skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft basically said that the UK is a bad place to do businesses because they didn't got what they wanted. An extremely entitled and childish comment coming from someone that should know better.

Microsoft is showing its most unprofessional and belligerent face going back to the worst times of the company. Remember the FUDs about Linux, the lies about DR-DOS, ... Microsoft is back and needs to be corrected.
Not sure why you get downvoted, lack of wifi in German trains is an issue, unreliable mobile internet coverage is another.
“We will bomb the enemy into submission” has been tried in the UK, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Vietnam and has never really worked. The civilian population does not blame its leaders, it blames the enemy. And nightly reports of destroyed apartment blocks and murdered women and children is terrible optics for Russia.
never heard of this before looks great
Well, Michael J. Fox was diagnosed exceptionally young. Most people only suffer when they're of retired age.
Maybe, but who wants a VT100 when you could have a VT400 and not need to reinvent 3/4ths of the universe?
Public parks you don't sit in are still public goods; public litter bins are still public goods even if you never have anything to put into them; public roads are still a public good even if you don't own a vehicle.

Likewise, if you want them to be, so is public transport.

Though, here's a question: I don't think I've ever seen planes classified as public transport — is that just my observations being weird, or is that a true distinction? And if genuine, why?
Why would it be questionably ethical to short the stock of a company that your analysis shows is significantly overvalued?

That seems entirely ethical to me.
Anyone have an alt source for this
> The above is correct. Additionally, they even mention natural gas as a viable alternative in the abstract:

It isn't, and you clearly failed to read the paper because you're oblivious to its context. The "alternative" was open-flame coal and wood stoves, as well as querosene stoves, which cause extreme levels of indoor pollution and health hazard and are in widespread use in underdeveloped nations.

Natural gas stoves pollute less than open-flame coal and wood stoves, yes, and are therefore a preferable alternative. However, unlike your clueless claim, this does not mean that gas stoves do not lose a health hazard, or that electrical stoves are not far preferable. The WHO report refutes the bullshit claim that gas stoves don't present a health hazard due to the type and levels of indoor air pollution they create.
It's just anecdotal evidence. Maybe it's because he's running arch and gets all the buggy beta versions, I don't know, but other than that, maybe that breakthrough is called "being mostly a finished product that has been around for way longer"?
But what if instead of laying people off - you can expand the project's scope instead? In my country's gamedev community "GTA in our country" is a meme, because we don't have enough funding and manpower to make a GTA-sized game. But with AI assistance it could be feasible. And big companies like Rockstar, instead of laying people off, could make something truly massive.

The same with movies. We can't make anything like James Cameron's movies. But with AI we could.
If only we had human-readable identifiers on each and every car... Maybe we could put these identifiers on the outside surface of the car, so that the user can verify their identity without getting into the car and risk getting kidnapped.

Any VCs here want to fund this idea??
One, to me, obvious path forward for such a fictional Commodore, would have been for them to "embrace and extend" the PC platform. It could have been able to run PC "business" software fine. It could also have been able to run "Amiga" games and gfx productivity software.

Sort of like Voodoo had 3D monopoly for a hot minute.
If the king had an appetite for risk, he could replace the governor of the bank of England with someone he controls, print however much money it takes to bribe parliamentarians to pass whatever laws he wants. Thanks to big corporations and their political meddlings (lobbying), most politicians today aren't selected for their virtues. It's likely that they can be bought.
Sure, but completely unrestricted free markets would also reintroduce slavery etc. to the modern world.

Free markets are great at reducing inefficiencies in a world in which no participant decides to coordinate with other participants for profit. which obviously doesn't work, just like communism doesnt work at societal scales.
Again being a noob on Minecraft, how does Java work for a game like that? I mean performance wise? Whereas traditionally people would write such a thing in some typical game engine.
Can this have the potential of having the MoviePass type outcome? Also, wouldn’t this overcrowd public transit?
I found the full technical report describing the LOCKSS forerunner to bitcoin available for downloaded at [1]. Interestingly, LOCKSS used a memory bound Proof-of-Work, where both prover and verifier perform a random walk in a 1GB table. But the prover had to do this many times, to obtain some final hash with many leading zeroes. This was before the invention of asymmetric PoW systems like Cuckoo Cycle [2] where the PoW can be verified with no memory use.

> Nakamoto's scheme motivated early adoption by rapidly inflating the currency with large block rewards, then exponentially decreasing them, so he could claim the currency was non-inflationary (eventually). The result was that early adopters accumulated large numbers of Bitcoin, and the Gini coefficients of cryptocurrencies became extreme.

Technically, exponentially decreasing rewards is not necessary for a finite cap on supply. Anything reduction factor of at least n * logn * loglogn * logloglogn * ... * 2 would do, e.g. Initial_Reward / epoch^2.
That would also reduce the advantage of early adopters.

Nearly all cryptocurrencies, even ones with uncapped supply, suffer from outsized rewards for early miners/adopters.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/31869581_Preserving...

[2] https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo
This is everything and nothing all at once.

Synucleinopathies are found in many neurological diseases. They even find it in Long COVID.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9108014/

This is a marker for many diseases. They still have not found the trigger for Synucleinopathies, which I believe is a nutrient deficiency causing oxidative stress and zinc is at the top of my list.

https://academic.oup.com/hmg/article/23/11/2791/621896
https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/142/8/2380/5523051

By the way, this is the same reason peop[le loose their sense of smell with COVID. And I believe COVID is going to cause a rise in Parkinson's cases.
It's actually not half as bad for rural residents as it is usually presented by car addicts: for those amongst rural residents who would be interested in making their cumbersome trips using public transit, subscription in conventional price models were usually prohibitively expensive. They basically took distance based single ticket price, scaled by "what if it was used for the full trip five days a week?" and applied some discount. They were offered bad service at high price. In some places 10x the price a city dweller would have to pay for their short range subscription. Sure, many out there won't buy it even at the lower price, but for those who do is a much bigger improvement over the status quo than for a city dweller. For many city dwellers, it will in fact be nothing more than an upsell option to the ticket they already have, pay more (in some places twice as much) for a ticket that will also be valid for the occasional trip out of town.
The thing is, even if the "simple" thing is indeed simple, why write it down? It is most likely a useless word and your writing will be clearer without it. There is a good example in the article.

This is something editors will tell you, be it for fiction or for technical writing: make every word count, remove the fluff.

As for "trivial" in math proofs, knowing how codified math is, I guess there is a precise use case for it. But I don't usually see math proofs telling me that "2+2=4" is trivial, they just write "4", and that's what the article suggests.
Good track, great band, I saw them live the other month. Such an fantastic show.

CONFIG.SYS is one of my favs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CQq0jnie5U -- they also have a BBS and IRC network which was also cool.
So much of ridiculous fantasy fiction is based in ridiculous monarchical reality.
I don't buy the argument that allowing maximal loss in 2008 would have been good in a practical sense. Yes, it would have been edifying to watch those bankers who screwed up face their comeuppance. But firstly, the bankers already got the bonuses during the good times and they don't personally own the assets that would go to zero. And secondly the process of unwinding all of that debt and those complex financial instruments in an uncontrolled open market would likely have seen plenty of perfectly good investments go to the wall simply because the market wasn't able to fairly value them. You can't just put the entire economy on hold for 12 months whilst an army of PhDs go through and re-value every single marketable instrument.

It's perfectly reasonable for the government to step in and say "We'll back stop this now, but we're going to examine this and put in rules to make sure this can't happen again"- and that's what happened here. The reason JPMorgan can step in is because they have stronger regulations on them that have made them safer than last time.
Public WiFi is safe and 4 other tech fears you can stop worrying about
The biggest advantage of the new Germany-wide ticket is not the price, but rather that it simplifies things.

This is a map of German public transit companies: [0]. I've heard the current fractured system be compared to the Holy Roman Empire. Every little region has its own ticketing system. If you arrive in a new city, you have to figure out how to buy local transit tickets, often with quite complicated rules (e.g., "Is my destination in zone 1, 2, 3 or 4 of this city, and what zone am I in now?"). You can usually buy monthly cards for an individual transit company, but what if you live in one region and work in another? You may have to buy two separate monthly tickets. It's a mess.

With the new system, you just buy one monthly ticket, and you can ride on local transit anywhere in Germany. There's no more worrying about different ticketing systems, if city X is in transit region Y, and so on.

The fact that the new monthly ticket is half the price of what a typical monthly transit ticket used to cost is just the icing on top of the cake.

I should also mention that while this solves one problem with the transit system in Germany, there's another, much larger problem that is still unsolved: on-time performance is abysmal, after years of neglected maintenance. The Deutsche Bahn is not what it used to be.

0. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Karte_de...
> not only unelected but unaccountable

Well direct democracy for everything is a consistent position but I doubt that Microsoft unironically thinks that all appointed government posts are unaccountable.
How about both? CBM was (temporarily) succeeding despite great effort at failing.
There's too much money in the finance industry, creating very strong incentives for the players to resort to shady tactics. A strong government can enforce regulations, but given the current political situation in the US that's not very likely.

This is pretty much the main reason BitCoin and many other coins were created - remove the corruption and the unfair advantage some actors in the finance industry enjoy. Why do you think that people resorting to crypto is a bad scenario?

The US government providing basic bank accounts is never going to pass in Congress - the republicans are going to be against it based on their small government ideas and many democrats are depending on the money from sponsors in the finance industry. The Fed is owned by the banks anyway.
The problem with printers specifically is that drivers are much more than just a hardware communication layer. Drivers on Windows create the "printing options" UI, which is where most of the interesting functionality is accessed from. Such a common driver interface would have to define a cross-platform UI layer or at least a very advanced configuration API that the print service would render.
Imagine having Parkinsons and being in the placebo control group.
What I find interesting is MS has until July to close this deal but the FTC case only starts in august. Also the FTC is also suing to prevent this case from closing… if two of your biggest markets are trying to stop you from closing your deal, maybe just stop.
That is an interesting explanation. I won’t summarize other than to say that as someone who might have added UV next hardware cycle, there were several A-Ha moments. Well worth watching.
I wrote a couple of visual essays on the topic.

It's not entirely fair to compare bank failure sizes across times, even inflation adjusted [1]. The rate of asset price growth since 2008 far outstrips inflation.

IMO the frequency of bank failures is more worrying. They tend to come in waves [2].

1: On the size of bank failures: https://yarn.pranshum.com/banks
2. On the frequency of bank failrres: https://yarn.pranshum.com/banks2
What I often miss is a hotkey to jump prev/next argument. The closest I could find is jumping by words, but it's not the same.
Take a look at zinc instead. It helps increase the activity of enzymes that break down alpha-synuclein.

https://academic.oup.com/hmg/article/23/11/2791/621896
One of the difficulties with British constitutionalia is that it (mostly) works, and if we want to change it then we have to agree on what to replace it with.

Since there's little chance of that happening, we'll stick with inducting politicians into the Privy Council in order to allow them to receive intelligence briefings.
There isn't going to be an alternative. Nobody can shoulder the burden of several tens of millions of Redditors except for another company, who'll be compelled to act in a similar way to preserve the cash cows.

What already has been happening is that communities in the crosshairs of administration have set up their own sites that very few people know of, and the rest continue to be farmed for ad revenue.
>What would you do if you found out you would?

There's quite a few big decisions to make, no? Preparing financially, making plans for when you're going to retire or what to do before, whether you want to have kids and put them through this, and so on.

If I found out I had a degenerative disease at the very least I'd opt for an egg or sperm donation and not delay having kids. You probably don't want to be in declining health while they're growing up.
Does xv fit the bill?
> , it shocked me and raised awareness to how poor my indoor ventilation is.

Do you want indoor circulation? Wouldn't that just mean your apartment loses heat/AC?
It's certainly possible this was caused by who owned what; but I'd just add the decline on the graph begins around the UK's pyrrhic victory in WW1 which IMO marked (in tandem with Irish independence) the beginning of the decline of the British Empire; while the rise at the end is roughly congruent with the increasing wealth from exploitation of the North Sea gas deposits and (depending how much you accept the possibility of noise in the data making it hard to tell exactly which year it changed direction) joining the precursor to the EU.
Only if you assume a road network of infinite size which goods and various services can traverse without any interference from private car owners. Which a short look at any given city during peak hours should disprove and those roads are not free either.
An interesting detail is the substitute Lisa system font.

(I'd conclude, this is either a handmade drawing, or a screenshot of a prototype before Apple settled on the final font. Maybe used as a comparison showing off the use of bitmapped images on the Star, something not available on the Lisa? And/or, as indicated by another comment, comparing screen sizes?)

Also, mind the slight angle at the top edge, where the screen content and the monitor meet. I guess, this is not a screenshot but a montage.
Hmm? You can get the raw data and data for tables too. I've done a full dump before for offline analysis. The API for getting it slightly more in native format than just CSV and Markdown works fine too.

There's a couple of Notion to Obsidian import tools too like https://github.com/connertennery/Notion-to-Obsidian-Converte...
FWIW :/

https://www.usdebtclock.org/
Among non-pure functions I can think of two interesting subclasses:

1. A functions with no side effects which (possibly) returns different values each time it's called, for instance a function which reads a global variable and returns its value

2. A function with side effects while running but which leaves the state of the program and its environment unaltered once it has returned, for instance a function which displays a dialog window and returns when the user clicks a button in it.

Are there any names for these classes of functions?
With a non-client-cert based authentication system, one can devise a common authentication scheme (AWS's v4 signatures being a good example), but then delegate implementation of that scheme to a centralised service (or a standardised library), rather than being reimplemented in every application service. But that service needn't be a public, user-visible service.

I think there's a distinction here to be made about whether an application should roll its own authentication (answer: no), whether an organisation should roll its own authentication (answer: probably not), and whether, when we are comparing unified authentication systems which do or could exist, including client certificates, whether client certificates are particularly good (my view: probably not). The question of who designed an authentication scheme, and when and where that scheme is actually enforced (on what machine, in what codebase), are, except in the case of client certificates, largely orthogonal.

(I just wrote up my thoughts on this in more detail and will publish that blog post sometime.)
Source: lived in Denmark as an expat and had a kid while there.

It is common misconception that you pay > 50% tax in DK. It is progressive % just like many other countries. You end up paying high percentages only on the pay that exceeds the average pay scales. Taxes, are still higher, but consider that you get a well educated society(education is free, and you even get paid to go to university), you get a society where healthcare is high quality and free, you don’t see people in the street because they got sick.. and many many more. Having a child is so heavily incentivised in all the right ways. Example(day care for your child is right and not a privilege, and the government subsidises the cost). The social system around families help even setting up a Facebook group of willing parents in your neighbourhood that happen to have similar age group kids. Kids welfare are put to the highest standards.

Just writing here to help people overcome false assumptions.
Italy reverses ChatGPT ban over possible privacy violations
The noise from all the grass mowing is really annoying (second only to leaf blowing). Fortunately, people are slowly switching to much quieter electric mowers.
notion AI as I do a lot of writing, it is quite good
Information can be used as a weapon against you. Even if not overtly used against you, it will change people's perception of you. You may be working with enlightened people but they are still people.

If the disease affects you in a significant way then you may need to tell. But until that day comes keep it secret from your employer.
I don't understand why you are being downvoted, you raise a good point.

Based on some HN comment from a while ago I invested in a CO2 meter (they are still quite expensive for some reason). And I share the same experience, CO2 levels can raise rapidly indoors, but simply turning on ventilation or opening a window very quickly lowers CO2 contents.

Using the meter I found CO2 levels in my bedroom can become quite high at night. So I improved the ventilation in my bedroom, and in my case it helped me to achieve better sleep.
They've been doing this kind of shit since 2013. Reddit is a site for passive consumers to be advertised to and datamined. Its users do not care.
Is this a consequence of the 'woman who can smell Parkinson's'?

https://www.parkinsons.org.uk/news/meet-woman-who-can-smell-...
This is just layers on layers of hypothetical. One could just as easily argue that since they controlled the architecture vertically, they could have virtualized the whole platform. (Exactly like how Sony made PS2 compatible with with PS1, and PS3 compatible with PS2.)
The first study has 3 patients. The second study is a little better, but not by much. Both have the same first author. If this were legitimate, some academic medical center in the US would have picked it up. Parkinson’s is a huge target, and this kind of thing makes a career. This is likely on the same level as horse dewormer for COVID.
Brad Smith is definitely part of the old guard. Joined in 1993.

His remarks the other day are going to age terribly. He's basically everything Ballmer was but as a lawyer.

But, we should expect more of this if mega corporations are allowed to continue growing their market caps beyond the GDP of G7 nation states.
> The tax burden is already so high

It will only get higher if we try to intentionally decrease worker productivity by forcing them to 'serve a year of their life for public services'.
Not the parent. But maybe the courts are an alternative model for making these kind of decisions. Let the different parties make a case and then have an independent judge decide it as a question of law.
ChatGPT-shell siblings now on MELPA also
Is that even true? FDIC estimates it will have to come up with $13Bn, which will eventually be clawed back through insurance costs to big banks. Meanwhile FRC was worth $22Bn a few months ago and that's now gone to zero. So isn't it actually the case that the total money supply has gone down during this collapse, so the value of my money has actually gone up?
The Lesson of Murphy, the Eagle Who Tried to Hatch a Rock
> I'd probably opt for an egg or sperm donation

so that any kids produced would have a high probability of having the disease too?
A coax cable horror story
It's hard to overemphasize just how fucked up public transport ticketing in Germany is. As a simple example, you're a tourist in Cologne for a few days, what's the best ticket if you're planning to travel around the city and take a day trip to the nearby city of Wuppertal (but across the Verkehrsbund boundary, alas) to ride the famous monorail?
Show HN: Sonnet – The fastest JSON parser I can think of in Go
- What's different?
It's fast. On my machine, the stream decoder is faster than bytedance/sonic which claim to be the fastest even though mine is written in pure Go and Sonic is written in Go + C + Assembly. It also is a drop-in replacement of the standard library.

- Why is it fast?
technologies used are in my articles (available in English and Japanese)
EN: https://sugawarayuuta.medium.com/still-i-wanted-to-build-the...
JA: https://zenn.dev/sugawarayuuta/articles/2a5a3cb3f9a504
I remember reading about the typical lifestyle of a new regional pilot. Low wages, long hours, and often flying many hours as a passenger to get to work (living in Pitts, grabbing the first flight to NYC to work, etc). It sounded miserable.