skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many uninformed comments in this thread saying that the UK would have to join the Eurozone if it returned to the EU.

No. You only have to adopt the euro if you meet the convergence criteria. One of the criteria is joining ERM II. There's no mechanism that can force a country to join ERM II. This is why Sweden, although theoretically obliged to join the eurozone, still has its own currency.
The Digital Imprimatur: How the Internet genie could be put back in the bottle
Basically make it attractive for acquisition by some large shitty company who will shut it down.
You confused the data sets. This one is the equivalent one from Worldbank, which has the exact same figures as quoted:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...
Ah, yes, the old "look how easy building your simple CRUD app in [new tech] is" article. These always seem to work great (and do work great for some use cases) until things evolve beyond, and then one spends their day fighting the technology instead of actually building the product. Meanwhile, the n-tier dev you laughed at is still plugging away and getting some extra help because because the loose coupling between tiers made it easier to divide-and-conquer.
It's cool and all but an awkward framing of the feature. Dubs don't really have the same functios as subtitle text. It's apples and oranges.

As for the impact on people who want money to perform audio to audio translation services it sounds a lot like the luddites vs the power-looms. It's too bad for the people in that service industry but I'm 100% happy auto-translation is making everyone more able to communicate.
> The investors entering the market today will make prices go up today, but have the effect of reducing prices in the future

The flaw in this argument is that it assumes markets are perfectly efficient, when in reality they are affected by several factors.

> there are strong barriers to the creation of new housing

Right, this is one of those factors.

Others include land limitations, interest rates, government incentives and backstops.

Plus even if you're right that decades from now housing will be more affordable that's of little use today.
Because it took someone a long time to understand lookahead and other regex rules needed to get it setup on their system and they're both proud of it and loath to replace it!
I'd say EU is more in the region of "continental body."
John from Virgin Media probably isn't a bad person, or unsympathetic to Terence's plight, but in his job there is almost certainly nothing he's able to do: The System™ just wasn't designed for it and he can't make an exception.

I feel we've lost some things by introducing computerized systems everywhere. Everything is now neatly boxed off and as soon as you want something nonstandard – no matter how much sense it makes – it's "computer says no" everywhere.

It's frustrating and humiliating for Terence, but also for John, who has to helplessly see someone in a difficult situation. Actually caring about Terence and the people like him he deals with every day would destroy John emotionally, so he does the only thing he can: not care. Which is "merely" corrosive, but at least doesn't destroy him.

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Last year I had a somewhat similar situation: after flying to Amsterdam I managed to just catch a train with a bit of a sprint. The bloke after me was in a wheelchair, but the train was about to leave and the conductor was on his own (with me, freshly arrived in the vestibule just on time).

There's a gap between the train and platform so wheelchair users can't "just" board and the conductor couldn't lift him on board on his own. I naturally offered to help, as most people would, but was immediately rebuffed by the conductor. Since the train was already late it couldn't wait for another employee to arrive, so it just left, leaving the guy behind – the next train was an hour later.

After the train left I chatted a bit with the conductor and he explained he couldn't accept my help for insurance reasons, and that it wasn't "responsible" to accept help from random strangers.

On one hand, I can understand that, I guess... But on the other hand: what the actual fuck? How is this now considered acceptable in our society? I can't help but feel we've created a system where our humanity has been systemically stripped from us, and that this has become so normalized we don't even realize it.

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This affects everyone outside "the happy path"; homeless people are another classic example. People say "get a job" but this isn't easy without a fixed address, and renting something without a job is often impossible (even IF you actually have money), and you usually also can't get paid without a bank account, but getting an account requires a fixed address, etc. etc. There's all sorts of catch-22s – sometimes special systems exist to deal with this, but they're bandaids on top of a broken system and certainly in some countries "homeless" is so narrowly defined that it excludes huge swaths of homeless people.
Plutonium-239 (just an example) has a halflife of 24,000 years, ground water is a thing and it moves a lot. Modern concrete is both water permeable and has a tendency to degrade aggressively in wet environments over alarmingly short periods of time. Try again?
I was a remainer (ie anti-Brexit).

This article shows what seems to be becoming a general growing consensus that "some people (prominent campaigners and politicians) lied to us for their own benefit" - and there is a more subtle second consensus of "and then forced a hard brexit for their own career gains".

This is a nice consensus because it has evil
people to blame, and removes the blame from 50% of the voting public

I am not sure that's a good idea.

We have more or less proof that 50 % of the country cannot work out basics of social democracy, of trade agreements and referendums. Even things like self interest or which of the bastards is lying to you.

It was a massive act of self harm and it was an act of democracy.

Brexit shows there are viable mental models of the world and there are mental models the equivalent of crayon drawings of the sun and ann apple tree.

How do we get sensible disagreement on the viable ones and laugh the crayon drawings out?

I am always reminded of the woman who told John McCain "I am scared of Obama, he is an Arab". McCains reply was inspiring but the look on his face seemed to me to say "how can I fix this one voter at a time? It will take forever".
I asked some developers to implement something with guidelines over how to do it.

Ultimately they tried to do more than asked which then caused problems because maintenance is now harder, and some types were removed while others were “enriched”, and much like uranium, became more dangerous to wield.
No borders on the continent is useful, but not sure what it has to do with currency.

Nowadays when I travel, I just pay with my usual bank or credit card and get good rates without thinking about it. If my bank didn't have good rates, there's Revolut.

The main pain is that the EU hasn't standardised payment systems. So in parts of NL and Germany, you might find your Visa isn't accepted because they only take Maestro, or, in Sweden, Swish, for example.
Then why not instead link those (which?) links directly? Then we can perhaps discuss the evidence, e.g. this[1]. The fact that a research topic is taboo doesn't mean it is pseudoscience.

[1] https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ALzE9JixLLEexTKSq/...
I’d go read Andy Grove instead. High Output Management is eye-opening for leadership in any kind of organization.
You are the carbon they want to reduce.
You said that’s what “everyone’s” claiming, yet only the article author is
IT Meritocracy Part 11: The Holy Grail of Enterprise Software Development (2018)
So I guess the EU should just let everyone use pounds as currency.
Do you know why doesn't the Oxalic acid bind with the calcium of the Rhubarb, and turns into a problem if consumed? Is there enough calcium to bind with the Oxalic acid? Is the calcium in Rhubarb bioavailable?

Genuine questions here, because as I understand, many of the nutricional fact sheets are calculated after the food is broken down and passed though a mass spectrometer.
Why did you italicize a word? Why speak with any emotion ever? Why not focus exclusively on the optimal method of transferring information from one being to another?
Extending and debugging complex code (eg autogenerating tools, macros etc) is much more difficult than simple code, even if the before can be written in fewer lines than replicating (nearly) identical but simple code.
Why would they have to store it on the chain and could not send it to some server?
Yeah, that's a lot of jargon associated with Bayesian statistics, but at it's root the idea is simple. How to merge information you have before observing some data (a.k.a. prior) with new information you just observed, to obtain updated information (a.k.a. posterior) that includes both what you believed initially + the new evidence you observed.

The probability machinery (Bayes rule) is a principled way to do this, and in the case of count data (number of positive reviews for the cafe) works out to give be a simple fraction n/(n+x).

Define:
x = parameter of how skeptical you are in general about the quality of cafes (large x very sceptical),
m = number of positive reviews for the cafe,

p = m+1 / (m+1+x) your belief (expressed as a probability) that the cafe is good after hearing m positive reviews about it.

Learning about the binomial and the beta distribution would help you see where the formula comes from. People really like Bayesian machinery, because it has a logical/consistent feel: i.e. rather than coming up with some formula out of thin air, you derive the formula based on general rules about reasoning under uncertainty + updating beliefs.
Ketamine is a valid therapy in Switzerland, but it's close to the end of what the medical system can offer. Along with electroconvulsive therapy and transcranial magnetic stimulation. Doctors do not recommend it for me yet (due to the cost of the therapy, i.e. the potential side effects), but they made it clear that I can try those options later.

But guess what - those methods also have a limited effect. Perhaps a bit stronger than the more common methods, but not by a lot.
I think Master Kaimu agrees with you: http://www.thecodelesscode.com/case/97
Spectrum: A step towards usable secure computing
But thanks to the libertarian narrative you’re furthering, government is obliged to contract so many things to private companies, so now you get all the worst of both worlds (contractors charge high rates to government and waste lots of money, and government now compels us to pay the bill for companies we don’t like).
You could input your opinions directly into AIs rather than here, all developers I know don't want to read such ludicrous unsubstantiated claims.
Ok let me rephrase this - the people I referenced aren’t good - they’re amazing. They have the credentials (Juilliard, S.I. Newhouse, etc.) and the work experience (lead role on broadway, ESPN and sports illustrated) and it’s still a massive struggle in their industries.

Compare that to being a warm body at a landscaping job, where the bar is “I showed up to work today” and it’s not even a comparison.

It’s the laws of supply and demand. Simple as that. Everyone wants to be a movie star.
You should check out the recent Glenn Loury Show episode where he brings on Norman Finklestein. I think you'll highly enjoy it.
Magical thinking generally is alive and well in certain strata of British life. UK politics generally seems to be a game of make believe, with a broad failure to grasp that decline is now baked in.
Debugging is easier when you have a backend server which logs the API calls.

I did debug apps where UI and DB access lived in a single code space (VB/Delphi style). This was pretty hard to debug and logic was so tightly coupled with the UI code that it was nearly impossible to write tests for it.
It could be slightly dumbed down for non-bio people such as myself but kept the "flavor" of the article title
The biggest problem of all is that the whole system is the problem.
In that scenario you can often use Tramp - run Emacs locally and let it use ssh and scp to modify the files on the target system. Does the VS Code remote editing require some kind of server component on the remote system or does it manage it through ssh and shell commands?

Thankfully the cases where the only available editor is /usr/ucb/vi are starting to get rare.
Zsh does not split words by default, so you don't need to quote everything. This is the main reason I switch to Zsh instead of Bash when there I need a bit more than the base shell.
I suppose they could dissolve the United Kingdom.
No, please no! Let's first figure out what it means to work with whitespace properly, then update our tools to do it. Behind-the-scenes mangling to work around flawed tools seems to be the macOS favored solution, with .DS_Store files dropped silently everywhere, and "case-insensitive but case-respecting" by default file systems, and increasingly byzantine approaches to file management so that it's harder and harder to figure out where anything is actually stored, which defeats the whole point of a Unix underlayer ….
It could even be 2-3 generations behind and that thing would still sell.
> would accept the Euro as a currency

I don't know why this keeps coming up-- joining the EU does not require adopting the Euro.
A roof, food and leisure time are historically luxurious. Poverty is the natural default. Anything more than that requires a lot of hard work as a society, and has only been realized in the tiny sliver of humanity that is recent (last ~200 years) western society. Everywhere else and at all other times has been starvation, strife and constant work to subsist. And you die by 40 on average.
The only country which benefited from the Euro is Germany and they had the audacity to not only refuse the fiscal policies and transfers which might have made that fair but actually undermine the most affected countries like Greece even more. I personally lost all hope for the union after the debt crisis and considering the state of politics and denial of reality in the north of Europe, I really wish we would just leave too. I’m sad we lost the open border with the UK however, genuinely love the country but I’m not sure the rest of the EU is worth it.
Indeed. Acquisitions are often great for the founders, sometimes ok for shareholders, and usually a disaster for employees and customers.
Being a swede that sounds surprising. Does France not have regulations for accessibility in public spaces?
> there are so many grandfathering rules that most places don’t have to change.

Indeed. It's especially hard in a poor areas. I used to live with a disabled person and things like cracks in the sidewalk, or bumps from roots, or potholes, look like nothing to people who can walk. To someone in a wheelchair they can prevent them from going through. They city was too poor and run down to get to it. Older parts of town, are also almost impossible to access.

> They used to have people question why they needed a chair. They had people call them wheels in public.

I noticed this is at the airport. People in a wheelchair often get priority sitting. But to request a wheelchair doesn't require any proof. So, people learned to take advantage of it. May even get an assistant to push them around the airport. And then, as soon as the flight lands, people are miraculously "healed" and don't need a wheelchair any longer.

They think it's a harmless thing: "it's allowed anyway", "I paid a lot of money for this ticket", "not breaking any rules", etc but what they are doing is they are creating animosity and suspicion in the general public who now feel anyone in a wheelchair in the airport is "cheating" to get ahead of the line and get a better spot for their carry-on luggage.
This was nearly three months ago?
Tangentially, it’s curious there hasn’t emerged A Proper Way of version controlling and deploying stored procedures outside of “stick a bunch of sql scripts in a folder in the project root”
> While Worldcoin may have developed an algorithm that reliably distinguishes unique irises among its test pool, it’s not clear that it will work with a pool orders of magnitude larger.

This is a really key problem. The main application of biometrics today is in cell phones, and for those we operate on the assumption that we're trying to distinguish between the authorized user and a quite small pool of non-authorized people who will have physical access to the device: family members, friends, co-workers, and the occasional thief. This threat profile allows the biometric algorithm to err on the side of usability—it's more important that the algorithm consistently open the phone when shown the user's fingerprint or face than it is that there be no other human being on the planet who could open it.

Worldcoin has a very different threat profile, and it's not obvious to me that is possible to have a usable biometrics system (with an acceptably low false negative rate) that also has absolutely zero risk of hash collisions when the pool of unique people you need to distinguish is the size of the entire planet.
Can you elaborate on this? As someone relatively uninformed as to what the EU did during COVID that makes it unsound now.
I have a Sam Altman story...

I did a pre-interview to work for one of Sam's first startups, the mobile one that had the date via GPS idea. Turned down going beyond the pre-interview due to concept and funding combination not being compatible with reality. You have to remember at that point in time Mobile OEMs were locking down GPS access through apps and Mobile Operators were attempting to pretend they were VCs.

Not every slide deck that gets money is a good slide deck!!
In my experience, the limit does not depend on the volume as such, but more the complexity. This complexity can be intrinsic frombthe business domain, or accudental from technical choices. If frontend, backend and storage have parallell structure based on predictable patterns, the triple line cost is easily ignorable by skimming.

Development heavily slows down under unpredictability. Maintainance is slower partially because knowledge loss hightens unpredictability. One-off half-documented pseudo-frameworks create much higher knowledge loss in maintenance, and are a much worse time eater than simple code, even if tripled.
where’s a good place to lease the IPs directly, going through vps providers I’m paying ballpark 2-3 usd per month per ipv4
Is that actually true?
Subscriptions £30 pm
Starbucks £40 pm
Phone contract £20 pm
ISP £30 pm

That’s £120 pm, or £1440 annually. Doesn’t seem like it would make that much of a dent. Probably the number one thing you’d need to do is cut down on food costs, which is doable, to be fair, as it’s quite easy to spend 10x or 100x more than what you need to stay fed.
I think the problem with this is that it's a technicality; the optics of selling it like that wouldn't wash - I suspect the UK would need specific reassurance for the "Euro" topic.
As a kid, when people asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always said programmer. So that’s what I did.

The money vs. passion thing rings true, but at the same time, I’ve found that channeling passion to my employer doesn’t really reward me in the way I want. When I go “above and beyond” my job description, the reward is actually a punishment: more of the shit I don’t want to be doing.

Instead, I set aside some time to work on open source stuff. I actually feel a sense of ownership then. I’m not working to make somebody else rich, and I can do things my way and in my own time.
It will continue to be underdiscussed unless there is big money in it. Males are disposable genetically and evolutionarily.
And what a tragedy that would be. Positively unrecoverable, we might end up remembering we’re not experts, this is not a scientific website, and fun/excitement/entertainment is a good thing.
> for i in *.jpeg; do

> mv "$i" $(suf "$i").jpg # two sets of quotes

> done

Doesn't this need another set of quotes, `mv "$i" "$(suf "$i")".jpg`, or else it'll just fail in a slightly different way when asked to `mv "bite me" bite me.jpg`?
There are judges, and they incentive verbal diarrhea by making the winners the one who can produce the most 'correct' arguments in the least amount of time. This perverse incentive structure does not exist anywhere else except in competitive debate.

>If you think that just laying out more (bad) arguments will win against an experienced team, you're either delusional, or you've never actually watched high-level policy debate.

I think any argument that is spread is bad. Some are a worse kind of bad. But none are good.
The "loophole" is that you can modify and use the software without contributing back your changes. This has bad economics because then someone can take the work you've done, add 10% more effort to make it 10% better, and outcompete anyone else because their thing is 10% better than the free thing even though the original authors did 90% of the work and are still carrying most of the maintenance burden.

People using free software for free is not a loophole.
Disclosure, not disclaimer.
I've found the Phoenix LiveView approach in the PETAL stack elegantly solves many of these problems. By rendering templates directly on the backend server, you can build the entire application - frontend to database - all within the same Elixir codebase.

There's no need for a separate API layer or painstaking synchronization with a standalone frontend. Features that took days of work across all three tiers now take just hours in a single unified backend context.
That's different from complexity though. We actually understand why some algorithms have better complexity and results than others, while we mostly have no idea how intelligence works or even how to define it.
Granted that it is too early to know, but I like the AMD approach. If I’ve understood correctly, the c-cores have absolutely identical functionality on all fronts. They can’t clock as high due to the layout being redone to optimize power & area, and they lack some cache vs the high-power cores.

So essentially, any core should be able to handle any workload but you’d bias single-threaded tasks onto a few 5 GHz (or whatever) capable cores. And if you’re running well-threaded code across many cores, they’ll have to slow down anyway to stay within the power envelope, at which point all are effectively identical, barring the extra cache.

Only question is whether Intel saves a lot more power & area with their (IMHO crippled) efficiency cores. If they do, it ought to give Intel a cost/price advantage.
Remember, geohot was going to write the driver -- he came out of the gate saying "AMD has ROCm but you can't use it on consumer cards, so I'm going to write my own software stack that works with AMD's consumer grade GPUs". He raised $5.1m on that promise.

So far, with all that money, he has compiled their driver, ran it in an unsupported configuration, and then had a complete public mental breakdown because it didn't work. Something he already knew going in.

Should AMD support ROCm on its consumer grade GPUs? Probably. But that's really not geohot's choice to make, unless he wants to get his hands dirty and actually write the software he promised to write.

Having worked on GPU drivers, it's not a couple-lines fix situation, it would be a pretty big investment to add stable ROCm support for consumer GPUs. AMD higher-ups responding with anything other than "lol what it's unsupported what did you expect" is extending a pretty long olive branch here.