skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "only accessible by water" part meant that Britain had a much stronger naval tradition than - say - Germany. That tradition also looked westwards to the relatively open opportunities provided by the Caribbean and eventually Canada and North America, more than it looked towards South America (too far away) and the Mediterranean (already saturated.)

Originally the tradition was based on outright state-sanctioned piracy. But that's incidental.

Establishing a strong Atlantic trade gave Britain the technology, the money, and the economic and military traditions to colonise India and parts of Africa. Trade also drove the Industrial Revolution at home, because there was insatiable demand for goods and they also had to be transported across the country. So: mechanised factories, ships, and railways, and traditions of engineering, research, investment, and military organisation to support them all.

The failures of WWI started to undermine the empire, and WWII all-but killed it. Technological dominance fell with it. The UK was basically bankrupt after WWII and the US took over as a hegemon. After a few humbling experiences - especially Suez - the UK lost its imperial sense of self. Technological decline followed.

The UK's ruling class has never been able to come to terms with loss of empire, which is why we have silly spasms like Brexit - a small country trying to pretend to itself that it's a much bigger country.

Ironically the UK still punches above its weight in a number of areas, including the arts, finance, law, and STEM. But instead of promoting those talents, the ruling class has damaged them even further in search of a fantasy of empire that hasn't been current for over a century.
Awesome! Thanks for posting. Didn't mean to stay up so late, but oh well.

Apparently this team is re-doing the UI for Audacity, also.
A neural net was my first guess as to how this would work but was pleasantly surprised at the actual technique used, which makes a lot of sense. The animated gif does a great job of explaining it on its own.
Why can't we just hire companies from whichever country builds nuclear the best to build plants in our country?
> they helped us with a security problem

You are getting more and more obtuse. You know this is not the same, but you still use it in your argument.

In this case, FBI asked for the location of the accounts that "Twitter will voluntarily provide to aid the FBI". Ref: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1604191731141984256

Why didn't FBI get a subpoena properly? why asking twitter to voluntarily provide information?

Were the FBI afraid of getting a subpoena for some reason?
I mean yeah but "if we had magical technology that doesn't exist we could use it" isn't a very interesting fact.
Streisand Effect at its finest...
I have been writing corporate emails for years.

What I do struggle with, is writing down ideas and associated arguments. I struggle a lot trying to write a blogpost and set down in writing my thoughts, for example.

And I think sometimes, you need to fight fire with fire. Practice, practice, practice. And read how others write, too. Spend some time, on your own, without an AI or any form of assistance, to write down something. Push yourself. You won't be happy about it, just like I hate reading what I write, especially when I read what others write on the same topic, but I believe that, with time, it'll help.
Compare how Netpbm declared[1] that colour images are BT.709 (HDTV) relatively late in its existence, and seemingly every other implementation ignores that and treats them as sRGB (same—or close enough—primaries, different transfer function).

[1] https://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/ppm.html
> the image minification would be massive.

The mind boggles : - )
> Here in Israel with proportional representation, every small party has outsized power since every one of them has enough power to vote down the current government by joining hands with the opposition.

Unless there are no minor parties outside of government, isn’t that offset by the risk of what they currently get from being in government being lost while the rest of government continues by bringing in one or more currently-out-of-government minor parties in exchange for prioritizing some of their priorities?

(Anyhow, there’s been extensive comparative study across established democracies and a number of positive outcomes, including greater public satisfaction with government, track with greater effecrivd proportionality.
slightly more perverse, if you're interested in the space... I happen to know this guy from high school and the stories behind his performances are fascinating

https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a35031293/joe-arden-nar...
imihajlov.com would cost around 10 USD per month and as another reply mentioned, static site hosting is free. I guess it's a bottomless pit but it's "only" 10 USD and it's nice to have.
Sometimes a16z just becomes satire of itself and I’d say this article is the best example of that.

Marie Antoinette would have blushed at this article. “Let them eat Apple shares!”
Do you claim that acupuncture, a practice with significant use for thousands of years and supporting scientific studies, is invalid because it goes counter to your belief? [1][2]

Prof Huberman is an expert and he reads up on relevant studies before talking about something. Even though he may occasionally make mistakes (who doesn't?), your evidence to the contrary, if any, should be at least as strong as his.

Moreover, accusing that an accomplished scientist lacks critical thinking skills should require substantial evidence.

[1] https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/acupuncture-what-you-need-t...

[2] https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-preventi...

and there are many other links one can easily find.
Imposter physical particles revealed: A key advance for quantum technology
So all I need are link pulses to fake the other end of an Ethernet connection to keep it alive?

This makes building a data diode much simpler than I thought it needed to be. Thanks!
He just told you? The prompt is a combination of the top 5 search results, the phrase to say it doesn't know if it does not have context, and the question the user is actually asking. That is sent to OpenAI and the response is shown along with the search results as the references.
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> if you have a deep understanding of theory of parsing and parser generators

No deepness needed, the only thing you need to know is recursion.

Also SQL is even better than that because every query is it's own statement, so the parsing is dead simple.
I totally get why he did it this way.
It's common to regard a computer as Turing complete. And most computers have no problems parsing html. However, any real computer is a finite state machine.
Yeah but what if it’s a cool domain? Then it’s a cool bottomless pit.
They decided to design this whole thing instead of just going with a read only SD partition or one of the CM4 docks with eMMC?

Don't get me wrong, the end result is really cool and if just an ESP can cover their entire use case then the Pi was definitely overkill, but it just seems like inventing a flying car because you once got a flat tire.
To add to this (which I feel is also a partial answer to lambertsimnel's original question here), if we look at politics as an iterated prisoner's dillema, the center-left parties have chosen a "tit for tat" strategy whereas Binyamin Netanyahu has chosen an "always defect" strategy.

Of particular note, at the start of the corona crisis, there have already been several failed elections. At the time, Benny Ganz's party ran together with Yesh Atid (and Telem) in a combined list, but since Yesh Atid refused to cooperate with Binyamin Netanyahu (after their own bad expereinces), Benny Ganz chose to split up the combined party and join Binyamin Netanyahu in the coalition, citing the importance of having a stable government for these difficult times (of COVID).

The coalition agreement stipulated that Binyamin Netanyahu will be the Prime Minister for the first two years and Benny Ganz for the final two years (elections in Israel are theoretically every 4 years). However, after two years, Binyamin Netanyahu disbanded the government (by manufacturing a disagreement so that the coalition could not vote together). Benny Ganz then learned his lesson.

(There are of course more disagreements and issues and a lot more nuance then what I can present in a short comment on an online forum, but hopefully this is a useful example to understand the sort of issues we are having)

Going back to my original post, I'm trying to say that the fact that whatever factors have lead to this sort of rotten situation (and that we stay in that situation continually) are the real problem, and not specifically the voting system. Even if we accept that proportional representation is the best system ever, it is not on its own enough to prevent the sorts of problems you see lately in democracies around the world.
This happens a lot :)

- Look at the endless threads in /r/fitness discussing the 0.01% gain of getting the exact rep range right vs likely just going to the gym.

- you can browse /r/language for days and prepare yourself fully for the day you actually begin ... learning a language

It's a type of productivity illusion, I think there is just a greater overlap of this community with HN.

That being said, I highly recommend obsidian to anyone, it's a great place to journal, and capture ideas. But just start typing, and don't worry too much about organization (ironically this is the biggest benefit of the tool).
Let's just look at an example:

FBI asked for the location of the accounts that "Twitter will voluntarily provide to aid the FBI". Ref: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1604191731141984256

> whereas law enforcement may have a genuine law enforcement interest in asking for a company's cooperation.

Then, getting a subpoena shouldn't have been an issue since they have a genuine law enforcement interest. Judges would have an easy time signing the subpoena since this would be totally justified and reasonable. right? right?

Yet FBI decided not to do that and decided to ask Twitter to "volunteer" the information.
I'm not sure I understand. TapWaterBandit asked for a fairly specific example of something and I gave one. Could you elaborate on what your disagreement is?
> Any radioactive element is always radioactive.

> There are no circumstances that can influence its radioactivity

False and false. Elements are not radioactive per se. Only some isotopes of those elements are, and some are more frequent than other. Just because you have some carbon in your body does not mean that is radioactive. (In some cases metabolism even evolved to favor some kind over the other).

Time can and will influence radioactivity, so any radioactive element is -not- always radioactive. This is false.

Location is also very important. The background radioactivity of a granite mountain is not included in the body as atoms. It does not pass the outer skin barrier, that is shedding a layer of dead cells all the time in any case.
I help people migrate to Germany. Germany is attractive. People would be happy to live there, and Germany would gladly earn taxes from them.

However the immigration system sends the opposite message. It's overloaded and unresponsive. This adds considerable stress to people moving here since they can't start working until they get their residence permit.

There's also the difficulty of making friends here. People often move here for economic reasons, and don't give culture its due consideration. If you're used to a tightly connected, informal society, the switch to a contract-based one where you don't know your neighbours is really difficult.

Still, once you're through most of that, Germany is a really attractive place. The legal protections the average citizen enjoys are fantastic, and the country is a good foundation in which a family can grow roots.
The turing machine isn't mindful, anyway, the engineer is.

You don't have to turn this into a philosophical problem that will inevitably pitch hypothetical GAI against menial workers, thousand monkeys on a typewriter, or equivalently a young person and billions of neurons on blank canvas. That's not anymore about the technical point of the submission. It would need back up from psychology to remain remotely technical: why did the chicken cross the road?
It's strikes me as worrisome that someone who's paid to perform euthenasia would also be in a position to counsel it to patients. That seems like a rather serious conflict of interest. Discussion of this sort of thing should only ever be initiated by the patient to an objective third party review board. I personally have serious concerns about the ethics of any doctor offering death as medical advice.
It breaks reddit rules probably - against doxxing and publishing private information of individuals. My bet is that it will get banned very soon.
I shipped a successful game that used Comic Sans! ;)
I think we're talking at cross purposes here. I read GP as saying that energy usage will always meet whatever capacity you can generate. I don't think that's true: if the economic return from energy usage doesn't cover the cost of producing the energy itself, then production will fall.

I also don't think the UK's role as a fossil fuel exporter/producer is relevant at all. The UK was essentially de-industrialized in the 80's for political reasons, and the energy usage is inefficient, also for political reasons. Many countries have never been fossil fuel exporters, and do not have the UK's sky high energy costs.

The biggest single cause of waste (and thus high prices) in the UK is uninsulated homes. This is caused by a lack of sensible building codes, which in turn is caused by a lack of sensible politics.
Although I think it is rude and slightly creepy to delve into random users' history like this, thanks for bringing it up.

I sincerely believed that de-factor monopolies (like Twitter) hold a special responsibility to act neutrally, even if the law doesn't compel them to. However, slowly the point that everyone on hn and elsewhere was making, became more and more compelling to me. [0]

Compelling a private (non-government owned) enterprise using violent means, to alter their speech or affect their business decisions just doesn't seem like it belongs in a civilized, free society. I don't know if you omitted them on purpose, or just missed them, but my comments have gradually started leaning more and more towards "build your own Twitter if you don't like its policies".

So, I assert that my position is consistent with my beliefs, and my beliefs are informed by sound reasoning. On the other hand, many people who helped me form my conviction seem to have given up their own. They seem to think that private property ownership is meaningless and Twitter in Elon Musk's hands is a tool that is destroying democracy.

I don't understand this. He did exactly what people told him (he bought his own Twitter). If you do not like it, you are free to build your own. Or buy it from him. I am sure he will be ready to accept a good $1B discount and sell it for $43B cash.

[0] I find it funny that my comments arguing exactly the opposite viewpoints on the same issue have been downvoted. Does that suggest a hidden bias in the common crowd on hn?
Supply side:

* We do not have enough houses in economically productive areas - look at the OxCam arc, London. NIMBYs keep sapping every attempt at building more houses.

* Terrible childcare - we have to pay about 1-2k per kid for childcare. Go figure out how to have children in a climate where it's cheaper for a parent not to work (if you're on the average income).

* Healthcare - as a naturalised brit I will never understand the sacrosanct nature of the NHS. We plough a ton of money into something that is very equitable but is terrible for outcomes. Most folks who have money I know always tend to go private rather than dealing with a 6 month wait for a routine check up.

Economic reform

* Investment wise - we are funding out deficits by selling our assets to foreign investors. Most of the country's financial assets are seen as safe dividend givers. We have a decent startup ecosystem, but we should invest far more into research, infrastructure to actually ensure there is a boost to the economy.

On the structural - few things come to mind, but can't articulate them super clearly. Hope that helps
The problem there is mostly with the American tech giants, Tiktok is a relatively new phenomenon.
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Don’t forget screening.

Colorectal is an interesting case as we are already at a place where, by using current screening techniques in a well targeted manner we could essentially eliminate it.

As such, different approaches, or funding, or attitudes to screening could also lead to big disparities in incidence and ultimately survival.
I mean - you’re wrong.

20 years ago America and Europe dominated the world - today the US is growing increasingly perilous politically and Europe is little more than a museum, irrelevant by the day.

The collective economies of Canada, Europe and Australia haven’t grown since 2008. 15 years. The US is the only “western” economy which has actually shown real GDP growth.

A staggering number of academics and researchers are now opting to either stay or return home - because home is a better place to live than the West, unlike 20 years ago.

By the year 2040, there is only going to be a single “western” country among the worlds 10 largest economies.

It’s basic math. China is just the start - there are 4-5 new chinas emerging over the next 2-3 decades

What you are saying is respectfully a highly incorrect and somewhat sheltered perspective.
https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/moving-to-berlin

Start here! We'd be happy to have you
In a lot of "website" scenarios, it makes much more sense to choose a CMS like WordPress, Drupal, Django-cms etc.

There's no reason why you can't use those with a JS framework though. A CMS for the website content team to modify content, with a static site builder process that runs when content changes is a very common approach. You can use Next for that. And it can be entirely static, with no JS delivered to the end user at all. That gets you all the benefits of a CMS, with all the benefits of a static website, and none of the security hassles of running a public-facing Wordpress site.
The cooler the name, the deeper the pit.
Surely you mean 10USD per year? If you are paying that per month just for the domain you are being ripped off :)
Anyone here using Svelte or now SvelteKit, how does it compare to React and Vue and Next and Nuxt respectively?
Could have offered the guy $5 million with a non-disclosure cemented. Musk would have tens of billions more right now, especially with the now crashing Tesla stock. Penny wise and pound foolish.
> The QOI benchmarks shows it only lagging a small bit behind PNG in compression ratio, while performing much faster (multiples) in both encoding and decoding.

Presumably that’s with stock libpng, which uses zlib. I wonder if anyone tried patching it to use the substantially faster (on x86) libdeflate[1] instead? It doesn’t do streaming, but you shouldn’t really need that for PNG textures.

[1] https://github.com/ebiggers/libdeflate
Subreddits were banned for a few comments doxxing someone.
this is a myth perpetrated by Elon to justify his banning of twitter account, there is nothing private about tail information, in fact it is required to be publicly available.
Windows 11 update added 'Search' label to taskbar search button – how to remove?
Ask HN: Why do you prefer native desktop apps?
And would it really make difference if all web apps were native?
Thank you for this, I always struggled to find an up to date list of UA.

If you don't mind, I made a simple Node.js wrapper of this API and released as a NPM package, you can find it here:
https://github.com/DavideViolante/useragents-me-api/
Is Binance.US a Fake Exchange?
This is public information, not private.
You’d likely be less real and more distant
Sure, but that would add up to $1200 in a decade of hosting which is substantial and the timespan one'd likely run it for. People buy a $1k PC every 5 years and consider it a large expense, why not this?

I can find it for much lower though, like $8/year? Then again that's on namecheap who then raise rates when you go in to renew lol.
I was 9 years old when I got the TRS-80 Colour Computer 2 and started with Basic, I had the Edasm+ assembler cartridge but was too young to understand how to program in assembler - or at least I didn't have a mentor that could explain how the computer actually worked, it was always a point of shame for me. During Covid I found a TRS80 emulator I wrote a simple scrolling road game (driving a car) and then put my mind to learning the CPU (6809), memory map and I/O for joysticks (and learning how to poll them). It was not difficult at all, and the sheer volume of books on the internet archive is awesome. I'd ported the simple BASIC program to assembler, used Edasm+ to assemble and was absolutely blown away by how much faster the program ran in machine code. Moreover, the sense of achievement I got on behalf of my 9-year-old self was one of the coolest things I've ever done... Basic programmers were lamers back in the day, and over a few days - learning assembly - I'd taken my first steps to dropping that title and the shame of my youth.

As a side note - AMOS on the Amiga was awesome, and PDS on DOS (with SVGA libraries) both me to start my first business when I was 15 (through-the-window real-estate listings). Even then the shame of being a basic programmer stayed with me, I would deliberately compress, use a 3rd party linker & hex edit the beginnings of compiled programs (on PC) to ensure nobody could work out that I was using compiled QBX (quick basic). I continued with VB, Blitz and the like until learning C# with Unity... then I felt the shame of not being able to do the equiv. of 80's assembler (shader programming).

Perhaps one day I'll get over myself and believe I'm not a lamer at heart :-)

I often think I was born a few years too late, things moved so quickly and I was a bit too young... TRS-80 -> Amstrad -> Amiga by the time I was 14 - and the Amiga was really complicated with it's custom chips.

Anyhow. Just a bit of a rant ;-) Thanks for reading.

p.s. Oh, just thought I'd add that I also played with RISCOS and BBC Basic during the period mentioned above and was blown away by how all the OS functions and so on were exposed to BBC basic, for me, this has always been the problem with Basic variants. Doing SVGA graphics on the PC with QBX required 3rd party libraries, proper TCP/IP under VB required IP/Works, and so on... back then I was always struggling - not with optimisation - but with access to features I needed that weren't offered through whatever dialect of basic I was using. BBC Basic on the other hand seems to be done right, I expect you could write any application you cared to without resorting to C or assembler.
It's beautiful because the information is public anyway and if Elon had acted like a reasonable human being, nobody would have cared about what he does with his plane.
You allude to it, but I want to highlight an exception:

GfA BASIC, widely used on the Atari ST in the late 1980’s, and later also available on Windows (with a compiler, even), didn’t suffer most of the limitations you mention. It was a great and modern (for the time) language.

See the screenshot on Wikipedia for an impression:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFA_BASIC
Is tracking an airplane stalking? Since airplanes are required to be tracked by law, this seems like an odd interpretation.
This is correct. He is not ideologically aligned with the mob, so now it’s ok to do whatever. In fact it is encouraged, as if it were some act of rebellion.
I don't understand the obsession with infantile "right left" division US politics has and is plaguing the entire world with. There is more nuance to this.