skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This didn't happen because Apple just refused to participate and now the lawmakers are sick of it and stepped it up.

Apple had a huge number of existing users, with existing accessories, before usb-c was even standardized, let alone before it was available in quantity. Look at how people complained about apple dropping the 30pin connector, and replacing it with something superior in every single way - how do you think that would have gone? Hell when the usb-c macbooks started coming out people complained incessantly about no one having usb-c.

This bizarre belief that there is absolutely no reason to not have switched to usb-c is annoying BS - there is very clearly a tradeoff, and Apple didn't think it was worth it. I'm going with what others in the thread have said, and expect any plug at all to disappear. Although then it sounds like Brazil will have a shit fit about that instead.
gotcha, cool – thank you!
Class difference is huge in the UK. There is a large ruling elite living miles from reality. A quick tour in cities like Manchester, Belfast etc show the enormous amount of worker class neighborhoods. And these worker class people are falling below middle class standards now. Good that there is still lots of work availability. But if a recession comes and unemployment becomes a thing then huge issues in the UK will appear.
I very much agree with you, and think it will hurt the company in the long term

But to give some credit where it's due: reimbursing all Stadia purchases is a very customer friendly way to shut it down
If the Jevko spec does not handle white space and leaves it to clients, then it will cause issues for data interchange. In order for 2 different clients to read the same Jevko file, they will need to align on how they handle white space.
I'm sure you're aware it exists, but the Vim plugin for IntelliJ is actually good enough, imho. Might be worth a try.
I work in the UK (not in London) for an American company, they absolutely love us because they get the same work for about a third of the price.
I always put this into perspective. Google hires about 2 Uber sized companies in employees every year.
It may seem magical, but conservatives have worked really hard to convince peasants that tax breaks for the wealthy is in their best interest.
Hi, I work for Pave (but I don't speak for Pave, etc etc).

> If I remember correctly, because they have your name, they also scrape LinkedIn data about you and try to get as much information about you as possible like job titles, etc.

I am not aware of Pave doing anything like this.

> I would not want my entire salary history to be shared with prospective employers so that they could definitively say "Well, this person got paid X in their previous position, we shouldn't pay more than 5% above that."

Pave does not share specific identifiable data like "John Doe got paid $X at EmployerCo".

Pave only shares aggregations like "people in San Francisco, with the title Senior Software Engineer, at companies between 100 and 500 employees, typically get paid $X at the 50th percentile, $Y at the 75th, and $Z at the 90th".

From Pave's website, https://www.pave.com/products/compensation-benchmarking-data:

> Benchmarking can never be traced back to an individual or employee.

I am not aware of any of these things having changed at any point.
You've brilliantly expressed exactly how I feel as well. It's so depressing, everyone seems to have their heads burried in the sand or focusing on what other people seem to be getting. It's driving me insane.
My notification arrived minutes late, interestingly.
> There is no mysterious GPL only label in the kernel

EXPORT_GPL_ONLY
That’s exactly the point. The government reaction to perceived threats from Covid resulted in long term damage to the kids as well.
Is flagging appropriate for (recent) reposts like this? The submission guidelines don't seem to explicitly say so, but there's no "downvote" for posts.
Go for it?

The people who think this is the solution are the ones who will need to take up the work.

It's not like the people who don't think this is the solution will do it.

Get ready to work hard for 5, 10, 20 years... rewriting sqlite will be a monumental effort and take the laser focus of a strong development team for years, if not decades. It's fraught with risk. Think about it... how many years would it be before a stable version of sqlite based on rust was available with comparable performance and fewer bugs than the c-based version?

(Seems likely to me that it would never happen.)

I think you'd be better off creating a sqlite competitor, that could start off much smaller with a much smaller feature and much less stringent performance requirements that, nevertheless, has enough for many common cases. Of course, you'd still have to convince people to use it over sqlite. If your main selling point is "significantly fewer bugs than sqlite" I don't think it's going to be very easy to make that true, rust or not.
Pixel 7 running KVM virtual machines without root
Gmail probably has legs
The median US salary is also 31k dollars, compared to 36k dollars in the UK
This is a first, but you have been blocked.
Some things to keep in mind (as I understand them):

- No additional costs for healthcare or health insurance

- Some state pension reduces the need to save for retirement

- (About) free university reduces the need to save for education (or, to have education debt)

- ~39 weeks paid parental leave

- 6 weeks of holiday per year is normal

- Other social benefits, such as childcare

I interpret this as meaning that people don't need to save as much money.
I always configure three-finger tap on the trackpad to act as the middle mouse button. I haven't tried this on a Mac, but it can be done on Windows and Linux with Gnome (and I believe KDE, too).
BetterTouchTool TipTap on macOS, gamechanger
I cannot speak to where people go (lots of countries have lots of immigrants, including Italy, France, Germany, etc), but culturally the UK is more accepting of integrating immigrants than its neighbors. They also speak English, which will also be a driving force from certain countries.
Another one, 3.6 , few minutes ago
Ah, very helpful/interesting – thank you! Seems neat.
The folks working on Snowpack didn't just give up. They transitioned over to working on Astro. It was a very positive move. I see great things coming out of that project as we move into a more "server rendered" future.
I'm an American and I can talk about the same things, nearly word for word (Jobseekers allowance notwithstanding) and feel exactly the same way.

Something is wrong with the economy, not just in the UK, but in America and probably a bunch of other countries. Where is the prosperity, if its there, why is it not more widely shared? is it a single cause, or is the cause manifold?

I have some ideas as to the answers to these questions (and its not capitalism is bad), but I too am just an engineer, not an economist. The unrest that propels populism is real. It's clear the status quo isnt working for the majority.
Notably, these earthquake alerts do not go through the WEA system or an app. Or at least they don't follow the normal w e a path from the cell tower. They go through the operating system itself which is why they are received on Android and not iPhone. Apple has not integrated the functionality into their operating system. With iPhones you can get third-party apps however.
> but being able to share the data layer is amazing.

why not just use swagger/openapi + auto generated models?

adding kotlin native adds huge depenencies relative to the tiny benefit of a datamodel that can be auto generated to native code imo
This is my practical experience. I couldn't have put it better in words! Thanks!
Well there is kotlin-native which allows you to write kotlin libraries that compile to IOS and Android. Which you can than link to objective C or flutter based UIs. Or even react native. That allows you to share a lot of code between different platforms. A growing number of Kotlin libraries are multi platform meaning you can use them on IOS, the JVM, and in browsers.

Java doesn't have that and it's kind of an increasingly dead language for mobile development. Some older android projects still use it. But Meta is late to the game of migrating away from it. Many companies did that years ago and the vast majority of new Android applications is using either Kotlin or Flutter/Dart.

I have good hopes for Jetbrains extending the jetpack compose/compose desktop/compose web ecosystem to IOS at some point as well. That would create some interesting possibilities in terms of targeting just about any platform with kotlin from a single code base. It's a logical next move for them and they've been laying the groundwork with their multi platform compiler strategy for a while now.
What happens when you ask someone to draw a bike?
AWS overcharges extremely for bandwidth. But yes, I'd expect that much bandwidth to cost at least around $1m on most providers. If you end up using THAT much bandwidth with so few GET requests, expect a call from CloudFlare.
Even that is a summary, and if you request the full report you're bounced to a third party Genesys that demands your contact information, while popping up an unsolicited chat bot window. I killed that chat, made some fake info and was sent to a page that was functionally broken... except for the chat bot which had another go at me.

MIT Technology Review should be ashamed of themselves.
This analysis [1] and the linked FT article is eye-opening for many people. I can't say I am surprised though. I've traveled across the UK and the level of poverty in some areas is really shocking.

[1] https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1570832839318605824#...
That basically means that s+traits::length(s) must be defined behavior. If s is not a pointer to a 0-terminated string then the behavior of this constructor is undefined.
Last time I checked the logs after an update, what I understood had happened was that the installer was installing the new files one by one, and logging each one of them. Which is a lot of files. I've no idea if this is still done this way, but I suspect it's part of the reason for the slowness.
The TV licence has been expanded to include any live broadcast, so watching sport on Amazon requires a TV licence.

I also think that in the UK it’s illegal to listen to ATC.
The thing is, a lot of them do. Germany is outside most refugee routes (most of the people in Calais never went through Germany) but they get people from Eastern Europe fleeing westwards. But France has way more refugees per capita than the UK, and way more in absolute numbers. Seriously, have a look here for example, it’s ridiculous: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_refugee... .

Those who try to cross the Channel planned to come to the UK since the beginning of their journey, mostly for cultural reasons.
> Because then it's no longer minimal.

C "might" be minimal but it brings with it a whole lot of dangerous baggage. Other languages can be just as minimal without the baggage.

> This isn't a "real program", as such. It's a demo

I didn't mean to imply anything different. I was just curious why C was used in the modern day where we (all?) know that C is a language that _should not_ be used for demoing because less experienced devs will think they can use C too and continue to create dangerous code
I'm not sure but all of my vms are headless so I don't think that would really have any benefit..?
Depends what your goal is. For a long time the GIMP people were pretty clear they just wanted to work on it in their spare time for fun. Ton on the other hand always had some very clear and much bigger ideas what he wanted to do with Blender. Is one way "better" or "worse"? I don't think so, it just depends on what your goals are.
Or free alternative: https://github.com/artginzburg/MiddleClick-BigSur
Changes to Microsoft 365 email features and storage (effective 2023)
Very thorough answer on the DW and Data Lake points. On the Lakehouse, though, as I wrote above, it’s not just the data storage format (Delta, Iceberg, whatever). The storage is important, because it creates the possibility of using cloud storage as a basis for table-like structures, with ACID (or a subset of it) capabilities. Beyond that, you still need management, performance, security, SQL access and probably some more that I forget.

The goal for a Lakehouse is to create a platform/stack that can effectively do everything a DW does, everything a Data Lake does (so, all your pros above), get rid of most of the cons and also allow mixing and matching of the functionalities. Acknowledging this need to handle all kinds of data is not new; having the technology to deliver on it is, and that’s what the Lakehouse is.
NHTSA on EV Fires Caused by Saltwater Flooding
This looks... pretty terrible. The images being generated are fine, but the conversion from 2D to 3D is awful. It looks like something poorly lasso-tool'd around the subject, put it on another layer closer to the viewer, and then very poorly interpolated the space that's visible between the two layers when you look at it from an angle.

Am I missing something? I feel like I've seen much better automatic 2D->3D conversions via layering long before this.
Margaret Thatcher (in)famously said that there was no such thing as society. By that she meant that, actually the only thing out there is individuals looking after their own self-interests.

Well, it is the same with companies.

In both case this leads to suboptimal results at 'system level' (a well-known problem in system optimisation).
The stories of the New Madrid quakes are insane. The earth was literally rolling, fissures opened up spewing enough gases to block out the light and more. And the aftershocks went on for months. Hard to imagine.
To be fair to the parent, Toyota/Lexus is perceived world-wide as the archetypical 'quality' brand whereas Mercedes is the archetypical 'feature' brand, at least in the last decade.
Im guess im not able to view the effect on desktop? Is it some kind of depth segmentation of the generated images rather than actual 3d? Maybe I need to view in a VR headset?
It enabled this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33335391 which, I would argue, adds a lot of value.
There's diminishing returns as the company grows in headcount.

When you hire large number of engineers, you need to hire engineers to support those engineers. Then you need to hire people to support the engineers that are supporting the engineers and so on...
With LinkedIn, the key is to network with folks in the company you want to join or recruiters at those companies. My roles mostly came from LinkedIn.

Also there are some interesting slack channels for specific areas in tech and some people post openings there.
Hopefully wont end up like a ton of bikes in Netherlands https://theworld.org/stories/2015-07-10/amsterdam-there-are-...
In my opinion, what's really important is how bad live the bottom 20% of the population. Education rate, life expectancy, suffering, suicide rate.

Other indicators are less usefull to see if a country is nice to live in.
It's the relative higher standard of living compared to poorer countries, and language. If someone can migrate to a country where they can understand people and be understood it's at the top of the list.

One reason it doesn't happen the other way round is language again. We have the burden of English being spoken as a second language in many other countries, so there is little incentive to really push language learning in school here. It's foolish, but there is a logic.

As the UK becomes poorer compared to the rest of Europe there will be those that will wish they could speak a second language. Not that it will do much good, as post-Brexit unless you are rich or a high performer there is very little chance of landing a job. The British population happily voted away that right.
"Instant edit" on most website. Similar to a wiki but it should go to the user/admin that made the content and he can publish or discard it.
Ofc it would have to be without login/captcha etc.

Every blog post would have every reader be able to correct small mistakes, fix broken links etc. etc. Basically a distributed maintenance system for the web where stuff that is actually used by people is keep up-to-date.
Given how 2D looked even a few years ago I’ve got high hopes for this
Show HN: Encrypt and hide files inside images
Going by your own comment, you seem to not be an "early enough" adopter. That's totally fair, maybe Zig will be more interesting for you once it stabilizes more in the future.
>Also still requires you to check your phone during a movie which should be immediate jail time across the board

Not true! The app has cues that you can read ahead of time. Eg:

> Bob says “I didn’t know you were French!”

When you hear Bob say that, there’s your chance to go.

The app will give roughly 3 cues per movie, about 15 to 30 mins apart, so you have multiple chances.

Also, apparently you can set it to go off with a timer, although I haven’t used that feature. On iPhones you can allow specific apps notify even when you’re on Do Not Disturb, which would probably be useful in this case.
Having worked both sides I agree.

The Google Moloch seemed to have a fairest system, of course circumstances could be unfair but the process was fair. Most people who wanted promos and fed their soul to the machine would eventually get promos.

Meanwhile in the startup zoo, it’s all about earning favor and avoiding disfavor with a small group of lords.
> Then I started looking into what does the average British citizen make and found it was incredibly low at 38K.

There are many ways to define and measure this (mean vs median, pre vs post tax, everyone vs just fulltime), so I don't know if the numbers are directly comparable, but US median earnings are $45K[1], which isn't that much different, especially once you take into consideration differences in government benefits.

[1] https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2022/demo/p60-27...
It doesn't sound like they do - from their whitepaper https://www.predictwise.com/whitepaper:

> PredictWise has collected hundreds of thousands of respondents reporting party identification and models voters through survey, mobile data, and location data compiled through mobile devices

> PredictWise’s database includes verified data on 50 Million+ unregistered voters, sourced through credit files and portal registration data (e.g. Crate&Barrel), and is carefully purged of duplicates or registered voters, updating daily. PredictWise (PW) machine learning models predict the party of unregistered based on survey respondents from hundreds of thousands of Americans and can apply support scores to turnout your electorate.

> We make full use of the probability models on the file, ensuring that each individual will get a score reflecting his or her exact position. The end result is a continuous score for each cluster ranging from 0 to 100 for every American represented on the file.

So, they have a few hundred thousand survey fills/app installs. Then they combine the data against 50 million public records, and then they extrapolate it out for the entire voter population. So they may have one or two given devices in an area and then their model says what that represents across everyone.
Ok, Ill just say it:

Usury, Quantative Easing, Central Banks.

How do we fix this?

You better start running for the hills, bucko.
The real Shit Storm 'What ryhmes with Rishi' is on its way.
A lot of words to say you get the same results from higher quality thermal paste
Do you think that's a little too dramatic? Cloudflare took down 8chan and Kiwi Farms, and while the centralization of the web does scare me, I think you're being silly here.
I don't get it. Lawyers, doctors, and engineers aren't rich anymore?

That 150k, assuming pounds, is a bit under five times the normal median income. Assuming dollars, the same number would be true for the US.

UK wages aren't low. You're rich.
I was talking about 90s to modern era. Not just modern era.

And having computers doesn’t mean any of the lecturers understand the modern (for that era) trends in computing. More often than not, it’s computer clubs rather than cause material that hold the really interesting content.

I don’t doubt there will be exceptions to this rule. But for most people I’ve spoken to or read interviews from, this seems to have been the trend.
I watched one PHB manage out one of the best junior engineers just because they expected young people to switch jobs often.
If you're close to the epicenter there's no way for any app to give you advance warning.

Any app is going to make use of the fact that internet messages travel faster than earthquakes, so the farther you are from the epicenter the more warning you'll get. Close to the epicenter is going to be no warning regardless of whose app you use.
When I watched Return of the King in a theater they had 10 or 15 min break in the middle, it was the first and last time I've seen such arrangement. It would be nice if Hollywood finally accepted such format and just went with 3-4 hour long movies with a break. Not for all movies of course, but at least for the more complex ones. I mean not making 2:30 long movie and then just pad it with irrelevant, often static scenes for some "Complete Movie Of the Year Directors Super Duper Cut Edition" clocking at 3:00, but having zero new content as compared to theater cut. That's just a dumb trend imho. But instead actually plan the story for 3 or 4 hours, with a proper increase of storytelling, characters and so on. Just for some top AAA movies.
While I broadly agree with your point, rewarding seniority is at odds with rewarding people based on how good they are at their jobs, from the perspective of incentives. The two are not always correlated and this is often why some companies hire externally instead of promoting from within.

That said, companies are often wrong to hire externally as they misattribute their problems to their employees instead of to their own leadership. It is easier for them to blame others instead of themselves.
“Our third quarter revenues were $69.1 billion, up 6% versus last year or up 11% on a constant currency basis.”

Constant currency means excluding impacts of FX.

11% growth (constant currency) vs 41% growth last year is still has huge slowdown in growth.
Presumably not everyone is as valuable or risky.
I really wanted to get a DevTerm but so far the built quality and keyboard have kept me from pulling the trigger. What do you like about it? What are you using it for?
Bad contact shouldn't be an issue, but as the connector is overheating it is an issue. The only challenge in making a power connector is guaranteeing strong enough contact on every use. It could be caused by all sorts of things like manufacturing tolerance or exact springiness of the material of the pins.

The issue bending the cable near the connector is that it causes the connector pins to deflect, making the flimsy contact worse.

More conductor is unnecessary, it just needs to make a more reliable contact.
Pretty sure AWS offers that feature too
After years of configuring webpack for various projects I have finally decided to migrate all my projects to Parcel[1] manly because I got tired of creating and maintaining hundreds of lines of webpack.config.js files, I wanted something that just works. I am really happy with that decision.

Parcel is plenty fast and is pretty much zero config, I can use it to build libraries[2] as well as applications[3] for the browser and node.

I am manly building client side react applications, so your mileage may vary.

[1] https://parceljs.org/

[2] https://parceljs.org/getting-started/library/

[3] https://parceljs.org/getting-started/webapp/
Also - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Page#The_Self-Locking_B...
Lived here for a decade and don’t know what you’re talking about.

If I was to indulge this for even a second I’d point out this massive project sewage project involving 6 tunnel boring machines: https://www.tideway.london/the-tunnel/