skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So... why is _automatically_ in quotes?
Maybe that was once the case (possible), but I played Fornite for a while and I never had to pay for it, nor did I feel confused by whether I’m paying for something or not.

The game is very successful and well-made. It is AAA-quality. An AAA price for that kind of content would be $60 minimum, more likely $80-100. Anything under that price and you’re playing the game at a steep discount, compared to what the games market offers.

As for kids getting confused — yeah. That happens a lot, on the internet and outside the internet. Kids are confused about so many things. In fact, that is why they need to be parented. I feel like some parents should try and do that instead of waving fists at every tech/game company.

This reminds me a bit about the outrage GTA used to cause. Just don’t buy it for your kid if you think it’s too violent for them, you know? It’s not hard. Don’t give your kid access to Fortnite if they will be confused. Or use a bank with spending limits. Or just give your kid gift cards. There are so many options in the world for parents other than child-proofing the world itself.

Very, very many parents get this right. And it only takes 10 minutes to put some restrictions in place — bare minimum for parenting. Some others have the “government should do it for me” complex. Actions beget consequences. Neither Epic Games nor governments can fix bad parenting.

So is paying less for a game than it’s worth really predatory? Alternatively, if kids get confused by something made for a broad audience, is that predatory? I don’t know, it’s grey area at best for me. You could make a claim that marketing in Fortnite is predatory but it’s the same marketing psychology that’s used elsewhere. Is marketing predatory then?
New vampire squid species discovered in twilight zone of South China Sea
I don't have the exact metrics, but free healthcare, free education, and enough benefits to not be homeless and hungry seems like more than what poor Americans get.
YouTube embeds are heavy and it’s fixable
Petee has simply said that we should respect someone’s pretty reasonable preferences. You’ve popped up out of nowhere utterly furious for seemingly very little reason.

If this is how you behave I think most of us would far prefer to have Petee as a coworker than you. If you’re having a lot of conflicts with your colleagues about this, the problem might not lie with your colleagues…
You can use

https://tactiq.io/tools/youtube-transcript

This gets a transcript for this one https://tactiq.io/tools/run/youtube_transcript?yt=https%3A%2...

Or I tend to just click transcript on the youtube page and copy and paste all into my text editor. It's not a very good transcript though like just the words, not who said what.

Dunno if there's an AI version that's better?
In EU according to https://www.taxobservatory.eu/www-site/uploads/2021/11/EU-Ta...

> countries with schemes are Austria (2 regimes), Belgium, Cyprus (3), Denmark, Finland (2), France, Greece
(2), Ireland (2), Italy (5), Luxembourg, Malta (2 in 1), Netherlands, Portugal (2), Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom.
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Belgium: Foreign executives’ regime, Finland: 32% rule regime, Sweden: Expert tax regime, Ireland: Non-remittance regime.
Time Preference, Parenthood and Policy Preferences
Great article! I'm currently using doom + lsp-mode with ts-lsp and tailwindcss-lsp. It works great, but as the author said the performance could be better, especially tailwindcss-lsp which routinely freezes emacs on longer classnames.
Does anyone know if I can use this setup with doom, or will there be any issues in regards to config conflicts? I don't want to leave the convenience of doom for other things.
Nuclear was a great choice in the 1970s, when France started seriously investing in it, but solar & wind have come a long way since then.
> For research, the librarian does not need to be co-located with the library. Several librarians can work in a central location, like a research university or a national library, and serve the whole country.

Schemes to do this sort of thing repeatedly fall across time and industries.

The first problem is that people overestimate the amount of efficiency there is to be had. Oh, if we put them in a central location we can make 80% of them redundant. Ha! Librarians don't currently spend most of the day idle and somebody has to do the work they currently do regardless of where they're located. Meanwhile putting people in a central location generally makes things less efficient because now they're in a different location than the patrons and you've added communications overhead and, in the common case, a layer of middle management.

The second problem is that knowledge is local. When a patron comes in and wants to know about historical buildings in the library's city, or local regulations, or community events, the local librarian knows where to find the information because that's where they are. The librarian 100+ miles away may not, because they're most familiar with where to find their locality's information rather than some far away place.

The third problem is that diversity is advantageous. This is the sort of "laboratories of democracy" or "competitive markets are better than monopolies" effect. When everything is under one roof it becomes bureaucratic, resulting in ossification and resistance to change. Including changes that improve efficiency or outcomes. Whereas independent systems can each try a different thing and find out what works best in parallel, then look at how the others did and adopt their way of doing it if it seems better. Centralization efforts stamp that benefit out, and its long-term effect is cumulative because the benefits of the alternative accrete over time. This ultimately eats any nominal efficiency gains from the limited amount of legitimate redundancies that could be achieved through centralization.

The fourth problem is that central locations tend to become a single point of failure. Having multiple copies of information stored at multiple independently-operated facilities has high resilience. Centralized systems have systemic risk, and the best known way to mitigate that risk is to redecentralize the system to remove the monoculture.

In general if someone proposes to centralize a decentralized system to "improve efficiency" you should suspect them of malice, because the most steadfast proponents of centralization are generally adversaries who want to monopolize the system or adversaries who want to corral the system all into one place so they can more easily butcher it.
The issue is that you need both - a stable source of power like nuclear for solar or wind to work
First, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento is not the Portuguese Prime Minister, but the Minister of Finance.

Second, the tax breaks were removed at the end of last year because of a widespread feeling in the general populace that these were deeply unfair policies that were understood at the root cause of gentrification and unreasonable real estate valuations. The median house price in Lisbon and Porto metro areas, are now above what the p95 Portuguese salary can pay. So yes, speculation and wealthy foreigners are an issue, as it's not Portuguese salaries propping these values.

Third, the party in power does not have a majority in parliament. This means they'll need support from other parties to approve this deeply divise tax break. While I'm sure they'll get the support from the Liberal party, I'm seriously doubtful they'll get it from the other parties. It's also quite likely that we'll have new elections in the next 12 months and the party in power, despite many populistic policies in the last 4 months since they won by a few thousand votes the election, has not yet been able to gain a wider trust from the voters since then. I doubt this tax break will see the light of day anytime soon.

Fourth and finally, there has been zero talks about this in Portuguese media. I feel this is more of a politician talking out of his ass without double/triple checking with the prime minister.
It is. At least in the photos of the "pixel mirror" -- see your sibling comment, there are two objects being demoed.

In some of the examples it's hard to tell, you can work out the skybox[0] in the photos[1] that include the horizon.

[0] I found it amusing that this was the word I reached for here, so I left it in. A skybox is typically what is/was rendered in the background before the rest of a 3D (game) scene. I'm referring to the gradient between the ground/horizon/sunset/sky.

[1] https://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2024/07/weara...
Just commented on that issue, thanks!
I've got a friend with one. They are actually good toothbrushes if not very AI.
Sitting on the phone with people who's job it is to know these things for their organisation, having to explain to them that no, they shouldn't send me the private key, not even (especially not even) if they send the passphrase too, and many other problems.

There seems to be a dearth of people for the ops jobs that need doing, hence OP's “ops are an almost extinct species”, so the tasks are thrown around and have to be done by the first person who doesn't duck fast enough. Those of us on the other side of the company interaction boundary end up having to help them with what should be the basics. I'm not their infrastructure team, I don't have access to be able to answer some of the questions they ask about their own infrastructure. I shouldn't even be client facing never mind teaching them how to do their jobs.

The infuriating part (perhaps “frightening” is a better word here) is that there are people managing the secure transmission of data (sometimes sensitive personal data) who do not understand what is going on.
This is a fair argument that's often brought up but I never see actual raw data backing it up. Housing is fucked in several places around the world, including a bunch of countries in Europe that don't have any tax breaks for specialized labor. I would love to look at some metrics like

- How many units of housing are built each year

- How many units are rented and to what demography (Portuguese families, immigrants sharing rooms, students, etc)

- How many migrants (legal and ilegal)

- How many specialized migrants each year and the % of them that eventually buy a home

- How many units are bought up by funds and other financial entities

- How much taxes and social security contributions are collected per year for specialized migrants and how that money is reinvested

- etc

I known that's basically impossible to have an accurate picture since those numbers are way too "politically loaded".
Politics and facts don't mix very well so we just default to who yells the loudest (specially true in Portugal, unfortunately)

EDIT: Format bullet points
I also worked at a company that was similar to the Creo story above.

This was a High Frequency Market making company, total employees ~ 250. "Flat" management, nobody had titles, just responsibilities. Everyone understood the mission and goals. Everyone was highly compensated and empowered to make important decisions without explicit approval.

The whole thing fell apart when the company grew and finally failed when merged with another larger competitor.

These great orgs only last when they are kept small.
Nuclear is still by the far the best in any kind of metric
Some more context here that helped me understand better the Reuters article: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/lower-electricity-price...
I don't understand what you're trying to do. Anyone who could possibly be genuinely convinced by a sexism accusation already knows about the existence of intersex people and non-binary people, so they already know that the term "non-male" refers to a different group of people than "women" (regardless of whether we're talking sex or gender).

This conversation is boring, you're not getting anything out of it, and I'm not getting anything out of it. How about we leave it here?
What is g-loaded?
It's not just that but also the mindset of entrepreneurship and growth versus stagnation and la dolce vita, which, while nice in the short term, is untenable in the long term.

Pieter Levels of NomadList fame talks about this often [0][1][2], he is Dutch, not American, so it's not like he's biased for America but he notes that it is disheartening for him to see Europe slip into mediocrity over time.

[0] https://x.com/search?lang=en&q=Europe%20(from%3Alevelsio)&sr...

[1] https://x.com/levelsio/status/1784943280171467260

[2] https://x.com/BolognaFishMD/status/1771695080862085211
Stevia in its pure form is quite bitter and awful. The stevia sweetened products you get are chock full of bitter blockers. Some people still tolerate it better than others.

I'm not sure if there's a genetic link or if it's just what you're used to.
It's not tolerance of abuse. Abuse when detected will be punished. The important thing is, stopping ALL abuse preemptively causes more pain than it's worth.
Not to steal your thunder, but I got the same fuel economy from a rented Hyundai Elantra on a ~7500 mile roadtrip seven years ago. I couldn't believe my eyes. Otherwise a meh vehicle, though.
Depardieu is an important investor, he created and owns multiple companies in France.

https://www.20minutes.fr/societe/1073815-20130104-gerard-dep...
They have. So has nuclear.
I'm not sure if Shenzen I/O is a good recommendation - as with all Zachtronics games sooner or later it gets very puzzle like and gets difficult very fast.

Turing Complete on the other hand is focused on the exploration/learning experience and - for example - doesn't show leaderboards until very late in the game.

Playing both - Shenzen I/O is great, but Turing Complete has a spot in my "best games ever" list.
Your first step is to identify it. What mechanism do you propose to use that doesn't somehow interface with biology?
I feel like that's exactly what I said.
Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn about embedded software and EE?
With the purchase of my 3D printer and some other fun electronic gadgets, I've been getting more and more curious about electrical engineering and the embedded software world. My day to day experience is mostly limited to web dev TS/Go, so a very different world. My C++ skills don't go much beyond Uni entry level.

Are there any good resources for a beginner to get some more insights into that world? (blogs, books, MOOCs, etc.)
Hey me! Ive been doing web services for the last 5 years since I graduated in CE.

Now I really want to break back into imbedded and don't know where to begin.

Anyone have advice?
Note that this is only one of two new lines of chips announced by Microchip under the "PIC64" name.

PIC was of course originally a proprietary 8 bit ISA designed for use in intelligent but low cost peripherals in the 1970s. PIC32 was a line of MIPS-based chips, but a couple of years ago they added 32 bit Arm Cortex-M cores to the line-up.

This radiation tolerant chip uses eight quite new SiFive X280 RISC-V cores (announced April 2021) which are dual-issue in-order with large 512 bit vector unit.

The other is the PIC64GX series, which uses four SiFive U54 64 bit single-issue Linux-capable RV64GC cores plus one E51 64 bit RV64IMAC real-time/controller core, all running at 625 MHz. There is no vector capability.

Perhaps the best way to think of this chip is as a PolarFire SoC FPGA without the FPGA :-) They are advertised as being pin-compatible.

https://static.dev.sifive.com/U54-MC-RVCoreIP.pdf

These seem to be close to shipping, but you can't order just yet.

https://www.microchip.com/en-us/products/microprocessors/64-...

https://www.microchip.com/en-us/development-tool/CURIOSITY-P...
The problem is you will top out eventually and you may not have grown enough professionally. Then you are stuck somewhere
I feel that a lot of today's tech culture seems to be a continuation of college culture, but that's only conjecture, on my part. I never went to college (high school dropout, with a GED, and a couple of years of tech school). I learned, very early on, that I needed to sing for my supper, and I feel that established a fairly good work ethic. Without a fancy sheepskin, absolutely no one ever cut me slack, or gave me much of a break because I had the right school tie. I've had to prove myself, on a continuous basis, for my entire adult life. It can get fairly exhausting.

My experience comes from working for highly structured corporations. The pay wasn't abysmal, but wasn't that great, either. The pressure could be pretty intense; especially at the last corporation (a famous Japanese optical company). I stayed there, for almost 27 years. The reasons I stayed, are many, but money sure wasn't one.

I saved enough to be able to retire, when the tech industry let me know that I was too old for them (at 55). I'm not rich, but happier than I ever thought I had a right to be. Also, I do more work, and am much more productive, than I ever was, as a wage slave.
I'm pretty sure, that tier-5 services are investing in their own data collectors and buying only small part of data.
Nearly a 1/3 success rate for the first page of results? Honestly, I thought things were worse.
Building new nuclear night have been a worthwhile proposition 10-15 years ago, but if you build one now, the exponential growth of grid storage will render it useless by all measures once it is finally in operation. Definitely decommissioning existing nuclear makes no sense for the next decade or two.
I don’t think it is, at all. It’s telling you to keep teams small enough that you can manage them and have them all in one meeting
> Getting sick, weather changes, being overheated, pressure changes barometric/altitude, and not sleeping well causes more migraines. Food triggers led me nowhere.

My neurologist told me that living like a hermit was the best migraine preventative. Simply never leave your cave, don't change your routine ever, don't go places with different weather, etc. Of course that wasn't meant to be taken literally, but I've definitely noticed that any significant change to my routine can result in migraine.
It is rather surprising how many people have started contributing already. I believe that people want to support alternatives to big tech so they aren't completely reliant on these providers, and beaconDB is currently the only database not owned by big tech. Not 100% sure that answers your question :)
I've dived at the Yonaguni Monument, and one thing that's usually not clear from breathless hype like this article is that the site is both quite deep (mostly 10-30m underwater), a fair distance from the shore (hundreds of meters, IIRC), and that said shore consists largely of steep cliffs.

I've yet to hear even the most rabid "lost continent of Mu!!!1!1" enthusiast propose any sort of plausible mechanism to explain how a manmade monument could somehow have moved hundreds of meters diagonally from above sea level into the bottom of the ocean without getting completely destroyed in the process.
Disclaimer I haven't researched the two points I'm going to make, they are just things I've heard from people around me.

1. Nuclear power also never produced a profit in Germany / had to be subsidized the entire time.

2. France has some weird agreements with their former colonies in africa allowing them to basically steal the resources needed to make atomic energy at their scale viable.

Booth points might be partly wrong, but could be worth looking into
Why kill whimsy? Do malloc bugs need especially serious images, like concrete walls or men in business suits?
People have many facets of intelligence, and no one hits them all across the board. Where there are blind spots, there will be drama.
You are comparing two things that are not actually the same. America is the top destination by far for actually skilled migrants who can pump up the economic engine and build highly profitable businesses. America has fine-tuned its entire system to integrate and take advantage of skilled migrants, its tech/research industry being built on this, and its reputation, physical and logistical infrastructure helps to take the cream from the crop.

It's easy to talk about highly skilled immigration when you are the one taking all the best part of it. Those highly skilled productive individuals who can move to America will.

Mass import of unskilled migrants, especially young military aged men, is indeed net-negative, unfair and detrimental to the culture and livability.
A very important distinction, in my "Creo" example above, our company specifically used the word "leadership" for the founders and other "leads" of the company.

Nobody used the word manager or boss annd anyone could be in a leadership role, it was based on meritocracy.
Not that I know Portugal well but smaller cities have attractions in many countries. In SE Asia the big cities would have zero attractions to me—not that multi-months of living elsewhere interests me at all.
My amateur impression was the following rankings:

Easy to hardest to play: Protoss, Zerg, Terran

Best when mastered: Terran, Zerg, Protoss

I wasn’t tapped into the pro/competitive side so I’m sure it played out differently for them.
It has been the consensus of the privacy community for quite a few years now not to use Privacy Badger. As few exentions as possible to cover everything is the current view. Arkenfox lists extension features that aren't covered by FireFox inbuilt or uBlock Origin: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions
This is also a great point. Teams should have detailed knowledge of the performance of the company or groups. It helps with the shared ownership, pride and responsibilities.
Persuading 'digital nomads' with established businesses isn't the same as encouraging and promoting home grown Portuguese businesses.

Also non-English speaking countries that set up an internet-based business are at an immediate disadvantage to the US and UK, unless their business is English-first. The US immediately has a market of 300m. The UK, 70m. The enough-English-to-get-by speaking 'West' / Europe is about 350m (of 700m) people. So, 700m Western English speakers in 'first world' economies.
Politicians love changing the definition of skilled migration (eg UK recently with cooks being on the list. So obvious what they're doing)

So we have to be careful when discussing "skilled migration"
"Triggers" are a red herring, there's way too much focus on them. The trigger is merely the final straw, the real problem is everything that came before.
as far as I know it does have it, and my experience doesn’t match yours-on EU there was 20ish open lobbies (hosted by people) for different custom maps/arcades at all times. but yeah if it was like you are saying it was, I agree with your point. also, check the other reply to your comment from someone who is more up to date
My local library inherited the staff from other libraries that closed well over ten years ago. This means they have a constant staff of circa 5 people, meanwhile they do no real outreach into the community nor are they friendly, and I am fairly certain they get fewer than 10 people through their doors each day. I believe that libraries are an essential public resource, but I don't think it’s productive to have resources that are essentially beyond scrutiny as that in turn leads to a very poor service.
The feed in tarrifs have been falling every year and now the feed in tarrifs are barely a cent or two higher per kWh than the average spot price on the electricity exchange. Meanwhile there are weird edge cases such as negative prices where the feed in tarrif is paid anyway. The government is forced to pay the difference. The current subsidies unfairly disadvantage investments into energy storage so the simplest solution is to just get rid of them.

However, this doesn't get rid of the need for subsidizing energy storage, which is starting to take off thanks to sodium batteries.
The Protomaps basemap has also a grayscale style. The grayscale map looks like this: https://maps.protomaps.com/#map=5.09/47.14/8.64&theme=graysc...

Instructions for self-hosting a PMTiles file are available here: https://docs.protomaps.com/.