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I am not at all opposed to IP reform as a general concept. There are a million corner cases, and I agree many of them should be re-examined. For example, I think the criteria for fundamental software patents should be set more conservatively.

Another consideration is use it or lose it provisions, although I am much more on the fence on this. It would essentially destroy patents which have multiple embodiments, but might make sense for literature.

I am mostly responding to the idea of tossing IP in general, Which I think is misguided. There are countless ways in which this could cause great harm and essentially gut creators in favor of manufacturers or marketers
The marketing I got from Chase after the buyout made me realize they may know what assets they got, but not what customers.

True, I am not wealthy enough for Chase to care, but they send me marcom as if I had zero understanding of finance, to the point of it being offensive.

I am in the process of moving my personal accounts out, to another bank who is willing to put me in the correct cohort (I realized I’m paying them ~$500/year for that btw. Which is very little considering the costs). My mortgage would stay at Chase, because of interest rates, and I’ll have to keep getting marcom that assumes I think of it as a IOU and not a financial instrument.
In my experience it is practical. Let's say you have a shared linked list, you take the lock in your insert function, you insert an item, you give the lock back. No function calls.

Code that looks like what you describe, "implementing something that requires calling a function", tends to deadlock or be wrong. A really smart guy I worked with wrote some database driver that looked like that, it worked, except when it deadlocked, and finding that deadlock was a nightmare. I'm sure there are exceptions but this rule will get you out of a lot of trouble. If you need to violate the rule try find a different synchronization/concurrency mechanism or a different data structure.

Even if the code is initially correct, inevitably someone will refactor it without realizing a lock is taken and break it.
>I just skip the fluff and communicate openly.

that doesn't mean people don't game the answers.
Etsy should do more to curate the product listings. There are a lot of low quality items on there that look like they came from a discount wholesaler. I’d nerf those items in the search results and boost original creations.

The UI of the site could be improved as well. It takes too many clicks to get to an item description. Why isn’t that listed up front?
> despite it being a very useful tool, its setup requires investing time and getting over the Nix ecosystem's learning curve.

They mention Nix but I guess they are referring to the use_nix integration built-in to direnv? There is a fairly detailed (but old) comparison in https://github.com/direnv/direnv/wiki/Nix#some-factors-to-co... and in the meantime lorri and nix-direnv are the only ones still maintained. But you aren't limited to Nix when using direnv, for example there is nvm. https://github.com/direnv/direnv/wiki/Node#using-nvm

Actually, the post's solution, besides being built on top of direnv, uses Devbox, which itself is built on top of Nix... https://www.jetify.com/devbox/docs/faq/#how-does-devbox-work So they are saying they are outside the Nix ecosystem when in fact they are in it. It is yet another set of nice scripts on top of Nix.
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> UK experienced that same right wing shift 14 years ago

Not sure these are comparable. Britain’s shift was led by its elites. Europe’s is closer to a dumping of its elites. Taken to their logical ends, the Britain after its threatened political revolutions will still look recognisable. France post RN or Germany AfD would be completely remade.
Agreed, nobody can calculate an individual's exact future life duration. Interesting second point - my thought is that life expectancy is actually correlated with how generally healthy our lifestyle is (positive habits for life expectancy: exercising, unprocessed diet, etc. negative: smoking, obesity, pollution exposure, etc). Definitely data privacy is crucial with any apps collecting personal data - I like your point of trying to build something that runs fully locally. (in case you want to test the initial version: www.livaton.com - the landing page calculator runs the calculation in frontend)
If you think about the times when England was on top, what do you remember about it? They made things, they made really good things. Precision tools, weapons, navy ships, fighter jets, amazing cars, trains, computers.

The best tools I've ever used as a woodworker have all been English. I really miss that time hanging out in my grandfathers shed using all his British, American and German hand tools. I sort of lost track of them after his death because I thought that period would just go on forever...shame :(

I don't mind Chinese stuff, I have "some" of it, but to this day, nothing can compare with the stuff I own from the UK.

Disclaimer: Not British.
from what you wrote, sounds like 8 is a solid answer.
Spoken like an American who's never left his country, or even flown on an airplane. I live in a gun-free country, and it's quite peaceful, completely unlike America with all its mass shootings.
The OP starts with a very wrong comparison; essentially comparing the London area with the American average. A proper comparison will be to compare it against the Washington or NYC metropolitan area. The numbers will be different.

Then the article presents no arguments on how the UK can achieve such a feat other than having a bit better public transport. Public transport does certainly help and it’ll increase GDP; but I highly doubt it’s the determinant in creating the richest country per capita in the world.

As for “can”, any country theoretically can become super-rich. Singapore did. Whether it will or not is another matter. The UK had particular circumstances in the 1700-1900. It does not have the same circumstances today. Lots of countries are also racing toward this goal. The UK is certainly better positioned than most countries in the world but not the best positioned out there.
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> allocations, copies, and other performance killers

Please elaborate on those other performance killers.
Motivation = good. Result = immaterial. No contradiction.
It has been 200 years since the industrial revolution - we know exactly what makes a society rich. Creating, or at least controlling, vast amounts of capital. Although it would be a mistake for the UK to be benchmarking itself against the rest of western Europe; much of the continent appears to be in trouble. The real question is why all the capital formation seems to have been in Asia for the last 50 years.

As for the UK, to get into such a position they're going to have to recognise that to get to this sort of state they can't have had pro-prosperity governance for decades. It takes 20-40 years for a lack of investment to start to show up in reality.
> has to do with Lebesgue measure

As in, the only thing Lebesgue that my comment mentions.
Article title: GridGain Advances Its Unified Real-Time Data Platform to Help Enterprises Accelerate AI-Driven Data Processing
> individualized contexts of sensitive data

My question is whether this capability even exists.

And if it does how robust it is to workarounds.
A jet can also carry a lot of bombs and you might need the jet for other missions anyways.

I agree completely but I think the economics still favor the jets, especially if you need any precision or control, if you just want to lob explosives as cheap as possible maybe the equation is a bit different (though lobbing a lot of them over very large distances is still expensive).
In the most recent general election the Labour Party had a landslide victory with only 1/3 of the popular vote. The first past the post system allots significantly more power than the vote actually mandates.

People like to joke that democracy is a tyranny of the majority, but the FPP system is more like a tyranny of the largest minority.
They are all hallucinations. Calling lies hallucinations and truths normal output is nonsense.
I believe this is the HN title declickbaiter, which made it worse this time
>I'm not sure why Nazis are "controversial".

"Free speech" is the standard defense of nazis. "Censorship" makes banning nazis somehow controversial. Which is stupid, but it's a thing that exists. Sigh.
Not just that. When learning about the anisotropic nature of composites (different strengths in different directions) wood is a tangible example for anyone who’s done arts and crafts, woodworking, etc.
The first time you experience that should be around the third or fourth driving lesson.
Dr. Jonathan Haidt: How Smartphones and Social Media Impact Mental Health
” In this episode, my guest is Dr. Jonathan Haidt, PhD, professor of social psychology at New York University and bestselling author on how technology and culture impact the psychology and health of kids, teens, and adults. We discuss the dramatic rise of suicide, depression, and anxiety as a result of replacing a play-based childhood with smartphones, social media, and video games.

He explains how a screen-filled childhood leads to challenges in psychological development that negatively impact learning, resilience, identity, cooperation, and conflict resolution — all of which are crucial skills for future adult relationships and career success. We also discuss how phones and social media impact boys and girls differently and the underlying neurobiological mechanisms of how smartphones alter basic brain plasticity and function.

Dr. Haidt explains his four recommendations for healthier smartphone use in kids, and we discuss how to restore childhood independence and play in the current generation.

This is an important topic for everyone, young or old, parents and teachers, students and families, to be aware of in order to understand the potential mental health toll of smartphone use and to apply tools to foster skill-building and reestablish healthy norms for our kids.”
> I assume that I would get my ass kicked legally speaking. That reads to me exactly like deliberate copyright infringement with willful obfuscation of my infringement.

It looks like wilful obfuscation because the obfuscation is so simplistic. But as the obfuscation gets increasingly sophisticated, it becomes ever harder to distinguish wilful obfuscation from genuine originality.
My little one has some time till he has to got to school.

Can you give me some resources on how to teach him? I had never to learn myself and just remembered most of the things or didn't learn them at all.

I guess it would be better to have the skill of learning and teaching
Because you can. Why split the architecture across multiple machines when it works on one.

Do you have any recommended links to that galvanic isolation I could look at ? I’m encouraged by your view on this.
The Unexpected Afterlife of Autobiography of a Face
France very recently did a full 180.
There are very strong guarantees of that not to happen.

Wealthfront and Betterment are tiny compared to others, but share the same field with the big players who have interest to not make people scared shitless.

It is the fast and loose, innocent because proving guilt is an effort, fintech I am sacred of: crypto, binary options etc.
> UK is as irrelevant as countries like Canada and Australia

The UK is the world’s 6th largest economy [1]. It clocks in next to India, the 5th. It is twice as large as Russia, the sick man of Europe and neighbourhood pest, and one of the other nine nuclear powers of the world [2].

The decline you cite is also the opportunity; if Britain could get its shit together, it could reasonably grow an entire Saudi Arabia (1%) or even Canada or Russia (2%) in a generation. (If it really clicked and maintained 3% growth for a generation, it would add to itself the entire economy of India.)

Never underestimate the advantage of starting ahead.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(no...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_...
Add 1 interesting paper per month and you’re “that weirdo”.

more than that and you get called a machine and a brute !
how do I convince people that I'm funny
"In 1920, North England’s economy as a whole was among the strongest in Europe and thus the world."

Exploiting and stealing always makes you rich. An empire doesn't make sense if you don't get rich with it (Also see the connection of Slavery and the British Industrial Revolution). The only problems: It's amoral stealing and exploiting others and it's not infinite, people don't want to be exploited so the empire gets more and more expensive to run.
- More legible than HN, a combo of size and color
- Too much space below short entries ?
- Context menu (rclick) on links hijacked, no 'open in new tab'
If I had to pick one, it’s health related.

Remember how you fall hard, it hurts, and you run next day? It’s over. Every damage you take will take longer to heal. Some damage persists. Medications and supplements won’t have “for how long” anymore, you’re just taking it. Make a list of bad habits that you know affected you slightly and treat it as multiplied by ten+. Stop doing that. If something goes wrong on its own, research and experiment with things that you thought were useless. They suddenly start making sense as you age. Supplements, exercise, etc. Oh, and your health is now expensive af, budget for it. You have around five years to prepare.
I know why they don’t, but I wish these statements had more specifically about the techniques foreign influence operations use.
> As a Brit and former resident, happy to have emigrated and escaped the >50% (soon to be increased) tax rates.

Hah. So you don't believe in the Scandi high-tax economy, or the Dutch one?

Resentment of taxation is a perquisite of the rich, overwhelmingly. In fact, most people who are not rich pay reasonable rates of taxation except they pay far more percentage of their income as VAT/consumption taxes, which is of course nothing like 50%

"nineteen for you and one for me" was George Harrison whining about super tax in the 60s. This isn't new.
The adage should be "the definition of obstinacy is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results". However, some obtusely obstinate people keep hanging on to it being "the definition of insanity ...". Moreover, they persist in misattributing it to Einstein.
Every FRP system I've used allows cycles.
Canada and Australia are rich by natural resources per capita. UK is rich by the history of the 19th and 18th centuries. I know which I'd bet on lasting.

Uk used to be top of the list for countries millionaires move to. It's rapidly fallen down that list over the last 10-20 years below those others mentioned now it's an exporter of wealthy individuals. That's big capital flight happening today
I'd like to see the UK South-East compared to e.g. Bavaria/BaWü the richest parts of Germany. Otherwise the diagram doesn't make any sense at all.
Most scrap yards are run by shady goons who don't care enough to enforce the rules.
Indeed. And there’s a whole Atomics namespace in the standard library for thread safety while using it.

Again, there’s very few actual uses for wasm. The main one is when you have a preexisting library in a different language, other than that you don’t gain any real functionality from using it.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Monégasque are definitionally wealthy but also exclusive. You can't just become one at a drop of a hat. Nor Maltese for that matter or Gibralter or Jersey. Living in these places demands being HNW and not Monégasque, or Monégasque and content to enjoy the largesse. You probably work in the service or finance sector, or in specialist engineering industries like design or jewellry.

Except I believe you can't break the bank, its forbidden to locals. You can't be "the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo" after all.

If you can drive a pile driver or construct sea walls Maybe you could be french, and drive in? I suspect they have a tax treaty with France to limit these opportunities, but they do need construction workers to increase the size of the state: reclaimed land from the sea is their principle mechanism of peacefully gaining lebensraum.
Show HN: ManyShot – Run the Same Prompt N Times (LLM Monte Carlo Simulation)
All -

I saw a tweet about someone who ran 100 simulations of race winners in the Kentucky Derby using GPT-4 and managed to get some good predictions. This got me thinking: can we improve accuracy and predictive capabilities by running the same prompt N times, similar to a Monte Carlo simulation?

So, I built a simple app that makes this process easy. You input a prompt and specify the options you want it to choose from. You can pick models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, and even a local model (though it's slower and recommended for testing).

This project is open source. You can clone the repo and try it out yourself with your API keys or just test out the demo app with the local model.
Nope!

> "When you use named arguments in a function call, you can freely change the order that they are listed in."

That violates a key requirement in my specification, which means that I regard it as broken.

Positional parameters should take arguments only in their designated argument position.

Only non-positional parameters (keyword parameters) should be allowed to be specified in any order.
If you are a a fellow Indian (looking at your name), is he a nepotism kid who has a lot of power?
So what he’s saying is that positive thinking can make it happen then? Think yourself rich ?
That's playing with kessler syndrome game theory, since PRC has anti sat capabilities too. Except US has lead in space assets, especially for defense, and would lose disproportionately more capabilities in full scale ASAT war - global capabilities they need for other commitments. Degrading space degrades carrier group capabilities.

Other thing to consider is US ASAT capability is limited - only like ~20 ASM135 which can reach high (~500km) LEO were produced (but we don't really know how many exists). SM3s which US has ~500, not all of which are ASAT capable and validated at ~250km. A lot of Yaogan constellation are at ~500km. Those SM3s may reach that, but they also double as ballistic interceptors for high end AShMs. TBF we don't know much about PRC ASAT inventory, we just know they have capbility with industrial base to build a lot of ordnances.

PRC also can launch satellites rapidly via road mobile TELs, and have long range, disposable, supersonic drones like WZ8 as backup/redundant kill chain. Of course US likely has ability to quickly put up space assets as well. There's also all sorts consideration like US launching an coordinated ASAT strike is basically shooting 100s of missiles without warning - if it doesn't accidentally trigger MAD it's going to trigger use-it or lose-it counter strike. Doing it gradually/piecemeal = PRC will have time to respond.

Really it comes down to attrition/numbers game, but when space assets in the multi 100s, there's a lot of build in redundancy against decapitation strikes, which inherently makes such strikes more difficult to pull off, i.e. is US going to disperse elements in theatre because just about anything in 1IC can still likely be hit with PRC missiles without GPS using INS/dsmac/tercom navigation. PRC going to know somethings up if Yokosuka gets emptied and adjust retaliation posture accordingly.

Things gets complicated vs adversaries with modern ISR in the ~100s. Caveate being that club is pretty much US+PRC. RU also has 100s but a lot of it legacy. Essentially everyone else US would consider adversary like IR or NK has single digits, and would get steam rolled. 2010s PRC borderline in this category, their ISR fleets was low/mid double digits then. Hence carriers are hard to find/kill holds true for that calibre of forces. But "neutralize enemies advantages" is apropos, and against most US adversaries, US primacy is based on US having ability in neutralizing those advantages. Difference vs PRC is PLA spent last 20 years of modernization specifically to neutralize US advantages - that's what their systems confrontation/destruction warfare doctorine is designed around - build enough redundancy to mitigate and defeat US advantages.
That doesn't at all jibe with my extensive observation of both Americans and non-Americans. But hey, it's your life and you can keep on forming beliefs about the world based on crude (and frankly rather trite) stereotypes like this, as suits your fancy.
Cue is a bodge that should never have become a defacto standard. Joerg Schilling's cdrdao tool has its own TOC format that faithfully captures everything including index marks, various flags, and multilingual CD text but it was ignored by everything else in the heyday of the ripping era. Nowadays we'd be better off with a standard yaml/json format that duplicates what cdrdao provides.
Nitpick time:

> Modern composites, starting with Bakelite

AFAIK Bakelite is a resin, not a composite.

No mention of fiberglass, which had been used for many decades before carbon fiber went into widespread use.

> composites—which are amalgamations of a variety of fibers, embedded in a variety of plastics

Steel reinforced concrete is a composite and doesn’t fit this definition.
> decrying machinery that made cloth

You can be passionate about this advancement without placing profits first.

> Imagine how many more video games and movies can be made...

Again, you can do this with passion and without placing profit first

> There are tremendous benefits to making art something anyone can get for dirt cheap

I disagree strongly here. Art has value in large part because most people cannot produce it. I like stories, but not everyone has a good story to tell. When the story is AI-generated, there isn't a consciousness behind it to give it the passion required for good stories.
> Public transport does certainly help and it’ll increase GDP; but I highly doubt it’s the determinant in creating the richest country per capita in the world

The UK is geographically blessed. That hasn’t been an advantage recently, because the EU seemed to be working, but Alexander Hamilton’s arguments against loose political unions seem prescient as ever amidst Europe’s present rightwing lurch [1].

If Britain can get its infrastructure in line and press its inherent energy-cost advantage relative to Europe, it could reasonably supplant Asia based on proximity, capital market depth and “friendshoring” advantage in many high-value supply chain elements. The problem is Britain has American-style public services and European bureaucracy; that prevents it from being the Singapore it reasonably aspires to be.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._7
To give the steel industry it's fair shake, the Titanic was also claimed to be "unsinkable".
But that’s like saying my lawsuit alleging Taylor Swift copied my song could have gone forward with a plaintiff who had, years ago, written a song similar to what Ms. Swift recorded recently. That”s true, but perhaps the lesson here is that damages that hinge on statistically rare victims should not extrapolated out to provide windfalls for people who have not been harmed.
In my experience, simply having read a work relevant book after college would put someone in the top 10% !

I mentor engineers and everyone thinks I'm the weirdo when I loan out a engineering text book to help them solve a problem. Others seem think learning is just for students. I can't see this ending well for my employer.