skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google search found "Median annual earnings for full-time employees in the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2022 (in GBP), by percentile" here: https://www.statista.com/statistics/416102/average-annual-gr...

Data on the average annual gross salary percentiles in the United Kingdom in 2022 showed that the bottom ten percent of full-time workers earned an average of 19,403 British pounds a year, with the top ten percent of workers earning around 62,583 pounds a year.

Agree: No way this is Greater London.
I posit that Jobs was angry but that his Realty Distortion Field was extremely effective this time.
Sure, thanks for the interest. Here's the original:

"As I advance my career, I find my writing skills horrible. I started feeling the pain even more as an aspiring staff engineer.

Now I need to write way more emails, communicate more, connect teams, engage with higher level managers, influence people, play politics etc.

Since feeling this pain, I tried a few apps, and my last one was Grammarly. I've found their suggestions to be very minor. I was looking for a solution that can check entire message correctness, clearity and suggest ways to improve the overall structure.

Searching for this problem, I found a few similar posts here and it seems like it is a shared concern, especially for the non native speakers like me. Which brought me to this experiment of writing an app powered by AI that can correct my grammar and improve suggestions.

What do you all think? Is it a valid idea? Would you pay to have access to this tool? Please give me your feedback and let’s debate. Don't go easy on me, critics are all I'm asking."

Curious to hear your feedback about the result from the above original input. AI response gave me pretty much the final version of my post, I think I just inserted this: "Aaand… I’m here to validate it!" and the footprint "Note:". And by the last sentence do you mean the note? (Could you please state how a native speaker would write it?)
TL;DR a dude who owns 0.6% of Tesla wants to replace its CEO.
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> This continues to be incorrect: their posts are visible to anyone on the internet and show up to their followers

No, I don't know how many times I have to repeat this: if you use Twitter's search to try to find a delisted user on Twitter, you can't find them. Sometimes you can't even @ them. This fits the general definition of shadowbanning that the other poster provided, wherein their content cannot be found using Twitter, thereby that qualifies as being shadowbanned on Twitter.

The fact that you can sometimes find that content via other means is totally irrelevant.
Even outside of the web stuff, SPARQL standard is really old at this point and seems like it could really use a revision, but nobody seems to be working on it.
Why would the US gov care about something that doesn't matter?
AWS Gateway Load Balancer now support IPv6 traffic
So, I guess the lesson here is don't trust the compiler to inline something.. verify?
Worse, imagine that in 51 constituencies A gets 51% of the vote, and in 49 it gets 0% of the vote. This gives A a majority in parliament even though voters as a whole prefer B nearly 3-to-1.
There already is, one example is the VNS implant.
I had relatively mild nearsightedness in the past. I look at those lenses and I'm having trouble even comprehending what the world would look like if you need a prescription like that. Is everything so out of focus it's all basically a singular colored blur? Or..?
Sorry but this is ridiculous.
When I first saw a "KN" logo, I, too, googled to see what kind of car this was! I'm glad I'm not the only one.
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Ah yes, I tend to forget. What happens is that as soon as I'm looking for "assignments to..." I just reach for cscope (well, where the language is supported by cscope).
I think the shift here is that the focus is not copywriting. The tool would be for all types of writing, not specifically for marketers.
Use an alternative app store, like Aurora which allows you to access Play Store anonymously, or just download from an apk hosting site (apkpure or similar). For your privacy, just log out of google completely on your phone and preferably install a custom ROM that doesn't spy on you (GrapheneOS, CalyxOS if you have pixel, /e/ os otherwise)
There is an interesting algorithm for sorting that is highly amenable to parallelization and which I thought this article was going to be about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_network
Considering China makes Apple's hardware, I would say that Apple's software is what makes Apple stand apart.

And their SoC's of course, but ain't no lone engineer spinning up their own phone, much less their own SoC.

I'm really talking about hobby projects. Hobby swe you can actually make a product, sell it, and make some income. Hardware? Maybe you can make something, but make some money? lol.
I assume this is here to discuss the mobile experience.
On the similarity of Germany to Oregon....30 years ago, I heard there was a quite large community of German retirees around Portland, who chose there because of the similarity to home.

I grew up in Oregon and when I visited Germany I was rather disappointed at how different it wasn't. Same food, same work culture, same scenery and weather. I felt that I might as well have stayed home for all the novelty of the experience.
I’m not using it, but I’m somewhat interested in it. I doubt I’ll get to it since Git is so firmly entrenched. Same goes for Pijul.

Fossil (the SQLite one) is a little more interesting to me since it seems more portable, given that it contains issues, etc. all in a single DB.
Oh wow! Thank you so much for the offer. Will be reaching out for sure! I just posted in one of the above threads my original input (here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34034355) -- I'd love to have your review there!
Agree. Jobs saved his public appearances/commentary for big events.
Btw i am scared and curious to see what your post was like before your app reviewed it. As an engineer who hated writing and subsequently had terrible written communication skills, I found very little substitute for boring, hard and dreadful practice. "Writing tool" - the green book - was a life saver. Only better alternative was reviews by friends who were expert writers who understood and internalized the tips. I'd like to see that training data in an AI!
Yes, it's up to the browser -- the UI anyways. The UI should do something to protect users from this. One thing that would be nice is that IRIs you enter, should be in Unicode, while other IRIs should be displayed in A-label form (punycoded), and there should be a button you can use to switch from U-label for to A-label form for the window location URI.
Can you elaborate? I don't understand the dude's question on a technical level.
I was just trying to understand. No reason for apologizing, communication problems happen :)
Sure! I just posted in one of the threads below, check it out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34034355
They still haven't understood that there's multilingual countries and immigration is a thing, I wonder how long it's going to take then to fix this annoying bug, this issue has been there forever.
You can mitigate it greatly though. Never log in at your home without vpn, especially don't log in on your devices. Clear cookies at the end of session when logging in on your browser.
The structure of the above comment almost sounds as if it were in opposition to the parent quote. It is important to note that the two quotes are in harmony with one another.

Delivering something of value to those who didn’t even know it was needed is part of what has made Apple very successful. The technologist’s perspective may be “no wireless, less space than Nomad” but the improved focus on consumer experience and perception isn’t ”merely marketing,” it’s market making.
Previous versions such as https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9810162v1 clearly link to the latest withdrawn version, with text in red and bold at the top. Researchers accustomed to the arxiv don't miss it.

Peer reviews don't catch
some important mistakes. It does not guarantee much by itself.
Does anyone else on iOS get a browser alert “cannot open the page, URL is invalid” when the page seems to load perfectly? Any idea what’s up with that? Not something I’ve seen from safari.
AI hasn’t threatened anything yet (in a not good way), so it hasn’t met regulation.

Crypto threatened monetary systems, finance, VC, banks… and because of that attracted both all the money and all the ammunition from this recent QE hyper bubble. Now as it pops it’s very easy to say “look see it sucks,” but this shallow analysis, will it hold outside of the current recession?

AI makes lots of splashy headlines but where’s the actual value outside upgrading existing big tech? Sure search and recommendations but what else?

The artistic stuff gets tons of attention but what’s the market cap there - even Hollywood is small compared to finance.

And as it does encroach on bigger industries it’ll face new problems: resistance from humans (copyright/regulation, cultural) and having to contend that by definition it produces “average” works.

Like how remixed music became hugely popular and died off, AI produces remixed content, but humans want fresh. Look at music, film, fashion, anything really creative that AI looks like it’s edging in on - all those industries are driven by fresh content, new perspective. So I see it accelerating things but not revolutionizing, and as it’s very nature draws value from the masses and gives it to the few, it’ll eventually hit hard resistance from voters, unions.

Meanwhile crypto has a ton of problems - UX, scaling, regulation - but it also has good fundamentals in that it stands to distribute power towards the masses and they drive adoption. And if there’s any trend in tech that’s been constant since the 70s it’s that the companies that can deliver value to the largest amount of people succeed.

Am I super confident this is how it plays out? No, this is just a spitball. AI could solve the creativity issues, tech companies can make it seem consumer friendly through tons of persuasion, it may keep scaling well, and big tech can lobby like hell. Likewise crypto can’t outspend finance, and the bubbles and scammers have soured many.

If you look at actual value both now and in the near future, AI is a lot of hot air, people love to share these new images but wheres the revolution in industry? Being both average and a theft at once, combined with being being easy to legislate via copyright is a bad combo.
> without the union, you have almost no bargaining power.

You absolutely do. The most powerful bargaining power of all: the power of the alternative. It's also called "pay me, or I leave" (most often accompanied by "I have an outside offer"). I exercised this power a few times in my career. I did not need any union to bargain for me.
You don't need to be quite so condescending. I understand all this perfectly well. But the concept of a "dotted list" has to do with how a list is serialized, not how it is represented in the internally, which is what I am talking about.

NIL is weird in CL and different implementations handle this weirdness in different ways. One way to handle it is to represent NIL as a symbol whose name is "NIL" and write CAR and CDR to recognize when they see this symbol and return it. Another way to handle it is to represent NIL as a cons cell whose CAR and CDR point to itself and write SYMBOLP and SYMBOL-NAME to recognize when they see this privileged cons cell and return T and "NIL" respectively. (There are a lot of other special cases -- this is not an exhaustive list.)

However you slice it, the concept of a dotted list is a non-sequitur because that has NOTHING to do with how NIL is implemented internally, which what I am talking about.
You know what, I looked it up, you’re right, and this is an incredibly poor example of the point. I will stop using this example of Steve Jobs being an asshole.
The thing about a screen is that it's a tiny window into a wide world. To find anything at all, you must drill down into that myriad of screens to find the one that is relevant.

Now, stick a postit on your fridge or on your work screen. Do you need to interact specifically with that note? No. Every time you scan the room, your eyes will connect with that image of that postit and despatch it to your retina and brain. You don't even need to be able to read that postit from where you are. The mere fact that your brain registers its presence, also connects within your brain to know the content of that note, legible at that moment or not.

At home we use a paper calendar in the kitchen. That works far better than Google calendar or the iPhone calendar. We see stuff everyday that may be two or three weeks in the future, thus reinforcing the memory of that item such that it never suddenly gets sprung on us that 'Today is the day for X'.
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Why doesn't the EU just block Twitter before any more Germans take Offense?

It's a US company, they can Eat Dirt.
Scaling effects matter. In practice there are many parties but most of the votes go to two of them.
What are you talking about? Opioids are already literally legal and regulated.
The story is saying they are not even trying. That seems to show they don't care and/or they have other priorities like trying to make a buck off porn.
The same is true for other points one through six, if you choose to trust aws. But somehow "It's incredibly naïve to not use encryption at rest on AWS".
Is the “can be translated into XML” part of the HTML5 spec?

That would be interesting to me, and I wasn’t aware of it until your comment.

Edit: sounds like it’s not a thing:

> The DOM, the HTML syntax, and the XML syntax cannot all represent the same content.

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/introduction.html#htm...
> Is this memory safe? How do you handle lifetimes?

> Not to be confused with automatic memory which completely works, memory safety isn't fully implemented. We use invalidation to say all references that came from that object are no longer valid. This is checked at compile time. Not everything has been implemented so there are holes and we haven't chosen alias rules which might be a simple not allowed.

They've certainly made some interesting decisions.

https://bolinlang.com/faq
This is really cool. I really enjoyed having this built into my Pixel a few years ago (super useful when you want to watch a video in public but don't have headphones). The implementation in Chrome doesn't work that well.

It would be great to support both OpenAI's whisper model and a customized vocabulary (I find that a lot of transcription errors are because the set of words I'm exposed to don't necessarily fall inside the most common 50k or 100k words).
Ian Hickson stepped down a few years ago and has started working on Flutter instead (Flutter started as a "what would a browser look like if we removed a bunch of legacy from the HTML spec" project).

It's now maintained by Dominic Denicola, Anne van Kesteren, Tentek Celik, and a few others.
This seems not quite right to me. A Turing machine may always halt, but with time depending on its input size. The input can be arbitrarily large, so there's no finite bound on the state space.
Maybe not in context, who knows. If the CEO knew they were causing problems, then they'd be more open to playing ball.
It depends how you look at it. Sure, policies would be the same. But if you think about people, those kids may have minimal chances of seeing their extended family for years.
I just did the same. Probably do it every ten years. Thank you!
here is the video of how it works - https://youtu.be/oA9JYdlF1rY
These 299 macOS apps are so buggy, Apple had to fix them in AppKit (2018)
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This vault is truly a condensation of all of my knowledge pertaining to Obsidian (the README is very long), so please do give it a go! I promise you'll like what you see!
Thanks for making this! I have been wanting to see something like this but too lazy to make on myself lol.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate your feedback and I love your suggestions! I'm super optimistic that we are not far away from having that “reviewer friend” just being an AI. It will do exactly what that friend is supposed to: red-ink the hell out of your paper.
I've always thought something could be done with faces when you blur them out in video. The fact that the grid moves and the colors change make me intuitively feel as if I could guess their face. I bet the 3 letter agencies already have something like that.
> A tyranny of the minority is strictly worse than a tyranny of the majority.

Not if the minority opinion is right. The ground truth matters.
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Why do people criticise FPTP using these hypothetical scenarios that do not resemble the actual outcomes.
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OP did you even think about your question before you asked it????
> but I’m also not prepared to pretend that Jobs wasn’t an epic asshole.

I think the video linked to (Steve Jobs Insult Response) is honestly one of Steve's finest moments (with regard to dealing with people that is). But to bolster your point, there are of course an overwhelming number of stories that capture Steve's less stellar moments.
I use set theory/formal logic notation sometimes.
Odd vs. Even Number Psychology
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> w3c's XHTML was machine understandable. It took great care to introduce rigid and reusable semantics. You could spider the web and directly extract facts without ML or heuristics.

It did absolutely none of this. It was an presentation layer built on top of XML, and it did not really touch semantics at all. The W3C's proposed direction for the future of the web was for everybody to write data as XML, and then apply XSLT transforms to build XHTML as the structural presentation layer, with CSS providing styling information on top.

XHTML added very few additional semantics, other than loose concepts that were worse than useless.

> It was marginally harder to author (the mimetype issue was ridiculous), but extending it was low hanging fruit.

It was difficult to author (there were days you could run random websites through the "XHTML Validator", and despite them trying, find plenty of errors). The mimetype issue was that Internet Explorer would not recognize a proper XHTML mimetype, while other browsers wouldn't turn on XHTML mode when the mimetype was text/html.

https://webkit.org/blog/68/understanding-html-xml-and-xhtml/ -- this blog post was written as XHTML's last dying breath, and I think was the nail in the coffin for it.
I think they mean the original compression of the original text file (if in jpeg) would have crafted specific DCT coefficients that reach across to the secret text. When that is later decoded to pixels and re-encoded, new DCTs are burned into the image, but only on top of the previous.
It’s like someone turned https://xkcd.com/2571/ into reality.
Okay, how do you decide which opinion is right? Perhaps we'll... vote on it? You do see the problem here, yes?
Codependent?
There was an attempt to make a complete FOSS OS on top of that - PureDarwin[1][2]. It looks dead now though.

[1] http://www.puredarwin.org/

[2] https://github.com/puredarwin
The reason this is interesting is because it took him 24 years to withdraw the paper
I think you're missing the point. Unlike in the case of an ideal Turing machine, nothing in this universe transitions through states without energy. Computers rely on the power grid to run their processor cycles, even though I doubt that you would consider computers to not be Turing complete.

This is not that different from the Excel example: the system displays Turing completeness if supplied a clock as input (a person clicking a button in the spreadsheet, for instance). The human is not making any decisions in this case - the logic manifests itself entirely from within the system.
Apple does this, but to a lesser extent. I think the important distinction is in the business reasons that Apple and Google collect data.

When Google collects data on you, it's mainly so they can let other companies interact with you (ads), and those companies pay Google so that Google makes money.

When Apple collects data on you, it's mainly so that Apple can interact with you, and get you to pay Apple so that Apple makes money.

The existence of that third party in Google's motive (i.e., advertisers) incentivizes Google to collect data more aggressively, because as long as the people using Google are "happy enough" to not leave the platform, Google stands to benefit from collecting more data for advertisers. And "advertisers" isn't a well-defined demographic.

Apple's cost-benefit analysis when it comes to collecting user data is much ore clear-cut. If they can't tie data they're collecting to more revenue, there's not as much incentive for them to collect that data.

In my opinion, that's why the reporting earlier this year about Apple's pivot towards advertising is such a big deal[1]. It completely changes the relationship it's users have with the company.

1: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-08-14/apple-...
They are not "legal and regulated" for recreational use.

Furthermore, some argue that even medical use is over-regulated, to the point that people with genuine needs for them are being denied them by doctors who have become overly hesitant to prescribe them out of fear of the regulators. (Of course, if these claims of excessive prescriber hesitancy are true, that hesitancy itself is not a cause of the "opioid crisis", maybe rather a consequence of it; instead, that hesitancy would be a contributor to the "pain crisis" which has been with us since the dawn of time.)

One thing I personally find shocking - in a number of Australian states (and I believe the same is true in some US states), terminally ill people in severe pain can legally request assisted suicide – and yet, they can't legally have diamorphine (heroin) as a pain treatment, despite evidence that in some cases it is actually a superior pain treatment to any other opioid available.

Claims made by government agencies in some countries (such as the US or Australia) that diamorphine has "no legitimate use in medical treatment" are simply falsehoods. In some cases, it is the best clinical option. Those cases may be relatively rare, but they aren't non-existent, and to continue with an absolute ban on its clinical use (despite the fact that other jurisdictions, such as the UK, use it clinically with no major issues) is totally unjustifiable