skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, this is going to be the source of grim jokes for some time, as they gradually re-discover things that society does already.
That "specific use case" being power efficient general purpose computing is not a triviality.
I lived there for 3 years & this summed it up perfectly. Under the shiny surface is an unpleasant authoritarian nanny state run by an oligarchy.

It's nice if youre there for a week on vacation or on are an executive on an expat package but theres a rot underneath.
They... they are still pooling wealth. Their wealth will simply be from other things than another country.

The US has oil they could pool wealth from. They have resources they could pool wealth from. Things they could invest in. But. They. Don't. They aren't even adequately taxing the folks that can withstand the tax the most: The wealthy. They used to, but it isn't like that now.

There are little things the US simply doesn't do either - just in healthcare. For example, the Norwegian system will send a home health nurse to you up to 6 times a day for short visits. This is because it is cheaper to do this than to house you in a nursing home, overall. Even if you are living on an island. The US expects you to have family take care of you: Poor people won't get home health visits, in no small part because when you don't pool your money together, things like home health care aren't affordable.

(sidenote: The home health visits aren't always adequate, but better than nothing).

Pooling money to increase everyone's wellbeing doesn't take winning a lottery.
Shut up with that… you vote for the least worst option you got in a full panel of… 2? 5? Maybe 10 people? If you don’t vote, it’s held against you, but when someone is elected it’s somehow your fault and you deserve it? Even if you didn’t vote for that person? Even if you voted for them and it happens they were lying? You make no sense, and this whole rhetoric makes no sense.

“Fully democratic” implies this is as good as it gets, yet no one is happy with it. The so called democratic process objectively sucks.
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Credit card fees are exactly the reason why the switch happened. Do you really think the washing machine companies would bother building an app when they could continue charging without any investment whatsoever?
Yes. Well written, funny and surprisingly clever. Hugh Grant is brilliant too, even if he is basically just playing his character from Paddington 2.
I know it is popular to assume that americans are crazy and ignorant, but part of the puzzle is that there were plenty of other ways to cross the highway. There are two other bridges just a few hundred feet away (a foot being about one-third of a meter):

"Why would you build a pedestrian bridge to an empty field?! That makes even less sense. Yes there is a neighborhood south of the field, but if you are in that neighborhood surely you could just use the sidewalk on one of those other two bridges a few hundred feet to the east or west."
Generally, I would say standard addresses are better, because streets are already a form of information compression, since you always indicate a position on a street, you almost never indicate a position in the middle on a forest of a field.

Streets are already transforming 2D information on a 1D line, a bit like a hilbert curve.

GPS has a military use because the military go off-road, but citizens really don't (99.999% of the time).

So yeah, it's another one of those case where software engineers are trying to solve a problem where there was no problem in the first place, because they don't like dealing with standard addresses.

If you want to share a GPS coordinate, just use geohash, and use NATO alphabet if you need to share it orally.
But then you have two problems: keeping the app going AND dealing with cash
Probably the pressure to find a project to work on. There are many platforms like toptal. Some screen their people others don't. They are all similar in that respect. Same goes for recruiters. Are there good recruiters? very positive but they are so rare that it's impossible to find them.
It’s a direct tax on your employment, and if you are self employed then you also have to pay it.

Likewise if you have options/shares as part of remuneration it is often specified that the employee pays the employers NI for it.

Honestly it’s just a cheeky way for the govt to hide income taxes.

Why not include business rates? Because it’s not linked to the employees salary. It doesn’t change based on the employees salary.
> Consent, compensation, and credit.

I just want to quote you. Nothing I need to say. That’s it.
Fellow European here, and also an OpenStreetMap editor who maps a lot of warehouses like what the article describes is presently at one end of the bridge and “not really the kind of place you would need to walk to”. Even in a European context, I wouldn’t consider consider that Grainiger facility any significant destination for people on foot.
Money (for w3w)

For everyone else: No.
If the sea ice melts and the chicks drown before they develop waterproof feathers, then the melting ice could easily be the culprit, and still captive breeding would work.
You forgot the additional 13% in employers NI.

Edit: which yes takes it to 43% not the 45% I originally wrote.

Now enjoy paying another 20% VAT on any goods and services
This is the first time I've heard the phrase "Digital Dark Ages", and without any further context I'd say it's a great name for what's happening right now. I feel like every year we're taking more steps backward with the ever-increasing ratio of user-hostile platforms wresting control and dignity away from the end-user. In some 100-200 years I think humanity will course-correct and they'll look back at this time as the "lost age".
> Every system is good if you are making money not from work but from wealth.

But not every system is taxing you 65% from work and 0-20% from wealth.
Indeed US wealth disparity is enormous but this is also a country with highest number of billionaire, gigant corporations and biggest stock exchange.
And all of that didn't change the fact that US middle class is wealthiest middle class in the world (except some small countries that cant be compared Norway/Qatar etc.)
thats a nice play on words, but fact and truth are synonymous. I think you're looking for the phrase: "factual but not informative"
> No but they should have access to basic things such as to be able to experience the natural world. It would be pretty fucking depressing if you were born into a shitty spaceship and told your job is to pro-create so the next generation can experience something fun?

That's your assertion. 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. Unless we're going the forced sterilization and eugenics kind of route, I'm not sure how it's consistent to impose your own morals and standards onto others' procreation.
Perhaps intentionally misleading?
This also results in a relatively large number of IT consulting companies, many of which specialize in public sector service bidding. Certain large consultancies winning most of the bids and then under-delivering has pretty much become a meme at this point.
Not just Google is to blame. In college it wasn't unusual to have minimum length requirements for written work.

I once got into an argument with the teacher for a psychology elective. I asked her to indicate which oft the expected aspects I did not address, but she said she didn't even read it because "it was too short so it couldn't possibly cover everything". I padded it with a bunch of meaningless fluff, resubmitted it and it was accepted.
Not disagreeing with the historic view, but oddly enough, when it comes to corporations we see collective pooling and central planning as totally normal (kind of the last bastion of communism).
Yeah, I'm making an effort to avoid being preachy, but since God does play a genuine role in the story, people might as well hear about it (otherwise I'd be hiding crucial information to understand my decisions!)
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To take a simple example:

Let's say a country has only a single 20% tax band that kicks in at 20k.

If you earn 40k, your marginal tax is 20%, but only 20k of your earning is above 20k, so you pay 20% * 30k = 4k in tax for an effective rate of 10% (4k of 40k).

Most countries will multiple tax bands plus deductions which complicates this, and most places very few people have enough of their income taxed at their marginal rate for their effective rate to approach their marginal rate.
Captivity environments for Emperor penguins are kept around 0C (32F), which is easy to do. Your fridge can do it.

In Antarctica, they usually live on the coast, where average temperatures are around -10C to 10C, not as extreme as in the interior (-40 to -60C).
Publishing this from the UK is rather risky given What3Words have a tendency to engage in SLAPPs on anyone who pulls back the curtain on their product
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As per my understanding, they only took half of the problem where they took the numbers and compared against the gender of the surgeons

But if you think about it, if those likely to die or have complications after a surgery are complicated case of patients, it's not as if those people would magically be splitted evenly amongst male and female surgeons

As female surgeon are less frequent, complicated cases will likely be taken care of by a male surgeon, therefore this result.
Thank you for your ideas and thoughts.

This might be relevant - I've been playing around with some assembly to unwind the stack, but it occurred to me I don't need to pop the stack to scan through it. So like C++ exception handling (I learned about it in the Itanium C++ ABI) or algebraic effects, you can scan memory if you have access to the stack start in memory (I do that by storing the rsp somewhere in .global main) in theory it's just data.

I need to generate sections of lookup data for range information for associating .text code section addresses with function names.

In theory this would also be useful for coroutines since a coroutine position/state is just a program counter position of code that you can JMP to in your yield function (that isn't a call but an offset)

To move a coroutine from one thread to another or another machine over the network or persist to disk, let me think. We could do what C++ coroutines does and have a promise struct object that is presumably on the stack when a coroutine resumes by jumping to that coroutines location.

I think the hard part is being stackless and persisting the current coroutine state. You could mov $CURRENT_POSITION_COMPILER_DETERMINED_OFFSET into -10(%rbp) that promise object and then when the coroutine resumes it does a JMP COROUTINE_BODY(%rip) + -10(%rbp) in a label before the coroutine body.

I am a beginner to assembly programming but here is my program: https://github.com/samsquire/assembly/blob/main/stackunwind....
I mean, cool? Fortunately in the UK a lot of services are still available offline, but it's rapidly changing.
> I genuinely want to know what lead Google to not support Maps offline properly.

Perhaps Google's mapping business isn't so much showing maps but helping local businesses get found, rated, reviewed... (restaurants,shops etc).
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lynch has been known to do this throughout his career, and when he discovered how much he could do with digital editing, he utilized it a lot especially in season 3 of TP. also look at some of the shots of the private jet that Gordon Cole and crew fly around the US in. it is stock footage too, edited as well, and was used once in an earlier produced private jet advertisement.
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> "In many case [sic], such restrictions are essential to ensuring the safe and proper use of the device, which is essential for the device manufacture [sic] to maintain its reputation and goodwill."

"If we can't sue you into oblivion for daring to break our DRM and objectively evaluating this device, people may find out that our reputation should be much worse than it is, and we should receive far less goodwill."
Wasn't it 5-10 years ago that people said that? I think it's understood these days that smartphones are important to have (for better or for worse) and dirt cheap if you just need a smartphone, any smartphone.
You’re welcome. He is among those whom I consider scholar-in-exile, scholars who were forced out of the local academia for politically motivated reasons (writing against the authoritarian government). Cherian George being the most well-known of them. [0]

My other recommendations would be Jothie Rajah’s Authoritarian Rule of Law [1] and Sergei Guriev & Daniel Treisman‘s Spin Dictators [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherian_George#Academic_career

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/authoritarian-rule-of-l...

[2] https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691211411/sp...
My WM is i3. I know sway exists, but last time I tried it was sufficiently different from i3 to be annoying.

I think overall the problem with Wayland is that there is no user facing improvement over X that I know of.

I have no doubt it's more modern, better engineered, or whatelse. But in the end, the days of fiddling endlessly with your xorg.conf are over, and X _just works_ out of the box on any distro / device.

All Wayland bring me is a switch of WM, and some bugs when screensharing, for no visible benefit.

The only hope of value add I can see with Wayland would be per-monitor DPI. But last I checked, it was hackish at best.
Out of curiosity, what does "Remote (UK)" mean for you? Does it mean that the work can be done only when physically in UK, the tax residency of an employee has to be in UK or an employee has to be within the same timezone?
Hold on, I setup a few powerline kits in a few buildings and never had issues once you have it working. It's not as great as cat6 but it never crashed or gave up if the power was on for years.

I'll agree the first generation had its problems and wasn't the best or most stable (late 90s or 00s I forget but it was like 10mbps) and I don't count that.

It also can't usually jump breaker panels so if you go in knowing this limitation the 200mbps gear I've used is a solid solution but wifi has usually beaten it with mesh these days.
Thank you for that insight. That explains a lot of the bizarre design decisions and shortcomings in the maps UI that have frequently annoyed me.
Fed up with ai notetaking apps as a founder
Hey folks, I have been banging my head to find a good tool that just works for customer discovery calls. I am working on chat.collectivai.com where we help devs search and understand codebases and have been working with 1500+ OSS codebases.

I have a lot of video calls with potential customers to validate an idea. I am not able to find one good tool that gets me answer to all my template questions plus help in analysis on insights across conversations. Lot of tools either have poor transcription. Even the ones with good transcription does not help in any way gathering insights from across conversations in a ChatGPT like format.

How have you solved this? Please let me know if you know such a tool exists.

I will make it myself as a side project and opensource it if enough of you have faced this challenge. Please let me know.
The renderings did not help me visualise the real possibility.

For perspective on how big 55,000 acres is, 640 per square mile, is 86 square miles, enough land to hold the city limits of Choose 2 of 3: Paris, Barcelona, and San Francisco.

Paris city limits, 2.1 million residents, 41 square miles

Barcelona city limits, 1.6 million residents, 39 square miles

San Francisco city, 800k residents, 47 square miles
Switching stacks isn’t the difficult part, it’s the related stack memory management.
As others pointed out, no single font is required to support all available Unicode characters. In fact it is just close to impossible anyway, because it is extremely hard to harmoize all typographic conventions across all scripts. Unicode mostly does the next best thing: it gives a uniform framework to handle multilingual texts without knowing specifics. Even though your font can't render "월터 브라이트" programs can normalize, compare, search and segment it just like it does with the text "Walter Bright".

But if you like a pedantry, Noto fonts are close to be complete. They have to be used as a collection due to the OpenType limitation, but otherwise designed in unison. Most remaining characters are rarer CJK unified ideographs [1] but it is more about the priority issue; there are several fonts that cover the entire CJK unified ideographs as well.

[1] https://notofonts.github.io/overview/
That job is not available.
It is an either or for some businesses. Coins in the USA are in a massive shortage the last few years. Change machines aren’t cheap and repairs can be costly. It makes financial sense to switch to these apps or people wouldn’t do it.
Marginal rate is a rate for a band of income. Your effective rate is what you actually pay as a percentage of your total income.

So if you have a marginal rate of 50% but it only kicks in when you earn over a certain amount, you will be paying less than 50% overall (your effective rate).
From the consumer perspective, probably. But from a laundromat's perspective, even if only a fraction of users use coins, they still need to deal with coins.

Once you're below some use threshold, a lot of places would prefer to ditch cash entirely.
Fingerprint scanning is going mainstream, heres a post about Amazon using palm scans on point of sale systems [1]. It seems reasonable that point of sale systems will get hacked or skimmers will get installed (common problems impacting normal people today). The current fix is to issue a new card. Unfortunately, you cannot have a new finger/palm print issued, so the threat appears unmitigated.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54337984
This is pretty cool!

Maybe add a description and URL in the repo settings? https://github.com/ahilss/wavacity

(and linking back to the GitHub from Wavacity would be nice too, as right now it's not obvious it's available)
Are you sure it's equally as offensive? By the response the flagged comment got, seems its far more offensive despite the mild jab.
Why there are no longer public StackOverflow data dumps
Note that they say data dumps should have been re-enabled, but this is not the case. The latest dump is still June 2023:

https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
There are very many programming competitions for school students in most countries. Algebra isn't needed much, they are more like LeetCode.
I'm from NZ which has logical addressing. Trying to find some random business on some random shed, down some random lane in the middle of nowhere in the UK can be quite the challenge - post codes don't help and "turn left at the white post, go down the lane till you get to a crow that's staring south, then drive up past the.... " directions are terrible. What3Words has been great for finding those places that use it... easier than writing down a GPS co-ordinate.
I'm sensing a YC startup opportunity, assuming it isn't already taken.
And, to my understanding, the concept is patented, so nobody else can make an open version of it. So yes, the concept is kept from being useful through the power of the state.

I really don't like patents.
Assuming no bias in the choice of the surgeon, each female surgeon will work on the same fraction of complicated cases as their male colleagues, and thus their success ratios are unaffected by the representation of female surgeons.

On the other hand, bias in the choice of the surgeon for complicated cases would indeed have the effect you describe.

If this article causes people to conclude that female surgeons are better than males, and thus causes people in the future to choose female surgeons, then the complicated cases will be over-represented and thus their success ratio will plummet
FWIW rasta in Hindi means way or road. Rastafarian = Way fairing traveller?
I guess there is a reason they settled on the phrase "The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth".

This article is truth, but not the whole truth.
Building a city makes the land more valuable. If you tell people that you plan to invest a ton of money into the area they will include that information in their calculations when you are trying to buy their land. Some will then only sell their land for skyhigh prices, and some won’t sell at all in the hopes that they can sell it for even more once the city has been built around them. This can strangle the project in its infancy.

> If you want to join a community, you can just, like, go join it.

Yeah and that works perfectly well if you want to buy a single farm. You negotiate with the seller, you do the contract stuff, you pay, you move in. All good. But that is not what they plan.

It is almost as if you haven’t thought about why they do what they do at all.
> It sounds like you want to trivialize a problem that has existed for way longer than computer science and systematically relies at some point on human memory if you want a certain level of security and secrecy.

Assuming the "problem" you are referring to is authentication, this is not necessarily true. "Something you know" is just one auth factor of several. Using a thumbprint (something you are) to grant access to a private key stored on a device to sign a challenge does not rely on human memory, and is probably more secure than using a password in most cases.

An argument can also be made that using a password manager implies that you are specifically doing the opposite of relying on human memory for authentication.

That said, I also disagree with the premise of the original comment that "Passwords should be dead soon and this article should be irrelevant soon after." They will be around for a while, although I hope passwordless mfa can soon replace them as the default choice.
Ah, yes, thanks
I am genuinely curious if they are using actual Tivos. I gave up on my Cable card hdhomerun box due to the pain it caused and just went with their dual over the air digital tuner and Plex. Do old devices even work with anything these days?
I think understanding this distinction is going to be one of the main challenges for mainstream WebAuthn adoption over passwords as the default authentication method.
You could also have an object with on_success, on_failure attributes so Futures are the same syntax sugar
> accounting for patient, procedure, surgeon, anesthesiologist, and hospital characteristics

This suggests to me that they have accounted for that to at least some degree. (I can't read the paper itself so I don't know the details.) At the very least I don't think one can simply dismiss the findings out of hand citing "if you think about it."
I don't think you can run a "utopian project" in the USA at all. You're subject to US laws, and that means you're easy prey for litigants (even sufficiently motivated pro se litigants) -- and the civil justice system is an ordeal where there's only one outcome: You lose.

In most cases, you lose lots of money in legal fees that you won't be able to claw back; in virtually all cases, you're slapped with injunctions and other roadblocks to development, which can be fatal and can take years to resolve; in all cases, you lose tremendous amounts of time, which could otherwise have been spent productively.

The utopian planners should have attempted their scheme somewhere on Nevis or a Bahaman island -- where the government would probably be cooperative rather than nakedly adversarial.
Honestly the description of this place sounds like what I’ve found Sweden to be, since moving here from Palo Alto last month.

I am walking distance from everything I need, I am 10 minutes from a huge park with a large body of water, I walk to work, and if I need to detach I can take a boat to a summer house that’s off the grid.
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It's not electricity or electric fields the plants react but chemicals.