skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Dutch government has been talking about this type of tax for decades. The idea is to put a mandatory live-tracking device in every car that sends data to the government about where you are at all times.

Why would they need a tracking device for this? If Google is to be believed the Dutch government requires periodic vehicle inspections. Couldn't they just go by the odometer difference between inspections to get the mileage?
Wait, why can’t I just use a Postgres database with the Decimal type and call it a day?
> The reserve ratio is currently zero, lowered in 2020 during pandemics.

I saw this during the pandemic, and it bewildered me how little coverage of it there was. How is this not going to cause another financial catastrophe? And if we're so sure it isn't, then what makes people think they under economics so well, given that they clearly thought a minimum was necessary just a few years ago?
[dupe] Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42264733
> They specifically don’t prescribe any particular age verification methods. This would be a great time to follow up with legislation that updates their national IDs to be able to provide cryptographically secure proofs of age without leaking identity.

Hard disagree. We do not need an internet driver's license. Australians are supposed to have a right to interact with organisations with privacy protections under the Privacy Act 1988, like APP2 which allows individuals to deal with organisations anonymously or pseudonymously.

Social media companies are doing a great deal of harm to society, but banning under-16s is tackling the symptom, not the problem. All people should have more rights and protections, like opting out (or better, opting in) to infinite scroll and algorithmic content suggestions as opposed to subscribed content. Algorithmic content today is akin to spam in the early 2000s which governments regulated and has had some impact on bad behaviour by local companies (of course I am not under any pretense that spam will ever really be solved). Social media users should be able to opt in or out of content categories which AI could potentially help with that categorisation, ideally in an uber-transparent way.

I'm young enough that "modern" social media was just starting up when I was a teenager. It's not clear that banning under 16s from modern digital communication would provide any benefits (which, by the way, social media is very loosely defined under the amendment).

> Absent that, I’m sure many of the comments to come will worry about the privacy implications.

The big issue is that we are importing the UK model which will see identity outsourcing to companies like Yoti and AU10TIX, the latter which was hacked in 2021 and led to some pretty serious implications for affected users.

Of course the reality is that Meta is already doing age and identity verification on users who use privacy-protecting technologies like Firefox Container Tabs, at least in Australia, and has been for a number of years. This usually leads to an account being blocked until the user provides their ID via a photo. This will become formalised so that accounts that are detected as possibly being U16 (via various techniques like profiling and data matching against external sources) will be requested ID, and Yoti will likely be used to actually perform that verification.

Another big concern will be that this is forced onto smaller operators like Australian Mastodon sites, internet forums, mailing lists and others.
That’s not planting a tree.
Britain keeps on having a bad record with preserving stuff, I see.
Looks interesting. What sort of memory requirements does it have and how does it persist data?
As a startup founder, my journey is super lonely.

There is seldom a flutter of thanks—-rarely does anyone come to me saying, “Splendid!”

Yet, the day continues, operated by a calendar.

The lack of thanks does not make me anxiouz, but I continue on my journey because I signed up—to create. Create something out of thin air, something out of my figment of imagination.

But there are moments where I am vulnerable, alone. In those moments, I look for a post-it where it says, “Continue and Persist.”

Thanks for creating this. I’ll wait for this. Maybe someone, someday.
Go stacks are dynamically copied and resized. Stack overflow is not a concern.
Tell me why

They didn't just ban pedophiles off the apps
Been using jujutsu which does stacked diffs.
Just the use of GitHub UI still a shame for stacked diffs and I'm unwilling to use graphite if I can't convince the rest of my team.
Unfortunately nobody has solved the pesky problem that people need to eat at least once a day, so somebody has to work in the food industry. Getting rid of these central markets means smaller markets spread all over the country will do the same work, but likely making the food more expensive and the supply less reliable.
I remember asking adults about this when I was probably seven years old. Once I learned that tires wore down, eventually smooth, it made sense to me that the material had to go somewhere. No one really had much of a good answer as to where it all went.
Yeah this gentleman is Jan Mercl and is quite known in the Go community. I think his most known project is the sqlite driver in pure Go, as opposed to mattn's driver.

Modernc.org is kind of umbrella of his projects.
To illustrate the difference (hopefully I get this right): A transaction needs to balance, left vs right.

For example, you receive a sales order for 1000€ of widgets, which cost you 600€. You ship them. You invoice for 1000€.

No money moved (hopefully you do get paid at some point though). However, you need to do some bookkeeping.

On the left side of the ledger (debits): Accounts receivable 1000€. Cost of goods sold 600€.

On the right side of the ledger (credits): Revenue goes up by 1000€. Inventory goes down by 600€.

These completely match. No money has moved, but the books are now up to date and balance.

Any transaction that does not balance should be rejected.
There are many places in the world where there is no law for "contempt of cop" but police find a way to extra-judicially punish anyway. The lack of a law allowing something doesn't stop abuse of power! And Australia is notorious for its raids of journalist's homes and has a court system very disinclined to punish the police for illegal activity.
Locomotif: A short survey of trains, music and experiments
Perhaps we should also make it illegal to report on the war in the Middle East in case young people find it traumatising to see that that the western democracies are supporting dropping 2000 pound bombs on children in other countries. Can you image the damage being caused to young minds seeing that death and destruction visually through their own eyes ?
> The bank is not printing money new money, no matter how many times this idea gets repeated by people who are, ironically, pumping crypto coins that were printed out of thin air.

It is now widely accepted that bank lending produces new money[1][2]

[1] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3lP3BhvnSo
Thank you for creating this wholesome, weird thing!
The author of this book is against trans people being able to exist in this world.

No thanks tbh. This isn’t identity politics. It’s just live and let live.
You have to remember, Australia as a nation is young, and has an interesting history - forced migration of convicts, high levels of immigration (IIRC 25% of the population are 1st or 2nd generation immigrants), and of course the difficulty of dealing with colonial treatment of the Aboriginal population. "No culture" is patently absurd; everywhere with people has a culture.

And on mandatory voting: yes, in one way, that's a curtailment of freedom, but in another way, it's enshrining freedom.
They are already mostly segmented off from their friends after school hours. They have killed off one of the final mediums for interaction and are preventing interaction with the rest of their generation's culture. They're also narrowing their world view to be more controlled by the state.
Chinese companies poach staff from ASML and Zeiss with three times higher pay
What are you talking about? Model 3 is larger in every single dimension, in some by a lot.

https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/mazda-3-2019-5-door...
Just because the War on Drugs failed does not mean the argument extend on to every other fields.
The money driven content creators are going to thrive on platforms that support them. If you don't want to have their content on the same feed as your cat pics, you're going to have to find some alt networks
And now they’ll be able to see the groups you go to within pages, read comments, see what we write, etc etc. It also goes from being a defence capability to used for all sorts of things and eventually leaked.

It’s not bad enough to leave, better to engage with the politics and try to get some rights before it spreads further outwards
This is a good way to incentivise people to buy the shittiest tyres they can and stretch them well past usable life because it’ll cost them a motza to replace.
> criminal justice reform by using caning, which the U.S. also ought to adopt

Ahh, an opinion not remotely worth listening to or having on the Internet.

Shocking.
Often they have sound damping foam, and try to be more efficient.
Could possibly filter it out at exhausts
> The Dutch government has been talking about this type of tax for decades. The idea is to put a mandatory live-tracking device in every car that sends data to the government about where you are at all times.

God damn.

I would have gone with "mandatory service where the odometer is sent to the government, and government keeps track of when last service was done and fines owners who are late"
> People can't easily substitute their car use... so all you're doing is just adding a tax to car use.

So long as you don't have to pay the actual costs associated with your car use, why would you _want_ to find an alternative?

> You could do this just as easily with gas taxes, registration fees or any other system.

Registration fees tax ownership of a car, not use. IMO that's... not great; if you want to own a car you rarely drive, why should you pay for everyone else's pollution?

Gas taxes could be a fair way to target CO2 emissions, but (given heavy EVs don't pay them) are a poor way to target tyre particulate pollution.

As a response to particulate pollution specifically, a tyre tax is quite closely targeted (although possibly ill-advised for other reasons, as I mentioned in my comment).
yes, agree, I think a 'source' 'destination' model is significantly more straight-forward. Just record the 'source' account and the destination account and you essentially end up with a ledger as a directed graph (Martin Kleppmann wrote a great post on it)

I also wrote a super short post on how to model such a system on postgres
https://blog.nxos.io/A-simple-double-entry-ledger-with-sourc...

Blockchain actually kinda nails it, that's in essence a source/destination ledger, no 'postings' or similar needed, and from a balance calculation POV has been working pretty well

One reason this model isn't applied in accounting, in my personal view :), is simply historical and the fact that the number 0 didn't exist when accounting principles were created.

Wrote another post on how to model debit/credits on a source/destination ledger here: https://blog.nxos.io/Debit-and-Credits-on-a-Source-Destinati...

It's very straight-forward, you just have to accept that asset accounts have negative balances and present the absolute amount instead of a negative amount in a view.
> However, the moment you actually use that money (eg to buy something), the money leaves the bank (unless the other account is also at this bank, but let’s keep it simple). Liabilities on the balance sheet shrink, so assets need to follow. That needs to come from reserves because the loan asset keeps its original value.

"Everything should be made as simple as possible but no simpler."

You're omitting the thing that causes the money to be created out of thin air. If the other account is at the same bank, now that customer has money in their account that didn't previously exist. And the same thing happens even if the money goes to a customer at another bank -- then that bank's customer has money in their account that didn't previously exist. Even if some reserves are transferred from one bank to another, the total reserves across the whole banking system haven't changed, but the total amount of money on deposit has. And the transfers into and out of the average bank are going to net to zero.

The created money gets destroyed when the loan is paid back, but the total amount of debt generally increases over time so the amount of debt-created money goes up over time as banks make new loans faster than borrowers pay them back.
The performance impact seems completely unjustified for most of the things people do with a personal machine however.
Got a source on paint?
Well there is actually. If the government label the criticism fake news.

In the Netherlands people have been fined hundred of thousands of euros for spreading fake news about the government. However if it’s not fake news they can do the same. You won’t be able to do anything about it because it order to show your evidence you need to be able to publish and the press on there Netherlands will not help you with that.
Can we do something more real world at least? what's the cost (hetzner monthly) of maintaining 1M concurrent websocket connection where each make a query to a postgres db randomly every 1-4 seconds.

The cost wouldn't be just Memory because the network card and CPU also enter the game.
> It is undeniable that big tech has warped the way even adults deal with each other. It warps social norms, social habits, human interactions, perspectives on the world and a lot more, all for the worse than the better.

Also true for television. Old Media had the monopoly on opinion-guidance back then. Part of the (encouragement of the) negative reaction to social media is it's threat to the status quo, much like Australia's previous legislation to force Facebook and Google to pay old media for linking to their news articles.

Different groups of people will have different lists of things they don't like about society and where it's headed; violent video games, advertising, music videos (that tend to be soft-porn these days), internet browsing tracking. Where does a government draw the line on what to act on and what to leave to the responsibility of parents? (how does this help other agendas? Will this look like we're "doing something"? Will this score votes? which way is the breeze blowing on this topic?)

Social media is a concentrator. I'm not convinced it's a 'cause'. There seems to be an epidemic of (social) anxiety, and maybe Facebook is the cause, but to me it feels societally deeper. World leadership is demonstrably not "the best of us" (I'm not just saying that because of Trump), to me, it feels as if there's a pervasive attitude of "I'll get mine and fuck the rest of you", which predictably trickles throughout the society whose leaders portray that attitude. Social media being one outlet of this, but I see plenty of 'us vs. them' polemics in traditional media.

Just my theory. I'm already poking holes in it mentally, but anyway. I don't have any useful answers. I guess we'll see if this ban makes a difference.
myID as it stands is a bit of a farce. It uses OIDC under the hood, but it only supports end users that download the myID app on their smartphone via the Google Play Store or Apple App Store. Security is effectively outsourced to Google and Apple as the user's identity is "pinned" to their smartphone.

Take myGov in contrast which is web-capable and supports users to use a Yubikey or Passkey/Webauthn-capable device to authenticate.

Under the Australian Digital ID scheme myGov will likely be usurped by myID, which is, in my view, an inferior scheme which blatantly ignores basic standards.
> Tariffs don't discourage adoption of the best technologies, they discourage importing products from other countries.

oh sweet summer child
Reminder that Rust does not automatically schedule anything. Unless you _explicitly_ call `tokio::spawn` or `async_std::spawn` you are still living entirely in state-machine land.

Rust's `join_all` uses `FuturesUnordered` behind the scenes, which is pretty intelligent in terms of keeping track of which tasks are ready to make progress, but it does not use tokio/async_std for scheduling. AFAICT the only thing being measured about tokio/async_std is the heap size of their `sleep` implementations.

I'd be very interesting in seeing how Tokio's actual scheduler performs. The two ways to do that are:

- using https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/tokio/task/join_set/struct.Join... to spawn all the futures and then await them

- spawn each future in the global scheduler, and then await the JoinHandles using the for loop from the appendix

As other commenters have noted, calling `sleep` only constructs a state machine. So the Appendix isn't actually concurrent. Again, you need to either put those state machines into the tokio/async_std schedulers with `spawn`, or combine the state machines with `FuturesUnordered`.
I should have read the blog post. This is a known issue:

>Recursive Reasoning Loops: The model may enter circular reasoning patterns, leading to lengthy responses without a conclusive answer.

So the 100 lines was probably not necessary.
Yes and I would not demonize it.

The problem I see, are networks that are financed mainly by ads - so they have the incentive to keep engagement artifically high and spy as much as possible.

But "banning social media" does not ask that question.
Rivian isn't doing so hot; they're still losing money like it's going out of style. Lucid is doing far better.
I’m holding off on the names and dates and whatnot because I still hold out real hope that we can clean our own house without bringing in the videography team from the fucking Kardashian show. It’s really bad now and it would be a lot worse before I wrote some tell-all and angled for an hour or two with Rogan.

But if you’ve reached your moment? I trust you have your reasons. I can make an educated guess that satisfies me you know what you’re doing.

We all die. What advantage or suffering in the next few decades could be worth our human agency, dignity, and uniqueness via principles and codes? I’ll lose much of that when I void my bowels at death.

Not before, and not for this.

If you abruptly find yourself on a grassy field be of good cheer because you’re in Elysium and you’re already dead.
Being CGo-free is very desirable when you can't/don't want/don't bother to link C library deps for some reason. On example when you don't want to do that is cross-compiling for another architecture and not really being able to control what runtime libraries are installed on the target.

So, it simplifies build pipelines, at the cost of being a bit slower in the runtime.

This is also nice to read about the topic: https://dave.cheney.net/2016/01/18/cgo-is-not-go
Oh yuck. Invalidating all the pointers to the stack? That's got to be expensive.

I guess if you're already doing garbage collection moving the stack doesn't make things all that much worse though... still, yuck.
Yep. The Netherlands is one of those places. They have made extra judicial punishment a way of working. They call it an “intervention”. And they will make use of all the government organisations to do it. those organisations just have to follow orders because the interventions are co-ordinated by an intelligence agency called the RIEC.

No evidence is required, there are no bounds as to what they can do and there are no repercussions.
Looks interesting, but uncomfortable to me. Could use at least some https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugru or similar.

While I like wired input while it's on the desk, I'd rather have that wireless when handheld free in the air, or on lap.

Because then the cable is more likely to be a hassle, or leading to restricted movement to avoid that hassle.
Do you have data do back it up? From quickly looking at historical records online, I can't see any unfathomable amounts reduction, It's levelled on 20-30% of smokers among kids, and it remains a core challenge for child and adolescent health to the current day (according to 2020 WHO report[0]), plus they started to smoke vapes. So did the bans you sampled really work, or do they just smoke more discreetly and use tricks to buy cigarettes now, making the whole thing more inaccessible and desirable for an average child?

[0] https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/05-06-2020-smoking-stil...
Ha! We have compulsory voting but unlike many Anglo countries we don't require voter ID, vote registration etc. In fact you do not need to provide any ID to vote, because voting fraud is so statistically low (see https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/factlab-meta/voting-fraud-negli...). We simply provide a name and address and fill out the ballot.

We have so many issues, but compulsory voting is not one of them, in my opinion. If you feel so strongly to not vote you can abstain by an informal vote like roughly 5% of the country does on any given election (https://www.aec.gov.au/Voting/Informal_Voting/) or simply pay the AU$20 (roughly US$13) fine like apparently around 5-10% of Australians do on any given election (https://www.aec.gov.au/Elections/non-voters.htm).

In my view, and in the view of many Australians, people encouraging further "freedom" to not vote are attempting to suppress votes, a major issue in the United States and other countries with optional voting.
> because `tokio::time::sleep()` keeps track of when the future was created, (ie when `sleep()` was called) instead of when the future is first `.await`ed

I’m not a Rust programmer but I strongly suspect this updated explanation is erroneous. It’s probably more like this: start time is recorded when the task execution is started. However, the task immediately yields control back to the async loop. Then the async loop starts another task, and so on. It’s just that the async loop only returns the control to sleeping task no earlier than the moment 1s passes after the task execution was initialy started. I’d be surprised if it had anything to do with when sleep() was called.
The very graphic lessons at school showing what a smokers’ lung looks like after a life spent smoking didn’t hurt either.
I agree. I'm currently using Linode. If they started requiring every account to have a valid US passport, I'd happily comply.
Because any leak would bring external material inside. Whereas slightly overpressured nitrogen keeeps the outside world away.
As a quick estimation, the size of q4 quantized model usually be around 60-70% of the model's parameter. You can preciselly check the quantized model size from .gguf files hosted in huggingface.
I'm not sure where you're getting these ideas from. Best estimate I can see of prime mover tyre lifespan is 40,000-120,000 km.

I'd be quite happy if I could get that kind of lifespan out of my cars tyres.
That's oversimplifying.

Do the people who don't have children send resources to relatives who do? Making the family more succesful?

Not to mention it isn't a binary really. There is a middle ground of simply having less children. A family that has a single child is still below replacement and quite different from a family with 5. Regardless, genes are still being passed on.
Good comment, thanks for sharing
There is no free lunch outside biology either. The problems that come with stronger immune systems may be more tractable or at least less unpleasant than cancer.

Also, you seem to be very pessimistic. Many interventions in the history of medicine, like washing hands or the first vaccine against smallpox, were almost "magical" in their efficiency: they addressed a lot of problems through a relatively trivial intervention.

It is likely that a lot of this low-hanging fruit has been picked up, but you insinuate that there isn't any low-hanging fruit to begin with, only an endless slog of attacking hard problems. That is way too negative.