skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it isn’t risky in the least. The analysis makes no use of proprietary data and illustrates potential problems which arise from choices made in the algorithm’s design in an abstract way, using a different word list from the claimed proprietary one that W3W use. The legal threat in question was made because W3W claimed that Andrew Toponce was linking to a product which used their allegedly proprietary word list in a series of tweets. Please don’t make unfounded fear-mongering comments about academic research – they cumulatively have the same effect as the threats you claim to be drawing attention to.
I was surprised but CREATE DATABASE TEMPLATE is still pretty slow, a few hundred ms on my machine. Better than alternatives though.

A few more application-level optimisations: if you need to clear your database between tests, the best way is to wrap each test in a transaction and roll it back (Postgres supports nested transactions with checkpoints which might help make that transparent to the application under test). The second best way is usually to use DELETE rather than TRUNCATE, the latter is much slower on small tables (but much faster on big ones). The third fastest way is to create a new DB from template, although it plays nice with parallelisation.
> "America, love it or leave it" was tired even in the 1970s.

> If you are ashamed of something, you should be free to fix it, not obliged to leave.

Should immigrants not come to America and instead fix their own country? I don’t think that way but that seems to follow from your suggestion.

There are plenty of people embarrassed of America who aren’t trying to fix it or arent affecting any change. Wanting it to be different is neither of these things.
Not after taxes!

Most first world governments "fine" you quite a lot of money if you work on risky things. For example, if you earn $100,000 for ten years, vs $1,000,000 on one of those random years, after taxes you would have $720,000 vs $520,000 if you lived in San Francisco.
This is why mathematicians are so meticulous with their "if and only if", "everywhere except a countable number of points", infinimum/supremum[1] and so on, and of course equations to really nail things down.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infimum_and_supremum
I don't understand, what's the point of having a dedicated mobile device to access banking services at home?

Why not a computer?
I've traced the origin of the statement back to where it originated from.

Basically, it's only true if you really cherry-pick the data. The 30% includes mental health issues (which are not relevant to this type of accessibility at all) and if you also include anyone who ever played a mobile game in their life (which is something most people do, but they wouldn't classify themselves as gamers)

This is a really common misclassification when making surveys about "gamers" - if one includes anyone who ever played a mobile game in their life, the dataset will not consist of what you'd think of gamers, but will consist of a slightly skewed sample of the general population instead.

(source: https://newzoo.com/resources/blog/newzoos-gamer-sentiment-di... and https://resources.newzoo.com/hubfs/Factsheets/Factsheet%20-%... ) Warning: this is just straight up propaganda.
> I still don't understand how you can be "proud" to have been randomly born in a specific country.

I never said that

Being proud of being a certain nationality is a function of many things. Your ancestors migrating, or staying in the same place, founding values, current and past culture etc.

Following your reasoning, one could say “I don't understand how you can be ‘embarrassed’ to have been randomly born in a specific country.” I think your frame misses whats actually being said. We agree no one should place the value or fault on random birth origin.
It made me raise my unibrow
Interestingly, all of the descriptions can be experienced as you fall asleep. If you can pay good attention, you can experience paralysis consciously when it starts. You will even experience twitching and you will see it has nothing to do with visual dreaming.

You can also experience the shift of this balance center mentioned in the article, feeling as if you’re turning or falling. If you can persist the attention, even though this shifting feels very scary, you will have a feeling as if your face is squished against the pillow and not the back of your head.

The body feels the closest when it is paralyzed, you feel an expansion of your experience, not a reduction.

The name for this is conscious sleep (yoga nidra) and there’s some research on it.
Billions of people have been porn into abject poverty and disease and without hope for better, have learned (and in many ways seen and experienced) much less than these space travelers would.

I don't think this is relevant or a good counter argument, we could easily say that both scenarios are less than ideal? Being born into poverty at least means you might have options in life like, you might actually meet enough people to find someone who you actually want to procreate with? What's that going to look like being stuck in what is esentially a small shopping mall your whole life?

I'm not sure how it's consistent to impose your own morals and standards onto others' procreation.

Imposing morals? Trolling?
The article states litter collects on the end of the bridge. So someone is using it!

You find many of these structures where freeways were cut through in the 60s and 70s because cutting walkability was considered a serious issue.

Even if only used ten times a day that’s still 3,650 trips a year.

Things like this bridge should be encouraged! Cars can drive around “the long way” - but pedestrians sent more than a hundred yards out of their way are seriously discouraged.
I need some more info here! This sounds interesting. Do you compost your waste with spoilage too?

Do you live in a urban or rural environment? I was thinking urban without a car but anything is possible.
sidenote: so happy with the dead simple template of this blog
Bluntness is associated for intelligence because when your mind works faster than the room and you reach conclusions that the room is 15 minutes away from making it feels blunt and crude to them.

The socially acceptable thing to do is wait for them to catch up but that gets old.
This is assuming that zero day exploit are always exposed on public. In reality huge chunks of zero day exploit only in black hat and NSA hands.
Meanwhile Japanese company assuming everyone on this planet must have Kanji name with Katakana spelling, don't be mad at them when you can't fit your alphabet name into their scheme haha.
What rational actors? Could you share some sources showing that individual economic choices are mostly driven by a cost-benefit analysis to determine whether an option is right for them? As opposed to being driven by habit, emotion, and social customs?

The rational choice for food would not lead to an obesity and diabetes epidemic in the wealthiest country. Something doesn't add up.
That's interesting, many countries have laws(or customs) to submit everything published in a form of a book to the national library. I know here in Poland this is done too, because my partner was having her book published by a small publisher and "providing a copy of the book to the national library" was one of the publisher's responsibilities. I have no idea if it's a law or just a custom.
Fewer US temp jobs may flag longer lasting concern
> You forgot the additional 13% in employers NI.

Only the part of that that would actually be passed through to you as salary in the absence of the tax could reasonably be considered part of your tax burden. Hard to say how much that is without any information about your field or employer, but I guarantee it's less than 100%.
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By what standard? Ours?
I imagine even in Germany the officials would enjoy dealing with a kind person expressing enthusiasm about some obscure records and is willing to put in work themselves. It's not like US public employees are famed for not passing the buck.
For? What is the nuclear waste from a reactor for? It's a byproduct.
> Despite nearly a third of gamers identifying as being disabled, developers have struggled to prioritise accessibility across their platforms.

There must exist more than just a few popular games that do not disadvantage or exclude anyone. It's not that developers don't care about accessibility, but that some aspects cannot be implemented as optional features and fundamentally change a game design.

Many action games come to mind. Subtitles, minimum contrast ratios, and colorblind filters are one thing, but addressing low mobility or blindness might make them completely different. As cool as it sounds being able to play an FPS without a screen, has anyone figured it out and was it any fun?
That's true. UX is not the best. But it has a lot of features and works reasonably well once you got used to it.
Is this video ai generated spam? Why not link the actual video from Simone on her channel about the condition
I don’t understand who is pushing for this. What’s the other side of the argument here? I may be incorrect but that feels more restrictive than any other programming language trademark policy? It would be like Go saying you’re not allowed to use the word “go” for your packages or create your own custom gopher, it’s such a common and accepted behavior that would feel ridiculously restrictive without good justification.
How about, instead of hoping for the best, we start assuming the worst. And for once act accordingly. It baffles me that people are willing to ignore a potential threat until the threat and impact have been proven completely, utterly and without even a shadow of a doubt.
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It certainly does in Poland. My partner's publishing contract contained a provision for the publisher to do it.
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EVA is the first AI designed to work alongside you, in Emacs. The goal is to have her take on more and more of the actual manipulation of Emacs and its buffer content, while the user provides instructions and feedback. This is to be achieved through a language model trained on Elisp.

The project is under active development and has not yet launched. There is a finetuned Model, but it provides only limited functionality.

My motivations for writing the article and this repository are (1) to start a conversation about the model and application and (2) to convince you to contribute your valuable competence to this project.
Just for the sake of being circular, I will mention the rumour i once read that Ras Tafari (Halie Selassie) was in fact the product of an affair between the Pricess Woizero and an Indian enginneer, which rasies the eyebrown given his the lack of resemblence the Shuwa King, Makonnen Woldemikael. But mentioned anyhow since it would be poetic if Rastafari also meant Way fairing traveller in Hindi, but i dont know much about poetry.
https://landofpunt.wordpress.com/haile-selassie-abyssinian-r...
There are still some launderettes around, but it isn't the cost of running them that matters, it's the inconvenience. Having your own washing machine is dramatically more convenient (and cheaper). The only reason not to have one is if you are extremely short on space.
>there's a whole contingent of people out there who still pick up the phone when their friends call

That's increasingly rare. My elderly dad still uses voice calling pretty much exclusively and there's a friend who I'll exchange voice calls with. But I don't think there's a single other person who would call me out of the blue socially absent an emergency--and at least some of these are people I would have regularly called 25 years or so ago.

For that matter, no one at work would just call me on the phone either.
tl;dr: He got a smartphone substitute from some desk, which works with the washing machines. After a bit of trouble working that, he managed to access his account and wash.
First reaction: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nobody_ever_went_broke_undere...

Second reaction: The "rich and sophisticated investor" is a mythical creature. Many investors believe in it, or want to believe in it. And many want to imagine that they are (or will soon be) just such a mythical creature. It is also a myth heavily promoted by the investor-fleecing industry.
Maybe academic economists don't find it interesting to 'simply' make money and find reward in our endeavours? Plenty of STEM folks could work on Wall Street as quants for way more money, but choose not to.

Paul McCulley (an economist) made certain predictions while working at PIMCO (as did Paul Krugman), and then he left and Bill Gross (PIMCO founder) ignored what he said and made certain financial moves and lost a whole bunch of money:

* https://www.businessinsider.com/this-was-the-bill-gross-blun...

* https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/03/opinion/paul-krugman-depr...

Gross is way richer than McCulley (or Krugman), and yet the rich guys got it wrong and the poor(er) guys got it right. If only Gross had listened to the economists (that worked for him).
Here’s an example where it’s on pg. 2. The domain is obviously fake and it leads to a “claim your prize” website that hijacks your browser

https://ibb.co/19wHDc5
It’s a fake problem if you just want to write the word “sow” or “hat”, sure, but if you want to write the IPA pronunciation of a word you need the IPA characters in your charset.

Wikipedia has those IPA pronunciations and they’re useful. How else would you do that without including those characters in Unicode? Would you rather have them as images?
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How do you pay abroad at the moment, using ATM's? Or can other credit cards work?
It’s also common for economic ideas to be taken out of context. In an environment with 99% tax rate it’s beloved that lowering taxes will increase revenue. This is directly applicable when the sudden loss of government subsidies creates an effective 90+% tax rate within an income band resulting in people working less. Yet, politically the idea gets simplified to lowering taxes will always increase revenue which is false.

Austerity to the point of being able to pay down government debt is painful, that’s well known. Unchecked spending and unlimited growth in debt is however unsustainable.
Seems like a noble effort, and I'll keep it installed and in-mind, but I'm just about to head out on a rather well-tread trail that just happens to be quite long and segmented, and I can't make anything useful of the UI at all. Though I could piece together a custom trail I was satisfied with—after much irritation and rezooming—there was then no way to save it for later that I could see, and when I tried importing a KML or GPX it was rather clumsy; I eventually succeeded at displaying the route, and maybe that'll ckme in handy later today, but I ultimately just decided to use the AllTrails pro trial and hopefully remember to cancel in time. I can't mess around with iffy, unpredictable interfaces when I'm exhausted both physically and mentally and cell service is spotty at best. hwat would be awesome is to seriously iterate on the UI of the trail side of things, if the technical bits are in-place, because it seems like an otherwise commendable endeavor. It just feels very open-source, as in maybe it technically works, but I wouldn't put myself in a vulnerable position with it
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> We all want to save the planet we should not be wireless charging until we get a much higher efficiency setup.

I doubt that those couple of watts per phone will make a dent even if we multiply them by a billion. Wireless charging is 70% efficient in theory, but lets move to 50. So a 17 watthours battery (biggest currently in phones) would waste 17 watthours per charge - equivalent of my any of those - my induction hob, my oven, my electric water heater or my oven working for 30 seconds. Or my gaming PC for that matter.

so 7 billion people, fully charging their phone each day, the phone battery being the biggest one on the market - each year they will waste around 0.17 percent of world electricity production. But since wired charging is also not 100% efficient - if we give it 90% efficiency - this means that we are saving in that case 0.12 percent of world electricity.

I doubt that it will save the planet. The only think it will help is make some people feel righteous with symbolic gestures.
Millions for cars but not one cent for pedestrians. Nice.
But also planning: some situation that worries you, you might dream about how to solve that solution. I've had that many times.
I have somewhat. It would be inconsistent if I had stayed the full course to get an entire degree that I had realised was bullshit.

Their assumptions don't hold. Assume people make perfect decisions, assume they all act within their own self-interest, assume perfect information, assume effects to the environment don't matter, neither do human lives. Assume acquiring money is the only goal anybody has.

I love how much these horrible assumptions shape the economic policy of the world.
> article states litter collects on the end of the bridge. So someone is using it!

Or litter that would blow onto the interstate if a bit further away instead gets stuck as it can't climb stairs.
Yes, I'm sure, and you can't add up percentages like that.

Effective rate is far lower, and you can't spend money you've paid in tax on VAT, nor money you've spent on housing, or the multitude of zero rated goods which usually includes food, so the proportion of your money you pay VAT on is usually small.

Last time I actually did the math, I paid about 4% of my gross pay in VAT, and despite being in the top 1-2% or so in the UK my effective rate including VAT is still only just approaching the 50% mark.
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Ideas needs to adapt when meeting reality.
From a purely utilitarian/dystopian/evil/etc. point of view: aren't most people suffering much older on average?

e.g. in the median age at diagnosis is ~71. Most people at that age have very low productivity live on a pension/from savings/other passive income and economically probably cost more to the society than they contribute.
Just wanted to give props for volunteer work.

It's been my raison d'etre for decades.
PhDs are apprentices doing skilled labor, not students in the usual sense. An unfunded PhD offer, even in the US, is a polite rejection.
High-ish. To the front, where my window faces, there's a small park and then more or less only houses until about as far as the eye can see (a few other buildings but not many, and not quite close.

In any case, yes - it's relatively dense and car noise is very high. When I closed the window I could finally hear my tinnitus against the backdrop of near silence. I didn't realise how much the street noise was affecting me either, even though it was constant.
Well, certainly the climate is mostly very stable unless there is an external stimulus like a meteor or valcano or humans.
also, consider the reduction in wrongly sent emails whereby user1 has

fred.flintstone@gmail

and user2 has

fredflintstone@gmail

forgetting a dot is far more likely than someone missing an entire word out of an email address.

The dot policy forces email addresses to be more unique across multiple users and thus would reduce emails being received by the wrong person.
It has certainly picked up popularity, or at least use, in certain outdoor communities. I've noticed running events are increasingly noting the W3W address of their registration and start locations for instance, and associations related to emergency services have allowed themselves to be linked to the app (https://www.airambulancesuk.org/news-knowexactlyewhere/ for instance).

I thought I'd seen adverts from official emergency bodies mentioning W3W, but a quick search finds nothing mentioning the fact that call-centres have the facility available that isn't directly from W3W, a straight copy from one of their press releases, or a discussion about the system's deficiencies (i.e. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56901363), so that might be me having not been cynical enough to identify an astroturf campaign!
> More and more people, particularly the younger generations, don't have anything besides their smartphone because what's the point? It's additional expense, additional maintenance, additional clutter, additional mess.

I’m 40 and if I wasn’t a software engineer I wouldn’t own a desktop / laptop computer. As you say, what’s the point? Everything except for software development can be done on a smartphone. Why even bother installing an instant messaging application on the computer when you can just take the phone out of the pocket instead of walking to the room where the computer happens to be? Even when I’m working at the computer I use the phone for music, messaging and news.
I see the upsides, but am weirded out by the idea of being contractually obligated to remain ignorant of what the customer is paying for your services. Naively I'd imagine a competitor to Toptal could disrupt them by providing transparency and a flat percentage on top of the rate, but clearly there is something that makes that not happening.
> I bow before your superior credentials.

It's interesting that you chose to mention that and ignore my accusation, which you didn't refute or even deny: "That's not true either. You're factually wrong and just making up junk out of thin air."

On second thought, no, it's not interesting. It's dull and predictable. After all, there is no honest defense of political corruption, only distraction and misdirection.

As I said earlier, this fits the pattern of people tending to selectively overlook corruption. In your case, it seemed to require the mental gymnastics of believing, or at least arguing in faux agnosticism, that everyone is corrupt. I congratulate you on a gold medal performance.
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You keep roping in other properties into this, if you want to do that, use their parent company name. 4b users on facebook as in Facebook seems a bit of a reach to me at this point. 4b on all properties, ya maybe. Either way, while I could see it having a negative impact, it would mostly be as an advertising platform, and the net positive of that going away might bring it to neutral.

I know it's imused in some places as their primary messaging service or something, but it seems likely they're not doing much unique here.

So what is this harm you speak of?
Using existing parsers is a problem in things like C with preprocessors. You need more than just a file to use those; you need a build environment with all the includes files and command line options defining appropriate macros. Tree sitter makes a good effort attempt to parse such things but can't get it right in general.
I know it's a cliché, but it's true that you receive more than you give ;)
It is a fair point and I hope you're right because I think humans being second best at everything will probably have bad outcomes for most of us but given the current trajectory, it does seem like a run away train for now.