skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This leftwing ideology seems peculiar to me, having seen the data on who's funding public services, and who's benefiting from public services.

The thing is, even people who pay $100,000 a year in taxes actually gain far more value than that from a properly functioning society with strong public services and social safety nets. It's hard to put a proper price on personal safety or the opportunity cost of having to spend time, energy and money on securing your family and belongings rather than just being able to generally trust the people around you.
Yes, you’re 100% correct. I meant violent crime, my mistake for not specifying. The USA is corrupt as fuck
and there is tons of graft done throughout industry (as you note) and local, state, and federal government that makes the violent crime dollar amounts seem tiny by comparison.

Police steal more dollar value from innocent people in the USA than burglars do. This is of course crime but is not counted in normal crime statistics or regarded as violent crime despite police doing this while armed.
Well, Truss was not elected because of her economic (or any other) competence, but because of her hardliner course against Russia.

Rishi Sunak was a better choice in every category, but had two problems:

1. he is not "white"

2. he is not anti-Russian enough

EDIT: By "elected" I meant "elected by her own party".
Ironically, no faction has done more to stop the expansion of nuclear power than environmemtal groups and green parties.
> The answer is that we have serialization techniques that are as good on all the dimensions that matter

I'd look at that sentence with great skepticism. What could possibly surpass a conversion to raw object representation? Do you mean libraries which require you to use protocol languages like protobuf or inheritance?
Google spam algorithm is a joke.

I've been marking certain types of email as spam from their UI for ages now but they still show up in inbox marked as important. And, It is not that these spam senders are changing email patterns.
I think the old adage “correlation is not causation” applies somewhat. It’s probably true that the market got worried about the UKs ability to service its long term debt, but Truss’ announcement came in the middle of the worst bear market in bonds for well over a decade. Also, e.g. the Swedish crown (SEK) has lost about as much against the US dollar as the pound has, completely unrelated to Truss and her announcement.
Between the tax cuts and the energy-price guarantee, the bigger problem is the energy-price guarantee that has been announced by the government. It will put a cap on fuel prices for consumers and the resulting deficit is planned to be funded by the treasury. The deficit is estimated to be more than 100 Billion pounds, and it is planned to be funded by government borrowing. This has resulted in a weaker pound.
Even ppl can sniff it out smells like butric acid and it's not removable from clothes.

I can smell it on me when I eat the wrong things.

When the smell sets in I've got about two days before mental breakdowns and paranoia.
If you look at the graphs for GBPUSD and EURUSD on year timeframes they are very similar. I am not an economist but to me it seems like the various Europe crises around energy, war, covid etc have the main effect and the media is just focusing on UK specific politics and monetary policy because it changed recently and gets clicks.
It would probably be true that in any war the people doing the fighting have more in common with one another than they do with those directing them to fight. But I'm not sure I see much practical use knowing that. Those in charge in Russia and China know this, so they control information to whip people up against their supposed enemies.

I suppose, in retrospect, policies in the west could have been designed to try and prevent those countries creating internet firewalls that allowed so much control. Being so aggressive on it would have looked over the top at the time though. It makes sense though that if everyone on every "side" can access all information, for good or for worse no one actor can stay on top of it.
I have recruited a lot of people from all around the world, including from USA, to Helsinki. From USA, it's easy for employer and employee. Simplified, one can start working right away and the permanent permits come through before the temporary ones run out. (My info is a couple of years old.)
> Hopefully the people who chose Truss have made enough of a loss this week to reconsider their priorities.

Except Kwarteng's former boss Crispin Odey is making a killing shorting the pound.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-donor-pr...
Not paying off all the debt and defaulting on debt are vastly different things.
Clang has been compiled to WASM: https://wapm.io/syrusakbary/clang
I do build systems and specifically yocto. I understood that LG used yocto for webOS build. Can i just use yocto to build a toolchain and package a more recent version of the web browser? The shipped one is outrageously out of date and mostly does not work. The apps in the store all seem quite minimal.
Just vaguely related, but it seems that various forms of hiring fraud are now appearing, i.e. https://connortumbleson.com/2022/09/19/someone-is-pretending...

In the remote world, it's going to be difficult to address, but it's happened also in the old physical world — albeit less frequently.
The counter factual where a left wing government does something this stupid is hard to imagine because the press and markets normally go so apeshit at even minor transgressions of neo liberal orthodoxy that we never get that far.
Twitter fails public discourse. What a painful format to read a presumably thoughtful statement from an intellectual. This medium is what our society has come to for public intellectual discourse in the sciences?
I had a look into that claim. The original work and most of the research heavy lifting seems to have been done at the LMU Munich. The main British participation appears to have been Stability AI lending computing power.

https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion
Yes, the reason this happened was that when a user authorized the Cambridge Analytica app, it would have the ability to view information about all of that user's friends. Sound familiar?
Why are they allowing this acquisition? This is anticompetitive.
Yep.

Images from the article for the earliest Sumerian writing forms look very similar to Göbekli.

Writing with pictures goes back a very very long way
Absolutely, it's particularly noticeable on this panel though
Calendar and contacts are improving in great strides. I use it heavily.
Ask HN: How soon should we have a Design System?
Hi HackerNews,

As an early stage Product & Tech Founder, we often wonder what is the good timing to have a Design System.

- Do you think it's too soon during the early days?
- How do you manage product consistency without it?
- Do frontend engineers complain about not having one?

Our Founding Designer & Product Manager, Mike, took the mic and tell us why he thinks you should have a design system from day 1: https://www.getlago.com/blog/how-soon-should-you-have-a-design-system

Happy to have your thoughts on this!
Blocktube and sponsor block browser extension.
container builds for services, compiled/packaged components you want to spin up somewhere, often the Dockerfile is very simple, use some base image, add config and your binary or packaged artifact (jars, minified JS etc) and done.

Often the complexity is (or should be) in the shared base not the individual images you build per commit or PR merge.. for those simple images using something like Jib (bazel can do it too..) where it just constructs the image in user land by adding files to the tarball. I imagine this works for arm binaries from x64 too as long as you can cross compile.. how do you feel about these libraries that make simple images waaay more accessible? No docker required.
Things that cut energy far away can also potentially damage fibers.
That quote doesn't surprise me, politicians are stuck between a rock and a hard place without any real options to solve systemic issues. Just like with climate collapse, the solutions that tackle the problems at their core require what is effectively political suicide.
Huh, that reminds me where just about every disto came with package of a bunch of linux-related howtos, I learned so much from them back in those days
Sorry but this isn't the place for politics. HN is our last refuge from the shitstorm of political unrest on every other site. Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook are available though.
Actually it's not too crazy as the top 1% own about 20% of the total wealth

> The wealthiest 1% of households hold about 20% of household wealth, the top 5% of hold approximately 40%, and the top 10% hold over 50% of wealth

https://ifs.org.uk/articles/distribution-household-wealth-uk

If you don't tax them they just amass more and more money without contributing more, if anything their wealth is due to the work of the bottom xx% of society that work for these ultra rich families
this funding agreement came months ago, the FigmaGate had nothing to do with it. I'm surprised how many people think deals like this can happen in just a week, LOL!
Did you handroll it or do you have some images/scripts up somewhere for us to follow in your footsteps?
Genuinely, I found out that people who tend to be very dogmatic don't tend to be all that great when you look at their actual output - whether measured by quality or speed or ability to orient themselves is someone elses code. They do tend to sound more capable then they are to those who dont work with their code, but that is social thing not capability or seriousness thing.

Opinionated yes, dogmatic not.
That waste is not the extremely problematic type with a half-life of billions of years. A couple decades of storages renders it inert.

The problematic waste is only produced by non-breeder reactors that leave 99% of the extractable energy of the uranium unextracted. Breeder reactors would allow mankind to sustain 1,000 times current electricity consumption levels for over a million years with known uranium and thorium supplies, while generating almost zero extremely long-term waste.
The secret history of screen readers
That’s like saying it’s OK to create CP or torture someone because there’s an audience. Complete nonsense.
Hmm, did not know that EGCG affects conformation of the adenosine receptor [^1].

To clarify, are you saying you're taking only cacao + EGCG to manage your ADHD? How about 90% Lindt dark chocolate as cacao source? Do you then stack L-DOPA on top of that.

Aside: EGCG counteracts the release of vasopressin (which causes your body to retain liquids), which is used post-MDMA roll to aid urination.

[^1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16733047/
In the short-term, the factors well described by others above.

In the longer-term, is it the slow accumulation of a thousand cuts?

-- Brexit

-- Stagnating physical output of UK industry (aside from finance + healthcare)?

-- Aging population

-- Expensive living costs + recent inflation

I don't know how much each of these factors has contributed, or if there are other important factors missing above. But for me, having lived there and seen the general situation, the question is, how will the UK renew itself as a country from a long century of gradual decline?
I believe it is up to £150 Billion, and yes does indeed contribute to the weakening of the pound. However, orthogonal factors like Fed Reserve interest rate hike has larger effect, as great deal of debt is denominated in USD
Ask HN: Do developers care about security?
With Shift Left, the importance of moving security earlier in the development cycle is clear. But do developers really care about building secure software? Or is this just something boring?

Also, curious to learn how do developers face security in their day-to-day? Any specific checklist, methodology, or good practice? What developer-first security tools are being used out there?
As I understand it the body pretty quickly gets used to caffeine use, then taking your typical amount just gets you to the same level you'd always be if you never had caffeine. I still drink coffee though.
Seems potentially relevant that some pension companies were looking at defaulting from margin calls this week. I'm not totally confident that money put into pension schemes is going to be there later.
I think there something Matrix side which hasn't handled the HN-induced load too well. Even on a locally-hosted instance of thirdroom (quite easy to do, by the way, congrats on that), I've got a bunch of matrix-client.matrix.org requests that timeout.
Do you think inequality should increase or decrease?

If we keep current spending the same. We could reduce the % the top 1% bare by reducing inequality and by having the 99% earning and paying more tax.

Or we could reduce taxes for the 1% and reduce spending which would likely increase inequality.
Oh god MS store.

Recently I had to use windows. As a linux user for 2 years my first instinct is to install WSL and make the entire thing somewhat more palatable.

I Google the docs, install Debian through `wsl` command, start it through windows terminal.

It's still debian stretch aka "oldoldstable", that's the only version wsl command lists.

I googled the issue and apparently you can install the same thing through MS store to get latest stable. This has to be a Stack Overflow answer with 5 votes, not MS docs website.

So I search debian again, there are one or two 'app' listings, but no checkmark or verification on publisher. All apps look alike.

It doesn't help they show reviews, but there will be max 20-30 reviews even for legitimate apps. These reviews are probably written by people like me whose first language isn't English. But at the first sight they make the app seem even more suspicious.

If I recall correctly, unlike Google Play Store, MS store doesn't list the download count either. Not that it would help much in this case of a relatively obscure installation, but would at least help against copycats.

VS code is also from MS, Store is also from MS, what a difference!
Well, yeah, but the CEOs of one company in Germany with the hardware and people to do that, and who was also charged with monitoring the pipelines, just died in an unexplained private jet crash two weeks ago.
Plus, even taking at face value the notion that tax cuts were to inject money into the economy and stimulate growth, giving money to poor people guarantees it’s spent in the economy immediately.
12 hours on a Ryzen 5900X with 12 cores. So not quite fast enough yet, but only 3x too slow.
That only income tax, not all tax: https://fullfact.org/economy/do-top-1-earners-pay-28-tax-bur...

But yes I do think it's fair for the very richest to pay more tax, and I say that as someone who is a high earner who wants to see more equality.
Having austerity during low rates and fiscal expansion during high rates is a pretty bad idea.

However, if your currency is NOT the US dollar, then its a catastrophically bad idea.

In short: Truss and Kwarteng are intellectual lightweights whose economic ideas make for funny reading* but in reality are a recipe for disaster. Their line of delusional thinking can be traced directly to Brexit, when the UK lost their collective minds.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_Unchained
A housing crash would be destabilizing in its own right and it would hurt the rich Tories. So there’s no way they are letting it happen. They will fight it tooth and nail.
the cpu is certified by AMD to be running up to 105 celsius, but it thermal throttles automatically at 95 celsius, so out of the box probably not enough to boil water, but just barely :P.

the fun fact, is that if you manually reduce the power limit to 65W the initial single thread results so virtually no loss in ST performance vs 170W, and it appears that the original AMD slides stating 75% more efficient cores at that level not too far off.
One app I saw that immediately makes me want this is something that rebinds the useless Rakuten TV button to something else!

LG's interface is pretty insane in places. E.g. there's no button to go straight to the TV guide. There's not even a play/pause button on the remote. You have to press the centre button anywhere between 1 and 4 (yes!) times to pause. The screen brightness control is buried somewhere insane in the settings like "OLED care". The home screen is literally 85% wasted space. Fully half of it is just a big "WebOS" banner.

If I can fix any of those this is definitely worth doing!
The top ten percent owns 89 percent of all stock market value. The top one percent owns 54 percent.
Plus, the real damage is on value of gilts. Sterling is a secondary concern (although obv also inflationary)
As a kid, i imaged those sounds coming from the transistors in the CPU, because i was told, that they are tiny switches.
The Bank of England's announcement that they will restart QE (a.k.a. money printer goes brrr) on a "temporary basis" was driven off the back of UK pension funds facing massive margin calls due to the spike in gilt yields.

There's a good article in the Financial Times that explains the mechanics behind it ("LDI: the better mousetrap that almost broke the UK"): https://www.ft.com/content/f4a728a5-0179-48bd-b292-f48e30f86... (archive link: https://archive.ph/vRrGk)

tl;dr from the article:

"Well, the cruel irony is that pensions needed collateral for margin calls on leveraged trades hedging against big moves in . . . UK government bond yields.

So pensions sold bonds (among other things) to raise that cash, pushing yields up, making hedging trades even more expensive, and requiring even more collateral.

If the BoE hadn’t stepped in to arrest the declines, pensions may have defaulted on those contracts, which would have been very bad. That isn’t the same thing as going bust – it’s not like all the investments disappear overnight – but it does risk tying up the pension in a knotty legal fight over settling the default."
It's not a punishment for wealth.

Think of it like insurance of your status in the system. Your insurance premiums are proportional to the value of the stuff you want to protect. Presumably you own a house. A pension. Various other investments perhaps. All these become worthless if civil society fails and we go back to the Leviathan.

It is right that you should pay a higher premium for that type of insurance than those with no such wealth at stake.
Nginxpwner: Look for common Nginx misconfigurations and vulnerabilities
Truss is borrowing £45B to pay for tax cuts this year. But like you ask any addict: "What are you going to do next year?"

The trickle-down maths looks "optimistic". Cutting £45B means that the economy needs to grow by £112.5B for the top rate 40% tax rate take to come out even. That is GDP growth of 4.5%. I.e. far in excess of what the economy has been capable of ever since 1997.

Talking of further tax cuts just pushes the assumed GDP growth further into fantasy land.
>It is fun! But I hate people with a lot of 8's, 9's, and 0's in their numbers. They take forever to dial :)

That's when you cheat and just input the pulses with the switch hook by pressing them quickly. 8 times in rapid succession for 8, 9 for 9, 10 for 0.
considering that this was a zoom call I would guess looking like the real Connor also helped ;)
Homeopathy is considered science in Germany. You can study in the university and even specialize in the field.

Edit: if anybody votes negative, I would like to know why. Because AFAIK, this is 100% fact.

One of the biggest companies in Germany (Bosch) spends lots of money for research in Homeopathy: https://www.bosch.com/de/stories/robert-bosch-bildung-und-ge...

And there is people trying to stop it considered science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK5BZdnqMDU

But still you can study and specialize in the university.
Sorry about the german, for those who cannot understand.
I recently ran some machine learning benchmarks on CPU versus GPU. The gap for a multicore CPU was much smaller than I expected. I, for one, am excited by a 64-core CPU in a way I wouldn't have been a year ago.

Between Hugging Face, Stable Diffusion, and Whisper, I'm using ML workloads a lot more. Being able to do so:

* with a standard instruction set

* with open-source software

* with my full system RAM

* without having to worry about what is in VRAM versus main RAM

is a big step up. I see about a 10x speed difference between an older 16-core CPU and a hot-off-the-press high-end Ampere card costing 3x as much as the CPU. If 64 core could bring that within 2x, or even 4x, I'd dump the GPU entirely.
How do they treat folks who haven’t yet learned their language and/or don’t look like them?
There is literally nothing related to “enterprise Java” in this post.
Google play lists download count prominently.

But it's good practice to find the publisher website / repo and then click on Play Store link.
I won't deny the UK doesn't have issues with race but it is not the US. Here class politics matter far more. Electing a multimillionaire married to a billionaire was never going to end well electorally.
My mistake - great hacking from a solo dev.

Skimmed the comments and thought this was part of the KDE Plasma Bigscreen project.
Criticising politicians under an Ask HN on a topic for which said politicians are directly responsible seems entirely reasonable to me.
Huh? On the front page I can for each recommended video select "Not interested" or "Don't recommend channel". This is on Firefox both desktop and Android.

Is it different for you?
The opportunities for siphoning money to certain factions may be seen as the real purpose of the project, with any actual train more or less incidental. The same may be seen in recent nuclear power projects, urban tunnels, NASA's SLS rocket, and numerous military procurements, F-35 prominent among them.

Actual completion of a project means the money spigot is turned off, which nobody involved wants ever to happen. But sometimes an end is inevitable, and if foreseen, actual delivery of a product might be effected, to save face, as for the case of Finland's nuke.
The dollar was 87p ten days ago, it's 92p now.

It get you're quoting USDGBP but what you say doesn't make any sense to anyone not sitting at a forex desk.
In what circumstances the does UK have a 60% marginal tax rate. I think the op is confused.
The poster you replied to was not saying you didn't earn it, they're saying you're in a privileged position now.

> having special rights, advantages, or immunities
> Similar: wealthy rich affluent prosperous lucky fortunate special
In addition to what others said about the Bank of England monetary policy being in mismatch with the UK Goverment's fiscal policy, there was an issue with pension funds.

Pension funds require new investors to pay off old investors - pensioners - until the pensioner dies, we have a word for that concept but it derails discussion.

Some large pension funds in the UK had borrowed against their investors capital, specifically for riskier speculation, which is necessary to guarantee the returns to the investors (pensioners).

The volatility in the currency and specifically UK government bonds (GILTs) caused a collateral call on the pensions, which would have first caused forced selling, a cascading pressure on the bonds and currency, and also eventually bankrupted the pension (which could honestly still happen).
Where is that market meltdown? The FTSE 100 is down a whopping 1% today, and down 3% over the last 5 days. Looks absolutely normal to me.
No. The article is (per the author) for non-tech folks to build themselves a personal web page. If they don't have easy access to ~free hosting at university_name.edu/~my_name to do that, then there are lots of cheap domain name registrars and good-enough-for-this hosting plans out there.

Vs. the technical aptitude, knowledge, and ongoing time commitment of running their own bare-metal servers, for a minimal-traffic personal web page? That's more like insisting that everyone must learn to sew, and make their own clothing.