skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UK is declining, and people are starting to notice it. People are blaming the government, and clamouring for more support and money, but unfortunately I suspect it’s not that simple. The elephant in the room, in my opinion, is that we simply don’t have the money to maintain the standard of living we once enjoyed. Almost all political conversations here are contingent on this fact, but this underlying problem is rarely discussed.

It’s not clear to me _why_ this has happened, I’m not an economist, but it’s clear to me that this is the case. We’ve seen what happens when the government tries to go on a spending spree. Even Labour agree that we need to go into a period of (effective) austerity at this point.
To me at least this sure seems to be a bizarre use of the word: Vaccine.
360 consoles are so cheap right now… Facebook market has them by me for as little as $20 with a controller.
A fair summary (based on information from Open Secrets) would be that the vast preponderance of contributions were to Democratic and/or progressive candidates or funds ($36,846,356), plus relatively insignificant ($240,200) contributions to Republicans who were (in one way or another) anti-Trump.

https://www.axios.com/2022/11/15/ftz-crypto-bankman-fried-de...

"Last spring, Bankman-Fried pledged to spend upwards of $1 billion on the 2024 election, particularly if Donald Trump were to run."

https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/biggest-donor...

Sam Bankman-Fried

"Solidly Democrat/Liberal"
Rank 6
Contributor FTX.US, Washington, DC
Total Contributions $39,884,256
Total Hard Money $1,047,256
Total Outside Money $38,837,000
To Democrats $36,846,356
To Republicans $240,200

The Republicans recipients:

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/ftx-founder-sam-bankman...

"In addition, Bankman-Fried wired maximum individual donations to Boozman and incumbent Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, John Hoeven of North Dakota and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska throughout the election cycle."

Collins, Burr, Cassidy, and Murkowski are strongly aligned against Trump.

Boozman received his contribution(s) during his primary against Jake Bequette, a strongly pro-Trump Republican.

Hoeven likewise during his primary race against Rick Becker, another strongly pro-Trump Republican.

Also Boozman:

https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/22/11/296766...

"Stabenow noted that she is working with her Republican counterpart on the committee, Sen. John Boozman (R-Ark), and regulators to finalize the Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act (DCCPA) bill in preparation for a committee vote. DCCPA gives power to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to regulate the trading of digital commodities. This bill was backed by Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder of the crypto exchange FTX."
Why do you think this doesn't qualify as a "vaccine"? Calling it such seems to make some sense to me.
> to what end? with no agreement from the UK government nothing will happen

Obviously to exploit anti-union sentiments for political gain.

> however its economic impact on leaving the UK would be more or less a non-event for the rest of the UK

It would be followed by Ireland and the end of the union. England will find itself with a smaller population than Italy and similarly mired in political instability and infighting.

The difference between vying for the #1 economy in Europe and #4 is quite profound.
I do not think it is too helpful. The most important part about driving is the part which happens intuitively. Knowing how it feels when you accelerate, turn and break has to come before any other skill actually can be relevant.
To paraphrase Peter Hitchens again; “If you can’t figure that out by yourself then you are too wet behind the ears to make it”

It’s a big world out there with a lot of variety and the appropriate destination depends on a lot of individual factors.
Cant tell what level of the hierarchy this is coming from.

Coming out of the chaos of Brexit and Covid and now with Ukraine, I am not surprised. Seems to be the mood in most large corps in the EU.
Huh neat, thank you for the explanation
I don’t think the fact is controversial, it’s just that the fact lacks context of being directed at a harassed minority. “There are higher crime statistics in majority black communities” is also a true but if you constantly go around screaming it we will wonder what your intentions are, education of facts?
I fail to see how these battles make "typical" and "normal" not synonymous.
Even better, I like the breakdown by application.
We were all screen lookers… it’s not like any other player had more advantage…

The death of split screen keeps me in retro games.
By the way, thanks for pointing this out. With all this craziness around Musk's ventures and Twitter, my BS detector has become totally blinded. Hadn't I posted this comment and then had been corrected, I would have still believed Musk was able to commit to these crazy terms. Of course, this would be too much even for him.

Speaking of the benefits of sharing one's thoughts on HN.
Is the OBR's own analysis of Brexit evidence enough for you?

Even Jeremy Hunt has conceded Brexit is causing problems!

https://www.politico.eu/article/brexit-had-significant-adver...
If you read my comment you will find no link between Brexit and inflation.

Rather that Brexit had undermined the discourse about how to manage the economy. I gave two specific examples of how this is happening. This is clearly relevant to any discussion of the U.K. economy.
'83 was shockingly unproportional even by our lofty standards (compare lib/sdp and lab)
The concept of doomscrolling has existed since well before Musk. Twitter like all social media networks amplified divisive content, because anger and fear were empirically found to result in more screen time than the alternative of a chronological and predictable feed.

I do agree that people appear to have over-estimated their own appetite for an alternative.
Digital natives regularly post without putting sentences/paragraphs on a new line, because they're accustomed to "that button" submitting what they already wrote. Ask somebody in their 20s to hit "Return" and it's a dice roll if they know you mean the "Enter" key.

The difference between desktop-first and mobile-first is far greater than I would have predicted a decade ago.
I'm new to the UK. The sentiment I get is people here in UK are generally less ambitious?
I'm not against air travel for climate reasons, so I can only venture a guess that this is the result of the same psychological mechanism that rivets people attention to air crashes and terrorism, not to car deaths and heart attacks: saliency of former and familiarity of latter.
> Maybe if we trained an AI to detect genuine vs. parody?

Blockchain will solve this better
This is a point that seems to be completely missed.

This is cost push inflation, but the UK government is trying to use the usual tactics to control it - tax and interest rates.

To be fair, it's what current economic theory prescribes for inflation, either cost push or demand pull. Tax and interest rates certain work for demand pull inflation. Cost push though? Everyone gets poorer, lower standard of living (whatever that mean...), but the government can be happy it has some part of inflation under control.

Even if the UK had more energy generation, just the existence of an international energy market means public UK companies would buy and sell that energy on that market and I doubt we'd be much better off.

The UK, and all of the West to be fair, is in the middle of "weak men, hard times" part of the cycle. It's no surprise that Putin invaded Ukraine when he did.

One final thing I'd add is that it feels to me as if the Government has been influenced by the mainstream media, and even social media, far, far, too much over the last decade or so.
UK chip designer Arm delays London listing until later in 2023
What's helped me is changing my opinion about what I, my kids and the rest of humanity deserve in the grand scheme of things. I used to think we deserve to live in comfort and safety, with the hope of reaching an old age. I thought technology, knowledge and progress where the reason for all that luxury. Now I believe it's got more to do with a sudden rise in available energy. The trend is going down. Life is becoming more tragic again. I won't lie to my children and let them believe war happens to others. I know the world has never been as safe and rich as it's been recently. But I think the peak is around in my part of the world, and the environmental crisis is going to cause many peaks everywhere.

I often wonder about refugee camps and wonder how I'd fare in one of them. Is it possible to organise theater courses? How difficult is it to find a space to meditate? Would people still care to have intellectual discussions?

A difficult life is still one worth living.
I think this shift is a direct contributor to increased toxicity in multiplayer gaming, honestly. The server communities I remember were like your favorite pub where all the regulars knew each other and you all just liked hanging out. Occasionally new people would drop in, and sometimes they'd become part of things but usually they at least behaved, and if they didn't they were booted off an IP banned.
Found that by going to Starlink’s order form, using select on map feature for address field, zooming into an Brazil until a street was visible, clicking order, and Starlink Whatapp number is linked to in the intro text.

425 area code is a US area code in Washington state near a Seattle. Literally copied URL, so if there is an error it’s from Starlink’s link. Phone number in link is 14253313125, which appears to be a valid US number, but agree I got number from what is likely Starlink Brazil; picked that because you appear to be in Brazil.

Which country did you order it for?
Funny you mention nop. The classic nop is 0x90, which decodes to XCHG EAX, EAX, which, on x86_32, does nothing.

But x86_64 made 32-bit operations zero the high 32 bits of the destination register, so, logically, 0x90 would clear the high bits of RAX. Oops.

As I’ve heard the story, this was noticed a bit on the late side, and an 11th hour change was made to special case 0x90 and make it still be a nop.
"The rest of the industry" - when apple creates actual standards, the rest of the industry follows.

Linux uses CUPS, even Chromecast uses mDNS, and KDE famously invented WebKit (and still uses it).

It's not these standards people complain about, it's the custom, walled-garden, proprietary stuff.

Like Lightning, which could have been a global standard, if it didn't encrypt all transfers with custom chips, a custom handshake and custom protocol, all of which only apple controls.
Built with Deno
To what degree are they worse than the EU's?

You're making a very slippery argument here. You started by asserting that things are worse in the UK than elsewhere in Europe and this is due to Brexit, but you didn't name any specific way in which things are worse. So you were called out on it because this discussion is about a single data point - food price inflation - which is not different to elsewhere. Now you're saying well no, but if things were worse then it'd be the fault of Brexit.

HN discussions on anything UK related seem to always be like this nowadays. Intellectual curiousity is dead, killed by motivated reasoning. "Things are worse, I won't say what, but if anything is worse, then it's clearly Brexit and not anything else". That's not a valid argument, it's not even an attempt to lay the groundwork for an argument. We get it - you wish no country ever left the EU - but if you want to blame leaving then you need to show a causal relation, not simply assert that the EU can only ever make things better in any conceivable capacity.
The most useful part for me is the Today / What We Want / The Trend section at the end, which I think informs this from the referenced _Note_:

"Good experiments are well-designed experiments. Real experiments need a theory. They need something to prove or disprove. Experiments need to be slotted into some larger context of research, and their results need to be communicated to other practitioners. That's what makes them true "experiments" instead of private fetishes."
Elon isn't in charge of that. Various government officials that the people elect are. How well is that working out?

I'm glad that someone is forcing the move away from fossil fuels. Because even in a "progressive" bike friendly town, I see how popular that is. Not very, even among the young and childless.

And self-driving doesn't have much to do with saving the environment. It's about saving lives, considering the massive number of people killed and injured by cars every year. As far as ways to get rich and things for the wealthy to spend their time and money on, that's a pretty good choice in my book.
List of highest-income counties in the United States
Ok that’s it then it’s time to run doom on my toaster, rendering onto bread… input will be tough though
I think it can maybe make sense for the software to treat them as different.

But "you don't have any alarms" when I ask about my alarms but I had actually set a timer is an unacceptable response, in my opinion. Both kinds of things encode "make a noise a time in the future I specified." Differences beyond that are minor.
> and are also one of the ones that can be changed later

Frankensteinian surgical mutilation is not really "changing genitals".
Regular phishing. Oopsie!
My argument is that the system is good enough to get the kids to their biological upper bound. Otherwise, we would be able to increase their IQ further through other means, but it seems we just can't.

I don't think the school system is necessarily efficient at it, but kids do spend an insane amount of time in school. I imagine people would reach their athletic upper bound too if they spent 8 hours a day in the gym from the age of 5 to the age of 18.
They're not 'officially' supported like you say, but Navi21 cards (6800-6950xt) have undergone the same QA validation as the officially supported pro cards.

https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/1714#issuec...
FreeBSD & OpenBSD documentation are pretty good in the OS space.

[1] https://docs.freebsd.org/en/

[2] https://www.openbsdhandbook.com/
Yes, and the idea of using php.net/<function name> as a lookup (which has been the case for decades) makes it so painless
What’s interesting though is that it doesn’t prevent morphine from working, so they could still abuse opiates, it’s just more expensive.
> The website must either be very noteworthy or some content from the website must have received at least 100 points on Reddit or Hacker News on at least one occasion.

It's great we now have an elite (10kb club) of the elite (100+ points on a link curator). I don't think this is particularly useful for discovery.

My new club, the 5kb club, requires at least 200 internet points, to be a member of the 10kb club, have met with the Queen before she passed and be under 5kb.
As someone you are referring to, though not on the spectrum, I can say confidently that eye contact has a negative impact on my following of a conversation. This is more true when the conversation requires more thought to contribute meaningfully.

Perhaps interesting is that I do have a mild form of Tourette's syndrome. Eye contact for me very quickly becomes "itchy" and there is a lot of focus required to ignore that feeling for a lengthy conversation.
The best I've seen were the Tandem manuals. This was 30 years ago.
How the Eel Almost Became America’s Thanksgiving Food
I worked in Investment banking, at Microsoft and Amazon.
I can tell you majority of team at Amazon and facebook have 0 work life balance.

When you work in Investment banking you are not expected to get 3 call at 3am every night including weekend and have to wake up get a coffee and work for 3+ hours to fix the problem the intern or idiot from another team (not your team) caused.

in Investment banking you can take a 2 week vacation without the whole company catching fire.
Expanding on this:

Windows expects the system clock (the one you can set from the BIOS that keeps time when you don't have NTP) to be set to the local time zone by default. Linux and most other operating systems expect the system clock to be set to UTC.

Usually it's easier in a dual boot environment to set your non-Windows operating system to treat the system clock as local time, most Linux distros literally have a checkbox for this, but sometimes this isn't an option (IIRC Mac OS on a Hackintosh is one of these cases) and sometimes you just want to stand on principle that UTC is "correct" and make Windows adapt to what the rest of the computing world agreed on.

In that case, you can open up the registry, navigate to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation", and create a QWORD "RealTimeIsUniversal" which is set to 1. Reboot and now Windows will treat the system clock as UTC.
Either destroy it or improve it in a materially important way.

Nate Silver has a good observation on the latter, "Mastodon seems like a honeytrap for hall-monitor personality types. Honestly if Elon gets all the hall monitors to migrate to Mastodon that might be his greatest contribution toward the betterment of humanity." https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1594350639844294656
I don't care about how big a page is. I care how fast it loads.

And some of these pages fail that test badly. For example, sdf.org takes a whopping 1.60 seconds for the home page GET request to return a single byte.

I'd like to see a new leaderboard of 'instant' pages. An instant page is one where a typical user click has the result fully rendered inside 100 milliseconds (almost imperceptible latency).
HR has had strong opinions about who to hire in several recruitment processes where I’ve been the hiring manager. It’s true that the final decision is typically made by the hiring manager, but in my experience the power dynamic is not as simple as you portray it.
I think it partly depends on what you buy. I haven’t seen it much. E.g. sometimes there are few eggs, which I guess is due to the bird flu situation. And sometimes I can’t find generic ibuprofen. Minor stuff. But some people I know have things they used to buy weekly and now sometimes can’t find for weeks at a time.
Aren't states free to adopt or drop the CFA franc? How does that make them colonies?
>Approaching to be a friend

>Approaching to be a friend because you want to have sexy time later

Some would argue that first almost always implies second
Some countries in Europe still have pretty easy to get work/business visas.
The built-in documentation of QBASIC.
I think Thatcherism was the start of it, like Reaganism in the US. But it reached a peak during Labour.
A driving school merely needs to buy the ones that are suitable for their students and can do so from among all the cars. Whether 20M other cars have what is, in your opinion, an unsuitable transmission for driver training doesn't seem limiting.
There's Ireland if you can afford it. I'm seriously considering it.
There is no reasonable way of proving casually in a world where we have been subjected to a permicrisis, some of it outside of our control, for the last 7 years. You can't easily separate one element of a multidimensional puzzle which is the state of a whole counties economy.

However, the idea that leaving the biggest trading block in the planet in exchange for a couple of piss poor (by the admission of those people who negotiated them) trade deals with small economies on the other side of the world hasn't damaged our economy is the more extraordinary claim.
Not just UK, the whole EU is basically flat since 2008 whereas US, China and India are growing like crazy.
> Obviously to exploit anti-union sentiments for political gain.

and how effective has this been?

if the UK government doesn't permit it: it doesn't happen, end of story.

> It would be followed by Ireland and the end of the union.

I have news for you, Ireland left in 1921

(if England does end up being independent again its citizens would be significantly better off as the subsidy to the other parts of the UK are quite considerable)
Convenient way to avoid the question. Where would you go?
Maybe try twitter
How the First Transistor Worked
> The First Digit bears no connection to anything

One pattern is: If first digit is 3,4,5 then it has one AVX512 FMA unit, if it is 6,7,8 then it has two.

...except the 5122 (2), 5219Y (2), 5222 (2) and 6122 (1)
Five Things I Hate About Ruby (2015)
It's the war in Ukraine and not Brexit in my opinion.
Or PHP
IMO the numpy docs are great: https://numpy.org/doc/stable

There’s always good explanation and examples within their docs
"looks like" does not mean "is"- especially when the person commenting "looks like" didn't actually use it. It's pretty easy to build something that only "looks like" a saner nix.
that should have been a research project on how to do school properly :-)
I bet some phd in education could easily have published a research paper on this.
Web is inherently slow.

You need to try hard to build a slow desktop app (using native libraries). There're some simple rules to follow if you want a snappy desktop app (like running heavy or I/O tasks in a separate thread). If your app is huge (like MS word), it might be slow, but that's another level of the problem.

There're no simple rules if you want to build a snappy web app. You need to think about performance on all levels. You need to think about TLS handshake. Does your certificate fits into first TCP packet? Does your entire conversation fits into first ten TCP packets? That's hard stuff. Is your CSS layout fast enough? Did you think about every resource your website uses?

That's just an observation. I don't know what to do. I don't even know how would I make it better. Web stack is mostly reasonable. Sometimes web stack goes to great lengths in pursue of performance, like replacing TCP with QUIC. That's huge technical accomplishment. WebAssembly is pretty fast for a sandboxed VM. JS is crazy fast for a dynamic language. Yet some startup webapp will make 60 HTTP queries on its first page and that's considered a norm.
I've asked a lawyer about this general topic before.

I'm not quite sure if he was merely protecting his fiefdom by wanting to make writing out legal documents as confusing and incomprehensible as possible, but he said that the complex and formal legal language that was tougher to simply read was the equivalent of complicated defensive programming to ensure that "edge cases" in code that weren't handled properly didn't exist.

If you write out terms of service in simple and plain language you might miss something, or a court might find some statement inadmissible or interpret it differently than you intended.
Django is one of the gold standards for me.

Great examples. Clearly noting what versions things changed. Ability to switch versions at the click of a button.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/
Right click -> Sort by -> Date modified.

And no, he should definitely not ruin the immersion and put some random default sorting in the blog folder. Bad suggestion.
All sources of emission are real problems, because the consequences of emissions are catastrophic. The issue is to prioritize which ones to work on first. Flying is nice, but less necessary than many other human activities. Living at a continental or planetary scale is completely unnecessary.
> Or whoever Dr. Grande is?

Apparently he has a Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision, who primarily spends his time psychoanalyzing pop culture and celebrities on Youtube. I guess in the year 2022 that makes him a qualified professional worth listening to and discussing on this forum regarding his thoughts on IQ?

https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddgrande
TF2 is amazing these days as well. Lots of crazy, fun stuff going on in community servers.

https://www.gametracker.com/search/tf2/