skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like a security researcher has looked into it and was threatened with legal action for releasing his source code.

https://cybergibbons.com/security-2/why-what3words-is-not-su...

https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/30/what3words-legal-threat-wh...

Edit: initially I said “sued”, which was inaccurate. And the repo included the proprietary word list, not just code.
I'm not sure this is laggard behaviour. Laggards are defined as having no thought leadership qualities, they are literally late to the party.

There's an argument that this is quite the reverse: it's innovative behaviour since it demonstrates comparative rarity, leadership (pointing the way), novelty (we should do things differently), etc.

Frankly, I think this thread points to some of the weaknesses in the Diffusion of Innovations theory (which on the whole I quite like). It doesn't neatly model 'luddites', those who are exposed to 'innovations' and understand them, yet reject them for whatever reason.
The mathematics of this seem sound. The ideological overhead ("cooperation is good"), however, seems wrong. The same outcome that the author achieves with pooling in a group can be achieved by an individual just splitting their wealth into N pools, and then playing the coin-toss individually with each of those N pools.

Also, I suspect an even better outcome for an individual would be achieved by essentially using the Kelly criterion, which means that you wager a certain fraction of year wealth on every coin-toss. The optimal fraction that should be wagered on each toss can be calculated with pretty basic math.

For the lefties: this doesn't mean that cooperation is bad, of course. It just means that the argument in the article can not be used in support of your ideology.
> restaurants and hospitality in general are absurd cheapskates.

You've never run a bar or restaurant have you. What do you think the profit margins are?
Toddlers are great with ipads, even if ipads are bad with them.

Kinda silly that it takes a long time learn how to use one.
Why? From a cash flow perspective, the monthly insurance premiums should cover the expenses.
As I understand it as a layman, if:

* The seller does not state they do not take cash before the transaction happens,

* And the buyer attempts to pay for the transaction after the fact with cash in good faith,

* And the sold goods cannot be returned to their original condition prior to sale,

Then the buyer is okay (FSVO okay) to leave and go about his day because the seller refused to take money that was presented in good faith by the buyer. Because cash, at least in the US, is "legal tender for all debts public and private" and a transaction to which you owe money is a form of debt.

Obligatory not a lawyer and not an accountant disclaimer. I'm way too lazy to go and properly research and cite this.
I'm surprised at the investment in an area that's likely to undergo major environmental challenges but it will be fascinating to see how this turns out.
Superficially it looks like an American version of Neom.

https://www.neom.com/en-us
> It's more like we pay half our salary in taxes and then we get terrible education and a healthcare system where you can't even get an appointment.

You're talking about the US, right?

I and people I know in different states have often had to wait months to get an appointment with a doctor.

The quality of education you get in the US varies drastically depending on your location, and typically the wealth of your parents.
He later in the post shows invariants which cannot be verified as assertions within the system (e.g. as a process within a distributed application), because they rely on having an omniscient view of the system (e.g. access the state of all processes in the distributed system at one point in time). I think that's where the distinction makes sense. Of course you'll likely still turn those invariants into assertions, but in some kind of simulator which can view the complete state of the system rather than in the system itself.
It is the same in Denmark (and most other Scandinavian countries).

Also, Norways oil money, as you write yourself, go into their sovereign fund and does not directly fund wellfare.

There are many theories why the Scandinavian model works on Scandinavia but does not seem to work other places, but to my best knowledge, natural resources are not any of these explanations.
And where is that please?
Populist parties in Europe do not necessarily oppose taxation for social programs and collective solidarity. This is the case with the Perussuomalaiset party in Finland, for example, which supports a welfare state in spite of the anti-immigrant rhetoric that gets it categorized as far-right.
I shouldn't have even mentioned licensing in my original comment, which was more of an aside that mattered to me in my selection of which system to use, but of course, it's been hyper and myopically focused on here with GPL proponents coming out of the woodwork to argue about it.

However, it is relevant because, as I said, a nice benefit of these sound engines is that they can be embedded in other languages and applications. Thus, when choosing such a sound engine, the licensing is an input to the decision, and other systems, such as Pure Data and Csound, have more permissive licenses. For example, the absolutely excellent iVCS3 app on iOS is built on Csound: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivcs3/id665703927.
I don't know. For banks and tech SaaS? Maybe.

But for the average website, passwordless is confusing for the end user.

I've researched WebAuthn for a web game to see if I could make the login natively and seamless. And it sucked. In Windows, it would prompt a confusing window asking for either an USB key, Windows Hello (So, a PIN or face, and most of people don't have this feature enabled), or to use a QR code. The average user won't know what they should do, so they won't be able to register.

Also, it's really hard to use your account on other devices. Like, if you log in first with a Google phone, then yeah, you'll be able to use your key by scanning a QR when prompted on your computer. But if you log in with a computer first, you won't be able to use your key anywhere else because exporting keys isn't implemented anywhere yet.

I've ended up just implementing Google and Apple OAuth, since WebAuthn requires accounts anyways to store your keys (Microsoft on Windows, Google on Android, Apple on Mac/ios), so why not just log in with them directly?
I'm in the US and have to make an appointment with my GP 3 months in advance. If I don't call between 10am and noon or 2pm to 4pm, I can't make an appointment. The last time I went to the hospital, I waited 5 hours before I was seen. All they did was puncture a fingernail and wrap it up. That little maneuver cost me over $1000.
Yeah - if they were able to demonstrate this at DEFCON then it had most likely been exploited in the wild somewhere as well.
https://www.science.org/content/article/emperor-penguins-aba...
What they’ve described in Norway is extremely representative of my experiences in the UK. Which is currently doing its level best to achieve the poorest economic outcomes in European area.

So don’t think calling Norway a bad example is justified at all.
Belgium and Germany are the worst, at about 70% total in taxes and dues.
In practice or in fictional books? If in practice I’m sure you can share a handful of examples.
I'm in one of the largest metro areas of the US and there are 6+ month long waiting lists to see some common specialists, even if you have great health insurance and even if you want to pay up front in cash. People will die on those lists.
So … just normal economics. If that school of “science” was more than retconning and trying to see ideologically aligned patterns in the irrational noise and result of complex interwoven incentive systems that would make the complexity of the three body problem look tame, we probably wouldnt have a financial crisis every few years :/
This matches my experience as a Dutch contractor. FTE salary for devs caps out around 70-80k, often as a company policy. It's even stricter for large companies or governmental institutions that have formally published salary bands. Often, to get into the higher bands you need to have some sort of management responsibility like leading a department. Highly priced specialist labor like software developers fits poorly into that structure.

The commonly accepted way around this is for those institutions to hire contractors, which is a business-to-business transaction for which no such price limits or management requirements exist.
Possibly lack of waterproofing leads to constantly getting cold water in contact with their bodies and they freeze to death.
You dont have student loans in the EU because the universities are subsidized...
What commercial products are using Supercollider, since you mention this is demonstrably wrong? I'm honestly curious to know about them to read and learn about them.
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Going off the renders it looks like they want to build your average smamll Spanish city. Which honestly is pretty understandable.
Scooter workaround: Have multiple apps for multiple providers on one phone. I've done this plenty of times e.g. when one of us has a dead phone.

Obviously only works if your city has multiple scooter providers :)
This is false. Pretty much all personal income is taxed, and definitively dividends. While it might be beneficial for the society to tax assets, any personal income from those assets are taxed in most cases. There are ways to avoid it to a certain extend but if you want a 5 million euros from one of your companies you would pay tax on that. If you want a boat you could set up HireMyBoat Inc and then avoid paying taxes on that 5 mill to pay a boat but still use the boat for vacations (this might be illegal but very rarely enforced).
Timber building blocks for multi-storey construction
> I am going to use this phrase whenever

And you would lower yourself to the same level of unsubstantial label tossing. I would avoid that and go back to the normative normalcy of looking and reasoning.
Shocker, voting for the people who want all their life to privatize NHS would have that results. #leopardslovebrexit
“Hi, we saw your site has our trademark in the domain name. Unfortunately we have to protect our trademark so we ask of you: please pay our $1/year license fee for educational resources and put in at least 12 pt font above the fold that you are not affiliated with Arm Inc”
Beehiveourall hacked to go against most basic instinct as proof of concept. Social engineering progress,but to offer no api for the hacker is selected for.
Those with api go into the catcentration camp. The final conflict emerges abstract organisms (companies) vs unhackable societys trying to dislodge lifeblood (workforce) from these societies whole contributing nothing back.
To clarify, biometrics are only used for local authentication against the platform authenticator. An attacker still needs the authenticators private data, too. The authentication against the service is using public key crypto.

Also, you should be able to use a platform authenticator with a PIN.
Local number was required to receive SMS. Foreign numbers were not supported. I only had foreign data SIM.
"Full austerity" is wildly hyperbolic. Here's EU government spending as share of GDP: https://tradingeconomics.com/european-union/government-spend...

Try to click on MAX and spot when governments went "full austerity".
If you literally switch stacks, wouldn't that be a (user space aka green aka lightweight) thread?
Yeah family visiting Romania had to visit a local hospital for an emergency, and was surprised how quick and efficient they were. I suspect a lot of it boils down to population density.
> Well, it's not like mainstream econ cares about empirical evidences either...

Mainstream economics is tested against the real world, both through policies that assume certain models and against historical data.
> True. And I agree it seems like bullshit. Now consider the entirety of economics

Have you studied economics?
I recall someone added a 'murderers your wife' column on the Wikipedia filesystem comparison table at one stage.
It's just a matter of time before those systems look more like the situation in the UK. Eventually they all have to face the same economic realities of costs rising much faster than the tax income. The UK is just faster at internalizing this, which is a good thing imo.

I think we need a much better understanding of why costs are rising so much (not just as a result of the pandemic, even before that) and what can be done to mitigate that.
You mean the utterly wrong marxist "accumulation of capital" claim? So ridiculous! There is no $problem in our civilization and it certainly isnt made by our economy or ignorance.
It is, but that's not the comparison. The question is how well you can react to a user action if you need a network round trip in the middle. The user's already got the 2MB of JS loaded in their browser.

My stance is usually that as long as you can get a response to the user (which can be a DOM fragment, a JS snippet, whatever, doesn't matter) within 200ms, you don't need client-side rendering. And if you haven't yet got under 200ms, you shouldn't be spending time complicating your application to be distributed between the client and the server until that's fixed.
Sorry to break your bubble but most European countries did not colonise other countries. The most successful ones, Scandinavian countries, did not colonise other countries (well they did internally but not the same way as England and France for example). If you look to Norway we had a social democratic system before we gained the majority of wealth (aka oil).
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Because every organically developing system has a great advantage that these projects lack: time. Cities evolve by gradual corrections/adjustments, you cannot anticipate every issue upfront.
I wonder if these are rebadged/white labelled NReal glasses? They are certainly physically very similar and the nreal glasses work exactly the same way USB-C wise.
I volunteered in SAR for five years, and the topic of W3W would occasionally come up.

For me, it’s just already damn hard to make sure you can hear numbers correctly over the radio. In marginal conditions, it’s a hell of a lot easier to use numbers (and requires less time due to not having to repeat or ask for clarification).

Do I really want to be trying to say “arrows.midst.senses” over a handheld radio?
It was these two comment threads previously on Hacker News that turned me on to Csound:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22789920

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22788893

The fact that it is effectively a modular, dataflow system is what intrigues me most about it.
I don't know, but as someone pointes out, we EUropeans are less combative and maybe need less to satisfy our needs, so we don't run for more GDP? maybe it's enough?

I'm not saying it's good, but maybe it's just less pressure -> less force -> less progress.
Triathlon for the last 8 years and more recently my passion for woodwork. I think the woodwork some how relates with what I do and love in software development, we need to use and build different tools to get the job done.

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>At 90k GBP you are paying 45%.

This is so misleading.

At £90K you get a £12,579 tax free allowance leaving £77,421 taxable. You will pay £7,540 from the 20% band, £15,888.40 from the 40% band and nothing from the 45% band for a total of £23,428.40. National Insurance will be £5,318.60 making the total deduction £28,747.

So approx 32%.
Lol, their dream is Europe, basically.

Could be a good tagline: Europe, the utopia of Silicon Valley elites
I've started writing fiction (again for the first time in many years) as a side project cos I had an idea which I think is kind of cool. Reading this has filled me with joy and I will absolutely be using all of the techniques here, especially the big "SHITE" in red pen.

ETA: the funny thing is I'm a software engineer by trade, have been for 18 years, and I gotta say, there is nothing more satisfying than deleting code. Give me a PR filled with seas of red. I love it. Makes a tonne of sense writing would be the same.
https://w3w.me.ss/ collects examples of bad experiences with W3W. It is linked in the paper.
>It's not in an area that is particularly walkable, and it doesn't connect any establishments that obviously need to be connected. So why was it built?

As a dedicated pedestrian I find it baffling why you people would even be wondering about this. You have to provide ways to cross highways as pedestrian, otherwise you just cut off huge parts of land.

I generally find the American approach to road planning where you have buildings and neighborhoods that can only be accessed by vehicle startling. What are you supposed to do if you don't have a car?
It depends a bit on what you are building.

For most LLM apps I wouldn't use a library like that. Just write some code. Some examples;

- Prompt templates: You can just use f-strings, ninja, or whatever templating language

- Getting LLM results: openai (or your llm of choice) library, or just simple api calls

- Chains/composability: Just one line of code after another line of code, functions, loops.

- Embeddings: Depends on the database and llm you are using, but generally not that hard. There are many guides available for whatever you are using.

- Measuring token length: For a lot of things you just need to measure token count of text. For OpenAI see tiktoken.

The exception might be agents, but most apps do not need those.

You could also just look at the langchain source, figure out what you need, then just write it yourself without all the abstractions.

Also look beyond llms. LLM apps are generally not much more than text processing, data storage/fetching, and api calls. That's nothing new, all the existing pre-llm solutions for text processing, queues, concurrency, chaining, data fetching, and pretty much everything you can imagine will work just fine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_overseas_colonies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_possessions_of_Norway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_overseas_colonies
> And then they have to hire someone to go by and get cash from each of the machines.

Are hiring costs really such a deciding factor? By relying on an app, they have to hire teams to develop and maintain at least two mobile apps, probably another team to develop and maintain the 'Laundry Pod' device, at least two teams to develop and maintain the laundry machine endpoints (hardware and software), teams to develop and maintain the backend services, technical support staff to offer first-level customer support for any IT issue, and (hopefully) a competent infosec team to keep their platform secure. And that's without taking into account the IT infrastructure expenditures.

If they can afford all that, they can afford some low-wage cash-picker-uppers... but why would they even need them? They could simply provide the organisation that is renting out the laundry equipment with the keys to get the cash themselves. Washlava can invoice the renters for whatever flat or per-usage fee, with no need to even touch the cash.
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> Not to mention the classic error you’ve made

Actually I didn’t error. This is the total tax paid expressed as a percentage. It is not the marginal tax rate. See the link I provided as evidence (add total deductions + employers NI together).
There’s more to life than GDP. Economic growth is poor measure of collective happiness or quality of life. Are you going to argue that average quality of life in china is substantially better than Europe because their GDP growth is higher?
>Also, Norways oil money, as you write yourself, go into their sovereign fund and does not directly fund wellfare.

That's orthogonal. Having a massive sovereign fund as your rainy day fund goes a long way in your strategic long term thinking and budget planning compared to countries without that rainy day fund.

>There are many theories why the Scandinavian model works on Scandinavia but does not seem to work other places, but to my best knowledge, natural resources are not any of these explanations.

Because lack of corruption, government transparency and regulations plus a high trust society are also needed, not just pooling all our tax money for welfare.

And those qualities don't exist in many other countries. Scandinavian countries are the global exception, not the norm.

The norm everywhere else is "everyone for himself, fuck you I got mine, you go get yours, if you're poor it's your fault for being lazy", despite implementing various welfare programs similar to Scandinavian ones.
You can also put these powders directly in (hot) water as a tea-like drink. On their own they’re a little bitter (but IMO not unpleasantly so), but you can combine them with an actual tea (or something by sweet like squash) at which point the taste modification is quite mild
Cheers. So the chicks did survive, but then drowned because their feathers weren't waterproof, when they went to swim? Or the ice melted from under them, before they were ready?

Emperor penguins can be breed in captivity, btw. So it can't be that ice is required. It must be that the environment needs to be stable. But then the article says it was the lack of ice that did it, not the changing of the environmental conditions.
> People have implemented Unicode for decades

Small subsets. No fonts remotely support all the characters. Prog languages do subsets.
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Dunno why everybody is using this thread to compare the EU to the US, as if I cared about how it is in the US.

I'm telling you I pay over half my salary in taxes and get little in return. Whatever happens in the US is not my problem.