I believe the letter “b” it traces back to the hieroglyph for “foot”, not the one for a “house.” See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(hieroglyph)

It even looks like a foot, which is fun. I took my daughter to the Met this weekend looked at some Egyptian artifacts and was watching some videos about hieroglyphs after, so I don’t actually know much about them, but they happened to have mentioned this on one of the lectures.
This wouldn't necessarily indicate the vehicle being used or its owner/registrant for tax purposes. Additionally, mobile network triangulation isn't usually as accurate as GPS or other satellite systems.
You can't represent G, K, T, V, T, V, X, Z

You said T and V twice. I already admitted elsewhere V,X,K are problematic. G -> g -> 9. Z -> 2. S being indistinguishable from 5 means you are forced to accept collision between numbers and letters anyway, so by the conventions established in 1337 5p34k, T -> 7 is an acceptable substitute. Accepting that there is only one form of a letter, no more capitals, you can do "(" with what used to be C, and ")" with a backwards "C". "/" is absolutely doable with 7 segments.

Of the 50 symbols I started with, there are just 9 that don't really fit in a visually intuitive way. KVX.,;+#

And honestly that's fine. The point of this exercise wasn't alphabet reform. The point was that 7 is a close estimate for the number of bits needed to define the shape of a letter in the English alphabet. The fact that the 7-segment system can cover just over 80% of these glyphs without anyone intentionally designing it that way is suggestive of the idea that alphabets naturally optimize towards some system of n-segments.

>You cherry pick between lower and upper case letters, discarding half of them, only to shoehorn them into your model.

Not really sure whats the problem here. I've been consistent. 1. The distinction between upper and lower will no longer exist. There is just one glyph per letter, sometimes the glyph formerly known as "upper", sometime the glyph formerly known as "lower". 2. Some glyphs that might have been used as an upper/lower version are instead used to encode something that otherwise wouldn't have a glyph (like m, w, parenthesis).

It's not shoehorning to repurpose the symbols I previously removed for redundancy.

>The way you proposed to represent M and W is non-intuitive

Try writing out a few sentences this way. I assure you it has enough in common with the outline of M and W that you won't trip over reading it.
I already have a MBP for that. I want something with no/less windows and less distractions so that I can learn in a stripped down environment. Also, an iPad Pro+Magic Keyboard costs as much or more than many/most MacBook Airs.
I first learned from Lax's book which I felt was a bit too difficult for an undergraduate course. But in a graduate level class I learned from the lecture notes of Professors Sophie Marques and Fred Greenleaf which I was a huge fan of that you can find on this website:

http://math_research.uct.ac.za/marques/LA.html

It's a much higher level of abstraction than an introductory Linear Algebra course but I found them amazing for developing intuition. I believe they have also released them in textbook form which is probably more polished.
Accounting software needs internal process controls. There should have been a team of accountants executing checks and balances to make sure the numbers tie out each month end before closing the books for that month.

What was happening on the process side that enabled these bugs to persist undetected for so long? How were the bugs discovered and proven? Why is the CFO or controller's role in these failures not mentioned?
This is why I semi-seriously propose that the animal which has been portrayed the most times would be the bull, as the capital A letter derives from a hieroglyph depicting a bull's head, which was turned upside down at some point, and even today you can still sort of recognize the shape. There might be hundreds of millions of cat photos, but there are probably at least a trillion A's out there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A
The UK is already a surveillance state. Cameras on every corner with sophisticated software to identify license plates and piece the data together. So the movement of people is already being tracked.

As for the cost of doing so? I would guess its already very cheap and only getting cheaper.
"Yesterday I Was Levi’s Brand President. I Quit So I Could Be Free", https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/yesterday-i-was-levis-brand...

> But the calls kept coming. From legal. From HR. From a board member. And finally, from my boss, the CEO of the company. I explained why I felt so strongly about the issue, citing data on the safety of schools and the harms caused by virtual learning. While they didn’t try to muzzle me outright, I was told repeatedly to “think about what I was saying.” ... In the last month, the CEO told me that it was “untenable” for me to stay. I was offered a $1 million severance package, but I knew I’d have to sign a nondisclosure agreement about why I’d been pushed out. The money would be very nice. But I just can’t do it. Sorry, Levi’s.

> I loved wearing Levi’s; I’d worn them as long as I could remember. But if you had told me back then that I’d one day become the president of the brand, I would’ve never believed you. If you told me that after achieving all that, after spending almost my entire career at one company, that I would resign from it, I’d think you were really crazy. Today, I’m doing just that. Why? Because, after all these years, the company I love has lost sight of the values that made people everywhere—including those gymnasts in the former Soviet Union—want to wear Levi’s.
profits, outside of law encroachment or sheer luck are due to risk taken, the majority of adults dont want to risk more than their time and as we age our risk aversion increase. Creators of wealth are few and between, because they risk more and usually are more skilled than the average joe. This is also the reason why wealth dont survive over generations . these are few of the "marketing driven" meritocracy we have and taking part in this ecoomic competition is normal. morality arise when a public company has a dirty business model and one can decide to not support them, choosing ESG investments (real not marketed)
Perhaps the person that bought it from you also owns other domains with the same name, e.g., a .com domain.

That way, if they list one very high, perhaps they'll get an above average offer on the .com, then when they sell that, the same seller will buy the .Io for a cheaper price. Such as 10k.
What the OP meant was a reaction to the original title here on HN that read: "Software flaw lead to the most widespread miscarriage of justice in UK legal history."

I am glad the title was de-clickbaited :)
I wonder if the recommendation engines are different per country. For example in the US, you usually can't be recommended videos from accounts outside the US. Even with a VPN, spoofed geo location, system language, added video language you will be served only mostly videos based on your IMEI.
The Cat Nobel Prize Part II (2014)
There are two questions here, not to be conflated:

1: given that apple has their own architecture that happens to implement some of the ARM ISAs, what are they really paying for with their license? The conjecture is: primarily patents. ARM supplies a lot of tooling but I doubt much of that is usable in Apple’s environment, except some of the most surface stuff (ISA conformance, perhaps). At this point I doubt there’s a lot of ARM IP in apple’s parts except for the copyrights on the ISA and patents, which anyone can read.

2: patents can apply to other MPU vendors/developers even if they don’t read them. In fact the “best” (i.e. most horrible) way to enforce them is to wait until vendor gets enough traction and then demand a license be purchased.
HN people are very much for censoring ideas they don’t like too. You could get banned last year for grumping too much about the COVID vaccines.
I'm agree that the prices are different. Im Saying that the parties who negotiate the your ice are the same for generic and brand drugs
I was a big fan of Sonic 1 & 2 in my childhood. The levels definitely took some repetition to learn. The payoff, and why I enjoyed them, was that when you were good at the game and knew the level, you'd speed through at a tremendous rate, far faster than any game before ever let you move, and in a really satisfying way with lots of noise and fireworks. So it was really novel in that sense. (Also, fantastic music.) The games didn't reward you much for secrets, unlike the Mario family; the point was always speed.
This is the power of a well-known, well-written, open-source engine. It was best-in-class when it was released ~30 years ago. It still works, and hobbyist gamers don't care if the graphics are a little antiquated.
Isn't messenger supposed to be encrypted??
> Here’s why stock markets rock:

Is he writing for pre-teens?
That's actually 2-3x speed I remember from where I was still using HDDs personally... They've actually got better.
I don't know. Anecdotally traffic around where I am seemed to be pretty much back to normal surprisingly early on. I decided I really lived in a bubble because most people I knew were definitely staying home a lot more.
>Gasoline cars already pay tax per mile, as gas is very heavily taxed. Electric cars do too, as electricity is also taxed pretty heavily.

In the UK, electricity is taxed at an effective rate of approximately €2 per TJ, whereas diesel and gasoline for transportation purposes are taxed more like €18-20 per TJ.

It seems pretty clear that that a large-scale switch to EVs is going to cause a pretty large tax hole unless something is done about it.
The flopping in animations on this are really annoying in my opinion. It makes me think the product will be equally annoying to my friends so I didn't sign up even though the concept interests me.
At my company, most of us write on windows in VS. A couple of us use MacOS. We use WSL pretty often, largely for Docker and dev ops work. Our build pipelines are mostly run on Windows, unless we're making containers. We deploy to Linux (AWS Lambda mostly, but with some Debian on EC2/Fargate/Batch here and there).
Thanks Nefitty! Having a goal in mind can definitely be a good motivator when learning a new tool - just gotta be careful of scope creep ;)
In italy almost all new cars have a black box for insurance discounts. It helps avoid car accidents frauds that have been so frequent in the last 20 years here.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10657-020-09657-3
> Now, just wait, ideally 10+ years, before looking into your account again

That might not be the best idea because of escheat. Here's a story about someone who didn't check on their stocks for years and the state claimed them. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/799345159
Not sure why you were downvoted for the original question, it's a reasonable query.

In most sports, there isn't really a formal distinction between elite or competitive or whatever. Professional just means paid, elite or not (lots of golf pros would not be elite by most people's definition).

Anyways, in my little corner of athletics (local 5k-10k running, mountain biking), if a promotor has an "elite" category, it's usually just the name for the fastest wave of athletes. They probably get a front-row start, at a marathon they might have their own hydration/nutrition at aid stations, and they may or may not receive an appearance fee. Local running clubs (competitive ones) tend to have "elite" divisions, where athletes must qualify by pace/results, and this gets them club-funded event entries and possibly travel expenses. In mountain biking, at least outside the realm of international sanctioning bodies, the fastest category is often labelled "expert/elite" or similar and athletes self-select into it (vs sport/intermediate, beginner, masters 45+, or other categories).
Engineering Aspects of Cabin Air Quality (1995) [pdf]
As a complete outsider to North Europe I would have guessed a van der Poel was Dutch as well. :-)
I'm curious why you don't recommend PowerBI. What are the pain points?