skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. British local taxation is banded (and deliberately regressive WRT property values) rather than proportional. It's a compromise between the old Rates (like a US millage) and the poll tax which Thatcher disastrously tried to introduce which had no property value component at all.

Further, rates are arbitrarily constrained by central government on a value for money and/or starve the beast basis. Councils are in theory free to raise taxes less than this, but in practice the maximum increase is way less than the annual increase in what it actually costs councils to provide services[0]. Coupled with an almost complete removal of government grants (which used to represent ~35% of council income) councils have been cutting everything that moves and still circling the drain. This has been going on since 2008. Every council issuing a Section 114 notice has its own local reasons for getting to this point now, but frankly the whole sector has been buggered.

TLDR: proposition 13, but imposed by central government instead of the voters, for all possible sources of income except user fees rather than just property taxes, and with no reduction in legal responsibilities to discharge.

[0]: The most expensive local government services are intrinsically staff heavy and so suffer from Baumol's Cost Disease. Teaching class sizes are basically limited to 30, for example, and require one qualified teacher each. Child protection is the other biggest expense.
how generous
I'm pretty sure this is not a valid Hayek quote. Hayek was not known for being unnecessarily confrontational (or pithy), so it doesn't sound like something Hayek would write or say to me.

I've searched for proper attribution and been unable to find it.
Couldn't the same be said about capitalism and free market theory ?
> They cost a fraction of a developer's work laptop and are negligible compared to their salary. There is hardly anything that can't be done online.

They also cost a fraction of a fraction of prime office space leases...
Effects are not required to be idempotent, so it's not just an optimisation. React documentation has an example where the effect establishes a network connection. Even if there's time to connect between renders, the remote system doesn't necessarily handle such short-lived connections.
> I was looking at your HN OPML file on GitHub [0] and noticed that the `xmlURL` and `htmlURL` attributes are the same for each entry; the `htmlURL` currently points to the feed rather than the site. Do you happen to have the original HTML URLs available? Would be nice to have both. (Secondarily, I'm guessing some of the `type` attributes should probably be "atom" rather than "rss"?)

I'm just using the file that someone else made, but I guess they didn't really make the distinction between those URLs in the code, though it shouldn't be too hard to modify: https://github.com/outcoldman/hackernews-personal-blogs/blob...

It is also true that there are both RSS, Atom and possibly other feed types mixed in there. What I did for my site was to crawl through all of those feeds and process them one by one: get all of the posts, do some ordering and grouping and output everything as RSS feeds in a consistent format.

For example, here's the top 100 user feeds for 2023: https://hn-blogs.kronis.dev/feed-top100.xml

Those have HTML links for each of the posts, though I'm afraid it's not exactly what you're asking for (the HTML URLs for the sites/feeds themselves), because I don't actually store that anywhere in my case, though the original feeds of the sites should have that information too.
I'm pretty sure this isn't true regarding gold. I.e., that some firm has a lot it wants to dump and then spends money convincing people to invest in gold.

Gold is liquid, and the vast majority of it is not held for investment purposes. That is, even if you convinced some people to invest in it, it would not matter much regarding the price.

And consider the costs involved in getting people to actually consider and then act on this recommendation?

But if you have a reference link that refutes this, please provide it.
"and for no good reason besides that we can and profit"
Absolute PowerPoint (2001)
I’ve driven manual my whole car life and in heavy US traffic. When you get accustomed, your brain goes into “auto-pilot” and does the shifting too anyway.
Some bacteria evolved to align with magnetic fields
>Property taxes haven't been re-assessed since the 90s.

Whilst technically true that doesn't mean that council tax hasn't increased since the 90s.
If you want to read what I think is one of the coolest experiments with GAs I've ever seen, check out the paper "An evolved circuit, intrinsic in silicon, entwined with physics." by Adrian Thompson [0] - taking the bitstream of an FPGA and running it through a GA and them testing the hardware running in-circuit while judging fitness to a desired function. Crazy things ensue.

[0] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-63173-9_61
but likely can be found online in other places
The youtube video in the article shows a very short clip of a radar screen updating. Would be cool to see one in person if there's any still around.

I just found https://tubetime.us/index.php/2014/06/09/p10-dark-phosphor-t... too.
Thanks for the suggestion. We do have a "MicrosoftArchive" organization that we could consider transferring this sort of thing to...

As far as games, and the broader collection of earlier closed source applications: it's incredibly difficult to clear rights if there's third-party intellectual property that was written without the intention of being open, or licensed content, etc. It also takes a bit of an army to clean/review code and comments to get them ready.

[Source: I run our open source office... we help advise internally, but aren't staffed to do nostalgia open sourcing and so need to partner with people and teams who can help]
It seems the many of the only people who really read and understood Marx looked at it and said “well ok, I’m going to be one of the capitalists, and this is actually good.”

There are actually planned economies in our system, Einstein would have been shocked by Walmart. I recommend “People’s Republic of Walmart” by Phillips and Rozworski if you want to read about it.
> Does reading taibbi or thinking the snowden revelations were a good thing make someone a MAGA person?

I never said that. In fact I consider Snowden's revelations a good thing and I'm not a "MAGA person".

> Is Taibbi running Russian disinformation campaigns?

Never said that either.

> I don't fault you for your position one bit, but this stuff seems a little conspiratorial to me.

Yes, that would indeed sound a little conspiratorial.
Labor theory of value is incredibly easy to dismiss. Value is about what people will pay for things, not how much work they took to make. Bam there we go.
Victim blaming and not understanding how statistics work.

You're a real catch!
A building does not exist until the materials sitting at the site are assembled.

Same principle applies to dynamic webpages.
> because another competing doctors guild

Why would there be another competing doctors guild? Worker organizations become monopolistic just like any other unless you regulate that.

edit:

> How much labor

Labor isn't fungible, you can't replace a doctor with an average person. No two human do exactly the same labor, labor is therefore impossible to quantify unless you simplify it, and how we decide to simplify that is also subjective. Naïve socialists tend to say that all work hours are equal, which obviously isn't true and wont work at all. So then we have to decide whose labour is worth what, and we are back at the unequal society we have today where some persons labour is decided to be worth billions and others barely anything, unless you come up with some new different way to value labour.
Terrifyng to me.
Sure you can, that's a matter of foreign policy change or, as someone else pointed out, import tax hikes and export bans (on e.g. chip technology, but also up until a few decades ago, encryption technology)
Well, the part you are missing is the humor and hyperbole.

e/accs are in favor of technological progress because it has historically done well and they don't believe the science fiction nonsense of skynet killing everyone overnight.

You've fallen for the zoomer irony and Twitter memes if you actually think that people are trying to end the world.
This is less energy put into the system than that given by a child splashing in the waves at the beach.
Soldiers in Iraq wear armor, travel in armored vehicles, have trained medical first responders seconds away, and can call in a helicopter medivac in minutes. They are disproportionately likely to survive a shootout versus a random civilian.
"the opposite". You need mildly polluted water to make it easier to split molecules (pure water requires way more energy to split apart). In this paper, they specifically want the impurities to accept the hydrogen.
I said that socialism is an _attempt_. I certainly agree that it can fail and produce misery.

I'd like to define socialism as a moderate regulation of capitalism. Like, capitalism with the right balance of regulations (so industries aren't free to wreck the environment, risk people lives, etc), cheap/free social services/health care and taxing the wealthy more than the poor.

Then I could say I'm for socialism. Now a lot of "socialist" countries are dictatorships and/or heavily corrupt states. So I... don't know. I guess I'm a centrist then?
I recently came across an in-progress book from Manning, "Peer-to-Peer Web Applications" [0] that, despite a fair bit of crypto/web3 references, seems to be targeting an audience of people looking to build more robust/complex version of this.

I'd recently been thinking about how it's unfortunate that we have seen so little growth in the peer-to-peer part of the web, which to me is the most resilient strategy to resist a few large tech companies taking over everything and turning the web into a gigantic advertisement.

Curious if anyone has read the MEAP for that book so far and has any opinions on it?

0. https://www.manning.com/books/peer-to-peer-web-applications
> #2, I think, already has precedent considering the patent system.

Deposit requirement is already part of the copyright system, applying to everything published that is subject to copyright unless exempted by regulation:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/407
Anyone know where I can find the source for this?

I’d love to try to implement an extension attack to add some trivial content to the page, but don’t have time right this second (I’m at a work offsite)
I'm sorry- perhaps the intention and wording of the article changes towards the end, but this entire thing as far as I've managed is just a thinly veiled propaganda piece that tries to make OpenAI, the team, and their product out to be some kind of equivalent to a modern day messiah. For me, and everybody I've seen or recently discussed it with, the whole ChatGPT craze has largely died out, and all we're left with is the technology as it actually exists without the hype, which turns out to be less useful than it was built up to be.

I'm not sure I can fully articulate just how entirely biased this article came across from my point of view, but I can say that reading line after line of pointless fluff nearly made me want to throw up. The only thing I'm left wondering how much they were payed to write this piece of utterly atrocious propaganda?
What wasn’t clear from the article is if he needed to be pulled out of the water or if the coast guard “rescued” him because they just assumed he was insane. (Which seems reasonable). He does however seem to not want to be rescued and allows to hamster wheel himself to a probable death. I do wonder why he isn’t allowed to, people do all sorts of insane things and die doing it and they’re allowed to, such as difficult climbs without ropes.
You are entitled to your beliefs, and I don't think that you're engaging in bigotry in this discussion, but I would consider it bigotry if you expressed those same beliefs as part of an argument that gay people should not have equal legal or financial protections.
2FA recovery codes, password manager backup, a few government documents, a few banking/legal documents.

"Can't live without" is hyperbole, but losing any of those things would be a pretty big blow and recovering from the loss would be difficult.
It is very clearly obfuscation to insist on using a term in ways inconsistent with a widely used way in which it was used, yes. Language.is for communication - when you insist on purity over clarity to those you're communicating woth, you're obfuscating.
We made something similar but for group decision-making, ie this drag-and-drop poll only exists if someone is looking at it:

https://druthers.app/#/d54c9d32-0212-4c9d-a831-ae9becb1d202

Obviously its current feature set leaves it highly vulnerable to griefing. Currently lacking the motivation to improve, since it works perfectly for my personal use case of deciding boardgame night once a week and family vacation plans once a year.
slovak
7 - Priveľa sa lúčila
8 (with "before"/"already") - Priveľa sa už lúčila
What's your take on Aristotelian logic?
"If there is no advantage to your job being done while being physically collocated within the US, there is no advantage to your job being done by someone in the US."

Time zone still makes a difference, there are very few jobs that can be completely or largely asynchronous.
Then, the assumptions are that talent is everywhere, which is true if we ignore the numbers but focus only on the existence of talent (i.e., 1 talented person is enough), and that the work culture is somewhat irrelevant, i.e., what matters is throwing warm bodies, cannon fodder if you will, at the problem.

Now, anyone who has dealt with outsourced in-house IT services to India or other cheaper countries in terms of wages has quickly recognized that companies have traded paying more and having problems solved for paying less and having the problems persist. I am speaking generally and without any trace of discrimination in my thinking, I am just observing.

If you allow me an analogy, for many decades African soccer teams have been on the verge of "exploding" on the international stage, perhaps winning the World Cup (think of the Nigerian team in 1994) because of their undeniable raw talent. But we are still here, 30 years later, hoping for that victory, with the best results achieved by a Moroccan team full of players raised professionally elsewhere.

Culture is important, and not easy to transmit or acquire, especially when physically elsewhere. If I had stayed in my home country and worked remotely for a U.S. company, I would have done a much poorer job at work, due to my lack of knowledge of U.S. work culture and "proper" ways of working.
In a very still environment, I would think steering would work by being off center, I can't imagine how he would go straight..
Nanotechnology helps repair historic Church of the Scalzi in Venice
I thought value wasn't price? The way to salvage labor theory is really to turn it into macroeconomics where the labor value is amortized, which does restrict it as an applicable theory.
By unstructured I mean "no workspaces", so you can't organize any of it. Like a filesystem with one folder called "stuff".
ZDNS IMC `22 (2022) [Iterative vs. Recursive Resolution] [pdf]
It would likely only work if the instrument being invested in was small and illiquid (i.e., that pumping it up would actually move the price). Otherwise it would be a waste of time.

I've really only heard of this in penny stocks which are illiquid.

This would not work in liquid markets like rates, fx or equity indexes.
interesting. so can you split water to make hydrogen && desalinate would be the direction of questioning in my mind
I wonder if there are any copies of the "OEM Adaptation Kit" in the wild. Would be neat to be able to get this running on a not-IBM-compatable 8086 machine.
The more I think about it the more I believe social care should be taken out of the hands of local councils. The demand for social care is effectively infinite, it will always crowd out other services.
So you're currently providing the proposition of what might be accurate, but not accuracy.
Ok, a snarky way to phrase things, but it's a good point - in general the vectors could add to zero and the angles may not align. So perhaps a better expression may be

a metric for tension = [ norm(sum(piece_vectors)) + abs(angle_displacement) ] / n

where

angle_displacement = sum(angles) - 360

and the angles are signed accordingly.
Their margins being thin is a matter of perspective. Most farms are running 1% profit margins on average and have massive variations in yield that auto production lacks.
70 miles off shore is international waters. Most countries limit extends 12 miles these days. (excluding resource extraction)

Why does the coastguard have jurisdiction? Because it was launched from the USA? At what point is your vehicle a ship? i.e. is a surfboard a ship?
GNU Go
That makes no sense. The Chinese don't need to hack their people, let alone their own government workers, to find out what they are saying. It what world does govt compliance worker A need to literally hack govt busybee 1 to figure out if busybee 1 is work on their govt machine?!
We do need major copyright reform, and I think even splitting copyright into categories makes sense. Some time-sensitive content, like sports and news broadcasts, might only warrant 4-5 years of copyright protection before becoming public domain. Books and movies may as well enjoy the 20-30 time frame you propose (the original 1790 copyright act offered a maximum of 28 years of protection, if you bought a 14-year extension to the default 14-year term). Software might warrant just 10 years of copyright protection, which is just about the maximum length that corporate support exists for; it could be reasonable to allow for a 10-year extension to an initial 10 years.
That's crossing the threshold from a difference in opinion to a difference of morality. You can talk about someone about a disagreement, like who is going to do the vacuuming on mondays, but it's a lot more involved and much more higher stakes to talk about who gets to live.
The cutoff for the article i linked is 2001, not 1974. It is also of killings so wouldn't include the Weather Underground anyway, neither would the other examples you give. I also don't think it is particularly relevant if far left violence was higher in 1973 because that was 50 years ago and lots of things have changed.

The fact of the matter is that today the far right commits much much higher levels of violence then the far left, if you have specific statistics that are different from that, not just some random anecdotes, please supply them.
> actually mention Free Software

What would have satisfied you? I mean, MIT is "free software", what else do they need to say?
And Windows XP.
Read the History section of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix. Microsoft planned for evolving MS-DOS into Xenix and added some level of Xenix compatibility in MS-DOS 2.0.
1. Use HSMs, especially for big important keys with longevity

2. Minimize workflows that cross security boundaries

Are my takeaways
> Of course they won't actually mention Free Software, because they don't want to acknowledge Free Software.

What do you want, a love letter?
Because Microsoft sold Xenix contemporary to early DOS? Some sort of comparability functions, perhaps.
Rarbg Shut Down in the Middle of a Bulgarian Piracy Crackdown
Didn't bmw turn seat heaters into a subscription service? I'm not sure avoiding treating customers terribly is really their thing.
As they have been, at least since Tony Blair
Just crazy they wrote all of the command line tools in ASM - was that because C would have resulted in binaries that were too large?
Bit by bit microplastics from tyres are polluting our waterways
I wonder what she did after the war given she was talented with logic and programming? She couldn't have used her work as a reference, but she still had experience for a good use.
would this not be considered a drone? drones are not legal in national parks. can only imagine each state following suit for state parks.
NHS have always been fine when I’ve needed them. They could not have done more for my dad during his cancer treatment.

Same for my MIL as she deals with arthritis. And my FIL for cataracts.

I have zero complaints.
I had to read through your comment a few times to try to understand it. I think what you're saying is that ecological campaigning groups (particularly, I would guess, those such as XE without a formal hierarchy) are perceived by the current British government to be a threat to the establishment and so they want to prohibit these groups' use of encrypted group chats.

Personally, I don't think this is a particularly legitimate concern (and by extension, not one which I would assume the government has), since the whole point of revolutions is that they don't need to be planned; they are a groundswell of popular opinion turned violent. Even if encrypted group chats were necessary for ecological campaigning groups, I don't believe they are popular enough among the British public or violent enough to make even a minor dent in the Britain establishment.
Video documenting a previous attempt: https://youtu.be/da6_LjiIzXk?si=-b1ygiWXsf1IEWxO
right click->save page as

checkmate!
Also having fun on this subject https://goog.space/, trying to add webRTC and yjs, also archive.is for storing a link (and minification). Fun to see so many people are trying things out with URLs, client side web apps, encoding/decoding data
It is not how you would want do it for a typical ML workload, where the samples have to get randomly permuted each epoch.

Instead, tar up the files in some random order, and put the tar file on a web server or bucket, then stream then in during the first epoch, while keeping track of their byte offsets in the tar file, which you cache locally, assuming ample local Flash storage. Then permute the list of offsets and use those when reading samples for the next epoch.

If you only have local HDD then you will need a more advanced data structure like the one provided by https://github.com/jacobgorm/mindcastle.io , which will allow you to write out permuted samples at close to disk sequential write bandwidth. See my talk at USENIX Vault 2019 for a full explanation, linked from https://vertigo.ai/mindcastle/
Most of the time the two groups can just ignore each other. That's fine. The violence came from the fact that the offensively violent ideology (the "Destroy all other ethnic groups" one, to be clear) attacked people my ideology sees as being in our in-group (approximately everyone who's not trying commit violence upon other people at random), justifying defensive violence in response.

If half the class thinks blue eyes are superior, and the other half think brown eyes are superior, but no one's attacking each other and no one's oppressing each other, then there's no conflict. It's still not going to useful to sit around and argue philosophy.
No one relevant wants to leave EU anymore either.
Isn’t GPT4 a MOE of approximately 16 111B parameter models? Could you not build a MOE on par with GPT4 by building a cluster of models in the range of 16 or so and do a little MOE ?