skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear.

Almost all politicians have something to hide, as part of their job. Even fairly low-level politicians get messages from voters which can contain sensitive (i.e. should not be shared) information.

The problems are:

1) those who don't recognise that almost everyone else has this going on, too.

2) those who think that it's OK because the intelligence agencies are the ones gathering it (never mind that the methods enable others to do likewise), and those working in the agencies are above reproach and won't misuse that data (which we know isn't the case).
> What did the USA invent in comparision?

Clamato juice?
To not load openstreetmap's servers, you could pull the tiles to your server and host them. Then only grab a tile from OSM when you are missing one.

This would also let you set the grayscale on the tiles using imagemagick convert.

Neat project and thanks for the write up.
That's probably why they just had a landslide election to overturn the old order.

Also, as an outsider, UK housing prices outside of London are actually quite affordable. With the current strength of the dollar a lot of very nice places in the UK are at price parity with Arkansas/Mississippi.
Your ex-boss made you angry and you left code that will make the life more difficult for whom? Only your ex-boss or more people? Who gets punished for what you perceive as one person's mistake?
I often Ctrl+F for 20[012] or 19[9] when looking for a date. :)
I've found a video on Youtube... and I have to agree. There's very odd shapes for sure, but nothing that can be absolutely considered man made.
But the biggest benefit to an employee job hopping are the pay increases.

I hopped teams a few times internally and my pay has been abysmal. Many companies aren't big enough to have enough open roles at the same level and next level in the right languages for a solid career track. At least for me, every move ended up being different languages/stacks from the previous team. There was no continuity and now my career has turned into a lower paying job and I've been identified as a low performer. The unstable environment and lack of past rewards from when i was a high performer has made me unengaged.
Introvert/extrovert is a false dichotomy.

https://www.simplypsychology.org/what-is-an-introverted-extr...

Like horoscope signs, though, we all know ours and confirmation bias kicks in so the predicted behaviors start to seem more true. Just knowing the traits we're "supposed to have" can cause us to change our behavior to act that way.

I also think abstract/concrete is often more varied in real life. Personally, I use abstractions often, think ambiguity adds layers of meaning, and hate it when people start stacking hypotheticals on one another because then entire conversations happen about nonsense. So which camp does that put me in?
I wonder if using Blender shader networks would be a good way to model this? Especially with procedural nodes, where interactions might be modeled.
>So you have a problem originated from the ruling class. Not with skill migrants.

Like I said also, the ruling class is at fault, but please don't gaslight me like I have something against skilled workers because I don't. I only said that due to Portugals problems, importing remote workers from abroad on tax breaks doesn't fix the issues created by their elite, it only makes life worse for the average workers who now see raising property prices due to increased wealthy competition.

That kinds of skilled workers they would need most would be those actually useful for society like health workers, teachers, construction workers, not laptop workers for foreign companies on tax breaks who contribute next to nothing to the host countries but increase prices for everyone. You're not saving their economy buying two lattes and a cocktail per day on their beach front while you build a next tech giant for the US/Swiss/Swedish economy.
There are non-predatory IAPs. :)
> when Russian commandos led by Igor Girkin from FSB seized government buildings in Sloviansk

DPR was already proclaimed by then, and I believe most of these comandos were on Ukrainian passports ATM.

> That's the price many nations in Europe have had to pay for their freedom

Then why all the whining? I don't shed so much tears and complain to UN when opening my wallet.

> Delusional ideas about rearranging the world

No - that's just siding with your country and your people.

> why no-one respects you

Frankly, we don't care, because we do not respect you either anymore. And that one will be much harder to undo.
Feynman was a rare kind of speaker in that he spoke in fully formed sentences, with almost no fillers, backtracking, stuttering, or other things that disrupt verbal flow. If he needed to think, he would just pause for a second or two.

All the books published under his name are edited transcripts of conversations, speeches, and lectures. Aside from scientific papers, he wrote very little that got published.

If you want to watch Feynman speak, the BBC Horizon episode "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" (1981) [1] is fantastic. It includes his famous answer about how magnets work [2].

(There is also a 1999 book with the same name, but I don't remember if it's edited from the same interviews. I wouldn't be surprised, though.)

[1] https://vimeo.com/340695809

[2] https://youtu.be/MO0r930Sn_8?si=ov6eU2pzrsut62Ff
Computers Are Dumb – and What That Means for Us
Neckee: The Unassuming Posture Savior in Your Pocket
I've got a story to share—one that starts with a stiff neck and ends with a nifty little app. As a developer, I've been there, scrolling through endless code, only to realize my neck has turned into a question mark. The usual suspects? Posture braces and fancy wearables. But let's face it, they're either a hassle or a dent in the wallet.

So, I rolled up my sleeves and created Neckee—a posture buddy that's as unassuming as it gets. Here's the skinny:

The Lowdown on Detection:
Neckee's got your back (and neck). It uses your phone's front camera to keep tabs on your neck's dance moves, all without any sneaky photo-taking or data hoarding.

What's in the Bag?

Game-ified Exercises: Think of it as 'Wii Fit' for your neck. Move with the prompts, score points, and maybe even crack a smile.

3D Animal Avatars: Why stare at your mug in the mirror when you can be a cool cat or a wise owl? It's all about keeping it light.

Local Processing: Your face data stays put on your device, chilling like a local, not jetting off to some cloud.

Non-Annoying Reminders: Set a reminder that's more of a nudge than a nag. No red notifications, just a gentle tap on the shoulder.

Your Data, Your Rules: Dive into your exercise stats, see how you've been doing, and keep it all to yourself.

Neckee's not just an app; it's a lifestyle nudge towards better posture. It's the silent cheerleader in your pocket. Give it a whirl and let's keep those necks in check!
Here's neckee:https://apps.apple.com/fi/app/neckee/id6475778269
Wikipedia has well documented and explored issues related to vandalism, bias, and misinformation.

But don’t get me wrong, I also view ChatGPT conversations as being on par with pub chats as far as “confident facts” go.

I think our difference may be in how we view Wikipedia.
BTW: anyone who wants to really experience how complex internet routing is, go and join DN42 (https://dn42.dev). This is a fake internet built on a network of VPN tunnels and using the same routing systems. As long as you're just acting as a leaf node, it's pretty straightforward. If you want to attach to the network at multiple points and not just VPN them all to the same place, now you have to design a network just like an ISP would, with IGP and so on.
I read the "Vagrant Viking" fifty years ago. And the book was probably heavily censored in translation because ungodly family habits. So I am not sure where I got all the ideas from.

There was somebody else married to eskimo too, interesting because he made an Umiak suitable for outboard engine.
Private Credit Funds with No Skin in Game a Worry
Archive: https://archive.ph/j77EI
Supply. The answer is and has always been to build more housing. NIMBYs around the world are the primary force stopping that from happening, that is why there are housing crises everywhere in the world. Contrast that with somewhere like Singapore where government housing is pretty good and plentiful in supply, they do not have such issues.
That there are lots of people who believe in 5G Bill Gates vax chips is itself fake news. It is well poisoning to pre-empt criticism of billionaires with too much power and free time to meddle in African population growth and pandemic response. Supported by "smart" people who want to feel good and trust the science on 5G safety.

There are Microsoft patents for microchips to track body activity to reward in cryptocurrency and subsidiaries who wanted to microchip vaccine passports into the hands of immigrants.
That’s a good trick, I might have considered that if I wasn’t on mobile. On desktop “Find in page” is second nature to me but is such a slog on mobile.
This incredibly insightful piece about AI infra and why it is a bad idea to build in the space was on here lately:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40862436
Browsing the modern web would be a nightmare from Mars, with a 30-minute ping and all the HTTP back-and-forth that modern pages require.

I guess you would have to use an Earth-based remote desktop.
there's probably quite a lot we unconsciously pick up from others, even things we think are uniquely "ours"

For example, when I first heard a deaf person laughing or talking, I probably internally noticed how... different the sound was. I'm guessing most hearing-abled people have a similar experience. It's very... unfiltered? It made me wonder how much even my own laugh was sculpted by my environment. If I relax my voice, I notice my voice becoming much more booming and obnoxious than my "normal" speaking voice.

Anecdotally, I've noticed Japanese people are much more likely to have a sort of stifled, raspy, restrained laugh, even when they're in a situation I might expect an American to have a belly laugh.

A lot of cultural values are encoded in language too, and in turn, the languages we speak can affect how we think or interact. Anecdotally, my personality is a bit different depending on what language I speak. I think the concept of what's actually encoded in language is being explored with regards to how/why LLMs "feel" smarter than they really ought to, or seem to show intelligence beyond simple "stochastic parroting"

Somewhat more obviously, most people will "code switch" not only their language, but vocal tone or even demeanor, depending on our current "persona" or our audience. Recently, Paris Hilton entertainingly demonstrated this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/g9pal1ConNU

And this is more of a half-baked personal speculation based on a scattering of theories and case studies, but the environments we live in, the narratives we expose ourselves to, the people we surround ourselves with all probably very heavily define a lot of our values, beliefs, and even personal preferences, to an extent that would disturb a lot of people. Self-serving biases, post-hoc justifications, and confabulations give us convenient and creative ways to validate our own free will, volition, and independence, but I often wonder how much of our supposedly great human intelligence is an uncomfortably thin veneer on a largely automatic pattern-absorbing sponge.
PraisonAI application combines AutoGen and CrewAI or similar frameworks
That's nice theory from someone working in the tech sector, but that rubber never hits the road in practice in the real world, where the higher rents we're paying here don't magically translate into more tech investments.

You need some high quality hopium to actually believe that would happen. Making my landlords wealthier hasn't resulted in any benefits to any society I know.
If all you care about are rental prices why don't you go to some cheap Asian/African country? Or hell, Siberia?
Also, shouldn't the image be upside-down?
Come on. We're not comparing 2.1GHz and 2.4GHz here. We're comparing 66MHz and 3500MHz. That difference is significant regardless of execution ports and other micro-architectural details.

I'm not saying that the Core 2 Quad is 50x more powerful because it has 50x the Hz, or that the Core 2 Quad is 200x more powerful because it has 4x the cores @ 50x the Hz, or that it's 1024x more powerful because it has 1024x the cache, or anything like that. I'm trying to illustrate the extreme evolution of the microprocessor from the early 90s to the late '00s.
A staircase with individual stairs 10 feet tall? Cmon. It looks like a cool dive but cmon.
I'd rather be in a boring job than a stressful job.

I'm on a team that's talking about PIPing me and I have no opportunities to move to internal teams because there are so few open positions at my level. External job posting seem terrible right now in my area.
Target to stop accepting personal checks as form of payment
In 2012 I was on the Tyrol valley near the Austrian Italian border, and IIRC the small restaurant we visited had potato pizza on its menu.
I was referring to 1701 to 1800 inclusive, which is not the standard way people refer to centuries and is not what other people will mean or will think you mean, in general.
I guess although I believe a tourist visa for the US and some other countries is 90 days so I assume the incentive is to fly under the radar for that period (eg no coworking space) and then go somewhere else.
It is NOT reasonable by any stretch of the imagination
Show HN: A Browser plug-ins can help people learn foreign languages
Population：
1. Willingness to learn a foreign language.
2. have some basic knowledge of foreign languages.

Fuctions:
1. Use AI to translate the meaning of an unfamiliar word/phrase in a sentence (also see all meanings of the word/phrase).
2. Sentence/paragraph AI translation.
3. Automatically mark all translated words in the browser (this feature can be turned off), and you can customise the colour of the markers.
4. Only one click can unfavourite the words you have already favoured.

Welcome to try this tool and i want to hear users voice.I will take seriously.I want to do better.
I say "female" when I mean female and "non-male" when I mean non-male. In this instance I mean non-male. Please spare me the fake outrage over precise terminology.
"Late stage capitalism" implies that capitalism is doomed to fail. In reality it is a system of constant change. Wealth inequality has always existed. Some problems like housing are newer problems that require solutions but don't point to an inevitable collapse. Are we also in "late stage democracy" and "late stage big government"? We won't know until after the collapse.
It's unreasonable, by principal. Just like how beyonce tried to get her ugly image removed from the internet.
While I agree with your comment I'd like to point out that the reason the youth is leaving is not this policy, but that there are no jobs for them. At least none that you really want to live on. That's a problem "digital nomads" are expected to not have: They have their job somewhere else, so who cares if the local job market is garbage? Though I don't think this will work out in the long term.
True. Though as a regular reader...well, more like skimmer, of The Guardian - that level of fluff is SOP for them. You can (at best) guess whether they're omitting important background and details from a story to simplify it, or to fit their desired editorial tone, or out of ignorance.
Digital nomads don’t settle but other digital nomads will take their place if the country has enough on offer. When a city is able to attract educated, intelligent and motivated people through a simple tax policy change you can expect all sorts of positive downstream externalities. Ambitious people don’t want to live in dying cities. Anything that stops brain drain is good. Whatever politicians can do to attract talent is going to be net positive, even when that means tax cuts for digital nomads who don’t employ anybody and who have no loyalty to their host country.
> "I’m at a point where I want to start looking at the next step, the next level within our company, the 46-year-old said. “I’m learning every day.”

i realised recently that covid has made me un-hireable.

this type of thinking, i can't do it anymore. i've tasted freedom and i saw how short life is to waste in a office.
Start small, like asking him to review your grammar.
Student-Oriented Teaching (2022)
Those are called "fly's eye" lenses.
> Seeing a single number and coming to that conclusion is very reductive, imo.

That's not what the parent post was about, at all. Or did you only read its footnote?

Whether the Portuguese population "feels like they are getting value" is best observed in how they vote. Both during elections (Chega), and most directly and loudly, in how they vote with their feet. Opinions of Irishmen in Vienna notwithstanding.
No sure what your talking about, i get happy every time i get to use jq! :)
My understanding is that this photo was consensual and not stolen
Stanley Jordan – Eleanor Rigby – 8/23/1986 – Newport Jazz Festival (Official) [video]
I think he also said somewhere that people mainly disagree with distorted versions of your ideas...
They are both excellent and work on Mac via Steam
Physically! Like how so many users from all over the place decided to contribute to this
If the Wikipedia lists are correct and up to date, Arkansas ($52,528) and Mississippi ($48,716) have significantly higher incomes than the UK ($40,800 PPP, but that's including London).

I don't know what prices you see for houses in those states, but do also be aware that UK houses are generally on the small side.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...
> Why should existing tax payers effectively subsidise lower taxes for new arrivals?

Because new arrivals inject new money into the local economy. A new arrival buys products, pays for services etc. Their foreign dollars often also go further - meaning they can inject more vs a local, who - by nature of the problem - can't hence the need.

You could argue a tax break for locals would do the same thing, but it's not quite the same, as locals paying less tax may tend to choose saving any extra cash rather than change their spend-habits. Foreigners are bringing new money with existing habits.
exactly! these are the countries you can work remotely from (according to their website):

- United States
- Australia
- Canada
- Czechia
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Poland
- Slovakia
- Spain
- United Kingdom
That would still have a 30 minute ping. You should just have a Martian Internet and then sync up the two every few hours or something.
except the indicators do not show a recession.
to finance the mining business
How chatbots are being deployed in the global fight against phone scammers
Germany currently pays 20 billion Euros per year for subsidizing renewables.

Yet, after doing this so-called energy transition for almost 25 years now and spending hundreds of billions of Euros on it, the country still has more than 130 coal-fired power plants while France has only two with one actually being decommissioned.

Despite these facts, there are still plenty of people here on HN and other platforms that are convinced that wind and solar are the way to go instead of nuclear.

I will never understand that!
At on point I asked it for academic papers that said a particular thing, as best I can tell, only about 60% of the papers it cited actually existed
BGH and UMS are where I spent my entire StarCraft life. Lot of wonderful hours into those!
Realistically how much money are they even saving trying to cut librarians? They couldn't trim the fat somewhere else in the budget? Seems like a waste of time and money to try and "automate" this when they can find the funding elsewhere
What are you talking about? At least 4.5 million copies were sold in SK. The question is, did lan clubs reduce or increase the sales? It's hard to know for sure, since no AB-test was made but I strongly suspect that they did increase the sales by a huge amount even if the clubs themselves didn't buy a single copy. Give 'em the razor, sell 'em the blades.
Don’t you also need to negotiate timetable slots?
This is a fine attitude to have if employers only want their employees to do the bare minimum.

Happy employees need not be the pampered and coddled college style employees Google made famous. They just need to be appreciated. And managers need to create environments that are not safe spaces where no strife happens but that can be a place where people feel appreciated and capable of making changes.

I feel none of this at my current role just golden handcuffs that keep me here.
I said western Europe, not Europe, +/- all of western Europe is EU expect the UK and Switzerland.

It's not comparable, the benefits you get in western Europe are 10x better than what you get anywhere in the USA.
And, on a related note for education, AI is quickly obviating the need to master and plumb the depths of foreign languages. Dating myself, doubtless, but as an undergraduate, it was an unalloyed joy to study ancient Greek and read Plato and Euripides in the original, however haltingly. And later Korean, Japanese, and Chinese beckoned providing a lifetime of rich understanding of life outside the confines of English.
For Americans, at least, perhaps ours is the last generation that will seek rewire our understanding of reality through linguistic hacking.
Every time an article involving personality pops up, someone inevitably mentions MBTI, and shortly thereafter a "pseudoscience" or "astrology" comment follows up to accompany it (I feel like this phenomenon should have its own name—akin to Betteridge's law of headlines).

And of course I always follow up on the follow-up comment to point out that none of Big Five, MBTI, or even the latest peer-reviewed attempts at temperament classification based on various dimensionality reduction techniques (e.g., ICA) perform very well. Not one. Sure, they're all more predictive than random chance, but it's not like MBTI is a horoscope and the SOTA matches the accuracy of particle physics.

It would be as though someone switched from using logistic regression to a random forest, but the nature of the data is such that there's only a very minor bump in precision/recall, and both were already low to begin with. I would ask what purpose is the model being used for in this case? It's not like quant trading where even slight improvements can lead to outsized returns.

If a personality model is being used to predict human behavior for any purpose other than entertainment, then I'd argue that this practice is misguided and should be discontinued in all professional settings. Whereas if the purpose is simply to have fun, then I'd argue MBTI achieves that goal much better than the other models. So what is the point of Big Five then?
There’s a long way to drop between the 90% and the 10% in America. If you’re starting from a position of privilege with a personal savings safety net, you’d have to really F things up for yourself (drugs, gambling, over leveraging) to find yourself in extreme poverty.
Both are the way to go. Let's stop this "either solar or nuclear" mentality.
> And I feel extremely snobbish and old for thinking that way.

Old people usually make correct assessments given their knowledge and experience. They know how to maximize their expected gains and play safe. The problem is, real life often rewards those who take risks, and make seemingly wrong decisions, that later turn out to be good.

For example, as a kid I loved playing video games, while my grandma yelled at me for not wanting to help her with work at the farm. She had absolutely no way of predicting that playing video games, which were essentially just toys, would teach me the right skills at the right time, allowing me to move up the social ladder. At the time, forcing the god damn lazy kid to milk the god damn cow was the sensible thing to do.