skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, EU migrants were a net positive. What Brexit did was to take their rights to contribute to the British economy - now they need visa for that and the best stay in their countries or go to USA.

I don't know why you fantasise about discriminating against productive law abading EU citizens. I guess you personally are better of out of EU and EU is better of by not having you. It's very creepy that you are annoyed that you can't arbitrarily discriminate against EU citizens.

Also, there's no such thing as a low-wage Eastern Europeans, they still rent in UK and shop in UK and are employed within the UK labour laws. If you are against low wages you should increase the minimum wage, if you can't compete against Eastern Europeans it's because you don't provide enough value to the employer to choose you. If British are outcompeted in the labour market, maybe British should re-evaluate their education system. British employers don't hire Bulgarian butchers when they need JavaScript developers just because it's cheaper to hire Bulgarian butchers. It simply means that Brits don't have the skills for the money they ask, the Eastern European ones have it and that's why they get the job at free market rate.
It helps when you don't have actual appropriate mechanical ventilation as you should have with modern windows and insulation.

A large part of the European buildings still don't have proper ventilation.
"Comma-Separated Values (CSV) is a text file format that uses commas to separate values in plain text."

Except when it uses semi-colons. Or pipes. Or something else.
I have yet to meet anyone legitimately angry for the reasons you claim. I have met several who profess such a belief, but in every single case it is the presence of anyone not like them in the representation that they disagree with, not any actual thoughtfulness. These people always find a new goalpost to move to: "How dare they have a black person on this show?" "How dare they have a black person kiss a white person on this show?" "How dare they have a [X] on this show?" "How dare they have characters not speaking English on this show?", etc., etc.

Not being pandered to 100% of the time does not mean that someone is being repressed. These are *auxiliary graphics in a phone app*. Not even UI elements. Is this really something you consider worth getting worked up about and resenting?
Some large tech companies have been carrying on a smear campaign against GPL...
Do you know if this ruling applies to word lists of the English language such as those used in tournament Scrabble?
That's "casting a net" style targeted advertising vs "we specifically want 15-18yo gamers in southwest Texas who primarily play these games at this time and might be going through a tough time based on their liked posts on Instagram"

IMO this is great for companies, but potentially very bad for consumers (I.e. engaging customers when they're most vulnerable)
I always thought that the primary reason that native apps lost to the web was deployment, something that is so easy to fix and yet OS people are completely blind to it.
The tractor as well as the horse are both capital equipment. Also, hardware. Material stuff. While the horse may to some degree represent a variable cost, the degree of variablility on the tractor amounts to basically fuel.

AI and LLM on the other hand are operating equipment and fully variable costs. Also software, and immaterial.

The only real similarities between a tractor and a LLM is that both at some point were new inventions, and that both makes some tasks easier to do at scale. That's all, as seen from an economic perspective. In all other respects they are almost incommensurate.

Why is it that people think that the mere notion of "AI" means that you can just argue nonsense and forget all previous knowledge? I don't get it.

I think economist.com needs to take an Economy 101 lesson.
Had never heard of S7, I thought it was a joke at first.

https://rconsortium.github.io/S7/index.html
Started reading this from your recommendation. Whenever I pick it up I have trouble putting it down. Thanks!
I'm curious to learn more. Do you have any references re. Canada?
His partner took care of the Republicans. They split their responsibility to fairness.
Yep, russia wants war, look at how close they put their country to NATO... oh wait.

Ukraine is for russia the same as what cuba was for US... but back then, people did diplomacy and war was avoided... here they tried in instanbul, johnson and the rest told zelensky not to sign, and here we are
This is the next best Swiss "invention" just after IoT urinals with LCD... or perhaps make them watch ads in the capsule as well? Just one last ad, they're going to die anyway.
> 95+% of the time, what you're protecting from isn't a minor overload condition but a short.

But these fuses aren’t labeled “fuses that will blow when there’s a sorry but not when there’s an overload condition”, they’re labeled simply as “fuses”, which should blow over their rated limit, full stop.

It violates separation of concerns if I have to think not only about the fuse itself but also the rest of the system that it’s plugged into.
If you're worried about climate change you should be all for this. Suicide is the most carbon-negative thing you can do!

Well, other than mass murder, I suppose.
Well said. Extending copyright to control content consumption and learning is a recipe for converting all of our mass media into businesses as abusive and usurious as textbook companies.

This is a power grab by publishers.
If you do it badly, you might end up with brain damage and not die at all.

The whole point of such devices is to make sure it's done properly.
Notably, this is a coin used by a lot of cryptominers, many of whom are Chinese who fled the ban in China on crypto mining and also to export their wealth in a way they can't otherwise because China doesn't allow transfer of currency out of the country.

Example:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/25/technology/bitrush-bitcoi...

...so now gigawatts of electricity are being used here to generate more wealth for chinese billionaire playboys who are so stingy they can't even pay rural local electricians. Must be because of how expensive his tuition is...
I agree with the importance of designing things after how people act naturally, but with UX I think we sometimes go overboard with this mentality. Sometimes it feels like you can never expect people to have some base level of knowledge (or for heavens sake, make them learn something new), which makes it so that you remove vital features, change syntax to accompany what people are used to or change the architecture in a way that is more easily understood but hurts in a long run. There is a balance to struck.
Do we have a shortage of free, science quality photographic depictions of the Mona Lisa?
They are just going to have to inform the AI in some sense of the current copyright situation and ask it not to infringe.

It's the same for human writers. If you are writing an article for Wikipedia say, you should read relevant source articles and then rewrite in a way that isn't a copy and paste beyond a few words.
To prevent rash decisions in times of crisis.
People with dependents are one case that comes to mind when considering why this might not be a great idea. Elderly people with no dependents are one example I can think of why this might not be the worst thing in the world.

But in general I tend to agree that there should be some means to humanely end ones own life that doesn't automatically presume insanity. I think there's probably a reasonable middle ground to be had between the extremes of whenever and never.
The #1 proposed use of quantum computers is... simulating quantum effects.

Modern quantum simulators running on supercomputers is an exponential (O(k^n)) kind of operation. But a quantum computer can simulate any quantum effect in just one step, O(1) time. Because ya know... a quantum computer is just a computer that has isolated quantum effects and allows a programmer to control them easily.
I’m happy that this exists, and now I’m sad that I’m happy about it. I need to make some changes in my life.
It looks interesting and similar concept to Tauri in using the system webview. It has to instead of rust for the backend.

I’m surprised why Electron hasn’t used the webview approach, wouldn’t that remove the dependency on chromium and reduce the app size?
With enough propaganda, people actually believe stuff like this.
Suicide should NOT be as stigmatized as it currently is in modern society.

Everyone was brought into this world without their permission, they should be able to leave it in a safe and reliable way too.
This looks so cool. I’m extremely excited to get my hands on one of these next year.
Well, they need to place one such machine in Kremlin. Right at the end of one of those long tables.
Presumably because the underlying cause of suicidal desires can be temporary, and people who end up not following through may later be glad they didn't.
Because there's no way back from a decision that you might have regreted the day after, if you were not able to materialize easily?
It's less "People who drink those are addicts" and more "we've designed this product to make it more addicting to a certain subset of people who are statistically likely to become addicted to products like these"
Thank you. This looks really promising and I’ve been wanting to check out Golang again
Can't wait until we start recycling the bodies for food.
If every graphic was of a straight white male named Bob, are you telling me you wouldn’t give a darn yourself?

By your own logic, they are auxiliary graphics in a phone app, so who cares?

On that note: “I have yet to meet anyone legitimately angry for the reasons you claim”

1. Where do you get the authority to determine a legitimate reason? Have you dialogued with them to fully understand, instead of stereotyping?

2. Congratulations, you just met me.
But this is not true. Work through the screens to get to search mode "all critical reviews", ordered by time.
Phase out and replace. If your spouse asked you to phase out the 20% of your income which comes from [insert distasteful activity here] and replace it with [insert wholesome activity here], would that be a big deal to you?
Exactly. Framing reading as fair use is a huge and dangerous expansion of copyright.
I removed the part about class before I saw your reply, and before I saw another comment in the same thread illustrating it:

> Weigh brexit vote by tax paid per year, lifetime tax paid, or years having to live with the consequences, by educational attainment, and you get a remain landslide.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38818107
Returning isn't even convenient these days. I've been in the process of moving away from streaming services toward physical media, and Amazon is often the only place that carries certain things on disc. Unfortunately, the failure rate is pretty high. Trying to return some DVDs to Amazon is like pulling teeth. Either you have to drive across town to a Whole Foods to drop off the package, or you have to pay $10 to return a $15 DVD and then you have to make sure you are around at whatever time the UPS driver shows up to pick up your return. They won't even give you the address so that you can ship a return yourself, or allow you to print the label so you can leave it on your porch.

It's so painful at this point I've just started building in a 30% markup in the price mentally to account for things I'm going to have to buy an extra copy of. Returning things isn't worth the hassle it except for with very expensive boxed sets.

As a "bonus" amazon has also removed my reviews on things that I've had a particularly high error rate with, since the poor quality is apparently not relevant to the thing they are selling.
Oh wow, thanks for posting! I wrote this a few months back, happy to answer any q's :)
https://archive.ph/2023.07.22-052941/https://www.theatlantic...
What they're describing is dealing with a person who already doesn't understand what their code does.
What about investing time/resources into carbon removal? That's even more negativeer.
You do not need to be a domain expert to understand that fuses sold with a per-unit cost of 4¢ are barely better than paper clips in a plastic housing.

Paper clips sold on Amazon cost 1.3¢ each. https://a.co/d/28pCOQ2

Edit: and I am unassailably certain that those paper clips are really bad paper clips.
And not leave a nasty surprise for whoever inevitably finds you.
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>> Those exact words appear in another forum post from 2006. Should you have quoted that as a source for your reply? What if we knew you'd read that post back in 2006, affecting your neurons, then should you?

> I believe they should be able to, to the degree that their output can constitute copyright infringement.

But not you? The inference behind the AI-violates-copyright movement is that machine obligations should be brought to a parity with our obligations - that AI and you be fully subject to the same copyright overlordship.

I would independently agree that having AI divulge sources could be a good thing.

I do not agree with this attempt to twist copyright into yet another misshapen hammer, so copyright holders can bludgeon out some result they want.
The symmetry is imperfect.
You can install a custom Google Apps package, e.g.:

https://nikgapps.com/
Leaving the CU was inevitable in leaving the EU, since the core of the ToR is a CU.

We could have left the EU and (in theory) re-joined EFTA, then kept the EEA agreement operational. That would have left us with SM membership, and aligning customs tariffs would have removed any point in agreeing to a new CU.

It still would have left VAT deals, etc to be agreed.

However that is all water under the bridge.
oh real life gets better than that - a very expensive gym in a large coastal city was founded, profitable, and sold in the go-go 1990s.. expensive memberships and stable, large clientele in an excellent location started a sequence of ever-further leveraged purchases by new owners. The early 2000s saw homosexual prostitution, advertised on CraigsList, mixed into the otherwise upper middle class regulars. In fact, Ron Dellums was a member there at one time. Guess it all went "poof" under covid-19 ? run away
To add to this for anyone reading later..

The OS doesn't write bytes to the storage; it writes blocks. For modern drives the sector size is 4k, and the block io size is likely to be 4k unless utilizing 512b emulation.

So, the OS will always send 4k minimum writes to the storage device. In this case updating just the 8bytes would still result in a 4k write; at least to the wal then again to update the page plus index updates and etc.
> The idea that we should dispense with it [copyright] to let generative AI companies make even more money seems totally bizarre.

The idea is that we should remove abuses of copyright to allow our society to move forward, and thereby continue to exist.

Imagine if there was a law at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution that said when non-human labor was used, the Animal Welfare Office had veto power. Then imagine that the Animal Welfare Office declared steam engines to be immoral, and so steam engines were never used in industry, at least not in the Wester World. The Orient would eventually rise as the world's only industrial power.

In the same way, if we let the copyright industry veto generative AI, it will destroy the Western World.

Our students are already at a huge disadvantage compared to Chinese students who get every book ever translated into Chinese for free (except a few immoral works that they would not want to see anyway.)

Those who pose an existential threat to our civilization are rent seekers who abuse copyright in the US to go beyond protecting "science and the useful arts," who seek infinite copyright terms, who grab every creative work We The People create and register lying paperwork to ensure they can steal our creative genius to enrich their cabal.

If this was only a for-profit scheme, it would not be so bad. Do you remember when they Hollyweird degenerates sued a Christian company that wanted to put our G-rated versions of the movies aimed at children? The Christian company never suggested they not pay for the movies. No matter what the Christian company was willing to pay, they were not allowed to publish child-friendly versions of the movies. This proves Hollyweird's goal is to push degeneracy.

The battle against abuses of copyright is a fight for Western Civilization. The fight against abuses of copyright if a fight for our souls.
You also need to stabilize your head and the while body so that you do not leave the bucket for a longer time (to ensure death).

I assume that helium would not have the alert effect CO2 has - similarly to nitrogen which is probably too Henry to just it with a bucket as you describe.
I'm yet to see evidence that the types of people who whinge about these types of "brilliant programmers" are themselves much better at documentation, training and onboarding a team. The fact that devs like this are even in a position to whine and complain about their projects becoming unmaintainable after the star team mate leaves is a clear demonstration that they themselves have not made any substantial contribution to the maintainability or transferability of the codebase. Further, it shows they lacked the ability to professionally advocate for these things within the business.

I'm very skeptical about these situational anecdotes where someone with low impact complains about someone with high impact. "I was on a team where the guy who wrote everything left and then everything sucked" is not a compelling vantage point.
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IIRC the Swiss assisted suicide orgs all specifically exclude depression as a valid reason anyway.
> Everyone knows that a quantum version of the theory is necessary

"Everyone knows" is not any kind of evidence. It's not even really an argument. It's, essentially, a statement that an assumption is widely shared.

And, if I understand the article correctly, it may not in fact be necessary.
Assisted suicide is already legal in a number of countries, and I think this is the logical next step. If you can operate the apparatus yourself, you don't leave the scar on someone else's consciousness. You could say that this only shifts the burden one step away, but I think that is enough — if you decide to take your own life, whatever your reasons, it shouldn't be up to someone else to do it for you.
To illustrate, this is one of my favorite (humorous) lines from it, in the introductory chapter: "In the Eastern Empire, Greek civilization, in a desiccated form, survived, as in a museum, till the fall of Constantinople in 1453, _but nothing of importance to the world came out of Constantinople except an artistic tradition and Justinian's Codes of Roman law._"
When I was a student, my lab professors had a saying: "Sometimes a fuse will blow to protect the circuit, and sometimes the circuit will blow to protect the fuse."

One problem is that fuses are thermal devices. They break due to overheating. They take a while to warm up and blow. If a fuse overheats at 2A at 100ms, it will get that same amount of energy at at 20A over 1ms, which is an eternity by the standards of transistors.

Most silicon devices can destroy themselves in milliseconds or microseconds.
Well, take Second Life, VR Chat, NeosVR, Resonite, etc. They all are pretty similar concept-wise. First thing you get is a login screen. You need an account. On some, that account costs (or used to) cost money.

The world is locked inside a walled garden. If you don't like SL's rules, you don't get to touch anything SL related. You can't talk to your SL friends without logging into SL.

The server code is closed source. You must use the central infrastructure. In some cases, like SL, the client is open.

They sell add-ons like storage space for your stuff, and things like avatars you can directly buy. Some have an internal economy, but eg, Second Life quickly moved to being the official owners of the internal marketplace, and tax transactions.

If you want to have a permanent chunk of the world in SL, you pay for that, monthly.

All pretty standard. Now compare High Fidelity.

You install the client, open it, and instantly you show up in-world with no login screen required.

For data storage the solution is to pay any random web provider, or use the free AWS S3 tier. Any asset is just an URL pointing to https://example.com/file.gltf -- served from any random server, downloaded client-side, and outside HiFi's control.

Okay, so you pay for hosting your own environment? Nope. You host it on any Windows or Linux host you like, or the installer will even automatically install a server locally, easily start it from a menu, and NAT hole punch so you can host stuff on your laptop if you want to.

Tax Alice selling stuff to Bob? Well, the system is so open that anyone can set up their own shop if they want to. The source code for the shop is open, so is both the server and client. Since assets are hosted externally, nothing prevents Alice paying Bob with Paypal, emailing a file, and escaping any taxation.

Excluding people who break the rules? No such thing, there's no "grid". You can only be banned from individual worlds, like HN blocking you off doesn't mean anything for Ars Technica.

And all of that was Apache 2.0 licensed, so anybody who wanted could absolutely set up their own commercial operation and not share any of their own improvements.

If it was me running it, I'd have put the AGPL on it to discourage competitors, and either focus completely on custom setups for whoever needs one, or try to run a very light operation subsisting from Patreon.
Most methods of legal suicide today involve a doctor prescribing a cocktail known to kill a person and in many cases, they’re also administering it. It’s uncomfortable for them to effectively murder someone, even knowing that the recipient wishes for this to happen.

The pod here doesn’t need to mean that any psychiatric assessments are foregone, it just takes the doctors finger off the trigger (which is a good thing)
The idea of "brought into the world" somehow establishes that we were somewhere before. What would that be?
the pod could also incorporate hydrolysis, person goes in and

"The result is a quantity of green-brown tinted liquid (containing amino acids, peptides, sugars and salts) and soft, porous white bone remains (calcium phosphate) easily crushed in the hand (although a cremulator is more commonly used) to form a white-colored dust."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_cremation
It’s a much larger share of the power generation of Catalonia. Is this really about nuclear power or undermining the economic self-sufficiency of a separatist region?
I think what you're saying is technically true, but it is practically very difficult or impossible to achieve because of political realities within the EU. Hungary has blocked $54B of aid for Ukraine for almost three months now with no end in sight. The EU has to bribe countries like Hungary just to make something happen after months of delay. Meanwhile, the UK delivers aid how and whenever they like (including many firsts like western battle tanks, cruise missiles, etc.). The UK would be under a lot of pressure not to act unilaterally, and many more people in Ukraine would likely have died as a result. Either that, or some other non-EU country (e.g., the U.S.) would have to pick up the slack.

It is pretty difficult to argue that in the case of Ukraine, UK's autonomy has come in very handy indeed and was one of the promised benefits of Brexit. The EU has been consistent in it's messaging, but it's deeds have not always lived up to when and what they've said they'll deliver.
Thanks! Appreciate the interest