skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Switzerland is an exception, too: low tax burden and good government service in many areas.
Such shoddy writing to only mention the pandemic without mentioning how:

1 Congress relaxed rules on the Ryan Haight Act to allow online prescription of ADHD meds,

2 Telehealth Apps like Cerebral began to spend 10s of millions of dollars advertising on TikTok and instagram.

3 The apps would write new amphetamine prescriptions after 1/2 hour assessments, and from whistleblower data we know they didn't do any sort of identity verification and would write the same person multiple prescriptions.

This has all the markings of another profit driven prescription drug boom, similar to Xanax and oxycontin
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-03-11/cerebral-...
What makes you think my pond is relatively small?
We've also received the same threatening emails, even though it was an error on their end, and everything was paid. We were also assured it was an issue on their end, and to ignore the emails. This is wildly irresponsible stuff.
I ended up buying a Philips 55" gaming monitor instead of a TV. Seems to be the only way to get a high quality panel and proper HDR without spyware, most of the commercial displays I looked at didn't support HDR properly or had terrible panels.
a business does not pay any tax on profit that it does not distribute as dividents

Can a business get around this by re-purchasing shares from the open market?
Didn't have my address in NJ.
A plain-text file format for todos and check lists
You're arguing against a strawman. No one here is seriously claiming that there is no societal value in art and the humanities. But we are currently producing a surplus of college degrees in those fields. Many of those graduates have no real artistic talent and no future in academia. Their educations were largely wastes of time and resources. As a tax payer and voter I am unwilling to continue funding that (or suffering inflation because of loan forgiveness). We ought to steer some of the less talented students towards other career paths.

By the way, most of the greatest artists throughout history never attended college at all.
Yeah despite my complaints about LACK above I have had only good experiences with the IVAR stuff, made out of real wood.
I would look at the company's financial statements. The article doesn't really provide much insight. I took Centrica, which was mentioned in the article and looked at their 2022 results ending on June 30th 2022:

> British Gas Services & Solutions adjusted operating profit fell by 88% to £7m.

> The reversal of a £50m Covid-19 and industrial action impact from H1 2021 was partially offset by an increase in customer compensation following disappointing service levels over the past winter, continued higher absence rates earlier in the year, and increased workload, which we believe is a function of customers choosing to have non-urgent jobs they had been delaying during the
Interim Results | Group Overview (continued) Centrica plc Interim Results for the six months ended 30 June 2022 7 Covid-19 pandemic completed. These temporary factors negatively impacted adjusted operating profit by approximately £25m

It's difficult to tease out, but the profit numbers are so tiny compared to the aggregate increase in price experienced by consumers. I think focusing on profit makes for good headlines but underlying issues are a lot bigger. Taking away the tiny sliver of profit these companies have will reduce innovation and new entrants while doing absolutely nothing to alleviate higher consumer prices.

https://www.centrica.com/media/5723/centrica-2022-interim-re...
If you're into R3F, check out what https://github.com/hmans is doing on top of it (RenderComposer, ShaderComposer, VFXComposer etc.). Black magic!
> A more subtle example, perhaps, is that of Uber and Lyft. These companies are trying to make transportation better for everyone but they are built under a premise that is already non-optimal: which is that cars are simply not the best way to move people around. While the tech is impressive and it’s been very useful for a ton of people, myself included, I can’t help but wonder what would’ve happened if instead of building a startup for cars we had tried to innovate on top of something that is better for society in general, like subways or buses.

This is not a tech problem per se. It's how Capitalism works. Captialism is great a solving problems. However, it doesn't necessarily solve root problems. It solves problems where there is a reachable market along with a needle that can be moved while returning more money than invested.

That said, tech is a tool. It's a means. It's not an ends.
I'm an Australian living in Estonia. The short answer: absolutely amazing.

The long answer: eID was originally through an ID card, and you'd have a USB chip reader you'd plug into your computer and a browser plugin and digital signature software (open source, I believe.) You could use this to authenticate on government, bank, etc websites, and sign documents, very easily: you just remembered a PIN code.

These days many people use Mobile ID which has the same signature functionality on your SIM card, and you sign by entering a PIN on your phone. This is very convenient but I do worry about security a lot more. In the past, there have been security issues, such as flaws in the signatures, and once this caused a large number of ID cards to be reissued. It's not without problems but all problems so far seem to be caught. I don't wholly trust it and I am waiting for the situation where a document is "signed" and the owner of the ID denies signing it.

Almost everything is accessible online, and you do not need to visit offices for the vast majority of government and often other business/bank interaction. I think there are only three things you cannot do online: get married, buy property, and I think deal with deaths. Everything else you can. The famous example is starting a company, which takes about fifteen minutes and even has a customisable template for company documents (in English!) for you, you just pick the options on the website, sign it digitally through the website, establish a holding bank account if necessary (through the website - bit of an echo here!) and done.

Most data about you is digital - your tax, medical etc. For background, I'm someone this scares. I see huge value behind an attack here. I also worry about access by the government or others. But in practice, it seems to work well. Data is stored in different enclaves: the tax department can't see medical data, for example, and access is logged. There are cyber-attacks, most commonly from Russia, but the Estonian IT team is top-notch. If this same system were in Australia I'd have no confidence, because Australia outsources everything and the government cannot run good IT systems. But Estonia does it well.
It is about future.

“how fast is it to incorporate” and “number of unicorns” etc. will likely result in better economic activity and standard of living in the future.

“annoying bureaucracy” will likely result in degradation and lower economic activity in the future.
None of the situations we face today are remotely close to the difficulty to those faced by the Romans at the end of the western empire
> Aside: anyone who wants to talk about doing data analysis without access to the underlying data is cordially invited to explain how to do this to statisticians who only understand R and local Jupyter notebooks.

Provision some isolated machines with access to production data, and let the data scientists login remotely. You'll be able to tell who is accessing the data and when, and won't need to install invasive bossware on their systems. It's a fairly straightforward solution. It's one thing to control access to sensitive data. Its another to use that to justify monitoring employees all day, even when they aren't accessing sensitive data.
I've used Kdenlive in the past to make some simple videos (I have no experience whatsoever) and managed to quickly produce something; it does the job, it's lightweight, free and was intuitive for what I needed at the time.
Maybe in some parts of the world but here in the Midwest of the US… gaming cafes are not common and don’t tend to last in my experience.
Yeah, do people really want no supervision on employees handling their PII or other sensitive info? I think I would be upset if I found out my info was not even being attempted to be protected while in an employees possession.
> It's evidence if it can be used to falsify theories

No, this is too broad, because falsifying theories takes two elements: a prediction, and the evidence that the prediction gets compared to. Only the second is evidence; the first is not. And simulations only give you the first.
Musk approaches brain chip startup Synchron about deal amid Neuralink delays
Yes the well known “touch screen” that MacBook Airs are well known for. Displays might be able to be had cheaper (in fact straight from the manufacturer they surely are) but I’m not sure I would trust buying from a vendor that doesn’t even know what they’re selling
It's not about training, it's about control and low pay. Much like US' h1b, but with a clearer path to citizenship and better rights for workers.
But stock growth and economic growth doesn't necessarily go hand in hand. Much of the stock market growth came from Central Bank policy.

Stock market growth is also something that isn't necessarily benefitting the country where a stock is listed. A european investor can buy Apple stock and participate the same was an an American one.
Nobody forced NATO to expand to Ukraine either. Or to invade Libya. Or to invade Iraq/Afghanistan.

Whataboutism as a rationale for war escalation with a nuclear power is insane.

To consider reining in NATO expansion war to be equivalent to war crime apologetics is beyond absurd.

If we get to winter and the Russian economy fares better than ours (and at first glance it looks like it will) then a lot of people should be eating a lot of humble pie.

Alas I suspect theyll just call for escalation.
I'm willing to accept that a London-based crypto startup (i.e. LMAX-integrated) could have a use for extreme low-latency, extreme low-variance soft-realtime C++. In the sub-mike p99 regime you probably want to keep multithreading out of it entirely in fact.

Hopefully you can accept that nitpicking the use of well-tested concurrency primitives on a forum full of impressionable up-and-coming hackers is almost certainly going to create downward pressure on sensible engineering choices amongst readers of your comments.
Well, sure. That's essentially the trade you're making with a bounty program: you pay people for finding stuff, and get to establish terms for disclosure. If you're not OK with those terms, you can almost always just ignore the bounty and publish directly.
I agree with you.

I own a GmbH in Germany and many things, which you are required to do, make total sense. (E.g. for government supported founding you will need a business plan - but that you need anyway, even if you talk to private investors)

There are a few annoying specialities (like the Reverse Charge VAT) but most of them are EU wide things.
You’re trading your short time on this earth for money. You’re doing it right: live below your means, get other income streams (investments/property) and live life on your own terms.
Sure, I’m in Palo Alto - so’s the doctor.

MMA is maxomandibular advancement. They make fine cuts in the upper and lower jaw, move them forward, and secure them in place with titanium bars. Sounds painful, really was the least painful surgery I have had so far - but the most logistically challenging (chocolate milk for 6 weeks straight).

TPD is transpalatial distraction. He makes a fine cut down the palate and inserts a small device on it, then every couple days you use a little tool to activate it, and it moves the palate apart horizontally, giving you more nasal breathing room.

Wild ride, but I’d do all of those surgeries twice if I had to; they weren’t actually that bad at all, but the results are amazing. Being able to run and breathe through my nose is great, sleeping without the machine is great too.
The scale of the phenomenon is very much a modern thing
Time in this regard is similar to money, or other things you have a limited amount of.

You can very well say “I can’t afford that” or “I don’t have money enough to buy that” even if you technically have money in the bank enough to pay for something right now. Maybe you want some money as a buffer for unplanned expenses, or you’ve already agreed to but something that’s not yet paid.

Same goes for time: Yes you can choose what to do at any given moment, but the decision may already be made. You may have promised to do something - meet someone for lunch, go to work. Or you know that you need that time to sleep in order to feel well.

Surely it’s possible to change those decisions, the same way it’s possible to spend money in a restaurant instead of paying the rent. It’s not weird to speak of the decisions as final and the time already “spent”, though.
We arrived at this place on the line directly from capitalism though. This is a failure of capitalism at least, and a direct incentive of it at worst.

You can’t just say it’s not capitalism when it’s the exact consequence of capitalism just because it resulted in something you don’t like. The “totalitarian path” is the one that capitalism laid bare before your feet.
I had a similar thought, but honestly if he wrote/called each one of them, would he get a better response? My guess is no.

And really, he left because he felt that Belgium wasn't a good place for startups and decided to move rather than try to change Belgium, which is completely his choice.
it's the same yes, we just have a different twitter profile :)
I don't think I want to get used to that. Hedonic treadmill go burr.
I wonder if size of machine also adds to the difficulty of modding
> I'd really really like to see 3d content start making it's way into the DOM.

There's a lot of overlap w/ HTML5-native game development. If you're interested in that, pay https://github.com/hmans a visit and take a look at his projects (RenderComposer, ShaderComposer, VFXComposer etc.). Nothing short of amazing!
Apple quoted me 900 EUR to repair a motherboard problem (replace the whole damn thing). On a 3K EUR macbook pro.

I went to a third party, 250 EUR, they just repaired the motherboard, works like a charm, and did it in 1 day. It's been 2 years. Fuck apple.
I tried the hosted app at https://maps.earth but it isn't really usable at present. How do you actually search for and navigate to places?
And now it's a mystery behind a paywall.
Yeah...100%. It's expensive til you try running a data warehouse yourself and have to hire in to support it.

Like any other service there are scale points where it no longer makes sense but for most smaller orgs it's still a bargain over DIY
Hi mackeyja92 great suggestion! We're not big Erlang/Elixir users, but we definitely want to integrate with Elixir and LiveView in due course! We actually received a suggestion to do this just yesterday!

We would love to hear any suggestions or ideas in this area. Let us know in whatever way you want (https://surrealdb.com/community)!
You can toggle the pane with F1.
An applied mathematics degree also pays for itself.
> if you can falsify theories subject to the assumptions of the simulation, that’s still evidence.

No, the falsification itself is not evidence; it's a falsification. Evidence is what you compare the predictions of the simulation to, and then you call the theory falsified if the two don't match.
Doubtful. It'll be a while until Framework operates at a scale that even makes a blip on Apple's bottom line. Legislation could have a large and immediate impact on Apple.

(I say this as a happy Framework laptop owner)
>What's to stop me from rolling my own Spark clusters and just using one of those? Is anyone doing this?

Ops. Unless your core competency is running reports and spark nodes, it's probably cheaper to outsource the management of Spark and friends than to hire people to make sure it's always up and running. To be fair I haven't touched Spark in many years but having to page someone who was good enough to spark to debug why a job stopped at 3am isn't fun.
The Ampere Altra Developer Platform might be the closest you will get for now.

Although you might have to go into debt trying to procure one - it's probably a low volume product with debug interfaces that isn't cost-engineered in the slightest.
Nice! Have signed up and will play. What would work for me especially is some kind of API, so we could integrate it into, say, music players...
We already do that, since ads presumably make the companies money. Thus the overall effect of this should be that we make products cheaper, since they won't have to pay marketing budgets.

Network effect companies (e.g Facebook) would see how useless their network effects are when only some are willing to pay, and they therefore can't get all their friends updates.

And most creators will find out just how little their content is worth (you probably need to be in the top 50% just to make pennies per hour).

I would say bring it on, but most sites would run into the problem that for their media customer it wouldn't be worth the effort to click the apple pay (or whatever) button to get access.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32529260
Does the author ever promote stronger state powers as a solution?
No real connection, but amusingly I think javascript ended up delivering on java's "run anywhere" pitch at least as well as java did in the end.

I can run javascript in a query to this DB apparently for instance, I can't do that with java.
"Responsible" disclosure is an Orwellian term. The real term is "coordinated disclosure", and, as you can see from the timeline, there's coordination here.
We could always allow more legal immigration.

Some countries don't have unfunded liabilities that can share some of their population so we can keep the Ponzi scheme going.
The point of language is to convey meaning. Did you understand the meaning? Yes. Mission accomplished. Your whinge is just a social signal about how old/wise/complicated/sophisticated you are. You know it is, stare into yourself and see it for yourself. Then pick a worthy goal.
I wouldn’t write it off that quickly. The reason we have a two week pay period is a matter of administrative costs. When these drop because they are automated with a computer you can now pay continuously. Why should you work two weeks on credit? On the flip side a payroll company could make decent money off the two week time arbitration.
> Especially considering that many people are likely breaking the laws (not just car seats, but supervision, etc), with no ill effects

Car accidents are the #1 cause of death of kids in Mexico. People have 0 literacy about car seats there.

> I was riding without a booster seat well before age 8 and we'd occasionally ride with a friend's family in a station wagon or SUV with the add-on cargo seats.

This story could have been very different if your car was hit and you were disabled because of, I don't know, something totally preventable.
People who haven't actually tried, or haven't had kids at all, really don't grasp how problematic three car seats across actually is. Car seats are wider than most adults, and there's little standardization (either car or seat design).

So you're often left looking for articles or anecdotes that list both specific vehicles with a specific make/model of car seat. It does exist, it is just painful and annoying.

Even shops that sell car seats and will let you "test fit" them rarely have three of the same model to demo.
> In Germany the entire premise of monitoring performance is prohibited.

How do they evaluate people for promotion if you aren't allowed to monitor anyone's performance in any way?
Please tell me of one service that existed before Zuck came along that you could use to set up multi-directional live video streaming for a group event connecting the US and multiple locations across Eastern Europe and South Asia with mediocre internet connectivity, for several hours, for free, and that would be so simple to use that your elderly grandparents could join in.

Please tell me of one service that existed before Zuck came along that automatically performed genuinely good machine translation of chat messages between two non-English languages.

Please tell me of one service that existed before Zuck came along where you could, after moving to a new town or neighborhood where you know nobody, be certain that you would be able find active local groups for your non-nerdy social niche.

Because these are all things I have recently used Facebook for. And while there are alternatives for some/all of them in the era after Facebook, in the era before Facebook, I don't think I would have been able to do them easily, or at all.
> In fact, it seems that many of them don't even know if their business is profitable or not, since they have no records of expenses and COGS necessary to calculate that. That's the part that always puzzles me.

In my limited experience with folks who've run these types of small businesses, they seem to always have enough cash flow that in the short term, profit doesn't matter. Putting food on the table tonight matters. So if that's the case, why bother with the expense of accounting?
> realized that she could juke her stats by closing tickets prematurely by marking them "did not respond"

Very recently I contacted support on a Saturday around 5pm. They replied Sunday night after midnight when I was asleep. My support ticket was closed around 5am as "did not respond". Between the reply and closing my ticket, I was asleep the entire time. I have never been so furious.
With one single child I barely notice, but thinking about it it does probably take 2-3 minutes so your 5-10 minutes estimates is probably spot on for multiple kids. Living in a midwestern city and relying on street parking I do dread the loading/unloading in the winter, has there been any attempt at improving this product category on the speed of use dimension?
These are usually hash-based so you'll need to actually write it in Java or something more modern running on the JVM. Good thing is you'll only need to write it once and it will run anywhere!
Only if they can prove that your lipservice caused the damage in question, which should be avoidable with the use of antistatic lipstick and regular blotting to ensure the lips are suitably dry.
Thanks for your reply above.

I don't think the comment was sarcastic or rude. They are pointing out the following inconsistency: you've basically attached "dx" to every integration sign, making the "dx" essentially irrelevant.

Moreover, "dx" does not mean "a small change in x". "dx" is a differential form; it is in particular the "d" operator applied to the function f : x --> x.

As I revisit your comment, I think the point Rota is making about physics notation -- which I _do_ agree with -- is that one should use density functions instead of measures, in general. So, for instance, using the Dirac "density"

\int f(x) \delta(x) dx

instead of

\int f(x) \mu(dx)

where \mu is a point mass at 0. This happens again in the context of stochastic differential equations, where mathematicians shirk away from writing dB_t = xi(t) dt, where xi(t) is "white noise". One can make sense of this in the sense of distributions, and then everything happens in a nice inner product space. Indeed, the physicists are much more competent at actual calculations, and the density representation of things (e.g., in terms of "xi") is very useful for those.
Nod. I should've said how cars used to be. I used the analogy because it's a familiar mental model, worked well even for safety critical heavy machinery, and is the obvious way things should be.