skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't about being a legitimate tourist though. That has always been allowed. There are not many jurisdictions around the world where you are allowed to work and not pay any taxes though. Just because there is a loophole where you _can_ work remotely and it's extremely hard to detect or enforce doesn't suddenly make it legal, you are simply violating the terms of your Visitor's visa.
Nuclear has a vastly worse EROI than grid PV solar. Nuclear lasts longer which somewhat offsets construction costs, but needs a vast workforce continually and a maintenance and power simply to operate.

As a sanity check, sub 2c/KWh solar can’t require that much energy simply because energy costs money. Nuclear on the other hand ends up having ~1,000 workers drive somewhere for 50 years which also takes energy, but that’s often ignored.

That said, people love to come up with all kinds of irrelevant comparisons using vastly outdated data to make things look worse for solar while ignoring Nuclear’s downsides. For example France’s capacity factor fell below 70% when they tried to ramp up production and things would look even worse on a 100% nuclear grid.
I don't really enjoy having anything attached to my head.
Software should be maintained in an almost private trust model imo. Pay upfront for the license which generates a bunch of money for the developer upfront. That money along with all future revenues from new licenses are put into a trust that grows over time and is used to pay salaries for maintainers and to pay for server hardware. Maybe if you own your own hardware you could even have a side business of leasing your spare compute capacity and that perhaps could cover its costs.
There's an amusing mobile game similar to CryptoKitties about breeding mutant ducks https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clusterduck/id1531250914 , but it's single player

(self plug) I'm also working on an NFT parody game https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1609874752 - it's a simulated trading & collecting market for emojis.

I'm always confused why people call cryptokitties a game, there's barely anything to play with. Maybe using blockchain makes it a lot harder to implement actual game features, or maybe it just corrupts your incentives lol.
Repeat business at your local pub is recurring revenue. SaaS is just collecting rent.
> It's that Adobe was likely seeing subscription revenue take hit from customers

While being pummeled by public markets, and being forced to make a move that might keep shareholders from calling for blood.

This is certainly not the first time that Adobe has presented a number to Figma's board — but it has to be the biggest number yet, by far.

From Figma's position: take your chances on an IPO while the Fed is cracking skulls around inflation — or flip the bit on that liability, and cash out to a desperate Adobe?
Are zero-knowledge L2 blockchains decentralized?! By definition...
Chase McCoy had a good note explaining it:
https://chasem.co/2022/05/markdoc

Basically because MDX mixes JSX and markdown, you need knowledge of JSX/JS (which non-devs might not have), and tooling dedicated to build, parse it and so on.
Markdoc is more of a "separation of concerns" approach.
The same week that Sony launched the PS2 they also launched a 100-disc carousel CD/DVD changer as part of their home theatre kit. There might also have been a 200-disc changer, but I know the shop I worked in stocked one of the 100-disc changers.

Just think! All your CDs and movies in one machine, that you can play on your big rear projection TV over your 5.1 surround speakers!

Just think! They had absolutely no intention of releasing a version that was actually a PS2 with wireless controllers, and indeed thought the very idea that anyone would buy such a thing was laughable.

That would have blown the market to pieces.
I'm not sure. We audit tax forms and money transfers (and we can audit model inputs and outputs), but don't think we audit people themselves.
I can't find the code. My biggest problem with Envoy is it's in C++, what's this written in?
Yes

https://irdeto.com/news/game-piracy-results-in-over-21-milli...
I actually don't mind subscriptions if they are structured correctly. If I had the choice of buying a software package that I could expect to be useful for 5 years (even good software becomes out-of-date over time) for $100 or paying a $20 yearly subscription; I would rather have the subscription.

The problem is that most vendors want you to pay about half of what a package would normally cost for a perpetual license on a yearly basis. Anything over 2 years becomes more expensive.
It can also be “Californians will pay over sticker so soak ‘em” vs “locals won’t”.

Also being from far away can lead to not knowing the area as well as you should and being disappointed.
It's a bit of nonsense put out by Musk. Whether there's a "Media relations department" is immaterial. That's not actually a thing that companies have to have. You could call it marketing, light touch sales, corporate communications. When people write articles they ask for comment from the company. Normal companies either comment or don't comment. Tesla is way smarter though - they've come up with a PR strategy (definitely not something that would in any way be described as media relations) to say "Oh it's not that we're not commenting on this article about us cheating on safety tests. It's just that we don't do PR". Apparently some people fall for this, forgetting that when does release information to the media when it's autopilot kills someone. Sorry, it didn't kill anyone, Tesla says it disengaged before the crash, oh hold on hang on, I thought you guys didn't have a media relations deparment....oh.
"Are we witnessing the slow death of (online) advertising? "

Hope springs eternal, but we could also be witnessing the Bladerunner/Transmetropolitanization of advertising.
"history". Yes, that concise and short read that just tells you government bad. Do you have anything in particular in mind?

I really struggle to find an excuse for not wanting to involve government regulations in obvious cases like monopolies almost monopolies. Even some libertarians, who are far from being a logical bunch of people, agree with this (alongside safety regulations and sometimes even infrastructure). The free market cannot function properly when it concerns externalities, infrastructure with high upfront costs, monopolies/oligopolies.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32829827 2 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32730869 9 days ago
Btw. Newton wasn’t too bad for it’s time. It had handwriting recognition etc
I've used Clover, I've coded for their POS system, I've used their API. They are far from great. They are owned by CardConnect/FirstData and CardConnect's system is garbage (I tried to switch to them from Stripe, worst mistake I ever made). I've not particular love/loyalty to Stripe but Clover is not a good alternative. Especially if you want to in-person, their terminals are disgustingly expensive and their Bolt SDK is a mess. Their support is somehow worse than Stripe.
You can find that too at zide door
There's not any single insurance group large enough where the aggregate risk of climate change is even remotely within the possibility of affecting change.

The IIHS represents the interests of 94 percent of vehicle insurance policies on US roads. So, almost all of the cars on the road are under underwritten by policies of IIHS members. Any change they affect has a direct impact on their bottom line.

There are a few property insurance trade associations in the US, and I don't think any of them have quite as high of a membership representation as the IIHS does for auto insurers, but let's for the sake of argument, say that there's an association that represents a full 100% of homeowner and commercial property insurance policies.

If that existed, they would have influence over 13% of US emissions, or ~778 million metric tons of CO2. But, while insurance law does stay within a country's borders, CO2 doesn't. Global emissions are 35 billion metric tons. So this hypothetical super powerful trade group would have influence over 2% of the total. If they could impose an (extremely expensive) requirement of a 20% reduction across all of their policyholders, this would have a 0.4% reduction of the global CO2 emissions.

Basically, assuming the most powerful trade organization possible, it would have no real effect.

International cooperation is required to fix this particular problem, and insurance just isn't an international-scale thing. Treatises are going to be the only way to fix it.
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I particularly hate the ones that just hang up if you guess wrong three times.
It's one thing to have excess power, and another to have excess power in the time and place that you want to do these things. For example excess solar energy in the middle of the country is never going to be able to be deployed to desalinate water in the ocean because you will lose it all in transmission and storage (or you will spend more than you would just generating new power near the desalinization plant).

This is what makes bitcoin mining so unique as a way to make use of excess energy. First of all, securing a censorship-resistant digital monetary system is not pointless nor a scam. Second of all, energy from anyplace on earth, at any time, can be deployed for this purpose -- all you need is a mining machine and an internet connection.
When you scale a 24 bit number to a 16 and halve rate from 96 to 48, the calculations are easy as pi. Not like we’re running them thru jpeg twice. Like taking an average, scaling down from 20x more quality that can be sensed to 2x more quality that can be sensed.
RandomX is pretty GPU-hostile. If you have a lot of VRAM, you could theoretically make it work okay, but I don't know of a GPU miner that has any semblance of performance (or perf/watt) that is close to a CPU.
This is incredible. I honestly don't think I've ever seen someone give away a business worth billions to charity. I wish Patagonia the best!
Again, if the counter-party agrees to the terms and the changes, how is it cheating?
If a non-developer calls it a "<something> number" it's definitely a string for me. Even if you need to occasionally perform arithmetic on these "numbers", you could still store them as strings and parse on-demand.

In my experience, performing a culture-specific decimal.TryParse() at form submission time is the most robust way to validate something like a wire transfer amount. You can also do regex replace javascript stuff, but there are always some dragons in that realm (especially as you cross borders). Your backend is almost always going to be a better place to parse and verify user input.
this is bull, I abandoned adobe and went to figma.. and now this.
There's no need to reverse it even, just go through your standard expense claims procedure or product refund procedure.
> Stop doing shady stuff.

If PayPal requires an SSN or EIN, why do they even allow you to create an account without one?
Not every smart contract needs to be unique or original. A well-audited library of reusable smart contracts that is published and/or endorsed by a coalition of reputable entities can provide most of the functionality that most businesses and people would typically need. Think of the standard form agreements that are offered by companies like LegalZoom, etc.

Yes, Ethereum's security model is a problem. There's no reason to believe, however, that it won't be improved upon.
In the contract with stripe I can guarantee there's a "we can do anything we want" clause. The solution to these issues is functional government so we can regulate out that language and hold entities responsible.
> That is, in actual fact, not the case. From an article at the beginning of the pandemic published by Oxford uni's Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (CEMB):

> Evidence from 14 trials on the use of masks vs. no masks was disappointing: it showed no effect in either healthcare workers or in community settings. We could also find no evidence of a difference between the N95 and other types of masks but the trials comparing the two had not been carried in aerosol-generating procedures.

Perhaps The Science™ did change a bit, particularly with regard to public policy, but I don't think anyone except the headline-skimming public and adults who still pull their shirt up over their nose when someone farts expected masks to do much of anything. It was always a kind of improvisational measure, as Science™ of course already knew the correct answer to be D) None of the above.

The 2003 SARS studies in particular have been used in wilderness/disaster medicine as evidence for a lecture that goes something like this: "Stateside, you'll mostly always have enough top-notch equipment to go around, but should you find yourself in a clinic in sub-Saharan Africa, rural SE Asia, etc. during a disease outbreak, a surgical mask is probably better than nothing. Sure, you're fucked without a PAPR, and if there are no surgical masks available, perhaps wrapping a bandana or some gauze around your face (and/or saying a prayer) will keep you from dying, who knows. Good luck; have fun!"

The difference between "things that sometimes work for certain patients/scenarios" and "things that we can prove work well enough to justify forcing on an entire population" is also relevant, and why I say I don't think <strike>Science</strike> Medicine has learned much from this - the answer has always been "use the correct mask for the situation", and these masks have never been the correct mask.

This[1], for example, is one of those best-effort hacks one keeps in their toolbox, and anyone using it knows it's sub-par. No ortho would be surprised that their cell phone vibrator diagnosis didn't match the X-ray (and likely, neither would their patient) - but after six months of "Cell Phones Are X-Ray Machines" articles, the public is gonna be upset when they finally realize they aren't.

> You mean, like the CEMB has?

No, this one: https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/student-life/d...

[1] https://www.wemjournal.org/article/S1080-6032(13)00261-5/pdf
So:

Study the issue, publish debris catalog, fund pilot programs to deorbit debris, encourage agencies and other countries to develop standards about debris...

Everything except "generate less debris".
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I am not in accounting/finance, but the world has been on SaaS for so long that it's hard to imagine that the department responsible for controlling spending hasn't caught on and plugged this loophole.
I guess I'll take this time to shill for the mid-'00s TV show Planetes, which is basically about exactly this; cleaning up orbital debris in order to maintain safe space travel.
This is an absurd argument! By that logic buying a book is akin to gambling: You don’t know how good it is until you start reading.

Books have nothing in common with gambling except for the books about gambling.
especially if you already can see the results of their parenting (which is maybe 50% of the equation, genes making up the rest at least in early years) and its not that great.

Spoiled, overcompetitve, addicted to phones/tv, eating junk food, no good hobbies, clueless and aimless about life and what they want and so on. I have been at times few of those, and while I love my parents overall, they could have done more in some parts instead of me figuring out everything by myself, took damn too long to realize there are almost no limits to what one can achieve and how to get there
This is what happens:

"3.9e3".to_i => 3

and

Integer("3.9e3")

raises "invalid value for Integer()". Really, nothing to see here. Ruby just doesn't treat "3.9e3" as a valid string for an integer (which arguably is correct IMHO)
> ... when I use my memory of having seen someone else's copyrighted materials to produce my own wholly new but similar looking works.

That's called "non-literal" copyright infringement. Plaintiffs win on the claims and appeals courts uphold the judgments. (See, e.g., the "Blurred Lines" case. https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/music/robin-thicke-pharr...).

A person could infringe the copyright in an original image if they painted their own version by hand. The AI is basically irrelevant.
In Italy it is very common. The wiring is normally rated for more (4.5kW) The power is limited at the counter switch.

> 3kW is typical kitchen power

Most stoves used to be gas powered. Now induction is becoming more common (but it requires an upgrade to 4.5kW).
Sketch actually surpassed Fireworks in every aspect. After many many years with Fireworks, I was astonished by Sketch how they fixed every little thing that bothered me in Fireworks, and did it just right.
It's not just intelligence, it's also speed. If you update your world model fast enough, eventually people just look like trees.
In my experience, you’re better off having a single codebase with client/server/shared code and using either the equivalent of ifdefs or conditional blocks gating execution for these states.

Unreal uses a different architecture where the codebase allows you to define who owns what, but it’s ultimately the exact same thing, and more confusingly done. Further, they have some actor states which are never actually used.

Unsurprisingly, Unreal’s networking model is unpopular. They also struggle with an architecture that has been unreliable by design since the late 90s, but now I’m digressing.

One codebase, split execution. If you use this traditional model, you can also avoid shipping server binaries to users if you so desire.

For reference, I am the author of Planimeter Game Engine 2D.
If you can't say things today that will still be interesting in six months you should consider deeper subjects!

(Overstated for effect. I do think there's a place for news and timely commentary, but it's far from everything.)
Huh, didn't knew rPi foundation purposefully added DRM to their products...WTF ?
Learned it from a book in Danish - God Nat Sov Godt, originally written by a Spanish physician/doctor so if you don't know Danish but can find the author I think there is a fair chance it might exist in more languages.
??? JetBrains definitely offers monthly plans, SaaS-style.
Do they have API docs you're aware of? Started the application process but they want to lock you into a monthly fee/termination fee scheme without really explaining how their service works.
Even knowing that, I much prefer software I buy and own forever. I have too many subscriptions already and I feel icky knowing there’s all these leeches draining money automatically from my bank account every month, with not enough visibility.

A few weeks ago I was looking at iPad apps to help me learn piano. They all want a $15/month subscription or something, and I hate it. I know what I’m like - I’ll subscribe then forget and end up spending $100 for an app I use twice. I ended up getting an in person music teacher instead. It’s more expensive, but it feels better spending the money like that.

Software I buy then own (or even, pay for once a year for updates like Jetbrains) feels better because each renewal feels like an active, conscious choice.
I don't. I expect the owners to switch to mining other PoW coins.
I think you missed the point of my comment. Yes, Scott wrote the comment containing that proposal. But my point was that it was an agreement. Two people who disagreed about AI agreed on the rules, so you can't accuse one of them of being unfair because you don't like the rules. Sure, you can say "that's a bad bet, Scott will obviously win", but you can't say "He shouldn’t declare victory after cherry-picking good results from a small sample of questions", because those terms were explicitly set in advance.

The humans -> robots change is possibly dubious, yes. I don't think that it's super important, but if it were me, I wouldn't have posted the blog post as is. I would have waited until some AI passed all the prompts with humans, like it most certainly will in a year.
1 Pedal driving, ie, regen brakes apply whenever there is no pressure on the gas.

In a manual transmission this is from engine braking, without gas applied, it immediately starts slowing down.

This makes traffic flow better by reducing the need for last minute stopping, predicting when you need acceleration, reducing speed automatically when the driver is cautious, and generally increased attention and awareness.
my tone was probably a bit blunt. It seems to be a stimulus-response in me when regional differences in language, date formats or units of measure are presented as being wrong rather than just different.
They're maglev trains, so there's no pantograph involved there.

https://youtu.be/_ZZMViMDjto at 16:40 explains the problem. It's in french, but you can get the gist visually as it's a for-kids documentary.

Tldr is a wave on the cable is created at high speed, making it impossible for the train to stay in contact with the cable. The documentary also touches on another top speed limitation: how agressive the turn angles are, limiting the top speed.
No. And they have a different ban reason for that
https://twitter.com/Really_Tall/status/1438986482430193666
This is a great article, I wasn’t aware how little funding public transit has received compared to highways
No, but if I say the exact number I'm even easier to pin down.
For the NYC to BOS stretch the Acela is handicapped by politicians in Connecticut.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/04/30/opinion/path-better-n...
I'm not sure how you got this calculation.

Suppose I'm considering a mortgage of 100K.

If rates go from 1% to 2%, my payment goes from 322 to 370, an increase of ~15%.

If rates go from 6% to 12%, my payment goes from 600 to 1029, an increase of ~71.5%.

Massive difference in terms of affordability.
This the most salient point to me, it is absolutely unbelievable to me that the US continues to use four-way intersections despite the huge risk, loss of life and suffering they cause.
They are exceptionally rare in Australia too, if they do exist it is only on a road with a speed limit of 60km/h (at least in my region).

Coincidentally, where I live is known for its many many roundabouts and not only are they safer but they also offer superior cross-way throughput when traffic is heavy. And they allow the "middle" of the intersection to store a chunk of traffic who are protected from full speed impacts while still letting vehicles flow slowly through the perpendicular axis.
Everything is a SaaS product because that is what users want. That is the simplest answer. Innovation always comes back to the end user. If SaaS was not a business model innovational that the user wanted it would simply die out. Instead, it’s growing.
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I haven't experienced the supposed concern of complexity with MDX. I have a docs site with 1600+ md pages. In practice I've exposed a small number of react components that doc writers can use and that's it. Sure in theory they could introduce new complexity, but they don't. Further, you can introduce new markdown primitives with remark that get transformed to react components if you want to hide some of that complexity from writers. For example, we have one that auto collapses adjacent fenced code blocks of different language into one react component with a built in language switcher.
I view crypto as a good way to create an ecosystem rather than just a single game. But to create an ecosystem requires multiple games, by multiple companies. At the center of it all, you probably need a selfless company with tons of money to bootstrap the core IP, that simultaneously cares very much about its IP but also doesn't care too much so they let indies and amateurs experiment with it.

I can see the "end game" and it looks nice. But I don't know how to get there. I don't know if its even possible to get there given the hurdles involved - some of the required attributes from the involved actors feels contradictory.