skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is how I feel actually. I live in the UK and the new government has started doing very sensible things. They are actually dealing with a lot of points made in the comments here. I look at the weakness of the 2 presidential candidates in the US, the rise of the far-right in the two European powerhouses of France and Germany, and the risk of deflation in China and I think, gosh! Maybe this is right? We are looking like the stable sensible choice, at least for now.

Maybe, we have, as a country all agreed the Brexit was terrible, and things can be done better and maybe we've handed power to the right people.

Let me start with the Eton/Posh thing, the new cabinet is not that. The new parliament is not that. 80% of the cabinet are comprehensive educated:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/07/05/most-state-e...

The head of health had Kidney cancer and was saved by the NHS. The head of housing grew up in a council house, the head of prisons is a well known employer of ex-prisoners, the head of science used to be the head of R&D at GSK. The list could go on. As Starmer would say, it's people with "skin in the game" having the power.

And the fact they are bringing in non-politicians to get jobs done, superb.

Specifically on the splitting of the country between north and south to do an analysis, I do think that is valid, and instructional. We have seen various countries over the last 150 years achieve high growth when they have got focused on catching up to the better countries. The US grew quickly when it was catching up to the UK after the industrial revolution, and the UK grew quickly when we were catching up after WWII. China grew quickly when it was catching up to the west. Then, once it's done, growth goes back to a normal 1-2%. Well, perhaps, the UK can have the North catch up to the south and provide the growth. I look at what Manchester was 15 years ago, what Leeds was 15 years ago, and I think, sure, that's completely do-able.
I didn’t know so much about the instinctive drowning response, thanks. I was a competent swimmer before I formed conscious memories and have never experienced anything like that. I have done a few water rescues but it was a clear case of someone in the water not being able to swim at all and was over quickly. I guess panic is a core feature of this response?
Are you going to tell us who?
Microchip PIC64GX is a quad-core 64-bit RISC-V for real-time processing
SimSig: Railway Signalling Simulations
> I do feel that longer term education would be better, that and banning advertising of high sugar items as we did for tobacco. For instance all the bus stops near me are plastered in junk food and high sugar items which just make them feel normal. Bring back the veg marketing board!

Sadiq Khan did this for TfL, and there is some evidence that it has worked to some extent: https://evidence.nihr.ac.uk/alert/advertising-ban-was-linked...

Of course, there was absolute _outrage_ (certainly entirely grassroots and not instigated by agribusiness, dear me no), so it would be politically sensitive to expand.
First you have to see people as human beings instead of "human doings". Instead of sizing them up and judging their worth by their achievements, you have to see them as creatures worth interacting with for no reason.

Growing up in a transactional culture, I had the habit of only talking and listening to people if I need something from them or if they achieved massive financial success. This is a very sad way to live life.

Studying the philosophy of Absurdism helped immensely with that, and I also traveled the world to interact with different cultures.
Isn't that exactly the point of the policy? Consumer habits don't have to change but their sugar consumption goes down because of economically rational incentives and they have to make an affirmative change in habits to go back to their previous levels of sugar consumption.
https://github.com/martinvonz/jj/commit/0525dc9d860a5fff6a97...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40919571
This is one of test for red cross lifeguard training. However in real life it is much better to spot drowning victims than video.
"Korn - Follow The Leader" (1998) album started on track 13.

https://www.discogs.com/release/369188-Korn-Follow-The-Leade...
This is about soft drinks (that's all the levy applies to). In 99% of cases the substitute is aspartame. I don't think it's ever xylitol, is it? That's normally used to substitute for small amounts of sugar, not the huge quantities found in soft drinks. The digestive effects of that much xylitol would be unpleasant.
Hey HN. I actually have a current need for on-device wake-word-like STT. Which model(s) have the lowest WER and can run on an RPi 4B? I've been looking at openWakeWord. It's for an DIY inventory system.
Depending on the exact demographics, Bluesky might be another alternative.
Not observing people is intentional.
Twitter/X is limiting sharing Russia's attack on children's hospital
that forEachProp function... it brings back nightmares of when, before variadics, we used to macro generate up-to N-arity functions (with all the const/non-const permutations(.

Now I use the same trick in our code base to generically hash aggregates, but I limit it to 4 fields for sanity.
Degradability is a function of how chemically stable a molecule is, not the number of atoms. Sure, plastics break down in smaller particles but the issue is that some of these smaller particles or microplastics are incredibly stable.
send a drone that can also be used as a flotation device or use a pneumatic cannon to send a flotation device
Progress is not zero-sum. We can have free medical school and renewable energy infrastructure, and worldwide internet, and multi-use super-heavy-lift spacecraft at the same time.

Not without infighting among those working toward them all, though, apparently.
Will it help Poland, Latvia, Finland, Ukraine, Estonia, Georgia, if Europe and its values, are that easy deterred? Those security guarantees are almost worthless now, that two defectors have started a new great game.
There is ZERO caching of YT content. Every single vidoe/audio source link your client receives is individually cryptographically signed for you (IP) and for this particular time (timestamp, expires in couple hours). Refresh the page and you receive brand new list of different links to same files.
> [Source1] calls the high number extraordinary ‘but unsurprising’, given that the CAP system primarily focuses on land use. The larger the area of land used, the higher the subsidy, and animals occupy the majority of agricultural land. Approximately 75 to 80 percent of the land that is required to produce food for EU citizens is dedicated to the raising of animals and the growing of feed. The production of fruits, vegetables, and cereals for direct human consumption requires significantly less space.

> Changing the distribution of subsidies is not a straightforward process. [Source2] recalls the time when subsidies were based on the amount farmers produced, rather than the land area they used. That led to overproduction, and tons of unused butter and milk.

Farm policy is hard. Smaller farmers (generally a high-skill but grueling, insecure, and thankless job) want security and appreciation, but without much pesky or paperwork-heavy regulation of their not-always-neighborly activities. Large farmers are more similar to greedocratic corporations. Politicans want both to buy farm-region votes, and to ensure the food supply to non-farm regions. Middlemen in the food supply chain tend to be more greedocratic corporations. Voters in non-farm regions want to cling to all sorts of quaint and counter-factual notions about farming and food, and definitely avoid thinking or hard choices. There are a load of land-used issues, which is its own area of hard policy. And a whole plague of locusts...er, make that human parasites, hovers over the field - regulation-is-my-career bureaucrats, lobbyists and lawyers, the financial industry, ...
Dismissiveness like this tends to radiate ignorance, not insight.

Quests have shipped roughly ~1/2 PS5 sales. Certainly a scale only a handful of technologically advanced product lines outside of phones ever reach.

Incidentally, the enabling technology for the Quest? On-device ML that grew out of - you guessed it - developing on-device inference for their apps.
More more more more moooooooore comrade! Take it all, everything! Don't subsidise better options, just take MOOOOOOOORE!
looks like they only care for drops and not latency
> my thesis work, where we showed that streaming video traffic [...] can pretty readily underutilize links on the internet today, without a downside to video QoE!

was slightly at a loss in what exactly needed to be shown here until i clicked the link and came to the conclusion that you re-invented(?) pacing.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/tc-fq.8.html
Was looking at the videos and my main take away was : "Why do they allow these floatation devices in the pool?" If you cant swim and are short enough (basically most kids) why let you climb on that slippery ballon and go in the water? It's like giving kids knifes and let them in the bouncy castle.
Well said. Hanlon's razor doesn't work for corporations (or with people that have already shown their willingness to do the unethical).
A swing and a miss. The future of materials is going back to plant fiber; wood, hemp, etc. There will be plenty of fancy composite materials for specialty applications; but our world has been made out of plastic for generations now and updated, improved plant fiber materials will replace it as the affordable, more sustainable, and equally functional alternative.
Previous HN posts with sufficient conversation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22482731 (4 years ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9962185 (9 years ago)

also OP posted same link 2 days ago.
No reason they couldn’t, if it was advantageous for them though.
Why is it so expensive though? Also, why not fine or ban products that cause problems rather than requiring certification. It seems that would be a lot more efficient.
> Virtually all artificially sweetened soft drinks in the Uk are sweetened with aspartame

A quick look at a few soft drinks I could think of, and their UK sweeteners:

Fanta: Aspartame, Acesulfame
Coke Zero: Aspartame, Acesulfame-K, Enzymatically Produced Steviol Glycosides
Pepsi: Acesulfame K, Sucralose
Irn Bru: Aspartame, Acesulfame K
Tizer: Acesulfame K, Sucralose
Old Jamaica Ginger Beer: Sucralose
Lipton Iced Tea: Steviol Glycosides from Stevia
Ribena: acesulfame K, Sucralose

There seem to be no clear winners, with the most noticeable finding that multiple ones are usually used.
They claimed they were going to restore service by 5 pm CST, but it took until 7:30 pm CST for us to get it back.

PS: If you're Google Fiber, please roll out to the TX triangle. We're dying here where the only other alternative is GVEC.
Modulo is surprisingly expensive even when you combine it with a quotient. It is almost always better to use binary "limbs", in this case 31 or 32 bits wide, because decimal parsing and printing should be much rarer than individual operations in general.
There are self-reinforcing effects. For example, you work hard to become a top 50 player. At that point you don't have to work as hard to remain in the top because now you have certain advantages.

So you can also look at these "sacrifices" as "investments".
just think about your competitive edge if you could manage to cramp more load w/o affecting latency
There are, broadly, four routes to getting people to stop using dangerous consumer products:

- Public education: This is easiest, but not particularly effective. Doctors, and more recently governments, have been telling people to eat less sugar for about a century; meanwhile, in most places, the level of sugar consumption has only increased.

- Taxes/levies: This is thought to be somewhat effective (in particular it seems to have worked in many places for tobacco to some extent), and it has the great advantage that it's _easy to do_; governments typically have a lot of latitude over what they tax and it's quite difficult for the industry to resist through legal means (they can still lobby, of course).

- Ban or restrict advertising: This seems to have been effective for tobacco and maybe alcohol, but certainly in Britain it's currently seen as a bit culture war-y (Sadiq Khan banned ads for unhealthy food on TfL, apparently with some promising results, but the right-wing media had a complete nervous breakdown) and is open to legal challenges. Some other countries, with different political environments, are in the process of doing this for certain problem food products.

- Ban the product: This is practically impossible, even for products which are known to be extremely harmful like tobacco. Just a political death sentence, not worth pursuing.

Given the above, they probably did about the best they could.
> I have kids now and I am glad I could possibly spot this.

We have three kids and I struggle to watch videos of stuff like this.

No drownings in the family, thank $deity, but we've had a fairly lengthy string of medical incidents over the years.

Let's just say I could probably find my way to and around both our local hospital, and the big city hospital an hour away, while blindfolded.
Depends on the OS I guess. When it's established enough, all distributions carry a high enough version that it's not an issue. If it's not established enough, I'd argue that it isn't ready to be part of an "OS" anyway (regardless of the definition of that word).
haaretz is joke that shouldn't be taken seriously by anyone
What are the outcomes of the drownings? I don't think I have the mental stability to watch kid after kid die for 10 minutes.
I don't think that's a use case since you don't get rate limited when using the API.
Not all pools allow them. At first I wondered why, and eventually figured it out.
I have been using Git for 8 years and haven't had any bad experiences with CLI. And this one and other tools that are supposed to replace Git are better in what way? The only thing that's better in this is the conflict resolution but other than that, it doesn't offer that much.
Yes, but was the Mig-21 better, worse or roughly the same as the F-104? That's surprisingly hard to figure out because crashes in socialist countries were usually swept under the rug.
It makes the installed runtime startup slightly slower, not slows down the shell. The difference there matters.
It would be interesting to see basic protection for this built into a platform. Only let users comment if they've clicked on the link, + X seconds where X is the minimum amount of time it should take to read the article.

It would be impossible to reach mass popularity, but I can see it gaining a following among people like us who see it as a positive.
Wood pulp and cotton fiber aren’t that different, are they?
I created container-shell with a similar goal in mind. It’s super light weight, but does not yet support a package manager. It simply gives you a shell using a specified docker image inside the current directory, isolating both software installs as well as the rest of your filesystem

https://github.com/jrz/container-shell
> a majority of adults all around the world are alcoholics.

... Wait, how are you defining 'alcoholic'?

Even by the 'regularly exceeds recommended intake' definition (which most medical professionals would not read as 'alcoholic' on its own, btw), this is not true.
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"There will be plenty of fancy composite materials for specialty applications"

There are a lot of "specialty applications" I think, where plant based material is not ideal. Otherwise I agree.
Sometimes they don't even manage to make splashes and it looks like they're just stationary when in fact they're an impending sinking stone in under 30s.

I was once called out by a lifeguard about that, as I was just chilling there enjoying my own stillness in a moment of zen; the lifeguard essentially pointed out that for them it was a false positive they had to weed out, and if I wanted to be helpful I could still enjoy zenness but assume a slightly different position that made it a bit more obvious I was not a case of drowning.
In practice the guy was planning to sell piece of software, on an SD card, that is compatible with a piece of hardware, and it's up to the customer to actually combine those two. The plan is exactly not to sell the hardware at all—granted they SD cards are piece of hardware, but what if that too was just an image to download off a site?

If the customer cannot legally use that SD with their boards, which SD can they use?

Is this not exactly equivalent how I might buy a Raspberry Pi and install a non-Raspberry-authorized OS on it? Or equivalent on how I might buy a PC and install Linux on it? Or Android and LineageOS? Are those devices certified not only as SOLD but also as modified by the end-user with software, making them somehow different?
Using a product is different from having your livelihood depend on the company’s sales. You’re referring to the former but I was referring to the latter, as that is the point of the comment I replied to.
How is that the effect? The maximum extent of damage, if any, is referencing an already-widely-referenced text. I'm not attacking anyone, or anything, aside from the concept of dependency avoidance.

Honestly, having a curse named after you makes you cool in my book, at least when you adopt the "no publicity is bad publicity" outlook. Especially when the core critique is that the curse is that the language is too powerful.
So what are you for?
> Is this tax sized to cover for that externalities

No, nothing like it. The final costs to the state of excessive sugar consumption are _vast_. This levy is primarily to discourage people from consuming loads of sugar.

> Is the collected money exclusively used to counter the externalities

While I don't know, I'd be very surprised. That sort of bucketed approach to tax collection/use is _extremely_ inefficient; the only place it can possibly be justified is social insurance.
There's a strong geopolitical angle as well. If you force American companies to license all training data for LLMs, that is such a gargantuan undertaking it would effectively set US companies back by years relative to Chinese competitors, who are under no such restrictions.

Bottom line, if you're doing something considered relevant to the national interest then that buys you a lot of leeway.
These seem to be (based on two) lifeguard rescue videos. 30 seconds of lots of kids in a pool, lifeguard jumps in and swims to a person you were not able to spot needed help, and then they help that person back up safely.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Spot the Drowning Child - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26122952 - Feb 2021 (1 comment)

Spot the Drowning Child (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22482731 - March 2020 (405 comments)

Show HN: Spot the Drowning Child - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9962185 - July 2015 (378 comments)

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Btw, on a couple other points:

> also OP posted same link 2 days ago

It was the same link; it just got picked for the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), so it got a random placement on HN's front page.

> sufficient conversation

Reposts are fine on HN after a year or so! This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
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Because slippery ballon is super fun for kids who can swim.
Really? Threatening to abdicate?
And that worked?
> haaretz is joke that shouldn't be taken seriously by anyone

In what way? But you should decide for everyone? Hahaha! :)
Fear - that's totalitarianism, not necessarily communism. You shouldn't rule out the idea of capitalist totalitarianism, that sounds like a nightmare.
> and finally Romans developed something resembling concrete (I dont remember kYa).

About 2 kYa, give or take a couple of centuries.

And it was actual concrete, rather than something resembling concrete. In fact, better than the concrete we were making a hundred years ago, and better than most of our concrete fifty years ago.

Roman aqueducts and bridges are still standing 2000 years later. Not sure I'd put money on the same being true of our stuff.
Nice fonts on the homepage? What are they?
I think everyone missed the sarcasm my comment was dripping with, British humour I guess. I'll take the downvotes.

I understand the issues with sugar, I have no arguments with it, but it is, as you say, a blunt instrument. Sadly, the opposite case; healthy food, is also too expensive for the same demographic this affects; that's a separate and independent problem though, and the evidence in OP seems to suggest the tax is (somewhat) effective, so, again, no arguments from me.

EDIT: To be clear, I'm talking about in the UK when I talk about a demographic.
Pretty much the whole world already has carbon pricing.

USA is the major outlier and they have it at the sub-federal level.

The level will rise over time but it's already been effective in many domains, the UK phase out of coal for example.

https://carbonpricingdashboard.worldbank.org/
I've got 3 drives at around 20K hours and all 3 are showing "100" in helium level.
he is above the law in official duties, UNTIL impeached by congress, at which point he very much is not immune
I'm not super deep into web development and since it doesn't have a demo or any other visual preview unfortunately I don't understand what this does or how it could be useful. Let alone how to "install" it for "my website".
I kinda feel like writing about how someone does nothing when they actually do things, you just did not bothered to actually investigate how what you write about works is being overly negative in the first place.
There's simply no scientific basis for equating the skills of a transformer model to a human of any age or skill. They work so differently, that it makes absolutely zero sense. GPTs fail at playing simple tic-tac-toe like games, which is definitely not a smart highschooler level of intelligence. It can write a very sophishticated summary of scientific papers, which is way above high-schooler level. The basis of this article is so deeply flawed that the whole thing makes no sense.
Acesulfame-K and friends is normally used in small amounts with aspartame; individually they both taste bloody awful, particularly Acesulfame K, but together they taste borderline acceptable.

Must say I wasn't aware there was so much sucralose in use.
By "drowning" they mean "displaying the instinctive responses to perceived difficulty maintaining breathing in the water"

I haven't watched all of them. So far no one has drowned. For a variety of ethical and legal reasons I very much doubt any reputable organisation would put a video of a fatal drowning on their site.
> Man I really hate the idea of "Let's make a thing that works shittier so that people switch to the new thing".

You're conflating sunsetting old services with forced upgrades. Degrading services when preparing for sunsetting the service is a surefire way to convince product managers to bump up migrations in their priority queue. Announcing sunsetting doesn't work. Reaching out directly to stakeholders doesn't work. What works is the urgency of avoiding downtime. The alternative is simply pulling the plug on a fixed date, which is not preferable.
In the 5 or so videos I watched they were all rescued!

The app seems to be timing your response relative to response of a lifeguard: negative seconds if you noticed before a lifeguard jumps into the water, otherwise positive.
The Boris Johnston government tried to hide a government report on the succes of this tax as, like many in this forum, his part of the party is heavily influenced by US corporate propaganda ( sometimes misleadingly called "libertarianism")and the success of popular taxes isn't politically correct for them.
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As someone who is British but not English, you’re going to have to explain that one to me.