skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Petrol/Diesel is flat to slightly down from a few months back, though it's _way_ higher than it was pre-ukraine.

In Ireland: ~1.50/l for Diesel -> 2.20, now back down to 1.89 or so.
In northern Europe, I saw anywhere between 1.79 and 2.26 late July early Aug. (Including 2.26 and 2.02 on opposite sides of the motorway)
The solution: demand taxation that works, and if that fails, general strikes until they get it right, and if that fails, historically the answer is guillotines in the streets—I would never condone violence, but the reality is inevitable if a population suffers enough, violence begets violence, we need to impress upon those that seek to profit at all cost that there is a limit to all things, and they must not start a war.

"We voted in the Tories again and they continued to lower taxes for their mates and screw over the poor" is hardly trying everything. Throwing your hands in the air, accepting suffering and society collapsing while they profit off it isn't an answer.

You are saying you don't think it's impossible, just that no one is willing to do it: we have to create pressure to do the right thing, and demand it, not make excuses and accept it as inevitable.
Many of these students lay at the generational divide between college guaranteeing a great job (during the generation when most people went to high school and then trade) and college being a prerequisite for any job (today). And those universities only became so expensive because the federal govt guaranteed loans in the first place. University is radically more expensive than it was a few decades ago.

It's not as simple as you lay it out to be.
If you're already using React, yes, a thin wrapper around pdf.js is very useful. Probably not useful enough to pay for the commercial license, though.
Most stuff deployed to k8s in Azure is probably going to be using a linux based container.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/aks/tutorial-kubernet...
Or if you know that you (or someone like your kid) is more likely to treat your gear more roughly than average. But, yes, in general extended warranties aren't a great deal.
I've had a few close friends quit and essentially retire at the age of 30, and it's only possible because they have wealthy families who gave them early inheritances - it's really quite amazing how rich some people are.
You want to go Arduino / ESP32 for that. Pis require too much power, unless you want to have it plugged in all the time.
One day I hope to be surprised by the comments on topics like these.

Today is not that day.
Thank you very much BankHottas! My brother and I are building it in the open and want to be as transparent as possible. We have some really big things planned for SurrealDB that aren't on our features page, but which we will be adding very soon!
Looks very interesting. Kind of reminds me of RethinkDB with its real-time features. Was any inspiration from them?
The best time to install a solar panel is 5 years ago. The second best time is today.
It's pretty insane that OpenGL 2.1 is even functional on a GPU this strange, but remember; this is still an unfinished, hacky implementation (the author's own concession). Plus, you're going to be stuck on x11 until any serious GPU drivers get written, which in many people's opinion is just as bad as no hardware acceleration at all. No MacOS-like trackpad gestures either, you'll be waiting for Wayland support to get that too. It'll definitely be a boon for web browsing though, so I won't deny that. What I'm really curious about is older WINE titles with Box86, if you could get DOS titles like Diablo 2 running smoothly, it could probably replace my Switch as a portable emulation machine...
> maybe think about what jobs you can get after school with whatever you want to study

What if the answer is "college professor"?

We can't have college at all without college professors, and it's a very long, treacherous road from undergrad to grad school to tenure track to tenure. Many people, perhaps most, get lost along the way. Yet society needs kids to keep trying, or we have nobody at the end.
> Government has no business censoring him or anyone from making spurious claims

The argument is if enough people suffer Sandy Hooks and get harassed by Alex Jones type sycophants, they lose trust in freedom of speech narrowly, democracy broadly, and become more inclined to support a change of pace.

We’re seeing rising support for authoritarianism in part because our system isn’t working for some people. I’m still unsure if the solution is less democracy (to temper swinging majoritarianism) or more, but that unsureness is sort of symptomatic of the argument around not being able to trust institutions. (There are also zero authoritarian regimes in history that tolerated broad freedom of speech.)
Absolutely. I worked more or less happily at a company for nearly 15 years and had hit a comfortable spot where pay was good enough, responsibility was okay, but there was a soft ceiling above me in terms of progression. I had come to terms with it and thought "meh, this is fine, I'll semi-coast 10 years to retirement".

The pandemic opened up the possibility of remote work for a company overseas in a completely different field. I chewed on it for nearly six months but ended up taking the jump. My previous employer was totally shocked, even going so far as to offer an on the spot promotion (during my resignation phone call) they had been dangling for about a year. Now I'm earning more and stretching myself again -- it was 100% the right call, although a bit less stable.

This would have never happened without the pandemic both creating the possibility of change (remote work) and the flash point of stress over a year or two that made me wonder about something different.
> For the level of service offered by the Belgian government, I would argue the tax burden is quite high

This is fairly standard for western Europe (with the exceptions of Scandinavia): very high tax burden, terrible government services.

In other words: at best, you're not getting your money worth, at worst you're being sheared and milked by your government.
isn't estonia a top 3 target for russia right now?
Not so fast. The ECB should have raised rates like the Fed, but didn't to accommodate the Southern EMU members. If what you are claiming was true, the ECB would have just gone ahead and leave the south to fend for itself. Instead their policy is adding fuel to the inflation inferno to protect the south.
I think the problem with estonia is that it's just not that attractive a place. I wish they could join forces with some southern european country (which have far more issues than belgium)
Apple has a very complicated Display Controller design

Can anyone in the know give more information here? Why would Apple want to do this? What could they be doing that's so complicated in the display controller?
I don't think the distinction you're trying to make is helpful here if I've understood you correctly. A good faith interpretation of haastad's comment would be that they were thinking of "insertion order" when they said "a deterministic ordering". Even if we were being pedantic, their comment is still correct - for iteration order to be the same as input order then deterministic iteration ordering isn't sufficient (this seems to be the point you're making) but it is necessary.

Their first sentence:

> I bet it's an artifact of Go having a randomized iteration order over maps

is correct per Gojq's author [0]:

> gojq cannot implement keys_unsorted function because it uses map[string]interface{} to represent JSON object so it does not keep the order. Currently there is no plan to implement unordered map so I do not implement this function.

It would of course be possible to work around this limitation of Go's built-in map type but that's not the point. The author makes it clear that this limitation is the cause for Gojq's behaviour.

[0] https://github.com/itchyny/gojq/issues/50
Having a very fast UX for data entry seems like the most important requirement for me to ensure I'll actually track stuff and not feel distracted. Opening / editing a spreadsheet or some app just takes too long and if it is an app it forces me to think in its paradigm.

So I set up a global hotkey on my mac via icanhazshortcut that opens/generates a text file in Sublime Text with the current date in the filename and set up a hotkey within the editor to insert a timestamp. I've established a syntax that's basically [keyword] [number] that I can use for tracking food calories, fitness, etc. I can record I ate a couple of yogurts via just two keyboard shortcuts and typing 'yogurt 2'.

And now I'm building an app that reads and processes those files and puts stats in a database or exports to some app for analysis (just the former for now).
> What I care about is that when I go to book a driving test, I can get one. I could do that pre-2020. I now can't.

Sounds like a supply and demand problem. The marker solution would be to increase wages for driving testers and attract more candidates to these positions.
Ok. What does it sound like on Firefox or Safari or Brave or anything other than Chrome (a Google product)?
If this is your thing, check out Coastal Fire Training. They sell tools, courses, and put out lots of free info and techniques. https://www.youtube.com/c/CoastalFireTrainingLLC
Surprised that no one mentioned this yet in the top comments, but isn’t Microsoft one of the top purveyors of workplace surveillance since MS Office is so dominant?

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252521757/Microsoft-Offi...

I know telemetry services eat up a lot of resources in my work laptop from time to time.
> Cable TV was originally ad free (and marketed as such), until they realized they could include ads and make even more money.

This is why I laugh whenever some new ad-free service launches. People forget history and then are surprised when it repeats itself. Any service that touts itself as "the ad-free version of X," will eventually be stuffed full of ads.
Should Volkswagen be allowed to lie about their diesel engine emissions?
Yet the article does not explain how a "gas crisis" leads to a weaker currency.

One thing I find weird (a touchy point?) is that the UK left. Yes, that was a few years ago, but my point is historical EU / Euro pricing is now diminished overall, in its up/down cycle.

COVID threw this asunder, so we did not see true fiscal results from UK leaving. And the UK left over a few years, making the departure less dramatic.

The UK comes in right after Germany:

https://www.investopedia.com/insights/worlds-top-economies/

and:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_European_Union

Comparing the EU (18T) to the UK (3.4T) shows some impact here, around 20%. If the UK was still in the EU, I'd say the Euro wouldn't have dropped below parity.

Parity is an "OMG!" marker, and can cause cascading changes in perception to the strength of fiscal objects.
Ok? Again, this is an extremely fringe view. There are a couple thousand people who believe the sandy hook children were actors. The rest of the US thinks those people are abhorrent.

Censoring independent media and giving the US corporate press a monopoly on truth as a response to this incident (or other fringe incidents like this) would be a massive mistake.
> Please explain how HN is not taking my unlicensed reply and using it in their commercial HTML code sent to your web browser

Nothing unlicensed about your reply. From HN's Terms of Use:

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i deny the premise obviously
I'd wager most of the raw the materials come from outside of the EU, and there is indeed intense competition for them from outside economic entities (US, China etc). I mean, even if one were to "discover" a huge Lithium deposit in the Harz mountains (let's say), there's no way that is going to get mined. That actually happened in Serbia, not an EU country, and even there they couldn't open a Lithium mine.

In other words Europe depended on its (relatively) strong currency in order to sustain most of its remaining industry, if that currency strength is gone then things will become real bleak.

Or maybe the financialization of the remaining pieces of industry will save us all, even though I have very high doubts about it. In one of their recent issues The Economist was un-ironically suggesting that the people now producing actual fertilisers in Germany should switch careers and become "fertilisers consultants" or some such, seeing as the production process itself will have become too onerous.

Crazy times, wish we had more "experts" with their feet definitely on the ground compared to what it seems we have (or rather we haven't) right now, after all, parts of Europe have been through all this before (I'm from Eastern Europe, I should know), there should be some institutional knowledge about this type of processes.
So the most important follow-up question to all of this is when did you do it? College costs have risen exponentially faster than just about everything other than healthcare, especially over the last 10-20 years.

I graduated almost 15 years ago, and I am starting to think that anyone who graduated more than a few years ago simply cannot comprehend how bad it is to have to pay for school now. Average annual tuition at all 4-year institutions is just under $29k.[0] Real median HHI for the same year was $65k.[1] As a student you simply cannot work enough to pay for school anymore; it's not physically possible. So loans, grants, scholarships etc are a requirement.

Completely unrelated to the math, the idea that everyone with a high loan balance is there because of "piss poor decisions" is not only insulting, but also idiotic. You need to have a pretty impressive lack of understanding about a half dozen or so topics to truly believe that.

[0] https://www.ontocollege.com/average-college-tuition/
[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
In terms of customer experience, GCP is amazing and its why we chose Google. When you work with an account manager, the experience is far better than any other service. If you only work with support, you aren't going to have a good advocate for your account.
I don't want to go extreme at all; centralising economies has the worst track record of starvation and killing in all of history. I'm just wondering what the plan was :)
I mean it's not a particularly new idea, it's basically what the gig economy is all about and is very much the norm in low skilled labor with shitty payment.

It's not by-second, but that's a way too small unit of measurement anyway, so that was a non starter to begin with.
Hi packetlost. Currently the underlying storage engines are memory, and distributed TiKV. For the next beta release (coming this week) we also have a local RocksDB implementation and a distributed FoundationDB storage implementation.

In the long run, we want to implement our own key-value store so that we can offer some of the temporal/versioning aspects (which would allow you to view your data in the graph as it appeared at a particular point in time).

For the browser, SurrealDB sits on top of a key-value store which is powered by IndexedDB, so that SurrealDB can run in the browser, using WebAssembly.
Seems cool. This project gives me some last.fm vibes. Do people still use last.fm? I used to be a big user of Last.fm back in the day, but just slowly lost my interest to make sure my Last.fm "scrobbler" was always running. Havent thought about that site in years.

I tried signing up with Spotify, but after accepting the authorization on Spotify's side, I was redirected back to digs.fm but not signed in. Now when I click "Continue with Spotify", the page just refreshes without logging me in because I've already accepted the Spotify authorization.
Privatise the profits and socialise the losses.
> and other laws, like those protecting unions, that defeat at-will employment

This is backwards. Union membership is at its all time low and at-will employment has mostly taken over. A union would be the best tool to curb "boss-ware".
Is it much different from "Trump's actions benefited Russian interests" when he had to be aware of the outcomes or he was incompetent? Either is damning to me.

There are far too many coincidences within the campaign and staffing, his personal venture funding, and his attempted blackmail of Ukraine to just dismiss the Trump-Russia connection.
Ask HN: Why are all the domain names taken?
Any cost saving from reducing connectors haven’t reached consumers at all it seems, but that’s a different conversation I suppose.
Characterizing them as >100% efficient is poor communication. It doesn't map to any intuitive understanding, it does not communicate anything about how much heating could be done with that energy (thus leading to people believing absurd claims), and it does not map to either the colloquial or technical meaning of efficiency in any other context.

Efficiency as a concept doesn't go over 100% and just because confusing and misleading explanations are the norm doesn't mean they should continue.
Selfish, but possibly not alone in the following request…

I was a passionate, early user of last.fm. On its face, your service is similar in its goals. How does it differ? How do you think it’s better?

A good question to ask myself: why did I stop using last.fm? My quick response is life (becoming a father, the pandemic and a lack of live music) and possibly something to do with migrating from an ipod to Spotify. Also, I still use my account a bit to see historically what I’ve been listening to and what the ear’s of some friends have discovered. That is, I’m still scrobbling!
“I survived the TCP transition” (2013)
Not that easy in EU:

"instead of monitoring individual usage, employers can monitor aggregate levels of usage and send general reminders to staff. If excessive private use persists, monitoring can be increased in line with the defined rules of the organisation, for example to specifically target particular suspicions" those rules should also be made public to the employees

Additionally staff should be made aware and formally comment on any subjective interpretation of data for their evaluation.

Also if using ML the also should be published and be explainable ML

Also EY says monitoring only for "legitimate reasons" which is a legal murky area.

https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/data-protection/refer...

https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/data-protection/refer...
I would be really interested to see / find out more about your new hybrid LSM/Extendible Hashing system!
Maybe different news. Definitely different vibes. The reaction here are all very uncomfortable again for manifold reasons. It's really no surprise this question was asked.
I think this was covered in "Thinking Fast and Slow", but when our brains encounter a hard problem, we often substitute the answer for an easy question. I think this process is at play in the dynamics you list above.

"How does the time spent doing X contribute to the success of the company?" is a hard question. It has incredible value and every company should spend a great deal of time considering it.

"How much time do workers spend doing X?" is an easy question, and so we have used its answer as the answer to the hard question.
You always ALWAYS should do diligence on investors
For the last 15 years I’ve always bought AppleCare and never regretted it. Always a great experience and worth every penny.
I've always had this cognitive dissonance as well. Especially the link between rising interest rates and lowered food prices. I always ask and get ignored.

I suspect it's because that's all they can really do. They are a one trick pony.
https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1549672494210113536

and

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1415360411260493826?lang...

and

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1526104383519350785

As to why? Well, if it ain't broke don't fix it from iPhone, but it is still a bit of a mystery.

In a nutshell from those threads:

1. Apple's DCP silicon layout is actually massive, explaining the 1 external display limit

2. Apple implements half the DCP firmware on the main CPU and the other half on the coprocessor with RPC calls, which is hilariously complicated.

3. Apple's DCP firmware is versioned, with a different version for every macOS release. This is also why Asahi Linux currently uses a "macOS 12.3" shim, so they can focus on the macOS 12.3 DCP firmware in the driver, which will probably not work with the macOS 12.4+ DCP firmware or the macOS 12.2- firmware.

I can totally see why Apple doesn't want people using their low-level Metal implementation that deals with the mess yet.
Simply having a scoop before everyone else can get you labeled as fake news. Happens almost daily in the world of sports news where some journalist reports on a tip that such-and-such player is going to be traded or is injured or going to be suspended but the official team PR people will deny it -- not because they are lying but because they simply don't know (yet). So in this case the team's official PR person denying the story causes the reported tip to be deemed "fake news" until the truth of the matter comes out later. My point in this example is that the accusation of fake news is by no means limited to politics or hard-news per se: it can apply to any situation where the speed at which people learn something happens at different speeds, especially before the official news/PR people for an organization even know.
My take is that to a first approximation:

HN = the_HN_for_X

YMMV.
You have listed many companies that do many different things so I don't really know what you mean. But in any case, how would a natively European competitor benefit Europe? Are we talking about money, jobs or what exactly?
There are both adapters for Silver-oxide batteries, as well as Zinc-air batteries specifically designed to replace Mercury cells for cameras. See https://shop.criscam.com/products/mr-9-mercury-battery-adapt... and http://www.weincell.com. Some light meters can also be recalibrated or modified to measure properly when using a Silver-oxide or alkaline cell.
I think you're confused. This is on a Raspberry Pi Pico, which is a microcontroller and has no cache.
I've never been there but I'm curious: in which ways do you mean unattractive? As in the buildings/architecture/landscape is ugly? The pay there is low? Government services are lacking/corrupt? Something else?
Great article. On the surface, it's about Snowflake. At a deeper level, the article is about the perverse incentives motivating SaaS businesses to do seemingly dumb, inefficient things and avoid seemingly obvious optimizations by default.

Many SaaS businesses are perfectly happy to let customers shoot themselves in the foot if it generates more revenue. The BigQuery example (presently, by default, `select * from table limit 10` obediently scans the entire table at your expense!) is spot-on.

As the article so well puts it, every SaaS company has a vested financial interest "to leave optimization gremlins in."
I agree, I put off finishing school to work and not go into debt, I’m happy with that decision and it isn’t fair to retroactively change the rules
Remove lawyers from the composite picture. Is there any rational reason for a NDA in that case? If the answer is no, then in one way or another they are trying to limit liability by limiting the researcher's ability to be paid for their discovery and then communicating that to the wider world.
It really depends on where you live, in Berlin I get same day color development for 4 euros or so. I do my own b&w stuff and it costs a few cents per roll
Curious how this affects contact centres? They monitor everything agents do down to the millisecond. And "All calls are recorded for training and quality purposes."