skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems reasonable to me, go with it. I mean, it also makes sense even at a societal level, would you rather people around you when you walk in the street be content/satisfied or looking out for a victim to steal from? I'd rather all people have sufficient access to life's needs so that selfishly i'm not scared that I'll be robbed. Your theory makes sense in many levels.
Because for all his grandiose claims to novelty, he's basically created a completely abstract game theoretical model of the concept of insurance, which suffice to say is not something "mainstream economists" are unaware of.
Fantastic read. I'm impressed at how forthcoming various US city officials and employees are about giving away infrastructure plans to anyone who demands it.

Freedom of Information act, sure. But try gaining access to the same level of info that Tyler got here in a country like Germany[0]. In theory very easy, in practice you will be sent in a vicious circle of disinterested officials passing the buck.

0: https://www.dpma.de/english/our_office/law/freedom_of_inform...
Adresses are anything but standard, many words can easily sound alike, and in some places that address couldn’t be properly spoken by a someone not familiar with the language. That’s when there even are adresses for your location. Many places simply don’t have one.

As for gps coordinates, they are rather long and enunciating long sequences of characters can be quite tedious as anyone who has ever had to deal with game cd keys could tell.

That, and most people don’t know NATO alphabet.

So I’d, on the contrary, say a geohash-ish approache relying on a dictionary of carefully chosen hard to confuse and easy to enunciate words has its merits.

But the optimal solution to me would be "press here to send your exact location".
Why not plus codes? At least that's an open standard that won't get rug-pulled.
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The website doesn't have proof.

The first question would therefore be 'were is the proof'
Exactly. Which is why a lot of Europe's wealth is inherited and has policies in place to protect that wealth and roll it over across generations (nearly) tax free, so most of the Government taxes are gathered on the backs of the working class, not the asset owning class, making it a serfdom with extra steps.

Ironically, US has way tougher inheritance taxes than most of EU.
I can relate to this, specially when playing chess.
On sunday morning I play rapid games online. When I reach a certain amount of victories in a row, I tend to trust my intuitions or feelings more than my analysis, this is a weird mechanism because losing seems to be the cure.

If I stop playing after three wins in a row, my elo is raising better than with a let's continue approach. (Paranoïa)

That's a little bit out of the initial subject, but it is a pain for me to play in a tournament. Every win in such a situation makes me anxious : the more you progress toward the final game, the more winning a game is valuable and the more losing a game is overwhelming. (Pressure)

But then there is Victory Disease, which relates to being overconfident, and Tournament Disease, which relates to "there's no way I will win, I must throw the game because pressure is unbearable to me".

I suffer from both, and I wonder how I can still enjoy very much that game.
I know they're out there, hell my wife doesn't turn her laptop on from one week to the next, but I still find it hard to fathom.

This is the gulf UX design is supposed to cross, I guess. Designing for people who engage with tech in utterly different ways to me.
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I have to say, the cases that you raise (e.g. square root function) seem quite a different nature than the systems that the author appears to consider (e.g. distributed garbage collector). Your considerations appear to enumerate some types of checks one would use in unit testing.

As for taking as invariants anything that must be true, in a system very many things are true, and the most part of them would be utterly uninteresting. Understanding the process that one would use to pick insightful ones is rather the art which I'm intrigued by.
Ok, I had never seen it simplified like that though, and definitely wasn't aware that from a random coin you can be net positive if you cooperate, that's a surprise to my knowledge and I find that idea very valuable.

Edit: also I don't see it very similar to insurance, since insurance is withholding wealth in order to distribute it occasionally when needed because it's zero-sum. But if distributing it all the time everywhere is a net positive gain, that's entirely different than the insurance game.
> unless you have to remember it or put it in by hand

Or spell it out while in distress.

But it seems w3w fits best in the "interesting but ultimately bad idea" bin.
Back when I was writing a software synth for fun (and also for getting hired in the audio industry), I found the book DAFX to be very helpful. It describes basic algorithms for doing digital audio, though not the state of the art.
I’m sure you can find a lot of edge cases and work around but at some point you get to “we don’t need passwords because someone can crack them anyway”.

The fact is that there’s nothing potentially dangerous about minor watching porn where there is about minimum age requirements for electric scooters.
There have been multiple shootings and deaths at this event most years. The governor's aide got killed in 2015. I don't love this, but identifying where the large parties are seems reasonable
> Yet we consumers love to envision the maximum usage for a particular item – like a house or a car – then buy the item with a capacity high enough to accommodate our visions.

It's one step worse for houses. Even a single person should buy a "starter home" with 3 bedrooms in a good school district. Why? Not because the single person wants it, but merely because home buyers are encouraged to think that this makes the house easier to sell later, and even single buyers like yourself will not want an unsellable house.
This makes me wonder about evolution. If, as the article says, they have no other culling other than climate change, it seems a crazy lack of adaptability that they can have large scale “breeding failure” due to a few degrees difference in average temperature. Like how did they survive this long in the first place? Surely the environment hasn’t been that stable on evolutionary time scales? Or perhaps a large portion of the population is just an overfitted population and now there is a corrective coming? Can it really wipe out the entire species?
I’ve always found even the strongest Texas or Arkansas accents intelligible, unlike some regional UK accents. The US used to be more varied but being one national market for media and immigration has had a homogenizing influence. It’s not simply a question of age, some parts of the US are 500 years old, and in some ways it’s British English that has drifted, not the other way round.
>it uses random characters instead of words, which is much harder for humans to remember

Do we really need to remember them, instead of just writing them down?
> total tax wedges (including employer payroll taxes)

Those "employer payroll taxes" are still part of your salary. It's just an accounting trick to fool you.
> I'd absolutely whitelist those apps for much more time.

I think this is a much better approach than blanket screen time restrictions.

By the way, I got into programming when I was about 10 because an informatics teacher at school showed me how to do it and encouraged her students to compete in school programming competitions. I think it's very difficult for kids to engage with learning-centric stuff on their own, so an incentive (even a very basic one) helps a lot.
> let SF devolve

You have to ask yourself whether SF would have been 'let' to devolve if the type of people who support projects like this instead were active in the governance of their own city.

You might also ask yourself whether the devolution of SF is entirely organic; to me, some of the decisions being made there seem rather like deliberate sabotage.

I find the hubris of these people that just want to run off and do their own thing a bit disturbing; it's the 'you're standing on the shoulders of giants yet think you are seeing the answer with your own eyes alone' thing.

By and large I find the type of people that support these projects to be alarmingly lacking in any sort of empathy.
Fordlandia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordl%C3%A2ndia

And for a really dark example:

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

Also Disney's failed attempt:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPCOT_(concept)

Finally an example that actually worked:

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

...the project reminds me much more of the Chinese 'fake European cities' though:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fiction/duplitecture-d...
But the US taxpayer also pays into health insurance (for retirees, low income and subsidies for everyone else), long-term disability, unemployment insurance, workers compensation, social security pension.

So what's the difference again?
Thirty years ago I would have given anything for a pocket device that could tell me whether any washing machines on campus were empty and ready to use.

Because it sucked to lug my basket of socks and sweaty t-shirts over to laundry block only to find out there was a big queue and my options were either to lug the basket back to my room and try again a random interval later, or leave my backet lying around in the laundry block, at the mercy of who knows what and come back a random interval later.
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And how well does that work, unless you are picking the winning economist opinion in hindsight? For any currently open economical topic you will find diverging or even contradictory opinions by well-established economists. Some of them are bound to have been right, after the fact.
Maybe the temperature has been that stable over evolutionary time scales: perhaps climate change has changed temperatures much faster. Adapting to a 1 degree change over 500 years might be a lot easier than doing the same in 50.
The renders look like any Italian, French or Spanish small town. The concept as well.

Funny enough, there is a similar city in John Brunner‘s Sheep looking up, I believe. Established in the Bay Area as a utopian place after California became a postapocalyptic nightmare following a giant earthquake.
I'm not sure what is the state-of-the-art in sentiment analysis. However, GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 work great for it with few shot learning. You give a representative set of examples in the prompt and it works pretty well.

On the topic of classification, large language models such as BERT are the state-of-the-art. But, there was a paper recently at the ACL [1] which showed that a simple approach of using gzip compression + k-nearest neighbour achieved similar level of performance. Later on, their KNN evaluation methodology came under question because instead of doing KNN with k=2 they reported accuracy based on top-2. Even then, what it shows is that we don't need LLMs for simple tasks such as classification, where traditional techniques still work well and are much cheaper to run. I'm sure some people might say that we should just discard that paper because it had that error. But Sebastian Raschka ran it on the IMDB movie reviews dataset and reported 71% accuracy [3]. I wrote an explainer article on it [2].

[1] https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.426.pdf [PDF]

[2] https://codeconfessions.substack.com/p/decoding-the-acl-pape...

[3] https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/large-language-model...
I’m pretty certain W3W are not now profitable and never will be. They’ve raised a ridiculous sum for a service which does not appear to be much-in demand.
> We're well into the "smartphones are a human right" era

My government has to respect free speech but it doesn't mean I have to speak up.
Just because something is a human right doesn't mean I have to execute it.

I very much appreciate those people who live without smartphones. As a society, we need these people. It's not only about people with disabilities and other marginalized groups. It's about everyone.

Last year, the smartphone of a friend of mine was stolen. Luckily, it was well protected. But still it was gone with all the 2F apps. This friend had to learn by example that those apps actually second factors. Also luckily, this person didn't enable 2F for Gmail. Otherwise it would have been much more trouble.
> The issue is doing a unified codepoint right run into problems of accepting that zh-CN/zh-HK/zh-TW and ja-JP/kr-KR each uses slightly different definitions for every letters in common use, which is not just memory inefficient but also have to do with Taiwanese identity problem.

I'm not sure what exactly you wanted to say, but all of six or seven variants of Han characters are substantially different from each other. Glyphwise there are three major clusters due to the different simplification history (of the lack thereof): PRC, Japan and everyone else. (Yes, Korean Hanja is much similar to traditional Chinese.) Even when Taiwan didn't exist at all there would have been three major clusters anyway.

Also pedantry corner: ko-KR, not kr-KR. And zh-TW wasn't renamed to zh-Hant; it is valid to say zh-CN-Hant if PRC somehow wants to use traditional Chinese characters.
So, first, you're right to be skeptical. The basic claim is this:

"Expected value (a mathematical object belonging to the very rigorous field of probability theory) is often used by economists in a non-rigorous way."

The covert implication is something along the lines of, economists do this deliberately to gain the benefit of rigor that the empirical performance of economic theory hasn't earned. You should definitely interpret that first as a political argument, motivated by a metaphysical argument, motivated by a mathematical argument.

And you're right to hear some alarm bells, because that's certainly a controversial claim.

But it's not an outlandish claim. The field of psycho-economics is basically the study of the many ways that people observably, empirically don't make economic decisions on the basis of EV maximization, so what more need be said?

And there are plenty of other metaphysical arguments that you probably accept in principle. Pascal's Wager, and the converse Pascal's Mugging, clearly show that EV maximization at least has to "break down at high energy levels", to borrow a metaphor.

So, this thought experiment is one of those, but it's actually a pretty elegant one:

In a series of two coin flips you have four outcomes, so your expected value is a quarter of (0.6 x 0.6) + (0.6 x 1.5) + (1.5 x 0.6) + (1.5 x 1.5) = about 4.4 over four = about 110% of your stake. So this is a winning gamble, so EV maximization predicts you will take it.

However: more than half of that EV, (1.5 x 1.5)/4 = 56% out of that 110%, comes from the relatively rare event in which you win two coin flips in a row.

The other three outcomes have to share the remaining 54% EV between them. It should make sense by now that if you lose, and play again, you can expect to lose again, despite still having a positive EV on the toss.

So the essential question the author is asking, the thing that makes this metaphysically controversial but not mathematically so, is this:

Assuming there's no mechanism to actually share the EV, how much should those three out of four parallel-universe versions of you who individually lose, and collectively have to come up with the cash to pay out 2x winnings, care about the one out of four of you who's taking those 2x winnings home?

And the political question is: Does more than 1/4 of you still think EV is a good basis for decision making absent a mechanism to actually share the EV?
Your belief or faith in God played a genuine role in the story.

If you had evidence of a god playing a role in anything you could start your own religion :-)
Fine, an app for laundry is overkill but man is the particular conclusion dumb. Imagine I said "I tried opening a door without a key!! Is technology making our lives better after all? Metallurgy is unnecessary!!"
It is for-profit, but they have yet to turn a profit. Their financial situation is a disaster. 10s of millions of £ burned, with very little income. Look for yourself: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...

£31m loss in FY22.

Cybergibbons has also done a very good critique on how unsafe it is. See here: https://cybergibbons.com/security-2/why-what3words-is-not-su...

They are also very litigious towards people that call them out.
> Can it really wipe out the entire species?

Yes, climate changes historically have led to rapid and mass extinctions.

> an overfitted population and now there is a corrective coming?

More commonly, there's just rapid declines in populations, and the species survives and adapts and eventually - after enough adaptation - can evolve.
> Surely the environment hasn’t been that stable on evolutionary time scales?

Man-made climate change has done/will do in hundreds of years what normally takes tens of thousands...
Probably the best starting scope is a plain Newtonian such as from Skywatcher. They're the cheapest way to get a good large aperture and therefore good resolving power, and you can do a lot with one. If you go enthusiast then it's worth looking at what the advantages of other telescope types are, but I'd advise playing with a Newtonian for a year or two before even thinking about that.

Celestron sell some incredible scopes at incredible prices. But I would be very wary of their lower-end stuff. There's a reason why "Don't buy a powerseeker" is a phrase repeated over and over again to people starting out in this hobby.
So, you're saying you want to live in Europe.
I had a different objective: get my MAT (Master of Arts in Teaching), get certified in my state and get a job at a secondary school. They were threatening to throw a monkey-wrench at me. It wasn’t worth the trouble.

Had I been a history graduate student, on the other hand, I very well have fought that fight, because it represents a significant problem in the field of academic history.
Could you explain more and elaborate?

The previous coroutine state needs to be recovered onto the stack and registers for the coroutine to function correctly from its previous point. Temporal memoizes API calls and replays the same function deterministically, so it doesn't attempt to jump into half way into a function, that a coroutine could do.
Update: There are a number of comments with the equivalent of “name me a safer country”. It is undeniable that Singapore is one of the safest country in the world. The issue here is there needs to be a balance between safety and other aspects that constitutes a good life. You’re most likely the safest if you lock yourself at home your entire life - but that’s no way to live. Such surveillance is unnecessary/excessive (Singapore has had an extremely low crime rate) and intrusive. It infringes on one’s civil and political liberties (not that the law affords Singaporeans much), which are necessary to a good life. [0]
My comment is a reminder that underneath all that color, is an oppressive one-party authoritarian (police?) state.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Covenant_on_Civi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value#Criticis...
Every HN thread has plenty of examples, refactoring/extending/explain8 code, structuring text, knowledge summary and so on. Where do you guys live that you are still looking for the plethora usecases that people are using this tech for?!
Yes indeed, they are being deceptive to the local community to try to rip them off.
Your effective rate is the overall average, while the marginal rate is the amount you paid on the last (or next) dollar.

If you made $100k, paid $25K in income taxes, and were in a 33% bracket, your effective rate was 25% and your marginal rate was 33%.
Ah good old Soldat. Modded this into oblivion using notepad and mspaint.
Gotta disagree that it's rare on HN. There's a strong privacy contingent, but there's also the natural conservatism about technology you develop as an experienced engineer ("how is this gonna break and bite me in the ass?")
My (least) favorite pedestrian bridge curiosity:

https://goo.gl/maps/dJZew2G2EJJcEgvP9

42°21'21.6"N 71°06'49.6"W
Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

Look at how far a pedestrian has to walk, just to cross a 4-lane street, to get to the park. And close to half the walk is uphill, just to elevate over the street.

Every time I see it, it makes me angry. (Partly because this ridiculous imposition of a pedestrian bridge is emblematic of the area's crazy emphasis on cars. When Boston or Cambridge gets a little strip of park green space, they somehow tend to end up with a freeway of angry cars right up alongside it.)
Gentrification for me but not for thee.
All the more reason to not use it as they may turn to some way of aggressive monetization to fix that.
Yeah I don't think anyone will.
Land is developed all the time in the US.
Part of the reason, or at least a reason for a gap in the market that this could establish itself in, was that some countries who had built there own (quasi-)equivalents were similarly protective of their "intellectual property" and trying to charge for or just being awkward when providing geolocation data.

https://longair.net/blog/2021/08/23/open-data-gb-postcode-un...
Projects sure to end up like Bioshock for 20, Alex
Elaborate? There are many annoyances with windows but I the graphics stack I find very good. Things like processes not being able to hang the desktop and even the driver crashing doesn’t cause much disruption.
As I understand it, they're kinda syntactic sugar for goto statements.
How about other GPs?

When I lived in the Bay Area, everyone wanted to go to USCF, which is understandable being a world-class medical system. So it wasn't that easy getting an appointment.

But for routine medical check-ups? I just went to another system and could get a same day appointment no problem. Hell, I even had 5-6 different slots I could pick from the same week.
A key is $0.50, is dumb, cannot spy on you and is indestructible..

A phone is >1000x that and comes with distraction, surveillance, and is easy ti brake.
> "To date, our company has been quiet about our activities. This has, understandably, created interest, concern, and speculation. Now that we’re no longer limited by confidentiality, we are eager to begin a conversation about the future of Solano county,” the group writes.

Or, in other words, now that we already own the land and can have the conversation on the terms we dictate.