skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> risk Bank of England doesn't like comes with the territory

The BoE is the central bank; to a great extent they get to define the territory. Especially with regard to risk. Basel III and that kind of thing.

> they can literally go shopping for data center and IT companies to serve their needs.

No, it's not about what they themselves buy, it's about what all the banks in the UK buy. A situation where all the banks are using the same cloud provider(s) is unacceptable because of the high risk of correlated failure. It's bad enough when one bank goes down and its ATMs stop working; if EU-west-1 goes down and takes out all the banks, that's a disaster, and the BoE is rightly taking steps to prevent it.
Those things where invented with public money yes. But Moore's law wouldn't have been a thing without profit incentive.
Interesting that the routes they name are 119 and 78 miles.
Kinda surprised Americans have flights so short. But then again the aircraft might beat CAFE for a vehicle with a single driver in it, plus aircraft usually carry a load of cargo too, as the passengers pay for the plane to go somewhere and the cargo is the profit. Wonder how much cargo this elegy plane can carry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft#Commu...
But we can get (hypothesize) non-euclidean geometry right here in our Universe. So wouldn't that make the "euclidean" part of the answer orthogonal to the "universe" part?
> You can't take your tent, set it up somewhere in another country and declare you live there without some fiscal authorities coming for you at some point.

The only 'requirement' is that the government (may) want to see
you can provide for yourself in the form of capital, a job, a retirement pension, etc. This is because most countries
in the EU have a social safety net, and some have a very
strong one. Without this rule the countries with the most
generous social security would see mass immigration from rent
seekers with no recourse.

The USA doesn't need this rule because it lacks the strong social security.
Just give me a nice round retro potentionmeter-style knob on my keyboard.
I've been using my own Planck* for a while now, and I absolutely love it! It's actually my second - I've pretty much exclusively used Plancks for almost 5 years. Strongly recommend giving them a go, even though the layers will feel very alien to begin with. I've also used an ErgoDox EZ for a while, and I actually prefer the Planck.

*: https://elliehuxtable.com/my-planck-keyboard/
I'm not trans and I also wouldn't like to live somewhere where trans people are harassed. It's just not a vibe I want in my life.
Here's CNN attacking the nuclear family again today (it's a Marxist technique to restructure society):

Don't fall into the nuclear family 'parent trap': What kids need most is love

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/14/health/kids-parents-love-well...
Chef from gchq refers to https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef
> the ownership of the state remains with the people (...) in utter contrast to the monarchies and despotisms

Let me strongly disagree here. Modern republics like France/USA were explicitly built against democratic ideals which were seen as dangerous "rule of the mob". Also, the executive branch has so much power that it is in fact a monarchic republic where the people at the top are entirely unaccountable both to the people and to the rest of the State apparatus (neither Sarkozy nor Bush spent a single day in prison despite their many well-known crimes against the people).

Finally, since they exist these "democratic republic" have strongly fought off any popular movement. These same republic were endorsing slavery and fought off slaves rebelling, just like they were endorsing women being properties of men and fought off women rebelling, etc... When you dare to protest established power structures, you're faced with an army of robocop psychopaths (recruited for their fascist tendencies) who are grinning about hurting people like us.

A proper democracy requires a few properties: no political parties or elections because every body gets to decide on EVERYTHING (delegating power to a parliament is the INVERSE of democracy), the lower scale can always override decisions from the top because higher-up structures are only there to coordinate not to impose, and people are not bound to a single nation-wide identity (a principle imposed by the nazis in France, which the proto-fascist government of De Gaulle was happy to retain), or to quote from 1981:

`If we look back at the history of the past 40 years, police has hunted in the name of Republican or National order freemasons, communists, jews, resistant fighters, collaborators, Indochine's independance partisans, Algeria's independance partisans, members of the OAS, leftists, terrorists. Just imagine: if that police had done their job right every time, what would be left today in France? Democracy mandates this irreducible minimum that one can forge fake identity papers.`
Good one. As a design platform now a days 3d designs are on trend. Try to add some 3d Illustration pack. Best wishes
Just because there's an algorithm involved doesn't make it objective in any way.

There is no objective answer to "How productive is this employee", it's not something you can measure empirically.
I had an app (that did not need location to function) that refused to continue if location was not enabled fully.
> You have a 3 months period where you can stay in another UE country then the national authorities can ask for your leaving.

Maybe on paper. I wonder how much this is used.

The only time I remember this being used in practice, is when Sarkozy ordered the deportation of ~100 Romanian Romanies back to Romania, as part of his attempt to siphon far right votes.[1]

Apart from these few political stunts, I doubt this is often used.

[1] https://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/toute-l-actu-en-bref/la-france-...
If you read the ideologies of those "communist" countries, they'll tell you communism is a stateless/classless society based on freedom as it was envisioned by Marx. I'm not using a personal definition to say they're not communist, i'm using their own.

According to their vocabulary, such states are dictatorships of the proletariat, which is supposedly a step towards communism, but is NOT communism.
Newspapers use (used?) an inverted pyramid structure because the bottom of the article can often be cut in editing so everything fits correctly on the page. As a newspaper journalist, this is out of your control so you need to make sure that your text makes sense even if one or more paragraphs are cut from the bottom.

I suppose it helps with attention and assimilating information too.
A gym deciding to cancel someones membership is a minor nuisance for them, a company deciding to fire someone has potentially life-changing consequences.

Remember that for you as - I am assuming - an IT professional getting a new job is easy, for lots of professions not so much.
it seems everybody on HN would already know this
Escape Room Mystery Adventure – Enchanting Tales
To be honest, without reading the comments I actually would not have realized that there's a volume control visible on this screen.
Sounds like optimizing data partition and blob sizes in Athena and/or Glue
KDE Blur: How Does It Work? (2021) [video]
In many EU jurisdictions being employed means you owe the employer the willingness to accomplish a result not the actual result.

Germany is known that once you are in an active work relationship its difficult to get fired.

So yes, there is a difference as it is generally frowned upon these days to call people a resource which implies an interchangeable unit of work force.
This is often repeated, but I don't understand it. What power imbalance? The ability to offer a job is only a power over a worker if the worker has no other options for jobs, which is only the case in a company town or something like that. Then the company gets to decide if the worker starves or not.

The labor market in the US is highly liquid, even for unskilled workers. This described power imbalance simply does not exist.
The people who are happy with the union will be people who are underperforming and/or belong to the mainstream majority of the people in the workplace. Just like always, the majority will benefit at the expense of the minority, so it will never be good for everyone, and push for conformity and restricting people's freedom, and in the end will probably be mostly arbitrary depending on what the majority in that workplace happens to be (mostly younger, singles, or older with kids etc).

And even such general things such as negotiating pay will only be good for the lower performers, anyone who is a high performer will be better off negotiating their own salary.
It's a long time ago, but I remember a real world volume control even worse than these playful examples.

My friend had a Hifi set where turning the volume knob would digitally update the dB value on the display.

This in itself is a bad idea, as most people don't understand decibels and how it's a non-linear scale.

But it gets worse. The dB value did not indicate current output, it indicated "remaining" dB that the set could output.

So if the value is 0, it means volume is at full output. Of course, you'd normally notice that when music is playing, but you can have the scare of your life when thinking its down and then switching input sources. Or turning of music, dialing down, and then turning it on again.
I've read similar articles so many times but they all lack one thing - solutions. Seriously, what should we do about it?

Yeah, I agree that workers shouldn't be working so hard that they can't even go to the bathroom.

Would we have a better world if Amazon didn't exist? I personally doubt it. So, it's not Amazon per se, it is the system, isn't?

So, what are the solutions? How do we make it better? How do we minimize the suffering of these people? Or is it actually working pretty well and we should accept that some people will struggle badly no matter what the system is?
From 2020-04-29: https://blog.google/products/meet/bringing-google-meet-to-mo...

> Until now, Meet has only been available as part of G Suite, our collaboration and productivity solution for businesses, organizations and schools. Going forward, Meet will be available to anyone for free on the web at meet.google.com and via mobile apps for iOS or Android.

> Meetings are limited to 60 minutes for the free product, though we won’t enforce this time limit until after Sept. 30.

This is clearly stated as the intended policy at the launch of the free version. They temporarily lifted this restriction at launch due to COVID. They then delayed enforcing this restriction by ~9 months, because guessing the future of COVID was hard, especially in April 2020.
It's basically the modern equivalent of those "acting studios" where people seriously think that paying a few thousand dollars for acting lessons will make them a star.
Until you run the gc :D

My record with nix-collect-garbage was like 30 GB. I since enable the auto-gc.
If you get same results with copyright that you'd get with totalitarian dictatorship then maybe ....
First of all, have an upvote, which is both the agree and disagree button, as long as a person contributes to the conversation.

Next, I think you are contributing, because companies really, truly operate as if people were flesh robots and your perspective, rather than being trolling, is actually dominant in corporations.

Thirdly, that you could potentially have accepted the narrative that we are fleshbots, ready for exploitation, no different than any other raw material and not needing any more care or consideration than cattle or cotton says something deeply disturbing things about the state of humanism.
The last sentence you quote makes it sound like it was sent by Virtucon Industries.
The EU did not exist when the member states were expanding their empires. The UK joined the predecessor to the EU as a result of losing much of its empire.

Indeed, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention of Human Rights both happened in the gap between WW2 and the Treaty of Rome.

Though all this is a somewhat of an apples-to-vodka comparison, given the monarchs in Europe who are the same age as Bezos (e.g. Felipe VI) have a fairly different power dynamic than the founder, executive chairman, and 10% owner of a conglomerate valued at a trillion dollars even in those cases where they’re still getting their faces on all the money (Felipe doesn’t).

This is all tangential to how well the article characterises the working environment at Amazon — Gell-Mann applies at the best of times, and Big Tech is big enough for capital-P-Politics to be important, but likewise none of that makes it wrong, and if it’s right, Amazon has no excuse for repeating well-trodden mistakes.
Challenges of Smart Developers
Rather, the complaint is that the supposedly "objective" formula is completely obscured to both the victim and the executioner. A judge isn't called "objective" for deciding the outcome of a trial as a black-box call. If it were, we'd have replaced the justice system with the Vegas system long ago. A judge is called "objective" because they clearly articulate the inputs, scope, weightings and broader implications they considered to arrive at their outputs.
My team used java in two cases: BigInteger or 'isProbableTime.' For everything else performance penalty was almost always unacceptable. C++ can also be sometimes finetuned enough to pass with unintended complexity (i.e. O(n lg n) instead of O(n)).
Why effective? This is more of an exploration.
Can’t wait till I have to click “skip ads” twice during a meeting.
> You can't take your tent, set it up somewhere in another country and declare you live there without some fiscal authorities coming for you at some point.

Can you do that within any one single country? In Germany I have to register within 4 weeks of moving anywhere, it has to be a place that is registered as residential zone and you need an owner-ship or rental agreement certificate (even when living with your parents). Nothing of that is about your citizenship, so what does it have to do with another country?
This reminds me how on some home audio systems when you change volume using buttons on remote control, a servo motor turns knob of the potentiometer.
Eric's personal experience with Epstein is very interesting.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dJNjH4SP6vwJ
That "blip" is to give you feedback when sound isn't actually playing. And, you can turn it off if you want to (System Preferences > Sound > Sound Effects > Play feedback when volume is changed). I leave mine turned off; holding down Shift temporarily re-enables it.
To each to their own. I'm glad I don't live in the EU as I know I would get too stressed out by the restrictions placed upon individuals living there.
https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=460&langId=en

> People who are employed in another EU country are entitled to live there. Jobseekers are also allowed to stay in another country while they are looking for a job. (See the right to look for a job)

> The host country may require them, as "EU migrant workers", to register with the authorities as residents. (See Directive 2004/38/EC)

> Other legal and administrative formalities depend on the length of stay – up to 3 months, more than 3 months, or permanent.

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/residence/residence-ri...

> Still looking for a job after 6 months

> […]

> Can you be deported or asked to leave?

> Your host country can ask you to leave if you can't prove that you have a realistic chance of finding work there.

> In exceptional cases, your host country can deport you on grounds of public policy, public security, or public health - but only if it can prove you pose a serious threat.

> The deportation decision or request to leave must be given to you in writing. It must state all the reasons for your deportation and specify how you can appeal and by when.
> People have historically complained a lot about firings not being based on an objective formula. Now the complaint is an objective formula is being used.

Cute line, but obviously people have always wanted criteria to be objective and fair.

If the rule was "take the ordinal value of each letter in employee's name, sum mod 365, and if the result matches the day of the year, they're fired!" -- that's completely objective, and also bonkers. Nobody ever thought all objective formulas were good, and it's sophistry to suggest otherwise.
Apparently some leaps are more acceptable than others.

At the end of the day, it was my comment asking for evidence that was flagged.
Nushell 0.34 released – the first release with dataframe support
Also, if you purely go by productivity, who knows, maybe the data says that people without kids and people who are sterile are just better according to the metric.

While I think you can measure 'how productive is this employee' according to some metrics, the problem is in the metrics. Someone who is mediocre at his job in the quantified sense can be a huge boon to the company due to soft skills or knowledge.

Someone not living for their job could be important to an entire community.

It is a philosophical problem, in addition to finding any kind of metric that actually kinda works.
>So is the implication here that humans are less faulty, or that there's something intrinsically wrong about an AI making this decision rather than a human?

Many people in the world have noticed the difficulty in getting people to change their minds once made up.

>And if some sclerotic regulations try to slow this down, that will likely be unfortunate for consumers.

Maybe not the consumers that have jobs though.
Wow, yeah I loved that phone. I'm surprised you kept it so long! I replaced mine with an HTC G1. I would love a phone like the E72 again.
No it's not, and that link isn't relevant. Some ORMs do have caching layers and when you use those ORMs you have to know how to invalidate the appropriate caches when you update without going through them.
They should have charged for this feature. People I know would have paid a bomb for a feature that put hard limits on call duration.
You can yeah. But you’re not gonna get anywhere near the rates/types of loans you can get as a billionaire.
Guess, as Bank you just need to make sure you have Amazon and Google as customer :)
And if you don't want to depend on an Amazon logistics job, don't neglect your education and self-motivation.

But this certainly is an unpopular opinion mostly due to survivor's guilt here.
A real communist society spans the globe.
HN really helped me to quit my job. My first SaaS posted here was kinda well received and everything just went on from there. Next to that many threads helped me to understand that I am in the middle of a burnout.

It's the other way around but HN really helped my carrier
There's nothing about market forces correcting for bad behavior that says it has to happen quickly. It just says it will, eventually. Eventually they'll need to either raise pay or change practices to keep people employed, but that may take a while.
Yes, I have googled it before posting my reply (to confirm the details of what I was sure of: there are limits).

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/residence/residence-ri...

This is part of the FAQ/information forms when asking for information about moving in a EU country for EU citizens.

As an EU citizen, you have the right to move to any EU country for a period of up to 3 months as long as you have a valid identity card or passport. If you want to settle in another EU country but you have no intention to take up any work or education there, you need to prove that you:

have sufficient resources for you and your family during the time you want to stay in your new country

have comprehensive health insurance

Reporting your presence and registering your residence

During the first 3 months of your stay in your new country, as an EU citizen, you cannot be required to apply for a residence document confirming your right to live there - although in some countries you may have to report your presence upon arrival.

After 3 months in your new country, you may be required to register your residence with the relevant authority (often the town hall or local police station), and to be issued with a registration certificate.

You will need a valid identity card or passport and:

proof of comprehensive health insurance

proof you can support yourself without needing social assistance benefits: resources may come from any source, including from a third person.

Can you be requested to leave or be deported?

You may live in the other EU country as long as you continue to meet the conditions for residence. If you no longer do so, the national authorities may require you to leave.
I haven't heard that blip in years. Is it still around?

Edit: I see you can enable it, does it default to off on the touchbar Macbooks?
That’s exactly what my son does and I hadn’t really thought about why until this post. Really interesting comment. I might try asking him to imagine the shapes instead of looking at my diagrams, I doubt he would imagine my terrible art skills.
For a while I wanted to write some basic 3d simulation app where the pi value used for all kinds of calculations (including inside standard libs) was configurable with a slider in real-time. Would be interesting to see how things would break.
Just don't do it. It sucks your life forces dry and destroys your free time (and maybe even work). You will also plant completely unreadable code in your projects, you begin to abuse compiler quirks or you learn silly languages without any practical applicability. You have been warned.

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/
And how would people know about these things if it weren't for these communist articles?
If you’re on a 2nd space in macOS, typing CMD-TAB to switch to the Teams window in 1st space will NOT display Teams and will keep you in 2nd space.

Breaking the native CMD-TAB shortcut is breathtaking…

(Workaround: switch to any other app in 1st space first, then switch to Teams…)
University Of Copenhagen who previously used SML for introductory programming courses (Now uses F#) have made a package manager for SML modules with MLB files: https://github.com/diku-dk/smlpkg
Kick a UK bank off cloud infrastructure for no good reason and you will get rung up by the PM, who will make it clear that you will reinstate them or be forever banned from government procurement.
> For starters, those camps would shoot anyone who tried to leave. Not the same thing at all.

It is an exaggeration, but with the health & social care systems that the US has it isn't a million miles away either.
So how many large scale experiments with communism have we had during the last 100 years, and how many of them have ended in success? It's starting to get pretty ridiculous to argue against that kind of body of evidence. I have full respect for anyone trying to question and improve our society and economic system, but to just wind back the clock to 1968, pretend like nothing happened and start ranting about communism? Sorry, that's just a bit too much
Anhui becomes latest Chinese province to root out cryptocurrency mining
> The author worked really hard to avoid mentioning climate change, but then there's this at the bottom of the article:

Well of course. The subject at hand is not climate change but a cyclical change in tides related to the moon. It should go without saying that things that effect of the tide is separate from to any other change in sea level, such as a storm surge or climate change.

Not everyone that doesn't begin and end with a sermon about climate change is a climate change denier.
Your third option is likely to only reinforce the sociopolitical conditions that lead to corporatism and starvation in the first place.