skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UK actually seems to do a better job of treating its sewage than other European countries. What happened is that a lot of the British press absolutely loathes the current government over Brexit and wants them booted out, so they created a narrative that our rivers and oceans are suddenly full of sewage based off the number of recorded overflows increasing due to much better monitoring. (The main problem is that the sewers are old, mix storm and waste water, and that overwhelms treatment capacity when it rains heavily. There's no easy way to fix it.) I guess one of those articles probably got mangled in repetition at some point.

Meanwhile, other nearby countries that are EU members still have urban areas with no sewage treatment plants at all and just dump all their sewage into waterways in normal operation, something that's against EU rules and I'm pretty sure was stopped a long time ago in the UK. That doesn't get as much media coverage because it doesn't fit a useful narrative, though, to the point even people from thsoe countries are convinced their country is doing a better job.

Also, this story largely originated in the Guardian, and it turns out prior to Brexit they were pushing the narrative that the big megaproject to 95% fix this in London was completely pointless and only served to channel cash to the Tories' pals, the problem wasn't really that bad and the overflows were mostly rain water anyway: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/27/london-s... This is, uh, rather different from the current narrative they're pushing.
Easier said then done. Firstly it requires for you to know what you’re doing is both a key project and something in which paying more would be more likely to result in its completion.
Amusingly, I actually envy that aspect of the British system quite a bit. It feels like complete fantasy to imagine a president who has messed up and then resigns. The idea of a president's cabinet holding them accountable seems like fantasy as well. And it's only been a week since Truss announced her resignation but there's already a new PM. Boris' own party removed him from office, meanwhile only a handful of US congresspeople have ever voted to impeach/remove a president of their own party. Our last president tried to extort another country, and staged a nearly successful self-coup, and saw the end of his term.
Can I make a wish? I would like a wm which sends SIGSTOP to processes which window I minimized and SIGCONT when I un-minimize it.

For processes which use multiple windows, I'd be OK with all being minimized when one is to allow above functionality.

There was a time when it was desirable to make room on the visible desktop while keeping long running processes running, but today we have lots of desktop real-estate and few legitimate long running processes, instead web pages leaching CPU cycles (I look at you, github!).
In your opinion, is Apple part of the most ethical large tech companies? Which other company do you put up there?

(And yes, I know the bar is probably pretty low)
They can’t do it perfectly but they can try. My pov having been at a few big techs is they aren’t even trying.
> What is the catch? Am I missing something?

Some say, Cloudflare throws the ToS rule-book at you once you cross 5TB/mo (or whatever the threshold is; we're at multiple-TBs but no one from Cloudflare has thrown as much as an email at us). That said, Cloudflare's absurdly high bandwidth rates for Specturm (their L4 load balancer) [0] remains a mystery.

Pretty recently, Cloudflare blogged about AWS' potential 80x markup on egress [1]. That is, the $90/TB AWS charges its customers must cost them a measly $1 or so.

Cloudflare in 2014 blogged about how they work relentlessly to bring down bandwidth costs by peering aggressively where possible [2] (which apparently means $0 for unlimited bandwidth [3]). And where they can't / don't [4], egress is 5x (est) the ingress (one pays for the higher among the two), but this creates an opportunity for an arbitrage and give away DDoS protection for free.

This is pretty similar to Amazon's free-shipping offer for Prime customers despite it being one of the biggest loss makers to their retail business. Prime basically has since forced Amazon to bring down costs through building expensive and vast distribution & logistics network that spawns the globe. Doing so was a considerable drain on the resources in the short-run, but in the long run, it has become an unbreachable moat around its largest business.

Analysts like Ben Thompson (stratechery.com) and Matthew Eash (hhhypergrowth.com) have written in detail about Cloudflare's modus operandii over the years, with both agreeing that Cloudflare's model is so brilliantly disruptive that even Clayton Christensen would be proud of it.

[0] $1/GB! https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/36004172187...

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress/

[2] https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-relative-cost-of-bandwidth-a...

[3] https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/

[4] https://bgpview.io/asn/13335#info
I think that Waititi dialed the silliness up just a bit too much for most people. For everyone else, it's probably great.
When future earnings become problematic, shift the topic to clean energy initiatives to artificially limit production.
Fair, but still diesel.
They can still be bound by what their privacy policy states. For example, AT&T is pretty open and clear about what they do with your data (a lot). https://about.att.com/privacy/full_privacy_policy.html
Are you talking about AirPods? Everyone I know (myself included) keeps theirs longer than most people keep phones
How to Give a Conference Talk in Five Easy Steps (2019)
Because we live again in a new Gilded Age, with its monopolies, robber barons, regulatory capture, and corruptions.

If you want to understand these days, you have to understand the Gilded Age, the rise of Unions, the New Deal, the G.I bill, the rise of the middle classe post WW2 until the end of the 70s, when reagan started to reverse the course engaged by FDR in the 30s, gutted every regulation intended to protect workers, envirronement, gutted union coercitive power, deregulated financial system with its new credit offering allowing to compensate diminished real purchase power of middle class salaries, slashed taxes on highest tiers of population and corporation, slashed public service.

The subprime crisis is a direct consequence of this...

For a short introduction in the matter, I suggest you to watch the last episode of season 33 of The Simpsons.
>Actual free will, at the top level, would look like rolling the dice every time.

Your definition of free will is fairly extreme and doesn't really line up with what is typically meant by free will. The discussion of free will typically involves moral agency (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will).

A strawman version of your view is that every time you see a bus, it should be 50-50 whether or not you jump in front of it. And, people don't jump in front of buses at that rate, so you conclude that free will is an illusion.

I would flip the baseline assumption around. Occasionally, some people do jump in front of a bus, so everyone (in a place with buses) that doesn't jump has made a choice not to because they could have done otherwise.

Personally, I don't think humans meaningfully exercise free will often because: 1. most of our available "choices" have either an obvious answer (do I eat?) or are largely irrelevant (Italian or Indian dish?). 2. most of us are content to operate on autopilot (as explored in the Adam Sandler movie "Click"). However, I do think the occasional real choices we make can have outsized impacts on the trajectory of our life because that choice becomes your new normal (e.g., kleptomania, drug addiction, waking up early, going for a jog).
I have to say foreign medias have no qualms mentioning Brexit as an aggravating factor. But local U.K. news would not even get near it, for fear of opening Pandora’s box once more. Even opposition parties (Labour) look the other way.
Wealth-X and UBS Billionaire Census 2013 [pdf]
"most companies have fallen into the trap where if someone has a title of X they can only make up to Y,"

Eh, most of the people in the established pay range tend to be at the low or mid range, so the company likely has the ability to pay more. Once they're at the top of rhe range, that shouldn't be much of a problem either... but that assumes the range was created using good industry data. If so, then there shouldn't be a better deal somewhere else (or at least very hard to find).
“Headwinds”
I don’t think that I can program worth a nickel, but this story sure is inspiring.
Be careful - removing the fancy words from "Markov Chain Monte Carlo Simulations" and translating it into English can have a negative effect professionally.
The worst part is that after a point in your career there's no path to promotion just for doing your job really well. You are expected to always take on new roles and responsibilities, some of which may not be suited for your personality or interests, and the net result often is that you get promoted and make more money but your overall useful output decreases. I know so many amazing engineers who had to essentially give up writing code, prototyping and tinkering – stuff they were really passionate about – to advance to staff+ levels. Now their time is spent in an endless stream of meetings, and the entire organization is worse off because of it.
This is a confusing headline. The judgement here is in NY state court, and pertains to employees of and in the City of New York, which enacted a vaccine requirement for employees of the city and later private employers in the city. Months later, Eric Adams was elected mayor of NYC, and he issued an executive order exempting athletes, performers, and artists from the mandate.

Petitioners sued, saying that the mandate with the exemptions was essentially arbitrary, and the courts agreed. So what happened here is that Eric Adams sabotaged NYC's vaccine mandate.
Well, my understanding is (but I have yet to personally experience) the migration from 17 -> 18+ is rough because of all the javax.* packages being renamed jakarta.*

Which likely means touching a pretty significant portion of your codebase for the upgrade, and then who knows what 3rd party libraries you depend on are expecting...

So it may be as simple as Find/Replace for some folks, for others, it might be a deep dark rabbit hole.

Not breaking things used to be Java's MO. Yes, that means a ton of legacy cruft built up over the years... but we used to be able to depend on Java to "Just Work".

Perhaps some of this is necessary. After all, the C# folks seem to have no problem breaking everything to add new features... but I'd assert the Java community as a whole is much less tolerant of breaking changes and rapid deployment of features.
Not for flu though. And not experimental vaccines.
Obscure DAO at the center of a case that could determine the future of crypto
oh yay more fragmentation
What's at stake for global markets if Japan gives up holding down bond yields
Ok, sure. But wouldn’t a large natural gas electric turbine be even more efficient?

The thing about electric motors is the energy source is abstracted. So even if you’re generating electricity with gas, it’s usually much more efficient than a small localized engine.

So I think my point stands, if EU is electrifying its networks, I don’t understand how the US could possibly be more efficient.
24% decrease in transmission, decreasing by 6% every 5 weeks after that.[0] So, not nothing, but it doesn't come close to stopping transmission.

Personally, I'm vaccinated. That's based on my own risk calculation. But forcing people to put a medication into their body that they don't trust, for such a meager benefit (and do it several times a year), doesn't seem right to me. Even if you disagree with their logic, it's their body. The benefit of the vaccines to other citizens is too little to impose this burden.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02328-0
I'm surrounded by holocaust memorials, in the city where I live. To me, reductio ad Hitlerum appears childish enough almost every time it's used, and it is disappointing to see people argue thusly while cheerleading for those who chose not to take a safe and effective treatment against an illness that has so far killed about 10% of all civilian and military deaths in WW2 combined, or 50% of the especially infamous genocidal deaths.

It's not like the people who genuinely couldn't take the vaccine benefited from any of this.
But if the vaccine doesn't prevent spread that means you were fired because of... what?

"Get the vaccine to reduce your symptoms or I'll fire you incase it kills you!"

It's not like the vaccine prevents spread to other coworkers, why require it?

Everyone has a different health risk, let them decide whether they can weather a certain viral load.

That is, unless, you have a vaccine that can actually prevent trasmission.
lack of reading comprehension or comprehension in general.
Did you click the create button? It takes you to a page where it specifically mentions stable diffusion and allows you to create your own "vr image" with a prompt.
The NIH's misguided genetics data policy
Maybe they accidentally trained the AI to fuck up the VR180 camera projection?

The left/right sides of every image contain a different, scaled and rotated image. Some of the discontinuities are visually pretty interesting.
The effective tax rates when the marginal rates were 70-90% were not much different than they are now. Cherrypicking marginal tax rates while ignoring deductions against those rates is misleading and deceptive.
Awesome - thanks :)
Oops! Thanks for the correction and a good laugh.
You don't even need to set it up by hand. Cache Reserve is the way to put Cloudflare's CDN with a persistent cache in front of your origin (which could be an S3 bucket). It's a 1 button config thing.

If you use Worker bindings, then there's no write-enabled keys. It's a fair critique obviously and the team is aware of some of the product gaps. We only just launched GA :).
How does the cost of flats in Manhattan compare to the salary of the average American?

London real estate is notoriously expensive and it's not a practical way to measure wages.

The top rate of tax on earnings over £150k (until the pound crashed recently would have been around $200k) applies to roughly 600,000 workers. The UK has a population of 68M. If you earn upwards of £150k, you're rich.

> In my mind that salary does not make anyone rich, I mean that's a low to mid level engineering salary in the US. Basically almost any US professional (lawyer, doctor, engineer etc) is going to make that or much more.

When your world is tech and you're familiar with the salaries on offer, it's easy to lose sight of life for people who aren't inside that bubble. Your point of comparison is wildly skewed.
Heh, I got that reference.
I disagree related to the SF Bay Area and the Tech world specifically. It is usually written in the wall who is going to leave if things do not change. Now you could say the upper management can't read the wall, and the middle management might not want to share what has been stated -- or they kid themselves.
I quite enjoyed McElreath's Statistical Rethinking including on this topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqz5AJjyugM
Congrats Daniel and Matt - great to see you guys hit this milestone :)
Medibank (private health insurer), not Medicare (public health service). :)
I would agree, but employers actually usually do know who is a flight risk.
Ubuntu is probably the best option there
yeah I am, typically its $1.50-$1.25 to a pound.
Most pairs of cheap earbuds I own are older than the AirPods have been around.
Wayland is the protocol. It isn't analogous to X, so they really shouldn't be compared. Comparing Xorg to something like WLRoots makes more sense.
On the other hand, if you enable Cache in front of your bucket, then your class B requests probably go back down to very little...
I dumpster dove at RIT to pull out a discarded VAX (in think an 11/70) and serial terminals. Probably about 1989 or 1990.
There is effectively no cash welfare in the United States. Those who are getting cash income at the bottom of the scale are getting it because of disability or age.

Because there is no cash welfare, people are indeed earning their money mostly by performing work.
You sure? Seems like starts are the place where you find engineers with just a few years of experience getting management roles
If a webpage implements something perfectly, it enhances the experience. E.g. webpages that mess with scrolling - maybe for 20% of sites that do this it makes them 20% better, but 80% of sites that do it become 80% worse.

I'm not sure the benefits of allowing the Figmas of this world to offer a good app experience outweigh the costs of putting the same tools in the hands of every shitty news site.
How much would such a trailer cost, ball park?
I’ve assumed that the batteries are a big part of the cost of ev’s.
Interesting. I didn’t know this was settled. Have a good reference on the relative attributions? Mostly curious about methodology for doing so.
In one of my early scientist-programmer jobs I was assigned an assistant to keypunch, submit jobs and pick up printouts. The other scientists thought I was odd for wanting to do all this myself. I had much more productivity than them.
Chrome will finally force you to upgrade from Windows 7 in 2023
I don't know, Rockit was pretty popular back in the day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHhD4PD75zY
It's a little weird to be concerned about this now around COVID policies, and not during the last fifty years of laws passed by republican state legislatures that barely last past the ink drying on the law before getting slapped with an injunction and ultimately struck down by the courts, but not after the state AG wastes millions of dollars in taxpayer funds fighting it as high up the federal court system as possible.

Just to name a few: Book bans, anti-LGBTQ bills (bathroom bills and more), edicts on what doctor can or cannot say to patients (or must say to patients), ag-gag, voting restrictions, and anti-abortion-choice laws.

All passed with the full knowledge they'll be struck down almost immediately, with the express purpose of tying up funds of progressive non-profits and getting to brag to their base about how they're trying to further 'The Cause' (you know how conservatives are always going on about "liberal virtue-signaling? As always, they're great at projection.)
The Bonta team in California has been eggregiously playing the circuit-to-district football, violating fundamental rights of citizens. The 13th circuit is in bed with California state district attorney and the state legislator (both the husband and wife, "Bontas"). Wife is a legislator and the husband is the CA District attorney.

Lawyers are totally baffled at what is going on.
That's another great point. With a large build in tmpfs, you can either run into the size limit of the tmpfs, breaking the build and wasting time, or run out of memory and end up with an unresponsive machine.

Entrusting this to the VFS cache has better predictability, and nearly the same performance in many cases.
This is actually excellent/impressive estimate.

Remember, for this to be usable you need to start sending it out BEFORE the actual earthquake ends at the place when it is first detected.
Is it mild to encourage the USGOV to explore direct engagement with Russia?
hasn't it been 9.5% in the US in the last year? i can believe 18 over 2 years
Yes, we found PyPy is only marginally faster for our use case and chose Pyston instead due to better compatibility and no pesky warm-up periods.
Someone is ought to make a game like factorio out of this: you manage workers with semi-predictable output, and have to pay them out of your semi-predictable profit. You can never lower anyone's salary, only fire someone, and that costs a fee (severance). There is outside pressure that forces workers to need more money - inflation - it's also semi-predictable, but it never goes down. My suspicion is that in a well modeled game like this, there's no steady-growth mode when everyone is happy, and the organisation always collapses, even under perfect management.
GDP per capita is a terrible way to compare the actual lived experience of the citizens. It's regularly used to make Americans feel better about their lot, given that even the poorest US states tend to have higher GDP per capita than the Canadian provinces and some EU countries that are thrown in America's faces as doing better.

But massive corporations and billionaires don't improve the day-to-day life of citizens. Americans are wealthy on paper but are one health crisis away from destitution.
> Well thats going to cause some problems

https://twitter.com/ScriptedAlchemy/status/15850274824321802...
I mean isn’t that why vesting cliffs exist? I’d extend them to be for far more money but over far longer if I was the employer, but the job market won’t bare it.
Ottawa rejects Rogers's original bid for access to Shaw's wireless frequencies
This points to what an anomaly 2021 was.

Alphabet was seeing around 15% YoY revenue growth prior to 2021. Then 2021 hit and the growth rate jumped to 41%. Now with the 6% YoY growth this year, it's evening out to ~22% annualized growth over the last 2 years.
The decay started earlier than Reagan it's not just the vacuousness of supply-side economics, if you asked me to pick a date, it'd be 1971.
It depends on what you think the point of an economy (or a society) is.

If the purpose is to create a competition and see who can accumulate the most resources and power, then the UK (and US) are doing quite well.

If the purpose is to collectively grow our productivity so that all (for some definition of all) members of society have the opportunity to live better and richer lives, then the UK (and US) are doing rather badly.
OK then. Put your money where your mouth is, Apple, and send some checks to UPS, FedEx, DHL, Foxconn, TSMC, Samsung, 3M, BOE, Flextronics, Hitachi, LG, Micron, Molex, Nidec, NXP, Panasonic, Pegatron, Qualcomm, Skyworks, Sony, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, and all of your other hundreds of suppliers and get them carbon neutral. Otherwise it's just a "we call on" when you are fully capable of "we funded everybody to the point where."

If this is truly a climate emergency, that cash (what was it, $200B in reserves?) is a small price to pay, and would help a long way for companies that can't afford it like you can. Otherwise keep your mouth shut - it's nothing more than a "we really think you should spend your money on..." at best and a "spend your profits on this or else" at worst.
How is encouraging immigration going to benefit either the affordability of house prices, or your salary?
Have my first pair still in use.
I see 61k for male and 51k for female for fulltime workers (median)?
HDR as we know today always meant 10 bit colour. Before that some screens emulated HDR in 8 bit color by doing dithering to -poorly- create the illusion of a wider luminance range.

edit: and 10 bit color support on its own is not enough for HDR. I mean I don't know why we are even discussing this honestly. HDR under Linux is not supported at all. It's not an opinion; it's an objective fact which you can confirm in a couple of different ways. You can not view HDR content if you're using Linux no matter what content or display you have. There is an active effort in the community to have HDR support in Linux but it will take a couple more years probably.
Super interesting!

So is it a fair simplification that a Tesla really just has everything running through a giant tablet as a cost cutting measure? Wouldn't that affect vehicle longevity? I have 10 year old tablets that can barely boot up any more, but 20 year old power windows that still work perfectly.

I was also hearing that one of the responses to this might be more base models with manual features (cranks, push buttons, etc). Any truth to that?
Lucky, that could have been an uphill battle