skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally prefer the Swedish system of wages set by union negotiations instead of having a state minimum wage.

There should obviously be special wages for particularly strenuous work, that leaves people exhausted and for certain professions that have special characteristics, and that's not for the government to decide, rather it must be set by collective agreements between large groups of workers and employers.

Politics and laws are too slow, and this provides an intermediate flexibility level in-between politics and direct negotiation.

It's at odds with some EU law though, which is a huge problem. It's designed to work in a closed system, so when people can bring in strikebreakers from abroad there's a major problem which will eventually have be solved at the EU level, or we'll eventually be unable to remain (since this is more core to our politics than our EU membership).
There's an in-depth video that compares the performance of Quake's software renderer on the Pentium MMX versus the AMD K6 at the micro-architecture level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWVhIvZlytc

The most interesting insight in there is how the former manages to outperform the latter in this specific case due to a pipeline quirk in the FDIV instruction, despite the fact it is a previous generation, in-order design vs a next generation, out-of-order design.
I had to use Windows machine to test an app recently and the amount of ads and other annoyances there is just mindblowing. I wanted to show Solitaire to my kids but it's so ad-ridden it's painful to play.

I'm strongly considering just reformatting the drive and putting Linux in there.
In that case the videos are the product. But the author has since clarified here in the comments that they did actually mean the commercial value of OS itself.
Mm ... thanks, maybe, but doesn't feel quite right.

Problem was it used a normal TV so when demoing it, if the line dropped you got whatever was on TV. Less than impressive!
Slow the earth's rotation using magnets.
Ask HN: Affording Accounting/SaaS for multiple side hustles?
Like a few of us here, I run multiple side hustles/projects - only a couple make a profit. Enough to pay the bills. And I realised, whereas in 2011 only say 30% of my costs were tech/SaaS, now, 80% of them are. Is there a way to avoid this?

The crux of the matter is that I find some SaaS completely invaluable, like watching session replays (= finding bugs/why people buy), accounting, and recently, using AI to prospect/lead gen (and doing actual content myself, at conferences, via phone). Many times hosting is free on startup plans on cloud, but if you don't create a new company entity, you often cannot access cloud credits for the smaller projects (sensibly), or you are paying OpenAI, so you are looking at $100-$500 for the tech too. I also feel they are kind of unoptional now: Sales response rates are 3-4x lower than what they were in 2011, because of AI prospecting/the gradual train of spam and investors focusing on tech. So you need to counter this with tooling.

The thing is each of these services hit minimum plans these days of say $50-$100 for decent usage. And with 3-4 projects, this means I am paying the majority of my margins to them. I think back to 2011, when I had a short term startup, and with the market being less crowded (and luck), was able to generate revenue without any of this tech. Our only running cost was servers and accounting (which was cheaper). The problem then was always distribution, but now I know how to do that, the problem is actually the fixed costs. Nowadays I feel like if you don't have a good enough UI/quality (i.e. use session replay/pay users for feedback), you just can't get high enough revenue and retention. So I buy service after service for each project (as since 2022, more and more limit to one domain per plan etc or have worse free tiers than they used to), but it feels like I'm no further along than I was in 2011. Yes I have tried to self-host supabase and highlight.io, both were too hard to do for each site. Other software was self-hostable, but not the ones I'm paying for! (without all sorts of config for email auth, etc)

Come to think of it, will we ever see a service like "Once" cover these kind of things? Because SaaS boilerplates sort of solved that issue for me. It's now the "improvement and listening to users" part that I am forking out money for.
> only a third of the economy

Yeah and I’m sure the rest is advanced industry and not at all goods and services consumed by the tourism-industry workers and their families
I carry those old games from old windows installs. They won't run "natively" on modern windows, however someone ported a subset of WINE, winevdm, to windows called otvdm.

I was playing Chips Challenge yesterday!

https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
The Slovenian national TV maintains a web version of the Teletext: https://teletext.rtvslo.si/

My father still uses it (on the TV) to read the sports news.
The expensive TV sets cached the previous page, so you could flip between them. The really expensive sets cached ALL pages.
O-1 visas are pretty darn hard to get by. Most start-up founders would lack the national or international distinction and that too way before even they have started their journey.

Those having such kind of distinction would already have going too good for them (unless they're just good on the paper) that it wouldn't make much economic sense for them to relocate elsewhere.
The selected quote is not a counterpoint to the claims of the activists. It’s merely an admission that mass tourism causes issues.

Also as I said they did not interview him but only quoted another interview.
Games reviews on 4tel, channel 4’s version.

Holiday booking on another version.

It used to be they stopped broadcasting during the afternoon, replacing it with “Pages from Ceefax” along with some bespoke muzak, the tune with the barking dogs made me smile.

Angela Ripon explaining from 1975:
https://youtu.be/ICoj8mxG0ww

“BBC2 Pages From Ceefax - Mon 26 Aug 1996 - Slide Rule”
https://youtu.be/j9Aiiekfqiw
Very cool. I'm going to try installing in DosBox now. What about Windows 3.11, 98 and NT4?
“Erosion concern” is exactly correct for this particular location on this particular island, a place I knew very well. The rising sea levels are not particularly concerning in this situation. But why is it eroding so fast? Global warming? Maybe, but much more likely it is the fact that this once extremely verdant forest island has been shorn down to mere grasslands by environmental activists of all people. You see, most of that part of the island is owned by the Land Bank, which is a conservation trust that levies a 2% tax on every real estate transaction, for the stated purpose of purchasing and preserving land in its natural state. Well, so it was, but now they’ve gotten into the golf business, and their last major purchase was a $9M 8-bedroom house for seasonal staff at the golf course. Incidentally, they’ve also discovered a rare flower that they’ve never observed to grow in the thick brush and tree-cover that naturally grows there. So of course they’ve brought over a fleet of earth-shaving leviathan machines to fix nature’s mistake. My labyrinth of sandy-foot green running tunnels was cut down to awkward winding paths on a plain. The deer thinned out, the ground foul disappeared, the armies of migratory birds moved on. When the late October hurricanes swooped in on the island, you could see the aftermath of dead root systems strewn about the beaches, multi-millennial clays beaten back a few feet. It takes a lot to get those feet back. Root systems push out into the newly laid sand in Spring time to get access to partially-desalinated ocean minerals. If enough of them hold on to it together, they can keep it. Erosion is exactly the word to understand. It is not the ocean swallowing the land, but rather nibbling at it, defenseless, rootless, barren.
We still use teletext in the Netherlands. I check it every morning for the latest news.
Italian national broadcaster RAI still has the equivalent of this, up and running on the DVB-T2 digital broadcasting standard and also online: https://www.televideo.rai.it/televideo/pub/index.jsp
What's the reason behind "assistant" showing up?
>their reporting has become so one-sided that it’s now questionable if this is really journalism at all.

I haven't regarded The Guardian as a journalism outfit ever since they painted Trump's koi feeding in such a biased light that even the Japanese media went "Nani[1] the fuck?" in utter bewilderment.

[1]: https://jisho.org/search/%E4%BD%95
Other folks have commented - Apple Siri uses mptcp so not exactly niche considering how many devices that is
> And I could easily imagine a world in which TempleOS was distributed preinstalled on some kind of non-networked home computer that they could have in Sunday schools around the world, as a tool for bible study

Every religious group (Christian or otherwise) I know of uses the internet, and the web in particular, to spread and discuss their ideas. The Vatican has a website that has the catechism, encyclicals, documents of church councils etc. There is lots of material about things like the interpretation of the Bible. A Jehovah's Witness I know recently sent me links to pages on their website promoting creationism. I replied with links to biologos.org (a mainstream Christian website about evolution and science) debunking her claims.

I have also found websites about every variant of every religion I have wanted to know about. I could do with a good explanation of Sikh concepts of God though if anyone can point me to one - I am sure it exists though.

Why would a Sunday school want to cut themselves off from all this material? Within a high controlling cult maybe. Not in general.

I think a world in which TempleOS was widely used would require lots of people to share Terry's beliefs about what technology was desirable and what was not.

> a way of learning about computers, engaging youth who are interested in technology

I have not tried TempleOS but it seems to be made to be tinkered with so sounds promising for education.
That article says the casualty numbers coming out of Gaza are generally legitimate, and it says ~3,000 children were killed as of October 2023.

For a March 2024 casualty update, ~13,000 children killed seems, sadly, plausible.
Tesla recalls nearly 4k Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal
I just realized I have no clue who the CEO of Google is.. They are literally a faceless corporation to me.

At least Microsoft and Apple have some identity with Tim and Satya.
There is an odd contingent or set of contingents on here that do seem to down vote by ideology rather than lack of facts or lack of courtesy. It's a bit of a shame, but I'm not sure there's much to be done.
Clean scanning is hard but for something that simple... As an invite to post-processing (i.e. ScanTailor on GNU/Linux|FLOSS) https://jmp.sh/s/kaK1yCvKuuJa9sRGCSFg
I'll just note that while Terry loved the word, he didn't ever really seem to use it as a racist slur, except by coincidence. He just directed it at anyone and anything he didn't like.
Dara O'Briain had a marvellous take on acknowledging the place video games have among literature and cinema:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeFPIDTkWyA
Singapore had a similar challenge being in proximity to some of the largest population centers on earth, and having finite space/resources of an island.

1. "Right of first sale" to citizens born in the country. The real-estate speculators were not happy with the two tier bidding model, but the first home purchase a citizen makes shunts the international market pressure.

They once had the same issues Brazil developed, where the opportunists priced local citizens out of their own cities. The absurd outcome was some natural Brazilian citizens would have to work 34 lifetimes to live in their own city.

2. Prohibit commercial ownership in favor of 7+ year leases asset managed by the government (it is an island remember, and unused holdings are a liability due to malaria/mosquitoes.)

3. Put illegal-drug-dealers in front of firing-squads the following Tuesday, and seize their assets. Most idealists think this law is savage, but have never had to deal with real organized crime at scale.

4. Oil refinery produces excess energy for fresh-water desalination. Say what you want, but an island has very low carrying capacity for tourists. Even importing massive resources to cater to customer needs still hurts local ecosystems. Note, Hawaii also had long battles over water-rights with resorts playing dirty politics, and then literally burned down due in part to invasive dry-grass take over.

Poor people do not have a lot of influence outside of voting. A cathartic protest is essentially asking the same people that benefit from misery to handle their existing conduct differently.

Give a clear list of pragmatic political demands, warn of lawsuits, then follow up and sue domestically with a jury of your peers... I assure you investment funds give zero F's about complaints, but will eventually leave if their behavior has negative economic outcomes. The argument that they offer something economically unique is a false dichotomy, so just build a Starbucks and or McDonalds on top of whatever abomination they were planning... daily revenues will win out over hypothetical trickle-down economic urinal models.

Good luck, as I have only seen Singapore successfully deal with this phenomena due to its oil industry resources. =)
> Why would a Sunday school want to cut themselves off from all this material?

They could still have their iPads and internet connected laptops and other computers.

I’m not saying they should use TempleOS and nothing else.

I’m just saying it could make for a fun additional curious thing that they could have there and which the kids could use both for bible things and for technological interest.
> The advice I would give, is: Do what you are passionate about, what really interests you.

I don't mean to offend, and I'm happy for you that you've been so successful, but the advice does not make sense for people whose interest is not in popular demand.

For example, there are many failed artists out there, and it would be more helpful to these people if they were given realistic advice early on.

Finally, I meet a lot of young people (developers as well), who do not know exactly what their passions are. They are quite miserable in feeling lost, searching for their "true passion" -- which they probably simply don't have.
I guess you must have missed the news about the Israeli soldier stealing a baby https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israeli-soldier-kidnaps-p... .
20€? How so?

I paid 290€ from Frankfurt 4 weeks ago.
There's also a premium version of the tiny SA that has a bigger display and wider frequency range, resolution bandwidth etc. I've been thinking of buying that one.
Prestel?
One more, HyperMink System-1 Beta now includes support for Llama 3
https://hypermink.com/
So you pay a 10% premium for an unoccupied property?
888 should result in text on a transparent screen, whether or not there are subtitles available. Here it does nothing.
I think that's just it. There's a lot of (british) party tourists and all inclusive type of tourists. I don't think that's the type of tourist anyone would want. And the building of these hotels and real estate is in the hands of the government. So they brought this onto themselves. If you fly in (especially on Tenerife) you see hotel after hotel after hotel. It's disgusting really. (I thru-hiked the island and it's beautiful, but the coasts are weird, tho beautiful)
What Does the Windows 'Refresh' Button Really Do? [video]
I mean he can laugh but then one day it'll have happened.

For one thing, he's already identified but failed to realise the problem: organising labour to be on site and ready to work is expensive and tricky.

But when there's less labour and more machines, you're now only paying opportunity cost, not direct costs of people turning up and being unable to complete the job because it's not ready to go yet.

And unlike people, the quantity of capable machinery can constantly increase and thus the cost per unit decrease.

Eventually the machine is cheap enough to leave on site even if something else delays it.
Bigger risk, bigger reward
For a little bit above this price you can fly to Cabo Verde (double the distance) from London
No, it could not.

I haven't seen a recreation that was as accurate in its interface, nor one with such up-to-date data.
The actual way to do it is to go back in exponentially larger steps until you reach a good commit. 1, 2, 4, 8, ... Then you already know that the bad commit is between 2^{k-1}st and 2^{k}th commit.
> Pretty sure

Ignorance goes hand in hand with confidence.
Sanctions aren’t only USD based and you’re not providing any evidence for your claims.
> Bitcoin’s success was about more than creating a new money; it was about creating a system to distribute value in a way that couldn’t be gamed and that didn’t unfairly advantage any user. Even Satoshi mined all the Bitcoin he received, just like everyone else.

Bitcoin hugely advantages early miners/adopters by the exponential reward reduction over time. Every successive generation gets to mine 32x less of the supply than the previous one.

A truly fair distribution would have an unchanging block reward. It would still be disinflationary [1], crucially setting it apart from fiat currency.

[1] https://john-tromp.medium.com/a-case-for-using-soft-total-su...
The games section was Digitiser[1] and was remarkably popular: basically everyone I knew in the 90s that was vaguely into games read it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitiser
Alchemy is all you need
It is notable for its intended use of the random number generator - Terry envisioned that it was a number chosen by his God. If you follow that path and reasoning through, you see what he meant with the OS being a temple.
People invent all kinds of reasons to support the path they choose. People with confidence/optimism select data that reinforces their “go for it” decisions. People who want to find elitism as a reason to not do something will be able to that as well. Elitism surely exists in the world, but letting that stop you seems like cutting off your own nose to spite your face.
Tried submitting an application for fun™ but encountered a visual(?) bug. When I tried saving a new founder profile after filling out some sections and tried editing it, I was met with hundreds of repeated rows of work/education/etc sections. Anyone else have this issue?
The underlying problem is magnesium deficiency.

How did you come to that conclusion? Blood work? Something else?
And Germans. Who live in German resorts and only visit absurdly cheap restaurants with German flags. At least in maspalomas that was kinda weird.
People do lots of things that other people could have done.

TempleOS is just about the worse possible example of this.
Same in the Netherlands: https://nos.nl/teletekst
The best screenwriter I know of is Vince Gilligan (best known for Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul). Although he -- like everyone else in the TV business -- works in a writer's room, his writing style and his method for "breaking the episode" has led to some incredibly nuanced and compelling characters.

It may (presently) be inappropriate to compare him to Tolstoy (a towering figure in literature) though it must be said that the novel, at one time, was considered a low status medium compared to epic poetry and Greek theatre.
I have about 25 years behind me and I'm not the richest man alive, and I certainly could have made smarter choices.

But just like 25 years ago, I get to wake up and play with computers. And I get paid decent. A key to a happy life is a very small set of expectations and lot of enjoying the process.

Hopefully I'll still be doing this in 25 years and joke's on who will be paying my wage, as I'll still get to get up and play with computers, and paid for it.
The only game I’ve played which had writing of a similar standard to “classic literature” is Disco Elysium. It really can be played repeatedly and each time you can learn something new or find another way of understanding the characters or game world.
I'll say it: Deletionists find pleasure in deletion.
Oh huh, a Guardian article about a protest about unsustainable tourism in Tenerife and the Canary islands and the environmental damage it's creating. Wonder if they're going to mention that an awful lof of those developments on Tenerife are illegally dumping all their sewage in the sea rather than building sewage treatment... nope.

For context, there's been a huge amount of anger in the UK that was basically kicked off by the Guardian about how the UK's seas and rivers are catastrophically polluted with sewage by our water companies, we're supposedly the dirty man of Europe now, privatisation and Brexit has ruined everything and it's all getting worse, to the point it's likely to influence the next election. One of the big headline stories involved a British windsurfing champion leaving because it's like "surfing in a sewer"... and moving to Tenerife, where sewage treatment is objectively far worse and as mentioned there are sewage systems that just dump all their sewage out into the sea basically everywhere. (This is something that was fixed in the mainland UK decades ago post-privatisation, and in fact seems to be one of the big infrastructure improvements that privatisation was done to get funding for.) The rest of the coverage has been about as founded in reality as that.

When looking for information on this, I even ran across people that were presumably from there complaining on a forum about this and how it'd probably only get fixed if British tourists found out about it and started objecting. Guess there's little chance of that.
I had a quick read through the paper. I don't think they are actually proposing a new theory here, but are using supernova studies to check one already suggested.

The problem is measurements of supernova show the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. This was not predicted by any theories, so to explain it we invented something called dark energy. This dark energy is somehow pushing the universe apart and counteracting gravity.

We have no real idea of what dark energy is. Lot of things have been suggested but we don't have any strong evidence to back them up. This is another idea, and as before, there's no real evidence to back it up.

Essentially they are saying the universe could be filled with tachyons, which are hypothetical particles stuck moving faster than light. If so, according to some solutions of general relativity, they'd create a kind of accelerating expansion just as we see. What's new here is some analysis of supernova data which they say is consistent with their theory.

That's a quick overview, but the gist is it's a new explanation for dark energy that isn't completely impossible but doesn't have a lot of evidence to support it.
I didn't even get to the end of the linked post when I got hit with the paywall. They should have asked me in advance. I'd have told them that if you can't even read the post explaining the end of the site without hitting a hard paywall, your site won't have a chance in 2024.

I wondered why I'd never heard of them, but it's easy to see why, given their lack of understanding of the importance of sharing to gaining brand recognition.
> I don't think it is an unprofessional error, there are many reasons that changes get introduced on the manufacturing line which benefit production speed and/or reduce errors.

I think you missed "unapproved".
Original title was too long:

Are embassies off-limits? Ecuadorian and Israeli actions suggest otherwise − and that sets a dangerous diplomatic precedent

https://web.archive.org/web/20240420092728/https://theconver...

https://archive.is/BexJK
Even if the threshold is only “reasonable suspicion”, that test fails for large numbers of people whose DNA was found in an AC.
If I understood this correctly:

Minimizing entropy: Learn filters that can increase the likelihood of the observed data.

Maximizing entropy: Learning how to combine the filters.