skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To me the more interesting thing is why people feel compelled to engage, especially so when it comes to substances.

My experience is that people do not. I almost always see these in LinkedIn where I do not respond because I do not think it would be appropriate to do so - any more than it is to discuss it there. People who do respond are uniformly supportive.

I might respond there to a discussion about whether this is something appropriate to post there.

I responded here with this comment because I saw a parallel and this is a more general discussion.

> If I just say "I don't X", some portion of people will undoubtedly hear "and nobody else should either" and get their hackles up.

Again your experience differs from mine. I do see similar comments else where and a simple "I don't do X" is invariably ignored. Even on Facebook! I saw someone say "I do not drink alcohol myself" in a discussion on FB recently and it did not affect the discussion (parents talking about teens drinking) at all and the same with a similar discussion on LinkedIn (although I read that thread less closely). I do see responses when someone makes particular claims, most commonly about vegan diets - e.g. making specific claims about health etc.

I think the responses depend on the audience and the context. If it is made on Twitter by someone widely followed I would expect lots of such responses (not seen anyone say it on Twitter that I can recall).

> It's really just a topic best avoided if you don't want to offend people or risk making them think poorly of you, even if you aren't the one bringing it up. Which seems a little sad.

I think discussing personal issues on social media is a bad idea generally so its no loss.
Glad to be of at least amusement. :-D

Edit:

I think C is easy like the game of Chess. The rules are easy to grok...
> My only bad experience with prettier, besides the incredible slowness (orders of magnitude slower than ruff)

Ruff is based on the same foundations that Biome (https://biomejs.dev/). Although Biome doesn't support all languages that Prettier supports, you should give a try, it is fast.
Because we don't want people like Giancarlo Devasini, Alex Machinsky, Sam Bankrun-Fraud, Vitalik Buterin, Changpeng Zhao, Saint Saylor and others to govern our money. That's why a lesser evil is used - the state.
You are correct that there are improvements to be made. The current internal representation is—for the moment—simply the Python standard library.

Probably the approach of Chrono is best: allow leap seconds to be represented (i.e. 23:59:60), but not to account for them historically.
The accretion of a solar mass per day by a 17B solar mass black hole
I am not missing the point, as I do not believe in authorities and someone else's evaluations of skill level of yet another person. To rewrite a simple exponentiation in C would not cause "lots of work", and pinpointing the culprit, the exponentiation does not require any gdb debugging and disassembling. In fact, just knowing that exponentiation has caused that suggests faulty hardware and not further investigation required.

You should probably invite these people themselves to the discussion instead of speaking on their behalf. Not productive.
How to create a DMG installer for your applications on macOS
in this tutorial:
- How to create a dmg installer ?
- How to create MAC application installer ?
- How to optimize the installer background image ?
- How to make the installer "read only" to prevent anyone from modifying its content ?
Cake implements defer as an extension, where ownership and defer work together. The flow analysis must be prepared for defer.

int * owner p = calloc(1, sizeof(int));
defer free(p);

However, with ownership checks, the code is already safe. This may also change the programmer's style, as generally, C code avoids returns in the middle of the code.

In this scenario, defer makes the code more declarative and saves some lines of code. It can be particularly useful when the compiler supports defer but not ownership.

One difference between defer and ownership checks, in terms of safety, is that the compiler will not prompt you to create the defer. But, with ownership checks, the compiler will require an owner object to hold the result of malloc, for instance. It cannot be ignored.

The same happens with C++ RAII. If you forgot to free something at our destructor or forgot to create the destructor, the compiler will not complain.

In cake ownership this cannot be ignored.

struct X {
FILE * owner file;
};

int main(){
struct X x = {};
//....

} //error x.file not freed
I can't help but feel the only way to achieve a middle class lifestyle in the UK at this point is to be a couple (alongside realistic expectations around housing location, too many people are hell bent on London for some reason). As a single person, getting on the property ladder and keeping your head above water on £60k would be difficult, yet as a childless dual income (DINK) couple it's a comfortable life in the Midlands or North of the country. If you add children to the mix, suddenly it's very difficult again.

The tax burden is insane nowadays. The 40% bracket is frozen at an insanely low level until at least 2028 AFAIK - it's hugely demoralising to know that anything I earn outside of my day job is taxed at 40% unless I want to squirrel the money away into a pension or buy shit I don't need to reduce my tax bill.
Do you have your own website? Because that old internet still exists, it's just hidden behind all the commercialized shit. You can participate if you want to:

Make your own website. Link to others you like. Use old-school forums instead of modern social media. Rely on user-curated lists instead of algorithmic feeds. There is enough geuine content out there to last you a lifetime and plenty of people to interact with.
You don't need front end developers for Backstage integration
Despite zero TypeScript and MERN experience, we pulled off deploying Backstage in our platform, with a much better user experience. Only 5 % of our engineers use it.
'Up to 60k a year' is middle class?

Does that make plumbers middle class, as they earn above that?

Personally I think middle class would be around £80-150k. (I know its not all based on salary.)

According to the BOE calculator[1] 50k in 2000 is 90k nowadays.

I think this country has a Freddo issue on wages and what certain demographic grew up with seems to be what society accepts.

Minimum wage is 23k, with an average UK wage of 28k. In ~10 years most people are going to be on minimum. Even some of the middle class according to this article (30k).

[1]: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/in...
What's wrong with having a need for a feature and wanting it implemented?
Yes, because £60k isn’t really a middle class income anymore.

After income tax it leaves about £3,400 a month. Rent or a mortgage, council tax, energy and food will take the vast majority of that, making it very hard to build wealth and get ahead - even without kids in the mix.
I'm in a similar situation. High earner, not expecting much in inheritance. It feels like sitting on PAYE is the worst possible tax option. Sitting on large amounts of wealth is super easy, its just impossible to get there.

> The two main parties are virtually identical at this point, bar some minor differences in rhetoric on none issues like 'woke stuff'.

I disagree with this. Labour aren't floating the idea of scrapping inheritance tax.
where is the original paper? how did they avoid running into https://xkcd.com/882/
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Denken mit der Hand (2023)
Everyone likes to complain that IRC is dead, but nobody wants to go just populate IRC. It's not like it takes much bandwidth; I've got a good few servers just connected in a screen session that runs mostly in the background and pop in from time to time in a few spots, and get a ding if someone mentions me.

I probably should take up Matrix as well for how much I disparage Discord, but Discord is definitely another spot where lots of humans congregate.
An Executive Bought a Rival's Stock. The SEC Says That's Insider Trading
Videogames are usually not made in cheap countries
"Freddo issue" is such a perfect description.
Why not move then? Afaik Ireland has much lower taxes
> If you have two indistinguishable candidates on relevant dimensions who both passed the interview bar and are the best two candidates you have for one position, literally just flip a coin, hire the winner, and move on.

Agreed.

Now explain how having completed a degree is a "relevant dimension", unlike height, age, etc. You ignored my first question: "Have you considered that if it's possible for a dropout to performally equally to a degree holder in every perceivable respect, it raises doubts about the value of a degree?" My second question was actually intended to highlight the issue.

What you appear to be doing with "I have evidence that the person with a degree can follow rules/policies and track towards a long-term goal with success" is reaching for one arbitrary personal characteristic and inventing an idiosyncratic, non-scientific psychological theory in order to justify discrimination. Others do the same thing with age and gender, for example (younger people and men are just better at programming, they say). You don't know the life story of these people, and there are any number of reasons for someone not completing a degree: monetary problems, family problems, a major illness or injury, natural disaster, etc. Moreover, if you select just based on degree completion, you give job candidates no opportunity to show evidence that they "can follow rules/policies and track towards a long-term goal with success" in ways other than competing a degree. It's simply a bias toward degree holders. By your own admission, you're not using the degree as evidence of job-relevant skills but rather as a psychological, "life story" factor.
I blew through it in three days and then happily signed up for the $10/unlimited plan!
Same in Canada on 100K cad a year.
Middle class is gone mostly everywhere in the so called developed countries.
Thank you so much. I still have a way to go. People who struggle with low contrast will struggle with the default colour scheme, for example. But I'm trying to make progress with every new post <3
> The two main parties are virtually identical at this point

Below is a counterpoint to this idea, which I think is captured well in the first line, "Petrified fucking terror. That's the first thing you think when you look at Labour. A barely-concealed, buttoned-up, can't-sleep-at-night anxiety, lurking just behind the eyes. They're scared they'll fluff it. They're scared that in the white heat of the election campaign, the Tories will find some policy in their manifesto to weaponise against them and the whole thing will come crashing down."

https://iandunt.substack.com/p/labour-is-going-to-be-more-ra...
Checkout the "css crimes" tag on cohost, there's some pretty cool stuff there!
https://cohost.org/rc/tagged/css%20crimes
It felt like S3 forgot it was a comedy, and it tried too hard to be Real Trek. (Not to mention I kind of hate the crew now for what they did to Gordon in that time travel episode.)
Technically, the state does not have the monopoly on money. The majority of the money supply is created by commercial banks through credit. But the commercial banks are so strictly regulated through capital requirements that the de facto decision about what purposes the banks are allowed to print money for is under centralized control. The ECB even thinks about using capital requirement rules to nudge banks towards green investments, which would be a departure from their mandate of monetary stability.
Well both. It is already in wide use, but still has some kinks.
That's a terrible take considering how much money both governments and insurance companies would save. There are a ton of studies made on injury prevention every year. I've personally participated in one study for 19 years now. Exercise is one of the best methods to prevent it and it would be a very bold claim to say there's no money in fitness.

The issue with accelerometers is that they don't prevent fall, only notify afterwards, and you get a ton of false positives. To the degree that Apple devices are becoming a real issue for health personnel.
There are many reasons you might not complete a degree, and some don't reflect badly on the student at all.

The problem is, everyone who drops out due to inability presents themselves as having dropped out to work on their startup or suchlike.

So it's something of a market for lemons.
At least have the courtesy to bump the major version number. If you're going to break compatibility, then own it. If what you're doing is really for the best then don't try to do it quietly in shame, announce it with fanfare.
The argument usually goes like this, but has zero evidence in real life. Even PS2 which was quite infamous for the amount of unlocks and hacks, sold really well and was very successful. I think business do that not to protect sales or anything but to appease shareholders.
Thats not true. Divident income is added to your normal income and taxed. There is a band and some free allowance and different buckets. But all in all it does not really matter if personal income comes from divident or work. Best would be to register yourself outside of the UK and live as a non domicile in the UK.
Middle class by modern definition in the middle 1/3 band of the income distribution, no?
Prettier does not support Astro files natively, so it's the Astro plugin's fault in this case.

(I maintain said plugin, so, well, it's my fault)
Python formatters do that too, they don't care about the indentation, as long as it's consistent. All I need to do is indent the block far enough to the right that it's not more left than the previous one, and that's it.

This also happens rarely enough that it's never been an issue for me.
> take the rest as dividends which get taxed at 20%

As someone who lives outside the UK, I find this astounding. Dividends should be taxed as income, not capital gains. Sure, it's one of the reasons why stock buybacks are more popular in the US than dividends (because stock buybacks are capital gains, not income), but that's beside the point. Dividends are not the growth of capital, they are the proceeds from capital.
Aren’t dividends taxed as income in the UK? I’m not certain but superficial googling seems to confirm it. They certainly are in other European jurisdictions so this “pay yourself dividends” does nothing to reduce tax paid.
Not just crypto too. Back in the day banks issuing their own gold promise notes didn’t end well because once you can promise you can make false promises.

The government can also do that and some countries currencies have collapsed but in general it is fairly solid! Inflation aside.
If I'm reading this correctly, you think juniors should live without formatters because they need to learn to format manually?

I entirely disagree. Juniors have to learn so many more important things - how to logically structure code, testing, working on teams, git...

Why take time away from learning those (and similar) concepts to teach them something a tool does well and, if necessary, they can learn later?

I like it to deciding to teach teens how to drive with a manual transmission instead of an automatic one- they need to be able to drive and not hit things, and the more we can simplify that, the happier we all are. If needed, some kids can go back and learn how to use a stick shift.
Having Facebook shut down in the EU.
There's a coalition to supply Ukraine with a million drones (although that figure might be exaggerated) I'm guessing they'll be slightly cheaper than the Black Hornet ($100K+)

https://breakingdefense.com/2024/02/european-coalition-bids-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hornet_Nano
Could you please not post unsubstantive comments to HN? You've been doing this quite a bit, already, and we're trying for something different here.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Oh and doesn't that just define the problem so well
And way higher real-estate prices?
Defeatist mentality.

The author doesn't give any practical solution to the problem, or things anyone could do to improve their specific or general situation, we call that whining.
perfectly said.

the tax squeeze for paye as a single earner sucks. the uk instead of growing the economy, tax revenues through innovation they would rather tax the hell out of the working masses
> An alternative explanation for why his advice has been lauded by so many is that it provides an opportunity for partners to communicate about their needs and desires.

Even more basic - hidden below the vocabulary in all 5 of the "love languages", is the idea that you are supposed to be paying very regular attention to your partner, and working to keep the relationship healthy.
Because then he has to live in Ireland?
Biological Hypercrystals (2022)
The problem with the rust developers creating an API based on a file system that is a “toy” (i.e. a limited subset of features) is that the API abstraction does not cater for all file systems.

The advise provided is good - develop a file system module in rust for ext2 and then propose a new API.
Impositions on intellectual property exist in the first place because the biologically deficient have cleverly acquired a violent weapon to inflict some substantial damage on those organisms which would exclude carriers of genes that evolution itself deems a failure. For evolution's unknown teleos toward fit species and individuals, whatever that particular end looks like according to evolution's grand designs for the world.

Life isn't fair and doubly so under the regime of evolution and its objective reality. So there's going to be some antagonism coming from the losers of biological life. That biology affects the possession of technical equipment like software and the socio-cultural valuation of intellectual property laws, for instance, proves itself harmful to natural and effective technological development. The rejection of intellectual freedom incriminates itself in the sphere of natural selection and physical physiology. Blatant advertising and screening of bad genetic dispositions, rationally, for those who take the physical sciences seriously and who also would like to resist purely unnecessary games and drag on progress.

But if information wants to be free, if technology wants to hook up with some smart and intelligent individuals, then it will try to find a way to such liberty. Enlisting the aid of free software hackers, for instance. And who knows what that villain would plan next if hacker geeks fail at being good henchmen for it.
I guess there's no such thing. It's probably going to be raw opengl or something; 3D graphics is A LOT more complex than 2d graphics
I'm not hyped about Spotify (don't dislike it either) - but there's one feature I haven't found in any other service - it's recommendation engine (e.g. Discover Weekly) which I'm enjoying a lot. I've discovered great music using it and that's almost the only thing keeping me there.

Hivemind, do you know of a good alternative?
You get to take 20% dividends freely even with a minimum wage in the UK? That’s cool but crazy if that’s all it takes to evade employment tax. Here in NL if your company mainly sells your own labour you’re only allowed to take dividends after paying yourself 2-3x the minimum wage and even that is restricted.
than London?
While wealth is not zero sum, neither is it infinite sum, and indeed some components (e.g. living space in desirable locations) are very much zero sum.

Wealth also has a tendency to agglomerate. We need wealth taxes now. Anything above say 2MM belongs to the People (remember them?) anyway, perhaps we continue to license some proportion of that back to the rich for entertainment value (and to provide a funding mechanism for potentially valuable but 'bonkers' projects that might otherwise go unfunded)
> The main point of that previous post is that although economists tend to dislike monopoly and extol the virtues of competition, there is surprisingly little criticism of central banks among these same economists.

I think professional economist don't have "likes" or "dislikes". Also this statement doesn't seem correct in another way. I think economists try to understand what setting yields the most wealth. If a monopoly yields more wealth than competition, then, economists will recommend a monopoly.

For example, the metric system is similar to a monopoly. It doesn't make sense to have multiple competing systems here.

Same with a currency as it's a unit of accounting. Having multiple currencies would have higher transaction costs because people would have to convert back and forth daily for comparison and making purchases.

There's also the perspective from MMT, where money is a license to pay your taxes. So having multiple ways of paying your taxes doesn't make sense in this view either.
Snap! And I went on to develop an XBMC add-on to control windows media center as a result of getting into the scene!
Not everyone can hear a voice-mail. My partner is deaf, and if Google Voice can't transcribe a voice-mail, they don't know what it says until I listen to it.
> terahertz waves, which are smaller and have much higher frequencies than radio waves.

Strange language, this journalist uses. "Terahertz waves" are radio waves, although they're more commonly called far-infrared.

It's not clear to me what the tag itself does, apart from the glue. Apparently it serves only to hold the glue in place, and so is 100% redundant. Or perhaps the talk about "slots" explains the purpose of the tag: it sounds like a grating, but the article doesn't explain why you need a grating.
It sounds like interesting advise. Why the liberal use of structs?
> When presented in that light, it is not surprising that it would be treated as treasonous.

And if presented in a different light, it'd be surprising. But the more imporant question is why would you need to present anything based on that or another theory instead of validating it with data from those who actually make those rules and categorize it as treason?
I don't like this guy's vibe, but I'm left wondering if we aren't stuck in a heroic mindset, while thinking like a villain is just more efficient. It feels profound, uplifting and _right_ to challenge yourself, but after you've completed your inner journey, how far ahead are the vipers who only learned only to strike and perfected only their viciousness?
An array of smaller networks would be great, with interoperability.

The fact that Big Tech exploits network effects is a very negative outcome, but most people don't realise it.

Maybe the EU could experiment with "personal data interoperability" to promote a counterbalance to network effects.

Haven't really thought this through, but it would be nice for the web to work this way generally and promoting competition instead of being tied to these large corporations.
Getting signal through a hostile radio environment comes to mind. But as it stands now it looks like this might be a field were a hundred "macguyvers on typewriters" adapting consumer drones are more effective than a Shakespeare trapped in the bowels of the military industrial complex.
'gpt-4-turbo-preview' is the one that always points to the latest version of gpt-4-turbo
The PAYE system seems designed to plug the gap created by the wealthy through pushing what they should be paying onto the middle class. You can never expect to get ahead under such a system with wage stagnation and an increasing cost of living. The only way to address this is through closing the loopholes, which is less likely to happen under fourteen years of tory rule.
Artificial intelligence is not 'hyped enough'
That is very cool. I didn't know about this.

I like walking through the Greenwich Foot Tunnel; while not as old as the Tower of London Subway, it is very old, and it's wild for me to walk under the Thames.