skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> also wealth generates income.

So tax income types that tend to come from wealth instead. Compared with regular salary income that is heavily taxed in Europe those usually incur significantly lower tax rates (long-term capital gains tax, dividend tax, etc.).

> plus taxing income is easier, less transaction costs. (no need to sell the house to pay wealth tax.)

You are confused about how wealth taxes usually work. They are something you pay every year based on your total assets, not when you sell the assets (these are capital gains or property gains taxes).

> of course non of these invalidate your observation about landed gentry

Becoming a landed gentry is intentional end game of current asset owning classes in Europe. Let's take Sweden as a worst offender - locals sit on top of their multimillion+ property (that they either inherited with 0 inheritance tax or got with tax-deductible mortgage when prices were saner), don't pay any wealth taxes and would like immigrants to pay for their welfare state with crazy income taxes while simultaneously extracting exuberant rents from them indefinitely by making housing basically unobtainable through regular income. Mind you this isn't European-specific problem (prop 13 landed gentry says hello), but Europeans tend to have this annoying holier-then-thou attitude towards the US paired with complete lack of self-awareness.
> is that they're unreliable

The platforms care little about individual customers (as opposed to drivers, which are fewer and have higher onboarding costs) so they are reluctant to set up the right incentives to force drivers to be reliable.

A simple solution (in most gig economy markets - not just ridesharing) is that any accepted task costs you a deposit which gets returned on completion. This instantly makes it unprofitable to offer sub-par service or cancel, and provides stability to both customers and the system in general as any accepted task is more likely to be delivered (and tasks which are unprofitable to accept will not get accepted, so the surge pricing mechanism can do its job and raise prices until acceptance rates go up).

The problem is that this will only happen if there is either a legally-enforceable service-level-agreement (such as compensating passengers for unreliability or missed arrival times) or strong competition, which is not currently the case. Most gig economy markets are dominated by a handful of equally-mediocre players who have no incentive to out-compete each other.
not using C doesn't help much if you need to talk to OS APIs

This means cdecl, stdcall or whatever modern ABIs OSes use, not C. Many languages and runtimes can call APIs and DLLs, though you may rightfully argue that their FFI or wrappers were likely compiled from C using the same ABI flags. But ABI is no magic, just a well-defined set of conventions.

And then, no one prohibits to use length-aware strings and either have safety null at the end or only copy to null-terminated before a call. Most OS calls are usually io-bound and incomparably heavy anyway.
On a scale of 1-10, how silly do you think it is that sites like your will likely have to comply with the 270+ page Online Safety Bill if you get a "significant number" of UK users?

https://wikimedia.org.uk/2023/06/online-safety-bill-open-let...

https://wikimedia.org.uk/2023/06/frequently-asked-questions/
I have driven manual until mu EV and I don’t understand the hill start problem/question.

leave it in gear and it might not roll turn wheels so it wedges against the curb.

The rest can be done with footwork a d sensitivity. My uncle always wanted the emergency brake working for when the brakes would fail.

That was driving until the mid to late 70’s.
How common is that in the UK?? It'd be exceedingly rare in Australia.
DHL was the only major German logistics company that openly talked about their delivery drone research project, which had been going on for years until they killed it in 2021.
They never gave a specific reason for pulling out, but people with industry knowledge said that one of the reasons was that due to limitations of airspace vs. billions of packages the German logistics industry handles, drone delivery at scale is not going to be a thing.
I think more creativity should be encouraged as if the student wasn't just learning material but how to be a generative mathematician of interesting new ideas and proofs.

The Moore Method is a well known pedagogical method of teaching math courses.

A text for humanities students on higher-math (it is on the lower-higher fringe I suppose)
that emphasizes this perspective but is not as spartan is Mathematics A Creative Art by Julia Wells Bower.

See "The Moore Method", The Journal of Inquiry-Based Learning in Mathematics (JIBLM) has course notes http://www.jiblm.org/

Authors I have enjoyed are Spivak & Knuth but that is more about elegance and pedagogical style.
How Physical Strength Affects Mood, Behavior, and Politics
>Not really. Europeans aren't some superior noble ascetics.

Indeed. In my town center, on the weekends, the streets are full of Teslas, luxury cars and SUVs of the well off people from the suburbs with nice houses, coming to the city for shopping and indulgence in various forms of consumerism and showing off (mostly inherited) wealth.

Europeans are just poorer and more unequally wealthy than Americans, with fewer people owing most of the wealth, not more righteous.
It's what people say they suffer when they made bad decisions for decades and figured out they missed the good part(s), happens a lot to people who sacrifice everything to climb the corporate ladder or focus too much on work or other artificial goals. Not everyone goes through it
I find it a healthier alternative than to blindly believe artificial sweeteners (which are cheaper and chemical products) are actually healthier.
I'm just guessing here, but maybe so that you can power it with just a common USB powerbank, and that way it's much more accessible to a wider audience?
If they're using standard TLS, the actual data encryption is symmetric, so the encryption keys are the decryption keys and must be in memory during the encryption process.
If there's one thing I wouldn't want to do in the United States it would be raising a family. Seems like there is absolutely zero freedom for children there.
> Rolling resistance is a function of tyre and road surface, not weight.

Except the contact surface between tires and the road depends on tire pressure and weight (because it affects the shape of the tires on the road).

Increasing pressure can compensate for weight, but only up to some point, and increasing pressure also make the tires more rigid, which makes the cyclist spend much more energy to actively (albeit subconsciously) dampen the vibrations coming from the road (while most of this is done passively by the tires when the pressure is at the optimum level).
There is a cause and effect, and they always have a relation. If aspartame worsens insulin sensitivity by increasing insulin resistance [1] then this will eventually lead to neuropathy [2]. This is a simple logical chain to follow, but I understand that not everybody is made for it.

But the real drama occurs when a person finally hits T2DM and starts to develop dementia. Only then they will start to learn, listen and study medicine (maybe), but for the most part it is already too late. See, in this condition, the brain suffers from tissue hypoxia, so the individual has dim chances of properly doing their medical homework, if any work at all. And they won't get a proper help at the usual clinic outside of palliative care, unless they go to a place specializing in neuroendocrinology which is often a cost-prohibiting option not available to everyone.

I know, the link between T2DM and dementia may come as surprise to you as well, so here is a citation [3]. "But it's only affecting older people, I'm fine!" - wrong. It affects anyone but the incidence rate is indeed correlated with age.

But before all that happens, one can enjoy one more cup of a thirst quincher with aspartame, of course! All those mad naysayers suck, you know.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28571543/#:~:text=Result%3A%....

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4359792/

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9052006/
Flutter provides many variations of Chip widgets, and all those Chip widgets follow the Material Design. In this blog, I'll share my notes on the use cases for each Chip, along with examples
Wow so he was 74 when he wrote that answer, and this comment that he followed up with:

> I try to write what seems real. By now, I have no cause to fear how I will be judged, which makes it much easier for me.
Since the general rule of thumb is that only 10% of startups succeed in the long term, this statement is probably true.
while useful, depending on your particular case, there might be other bindings with a lower mental overhead
There's a fair chunk of content out there these days that's thunkingly woke in a way that annoys the crap out of me - stuff that might as well end with an "and the moral of the story is" segment ala moralising kids TV.

Stuff with a wider range of actual three dimensional characters that aren't all the usual Straight White Person fare is fantastic, but not everything with non-white or non-straight people is actually any good.

The example I always come back to of doing it right is Russell T. Davies' Queer As Folk, where the characters all felt -real-, I could imagine running into them on a night out down Canal Street and sharing a natter outside a club over a cigarette - and found myself rooting for them to be happy -because- they came across as real flawed people rather than Avatars of Representation.
Daily Seneca quote: "What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years lie behind us are in death's hands."
Panic attack is very hard to describe, but has a unique symptom: the feeling of impending doom.

Everything about you is telling you something is very fucking wrong right now and you're about to perish. Your survival instinct kicks in, fight or flight, heart races, chest feels tight, tunnel vision, you sweat and hyperventilate. You basically are having the sensation of a heart attack or something equally catastrophic, but nothing is actually going on.

It is the most terrifying thing that can happen to you. The first 5 times are hell, then you learn that it tends to be relatively short lived, even if it feels like eternity. What I do is take my phone out and look at the time. Come hell or high water, in 20 minutes I will be fine. Relief often is sudden, but there's times you stay in a state of sub-panic for longer than that.

Truth be told, full blown panic attacks are, even for a very anxious person as I was, rare (and twice so unbearable I called emergency services), the vast majority I call anxiety attacks which are a little milder version of oh fuck I'm going to die now.
33 years old and I have had this issue for as far as I remember.

As for hygiene, I learned about that late (thanks to a boss who had the courage to speak to me about it), and now I just strictly follow the same daily routine. No more being complacent with showering, and I always wash my clothes every day regardless.

It worked well so far. But when it comes to changing the bed sheets or cleaning the toilet, I tend to let my wife handle it. Because smells does not mean anything, so for me as long as it is white and without stains, it is clean.

That said, I noticed lately that I sometimes actually smell things, but it is very random and episodic, like a few seconds every few weeks or so. So now I am wondering what is actually going on and if that may be curable in my case.
Where's that Simpsons meme when you need it?

"This midlife crisis is the worst!"

"Now now...this midlife crisis is the worst you've had, so far!"
In Netherland, being a consultant, freelancer or independent contractor is the only way to get paid your worth. Salaries for programmers are often terrible. Well, maybe not terrible, but lower than they should be.

I had a project at a bank, where I created the initial prototype for a new, vague idea and guided the project (through constantly changing product owners and other team changes) to become very successful. Because the tax service was being difficult about the difference between a self-employed contractor and an employee, the bank had a rule that self-employed contractors couldn't stay for more than two years, but after two years, I wasn't done with that project yet. So I became an employee.

The bank has pay scales for employees, and I had to fit in there. Software engineers could have a pay scale from 8-12, product owners, scrum masters, business architects and other people I worked with had pay scales from 10-13. One freelancer-turned-employee that I spoke to came from a very similar hourly rate to scale 12 (as product owner). I figured I was worth scale 12 too, but it turned out they had no programmers in scale 11 or 12 at all, and 10 was the maximum that was used, despite the fact that 10 was the minimum for pretty much every other job at that department.

Later at a department-wide meeting, the manager had the gall to complain that all their senior engineers would leave.

Many other companies pay similar rates for programmers as employees, but have no problem paying much more for you when you're a contractor or freelancer of some sort.
HN is definitely where I go to get a finger on the pulse of the working class.
That's not how quantum mechanics works. Radio waves are photons, and photons are radio waves. Different experiments will reveal different aspects of it, but these are not separate phenomena.

Also, the exact same thing is true of every other particle: just as photons are quantizations of the electro-magnetic waves, electrons are quantizations of waves in the electron field, quarks are quantized waves in the quark field etc. Atoms and molecules are also waves; in fact, there have been experiments showing the wave-like nature of molecules with something like 5000 atoms.
That is one good article. And so true, one could sum it up with one word: sterile.
The PDP-10 and PDP-11 assemblers had direct support for nul-terminated strings (ASCIZ directives, and OUTSTR in MACRO10) which Ritchie adopted as-is, not unlike Lisp’s CAR/CDR. It’s not entirely clear that other “high-level” languages at the time also used such a type.

Although later ISA added support for it for C compatibility, whereas older ISAs tended to only support fixed-length or length-prefixed, for instance the Z80 has LDIR, which is essentially a memcpy, copying a terminated string required a manual loop.
The Young Pope. It is new and different. It is edgy and definitely not like other stuff these days. (The young pope, not the new pope which is the second season.) It was made in europe and couldnt be made in north america, not today.

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. It only existed because of a special relationship with the late show. Without worry about ratings, he did some great stuff that wouldnt get past the moneymen today.

The older seasons of Top Gear. It was wildly popular but got its energy from an old form of "blolky" male-dominated humor that just doesnt fly these days. The Grand Tour continues but is a pale comparision of the previous energy.

Note that all of these are dominated by male protagonists, a rare thing in recent years.
Do you have anything to backing this statement? It sounds really false to me.
Around me people are not into consumerism at all and are making an effort to not buy, buy second hand when needed, repair and maintain what they own based on environmental impact concerns, not economical. The current energy costs has had an impact but people were behaving this way before that.
Most people just want to be safe from robbers and murderers. Trying to conflate political safety with physical safety is just wordplay.
I was in my 40s and starting thinking more in terms of how much time I had left rather than what I wanted to do at some unspecified "later". I also had young kids and a depressed jobless wife, so I wasn't completely free to do what I wanted and felt trapped. Then my father died pretty young, from a cruel cancer, and that amplified it all.
In my personal experience, to use a very small C library in python in a work project, my life became simpler when I ditched swig and just called the C API from python.

Then I had a pure python codebase that I could run on any python version without recompilation, and I no longer had the complication of having to deal with swig's different versions across different distribution releases.

For much bigger projects I could imagine that the situation can be different.
The scan of Cayetana's is very impressive. Terrible disease.
Commonwealth Games: Australia drop out could be 'death knell'
Seems pretty standard, many businesses don't make it 3 years. The figures for ALL businesses [0] are not too drastic but that includes simple, low risk, cash positive ones. Start ups are worse of course...

[0]. https://www.bls.gov/bdm/us_age_naics_00_table7.txt
I wonder how that kind of reclamation project could be valued in terms of avoidance of waste, avoidance of expenditure of new resources, and the skill development of the person doing the work (in terms of either/both faster pace of the same value created in future reclamations, and/or future marketability of the skills towards a saleable product).
It's a bit like all the "new" airship startups, every year or so (for the last 25) I've heard of another one starting up.
If I had to guess, I would say 85% of all startups don't last 3 years, not just AI and today.

Does that sound about right?
If I'm a Ugandan film company, I make a film, sell it in Uganda and then set up a streaming website that allows access to it for $1 USD without regional restrictions, which regulations do you believe I'm breaking?
Actually.

It’s because the market dynamics have changed and we stopped buying DVDs and VHS.

Matt Damon talked about this just a few years ago on Hot Ones.

https://youtu.be/Jx8F5Imd8A8

“So what happened was the DVD was a huge part of our business, of our revenue stream,” Damon said.

“Technology has just made that obsolete, and so the movies that we used to make you could afford to not make all of your money when it played in the theatre because you knew you had the DVD coming behind the release.”

Links:

https://www.ajc.com/life/why-dont-they-make-movies-like-they...
>Imagine an automated form of this where you can just mass deactivate antagonistic accounts

I wish I had this power for other social media sites, such as Twitter and Nextdoor. I'd just mass-deactivate ALL accounts. The world would be better off.
Cue the usual arguments against performance tuning: "That's premature optimization", "It only has to be fast enough", etc.

It bothers me too. We have astonishing computing power, but outside certain applications we mostly just fritter it away. I would love to use a computer which does everything almost instantly, but instead I have to deal with counting to 2 in my head after pressing WinKey before typing my search term and go-and-make-a-cup-of-tea Gradle build times for pretty trivial projects.

When it comes to Apple though, I think it's somewhat intentional. "Why don't you have an M1/2 yet? Go buy one!"
'How does a 4000$+ ebike go bankrupt when they supposedly have too many orders? Is this a COVID supply chain problem or a management hiding real sales figures problem?'

Possibly both but if you have significantly more customers than product you're going to run out of cash eventually.

Not bike related but I work with a UK retailer that has this problem with some high value products shipped from China/Vietnam. When they do get stock they start to discount it almost immediately, I assume they are either crazy or that their cash-flow is more critical than profit.
>i have yet found an equaly good database manager on linux as heidiSQL(it is unstable in wine) for ex.

How does it compare to the mysql one or MS sql server management studio for that matter?

> Also it "feels" easier to click on the wamp installer and just run it from there compared to sudo apt install xyz.

Wamp installer is windows specific but i'd assume you browse to find the download for it, etc or use winget or chocolately instead of sudo install xyz, etc so i fail to see the advantage there?

Similarly I'd just open pacmac and click to install xampp or so no?
Maybe an equivalent experience can be had using the windows store if WAMP is found on there but i think the windows store is a bit of a disaster still. (It can't seem to grasp that I do not speak French all that well for example)

>With C# the difference is huge since you just need to install visual studio and you have everything you will need, with the best tooling there is.

There's a reason people jokingly call it microsoft java. The second half might be mischaracterizing it on many fronts but the first half is true to form.
I'd argue it as an argument in this matter is similar to bringing up the best platform for developing with Swift.
This is an odd set of numbers. Italy is higher than Norway; Portugal is higher than Denmark. It suggests that whatever they are measuring is not very intuitive.
> Do you think the writers wanted to work on an adaptation of a franchise they hated?

No one was forcing them to took up that job/stay at that company...
Fair enough, still it's not what the authors impute at all.
That’s because strncpy does not return a nul-terminated (“C”) strings, but a fixed-size nul-padded strings.

That, as it turns out, is the case of most (but not all) strn* functions.

Of course strncpy adds the injury that it’s specified to alllow nul-terminated inputs (it stops at the first nul byte, before filling the target buffer with nuls).
Aces, the SQL authentication is really helpful.

Any plans to add options for external filtering such as SpamAssassin, rspamd, etc.? (Assuming it's not there already but I couldn't find anything obviously highlighting that it was.)

Also configurable sub-addressing would be handy - since many websites block '+' in email addresses, I added '-' as a sub-address splitter for my users.
Data is moat in AI.

I work in a domain of applying AI to specific enterprise domain. It's not like you can crawl our data in the open web. Getting any data from clients is years of lawyer struggles and chicken and egg problems to solve. Fine-tuning models to client expectations - they are not going to go through the process again with someone else.

And moat in B2C AI is owning tons of your personal data and habits that Google and Facebook do. It's just not trully utilized with GPT models yet.
but this is not memristor afaik, the breakthrough here is that it has multiple states, not that it can remember the states without power. (At least the article does not mention if the state is preserved so I would assume not.)
How many of them have you talked to or worked with? The ones I know don't "snub their noses at the 'working class' and share none of their value of beliefs". But I have a feeling that you're not looking at the whole working class, only a subset.
If you consider the likes of The Guardian right-wing there is really no point in continuing this discussion as I don't believe it can be done in a good faith manner.