skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most affluent European nations have seen net negative economic growth for the past 15-20 years, and in some cases for a generation (France and Britain).

Now they're commonly seeing population contraction or flattening.

They already have high taxes.

They're in deep shit and it has little to do with Capitalists taking over their healthcare systems. The math was always going to take them here. Only per capita economic growth to offset the aging and population shrinkage can save them, short of epic scale high income immigration.

30 years ago Germany's GDP per capita was ~$26,500. That's $57,000 inflation adjusted. The projected GDP per capita for Germany in 2022 is $48,000.

30 years ago France's GDP per capita was ~$23,800. That's $51,300 inflation adjusted. The projected GDP per capita for France in 2022 is $42,330.

30 years ago the UK's GDP per capita was ~$20,500. That's $44,200 inflation adjusted. The projected GDP per capita for the UK in 2022 is $47,300.

30 years to end up with a net contraction or otherwise close to flat. And these are supposedly the economic giants of Europe. In some cases it's even worse than it seems per capita, as eg France has added nine million people in that time; the UK has added ten million people.

The same scenario is playing out for nearly all the affluent European nations.
WhatsApp is 100% needed in countries like mine (Argentina). COVID-19 vaccine appointments came via WhatsApp in Buenos Aires, most people require it for professional reasons, school parent groups and similar happen in WhatsApp, social life requires WhatsApp. Now iOS or Android are interchangeable… nothing demands having one or the other.
Oh, it's worse than that. There will at least be civil suits. Possibly criminal prosecution.[1]

NYT: "Mr. Bankman was deeply involved in FTX. In its early days, he helped the company recruit its first lawyers. Last year, he joined FTX staff in meetings on Capitol Hill and advised his son as Mr. Bankman-Fried prepared to testify to the House Financial Services Committee, a person familiar with the matter said. FTX employees occasionally consulted him on tax-related matters, the person said. Mr. Bankman visited the FTX offices in the Bahamas as often as once a month, a person who saw him there said. ... He and Ms. Fried stayed in a $16.4 million house in Old Fort Bay, a gated community in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas; the couple’s names appear on real estate documents, according to Reuters, though Mr. Bankman-Fried has said the house was “intended to be the company’s property.”"

His class at Stanford has been cancelled.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/12/technology/sbf-parents-ft...
There is a lot more to it than that. If we can stop caucasian-washing history for a second, britain did not simply arrive in india, and leave peacefully either. They lied about their motive as a trade company (the east india company). They used religion (Christianity) To scout the local population and worked with priests/nuns to see if the land as able to be invaded. And when they left they split the country into two, not really considering the implications of dividing a country in half based on their whims. (spoiler alert it caused a massive civil war and had a major historical figure killed). Trusting Britain, and not inventing the machine gun was the biggest mistake India could have done.

Britain literally employed slave labour on the local population, implemented a class based system which destroyed the local population, and murdered anyone who tried to rise up against their tyranny. Sad our history books conveniently ignore the evils of the empire's and the destructive effects of colonization we feel to this day.

During Britain's colonization period of india other channels of foreign trade with India like the French, the Dutch, the Portuguese and the Americans were driven out by vicissitudes of war. Solely the British now controlled the Indian trade with rest of the world.

You can imagine what happens when a foreign invader like Britain can do when they control a soil-rich country such as India.

Britain changed local laws and allowed the new Capital holders’ to own
land in India. The British bought lands for plantations, which were manned by Indian slave labour. Thus even the agricultural export profits benefited only the British plantation owners, and not the starving labourers.

Britain resold Indian produced goods onto the global market for massive profits.

Indians were put into debt by the British during their rule and while they had the engineers to build their own cheaper alternative railways, they were forced to import British railroads and had to pay for it, as their exports were funneled from their home country to various parts of britain to be exported.

There is a lot more i could go into on this topic, but this isn't some sort of "woke police", this is pretty established history. Britain did invade India, this was a thing that happened, it was pretty horrible, sad we don't teach our children about the horrors of colonization.

http://www.srimatham.com/uploads/5/5/4/9/5549439/how_the_bri...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_jGPf764d0&ab_channel=VICE

https://qz.com/india/290497/the-forgotten-story-of-indias-co...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2756302
Before I could legally vote, the phrases "taxation without representation" and "consent of the governed" certainly struck a chord or two.

They still do.
Needs more until it is fully distributed.
You're exactly the person the top of thread person is talking about. When Apple was forced to allow 3rd party payment processors they still charged developers a 27% commission on the sale of digital goods.
On Safari macOS 13.0.1 with the usual AdBlocker, I cannot scroll past the splash. Something seems to be covering it.

Anyways, Flickr was a large part of my life when I started with Sony's point-n-shoot digital camera in early 2000s. I started Flickr in 2004 with the gifted pro account for signing up and left it in 2015. The last-ish photo is of the one I laugh out aloud (alone in the London Tube) -- a marketing design trying to say that buying tickets were so easy -- but to hone in on what the picture meant, they had to write - (piece of cake).

https://www.flickr.com/photos/brajeshwar/19704146340/in/date...

My account says 11.7 Million views, so people seem to be still looking around while I'm away.
On Apple Music, I believe I need to be in Album View in order to drag the currently playing music’s timeline. Depending on the path I took to get the music playing, Album View may not be visible or simple to get to. If there’s another place other than Album View where I can rewind or fast forward, I’m not aware of it. I’ll need to explore that. In general, I take an album-oriented approach when listening.

If Apple is playing the long game and becomes classical music friendly, I’ll be happy.
Probably yes. What about the Volkswagen diesel emissions cheating that was approved and implemented by engineers?

It also might depend on seniority so you might not be on the hook.
My impression was completely opposite of yours. The whole article is on the merits of this construction method and how and why it has become dominant.
How do you view the role of your company in the grand scheme of things? Do you believe it's helping make the world a better place?
Yes they will have to. It is stolen money.
Ok, let's add numbers!

At some recent point 77% of Americans believed angels are real. That doesn't sway me as it's not evidence (of that, it is of the gullibility of the population).

https://www.salon.com/2014/12/20/7_things_americans_think_ar...

Edit: bumped up the percentage but it's moot
Which prompts the question the other way; developers notoriously don't like paying for development tools. Certainly at the hobbyist level.

For running a dinky little VM, I can run that for $5/mo on Digital Ocean or some other hosting provider.

For deploying a NixOS configuration, it's not too difficult to use nixos-infect, or to build a custom ISO. I've not even looked at NixOps or whatever.

What's the value add that's worth $12/mo for managing 1 server (i.e. more than running 2 tiny servers)?
Sounds like OP's assertion is that with 3rd party packages installing into /usr/bin, things are mingled to an extent that upgrades (even with a package manager) cannot be cleanly completed, and (perhaps?) disk partitioning can't be done effectively (eg in the case where your 3P app is an absolute disk hog).

I personally accept the second claim more than the first. UNIX used to have stronger standards here (eg /opt, /opt/etc, /usr/local, and so on) but I'm not sure if Linux ever followed such standards. And disk partitioning seems to have gone the way of the dodo these days.
>it is common knowledge that chip technology for purely military applications is usually 10, 15 years old

Is it? I thought that nowadays the consumer market often surpasses military stuff, where CPU is not the limiting factor and specialized chips are more an exercise in obfuscation in case shot down or customized for factors like extreme heat and it’s more areas like materials science where the military surpasses industry. (Heat/radar resistant tile … that sort of stuff.)
Huh? How do you subscribe to an RSS feed in Mastodon?
Helix is awesome. But the plugin system is not there yet, so it is limited to its core features. There are no extensions so you only get a very good modal editor with very well made core features based on its LSP and Treesitter integration.

The only reason I don't want to make the switch is the missing (but WIP) support for multi LSP which is essential for frontend stuff (e.g. tailwind with React or just basic JSX support compared to VS Code). Snippets are WIP as well, but I could live with a workaround like pasting them from somewhere else.
perhaps, pay cheaper in the legal battle, expect the legal case to drag out, and expect by then twitter to be bankrupt or make profit.
> none of what anyone said is about a self-sustaining reaction.

Actual power plants are self sustaining as in they use the electricity they produce to operate, it’s mandatory though not sufficient for any commercial fusion power plant.

So, this isn’t about a different way to “calculate reaction efficiency better than the physicists doing the work” he was directly quoting their numbers from the paper. It’s only a question of communicating the meaning of efficiency.

> this is about more energy leaving the reaction chamber than went in.

The exact same energy was there before and after fusion only it’s form changed. It might seem pedantic to point that out, but if you don’t make it clear people will misunderstand.

Also, the applied laser energy also leaves the reaction chamber so any fusion would be net positive thermal energy by that yardstick.
More "Go"ogle culture out in the wild.

I've seen these at a few companies now. I'm a little surprised they're still called "go"-links, though I suppose the name works everywhere.
Yes and you'll still have to pay Apple a 27% commission on digital goods sold even when it's distributed through the Epic store. This is what the parent is talking about not understanding what you're paying for.

Hitching your "I don't want to pay the 30% commission" wagon to "Allowing 3rd party app stores and payment processors" is doomed to fail.

This has literally already happened https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/02/apple-shocks-ios...
Forgive my ignorance but what is an EUV machine?
It's not like junk was a part of the name right?
If Trump was truly wealthy, he could have bought Twitter himself instead of starting a lame competitor. So Musk has really shown who's bigger and more important right now.

Musk can't be president, his birth certificate is not in order, but he can have all the fun and be a kingmaker, maybe.
Founder Interview: Hermeus’ Hypersonic Airliners – Airways
Not just to be tribal but is that any different from the majority of non progressive universities? I think there are still a small number of, generally small, schools that don't fit this description but beyond that it doesn't seem those quality are any different in progressive or less progressive universities. I'm certainly on the outside at this point in my life but it feels like a fucked up version of regulatory capture that has taken over the whole field. (Administrative capture?)
You can.
The article discusses negative things about FTX. What do consider a puff piece?
The entire world of airline coding (as in "encoding") is fascinating to me: there are all kinds of ancient semi-human-readable formats like ACARS[1] and IATA Teletype[2] that are still pushing data around. Not the mention standard meal codes[3], like BLML for "bland meal" and CLML for "celebration cake meal."

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACARS

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_teletype_system

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Air_Transport_As...
I watched the video on the site. I didn't care for the music, very jarring. Most of the graphics were bland such as all the gray blocks.

When I think of the fun NES games I played, they were not puzzle games. They were TMNT 2, Mario (obviously), TLOZ, Contra, Metroid, Megaman. Those are more action games, not puzzle games.

While watching the video, I couldn't really understand what was happening. You showed gameplay, but what was going on was indecipherable.

Anyway, maybe the game doesn't appeal to me, and it does to others, IDK, I don't spend much money on games. From time to time, I'll spend a couple dollars on a mobile game if I enjoy it. Maybe you should change your marketing to make it F2P and users can purchase the full game after 4 or 5 levels via in-app purchase.
You have a point, but you may be thinking of the CDOs they and other sold, knowing that they were full of risky mortgages but laundering them through overly-chummy ratings firms.
Not being sarcastic, but have to you considered Flickr or SmugMug (the company that bought Flickr)?
Sounds like a sociopath.
That's SIP, not Zip. Zip is like regular sheeting, but can have an inner layer of foam to thermally break the structure.
Assuming the game is "Hazmat Hijinks: Total Meltdown" on Steam. Here's some tough love:

The video takes way too long to get to gameplay. Screenshots do a poor job explaining what the mechanic is. I've read the capsule image, watched some of the trailer, looked at several of the screenshots and still can't tell you what the gameplay loop is. Sort of a top down puzzle thing? With a "match the color" mechanic? The art is not good enough by a mile. OK I just read some of the "About This Game" -- no one cares how many hours of gameplay, if it's so novel why can't you explain that better than "always something new", which is redundant. Surprises also feels like it's just more novelty. The first point about various suits is not exciting, why should I care? Having a handful of people really love it isn't sufficient. I had a game on Dictionary.com that people played hours daily, still couldn't make money from it.

Stepping back, I think there are ways you could vastly improve your marketing, but is it worth it? Take the "L" and move on to your next project. Use what you've learned to improve and "make great stuff." It's better to move quickly, learn, and make better and better stuff until you've hit on something that works. At least I wish someone had given me similar advice back in the day.

PS All this is coming from respect and recognition of the incredible amount of hard work and sweat you've committed to the game. You're a bad ass for working so hard and completing a game!
An enforced 'real names only' policy forces people to advertise things
Wow that's a cool idea to make little services accessible over your tailscale network. Kind of reminds me of tor hidden services for your own private use but wayyyyy better UI and experience.
You think airport codes are bad, try airline codes. The IATA standard is still only two (2) letters, leading to insanity like recycling codes after one airline dies, meaning the meaning of the code is time-dependent, and, even worse, "controlled duplicates" where two airlines are intentionally assigned the same code at the same time, since they fly in different parts of the world and pinky-promise to never overlap.

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/35907/do-two-ai...

Three-character ICAO airline codes are much better and used almost exclusively in actual flight ops, but for passengers it's still two-character codes all the way.
Can you gather, upload, and share a profile of the slowness using https://profiler.firefox.com/?
Arguments against youth suffrage remind me of other anti-suffrage arguments.

Perhaps schools could (and should) practice more of the democracy they preach (would 4th graders vote unanimously to ban math because it's "too hard" and expand recess because "it's fun?") and we could gradually phase in the things that citizens can vote for - rather than having a strict step function. Taxation with representation does sound better than the alternative.

Gradual/progressive suffrage would allow citizens to gain some actual experience with democracy – rather than living under a strict authoritarian system.
You can't distribute apps on the Play Store without using Google's mobile payments platform, giving them the 15%-30% cut that Apple takes. They're preventing competition in the mobile app payments market by leveraging their dominance in the mobile OS and mobile app distribution markets, just like Apple does.
I'd be surprised if you could claw back actual trades on an open arms-length market assuming that's what the FTX exchange was. In Madoff's case, there were no trades at all. Madoff collected the money from his investors, generated fake statements showing inflated fake balances and profitable trades (that never actually occurred) and then selectively doled out limited cash redemptions until everyone demanded their money back at once and the whole thing came crashing down. In SBF's case, it looks like SBF took money from his customers, and then bought or sold crypto in arms-length transactions on an open exchange. If that's the case it's hard to see how they can get the money back from the other side of the trades where his counterparties were buying or selling on the market in good faith. I think the only hope is that if they can somehow get the assets from his affiliated entities and/or reclaim assets that SBF and/or his companies still have control over whether on the block chain or elsewhere.
How to Fight Production Incidents? An Empirical Study on a Large-Scale Cloud Svc
Exactly the same here. I write Ruby for a living and use 'unless' where it makes sense or fits with existing code.

That said, when reading code, I often have to pause and mentally translate "unless" to "if not". This is especially true for more complex logic.

Elegant, yes. Additional mental overhead at times, certainly.
I mean, it's not like this was some super fine print detail here though... It (we hold your money/crypto for you 1:1 isolated and separated) was basically the entire point of the product.
> If they can get a continuous fusion reaction going converting the heat energy from that to electricity won't be a problem.

Even accepting the qualification that's not just a mere matter of engineering, capturing that heat from a source that hot is not without trouble. A bit like how there is plenty of energy in a single lightning strike and yet we can't easily catch it even though in principle 'just build a large enough capacitor and connect it to a lightning rod' is a workable recipe.

> Getting a contained fusion reaction that gives out more energy than input is the problem

Not in the least because the container itself is a very hard problem to solve.

> how to convert that into electricity is not going to be a problem.

It is also a problem, albeit a lesser one.

The better way to look at all of these fusion projects is a way to do an end run around arms control limitations with as a very unlikely by-product the possible future generation of energy. But I would not hold my breath for that. Meanwhile, I'm all for capturing more of the energy output by that other fusion reactor that we all have access to, and learning how to store it over longer periods. Preferably to start with a couple of days with something that doesn't degrade (think very high density super capacitor rather than a battery), but I'll take advanced battery technology if it can be done cheap enough per storage cycle. We're getting there.
And if cases are that bad their loved ones would probably install parental controls or an MDM to protect them against themselves.
I see on their site:

> We have no set hours or expectation that you’re online from 9 to 5. You create a schedule that allows you to get your best work done.

But no mention of part time.
Not sure about zero-hour or short contracts in EU, but

> hire the artist as a freelancer.

this probably could be an issue due to investor's funding conditions (I've obly heard things like this, not experienced myself, so not sure).

> Alternatively, hire them through an employment agency.

This is super expensive, especially for the short contract like 3-6 months, easily could be around x2.5 comparing to hiring fulltime. So for a startup this is usually not an option, just because of the price.
Show HN: Moved to a new house, brought something old
We moved in Feb. Removed my home lab from the old place, cables and all and finally had the time to setup. I've made very small changes because I really like it as is.

Image: https://hydnfiles.b-cdn.net/IMG_5968.png

Changes:

- Mounted at a more ergonomic height.

- New Peplink Balance 20x with 3 ISP load balanced using fastest response method.

- Flipped some devices around (for easier access to unplugging/power buttons)

- Offloaded 3 screens in home-office and gaming PC to a 1500VA Cyberpower UPS. So the in-rack UPS only backup servers and devices.

Hardware list:

- StarTech 12U Wall Mount Rack.

- Acer LCD monitor custom-mounted to a 1u top-mounted blank.
- EdgeSwitch 10xp.

- 16 port cat6 patch panel.
- EdgeRouter 10x. Replaced with Peplink Balance 20x. 10x better ISP load balancing.

- Netgear 4G modem (isp2), Motorola cable modem (isp1) and RPi 4.

- AC Infinity 1U Universal Rack Shelf.
- 1u blank.

- Thinkcentre M73p and Thinkcentre M715q.

- AC Infinity 1U Universal Rack Shelf.

- AC Infinity cloudplate intake fans.

- 1u blank.

- 1u CyberPower 500v UPS.

- AC power strip - Covered by 1U security Plexiglas.

- Not pictured are 2 Unifi APs and 2 Unifi AP Beacons, and a TP link switch hidden in the living room.

Here's the old setup - includes more details on all hardware and a pending review of the amazing Balance 20x: https://haydenjames.io/home-lab-beginners-guide-hardware/
https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/improving-ap...
This is it exactly. Opening up file explorer in windows can sometimes take 1-2 seconds from click to window usable. or worse, context menu on a file can also take multi-seconds. It's absolutely amazing.

Still, it could be worse, at least desktop environments aren't as bad as the mobile world where it seems like everything has to have a transition and animation.
But this is not an article. It's a story.
I'm not convinced "that sucks" is a reasonable way of describing what essentially amounts to people transferring vast amounts of wealth from an ostensibly unfriendly state to the US. This seems like something US authorities ought to encourage.
I can't go into detail without losing at least 20 bits worth of anonymity, but fwiw this internet rando claims to have personal reasons to agree with the last para.
Musk's Twitter reportedly hasn't paid rent on its office spaces for weeks
Do you think there's a practical benefit, or is it just more elegant conceptually?

From my limited understanding the idea is that instead of having vectors, quaternions, planes and so forth, these are all represented pretty much the same way. But as a working programmer is there a benefit to that? At the type level I'd definitely like those concepts to be separate.