lampington

> If they are

Am I the only one slightly disturbed by the use of "they" in that sentence? I know that the HN commentariat is broad-based, but I didn't realise we already had non-human members ;-)

I wonder how much good it did? You do see lots of places for sale in the countryside with XXX of land with a ruin of YYY, and it sounds like people have been using those to build summer houses, but the city centre feels like where it with be needed most. And there are still prominent ruins in central Lisbon, right by Marques de Pombal for example.

I'd go the other way with the buildings -- there are lots of unmaintained or even semi-ruined buildings, even in central Lisbon, which would benefit from foreign investment. Some of them are probably that way due to inheritance disputes, but others, I think, just need an owner that values their age. Maybe allow foreign ownership of older buildings over some particular size, or only if they do significant repairs, or something like that?

Also worth noting that the real estate option has excluded property in Lisbon and the surroundings, Porto and Algarve for some time, and those were the places where most people from abroad would have wanted to move to.

Agreed, if it's not your primary purpose for having the account then it should be fine. I did a bunch of FX through them not long after opening mine, and they sent me a polite email telling me that I shouldn't do that, which was fair enough. Much better than the "freeze account first, warn later" attitude that many other financial companies seem to have.

Now that I've been investing with them for a while, they don't seem to mind.

Really? I rather like the German industrial techno they play while you're in it.

Makes sense. A bring-your-own-model feature would be awesome, but would make it impossible to do that for rarely-used models without using valuable GPU RAM.

Thanks! TIL that nyancat is something like "meowcat"

I picked up the term "beg bounty" from somewhere a while back. It's a very useful phrase to describe the low-effort run-some-crappy-scan-and-spam-security-at-domain junk that comes through.

Great article, but I'm saddened by their view that C is too hard to work with, so the 2-year-old extension must be rewritten in Rust.

C certainly has its faults, and while I have no real experience with Rust, I'm willing to believe that it's significantly better as a language.

But pgvector, at least from a quick scan, looks like a well-written, easily comprehensible C codebase with decent tests. There are undoubtedly lots of hard problems that the developers have solved in implementing it. Putting time and effort into reimplementing all of that in another language because of an aversion to C feels like a waste of effort that could be put into enhancing the existing extension.

Maybe there's something I'm missing? Is the C implementation not as solid as it looks at first glance?

Reading this on a Fold 3, which I'm considering replacing with a OnePlus Open, if the reviews are good. The crease is not noticeable in use for me. Having more screen real estate in a device that still comfortably fits in my hip pocket is great. The only downside I've noticed in a year of use is the Samsung bloatware. There are a couple of small scratches on the screen but no more than I had on my previous smartphones after a year. That's after taking it to the beach multiple times and not taking any particular care to avoid getting stuff on the screen.

It's an old one, but this alleged Steam screenshot handles the problem quite well, as well as fixing the use of the UK flag for English: https://jakubmarian.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/english-t...

That was brilliant! Thank you for sharing it.

Still true that it's not based on seniority, though. And there will generally be some kind of skill involved, even if its (eg) skill in the sleazier end of soft skills rather than skill in management per se.

Is there any way to bring a private prosecution for perjury under US law? IANAL but I have the impression that it's something you could do in the UK, and the legal systems are similar. Obviously it wouldn't be worthwhile for a typical site operator or even most hosts, but you can imagine that someone with deep pockets who receives lots of dodgy notices could run something like Cloudflare's Project Jengo as a public service to go after a number of obvious abusers of the DMCA process. Knowing that Bad Things might happen of you lied on the takedown notice might focus people's minds.

Same in Portugal :-(

Lower taxes? Which countries are you thinking of? (Genuinely interested not a rhetorical question; IME many poorer countries have higher taxes, in percentage terms.)

"Fire them quickly" isn't always easy in some jurisdictions, though, at least without some very careful planning -- and sometimes not even then.

+1 to that. I picked up a pair of Castle Howard S2s (lovely floor-standing speakers from the 90s) for a few hundred on eBay ten years ago. They're my forever speakers unless I add at least another comma to my net worth.

40" Dell U4021QW UltraSharp Curved Monitor. It's a great monitor, but what really makes it amazing is the built in KVM. My personal machine is a Linux desktop with displayport, but my employer gave me a Mac laptop which I have to use for work - lovely machine, just not my preference.

The keyboard and mouse plug in to the monitor, the Mac plugs into the monitor by USB-C (which changes it, drives the display, and routes the keyboard and mouse there), and the desktop plugs in to the monitor's USB and displayport connections. I can switch the full screen between machines, with keyboard and mouse following, or do picture-in-picture or split screen stuff with the input routing switchable through a reasonably decent on screen menu. It works really well.

The original 420 joke was about Tesla: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1026872652290379776. It got him into trouble with the SEC.

He did set the share price for his Twitter offer to 54.20 as a reference to that, but it wasn't the cause for his offer for the company. I think quite a lot of people are conflating the two events.

It would be really interesting to see a Wayland version with equivalent functionally to the X one to get some idea of what the real difference is in complexity.

I've always wanted to get an account with them because of a throwaway line in a Patrick O'brien book:

> 'Mr Babbington,' he said, suddenly stopping in his up and down. 'Take your hands out of your pockets. When did you last write home?' Mr Babbington was at an age when almost any question evokes a guilty response, and this was, in fact, a valid accusation. He reddened, and said, 'I don't know, sir.' 'Think, sir, think,' said Jack, his good-tempered face clouding unexpectedly...'Never mind. Write a handsome letter. Two pages at least. And send it in to me with your daily workings tomorrow. Give your father my compliments and tell him my bankers are Hoares.' For Jack, like most other captains, managed the youngsters' parental allowance for them. 'Hoares,' he repeated absently once or twice, 'my bankers are Hoares,' and a strangled ugly crowing noise made him turn. Young Ricketts was clinging to the fall of the main burton-tackle in an attempt to control himself, but without much success.

Interesting. I used to commute between Reading and London, and had been wondering if the Elizabeth line might have made things easier then; after all, not having to change at Paddington would be nice. But I see that it's 50 minutes vs 25-30 for the fast trains, and even the worst interchange is faster than the 20m loss. Maybe more worthwhile for people further down the route? Even Twyford or Maidenhead to Liverpool Street, for example, sound like they might be quicker.

Wow, I thought I'd read all of Bear's books but don't remember that one. Found it on Kindle, bought. Thanks!

There are probably a bunch of stories with that premise but I'm reminded of Greg Bear's Blood Music (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Music_(novel)). I read the novel but it's based on a short story he'd published previously.

If a stock I own ever doubles, I sell half and put the proceeds into an index tracker. Knowing that I've got the money back and it's (relatively) safe makes it much easier for me to be rational about how I treat the remainder. Obviously that might just be my own mindset...

Thank you! I was confused by the ℎ∼𝑈[−1/2,1/2], thinking that it meant either that they both have a set of random numbers (in which case, how does the receiver know which one of them the sender used?) or that they both had the same single random number in that range (in which case it looks like it's basically the same as the randomised rounding case).

Your explanation that they are both going through the same list at the same rate clarifies that. They have n random numbers and are both using the same one for each transmission/receipt event.

I guess that in practice, synchronising that would be a pain. Either they sync on packets sent/received, which means that one dropped packet messes everything up, or they sync on time, in which case there's clock skew to worry about. Or they could have sync information in the data sent ("I'm using the 1234th item in the shared randomness"), which makes a bit of a nonsense of the whole "one bit" thing.

Am I missing something there?

I'm a tad confused. I use Dropbox on Linux and it works fine. Is there something I'm missing?