skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO it's only weird because the promotion is to 32-bit integers on 64-bit platforms. If all math would happen on the natural word size (e.g. 64-bits), and specific integer widths would only matter for memory loads/stores, it would be fine.
False. The problem with the UK is that middle class expenses are much higher because what was provided by the state at highly effective cost is now a cost they bear privately.

Housing and education is expensive because social housing was sold and marketised removing an anchor on rental and ownership prices.

Expensive finance enabled the marketisation of tertiary education and so now instead of no debt, middle class graduates have ~$100k.

Healthcare is being sold to, again, enable marketisation.

This all leads to a middle class that is legitimately worse off that it was. Nothing to do with taxation, everything to do with the removal of the social provision of a ladder into middle class for the next gen
The primary thing I noticed is that it doesn't quite seem to grasp that time runs forward either. In the video with the dogs in the snow you can see snow getting kicked up in reverse. I.E. snow arcs through the air and lands right as a paw gets placed.

Kind of made me wonder how these videos would look run backwards, but not enough to figure out how to make them run backwards.

EDIT: wow, the "backwards" physics is especially noticeable in the chair video[0]. Aside from the chair morphing wildly, notice how it floats and bounces around semi-physically. Clearly some issues grasping cause and effect.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfbImB0_rKY
And if you get a degree from college, it means you made something out of a lot of classes that at first glance, seemed useless. Also research skills, and the ability to pick something up on your own, maybe with a little help and practice.

But what do I know I’m a college grad who barely gets any interviews for anything.
"it's fairly solid aside from situations when it's not"
That might convince someone they are trans, who may have not come to that conclusion by themselves, which is the AI affecting the ground truth!
The UK seems to be uniquely hostile to the middle class. It sports a trifecta of:

1. High taxes. The marginal tax rate from 37k onwards is 40%, and that's just the income tax. On top of this there's national insurance (another couple of %).
2. Poor services and infrastructure. The roads are crumbling, massive potholes even in the richets towns and cities. Public transport is falling apart. There have been near constant strikes or disruptions in the past couple of years.
3. High concentration of wealth and a significant "housing as an investment" culture.

Unless you are born into wealth or happen to luck your way into finance in London - the only high paying industry and location - you'll earn fairly little money. The government then takes a large portion of this money and gives you very little in return. Both the infrastructure and the living standards of former Eastern Bloc countries are now better than the average in the UK.

A friend of mine summed it up neatly: the UK acts as if it was a first world country, whereas in reality it is a developing country. It needs to start thinking like a developing country, the policies it adops need to be that of a developing country.

I'm an expat, but I like it here and I really like the people. It breaks my heart how much of a shitshow the country has become and how much each day the hope of a better tomorrow slips away.
I agree but now you are asking your users to either install an extension or download something.

What many people want is the convenience of http/web with the immutability of content addressing and the frustration of OP at the start of our thread is that SRI feels so close to being able to provide that but stops short.

This has been a really interesting discussion for me because I think you understand the use cases and alternatives but it seems like you don't agree that hash pinned / immutable web sites natively in the browser would enable many interesting use cases.
What is your actual question?
And yet a £60K household income (two adults, no kids) still makes you better off than 88% of the population. [1]

I think a lot of people on comfortable incomes have absolutely no idea how privileged they are.

I also know people who complain about their financial situation in the same breath that they contemplate spending £15K/year or more per child on private education, in spite of having good state schools available.

[1] https://ifs.org.uk/tools_and_resources/where_do_you_fit_in
Ask HN: Does a site with .ai affect your perception?
If a tech site/product has an .ai extension, does that make you want to try it out more? Turn you off a bit? Or has zero effect on you?
Leaving the gold standard has been a disaster for the working class (i.e. anyone who has to work for a living)

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
> college serves as a decent filter for separating hirable people from the rest

Yes, it's obvious to everyone that a degree is correlated with being hireable because having a degree is also correlated with a lot of favourable attributes like intelligence and conscientiousness. If you want a warm body a degree is a good filter.

This is contradictory to strongest/highly capable employees though. For that case, having a degree is an extremely lazy filter. You filter unhireable people, but you also filter extremely hireable people.
> whether there is an giant mass-less invisible teapot shaped like an unicorn circling the outer rim of the solar system.

seems easy to check - just send an HTTP request, and see if you get an HTTP 418 back.
The article puts it very succinctly:

> As people like David Glasner have pointed out, the idea that the state monopoly on money is really about emergency financing for things like wars can also help us to understand why counterfeiting has historically been treated as treasonous.

Gave me a new perspective on money: as being a weapon of war. Of course it's not the only use of money but it does give food for thought.
I'm not trying to spread the responsibility evenly, I'll say outright the responsibility almost entirely lies with the current party. But my criticism of the opposition is, it's been so unconvincing and has often lacked any real opposition that I don't hold any hope for them being able to make any significant change either. I include Jeremy Corbyn in saying the opposition has been unconvincing, his proposals on the economy were often naive at best. But I agree that the media in this country seems entirely designed to maintain the status quo at this point, rather than challenge it.
Hence the gold standard
The removal of the parentheses does not change the behavior of the program. I guess that would not be considered "breaking" the code.
> If you're hard-working and a skilled worker, it barely pays off these days.

Part of me cannot stop thinking that people should just stop converging where already too many people live. If you can only find a job in London or San Francisco, start looking for something else, somewhere else.

Megalopolis are wrong. Stop accruing them!
I’d gladly take an internship that paid minimum wage or at least had a meal and transportation stipend.
thanks for reminding me for this website, adding it to me RSS feed right away
What prevents you from scanning & reconstructing a bucket of rice? :)
So all the comments made me start second guessing myself, so I went and checked. The difference is pretty staggering to me. You also don't pay national insurance on your dividend income, which helps. But you are right, you add the income from dividends to your regular income to figure out your tax bracket, but the rates are much lower:

https://www.gov.uk/tax-on-dividends

https://www.gov.uk/income-tax-rates
Yup, I am single earner earning £60k+ with a kid. Wife doesn’t work (extreme anxiety, working on it but takes time).

I am significantly worse off than if I was able to drop salary and she started working. Both with the tax bands but also with child benefit being removed once £60k has been hit. My friends were earning around £45k - £50k each - combined salary of £95k, and still received £80ish a month in child benefit. We lost out because I was earning £60k.

The only real benefit I get is being above the 40% tax bracket, I get a boost with my salary deduction for pension payment (pretax), but I am half expecting this to be raided soon, and I can’t pay enough into it anyway atm (cost of living crisis+ single earner for family renting in outer London).

Could be worse but still, fml sometimes.
> what can one do to avoid being in that position?

Be wary of being the highest paid person on a team. When it comes time to save money, they don't look at skill, they look at cost. Being decent at your job in the middle of the pack in terms of compensation is how to be safe.

Safe can be boring. You can make more money not being safe. It would be great to live in a society where work can be interesting, pay well, and safe, but this one of those "Choose two" scenarios.
the overall tax rate is lower, you also dont pay social security contributions. try getting a 50K dividend only payment vs a 50K payment via payroll. it's night and day
This page is great at telling a list of popular websites we should simply block/remove from our search results (can use uBlock or uBlacklist). When you search for "Dotdash Meredith" or more specifically "is part of the Dotdash Meredith publishing family" you get a lot of widely known websites. I am removing all these via uBlacklist atm.

Are there any other similar family of websites which we can lookup and block?
In what European jurisdictions? For example in Slovakia dividends are taxed by a special tax rate (8% previous years, 10% from 2024) and that's all, so it's pretty good compared to the standard cca 20% (different tax rates, not sure which one applies when + there is some untaxed minimum but not much). In addition to that, if you are employed, you are paying (relatively huge) social and health insurance too, which you don't have to pay from dividends.
I have a partner that's not willing to compromise over 20 miles in where we choose to live, unfortunately. And I have a terminally ill father to think about, so can't really up sticks. Plus, I lament the situation in Britain, but it doesn't seem meaningfully better in most other European countries at the minute either. If I was 23 again and single, I'd be on the plane to Norway right now. Yes their taxes are even higher, but at least you get functioning public services in return. Which can't be said about the UK. As for Ireland, their income taxes aren't much lower I don't think, although I love Ireland and have Irish blood.
In what month are you most likely to die?
https://archive.is/GU3hb
Nope, but I'll check it out, thanks!
You should read about it a bit more if you believe that would help protecting against banksters and private money.
Dividend taxes depend on your income tax bracket and also affect it, so they are taxed as income. You get £2,000 tax free, then the rest is taxed as income.

From the link in your post:

Tax band Tax rate on dividends

Basic rate 8.75%

Higher rate 33.75%

Additional rate 39.35%
Bear in mind that some of the people reading this comment are OSS developers, potentially even ones who write software you're personally using. ;)

> I think oss developers that don't understand how users use their software can't maintain or improve it.

For trivial improvements, that's definitely not the case.

For example, if someone files a GitHub issue saying "please add new menu shortcut XYZ". That's the kind of thing which doesn't directly need in depth understanding of how users are using the software.

More major features though will indeed benefit from understanding how users use it. That's not really a case for telemetry though, rather it's a case of having a wide enough user base that users ask for changes/features/fixes themselves.

Sometimes the users asking for changes/features/fixes is us ourselves. ;)
That was my worry also, that and rain, humidity or heat
Sorry about that. I’ve added it.
I find "modern" development to be bloat. By modern I refer to web development as smart device (ie Android, IOS, etc)

I will always have a soft spot for C but try to find the right replacemenet.

Looking at Odin at the moment which I do like. It is taking inspiration from a number of languages, include C and Pascal.
You're a little off on the average UK wage. It's around £34k now.
> The answer is in your next sentence. Cost = value.

Is it though? I think music had value before we invented money, and will surely continue to do so long after society has collapsed.
Why? A web browser does not need to run under any kind of privileged mode, nor its library dependencies…
Thanks for the rust sample. It looks very similar.
Can the allocator be customized?

As I said I am not Rust specialist.

Also, in my understanding is that in Rust, sometimes a dynamic state is created when the object may or may not be moved.

In cake ownership this needs to me explicit ( and the destructor is not generated)

I also had a look at Rust in lifetime annotations.
This concept may be necessary but I am avoiding it.

Consider this sample.

struct X {
struct Y * pY;
};
struct Y {
char * owner name;
};

An object Y pointed by pY must live longer than object X.
(Cake is not checking this scenario yet)

Also (classic Rust sample)

int * max(int * p1, int * p2) {
return *p1 > *p2 ? p1 : p2;
}

int main(){
int * p = NULL;
int a = 1;
{
int b = 2;
p = max(&a, &b);
}
printf("%d", *p);
}

This is not implemented yet but I want to make the lifetime of p be the smallest scope. (this is to avoid lifetime annotations)

int * p = NULL;
int a = 1;
{
int b = 2;
p = max(&a, &b);
} //p cannot be used beyond this point*
> as GPUs from NVIDIA can be interchangeable with GPUs from other manufacturers like AMD

For AI workloads I'm pretty sure they aren't, which is why everyone is trying to buy NVIDIA GPUs.

If they were a commodity there would not be such intense competition for NVIDIA GPU allocations, because they would be easily interchangeable with GPUs from another source.
> £3,400 a month. Rent or a mortgage, council tax, energy and food will take the vast majority of that

If we're talking a mortgage it won't take the majority of that. Most people are paying no more than a couple of hundred in interest on their mortgage, many pay much less. The repayments aren't "taken", they are yours and are paying back the loan on the house. In other words, they are building wealth.

It's rent and consumption driven by lifestyle inflation that traps people in a cycle of not building any wealth. Mortgages are for the wealth-building class and are therefore a good deal.

So, yeah, earning £60k isn't what makes you middle class any more. It all depends on whether you own a house or not.
You seem to have a preset opinion, and I'm not sure you are interested in re-evaluating it. So this is not written to change your mind.

I've developed production code in C, C++, Rust, and several other languages. And while like pretty much everything, there are situations where it's not a good fit, I find that the solutions tend to be the most robust and require the least post release debugging in Rust. That's my personal experience. It's not hard data. And yes occasionally it's annoying to please the compiler, and if there were no trait constraints or borrow rules, those instances would be easier. But way more often in my experience the compiler complained because my initial solution had problems I didn't realize before. So for me, these situations have been about going from building it the way I wanted to -> compiler tells me I didn't consider an edge case -> changing the implementation and or design to account for that edge case. Also using one example, where Rust is notoriously hard and or un-ergonomic to use, and dismissing the entire language seems premature to me. For those that insist on learning Rust by implementing a linked list there is https://rust-unofficial.github.io/too-many-lists/.
> Hopefully someday we can move beyond the desire for grass lawns, since that's where a lot of this waste is coming from.

Do you have a source for that?

As someone that is farm adjacent (not just physically) my intuition tells me that run off from lawns would be a rounding error compared to agricultural and horticultural run off.
The accumulated inflation around Europe since Covid is in range 20-50% or higher. The real estate prices increase exceeded inflation. Tax free allowances are now below poverty, highest tax brackets kick in for salaries barely supporting a couple with one child. Welcome to precarious Europe.
Midlands is the way to go honestly, great transport links to the whole country, great nature, very cheap living.
As far as I'm aware Steam has never removed a game. They have unlisted games for several reasons, but that has never affected previous purchases.
Apparently this is referring to an already announced layoff that occurred in January: https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24034124/google-layoffs-e...
Germany is similar. Housing costs are a part of this. As are rising food prices.

But the main thing people don‘t mention is that taxes are insane right now. In Germany at least, the tax brackets are not coupled to inflation. I earn close to the money in the headline and I‘m at the highest tax break. As per OECD, I‘ve paid 50% of my wage as income taxes. This is after my employer paid the same amount of tax for employing me as well. We pay the highest price on energy in Europe. I pay 20% VAT on everything I buy. My Government was close to earning a trillion dollars this year and they still say it‘s not enough.

Meanwhile we‘ve been getting report after report in the news that a family of four experiences no net income difference between 3K EUR and 5K EUR because the government decreases social financial support payments depending on supplemental income after the 3K Euro mark.

Through the governments policy, they are directly subsidizing rent and increasing landlord wealth by paying out rent support in cities. High tax and lax policies keep wages artificially down.
Not for people earning more than 50k or so a year. Ireland’s income tax system is progressive in the extreme - those earning over 50k pay over 75% of the income tax collected despite constituting about 20% of the workforce. About a third of the workforce pay no income tax at all.
I don't have a source to hand, but I've heard their drones were used in Syria for several years before Ukraine
Damn those rich. If only we could take their riches and divide it amongst ourselves, then it would have been a paradise on Earth! Wait, comrades, why am I in the gulag, where are you dragging me... Please don't shoooot...
There're decent communities of people who like to manage their own tech (example: r/selfhosted) and those that like to assemble their own library (r/musichoarder) and then everything in between - so there are options for this.
My understanding is that TOS and TNG were shot on film and the 1080p versions aren't upscaled but are actually rescanned from the film. TNG supposedly had to basically be re-edited from the original footage after rescanning, but not sure about TOS.

That method wouldn't be possible for DS9 or Voyager as both of those shows were shot digitally at 480p. I remember hearing that there's been some community work that upscales DS9 to 1080p using neural networks, but haven't really been able to find anything concrete about that.
> which many cultures did and do value

Eh. That comes with a lot of caveats. There's an entire branch to library science (yes, that's a thing) dedicated to storing and analysing different "editions" of the same text because it helps trace how stories spread over time. Usually large parts of the text will be the same but there will be minor changes, often inconsequential, in one edition versus another.

> it requires a lot of rote learning, and learning of various associated memorization techniques

Sure, if you today want to memorize an entire work like that, you will need to do that. But this ignores the historical context. Nowadays you may hear dozens of sophisticated tales every day. You can't even watch the news without hearing narratives, often deliberately constructed to have heroes and villains and story arcs to make boring events sound interesting. Back then, especially in remote villages, your material was much more limited and there was much more work that allowed for telling or listening to stories and songs.

This also ignores the survivorship bias: the people who ended up reciting these stories were likely already interested in memorizing them and found it easier to do so. For example, certain forms of autism literally would have predisposed people to being able to commit such stories to memory and recite them word-for-word, given enough time and opportunities to do so. Telling them in an interesting way then would just have been a craft you'd hone through repetition.

It's also fallacious to think of this as a distinct profession inherently. Without the separation of labor the concept of a "profession" makes little sense even if different people might prefer doing different kinds of work and thus naturally divide some parts of labor without a formal distinction (e.g. in a gift economy it's perfectly plausible for the guy who is really good at making tools to spend more of his time on tools for others who'd in turn take over some of his other work to allow him to focus on that). Yes, at some point memorizing and reciting stories becomes so much work you don't have time for anything else and a culture might recognize that as a distinct profession the same way it might have shamans or holy people, but I'd argue that often oral cultures would strive perfectly fine, even when it comes to longer works.

Now, being able to create such an extensive work and spread it to other groups/tribes/towns is another matter and would indeed be more likely to happen in the presence of a distinct profession. But of course it's no accident that there are so many parallels between historical epics.
At least. There is a lot of the Old Testament that is literally just lists of things. Leviticus is another obvious one or the "begats" in Exodus. It's largely impossible because of the Old Testament's status as a holy text but I'd really love to see a more condensed version of it that takes it purely as an epic and not a part of existing religious traditions. I suppose that would be more likely to come out of a culture that is not so closely tied to Christianity though and I fear it might lose a lot in the double process of translation required to make it approachable to a Westerner like me.
42% income tax kicks in at income of mere 67k. Why work at all?
Absolutely correct. We just can't have a situation where multi-millionaires are paying less taxes than people working their arses off from the ground up. It seems like the most glaringly obvious problem in our society and economy. And it's clear that avoiding fixing this problem is just blatant protecting their own. I used to think the notion that the Tories were here just to protect their rich mates was slightly unfair and conspiratorial. But they've had 14 years, and the've let everyone but the super rich fall into decline, what else can I take from that?
The bytecode compilation doesn't really matter, it's still gonna jank. Maybe not as badly, but it will. The only way to get rid of jank is to cache not the bytecode and not even the native code, but the PSOs. Realistically, that is only possible on the target machine, unless you have a ginormous farm of machines representing all the permutations of hardware and drivers. That's basically what Steam does with its mass of users.

The alternative is to just not have that many shader permutations, and potentially take a performance hit from that. This seems to be the strategy that Impeller is following.
They do. In fact they graduated from simply dropping grenades on soldiers and IFVs to suicide roles taking out actual tanks. I'm not sure actual DJIs are being used in suicide missions or custom, still inexpensive, drones.