skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Amazing that you can look at kids being shot in primary schools and then try to analyze it statistically.

You have to. For effective policy you need to distance yourself from the deed no matter how terrible they are. All other venues for grief are better than policies motivated by retribution, which will very likely not lead to constructive outcomes and resulting in repeats. Otherwise you end up invading random countries because someone attacked you.
While I agree with this, I'm interested in seeing what the long term security consequences are.

These are all the highest risk API and integration surfaces on mobile devices.

Also I hope Microsoft get pulled into this as well because they're slowly turning Windows into a marketing device.

Edit: as an iOS user I'm optimistic that this will lead to complete device network whitelist capabilities though so you can neuter any apps which circumvent the current browser restrictions. That would destroy a lot of tracking capability instantly and completely stop embedded browser side channel attacks.
To the extent that I would agree, it would IMO only be ethical for a government tax negative externalities to directly pay for mitigation, control, etc , i.e a carbon tax that directly goes to carbon removal / capture.

taxing exernalties then using the money for unrelated projects i.e taxing cigarettes to pay for schools, is something I would oppose
There's an issue with the clip looping, it doesn't repeat seamlessly at the start of a new bar. The DAW BPM and the clip's BPM is matching.

I'm using the latest Chrome on OSX.
Every one of these "new electric plane" companies never have an actual product. It's always "we're working on the design and hopefully test our prototype next year." The possibilities?.. "12 passengers a total of 180 miles"... haha so economically to have 10 planes do what 1 can do in half the time. And really more than 10 planes if you factor in charging time to get that 180 mile range.
I don't see how. Once you have a car you may as well drive all the way there, and self driving makes it much faster. Then you have the convenience of the car when you get there. either way you need a parking lot for the car to sit in.

Transit works best when you can get rid of a car. The cost of owning a car is very high, transit good enough that you would get rid of a car is only a little cheaper. Bad transit is only a little cheaper, but most people will just use their car. Note that I said a car: most people are in a family situation with more than one car (or at least more than one person who could get a car if they wanted one), so we can save money by having them get rid of one car and the other car is only used for those 5% tasks that transit isn't good for.
Are buses that inefficient? Why is the objective to remove them, and by what measure are they inefficient?
Docco is a quick-and-dirty documentation generator
I love the idea of being somewhere that (a) what the world chess champion does is big news and (2) there are resources dedicated like this to the broadcast of chess matches. American culture is just so ostentatiously mauvais ton in comparison with so many other countries (my other point of comparison was being in England in ’93 and watching a game show where it was clearly a competition of intellectual skills and the winner’s prize was a dictionary—I just cannot imagine that being on American television).
I'm not an economist. But I can see inflation being thought of as a type of tax.

I'm not sure what kind of incentives that creates, and if those incentives are better or worse than the incentives existing taxes create.

So, maybe?
People still need meaning on their life and plenty of money to support their family.

Plenty of public works projects we could start and pay people $50/hr.
A pill with a smiley face.
Out of that whole post, you landed on homophobia as a reasonable thing to call out?
NASA pulls together pieces for its most powerful supercomputer yet
I am very libertarian so I'm naturally opposed to central control of pretty much anything not explicitly listed as being primarily the concern of the central government (Enumerated Powers and the Tenth Amendment). When it comes to medicine I think competition is good and that either State or regional self-regulating bodies should oversee doctors, medicine, and credentialing, and that there should be defined minimum requirements a body should meet but that exclusive authority of any body (eg: the AMA) should be abhorred. Fair competition leads to better solutions, better care, and lower costs. We need minimum adequate regulation, and more qualified bodies (perhaps at each medical school?), not more "regulation" in the commonly understood sense.
Industrial Literacy (2020)
It's the same issue in France now. Taxes on fuel/petrol brings in close to 30Bn euros per year.

The taxes actually make 60% of the price when buying fuel for your car. Currently the price of 1L of fuel in France is around 2.1 euros.
That is 1.2 euros per liter is going straight to the government's coffers.

As always, I am expecting the French government to wake up sometime around 2030 and realize that the taxes are starting to bring in less and less money each year because more and more people are switching to EV.

Then there will be a big show from the politicians that the situation is dire and we need to make up the fall in revenue by reducing the social safety net once again for the lower wage earners.

As always the people with the lowest wages will be the one paying most taxes in the end. The reason for that being that if they can't afford to switch to an EV due to the prohibitive prices, then they will be the last ones on the line having to pay heavy taxes on petrol while the middle class who can afford it would have already switched a while ago.

Ergo we are creating a regressive tax on poor people.

As to where to find the revenue to make up the shortfall, that is going to be incredibly tough.

For starters France has been running a deficit forever and the debt as ballooned during COVID. Could it continue to do so? That seems unlikely because France has pledge to reduce its deficit to fall in line with EU regulations so France needs to tighten its belt somehow.

At the same time, it needs to increase the EV uptake to meet the climate action pledge so it can't start raising taxes on EV.
Some subsidies may disappear but that is not going to be enough to plug the hole left by the fuel taxes.

It also can't raise the VAT which is currently at 20% and is a very unpopular measure who will surely lead to an election loss for the minority party in power currently.

It can't raise more taxes on the middle class as it's being squeezed like a lemon currently and would also lead to mass protests(see Yellow Vest protests of 2019 to get an idea of what could happen).

Some seem to think that an increase in Ev uptake will lead to savings elsewhere, in the healthcare costs for example.

But Those savings will not materialize until at least a few years after the transition to full EV has happened. Yes the air may be less polluted as the transition happens, but the damage is already done and those who suffered or are suffering due to air pollution currently will require indefinite ongoing care in the future which will be expensive.
> Was it maybe The Hangover?

No. It was The Producers.
The track record is not abysmal: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/ssris-much-more-than-y...
If a video has manmade captions and not auto-generated, you actually can check the transcription which has timestamps.
> User any browser and browser engine and choose to make it default

Hello, Alphabet world domination. They finally get the chance to get rid of that pesky Safari. Next stop: obligatory sign-in for using a service.
If you have a few hours to kill, here is a game the situation reminds me of:

https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
Who says they have to spend that money? What if they instead throw it in a tax-free savings account and use it to buy stocks & bonds?
Big companies like Apple are aware of these (proposed) laws long before they actually become law. Not having the foresight to not have something ready six months after it becomes law, is stupidly poor planning if true.

One could also argue that if it takes longer than 6 months to add something dictated by law, you simply have to implement it faster or accept the consequences.

I don't think companies this big has a lot of excuses for taking so long to implement things. They have thousands of employees they can shift from other projects (projects that doesn't decide if the phone is illegal or not) to implement urgent things like this.
How would you feel if someone created a simulation of you and then convinced your family and friends that you are no longer needed, and that your life could be terminated? Would you go willingly?
That said, they are actually doing it for the web, and it is working.

I am more pessimistic than you about this since I am being hit hard by the web issue.
Side note:- Increment Magazine from Stripe is one of the best tech magazines in recent times. Highly recommended
I don't understand your answer, sorry...
Public bus systems can be good; most cities and municipalities simply don't bother to make it so (because "polite society" drives everywhere).

NYC's buses have their own flaws, but they demonstrate many of the necessary conditions for success: dedicated bus lanes, split-service (local and express on the same route, with corresponding bus sizes), and multimodal connections (light rail, streetcars, subways). This is all in contrast to how many bus networks in the US operate: they pick you up on the side of the highway, drive with the rest of traffic, and drop you off on either the highway or in a bus depot in the middle of nowhere.
It gives me feeling also kindle covered
It cannot. Enumerating protocol handlers is actually an excellent fingerprinting technique. That’s why platforms like iOS for instance forbid it, or you have to explicitly specify which ones you’ll query (see: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiapplicatio...).
Sadly the performance limitations of doing serious work in the browser seem to be holding back web-based DAWs.

I'd love to see a set of bindings come out that allow us to build web DAWs with the WebAudio API, but utilize native C/C++ when run locally via e.g. Electron
> A good algorithm will create efficient routes for the flexible transit.

You assume there is such an algorithm. That assertion so far has proven false, and I see no reason to believe that any algorithm can overcome the fundamental problems.
Pretty sure that argument doesn't actually work, though the reason why is a little subtle. Sure, the money doesn't stop at its first use, but whatever goods or services the money is spent on by consumers do. That is, if this tax revenue isn't replaced by some other equivalent source of tax revenue its disappearance will increase the amount consumers have available to spend in nominal non-inflation-adjusted terms by £35 billion a year without creating any correspending increase in the goods or services available to purchase - the government still needs to do all the things that were "funded" by that fuel duty and road tax after all.

This is not in any way offset by the fact that whatever that money is spent on is subject to VAT, causes wages to be paid that are subject to PAYE, and so on, even though it sems like it would eventually cause all the money to end up in the government's pockets anyway. The VAT when that money is initially spent is included in the £35 billion figure, and any taxes after the money is spent are irrelevant since the money had already become actual, final consumer spending involving actual consumption of goods and services.

This is a much more useful way to think about taxation and the need for tax. By your logic, the actual tax levels don't matter - 100% of money will end up in the government's pockets eventually after all.
The UnoCart is the Atari 800 version of this:

https://github.com/robinhedwards/UnoCart

Uses an STM32, a tight loop responds to changes on the Atari's address bus to emulate a ROM, all through STM32 GPIO. Atari 800 has a 1.8 MHz bus, but it's still cool that microcontrollers are fast enough for this to work.

Alternative straightforward way is to use an FPGA, the UltimateCart:

https://github.com/robinhedwards/UltimateCart
Not the OP but I think this depends to an extent on your personality. A surprisingly large number of people (especially devs) like being micro managed. If you're this type of person a good / strong leader is someone who will assign you small tasks, or allow you to pick from a short list, specify how the tasks should be carried out, and then gives honest, constructive feedback at very short intervals. (Squints in the direction of scrum)
Other people value autonomy and essentially want a leader who will present you with a large menu of tasks that you can complete in whatever way you see fit, enable you to learn, and buffer you from higher ups.

Finally some people want a figurehead who sets a clear direction and trusts everyone to move towards that goal and self organise, and otherwise leaves you alone. Many people say they want this and then when given it run away screaming.
This was my first reaction.
They also managed to find the only ARM CPUs in existence that don't have NEON instructions... very fun to debug..
If Facebook really needs to save money, maybe they should stage a coup against Mark Schmuckerberg.
Fuck the mission. Fuck the culture.
You are doing nothing but shoveling money into founders, investors and shareholders pockets.

I am not saying you should not work hard and aim for achievements, heck, even help the world get a little better (in some cases).

But don’t kid yourself. Sure, culture and mission is needed in a company. But they are not for your benefit.
Be the lemming, if that suits you.
If you own or have a finacial stake in the company sure, grind-to-win applies to you.
For everyone else sorry, but you are a special kind of retarded to trade your actual life (you only have one, remember) for the benefit of others who couldn’t care less about you.

It’s actually possible to do great work at 40 hrs or less per week. If you need more, you’re not doing it right.
> alerts caused by issues in downstream systems that you could do nothing about

How does Google deal with issues caused by downstream systems causing alerts?
Heh, I've never used teams before so when I did a few searches I got sent to www.microsoft.com and office.com. None of the links on page 1 and 2 of the SERP led to teams.microsoft.com.
I was actually in the opposite boat. Right move, wrong time was intuitive and I would be lost if a box was yellow and I actually made a wrong move. Maybe "right piece wrong move" could be a yellow outlined box with grey inside or something.
Annotation platforms use Excel. I once received 25 files of separate Excel spreadsheets from a labeling service for 10k texts (short texts about product titles, e.g. "Sauvignon blanc" -> "wine"). Had to merge them, which wasn't as easy as you'd might expect.

Also, I once labeled 5,000 texts during my master's degree via Excel. Was painful as hell.
It depends a little on how you use git. Apart from stashing (git-stash), I use interactive rebases a lot. Combined with autosquashing it's a very powerful tool to ensure a somewhat nice history.

Of course, this only matters if you care about your history. It feels like there are two camps of git users: One camp squashes every MR/PR together even if it's huge, hasn't heard of git-bisect, creates plenty of merge commits in both directions, and piles unrelated changes into a single commit. The other camp cleanly groups changes into self-contained commits, rebases often resulting in a clean patch-series-style MR/PR, and likes to use git-bisect.
There have been a couple attempts at this stuff in the past years. Every time people get a bit closer. So far timing issues and performance of compute intense operations have been the killer. Good luck!
Trying to understand bluetooth's awfulness is a dead-end. I tried. I thought, "yea, you're nerdy enough to read the tech specs, it will be boring but after an hour you'll understand and your bluetooth keyboard will pair every time instead of 85% of times". Nope.
Is cancer treatment not a benefit? And I guess some people regard a divorce (even a costly one) as a benefit, or they wouldn't do it.

Economic activity is an indication for benefit for people. I see no need to make a distinction between economic activity and a benefit obtained from that activity.
Great findings! Great little workaround they developed - super useful.
Book recommendation: "How to Change Your Mind" (Michael Pollan)
Take soundtrap.com and make it more like Fruiti Loops (android apk)
Are Language Models Deprived of Electric Sleep?
It’s a start, but really everybody needs their taxes raised a good bit to support a minimum wage for the poorest people.

To get to $50/hr I imagine the middle class will need their federal tax doubled, at least.

But do you want to live in a civilized society or not?
It might not be legal to do a lot of stuff with your phone, but usually we leave that up to individuals to decide, rather than stifling the functionality of the phone.

Similar to how we treat knives and similar things.
Bluetooth is quite amazing in general. What it is capable of with extremely low energy usage is just mind blowing really.

I think the main reason it gets a bad rap (e.g. vs WiFi) is that the radio link is conflated with all of the messiness of codec/protocol compatibility and features provided over said radio link.

If there were standards for devices to stream audio over WiFi links, I imaging we'd see nearly similar frustrations in codec, latency and compatibility issues - it's incredibly complex.

Much respect to the engineers out there who make it a good experience. I personally tried my hand at tackling wide-band speech support with PulseAudio etc [1] and I was humbled by the complexity present in the protocol/codec layers.

Hats off to the teams at both PulseAudio and PipeWire who have brought wide band speech support to Linux Desktops :)

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/18...
The "rando" is a long term contributor to Web specifications.

The choice of top-level domain has zero significance, as I said previously, the only measure of official(?:ness|ity) is where the information originates from.
Black Sabbath was telling us the truth back in the 1970s:

> You work your life away and what do they give? / You're only killing yourself to live
WASM and WebGPU do help a lot. WebAudio is still severely limited though.
soundtrap.com is the answer, mostly.
Except Microsoft does, it's called QuickAssist and it's installed by default. Calling it up is as easy as pressing Win+Ctrl+Q. (Or the normal way in the app list, obviously.) At this point, using TeamViewer is just inertia.
One thing that helps me is knowing that as the person actually building it I have the power/final say.
You can say no to features or build the features you believe are more important. It’s the pms job to convince you that their priorities are worth it.
The AMA says they can if the patient is informed of and agrees to their use. But wouldn't that significantly impact their effectiveness?
Do you work for Nutanix? Why the brand new account for this? And then referencing another throwaway user that says they work there
How does somebody work 15 hour days making blog posts (Stripe Press)?

Maybe I'm being elitist, but I pegged the long working hours and collaboration more with the engineering side of Stripe.
Chiark’s skip-skip-cross-up-grade
I generally agree. However, I’d say “both/and” is reasonable. Yes, let’s avoid a society filled with destitution—the market actually works better when you take care of people. Also, let’s stop the proliferation of murder machines. A conservative court should recognize that there is not an individual right to bear arms except by the convention of the court. The second amendment supports well-regulated militias. The current court is not conservative so much as cynical.

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”
That's just... the BLE battery level service? AFAICT Windows does the same thing when you connect a BLE device that reports a battery.
It's a vehicle tax.

It's depending on emissions at the moment as a way to encourage vehicles with low/no emissions but there is no reason for EV to keep being exempt.

The issue in term of tax revenue is fuel duty and VAT on fuel. I'm suspecting that once transition is advanced enough they'll find ways to add tax on charging points/electricity used for charging, or an actual road tax on mileage or whatnot.
Why downvoted? Do people not care for the poorest?
Or a nanny.
Front doors that only allow themselves to be unlocked if the person knocking on the other side has been vetted and certified by the paternalistic door manufacturer, who by the way, gets a 30% cut of any deal you might make with that person.
Here you go.

> RX-Line: Pushing the envelop of parallelization - Hetzner Online GmbH

> 19 July 2022

> RX-Line: Pushing the envelop of parallelization

> The new RX-line is now available and features the first Arm-based dedicated servers in Europe. The servers house an Ampere ® Altra ® Q80-30 SoC with Arm64 architecture, which gives you 80 cores of single-threaded processing power.

> The new line includes two models. The RX170 is the smaller model of the two, but it still comes with 128 GB DDR4 registered ECC memory modules and 2x 960 GB NVMe SSD at the low price of € 169 a month and € 179 setup fee. The RX220, on the other hand, comes with impressive 256 GB DDR4 registered ECC memory modules and 2 x 3.84 TB NVMe SSD at the fair price of € 219 a month and a setup fee of € 229.

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> All prices excl. VAT.
Of course a human can't outrun a car. This isn't some unprecedented idea, people have retired for this reason before:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50573071
I don't think the number of different anti-depressants make it inevitable that some work significantly better than others. You can get casts in many different colors.
I hope it doesn't apply to coding too.
>Because methanol is cheap it has been used in making illegal alcoholic drinks, sometimes called moonshine.

This article is absolute garbage they make it sound as if people are deliberately adding methanol to homemade spirts because it's cheap. This is not what typically happens, methanol is usually/(always?) a by product and has to be removed during the distilling process. There is no mention of methanol being a natural by product of production. Because of articles like this the next group of kids may assume that as long as they don't add methanol they are safe.
Reader mode saves the day :)
Thousands of classic Polish films, etc. made available for free online
Ah found it.

https://youtu.be/4_qJptwikRc

6:50 or so for relevant piece.
Buses require expensive drivers and so they are the most expensive form of transit. A small bus costs almost as much as a big on to run. A train costs more per trip, but a train typically has many more people on. In theory you could run a train for service where a small bus would work, but since nobody does that the fact that a train would cost a lot more for that service is irrelevant.
This is gonna be great for c2 bots.
Thanks for pointing that out. It's still very much a WIP. I'll fix that!