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> (...) tend to develop the most extreme range of dialects as groups seek to differentiate themselves.

This is very interesting. Can you share the source of this claim?
Where? Nonsense as far as I have seen (lived in 4 EU countries and still living in one). Hospital wise I never had to wait (i'm on public healthcare); MRI's, operations, scopes etc are always within a few weeks. I heard far far worse stories from countries without public healthcare and people with private health insurance , including the US. If you are a millionaire or richer, sure; paying cash is faster, but that's not a system and that works everywhere anyway.

We have a bunch of universities in the global top 100 and I have been to one of them which didn't cost me (or my parents) more than a few k euro.
I was so stupid...
That only works in simple cases, and has been the cause of countless bugs. A duration of 1 day is semantically different from 606024 seconds.
Americans pay more in tax towards public healthcare than we do in some European countries. Then they pay again.

E.g. the UK NHS costs less per capita than Medicare + Medicaid costs per capita (not per user), despite the former providing universal service. Partly explained by artificial restrictions on Medicare limiting their ability to negotiate price - the "free" market is intentionally prevented from functioning. It's pretty much corporate welfare paid for by regular tax payers. I never understand why Americans tolerate this.

The proportion who pays twice in the UK is around 10% who opt for private insurance on top. The proportion who pays twice in the US is every tax payer.

Total healthcare spend per capita (public + private) tells a pretty clear picture, where costs of healthcare in the US is totally out of control.
Then why is real gdp per capita in many Western European countries mostly stagnant since 2008? If what you’re saying was true, Europe should be growing faster than USA and even faster than countries like China that have much worse social safety nets.
In practice, utopia usually becomes dystopia.
Just use invidious. There have been hardly any issues, if any, in the history of invidious
Total agreement with this.

I am Dutch, and indeed without working for meta-tier/booking.com-tier American firms you'll struggle to go above 80-100k for full time employment. Friends who went down the same path as wofo rake in 120-180k easily with a lot more free time (3-4 days/wk instead of 5) and fantastic flexibility.
It depends on what you value, right? There are hard limits on the number of people any plot of land can handle and feed. Stagnation is probably a good thing. Always “doing more” isn’t always a good thing. It’s not a zero-sum game where there is some kind of competition.
There’s a chance I’m doing this a great disservice, but this whole site and subject seems to scream pseudoscience.

It seems largely pushed by one guy - Ole Peters. It seems he created the Wikipedia page on this subject. His research is done under the umbrella of the authoritative sounding “London Mathematical Laboratory”, which he founded.

It makes giant claims, like the headline here which seems intended to be read as “mathematics proves collectivism is best” - and yet offers little empirical evidence beyond saying that an abstract mathematical model can tell us something about the real world. Spherical horses and all that.

It even pulls the classic pseudoscience manoeuvre of positioning itself against “mainstream economics”.

Crank until proven otherwise IMHO.

Edit: looks like it’s not just me: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.03275.pdf

Edit 2: he has a Twitter account where he rails against mainstream economics. He’s a physicist.
Not sure why you get downvoted; most taxes are scales and the highest is around 50%. That doesn't mean you pay 50%. Or even close to it.
> Economically, Europe has been stagnating

thats since 2008, when ECB and most of european governments have decided to go full Aysterity and cut all kinds of investments. Prior to this idiocy EU economy was actually larger than US economy.

These ecents are notbrelevant to the taxation model, which predates them by decades
The linked article shows that Europeans are only becoming poorer since 2018, so the last 5 years.

The reasons offered are demographics, valuing free time, the pandemic and the Ukraine war.

This hardly suggests that the problem is the pooling of wealth or that it is not sustainable long term.
Thank you for this article. I also really like coroutines but how they manifest in codebases can sometimes be hard to follow (async Rust, async Python).

I have played around with protothreads and use generators in Python but Marce Coll has an amazing blog post about coroutines in assembly, which is down right now.

If you save the RSP register somewhere and restore it later, you can switch stacks.

I'm currently working on an architecture to unify coroutines and threads. I am taking inspiration from "Bulk synchronous parallel programming" in that I am using barriers. I hope to apply structured concurrency to it too. A coroutine can be remote in a thread or in a different current thread and parallel.

I am curious about stackless python.
It’s interesting because most Ponzi schemes present themselves as a way to pool and share wealth.
California could certainly use more housing. I'll wait and see how this turns out.
> Smart businessman or 'impetuous narcissistic bully'?

Clickbait.

The word 'bully' is absent from the article's geniune title

"Elon Musk: A smart businessman or an ‘impetuous narcissist’?"

and from the article body too.
Than you for the suggestion of Singapore: Identity, Brand, Power from Kenneth Paul Tan, and your note is interesting,

but I doubt that post got primarily downvoted by nationalists :)
RAAC: Public buildings at risk from concrete failure, experts warn
Well but you can actually use the data without other tools.

And you can still easily export and offer the CSV as well.
Heroku's Free Plan Axed: How StagingApp Transformed Crisis into Revenue
I like being on the receiving end of people sharing their money. I worked so hard for so long and got nothing out of it so whenever someone gives me free money, I feel like I earned it. I only look for easy money these days and free money is the easiest of all.

Most wealthy people these days received their wealth for free if you think about it... They got it through talking BS. It's all about manipulating people to choose them, to keep them on as a supplier, to give them extra big contracts with friendly terms, to direct traffics to their websites... Anyone earned serious money through hard intelligent work?
> Society, at least in the classic European model, works just the same (..) everyone benefits from this kind of collective solidarity

There appear to be a growing number of voters who disagree.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/30/far-right-on-t...
Modern books are too long, too. Let's take something like "Atomic Habits", which was god knows how often recommended in various places.. it can be summarised on a few pages max. (Gauss would probably only need 1/3rd of a page..) I think it's psychology and psychology only why those books are too long: 1. more paper seems like it's worth more, so they can charge the $20 or whatever .. 2. reading 4 pages seems trivial, reading 400 is an accomplishment. Having accomplished something (even if its B.S.) increases likelihood that we recommend it, because we want to brag
Stagnation isn't "a good thing" when you're comparing to societies that are progressing. And it may be a zero sum game, when stagnating nations are drained of talent and brains, so this model is even less sustainable, as anyone who can do better leaves, and the rest are left to support those who don't do particularly well.
Sidestep I’d say as we’ve never seen that before. Sidestep into hell, but still a side.
I live in Austria. I pay 48% on everything above 60k € and 50% above 90k. Our VAT is 20%. Most people who can afford it pay for private doctors because it‘s almost impossible to get an appointment with one that‘s covered by normal health care.

So I guess at least for my country the statement above is somewhat true.
Spade: Speech Across Dialects of English
There were modems in the 70s, you were just connecting to BBSes, not AOL or local dial-up providers. For porn, I'm sure the BBSes had it, but there was also Leisure Suit Larry by 1987 which was widely pirated and known for its unique age verification system:

http://allowe.com/games/larry/tips-manuals/lsl1-age-quiz.htm...
I think the Personal Liability insurance that almost everyone has in Germany is an overlooked societal lubricant. For €10 a month, you get €10 million in coverage for accidental damage.

* No incentive for revenge law suits.

* Damages are well regulated so you can't sue for €1 million just because someone's bicycle ran over your toe.

* Can't sue for exorbitant medical expenses because in most cases there are no personal medical expenses i.e. covered anyway by govt health insurance.

I'm unsure if personal liability insurance is popular elsewhere in Europe.
I think seeing generators as special functions makes them feel more magic than what they really are: generators are nothing more than a syntactic sugar for objects with a “call” method that will change the values of the private fields in this object, that's why you can call it repeatedly with different results.

Some patterns become easier to write with the generator syntax, but it's not really adding expressive power. (Unlike futures for instance)
It’s not an academic or legacy text issue at all, systems and apps that deal with Japanese texts were usually configured to do Chinese wrong and vice versa, which worked until computer OS images became universal.

The Chinese Hanzi codespace and Japanese Kanji codespace are effectively reused for each other’s sets. That’s what it is.
I haven't yet seen a reason behind the high failure rate. I'm trying to think of reasons:

* microcracks which in classic pre stressed (or not) reinforced concrete are contained by the rebar.

* thermal expansion and contraction effects over time.

* unexpected loads not predicted by the engineering models used to dimension the material.

* embrittlement from ageing, although many forms of concrete age by getting stronger.

* side effects of the surfactants added to aide foaming.

* side effect of autoclaving.
Piracy under law of nations - 18 U.S.C. Section 1651 (2013)

1651. Piracy under law of nations

Whoever, on the high seas, commits the crime of piracy as defined by the law of nations, and is afterwards brought into or found in the United States, shall be imprisoned for life.

High seas is a synonym for international waters.

To be a pirate, one must commit the crime of piracy on the high seas at least once.
The EU economy fell way below the US (after being roughly equal) because they were never able to compete in the new digital economy.
All the big tech companies are American.
You also have to ask yourself why the ECB and European governments had to cut spending. Perhaps because the levels before weren't sustainable? Perhaps because you can't just keep living beyond your means, as eventually you'll run out of other people's money?
“The material is liable to fail without visible deterioration or warning.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforced_autoclaved_aerated_...
Amazing dedication and I did read to the end.
If not protected from water water can penetrate and rust the steel rebar.
But that's not Minecraft. That's MS's shitty non cross platform port.

You want to give the kids Java edition which has none of this crap.
That’s also true of many management books, where what could have been communicated in 10 to 50 pages has been diluted in 200 pages. I kind of understand why authors and editors were doing that when all books were printed: a 200 pages book looks more “serious”. But in the era of ebooks, it shouldn’t matter anymore.
I'm sorry, but that list is very inaccurate (even if it is by The Economist—what are they smoking?). Singapore, below Paris? Below Barcelona, and below Frankfurt? Within two hours of setting foot in Paris, I nearly got my passport and 1400+€ stolen. I've lived 26 years in Singapore, and I have seen nothing of the sort. I left my phone in a hawker centre, and it was still there when I came to retrieve it, several hours later.
As if their lives are not already hard enough as it is.
Measure Answer Relevancy of LLMs
Seer is a decent front end for gdb

https://github.com/epasveer/seer
Yep, that is common argument against refugees. "They come on foot with smartphones, they are not poor". They keep translator app, map, documents, priceless memories as photos, contacts with relatives - it is all they own apart of backpack of cloths. I wouldn't step onto another country's soil without that.
In sweden we also have social insurance fee (which is a tax according to all def even if it is called a fee) and VAT. 50% is just one of many taxes. You should count all the taxes an individual pays.
Their economy was stagnating for at least a decade before 2018. They've gone from near-zero growth to negative.
It doesn't matter what the reasons are, really. The pandemic hit everywhere, and their choice to "value free time" is the problem here. Turns out you can't sustain a high quality of life without enough people working hard to produce the products and services that create this high quality of life.
A phone or a smartphone with is from big 2?
>unless I want to buy and carry around an extra phone for completely bullshit reasons

Owning a separate, dedicated piece of hardware for sensitive and critical activities (eg: banking) is a very good idea because it isolates them from all your other mundane, potentially risky activities.

Most people don't do this because of the various inconveniences and expenses involved, but if you can tolerate them it's about as safe as digital activities can get.
Not shocking you have plenty of anarchists down south, neighbour. An app to request permission to leave your home. What were they thinking
No because if I add space to the original string I don't get a valid string

Or given the context space is a valid production from the last error, but then I would need to roll back the incomplete "do" terminal and lose that context.
I've been to most of these cities and it surprises me the Asian ones aren't higher up.

I absolutely felt safer in Singapore and Tokyo than Toronto.

I'm also surprised Shanghai, Beijing, and Shenzhen aren't on the top 10.
Do you know an easier Alternative to LangChain?
Langchain is considered the standard for building LLM apps. However once I started using it, I quickly realised how over engineered it is. Adding custom logic and building complex flows is a nightmare and I keep spending too much time on parsing through it's docs.

Do you know an easier more composable alternative to building production LLM apps ?
They said online gaming. It's a pretty accurate description of the free to play space.

Buy your kids pay once games with no IAPs. Teach them to keep a wish list and wait for sales :)
Ask HN: Should I use LLMs for NLP such as sentiment analysis or classification?
I see people are using LLms for summarising long text( I think edge bing also suggests this) and was wondering what's the current state of art for more traditional NLP applications? Are they still valid or LLMs won in those areas as well
Presumably someone would read the books. Normally, this is done by the publisher, which decides which books it wants to publish. The bookstore decides which publishers it wants to work with.
I think there's significantly less if not no rebar in this stuff. Also aren't some rebar uses are said to get stronger with small amounts of rust causing expansion and locking/tightening?
Seems like the good old false Marxist argument, in a sexy new "mathematical" package to appeal to a geeky crowd. I predict it will do extremely well here.
Yes, but what is “progress” right now? Move to a country where you can make infinite money (a gamble) but lose it all as soon as you get sick? Or move to another one where every move is monitored and watched? Or where you need a phone to do the most basic things, where you are stranded with no way to eat until you charge your phone?

Progress may not always be good, at least in today’s times it basically means “more efficient extraction of wealth from the middle class”.
The only crazy these days is ridiculing this. Lacking the humility or openness to engage curiously is a choice that just lacks integrity.
You can block a lot more in an browser - like links to surveillance stat systems (mixpanel). It still possible to do that with an app, but it’s much more involving
Yes, this model works well when people are mostly surrounded by people "like them". Populists tell such people they'd be better off if it weren't for all the people with different coloured skin, wearing funny clothes, speaking weird languages. And so while everyone probably is better off, they fester that resentment, creating a cultural feeling that we're not, and it's all _their_ fault.
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The billy for measuring volume of books, named after the ubiquitous Ikea furniture.
““It is RAAC from the 1950s, 60s and 70s that is of main concern, especially if it has not been adequately maintained. RAAC examples have been found with bearings (supports) which aren’t big enough, and RAAC with the steel reinforcement in the wrong place, both of which can have structural implications. Prolonged water ingress (not uncommon on old flat roofs) can also lead to deterioration.”

https://www.lboro.ac.uk/news-events/news/2023/march/reinforc...
>lived in 4 EU countries and still living in one ... MRI's, operations, scopes etc are always within a few weeks

Where?
Is it unrealistic to hope for legal protection against being refused services on account of lacking a phone? Has that been suggested anywhere?
Agree, but why? It's an interesting theoretical question when you think about it. Is it because people who have the money and means have a skewed concept of the world making them incapable of constructing utopias/well functioning "synthetic societies", or is it more fundamentally impossible? And in the latter case, why then should we even try to improve society?
So then you would need, in other countries, count all the unemployment insurance, pension, school premiums and healthcare insurance also towards their tax. Then yes.

When people outside more socialist countries say they pay far less tax, they never include any of this, so I don’t either.
Interesting that the researchers didn’t analyze W3W directly because it would violate their ToS, but instead constructed their own word list. I would think that this sort of criticism of a technology used by the government (for emergency services) would be acceptable, similar to “fair use” in the US.

Edit: it looks like the list itself is not even available, they would have had to reverse-engineer the app, so using a synthetic list makes more sense.
> Damages are well regulated so you can't sue for €1 million just because someone's bicycle ran over your toe.

Counter-example: a website uses Google Fonts and the owner gets a letter from someone's German lawyer demanding they pay "damages" for the GDPR "violation"

[0] https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/german-websi...
[1] https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/razzia-wegen-betrugs-run...
>Americans pay more in tax towards public healthcare than we do in some European countries. Then they pay again.

The US system is designed to be profitable for those running it, not offer good value for those using it.
It is now pretty much accepted that the European reaction to the financial crisis was massively worse than the American. A big and expensive error can have long lasting effects - perhaps no need for beyond means, digital etc. but that is rather a result not a cause.
Sweden:
24% payroll tax, >30% income tax = 47% tax. Then there's a 25% VAT on most non-food goods, and an extra 20% income tax on any income above $56k.

To be fair, 17% of the payroll and income tax are pension contributions (up to earning around thr $56k, after that it's just a tax).
This model works well in countries that already have the wealth to support it, usually from spending centuries colonizing other countries and sucking them dry. It doesn't work quite as well in the countries that had been colonized.
But in your example there is no difference wether Google’s dot policy exists or it doesn’t.

Someone could have setup a dodgy Microsoft ads account to your main email just as easily as the dotted/non-dotted version.

Where is the problem?
In the UK once you reach over ~120k GBP the total tax wedge is above 50% [1].

At 90k GBP you are paying 45%. I guess it depends on what “nowhere near half” means. 45% is close imo. Especially with VAT added in on purchases. Yes the average London wage is more like 50k GBP, but from that perspective it’s also only double the average wage before you hit 45%+ tax take.

The top UK tax rate (including employers NI etc) is ~59%.

1. https://listentotaxman.com/?year=2022&taxregion=uk&age=0&tim...