skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>South of Wales benefitted greatly from EU funds. From renovating coal tips to employment schemes. I don't understand your point here, it was the EUs fault that the UK had run down regions... even though the EU gave them money????

yes - in the same way that it's the EU's fault that Italy and Greece and Spain have run down regions. The Euro is sucking capital from the periphery of the EU to the core... and because the EU has monetary union but not federal union there are only very small fiscal transfers in the opposite direction. This is in contrast to the monetary union in the USA where there are considerable federal transfers.

>This makes no sense at all

I will try and better explain. I think that the UK must stop blaming it's ills on its position relative to the EU; instead it must take the arrangements of other European states as a fact and make its own policy and direction. The obsession with the EU will change nothing - only internal reform of the EU to a fully federal state will change the current dynamic. The only real path for the UK in the EU is to fully join a fully federal state - I wouldn't mind too much about that if the commission was abolished, a proper civil service developed and the EU parliament had the final say over the civil service and the president (I would like a president who could propose legislation and dissolve the parliament for elections if legislation could not be passed).

However, I see precisely 0 chance of this happening in the next 50 years. After that I will be dead...

> Are you suggesting that we shouldn't have international trade?

No, of course not. I am suggesting that we see reforms and changes to our economy that enable us to have balanced trade with the rest of the world. The arrangement where we import vastly more than we export is not sustainable (in so many ways). The Brexit devaluation should have been helpful, but has been rendered moot by the very bad post Brexit trading setup. The end of the current pathway (and the pre-Brexit path) is a comprehensive economic meltdown a-la Greece in 2011; there is still sometime to avoid this - but Trussonomics showed that there is not as much as our establishment would like to think. This is the UK's fault and the UK needs to fix it.

In a way the Truss debacle has been a good wake up call - but there's still time for it to be swept under the carpet...
Still... better than my work PC.
Sadly.
You don't need science finction. Just on following on some online communities:

> :s/reptiloids/parasites/g
With one third of humans infected it's more like the plot of an upcoming documentary..
Google pushes emergency Chrome update to fix 8th zero-day in 2022
$440k for 2 jobs and a 3-month contract so $195k/job. For a front end dev w/ 2 yoe?
I guess you could rapidly run through all the options here : just examine the screenshot of each product to gauge its UI complexity.

https://alternativeto.net/category/developer-tools/git-clien...
> Opening a file is often done in creation, and `file:5` is a perfectly valid filename, so it's a bit debatable for a default.

It gets even more fun on Windows! Giving a filename of `foo:5` can result in a file called `foo` with an alternate datastream called `5`.
Usually because you avoid tax legitimate business pay (import tarrifs, vat)

Tax evasion may be profitable, so is shoplifting.
There is the idea that anyone that wants to be a leader probably shouldn't be a leader. These are the types of people who crave being in positions of authority over others. They'll step on anyone they need to in order to get the the top. They might be the leader, but they usually aren't necessarily the types of people that are looking out for the best interests of the people they lead.
>Professor Sampson asks: "Do you want untrusted companies screening at airports, watching school playgrounds or on hospital wards?" He gave the example of one such company that has won awards for work monitoring children on school buses in Scotland that is now on the new ban list.

is this an actual "professor" speaking sense? what do you mean untrusted companies? either hikvision exfiltrates data from the UK to china servers and there are logs to verify that or hikvision could remotely access any device even if it was not online or was online with security but they have a bypass, both could be verified but other than these two cases, what is this pre-emptive ban that could cost the public exchequer millions or billions for what? a hunch that, as they put it,
>"We are no longer asking whether certain security companies can be trusted, we now accept they can't, but we need to work out how to verify those we can trust."

so they will first ban hikvision, remove all their cameras from UK, replace that with a competitor, THEN authenticate the trustworthiness of hikvision and THEN maybe let them back in the market.

WTF thinks like that unless you have malicious intent?
The OSS community thought that Microsoft would destroy OSS, but the real danger is throwing some legislators in the game.. I always thought that the way that we would destroy OSS was making it political, but making it bureaucratic is a easier and cheaper way to destroy OSS.
And this is worthy of mentioning because?
I'm pretty sure a lot of what is described would fall under fraud in most jurisdictions if these things are in either of the contracts, as they tend to be in mine.

1. Length of hours worked per week and work start and end - if you are supposed to be working in times between 8 and 17 with a total of 37.5 hours worked per week if you do a couple 1 hour meetings between 9 and 16 for employer B every day then you have defrauded employer A because it would be impossible for you to make that 37.5 hours between 8 and 17 they are paying you for. You have deceived the company that you are working for them and receiving compensation while working for another company. It's pretty open and shut in legal terms and no but what about lying to a date pontificating is going to change that.

2. Do the contracts with companies have clauses about how they own everything you product technology wise while working for them?

on edit: changed time usage from American to Military Time / European in one instance so all usages were aligned.
> the 8088 sas connector is a serious contender for that honor

No connector with tiny springy bit in the socket instead of in cable is worth being called "good". But I do like the big pull tab
As is PET, the plastic drinks bottles are made from.
Take better photos with a Raspberry Pi Pico light meter
The difference between AWS/Azure and Google is that the former run a business.
Google is a cult with a subscription fee.
I can plug usb without flipping it 2 times
This is exactly what I am struggling with as well - what's the point of having it in the upstream, when developers CAN'T TEST THE DRIVER WITH THE DEVICE.
Just provide some stable API for drivers and let hardware developers do their job. Microsoft Windows understood this, why is it so difficult for Linux Kernel do get the memo.
The only reason Germany become such an export powerhouse is because their currency was lower than what it would have been naturally as a country. Because countries like Greece and Italy pulled the euro down.

This was very convenient for Germany as they could build exports cheaply.

If you don’t understand this, which is a very basic part of how the eu ended up as what it is, I would just question the rest of your commenting.
And it's fairly easy to separate in a recycling center, just hover a magnet over the conveyer belt.
> The phrase "riding shotgun" is in common use.

I’m in my 30s and this is the first time I’ve ever actually understood the historical meaning of this
I’ve called it Model-T development[1]. The Model-T brought standardization to building cars where companies only built to a very specific spec. It didn’t matter that some companies would be better than others, or cheaper/expensive. The point was choice, competition, and interchangeable parts. Granted, I don’t actually know about that, but that’s the end result.

[1]: I apparently deleted the post so I’ll have to undelete it and come update this comment.
> not using it to enforce their political aims.

Ah yes, the CCP, famously known for not enforcing political aims.
If you already need a dongle might as well just have usb dongle tbh.

There were some thin ones with retractable ethernet socket (via clever mechanics) but apparently pretty fragile
Pakistan is next.
Well, the fact that big American mobile operators outright blocked or delayed updates for months did not go unnoticed.

Testing is one thing, but in my first hand experience, many carriers used this "testing" as a convenient way to block phone updates without preloaded bloatware preferring their services or apps they were paid to put on the phones.
Exactly. We need RECURSIVE DIVISION of compute/state entities.

Our main mistake is that we invent a level of division, and never make it recursive, i.e. a class is badly designed to be an entire module, it can't contain classes (inner Java classes are not what I'm talking about), nor can classes cross machine boundaries easily in many languages and so on.

We need a unit of division that works across machines just as well as it works across files, or across statements in the same file, up from data centers to CPU instructions.

Our languages and platforms are full of the SAME THING but SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT, under DIFFERENT NAMES. You listed many of them. Machine opcode, expression, function, class, module, service etc.
> Mr. Article Writer is making $440k/annum from 2 jobs

He only claims to do this, but it could be just some fiction. I find it hard to believe that he is able to do this with a year of self taught practice to land two jobs paying 220k or he's extremely lucky to pass technical interviews.
The employment contract is an outdated relic from factory work, when it was actually reasonable to measure work in hours and an 8 hour shift made sense.

There are no ethical obligations for employees to follow employment contacts because there is a massive power imbalance. Workers are forced to accept humiliating and ridiculous terms, like peeing in a cup to pass a drug test, just so that they can survive.

2-3 hours a day of productive work is standard for office jobs. There's no reason to work more than that; you won't get paid more, they will just take advantage of you. There is nothing wrong with working another job in that case, so that you are paid proportionally to your output.
I wonder if they can use it? As a noob I see that crypto value is very volatile and don't have intrinsic value, unlike gold that somehow is accepted universally as valuable.
> And virtually all the plastic produced by Coca-Cola is 'new' plastic made from Crude Oil

Not in the UK. They've been using rPET[1] for some time and are now increasing the rPET content to 100% in their smaller bottles.

https://www.packagingnews.co.uk/news/environment/recycling/c...

> This milestone means Coca-Cola will have increased the amount of recycled plastic material in smaller bottles from 50% to 100%. Coca-Cola’s use of recycled plastics in Great Britain now saves 29,000 tonnes of virgin plastic each year – the equivalent of 2,292 double decker buses.
React was in-house framework.

In-house framework is fine. Just be Facebook with necessary resources.
I was curious would I get this https://humanstxt.org/hackers.txt, but nah.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15358356/what-is-the-use...
For windows I use Git Extensions; http://gitextensions.github.io/.
Really simple UI.
Most people buy their phone from a network provider / carrier. And when someone goes wrong, customers complain to the network - not the manufacturer.

That's why networks test firmware. Because they face the complaints and chargebacks when the phone breaks.

Mobile networks are, in effect, private networks. Your employer may prohibit certain devices from connecting to their in-office LAN. Or they may insist on specific devices which they know work well with their equipment.

Mobile networks can ban equipment which is stolen. I assume they can also de-register an IMEI if the handset if interfering with the network. Most countries have a regulator who can issue fines for disrupting the airwaves. But they are often unable to investigate non-systemic issues.
If they were uninsulated cables (like overhead powerlines) they might have just bridged two of them.
If we can grow lab beef and lab leather why do we need more than a few "sample" cows to get the initial cell lines?
Interesting. There was a prospect of me having 2 jobs and each one of them in a different country (within EU). I wonder how that would work.
Could it happen that someone has to bust their ass 14 hours a day because someone else works 4 hours?
>The pig is not the customer of the farm it lives on.

Not yet. Fortunately, Farmconomy 3.0 is coming.
Thanks, I might try to get this working with picroft
I do despise how little there is of examples in most of the docs. Go had a right idea of integrating example code into tests so not only there is one way to add example code, it is also guaranteed to be runnable.

It also have side effect of forcing developer to use their own interface they gave to users so they might notice it is shit before people start to complain (or leave defeated and search for different lib)
My bad, I should have directly given the explanation :

Energy is (by definition) always conserved.

What happens in a computer is that in order to do computation (in almost all of the computers we use today) you have to move around electric charges. This requires energy and converts ALL¤ of this energy to heat.

¤ Or almost : a tiny fraction probably ends in physical and chemical changes that slowly accumulate and degrade the computer.

It's because a computer is NOT a heat engine : it (typically) runs on electricity and not heat, and it's not the (quantum)"mechanical" work it needs to do in order to do computation that we care about. (Heat engine's mechanical work also often ends up (almost) all dissipated as heat by friction : consider a car moving on a level road.)

Also, by the fundamental principle of energo-informatics, it has to transform some of that electric energy into a form of energy that the observer knows less about (like random movements of particles we call "heat"), in order for the observer to carry computation, which involves at some point losing information about the system (you pretty much have to erase bits at some point). (Our computers are still waaay above the limit this creates - but we might hit it this century !)
Crafting a Blog
still everyone will have to go through the auditing process.
Stinky Blogging Stats (2009)
I was once part of a department that was so well-managed and functional that I couldn't quite believe it. Then when time came choose a new department head, someone told me that they had always specifically avoided people who wanted to lead the department for the job.
Do you have an example of this flow somewhere?

I never thought about prototyping it in excel and it sounds weird.

I'm intrigued
That 200K earner likely produces much more than 200K in value. They are a victim of theft from their employers, who steal their excess value.

Livability has nothing to do with it.
If the Euro was a currency backed by the economies of Germany, Holland and Denmark it would be valued much more highly than it is now. Because of this these economies have a relative competitive advantage compared to other similar economies.

If the Euro was part of a federal system with federal transfers - like the US$ then this advantage would be mitigated because the budget positions of the rich parts of the EU would be relatively weaker (due to transfers) and the periphery of the EU would have stronger fiscal positions.

>In my opinion that is a good thing, because stealing money from the people by devaluating their assets through artificial exchange rates is not the right solution for solving international commerce imbalances.

Fair opinion - but what is the solution? Do you agree that federalisation with fiscal transfer would be correct?
Precisely. But this is how it should be. The service is a part of the team, but automating the "mundane things" that people can delegate to machines, instead of doing them manually themselves.

This is why, BTW, I'm so dismayed Elon Must fired 85% of Twitter. Now many of their critical services have teams of zero or one developer. Those are basically dead services walking.
Yeah, it's pretty disappointing that most comments focus on the ideological aspect and celebrate the move while the picture is pretty bleak for Ghana.

Unfortunately, this story is not unique to Ghana and if the situation does not improve, I fear for how next year will look.
Untrusted companies are companies that aren't currently paying me in some capacity.
> remove all their cameras from UK

As per the article, even though some have opted to remove them they aren't removing them all. Just banning future installations.

> The new decision by the UK government includes a ban on the future installation of any security cameras...
> attestations of proof of who we are be damned, they just follow their robotic script. so we're just screwed.

Hire a lawyer and send a certified letter with return receipt requiring them to explain their decision, and prepare to sue. I'm presuming that this is a B2B dispute, and I notice that a lot of HN people are (rather counterintuitively, considering Y Combinator owns HN) scared of hiring lawyers. Unless that the records show that your old employee is the recorded administrative owner of the domains (this unfortunately happens frequently to small businesses), this should resolve this issue.
This was one of my first jobs at Blackberry.

It was considered the utmost priority for a call to 911 to be clear enough for the other side to hear that you are an employee at a testing facility verifying that the device does work and the other person can hear you and NOT dispatch emergency services....

Cops/EMTs show up, your firmware is junk.
Let's be clear though, pg has a substantial financial incentive in Musk succeeding, given that he's a VC and less employees/worse paid employees leads to (at the margin) more money for him.

Don't get me wrong, lots of people are spouting off against Musk for various unrelated reasons, but pg is not a neutral character in this fight.
DDD has become popular because it has a lot of shared responsibilities with microservices, without the DevOps overhead
I'm struggling to see an immediate payoff to anyone running an astroturfing campaign. Company directors that think remote work doesn't work for their company have more relevant anecdotes than random blogs (especially random blogs appearing months after mainstream media reported examples of the same phenomenon). And there are considerably less indirect ways for workplace-area caterers and commuter rail to try to hold on to what they have.

The payoffs in satisfaction to people that (i) like bragging/confessing about what they actually do or (ii) like cosplaying the antiwork rebel seems more obvious
I'm wondering if the desired outcome (return to the office) would be enough to justify the effort.

But I think that pretty soon, with help of various tools, injecting fake info on the net will be so easy and cheap that the only way to know truth from fake will be with the help of AI agents. If it's not already...
Is there not a financial incentive to perform? This is how American sports keep the All-Star games competitive.
One good starting point with code to follow along with is the chapter on Recommender Systems in "Dive in to Deep Learning."

https://d2l.ai/chapter_recommender-systems/index.html
I don't see anything in that article that makes the conclusion inevitable. It's a remarkable correlation for sure, but unfortunately it doesn't go beyond that. There's no pathway from infection to leadership (just a vague hypothesis that doesn't resemble the mechanism in rats and hyenas), and it doesn't look as if they looked at uninfected pack leaders. Perhaps pack leaders or strays eat more dead cat, or some other intermediate host of T.gondii. Perhaps they sampled in the wrong time frame. The full article might have more info, but the linked one doesn't.
The price will be increased until people stop buying (either because they do without, go elsewhere, or shoplift)

The cost of shrinkage doesn’t factor into the price a business can charge. You don’t decide “I will buy X for $1 and sell it for $3”, you go “I can sell X for $3, where’s the cheapest I can buy it and does it make sense”

Now if you have a competitor next door selling X for $2.50 you will struggle to sell for $3, even if your rent or your supplier is higher
Good policy. In worker owned enterprises that are run democratically the owner/employees elect their managers from the ranks. They act as manager for a term and then go back to their original position after the next election. Keeps everyone based in reality.
I mostly use the terminal, but for when I need to find stuff I like Sublime Merge.

https://www.sublimemerge.com/
"asymmetry" typically involves exceptional state/behaviour. It's an extra cost while you're building it, and it's an extra cost while maintaining it.
For example, a customer wants something special but it will only be needed by that customer.
Well, only if chlorine is added to the water. It should also emit oxygen.
Thank you for taking interest
Its definitely not a lack of confidence in USD or the feds. Relative to pretty much every noteworthy alternative, the feds have handled things a lot better.

- EU royally f'd with their stimulus & rates. Mind you, they were in a very precarious position to start with.
- China has proven themselves to be a house of cards with zero covid, massive public/corporate debt bubbles and Ji becoming god emperor.
- Russia is a glorified gas station with an economy the size of florida.

The reason for Ghana's action, Saudi looking to end petro dollar, China+Russia looking to form a block etc: US deep state ducking up big time.

The weaponised the dollar.. They've been ramping this up big time during the past few decades but the Ukraine War was a UUUUGE reveal the cards moment.

During the last 2 years, Russia was filling up their coffers with high oil prices. The US turned these foreign reserves into worthless numbers on a screen overnight with the press of a few buttons.

Now pretty much every country is looking at each other like "oh shit".
Teams is the app whose main proposition is "it's free with our O365 subscription". Feature-wise it's a pain in the ass every day.
I am using https://www.git-tower.com.
Interesting - 20 years ago we had a client who was a big publisher implementing SAP - it ran 2 years over the original timeline, finally went live in peak Christmas purchasing cycle. The system broke down, meaning they weren’t able to fulfil orders, and they went into administration in the following year…
I'm all over the place with pocket computing devices and remain confused. I once has an iphone. Beautifully crafted, both inside and out, but so frustratingly locked down that I was desperate to leave it behind. They have progressively opened up the platform, but it always lags behind (I remember I couldn't access the cloud storage from anything other than a mac).

My favourite devices have been more alternative. E90 running symbian, which was fairly 'open' for its time - I could install any software, proper multitasking. The N900 also, full linux system, great phone. But then the apps I find useful, are often not available for that platform.

At the moment I'm on Pixel, which has been a good balance between being well supported, while still fairly open. I can sideload apps, run a linux distro in the form of termux. As a bonus the camera is great. I have to remind myself that while it might not quite compare to iphones in terms of refinement and hardware, I do at least have more freedom on the platform, and it's easy to take that for granted until you lose it.