skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if England does end up being independent again its citizens would be significantly better off as the subsidy to the other parts of the UK are quite considerable

Great. I hope so, I have no idea. But it won't be the UK anymore. Very different place in the world and very different internal politics. Maybe it will become like a mini-US but without the natural resources and economical clout.. doesn't seem promising.
It's actually easier than in the NI-Ireland case. There are less border crossings to check between Scotland and England (due to geography), than there are between Ireland and NI (due to the fact that the border is entirely artificial).
I'd much prefer a compromise, like the FreeBSD quarterly updates vs daily, so you can pick the update frequency.

I can't tell you the total number of wasted hours my previous organisation spent upon maintaining MacOS infrastructure after random breakage due to homebrew, but it was a regular occurrence and likely a few hundreds of hours per year for the small setup we looked after, mainly for CI.
I agree but they are two very different products despite both being cars.
And expecting a new company to scale to the size needed to produce cheap vehicles en masse in an economically sustainable way is unrealistic and unfair as a criticism. Even the largest car companies are finding it difficult.

The three will exist together, like the Corolla, Camry etc. But it will take a while to scale up to that. People are expecting Rome to be built in a day and whining because it isn't.
Every currency is weak against the usd right now due to flight into us treasury bonds for safety. Spain who is self sufficient on food will post between 7,5 and 10 inflation this year.
fun times, pizza, soda, my mom thinking what a bunch of nerds, while we played against each other or sharing mp3s and games into the night and next day. When steam came out, we started going to internet cafe's, they had better machines (had some friends that didnt have much) and didnt cost much to play for a couple hours. I miss those times, things were simpler.
Other important thing are regulations, which require learn amount of hours on certified vehicle with instructor.

Some countries accept extern (self-learn and just pass in certified), other not.

And regulations even more conservative than instructors.

I know, some time ago, long before war, in Russia people asked, why not use simulator to learn small plane flight.
It takes few years, to gather group of learners with flight sim exp. Once this happen. Statistic said, typically in flight school, only 50% of students could fly from first try on real plane (others just fear, or get confused). Sim group fly 100%, only made small non-critical mistakes.
You wouldn’t perform surgery whilst ignoring the monitors that show the patients vital signs.
Are you telling me my statement was true except in some cases?
You mean: 4["abcde"]
Awesome-Fediverse
I love his short stories. Try the collection "The Elephant Vanishes." It was my introduction to Murakami. It's amazing. I think it gives a good sense of the range of his wild imagination, and how quickly he can go from the ordinary to the unexpected. After that I was hooked and ended up reading almost all of his novels.
Although they have never come out and said it, it's very clear that the same has happened to Google Home products. Nothing has improved in the product for well over 2 years and annoying regressions never get resolved. It's looking like another abandoned Google product.
In the UK at least the "world class" universities do nothing for the native population and very little for the country in general.

Their primary reason for existence now is for rich foreigners (mainly from China and the middle east) to give their kids a status symbol education, this includes not failing bad students because the fees are so high.

The only people to benefit from this is are the University leadership and the property developers that build luxury accommodation for all the rich students.

I'm not sure if it is that bad in Switzerland. If they properly fund higher education for native citizens maybe not.
This is pretty good, but to be peak HN the thread needs to have 'showdead' on and include three greyed-out comments: One claiming that the OP is wrong because he is a nefarious Jew, one half-page comment of entirely incomprehensible word salad, and a comment trying to sell boner pills in broken English with a misspelled URL that goes nowhere.
To add to the chain of tangential corrections, it is incorrect to state that you are correcting a mistake. What your parent said was in fact a true statement, you just generalized it a bit.
Very nice website.

I haven't played Commander Keen in almost a decade. Fascinating to see someone port it into a website.
It's a shame that Google still seems to favour Postgres 9.x documentation and blogspam over the current documentation.
Yes. But every tool, service, SaaS, app, etc in this space is so over-complicated and bloated. Has all the features I don't need, at the cost of the features I do need.

So I built my own
> The entire reason other companies are now making electric cars and will be making cheaper electric cars is that Tesla forced them to by eating into their profits.

No, many governments have imposed requirements on manufacturers to produce a certain number of low emission vehicles.

> But it will likely be the highest selling car in the world next year, replacing Toyota.

I don't know about that.

> And isn't having the wealthy and people with expendable income fund that transition what we want?

Yes and no. Should they fund it? Sure. But the transition has to expand far beyond their personal vehicle ownership, as the wealthy are only a minority. Tesla gives the impression of wanting to cater exclusively to a certain class of people. Which is fine for a luxury auto maker, but Porsche, Lexus, etc., don't offer the pretense that they're saving the Earth.

We don't really have any time to wait. It may be too late already. Global warming has arrived in force. We're blowing through all the numbers that scientists warned about.
Anywhere. The benefit of a decent education for all and fluently speaking a global language. The situation for any young Brit is much better than for most European peers who face the same question.
“Making a bucket list of life, then turning that into to do lists, then doing the things 1 by 1.”

Sounds a lot like Getting things Done method :)
As the owner of a (recently revived) ewi-usb… I’m really curious about the mouthpiece bit. What kind of analog sounds are happening while playing this? Do you notice that reed age, strength etc are as impactful as on a real saxophone? Do you feel a need to swap mouthpieces for different styles of playing?

I love the idea and ingenuity to make this happen!
Feelings vs Fatalities

When men are allowed into women's spaces - washrooms, rape shelters, and prisons - women and children die.

We have single-sex spaces for a lot of very good reasons.
Which frequent flyers are telling everyone else to cut down emissions?

Do you mean just those rich enough to use private jets?
Lol.

That article mentions gender twice. One of which is a citation. The other has the annotation "better source needed".

This does not constitute a corpus scientific knowledge to which I referred.
You weren't scammed - at least not by anyone but Starlink/SpaceX. They're just that poorly set up.

You may already know this, but the entity you made payment to is:

Starlink Internet Services Limited

5th Floor, Beaux Lane House, Mercer Street Lower, Dublin 2 D02 DH60

Registered with the Company Registration Office under No. 677409

Lauren Dreyer is listed as the Director: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauren-d-8077b594/

Her email address: edit - removed now that OP has seen it
I find Mozilla documentation is very good - eg: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP
Not sure if I'd trust the wasm runtime. If someone breaks out of that it's game over. QuickJS in a unikernel in something like Firecracker VM would be the most secure approach and still provide good performance and startup time.

Another thing is resource consumption where you likely want to limit cpu- and mem-usage.
Perl man pages. Was working with Perl on a job and had no internet or outside connection. The man pages are outstanding.

https://perldoc.perl.org/perlintro
The only thing this is missing to make it modern is Walter Bright plugging D every time Python, Ruby, etc. is mentioned.

(By the way, I have nothing against Walter. This just seemed like it should have that.)
Why All Cell Phones in Japan Are Shipped with an Annoying Shutter Sound
> My version of utopia is one where there's so much abundance and automation that no one has to work at all if they don't want to, but can still live incredibly comfortable -- extravagant, even -- lives.

Or, as we call it, Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism, or FALGSC.
> Web is inherently slow.

Absolutely, still there is "normal web latency" slow, "regular website" slow and then there is "reddit redesign" (and other popular sites) slow. Taking the latter as an example, it is easy to check how much faster it could be by using old.reddit.com instead.

For that type of slowness I have very little understanding, it's just a regression.
Posted 5 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33607695
Sounds like you're in Europe (judging that you transfered to a German IBAN). I recommend you go to your nearest consumer advise office or equivalent. Alternative if you're in Germany, talk to the ct magazine from the Heise publisher. They have a section in every issue about some consumer issues.
The fears of brexit causing inflation never panned out.

How do you justifying your suggestion that brexit has had a meaningful impact on recent inflation? The UK inflation rate has maxed out at around 2.5% for the last decade until mid/end of 2021. It's growth is line with the rest of the developed world.
The Hacker News Parody Thread[0] has ruined your comment for me.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661
Teenage Baby Boomers Didn't Rebel in the '60s. They Were Rich and Privileged
How to Navigate Arguments During Holiday Dinner
True... but I won't signup for Truth Social, because it requires a phone number.
At a local Burger King drive-through, there's an attendant who looks off to the side while handing me stuff through the window. It was a learning moment for me: "so that's what other people see when I'm talking to them!"
How little outrage known sellers of child porn garnered previously, compared to the reaction to the brief impersonation of blue checkmarks under Musk.

It almost makes one question the objectivity of the ruling media elite, when they inflate or diminish things so arbitrarily.
I think you're correct about the two statements not being completely independent, though. In both the shorts and backpack examples the second adjective is meant as a corollary of (or subordinate to) the first. タンパン（は）よくて動きやすいぜ！ or このリュックは便利で大きい both sound unnatural and it seems to me like the logical relationship between the adjectives is lost. The same grammar could technically be used to combine two independent statements, but the context indicates the (pseudo- ?)dependent interpretation.

In English we would just say "Shorts are easy to move around in!" and it wouldn't lose any of the semantic meaning, but I do think TFA's "nice and easy" might preserve some of the "feeling" of the Japanese without sounding unnatural like a word-for-word translation would be.

I'm not a native speaker though so I could still be completely wrong.
Indeed, all basically false.

Fit a straight line, find a straight line.

Where IQ scores correlate, it's at the very-low-score end. It doesnt correlate with independent objective performance measures at average-and-above.

The people writing those papers are psychologists, not statisticians, and often the most poorly trained. Most of it is either circular pseudoscience or unreporducible. Indeed, for much of the IQ literature to be "unreporducible" would be a great credit, since it would mean it had a testable thesis -- which, largely, it never does.

The beginning and end of IQ research is, largely, just that straight-line rulers can draw straight lines in any dataset you put them against.
True, but it won't hurt if London carries on.
My Apple Watch has been a great alarm clock for the past few years. Its gentle taps on my wrist never fail to wake me up.
That’s not what the title says. The title reminds neurodivergent people that, once again, go fuck yourself.
Actual title is: "These Teenage Baby Boomers DIDN'T Rebel In The '60s. They Were Rich & Privileged"... HN modified it when I submitted it.
I'm quite sure the OP was responding to the assertion that the UK was declining, not that current inflation is just a UK specific problem (though I could easily point to some Brexit specific issues that have made it worse than that which other countries are experiencing)

I hope this clarification has made you feel less tired.
I like bananas.
What's "very far away?" Looks like BETA Technologies has a real airplane, ALIA, that'll potentially be certified next year. They're currently building a manufacturing facility to mass produce it.

I think what's very far away is autonomous flight. But IMO farther is autonomous automobiles, because as both pilot and driver, aviation has rules, standards, predictability, integration of a wide assortment of vehicles of flight, training, and thus a far better prepared environment for autonomous. The automobile environment is so haphazard humans make way more mistakes driving than flying.
As long as you're learning, old code will make you cringe, though it gets subtler over time.

Though, sometimes things turned out rough because I was too impatient to learn the right way (especially for one-off programs).

My favorite example is when I didn't know how loops worked in PHP, so I wrote an ActionScript program that generated hundreds of lines of PHP instead...
The result was clear enough. Thank you. :)

It makes more sense that I would just give an accountant my G/L (General Ledger?), and it makes sense that gross sales matter most.

It also makes sense that more input is good past a certain threshold. I'll definitely go with a firm at that point, but I admit that I don't want accountants to save me money on taxes; I want to have bulletproof accounting so that the IRS doesn't audit me or finds absolutely nothing to worry about if they do.

Thank you for the two links. I had found the first, and the second only confirmed what I thought. I think any misconceptions I have from here can be correct by an actual accountant.

I actually check my trial balance every week. (I didn't know that's what I was doing, but that's what I do.) Other than that, I'll try to leave it up to my accountant. (I can be a control freak.)

I definitely would have made the mistake of changing accounts in the middle of a year, thank you.

If banks consider old A/R's unrecoverable, that means they generally are, and that means I should not allow customers to get lax on paying them. That's a great tip, thank you.

And thank you for the encouragement and help!
Did somebody try floxdev.com? That's pretty much doing the job.
‘Part of the kill chain’: how can we control weaponised robots?
Millibars is mbar not mb.
I don’t agree with this, the UK has a huge potential but very right wing governments keep redistributing the wealth such that the rich after COVID ended up with the £600bn of printed money. If you ended up with £2000 more in COVID and the ultra wealthy ended up with £300,000 then you’re going to get huge inflation and record corporate profits which will wipe out your £2000. Apparently we’re running out of Moët in the shops. We should find a way to redistribute a bit of wealth to the poor again… like council houses or some kind of wealth tax but instead we are disproportionately taxing income not wealth again.
In 3 months I'm going to take my family (wife and 3 year old) on a 6 month trip. My goal is to become a digital nomad family with "bases" where we have family and friends.

The rough plan is Bali, Japan, Sri Lanka, Kerala(India).

Do you have any advice or tips?

My biggest question is how do you meet other digital nomad families? I've done a lot of solo travel, and on the way I'd occasionally meet a traveling family, but they were pretty rare.
Spack's official documentation is fantastic:

https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Fungus detoxifying the earth sounds an awful lot like Nausicaa to me.

Does anyone know if Miyazaki based the fungus forest element of his story on known science?
> Summary of Results

> Many Human Concepts Can Be Found in the AlphaZero Network.

> We demonstrate that the AlphaZero network’s learned representation of the chess board can be used to reconstruct, at least in part, many human chess concepts. We adopt the approach of using concept activation vectors (6) by training sparse linear probes for a wide range of concepts, ranging from components of the evaluation function of Stockfish (9), a state-of-the-art chess engine, to concepts that describe specific board patterns.

> A Detailed Picture of Knowledge Acquisition during Training.

> We use a simple concept probing methodology to measure the emergence of relevant information over the course of training and at every layer in the network. This allows us to produce what we refer to as what–when–where plots, which detail what concept is learned, when in training time it is learned, and where in the network it is computed. What–when–where plots are plots of concept regression accuracy across training time and network depth. We provide a detailed analysis for the special case of concepts related to material evaluation, which are central to chess play.

> Comparison with Historical Human Play.

> We compare the evolution of AlphaZero play and human play by comparing AlphaZero training with human history and across multiple training runs, respectively. Our analysis shows that despite some similarities, AlphaZero does not precisely recapitulate human history. Not only does the machine initially try different openings from humans, it plays a greater diversity of moves as well. We also present a qualitative assessment of differences in play style over the course of training.
I think doing things in little steps is the key to moving big things over time [0] - especially so with the help of others around. There's been a good amount of research showing that having others around encourages us to do things and to do them better.[1] (Actually building something if you're keen to try it to do things with others [2])

It really comes down to just doing and let the act of doing find your way.

[0] https://tinyhabits.com/

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_facilitation

[2] https://doubleapp.xyz/blog/how-to-body-double
"Kafka on The Shore" was what a friend of mine, who read all their books and like him a lot, recommends me.
"Shouldn't the post add 2013 in the tile?"

The only way I could tell this post was old was the mention of IE in the parody comments.
I suspect OP didn’t.

That everyone has accepted that owning a phone means you can be tracked with accuracy most the time, both digitally and physically, is pretty wild.
I do and am aware of it. But most of the time it's still server performance.

Show me a slow site and most of the time it's still the server holding it back on old hardware.
I tried building a modern Windows app to just show a grid of items, and performance was terrible. After I had done my part in creating the view, the framework just performed poorly for things like resizing or re-ordering cells (from like a sort).
This was a great article, though I felt it was incomplete without the inclusion of the infamous “guy taped to ceiling” photo.

A picture’s worth a thousand ping…

https://thenerdstash.com/lan-party/
Isn't that what those AC-detecting pens are for?
> Was there any alternative to 6B people in the developing world offering to sell their labor and environment for less than the 1B people in the developed world? Arbitrage opportunities cannot go on forever without being outcompeted

The alternative is to make sure that you provide a mechanism to bring the best and brightest to your country instead of coddling the least productive at home.

It’s not popular politically so we promise coal miners another generation of work instead.
I read a book years ago (forget the name or the author) about an alien species that came to earth and claimed they were in a war and were looking for the single best specimen from each species (1 per planet).

The one they settled on was a man in a wheelchair. Through technology they fixed all his ills.

They then put him on a ship with all the others and he was immediately attacked. It turned out there was a hierarchy and it had to do with physical violence. They wouldn't let you die and all injuries would be healed so it was safe, if painful, to do.

Throughout the book you learn the aliens that came to earth are very logical, by the book, run the numbers.

So this human realizes this and realizes he wants more control so he starts working his way thorugh the hierarchy. he gets to the 2nd highest rank, but cannot beat the highest rank alien, but he keeps trying ... and trying ... and trying. Finally the highest rank alien asks him why, he explains, the highest rank alien steps to the side and gives him the highest rank.

Later on in the story the aliens fighting the war decided the statistical odds weren't there and they were going to let all the worlds where they had gathered specimens be overrun. The crew on this ship with the humans rejected it, overtook the ship, and went to fight on their own. They did well enough on their own to tip the numbers just enough that the aliens fighting the war chose to re-engage.

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The point here is this. You cannot live life by the numbers, you'll be wrong because it doesn't take into account risk. I know you, and many others, will argue against that, but it's true.

Here's an example: Statistically speaking, you should never cross a busy highway. If your child is on the other side of that highway and in danger, you will 100% do it. Statistics can never take into account the reasons for the risk or the worthiness of the risk.

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The numbers are lying to you. Yes, there's a line at which you'll never be able to do better, but once you're past that line there's a large margin of error. Don't live your life afraid of that margin of error, embrace it.
Air travel is a way for an individual to blow through a significant chunk of their individual annual carbon budget in a couple of hours - and it’s emitted high in the atmosphere where the warning effect is amplified. Globally it doesn’t look so bad because overall, few people use air planes. Among those who use air planes, it looks pretty bad.

Also consider that those who advocate against excessive air travel also argue for the use of public transportation, walking and bicycling as a means to replace car travel. For long distance travel, the alternatives aren’t so obvious, that’s why aviation is such a concern.
I think this is great work. Interpretability is the worst problem in deep learning, as the lack of insight into what the model has learned prevents it from being useful for serious decision making.
> donors are just paying for someone to listen to them for a moment

These donors aren't paying for a sympathetic ear. If the donors didn't get the outcome they wanted they wouldn't donate so much money. They are buying influence that benefits their causes and it's a corrupt practice. Representatives exist to represent their constituents not get rich pandering to other rich people.

> Similarly as any friend or acquaintance would have more sway over a representative than another constituent.

My friends don't pay me to give me their opinions.
Maybe because all economic surplus is absorbed by landlords [1] government contracts go to Tory party donors with no relevant experience, and public services are run by contractors and "consultants" who cost 10x of what maintaining in house talent would.

1. https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-e...