skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
German has extremely liberal inheritance taxes. On the one hand this is often justified with the existence of the German "Mittelstand" (medium sized businesses typically owned by one family over generations), on the other this means the easiest way to get rich is to have rich parents.

Low inheritance taxes are actually a great predictor for maintaining social inequality over generations. If you wanted to reduce social inequality you'd instead want to drastically lower VAT (which disproportionately affects poorer people), adjust income taxes to lower the tax burden on lower incomes and raise it on higher incomes, and drastically raise taxes on income from capital (rather than labor). This isn't even simply an opinion, this is scientific consensus.
The wolf population in Italy is relatively large (compared to other similar countries) and quite spread geographically yet there hasn’t been a single recorded attack on people since at least WW2.

Edit: I was wrong, there has actually been one attack in January this year (the person was able to escape unharmed ), however the likelihood still seems to be extremely low.
> Yes, RM decided to start internal investigation that lasted a few years, instead immediately contacting police, this is why it lasted so long and were so many victims.

Yes, but the distinction here is not actually as useful here as you might think.

In this situation, Royal Mail _are_ the police (the USPS has its own police too). But Royal Mail are also the prosecutors in court (they have/had prosecutorial power).

They didn't really delay sending it to the police because they never would have. It wasn't a police matter because definitively it was a Royal Mail matter. (The Royal Mail has had the power to investigate and prosecute since before there even were police.)

Edit to add: it is now a "Post Office" matter as well because they are distinct businesses as of 2013, and Post Office Ltd is an ordinary company. But the key period concerns a time when they were one and the same
He also pretty much screws up the whole system by announcing it like this. There's no way I'd feel anything but manipulation coming my way if I was his friend and a message from this guy popped up in my notifications.
If Fujitsu knew about the fault internally and failed to notify the Post Office, they are to blame too.

Whether they notified the Post Office or not though, the Post Office certainly knew. They not only shared emails about the problem within the organisation, they engaged in a cover up.

There’s a good BBC Panorama documentary on the scandal that was released more than a year ago.
Yeah, that makes sense. Americans are incredibly wasteful. My claim wasn't that they aren't. My claim is that if some of them leave the TV on VS leaving it on for ~7 hours some days doesn't have a huge impact on the carbon footprint, even less is "incredibly wasteful for the whole world".
Thanks. Have you written up a long-form post on how you went about doing this?

I am also excited to see what booting multiple OSes means for the ecosystem around phh's (treble) builds, too.
Same. I find the overall UX of WorkFlowy to be so clean & snappy. This, coupled with the recently introduced linking and mirroring features, puts the whole experience on a different level, personally.
Clickbait titles are getting worse and even more nonsensical
The lawsuit is about claims that happened between 2015 and 2019 so probably the same people. Also that other lawsuit isn't settled and is still being tried in court. The lowest court ruled that but it's currently under appeal and very likely to be lowered or reversed.
I agree that's the norm, however, Sega's attitude to Sonic fangames seems to be the exception that proves the rule.

They are surprisingly receptive to the community, and in the case of Christian Whitehead, began to contract him for ports, and then eventually a Sega-approved, fan-made game; Sonic Mania.

[0] https://kotaku.com/sega-takes-shot-at-nintendo-encourages-fa...

[1] https://screenrant.com/sonic-hedgehog-fan-games-sega-respons...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Whitehead
Coinbase’s bouncing QR code Super Bowl ad was so popular it crashed the app
> If they don't do it, someone else on their team might have to go.

Then fire someone else. Somebody who is not going through a family health crisis will have an easier time finding a new job. Yes, Amazon's policies are shitty, but the manager still deserves to be blamed.

Of course, the whole situation sounds completely ridiculous when you live in a country where it's simply illegal to fire workers without cause, especially on such a mass scale as Amazon is doing it.
I'm glad they put clean in the title, otherwise I wouldn't trust it. :-)
> Use a secure messenger, but not facebook.

Nit, this sentence implies that Facebook is a secure messenger, which it isn't. "Use a secure messenger, not Facebook."
Why are they a bad thing?
> What if the new hire doesn’t know Slack? They’ll miss all the messages until figure out how to configure their notifications

In my experience, the "new hires" are overwhelmed by Slack notifications, turn them off, and I have to remind them later, after they failed to respond to semi-urgent public @ and direct messages, that they can configure Slack to be notify only on @ and direct messages, and they won't be bothered by regular chit-chatter on public channels. It's happened to me with at least 4 people it can't be a coincidence.
You've misunderstood my theory as being about 7-segment displays specifically. For another language that uses N letters, you should be able to find a k-segment display such that k is not much greater than log_2(N). The theory is that writing systems evolve to encode their alphabet optimally in the information theoretic sense. 7 segments is the pattern that evolved for the ~50 symbol alphabet needed for English. Different sized alphabets and different arrangements of segments do not contradict this theory.
He's delegating his humanity and friendships into a spreadsheet! Next stop, do the interactions themselves in the cloud!!

Makes sense for networking though. Which I think is what he's actually getting at.
yes i was asking about the phrase. to me its just strange to refer to yourself as 'elite'. as far as i know the phrase is usually used in praise of someone else
> it’s only PII in combination with other data

It’s always PII for static IPs, and together with a timestamp it’s also PII for dynamic IPs...
In the western context they evolved from the attempt to convey emotion in text form. Writing systems are mostly meant to convey facts, while the emotion that we encode in intonation is completely lost. That lead to problems in pure text communication, so we invented emotes to convey the difference between

"It was a very sunny day :)"

"It was a very sunny day :\"

"It was a very sunny day ;)"

Some web forums started replacing them with images which lead to designers inventing more emojis, and due to Japanese carriers wanting the same for SMS those got incorporated in character encodings.

What seems strange to me is that most emoji that exist are completely useless for the purpose of conveying emotion, or encoding any useful information that can't be expressed in a word. It's like some designer had to fulfill a quota or someone wanted to just "have more emojis". Yet the most popular emojis are clearly still used to convey emotion [1].

1: https://emojipedia.org/stats/
> My point was that for a given language, the writing system tends to evolve to the point where each glyph contains just enough distinguishing features to not confuse it with any other glyph.

This is absolutely not true. If this happened, you would have a very bad writing system.

Human communication systems have tons of redundancy in. The actual regular alphabet used by English has tons more shapes and detail that you are accounting for, and it uses it incredibly inefficiently. You can create a huge number of additional letters using the shapes that the alphabet is using.

And this is a good thing. It adds redundancy, and it very specifically is not the case that "each glyp contains just enough distinguishing features to not confuse it with any other glyph" - in fact, it contains far more distinguishing features than you need! This is to allow you to recover the information when things are unclear. There is excess information encoded as a form of error correction.

This is true for writing systems, for language grammars, for vocabularies, for every part of human communication. We always over-specify, to allow for understanding even when the receiver misses out parts of the information.
> We have a 26 letter alphabet, plus space, plus 10 numbers, plus the punctuation !?.,;:/-+#()". That's 50 symbols in total which works out to a bit rate of about 5.64 bits per letter.

Your choice of punctuation, most of which cannot be represented on a 7 segment display, is arbitrary[1], ASCII/US keyboard centred, and only added to your argument to increase bit count.

[1] why include /-+ but no *, =? # but no @, &, $, %? () but no []{}<>? " but no '?
Hopefully some day. I’m not aware of any HTTP3 implementations that do multipath today.
> I really should call XY is such a common thought that fades away a second later.

This is exactly right. I am constantly thinking of people that I should get in touch with, but never at a time that would actually be appropriate to do so. It'll be the random work-day thought that disappears by the time I'm done, or it will be sometime unreasonably late.
No, because dark matter concentrates around mass, which requires it to be able to be at rest to normal matter.
I am really liking nextjs but with the caveat of only if you already are on the NPM hamster wheel (braking changes are too regular in that ecosystem) and already love React
And going down, not going bust but never getting anywhere near the just below peak level you bought at is common as well, and can easily lose 50-90% of what you invested without the company ever going bust.

If you bought Yahoo at 20% below its peak value, the fact the company still exists two decades later isn't much consolation.
My Precious and Only Time
All it takes is having lunch with fellow exchange students, or expat coworkers after graduating and deciding to stay in your country of study. Nothing complicated - although obviously not really a thing in the last few years.

I live in Sweden. The topic of a wolf crossing borders with Norway where the conservation laws are different comes up every few years. The attitude of people in different countries to wolves (or any topic of the day really) gets discussed.
Thanks for sharing. A lot of good info in the article
The article focuses on order book basics of matching buyers and sellers, which is a pretty small part of "understanding the stock market" for anyone who wants to invest.

I would also look at long-term history, business cycle (in the stock market terms), inflation and rates, liquidity crises as a background for investing. Those are much more valuable for an investor than order book details. My 2c.
It's amazing that you thought that this was a sensible way to respond to a discussion.

GPT-NeoX-20B would likely have handled this situation better than you.
Can this be applied to a small group (for example an island in your tataoine example) or everyone in the word must agree?

Is this about a technology change or a political change?
>The real question is why Apple uses ARM.

The industry ( Smartphone ) uses ARM and that benefited Apple enormously. All the open source software that apple deploy and uses inside iOS as well as LLVM compiler tool chain. Apple benefited these R&D in value are being spent from Android as well. Instead of Apple being the sold owner and maintainer of its own ISA.

At the end of the day ISA doesn't really matter from Apple's POV. It make less sense now when Apple now has an array of their own ARM implementation to choose from. Since they dont need to pay per unit it makes very little sense to switch.

Unless you are into very specific usage.
I'm familiar with the case; it's obvious that the Post Office knew.

And the issue is not just that the Post Office knew, but that they were also in charge of the prosecutions.

Private prosecution itself is on trial here, IMO (IANAL but this opinion would not be unusual among lawyers from what I have read)

Edit to add link:

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252485328/MPs-to-examine...
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That’s fascinating, I think I’ve used your software when I was a kid. The one that edited the window title?
That’s the article title, and the article is over two years old, so I’m not sure it’s an effective data point for the diagnosis.
Artificial intelligence may already be gaining consciousness
Fortunately he did not. I never mentioned the assholes, racists, rapists and liars I met professionally. It only throws back the dirt at you, and dirt keeps sticking.
Transformers can be trained to approximate Bayesian Inference
You are rationalizing your selfishness and laziness. Relationships are a two-way street.
I called my best friend this January, because I hadn't spoken to him in months or years.

I decided to do it. It didn't come naturally.

He was happy I called.

I don't know next time we'll call because none of us are the kind who does call for no good reason (maybe a reason why we like each other ; - )
I get thinking about a system like this. I have given some thought about building something similar, but always ended up abandoning it for the exact same reasons this post strikes me as extremely weird:

- It feels weird classifying people in boxes of desired contact frequency. How do you decide that? Does the author think "I honestly don't care enough about this person to contact them more than once a year" ? Then why are these people still "friends"?

- Lack of flexibility. Organic relationships will have different contact frequencies over time. For example, I might have inconsistent contacts with a friend that I've known for a long time because of reasons, but if they're having a rough time I will probably be more attentive and want to contact them more frequently.

- Relationships are two-way, so you'd expect that the other part initiates contact a significant amount of the times. Given the myriad of ways that contact can happen, updating the database for hundreds of people can be a real hassle. The fact that this is not mentioned at all indicates that a lot of these might be one-way relationships, not actual friendships.

- I find it really really hard to write non-artificial messages when contacting on a schedule. Maybe the first one can be believable, but the second or third time you contact someone without any obvious trigger, it starts to feel weird. I think most people would catch wind that the other person is not contacting organically but on some kind of schedule, and I guess it could make them feel really weird about it: "This person doesn't really think of me, doesn't see any of my social media/blog/whatever updates... why are they contacting me?"

I understand what other people are saying in the comments about forgetting to contact people or being too busy, and needing reminders. But I don't think that's the same problem the author is solving.
What could be a good alternative?
Your counter example is correct because I didn't quite phrase what I meant accurately. What I meant was that I, and everyone else, learned the alphabet as 26 things you just had to memorize as there was no way to simplify it or organize it better. AFAIK this is the way its always been, as I've never seen an example of a pre-digital 7 segment font.
AA is bad if you do not have a concept of how gamma works.

If you have a program[1] that does not understand the difference between sRGB and Linear RGB, the color fringing is extremely nasty, especially on light-on-dark situations. If they don't get the gamma wrong, they get the blend mode wrong (cough Alacritty at one point cough)

The fix, honestly, is moving to 200% resolution screens (such as 4k 24" replacing everyone's 1080p 24", or 2880p 27" replacing everyone's 1440p 27"), and using greyscale AA: fonts are now so big, pixelwise, that hinting doesn't screw up fonts, hand hinting is no longer relevant, and any given renderer has a lot of trouble screwing it up. Greyscale with wrong gamma and/or wrong blend mode isn't fatal, it is fatal with subpixel.

1: Such as ClearType on Windows, but not the modern DirectWrite engine. Win10 tried to improve ClearType to make it look more like DirectWrite, but only made its error less harsh. Early versions of Freetype that had subpixel rendering also did this wrong.
a lot of people end up going down that road because they are lonely, feel unloved or unimportant to anyone. Having someone or something to care for can change that for sure.
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StarFox is Nintendo and they're famously aggressive in protecting their IP. Sonic, however, is owned by Sega who are famously laid back about fans using building stuff like this. In fact the Sega game Sonic Mania (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Mania) was made by fans after Sega contacted them to work on a Sonic 25th anniversary game based on the quality of those fans work on their hacked ROMs.
Scandalous to me that although the software is entirely discredited, and although this has been known for years now, only 72 people have been cleared.
Dropbox was successful.

Its current financial state is more a case of bigger vendors bundling a good enough alternative with their products AND dropbox not adding much beyond "easy to use"; than HN insight of "lol just rsync/bash/perl instead" being right all along.
The stock market is a terrible - criminally negligent - place to keep a company's operating cash. I would be fascinated to read advice from an accountant or other financial professional that says otherwise.

I once worked at a company which used a money market fund for its cash. That gave them a slightly better return than a bank account. In the end, not sufficiently better to be worth bothering with.
A lot of businesses rely on Facebook/Instagram for marketing, keeping in touch with customers etc. Those disappearing would kill them pretty quickly. Even if they start making their own self hosted websites no one will find them (and it will incur costs and it will be of shitty quality).

Facebook leaving is a huge threat. I think you are underestimating how big a role it (or its other services) play in people's lives. If FB/Messanger/Instagram/Whatsapp disappear today in some European countries and the government's explanation was "we didn't manage to make an deal" I don't think that government would last for much longer.
Where do you and they keep your retirement money?
Re smilodon...

Cats are a fairly young family of carnivores. They're surprisingly closely related to eachother with some surprising hybridisation potential.

It might not be that far fetched.
2008 when GCP launched.
Do you mean “schedule”?
But they _are_ willing to trade at those prices. The person who posted the highest bid is willing to buy at that price and the person who posted the lowest ask is willing to sell at that price. Both regardless of the last trade price.

The lack of "crossing" between those two doesn't mean no one is willing to trade.
If I understand the gist of the commens so far, he's sitting on 100 million US dollars, and is hoping to build some crypto enhanced flying cars using free labour from volunteers he found on Discord?
> the existence of a concomitant surveillance industry

The industry is fundamentally broken. NSO is the smallest part here, they are even consistent with their approach. Surveillance was legitimized by governments and every small fry that complains about NSO specifically is not worth your vote. They are hypocritical liars and probably ordered their software or were about to do that.

In the EU for example there is no opposition to track connection information of everybody, nor is there one on national levels. It is a sad and settled reality, only solution is to escape to other countries which mostly do not fare much better. Even with NSA activity the US is probably a good alternative.

Telcos at first didn't want to store this information, although they probably would have as the economic benefits became clearer. You cannot explain mass surveillance to the fearful bloke politician. There are a few that are smarter, but they don't have the numbers. While it has to become expensive, we also need to see out people that champion this destructive surveillance. It is against the spirit of many constitutions and restricting any compliance is a step for civil disobedience.

There is a strategic component. If everyone does collect info but me, I am at a disadvantage. There is a political component to it. But it does not justify the crimes politicians have comitted in the last two decades. And they are nothing else but crimes.
But if you forbid setq and setf it is. Just replace assignments with bindings
The bad reactions here make me wonder what is an acceptable way to stay in contact with your friends. Consider the enormous popularity of social networking. What is that for if not to help you to stay in contact with people? Why is that OK but this isn't? People used to (some still do) write Christmas cards to everybody in their address book. Many of these would be people they had made zero contact with over the year. Again, why is that OK but this isn't?

I wonder if it's because this makes it too obvious what is going on. It fits a pattern I've noticed in general. People need plausible deniability. When things are made explicit like this, people don't like it.

Remember how long it took online dating to become popular? Part of that was how explicit it was. You were basically shouting "I am lonely and wish I had a partner". That was too much for many. Even now the popular online dating apps nurture plausible deniability (only on there for a laugh, to "meet people", to "make friends" etc.)
The theory doesn't necessarily break down? The specific example given just wouldn't apply. The point was that there is an interesting correspondence between alphabetic letters and the latent space which compresses it most efficiently and densely. As a conjecture, we could expect something analogous for vocabulary in general.
I agree, I'm not a believer in the efficient market hypothesis anymore. I think the stock market is driven in large parts by narrative, which explains outliers a lot better. I just found the tautological advice of my parent poster a bit weird:

> Everything that goes down either eventually goes up again, or dies.

Sounds smart, says nothing at all. Hence, "buying a beat-down company" is probably not advice that really works. And there are so many companies that never reached their ATHs again.
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