skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost every country in the world has zero day tax policies (US included). A remote work visa in Spain has you paying taxes the moment you hit the ground. Same with a DAFT visa in the Netherlands, or a business visa in Bali. The fun part is, if you spend more than 33 days that year in the US, you’ll be paying double taxes that year — even with a double-taxation treaty. A tourist visa often doesn’t excuse you from paying income taxes either, like the US. Tax laws are usually weird, and translations aren’t often available (which are separate from visa laws).
We have it as an option in DemoTime

For those unaware DT produces a highlight-reel video after every software sales meeting.

Not sure if LLM will go on by default. The algorithmic version of DT is super strong, so just generating the scripts with GPT is MUCH worse.

For us the correct usage is to sprinkle in GPT, e.g. to also add a section to the output video which summarizes the user's goals
Moscow State University has been running thorough benchmarks of hardware and software video encoders for years, including testing different presets: https://www.compression.ru/compression.ru/video/codec_compar...

Note: this is in no way an endorsement of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In the past, MSU has accepted payment for some of their reports. I suggest you do not pay for these (assuming it's even possible now).
ChatGPT ban in Italy: Why I believe it was a wise move
Perhaps the author should read up on code-switching before writing an article about it. This could be reworked as 'Dialects are Dumb' with a little bit of search and replace.
Unrelated fun fact, -40 F = -40 C
Well I remember a lot of the opposite conclusion: "swearing is good for you". Just Google for it, there's lots of entries.

Reading the OP's list, "to fit in", "to stick out" ... this doesn't apply at all to the very common situation of swearing when all alone. I personally swear and curse a lot in the privacy of my home using horrible constructs in a language way more expressive than English in this regard. English has like what? Funk and consarn it?

Swearing makes me feel better over situations I've little control otherwise.
That only works if there isn't any competition.
Not open source, but Apple Notes lets you do just that on a phone for a few years now.
Yes, that is problematic :) However, different cultures use swearing very differently (and it seems the attitude that sometimes goes along with swearing in my culture doesn't always go along with swearing in other cultures), and swearing is a very tiny part of a culture, so would have very little effect at that level even if it was as "dumb" in other cultures as I think it is in mine.
I'm a big fan of tinc.

It's fully private and doesn't rely on public servers, like some of the mentioned solutions. Adding new peers is a minor chore, but if you have a network that doesn't change frequently, this is not an issue. Also unlike most of the alternatives, it runs absolutely everywhere.

I had it setup on my pfSense router, and on my Android phone, and it worked great. Not sure why the article says that mobile support is iffy.

I also used it professionally to setup a small Docker Swarm network over the internet. It also worked without issues, and was relatively simple to setup and maintain.

Performance could be an issue, as the article mentions, but unless you're transferring large files, in practice it's good enough.

I'm currently looking into setting this up again for personal use, and was hoping that there would be native mesh support within Wireguard, which doesn't seem to be the case.
> there are plenty of cases where it's possible to know the gate ahead of time

exactly, sometimes even flight radar tells you the gate, but the main displays in the airport will tell you the gate number only 30 minutes before: Istanbul (IST) is my main reference here: what I do is I just go to any personnel and gently ask for the gate for my flight telling them I need to sit down and rest: they quickly check and tell me.

I have no proof, but I do believe that those 30 mins only advance notification are planned so not to have me sitting down in a comfortable chair for hours not spending money.
Breath deep, son! That sweet smell of bitumen heaters you loved as a kid? That's the scent of progress! Sure, you don't get to whiff it much these days, but let me tell you, back in my day, we'd huff that stuff like it was the lifeblood of invention. You see, in the world of scientific discovery, a little bit of bitumen goes a long way.

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You can select between Russian and English below the logo.
This was my first thought when I finished reading the article. So he talks about terabytes on terabytes, and how much work all that was... then goes to buy terabytes of ssd enclosure?!

Then backs it up to the cloud?
The funny thing about Oracle haters is how they ignore that Oracle and IBM stand by Java since the early days, they collaborated with Sun on the Network Computer project, were one of the first SQL vendors to include the JRE on the database engine, provide a GUI based on Swing, JSF framework, JVM implementation, IDE, and so on.

They also ignore the fact that Sun also charged money for support, JDK was only available as free beer with source on request, the whole Apache drama with the TCK, and access to legacy versions required a Sun developer account with license.

Or that they were the ones introducing the separation of having UNIX for users, and an additional license for an UNIX SDK, which is what made people rush to improve GCC, until then mostly ignored project.
Yes you are right it's about continuous evaluation. I'm not sure which part of this setup is implementing that continuous evaluation.

Giving benefit of the doubt, perhaps one of the tools mentioned is doing that implicitly, in which case the author hasn't mentioned it. I think it's ZeroTier but I'm not sure how it's being configured to do so.

Without benefit of the doubt, the author may have misunderstood what ZTNA is and the title is misleading.
What we consider food safe depends on local regulations / individual standards. Some people eat raw salmon.
What kind of dictator are you talking about? Roman-style, where it could be time limited, or the modern version, of which there are many terrible examples before power transition becomes an issue?
Or test even!
No, if you actually read the messages, many of the employees want to turn history on, because it’s useful, but turn it off (or are instructed to turn it off) specifically to avoid being subject to legal discovery.
That is useful but sure would be even more useful if it let you define functions and call them.

Also the output is pretty gross, wish it had an option for a statically typed language.

Also wtf? It doesn't have sqrt? Have to write it in power form..sigh

Also seems to also not grok values with decimal points as the power, so you have to write it as a fraction..sigh..why math people..why?

Also why can you only select the output for 1 value at a time? For instance if we have a 3d position, we want gradient for x/y/z not just 1 of them..
Nibbles of Rust – Restructuring Patterns
Show HN: Snap Search: A Privacy-Focused Incognito Browser for Android
The article doesn't mention fusion even once.

Byt yes, major science breakthroughs don't happen in a day or even a year, or 10.
Does VirusTotal flag these DMGs?

I cannot be the only one basing my decision to run random blob from internet on virustotal output?
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When Smartphones came out I couldn't think of anything else than creating apps for it.

Naturally I learned Java and android as soon as I could. I published my first app soon after.

Well it didn't work so well on all devices. It worked on all my test Devices so I was stuck and the app was removed from the store.

Years later I released a game. It was taken offline several times before I didn't care anymore. Half of the time I didn't know why, I just submitted a new build on the current SDK it got approved and a few weeks later taken offline.

The whole ecosystem sucks. You build really temporary apps that likely won't work on future phones without rebuilding several times for new SDKs. Java is not a language that encourages fun in coding and Android makes the Java experience just worse.
There’s no collusion if they’re all owned by the same vendor, which is common (and pointed out in TFA). The problem then isn’t collusion; it’s that the agencies responsible for ensuring fair airport pricing are captured by the businesses that they’re supposed to regulate.
My dishwasher (EU) has three temperatures to choose from: 50, 65 and 75 degrees Celsius. I’m reasonably sure the top two are sufficient to cook fish.

Those are the water temperatures. I have no idea if it circulates hot air in the drying cycle, but I don’t think it does.
> Is actually to maximize surface area for airplanes to park in a single terminal. Next airport trip, pull out a gps and look at where you are walking.

yes, but I am not talking about the structure, the "concrete": I am talking about the walking way inside big open areas that makes you walk from A to B in a zigzag pattern: it is a bit like having salt and sugar in different places in a supermarket, which makes you go all around the supermarket (which is planned, no doubt, even moving those places every x months).

I am 100% sure that the super expensive rent a shop pays in an airport goes along with the guarantee that a number of X passengers will pass in front of it every day: you need to maximize the model, so what do you do?

anything goes
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Morning everyone - I made this because I really didn't want a new SaaS subscription to "be more productive". Turns out, you can do a lot with just a cronjob, GitHub Actions and CSV file! It works quite nicely because Issues created actually can have toggle-able checkboxes so you can mark yourself as you do them.
I don't get this open reluctance of people that contribute a lot of time and work towards open source. Sounds a lot like entitlement to me.

I don't know anything about the drama you mention. I just know kitty is a fine terminal emulator I use all the time (also with tmux/byobu) and I am thankful the author created it. Calibre I also use from time to time and it works for my purpose. I am happy it exists and I can just shovel my ebooks onto my kindle.

It sounds like you used Calibre for years but still complain about it even though it's free..
Yeah, that is all false. You can bring food. The only restriction is on liquids. I have taken a chipotle burrito through (covered with sauce and guacamole, wrapped in aluminum foil) without issue. I have taken pizzas, sandwiches, and hamburgers. You are even explicitly allowed to take solid water through airport security.
>The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live--did live, from habit that became instinct--in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
My attempts at making a media manager/server (like Jellyfin and Subsonic) have shown that it's easier said than done to reliably sort video files since there's not really a standardized way of embeddeding metadata into video files like music files have with ID3v2. I imagine this is because unlike with music which had the MP3 player craze, by the time it became normal for users to have access to digital AV media due to improved storage and networking, locally saved files were bypassed by streaming. So you have to resort to ugly regexes to strip out all the nonsense from a filename (like if you have acquired a movie file from a torrent or something), which has a whole bunch of edge cases. It's made even more annoying by TMDB not having something like MusicBrainz to rank similarity of searches, so you better hope the file you end up with is a good quality string with ideally also the year of release, otherwise you'll probably have to tag stuff manually.

So I can't blame the devs for just expecting the user to sort their movie files beforehand (maybe with a different tool (except there aren't any for movie files as far as I know)). It's the kind of thing that there aren't any good solutions to. Not sure how Plex manages to guess movie files better than Jellyfin (I just ended up stealing JF's regexes for my thing) but since it's proprietary there's no way of knowing what regex magic they use.
Some of these examples are trivially equivalent to queues and queueing theory tells us that 100% utilisation results in unbounded queue lengths, and is therefore bad. The interesting thing would be to try to see if these other situations that on the surface sort of smell similar (serialisation and distribution systems, for instance) are actually isomorphic to the extent that the same proofs apply.
This one https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web ? It does indeed look a lot neater.
The Temperature by Year graph of the compounds was nice, but I'd like to see Temperature by Pressure graph for some of these
The problem isn’t hitpoints that are an epsilon away from 1, it’s that an operation which looked innocuous moved the HP to an epsilon _below_ 1. That would never happen with 0, however, as multiplication and division of positive numbers always gives a positive result.

And in D&D, incapacitation happens when a character drops below 0 HP, and death happens once they drop below -10HP. There is no grand convention that all RPG games follow here; each game is making things up as they go. They picked badly when they designed Age of Empires, and that’s ok. It’s not the end of the world. Just know that we can do better if we are paying attention.

And I am serious when I ask “so what?”. Why is it so bad if the game displays 0/55HP? The players all know that fractional HP damage exists, and they can see that their unit is still alive, so what is the problem? They will be at least as amazed that their unit survived as they currently are when they see a unit at 1/55HP.

I am likewise serious about Smaug; there is no way that combat makes any sense if Smaug has a large number of hitpoints or that any weapon at all can damage him. Using hitpoints as an abstraction completely loses all of the flavor of Tolkien’s original descriptions. A better model is one using damage reduction and sensible internal organs; a strike that pierces the heart will kill even a dragon.
> so the fourier transform is just a special case of the laplace transform with σ = 0

Another useful way of looking at it: Laplace transform is doing many extra Fourier-transform-but-with-decay giving you a map of which "global decay timescale" fits your data best -- since each "slice" is itself sufficient to fully describe the time series

They are all cases of integral transforms with different choices of the set of "primitive fingerprints" -- see chirp transform, wavelet transform, chirplet transform etc -- all taking advantage of the fact that if you choose one set of basis "brushes" that are not redundant with each other (e.g. having red-green-blue brushes is independent, as is magenta-green-yellow but having red-green-blue-yellow is not) then you will be able to describe your signal in terms of a composition of those kernels.
This is a great link, thanks!

> this is in no way an endorsement of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

I sincerely hope that no one in their sane mind (at least on HN) would consider sharing a link to the academic work of Russian-speaking individuals as an endorsement of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Fascism isn't about prohibiting speech but forcing people to speak.[0]

[0] Roland Barthes said that: "Le fascisme ce n'est pas d'empêcher de dire c'est d'obliger à dire."
I can second Wezterm. I've used a lot of emulators and Wezterm is far and away the best one. My daily driver across all platforms and has never failed me.
I don't think what I wrote disagrees with your comments. China doesn't have the same type of monopoly problem we do. It's a different kind.

The point I am trying to make is that the effectiveness of the systems are constrained by their structure. It's not that we just have some monopolies that need to be destroyed. Because we keep getting new ones that hang around.

We need to improve the structure so that there is less tendency for monopoly and for monopolies to become entrenched.

Its like I am saying, look, to deal with this flat tire, we need to design a better tire. And you are saying, no, all we need to do is keep checking our tires. But this is the 15th flat tire we have had in the last two years. We need to design a better tire.

Fundamentally the problem is that there is a lack of metacognition. Governmental structure tends to be something that becomes part of a belief system. You need to have a good metacognitive sense of the difference between belief and objective reality before you can start to regularly examine and question your beliefs. This just requires a certain amount of exposure to the idea.

What's necessary is for people to fundamentally understand what money, government, and technology are and how they relate. And all of those concepts should evolve in a high tech direction.

The most likely way that is really going to happen at this point is probably via transhumans with higher intellect and better communication built-in.
Ok so meat controls are bad in Romania. Romania is in Eastern Europe, but so are Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. I would have no qualms at all eating rare meat in either of those countries.

I just think stereotyping “Eastern Europe” as some mid-20th century agrarian backwater is very counterproductive to good discussion.
“If simply having a lawyer present made a conversation privileged, then every mobster would pay one to follow them everywhere and sit in the corner of the room.” ~ Opening Arguments
Or be an adult and bring your sandwich from home.
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19 random digits is not enough to uniquely identify all human beings
A more perfect construct would piss off the French and Russians simultaneously.
Ah, I thought this was going to be a chat LLM trained on the Bible or sermons or something.
> they have a law regulating the price of bottled water: https://greeklandscapes.com/prices-in-greece/#:~:text=BOTTLE...).

oh, good to know, thanks.

I recall a crazy price for Perrier (something I would never buy myself): it was Cefalonia airport where tab water is (or at least it was 10 years ago) super fine, and in the toilet there was a fake hand made "water is not drinkable" sign (only in the main bathroom btw ahhaaha): I remember my friend needed to drink and ended up buying Perrier and not drinking from the sink as we were doing.
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I second this. Precise temperature (with good conduction between the heat source and the food) and time.

I've cooked 'sous vide' under a running hot tap in a backpacker, which worked great. The water temp happened to be close to perfect (I have a method of measuring temperatures > 40c based on how long I can hold my hand under the running water before pulling out from the pain - surprisingly accurate).
:) :)

yes, of course
Lots of dislike for this feature in the comments, or maybe it's this particular implementation? We use RLS at my work to good effect, although it did take some time to bed in with performance adjustments. In that situation it's used as a way to prevent any statements returning cross account records rather than for fine grained authorisation.

I've also been playing with supabase recently and that leans heavily on RLS policies. It works well there, but I won't be hitting any potential performance at scale issues.
JCohere – Pure Java Client for Cohere Platform
Tree vs. Graham's Number
Wouldn’t that just shuffle the distribution of the digits rather than creating Benford’s (power) law distribution?
I guess from the downvote somebody missed the reference and took you seriously.
https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority...

https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/pseudomnesi...

https://dictionary.apa.org/pseudomemory

https://www.dictionary.net/pseudomnesia
If they do block all email to the root, and only accept email to the +
What is the argument for and against it?
> that had the explicit goal of removing the user's rights to manage their own computers.

Curious if you have any links to those published documents?
I've been trained like a Pavlov's dog to ignore any news article with the word "may" in the title as it allows journalists to write about any kind of bogus that may or may not be true. Makes me wonder how many innocent, truthful and insightful articles I've ignored because of this.
what a great idea to create jobs :) :)

And you take them seriously, until you take a flight in Argentina and they tell you you can take aboard as much water you want ahhahaah

omg, you say, will be a safe flight? hahaha

of course.
> Solution Engineering or Sales Engineer

where do people get these terrible job titles from? and don't get me started about "ICs".
50 and 65 are Ok for fish. 75 way too high. 75 would destroy all fish, but hey - most restaurants destroy fish, even specialty seafood places.

50 is great for salmon and tuna. 65 might be better for white fish
Swearing might be dumb if used to express harsh, negative opinions among people you don't know. Somehow essay (at least the parts I could be bothered attempt read) is confused this must be the general case.

What's dumb about a "fuck yeah" among friends? What is the actual difference to other general modifiers? "Not as versatile" perhaps. Language use changes with context.