skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It probably means programmers who are so "good" that nobody else wants to work with them.

Thus the codebase is written by one single person, possibly over a short period of time so they can keep everything in their head and then the program is never touched again in the following years.

This way, that programmer can really feel good about themself and feel so superior about all those lesser programmer who have to use safer languages because they live in the real world
How does the Emacs mode work? I'm not interested in going back to Emacs, but I am curious about how the mode works in terms of the newer "real-time" or "live-coding" features of Csound. Do you do something like what's done in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eacyGKRBpwA?
Tsrpc: A TypeScript RPC Framework
Or the author continues for so many books that they pass away and it has to be completed posthumously, with with Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.

That said, I Jordan more credit that than (the still-humous) George RR Martin, since Jordan didn't spent pages building up characters and relationships only to kill them off.
Yet if you look across the EU it's the richest countries that work the least hours. The people working long hours don't seem to be getting much benefit from it at all.
Neom is way more futuristic and pie in the sky than this project. If for no other reason the planed 170 kilometres long 200 meter wide linear city in Neom is straight up cyberpunk material while this one is… just a city? A liveable one, which makes it look special.

Superficially it looks like a California version of Lake Nona to me.
Part of search engine magic is mixing in embeddings (or traditional information retrieval keywords) of the pages that link to the page weighted by clicks and authority score, for example.

Without this signal, a lot of useful information is ignored and the result doesn't feel as magical.

Still impressive, fascinating demo
3blue1brown is the better channel imo. More interesting.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31294316

...about being locked out of your appartment when your phone is discharged.
the default gnome ones, and the whole Adwaita design language. I would prefer it any day over the current mac. Obviously its a personal preference, there's no right or wrong. But I used to like the mac design much more a bunch of years ago. Now, not so much.
But stackful coroutines and (one shot) delimited continuations are equivalent in power and expressivity.

Unless you are referring to stackless coroutines or multi-shot continuations.
Interested and mailed my resume
Depends on the size of the conveyance: I've been traveling through empty space for decades, and I've barely explored the ship.
Well, threatened with legal action and wasn't up for fighting it. It didn't get as far as him being sued, and while I can't blame him in the slightest for that choice, I would have been absolutely fascinated if it did go to court. A compatible reimplementation of something that's being sold to emergency services being slapped down because it's compatible sounds like the sort of thing useful precedent could have come out of.
> If you cannot print Unicode text on a sheet of paper and know its meaning, then

then you've picked the wrong font for the job. This can happen even with ASCII, e.g. if you print out cryptographic secrets in base64 for use during disaster recovery and then discover you cannot distinguish O and 0 (capital o and zero) nor I and l (capital i and small L). (Hopefully you discover this immediately after printing, instead of after losing all your data.) That doesn't mean those identical glyphs should never have been encoded differently, it means font designers need to make them more distinct.
> have to be differently encoded.

They don't. It's a fake problem.
But I thought Europe was only producing “vapidity” ? /s

EDIT: look it up on Twitter
In your original post you wrote

> preventing its use in basically anything besides small side and school project

That is what I (and others) took issue with. SuperCollider is used by professional artists (including myself). Just because you cannot use it in a proprietary app does not mean it is only for hobbyists!
Why is it that whenever people suggest any kind of nudge that might be helpful to society, the immediate response is to take it to a totalitarian nightmare. Don't get me wrong; I think the government should leave people alone as much as possible. But jumping straight onto the slippery slope seems like a thought-terminating cliché — rather than leading to an actual discussion about how best to manage individual freedoms while living in a society. (and no, the answer is not "everybody is free to do everything" just as it isn't "nanny state knows best; eat your veggies or else")
Depends. A lot of the former colonies attempted more collectivist policies but were prevented from doing so by their former colonizers (or other rich countries).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7afrique
You cant use the app if you dont give permission.
Where’s the evidence Europe is failing to maintain it quality of life?

You’ve implicitly supposed that quality of life can’t be maintained without economic growth, but have provided no evidence or rationale for such a claim. Quality of life measures seem to indicate things are getting better not worse in Europe, and is leagues ahead of the U.S.
The article seems pretty reasonable to me, the theory seems to work. Can you clarify which part of it you find problematic because I don't see it in the article?

Edit: here is also the source code for the cooperative coin, if it helps the discussion https://github.com/lmlhub/ee_web_apps/blob/main/cooperating_...
A Ph.d is mostly cheap labour for the relevant research institution. I wouldn't count that as a cost to society unless the work done is not useful, in which case it is not the Ph.d graduate but the research institution that funded the project that is to blame. Get a Ph.d position is quite competitive and the ones which are less "useful" from an immediate economic perspective are paid much worse.
I've never used either Csound or Supercollider extensively (more of a PD guy), but having tried to write a simple oscillator in pure C, even that turns out to be non-trivial. The naive approach of sin(t * pi2 * freq) produces pops when varying the frequency - you need to keep track of current phase. And from there it begins, the further you dig the more things you find you thought were trivial. I wouldn't be surprised if this or that synthesizer got something wrong.
> Emperor penguins can be breed in captivity, btw. So it can't be that ice is required.

You think the technology to create ice has not been invented, yet?
I have been using Linux on laptops with NVIDIA dGPUs (from Dell and Lenovo) during the last decade without any problem whatsoever.

Not only nothing was miserable, but the NVIDIA dGPUs have allowed applications that are still impossible with GPUs from other vendors, e.g. professional applications using OpenGL that expose bugs in the drivers from other vendors or that have a too low performance on other hardware, or computational CUDA applications that benefit from the many useful libraries provided freely by NVIDIA.

For simpler applications AMD and Intel are fine, but unfortunately there are still many cases when there is no alternative for NVIDIA.

NVIDIA may be criticized for the greediness of their pricing policy or for the slow progress towards providing an open-source kernel driver, but claiming that they offer a miserable Linux experience is completely false.

Very few companies provide a similar level of Linux support, despite the fact that there are some kernel developers who continue to try to sabotage the work needed for maintaining the NVIDIA Linux kernel driver.

NVIDIA provides much more free Linux tools for their GPUs than any other GPU vendor.
I don't think the ideological overhead of "cooperation is good" is a leftist one. Quite the opposite, if we qualify it down to "voluntary cooperation is good" it forms the heart of capitalism. The problem with leftism is that often it is also fine with "forced cooperation is good", and that's where it goes bad.
This is the back up or change in building activity for when the housing market finally crashes.

RAAC is concrete sponge, its got air holes in, a fad or trendy building material for use after WW2, problem is no one knew how well it would last. So far Roman Concrete is still currently the longest lasting concrete on the planet and superior in so many ways.

Studies in the 1990's highlighted a problem, but its been largely ignored or kept quiet, and nobody kept records of what buildings are made of, like many properties in the UK.

So fast forward to a few years back, problems started to be noted with crumbling, still a game of pass the parcel and now the music has stopped and its become a problem, just in time for the housing market crash.

I guess one of the attractions for its use was low costs and pumping air into something probably helped reduce the need for so much concrete, when thinking of food rationing that was still in place after the end of WW2 and various countries who took part are getting back up off their knees.
How long until a high resolution iris scanner can be embedded in a pair of sunglasses?

Point is it wasn’t long ago that nobody could fake your voice either.
Like what? The lack of indoor plumbing? Or perhaps the high infant mortality rates? The only way to believe this is to live in total ignorance of history.
>As two flat hands collide, the air between them is forced out increasingly quickly, ultimately exceeding the speed of sound. This creates an abrupt pressure change, resulting in shock waves that make up a large part of the noise we hear

So the clap is a mini sonic boom between your hands?
> I pay 48% on everything above 60k € and 50% above 90k.

Those are marginal rates, not your effective rate which is what matter overall.

Austria has one of the higher tax rates of OECD countries, reaching 38.3% effective rate for a single person earning 167% of the average wage (source: OECD Taxing Wages)

Again the 20% when counted towards your income is marginal in that you only pay 20% on the price of covered products and services you buy. For starters you only spend of your net income, and only then after mortgages or rent and exempt products. When I last added that up for myself, VAT added up to around 4% of my gross salary.

So I stand by what I said. Most people in Europe pay nothing like 50%.

With respect to healthcare spending, Austrians do spend a lot, but your total healthcare spend, including private payments is far below what Americans pay in tax towards healthcare (source: OECD Health). PPP adjusted you spend an average of around $7.3k vs. around $12.5k in the US. About 2/3's of your $7.3k is taxes.
From what I have heard from someone working at an insurance company, those liability contracts are not cost covering. They have those for customer recruitment.
For more on this, and why I think we shouldn't advocate for W3W, see: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/03/why-bother-with-what-three-... for theoretical reasons and https://w3w.me.ss/ for some practical examples.

https://plus.codes seems much better, but sadly it uses random characters instead of words, which is much harder for humans to remember ( https://xkcd.com/936/ ), so I don't think it will ever catch on.

That's pretty sad in my opinion, is the whole concept of using words to encode a location now owned by w3w? The implementation seems trivial
Why worry, in 100 years AI will create all the music one likes in a second, and if one wants sweet memories of the past, AI will create those too) And inject something to extract sweet nostalgic tears.
> but your tax percentages don't scan for me.

They quoted marginal rates, not effective rates, which is usually the case when people start talking about these high numbers.
if you have any twisted pair (or even untwisted):

https://www.netsys-direct.com/en-gb/products/kit-managed-g-f...

Works well for me
(600mbit down / 400mbit up, over a single pair of cat 3)
An underage user can die from using a scooter but not from watching porn.
I can add another anecdote to the crowd sourced judgement..

Wife used to live in Vienna, Austria, and always had private doctor insurance. Her fears came true as she had a serious medical situation and was asked to wait for weeks (with pain managed by painkillers) until the surgery she needed could be done. Her private insurance stepped in, and like magic she was treated in 3 days.

Now, I believe that healthcare should never be considered optional/treated like a business, and must be equally available to all without pre-conditions on their financial well wing, but inefficiencies in the system are not to be wish washed away.
Semantic Kernel https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel
Live in a city where no car is needed, I suppose.
263 (Wikipedia)
I wondered this morning if (english) wikipedia documented natural numbers.
It seems that every number is properly documented and has its individual page up to 263, and from 264 numbers are documented by batches.
Some numbers pages are more interesting than the rest obviously (73 and 36 are some examples), but in general I find the quantity of knowledge bridges the pages contain is wild.

In one Māori legend, concerning the
creation of mankind by the god
Tāne, 36 gods took active part in
assembling the various parts of the
first human before Tāne breathed
life into her.

36 is the number of degrees in the
interior angle of each tip of a
regular pentagram.

Enjoy !
This was super neat, really appreciate all the examples :)
>They quoted marginal rates, not effective rates, which is usually the case when people start talking about these high numbers.

I'm confused. What's the difference?
Because these benefits don’t necessary result in growth of real gdp per capita, but increase the stability and livability of a city.

A PhD student in many places in Europe can afford to have their own apartment and have kids. Where is that possible in usa?
Funny how big this story became, and how quickly it disappeared and is now nothing. The attention I guess ?
Because the goal of WebAuthn is to not depend on any companies infrastructure.

And there's work being done in that direction. Apple supports passkeys from third-party password managers, 1Password has a Passkey beta and KeePassXC has a pull request working on passkey support. [0]

That independence is a design goal of passkeys, because they want to replace passwords and passwords are independent by their nature.

[0]: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/pull/8825
I completed a boot-camp around two years ago. It was part of the UK Government's apprenticeship scheme. During the course, I interviewed and landed a junior position at an agency. This meant I was paid for my time on the course and was offered a year-long contract. The apprenticeship also required that I complete two written documents along with interviews about my work.

On the whole, it's been a very positive journey.

- The boot-camp spanned three months, it expected all participants to undertake a several months of self-study and interview for a position on the programme

- It was fast paced and covered a lot

- The hands-on experience from the apprenticeship has been priceless

- That said, I'm currently on the hunt for a new position and am finding it quite tough to nail down interviews. I've come to realise that I require and also want a deeper foundational knowledge, rather than just knowing how to employ frameworks like Express/React to build CRUD apps

The boot-camp is called Founders and Coders[0]. I would thoroughly recommended it.

[0] https://www.foundersandcoders.com/
Going back to the original article, the subject is regarding ergodicity and economic benefits of cooperation. The commenter I’m replying to extended an analogy to claim that this research extends to certain countries social welfare system. My position is that this extension is outright false, that just because cooperation can create benefits under the conditions of the research, it doesn’t demonstrate economic growth results from social welfare policies.
There's EU and there's EU. Poland has a terrible public health care system, but it's fairly decent if you can afford private. Austria on the other hand is nothing short of amazing.
> not really the kind of place you would need to walk to

As an European, the amount of cringe on reading this sentence went through the roof.
The short answer is: there is much more to life than safety. For example, your son will likely be the safest if you simply lock him up in the bedroom for his entire life - but that’s not a life worth living.

1) The surveillance is excessive and unnecessary in a country with extremely low crime rate.
2) Such intrusive and widespread surveillance is very problematic in an authoritarian state with a history of persecuting dissidents
3) Public funds spent on unnecessary projects means less for tackling issues such as high inequality

It might not be apparent to one, depending on the area they live in, the wealthier areas receive much less surveillance than the public housing areas. Privately developed property do not have police surveillance in their lifts or estates and have less surveillance in the general area (eg. bus stops). Vice versa, the number of surveillance cameras is much higher in the low income public rental/housing areas. There is a lot of discussion on inequality in the US but Singapore has even higher inequality/Gini coefficient. There is much more than what meets the eye, especially in a state characterized by scholars as “sophisticated authoritarianism”. [0]

[0] https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/politi...
The one single reason, no need to look any futher, for why it shouldn't be used by public services is because it's a private for profit operation. A simple concept that might have been useful, but is closed, so it won't be.
I never found Strang's lectures out of ordinary nor particularly enlightening. But what managed to give me perspective was Pavel Grinfeld's playlists, starting from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnfh8jNqBlg&list=PLlXfTHzgMR....
Tbh there is a price for that, our taxation is one of the highest in the world with stagnation for past 15 years (even with enormous "immigration" flow).

Also people who are in top of their fields almost never stay in Europe (especially if they are young) as potential tax burden for top brackets (which aren't that high its mostly middle class in US wealth scale) are enormous and total taxation can be as high as 60-65% (with VAT and local laws [homes, car, fuel]) for 1.5-3x less money then in US or even in some Asian based corporations which directly makes EU stagnant in most of the R&D fields (even in IT i can make like triple the money in US or 1.5x in China corporations).

EU system is good if you are making money not from work but from wealth (rent, stocks etc.) which is only for folks who already make a lot of investments in younger days or just inherit a lot of cash/properties/stocks.

I know US folks love to be angry about their country, but they are in best position for making decent living in the whole world, except possibly some small asian/european states like Switzerland/Singapore etc.
So far, stories about this are getting posted to HN on weekends, like news dumps. This time (for US people) it's posted in the wee hours of the morning at the start of a 3-day weekend.
The Economist has an almost famous beef with Singapore likely rooted in the competition with London. There’s a lot of spicy ambassador notes from Singapore in response to some of their contortions and cherry-picking over the years.

Having lived in a variety of places… I’m not sure I would phrase it that way, but I didn’t find “Southerners” to be remarkably hospitable or Canadians overwhelmingly polite.

It’s hard to piece the expat bubble in Singapore - because many people come here for a few years, live in Condos and send their kids to International school and work in MNCs, so getting to know locals can be tough and take a while.

And that’s not necessarily because people don’t want to mingle, it just is.

- You need a green card equivalent to send your kids to local school and even if you have it, the curriculum is easily a year, if not 2 ahead of other countries (because of high investment in education, different school culture and the practical need to offset 2 years of military service following school and maintain international competitiveness)

- You can’t buy government housing that 80% of locals live in as a foreigner unless you have the equivalent of a green card and fulfill a long list of requirements (including finding a block with space for your race)

- Your job is gonna be in an MNC which will be a lot more mixed.

If you live here long enough without getting home sick and overcome these, yes you will make local friends and I would say they will more likely be well educated, well travelled and fun to hang out with, especially when it comes to anything food or travel.

But warm blooded? Not sure that’s a word I would use.
I have an amateur theory on a similar idea and could use some feedback on it. I’m sure this isn’t an original idea, but I’m not an economist.

The argument goes like this: the wealthy members of society have a higher quality of life when income inequality is not extreme. Not because of diminished social ostracism, but because the luxury products they want to consume would not exist without the markets and broad consumer base to fund them.

In other words, the average wealthy person today has access to technology, exotic food, plumbing, fast cars, etc. that even kings didn’t have a few centuries ago. These things only exist because wealth was sufficiently distributed to incentivize their development. Many or most of them would not exist in a world of extreme inequality, if only from lack of interest (e.g., a wealthy 17th century aristocrat isn’t going to start a plumbing business, but the son of a tradesman will.) All the money in the world won’t help the King of France build a private jet in 1770.

The conclusion of this is that from a purely selfish point of view, the wealthy have a vested interest in not centralizing all wealth.

Edit: it's so bizarre when people don't reply and just downvote a comment that is purely speculating.
> it doesn't seem to be working long term

Define "Long term", it's been working pretty well for over a century.
What austerity? In Spain’s case, both debt to GDP and tax revenue to GDP ratios has been increasing since a decade ago. That’s the contrary of austerity.
A great find, OP thank you for posting. I'm in awe of the author's dedication. I wish someone close to the bridge would post a note with the URL on it.
> 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.

Because the comment that you replied to was comparing the EU to the US: "And everyone benefits from this kind of collective solidarity - our societies are far less combative (both in the literal and the proverbial sense) than the US are."
Your own previous comment doesn't match this take: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21218385
Marginal rates.

Sweden reaches 50.3% for a single person earning 167% of average salary in total tax wedge (including employer payroll taxes) with no substantial deducations. An average earner has a total tax wedge of 42.4%. Sweden is one of the highest in Europe.

The average earner pays 24.3% in income tax and employee social service contributions.

The VAT adds up to less than you'd think, because for starters you won't buy anything VAT rates with the money you've already paid to tax, nor what you pay on housing, or food. Last time I added up what I actually paid in tax it was around 4%, both in Norway with similar tax levels to Sweden, and in the UK.
I don't really understand the need for W3W in most cases, at least in Europe.

Can someone come up with something convincing?