skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone else said, not really. The link is linear algebra which is perhaps the best computational tool we have. In many areas of applied math, as soon as things get nonlinear (or non-quadratic if we’re taking derivatives since those derivatives become linear), it is impossible to find closed-form solutions (I.e., solutions you can write in a simple form). A big reason for this is that solving Ax = b might require a matrix (pseudo)inverse, but once you have that inverse, you have the solution for any pair (x, b), whereas if you had to solve f(x) = b, a new pair requires a fresh computation. Put in other terms, for linear problems, local properties are often global properties when studying linear problems.

A lot of the numerical methods we use to solve hard problems are based on solutions to linear problems (or quadratic problems if we’re taking derivatives) that predate computer graphics because those problems are simple to solve. We can just solve them a lot faster now so approximating nonlinear things with linear things iteratively becomes a lot more computationally tractable.
The first party is not even the first party, since this "Ripoff Report" site is user-contributed content. It looks like this plaintiff and some American woman were shitposting on that site, and Google indexed it, and the Australian woman sued Google.

Full Streisand. https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/janice-duffy-psychic-st...
China represents the perfect argument for why aristocratic and or authoritarian regimes inevitably collapses, due to lack of sustainable procedures and viewing social and especially political progress as a threat.

1st is that fascistic regimes is in theory one of the most efficient government you can have as you can easily circumvent due process and fast track whatever you want.

However in practice only investing or making the decision happen is what gets fast tracked, the actual task of running saif facility is another story entirely, where sustainable practices will degrade and corruption, stagnation and negligence will grow.

2nd is due to the lack of political, cultural and social research, innovation and development.

Instead the (hardliners of) CCP
(like Xi Jinping) views these as fundamental threat to their rule, however these are just as crucial to your society as economic, scientific and technological research, innovation and development is.

It's why we in the west still have democracy, democracy is a lot more inefficient but its very flexible and sustainable.

The issue is even we haven't been focusing on these 3 policy areas as such we see certain negative cultural, political and social stagnation and degradation due to the insistence of neopolitics (neo-con, neo-lib, third way) that we only need to focus on economic, technological and scientific progress.
>Billionaires shouldn't exist;

People want to own things even if they are not billionaires, and they want to value things freely even if they are not billionaires. Those two things combined make billionaires unavoidable if you think about it.

I think what you really desire is that billionaires should not be able to corrupt society or exploit the environment to the detriment of others. Which I am fully behind and consider an attainable and worthy goal even though we're currently far from it.
Does anyone else immediately jump to: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death... ?
Going after Google rather than the company actually making the remarks seems… incorrect

Doesn’t seem like it should be Googles job to fact check the internet. Go after the liar, not the search engine.

Google seems no more responsible than your ISP for sending it to you or your monitor manufacturer for displaying it.
Why would I need to provide a better solution to property damage? It should be obvious, vote with your dollar, don't pump gas there.
We have religious mythologies promising eternal afterlife since ancient times too, I think it's more an irrational coping mechanism to deal with it's inevitability. Everybody grows old and dies, that doesn't make death less horrific, it's the worst aspect of the human condition. We just often pretend it's not in various ways to better deal with it. But that shouldn't prevent us from trying to cure it the same way we are trying to cure cancer.
How do you want to put cash into your computer?
People who 3d print stuff seem to forget that filament printed enclosures don't look good, and certainly aren't nice enough to sell.
Interesting choices, given that both of those are putting humanity into what would otherwise be purely mechanical jobs.

Practicality of having someone able to adapt to novel situations aside, there's something to be said for just having a human interaction.
Text is text. Text is encodable as binary. If text was binary, that encoding would be unique, but it isn't. Latin-1 encodes "Ü" differently than UTF-8 does, and even the humble "A" could be a 0x41 in ASCII and UTF-8 or a 0xC1 in EBCDIC
The "algorithm" isn't some simple KNN. It has many people working on it, so by now it should at least grasp the difference between two topics that are similar and two topics that are the same.
They do. So you can't even see what's inside until you finish the ad.
Fukuoka, Japan’s sixth largest city by population, has more open-air food stalls than the rest of the country combined.

Avoid the clickbait, this the whole article.
Features that look easy to implement and are not a big deal can turn out to be massive problems and require a large amount of code to actually pull of. I would, in some cases, count responsiveness to be one of those things. Stuff like that may seem like 5% of the
functionality but actually makes up a large chunk of the code. This is why you must always have feature parity if you really want to compare code size.
Here they drive a car/truck around which reads the meters via a signal on the ISM band.

I listen to these and other automated meter broadcasts with an RPi, a TV dongle, and this software: https://github.com/bemasher/rtlamr
Shopify is ecommerce. A competitor that wants to bring another website down can gain millions of dollars. So $5 is irrelevant here.
People still use cash in the modern world? I haven't needed it in years. Don't know anybody else either (Estonia).
Thanks for the read, it's a very simple encoding but I never decided to find out how it works either, good to know.
And it's only defamation if it's false, which I'm not sure was investigated.
That seems horrible
You’ll find this happening with many things. Chrysler/dodge/Jeep vehicles built before 2016-2017 were using Sprint’s CDMA network for their telematics. When they shutdown the network it shutdown all cellular features in these vehicles. On the plus side, if you’re looking for a modern vehicle with no way to “phone home” take a look at those. ;)
What problem, annoying ads playing at a gas station? Gee I don't know, maybe not pump at gas station chains that use ads? Even as annoying as they might be, I can hold in my inner angst to deface property for the 4mins it takes to pump up my car.
This seems more analogous to ESTA than the Visa Waiver Program. Europe has already had the waiver in place for exempt countries for a while.
> The capitalist promise is something like, 'you don't need to enforce social responsibility on us because when we get rich enough there'll be enough wealth and we will just share it anyway of our own accord'.

No it's not. It's "people should make free agreements with each other as much as possible, as this will motivate far better resource allocation than a centralised monarchy or bureacracy ever could."

> The purpose of the existence of government historically was to combat this problem.

Blimey, no. The purpose of government was to do what the monarch said, collect taxes, etc, and later, for a few countries, to do what the elected leader said. Governments predate capitalism.

> If wealth were redistributed better that would mean more chances for people of the lower end of the spectrum to innovate and produce small businesses

This doesn't have to be true. There are lots of chances already to create small businesses. The main blockers are bureacratic processes that make it hard to establish and compete, not billionares.

Redistribution itself is a slippery concept, but let's say that Elon Musk gave a load of his wealth (not money, wealth) in the form of Tesla shares to people so they can start small businesses. What would that actually mean? Who would buy those shares if a bureacrat can choose to steal - I mean ,redistribute, them at any point?

> with properly globally enforced taxes at a higher rate for top end wealth there would still be plenty of incentive for these people to innovate

This is a very leaky statement in practice. Bureacrats are not good at designing overbearing tax systems that retain innovation. We're more likely to stop needing good resource allocation (e.g. somehow we crack cold fusion) before bureacrats get good at not starving their populations to death from bad central policies.
The one I saw used BT4.2 to talk with the meter, and cellular network to push data to cloud (IIRC).

The video is at https://youtu.be/G32NYQpvy8Q?si=YjQfnY9Ag7YUGJAd
I don't understand why in the age of dirt cheap Espressif modules people keep doing DIY clocks with micros that don't have WiFi for S/NTP. It's the same with a lot of the expensive nixie clocks. At least throw in an RTC!

At the other end of the (colourfulness) spectrum the Ulanzi TC-001 and the awtrix-light firmware makes for a great visually fun clock that can also do notifications and various other stuff.
> I only ever see high-resolution epaper matrices, but in principle I think you should be able to have much simpler epaper segment displays and so on, just like for lcds. Is there some reason this is not a thing?

This is a thing.

At home I have a couple Xiaomi "LYWSD02MMC" clocks that use e-paper segment displays. They also broadcast temperature and humidity over BLE and last a bit more than a year on two coin cells, and look (to me) much nicer than the Agora clock, they are much slimmer (about half a centimeter deep and with a smaller bezel).

They are proprietary and very much closed though (although you can control them without proprietary apps, at least).

Edit a few similar devices can run an alternative, open firmware and here's info on the eink segment display of one of them if you're curious: https://github.com/znanev/MHO-C401
It is a shame there isn’t a nationwide grid of wires it could use to send those few KB of data through.
Crazy story, so she shit-posted on a dubious forum, they shit-posted back and then she sued Google for defamation.
Is there an existing mass-produced solution that can do it? The normal power line ethernet devices can handle ~300m and degrade quickly with noise. You'd need something much more specialised to go low speed high distance and able to handle lots of unsynchronized devices on the same line.

More common solutions installed in other places are dedicated mesh networks like Gridstream or AcuMesh. I'm really not sure why would the energy companies go for GSM instead. This is not just for the cities - Gridstream can reach a few km away.

On the other hand here's a buzzword-heavy ad from Thales that pushes for GSM https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/markets/digital-identity-and-...

Edit: apparently the powerline based data exists in the wild. (Keyword: PLC, but it's only one-way) Here's an interesting report from an Australian provider https://www.aemc.gov.au/sites/default/files/content/1494afbe... 10 years ago they were 46% rf mesh, 39% powerline data, 0.1% GSM. It's hard to find something more recent, but local mobile telcos had a lot of announcements / ads in later years, so the trend may have moved as well...

A decent global market overview from 2019 https://www.smart-energy.com/magazine-article/ami-penetratio...
And the user experience is still better.
> The rules of travel to Europe have changed. Starting in mid-2025, some 1.4 billion people from over 60 visa-exempt countries are required to have a travel authorization to enter most European countries.

I don't remember voting for this....
> But let's say even $500 (it's probably cheaper) for something that lasts 8 years is still much cheaper than sending people to get the readings

Probably true, but only as long as one can continue to externalize the cost of handling the resulting e-waste to future generations or at least current-day taxpayers.
In the aftermath of the breakdown of German democracy and after the Nuremberg trials, Germany passed very strict laws against platforming fascists. How do we square that with the notion that laws against hate speech are a retreat from rationality?
Hm. @apply solves a problem. Basically you’re better off writing with the utility classes if you can extract your component out to… well, a component. If for whatever reason you can’t do that, @apply helps you avoid repeating yourself, which seems to be a reasonably good alternative to what’s in TFA.

But there are other (better) options available in most circumstances. Tailwind actually have a pretty good write up here:

https://tailwindcss.com/docs/reusing-styles

That said, it’s easy to come up with a ‘gist’ like

> The semantic version is 8 × smaller, renders faster, and is easier to modify and extend.

but then underneath say you’re not minifying, and you’re not publishing the source code… it’s almost like the author had the conclusion before starting to experiment.
signalling/communicating through the zero cross of the AC is trivial as long as there is a galvanic connection (wire). Once you get to transformers nothing much happens unless their is a module on the secondary to intercept it and then use other channels to ferry the data. In other words each transformer would need to have a communication device/router - I suppose that's way more expensive than ad-hoc modules per meter.
Note that a surname in the top eight is, by definition, not a noble surname. Almost everyone bearing such a name is a commoner and having it is nothing you can brag about.

Your link suggests that what was for sale was noble identity - a place in a specific and unique noble family, with formal documentation that you belonged to it - not a license to use the surname, which everyone was already free to use.

> It became increasingly common for successful merchants too to take on a last name. They could purchase an elite genealogy by physically buying a genealogical book (jokbo) — perhaps that of a bankrupt yangban [noble] — and using his surname.

> By the late 18th century, forgery of such records was rampant. Many families fiddled with theirs: when, for example, a bloodline came to an end, a non-relative could be written into a genealogical book in return for payment. The stranger, in turn, acquired a noble surname.

But again, what you're acquiring there isn't a "noble surname". It's noble legal status, and you end up with whatever surname the noble family uses by coincidence. No one participating in this system cared whether they ended up with the name 金 or with 網切, so this isn't a good explanation for why 金 is so common.

The link also dwells on the much greater variety visible in Japanese surnames. It doesn't point out why that is, but we do know the answer - they are more variable for the extremely obvious reason that the concept of a surname in Japan is much more recent, dating to the late nineteenth century.
If you can pay your plane ticket online I'm sure you can do so with the ETIAS as well.
> I try! A few months before warranty runs out, it gets full inspection, and I claim every part that acts funky! It is a free money!

That's not what you claimed. This is clearly something that everyone that own a vehicle should do, and probably do. Obviously it makes a lot of more sense to do on a combustion engine that has literally thousands of moving parts that easily can ruin an engine. But any sensible person will service their car before warranty runs out.

> What exactly is the difference? If anything phone batteries are way more expensive and sophisticated!

I don't know where to even start. How does my example prove that they're more expensive and sophisticated? They fail to deliver enough power to the CPU so it crashes. So they have to clock the CPU down so the battery is able to deliver enough power.

> R1T can tow 100 miles on single charge. That is 1500 battery cycles within 150k miles warranty, or 3000 cycles if you do that daily for 8 years!

This argument makes no sense. You're constructing a edge case that doens't fit with reality. Show me a truck with a combustion engine that hauls max load all day, every day, for 150k miles without significant service requirement, to the tune that cost vastly more than a simple battery replacement.

> I actually want to use this as a truck. It should be soo much better, new revolutionary technology...

Then buy a truck that fits your needs. It's that simple.

> You claim that thing is useless "penxs extension", yet somehow manufacturer does not lie about its numbers!

I don't understand what or who is lying. Even most truckers will admit that most people that own a truck don't really use it as it was intended. The vast majority of trucks on the road has never had anything in their truck bed that couldn't fit in a Fiat Punto. I'm not going to stop you from getting a truck. Be that electric or combustion. I just want you to be consistent.

> OK, let's ban useless extensions. Why should people who actually need proper truck for work, pay fines and sponsor people, who buy useless EV penxs extensions?

Huh? I never made any argument like that. And it's okey, you're allowed to say penis[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tona16xQCIg
Wasn't this slated to start in 2024? Was it delayed?
> Dr Janice Duffy successfully argued in 2015 and 2023 that Google published defamatory extracts from American website RipOff Report on its search engine page, despite her notifying the company and asking for the posts to be removed.

Personally, I don't easily see how Google could be liable for defamation here under any reasonable standard.

Their search services generally don't say the equivalent of "Bob murdered a woman in 1989".

Their search services generally say the equivalent of "Joe says that Bob murdered a woman in 1989".

If anybody is guilty of defamation in that contrived example, it's Joe.

Regardless of whether the story about Bob murdering somebody is true or false, Google's service remains entirely factual when they pass along the word that "Joe says that Bob murdered a woman in 1989". That statement is 100% factual.

I wish the article went into more detail about the actual impact on this woman's career (not sure if they risk lawsuits reporting the details), but as the posted article reads right now, it's not really clear if she was fired because of some boss Googling her, or if she just had a mental break when she fixated on the Google search results to a possibly unhealthy degree.
Google appears to be still allowed to surface content which is defamatory, but they still have a publisher's duty to remove it once notified, I think this is key from the summary (linked elsewhere in the discussion):

> […] because [Google] was on notice that the material was defamatory and refused to remove the information, it could not be found to have innocently circulated the information
For fermentation, you don't want very small batches. Fermentation can be sensitive to small variations (concentrations of salt, sugars, etc.) Also, fermentation is spoiled by access to air. Both are helped by working with a larger container. If you have trouble with small batches, maybe try a larger batch for once and see how it goes.

Stuff that I ferment regularly: sourdough bread (for example, pizza dough -- for up to two weeks in the fridge), cabbage (sauerkraut), cucumbers, beets (I love good borscht, what can I say), jalapeno peppers (I love to add them to scrambled eggs and always have a batch in the fridge), and habaneros (I make mean habanero sauce and it is best when I use my own fermented habaneros for this).
maybe so. 2010 was a different time and science still had a positive reputation.

the quality of evidence required, to culturally settle an argument or otherwise allow for positive action, has dropped off a cliff.

evidence my older brother would scoff at, is coming out of trained professionals' mouths.

the justification for big risks on little evidence flows waaay too easily lately.
It’s free. Podman is a compatible alternative though.
Was just trying to break the number down to something more easy to understand, I don’t know enough if this is impressive or not! Depends on the complexity of the request, and I guess the complexity of routing that many requests over such a large network. I’ve never worked at that scale.
US V Google Transcripts
I have very rarely had the urge to vandalise something, and never acted upon it, but this screens might tip me over the edge!
why should a homeowner subsidise a power company by providing free internet connectivity?
Obviously the rate was 0 in 1850 because cars didn’t exist. You need a steady state of car ownership for theft comparisons by population to make sense. More recently the number of cellphone thefts spiked as more people owned cellphones, its true but not an accurate reflection of overall crime.

Historically you can do numbers of thefts vs numbers of cars but that’s not a great. There was 61.7m passenger cars + 12.7m commercials vehicles in the 1960’s vs 140.7m passenger cars + 42.8m commercials vehicles by 1988. An increase dramatically faster than population.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1246890/vehicles-use-uni...

From 1990, the numbers increase roughly with population which is why many comparisons start in 1990: https://www.statista.com/statistics/183505/number-of-vehicle...

328,200 / (61.7m + 12.7m) = 0.44% of vehicles stolen in 1960.
1,635,900 / 193.1m = 0.85% in 1990 is a big jump. But that then falls all the way to 2019’s 721,885 / 276.5m = 0.26% in 2019 sitting just over half of 1960’s rates.

PS: It’s perfectly reasonably to argue that what matters is rate over the population, but including non owners in the population is IMO misleading.
This is an interesting detail - Google's autocomplete suggestions for the plaintiff's name were found to be defamatory:

> Dr. Duffy became aware that when people searched her name on Google’s search engine, the Google search bar provided an autocomplete suggested search term of “janice duffy psychic stalker”. [...] Google was also found [by the court] to be the “publisher” of autocomplete suggestions that came up when a user began to type the individual’s name in its search bar

Be careful with your UI!
I suspect Excel's primary value at this point is its entrenched monopoly position.
A huge percentage of daily life in Germany (Europe's biggest economy) and Austria is conducted in cash.

https://www.bundesbank.de/en/press/press-releases/payment-be...
Appointment Booking API by DaySchedule
Propaganda works really well in distraught countries with no hopes or dreams and that has historical qualms with certain nations.

Such as in Africa where Chinese and Russian propaganda along side homegrown Propaganda is actually pretty convincing for the citizens there.
Importantly, I think there is a useful parallel here with the behavior that led to SLAPP laws which now exist in most states.
Heroic, but also pyrrhic.
Taking powerline ethernet to new levels...
Glad to be corrected.

>TBF I think the BBC showed it later on (in the 2000s?)

Perhaps that is why I misremembered it.
I think this is because of the sketchy way in which passports for various tax havens, Caribbean countries, etc (not mutually exclusive) have been sold and bought and those passports allowed visa-free access to the EU. The corruption in those countries puts the EU borders at risk, hence these new rules.

Sauce: https://www.occrp.org/en/dominica-passports-of-the-caribbean...
not everyone wants to give their identity to every street vendor to buy a taco