skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's false. Matt Taibbi never said that. Read the whole thread. He claimed the Twitter was effectively operating as a subdiary to the FBI. You can claim that was perhaps hyperbole, and that the Trump admin did make some requests. But the FBI was having regular meetings with Twitter staff, most of which had nothing to do with the Trump administration.
Corbyn is a hardcore anticapitalist whose aim is a socialist society (soviet block style). He is in favour of Brexit, too, for this reason. Same goes for McDonnell, a Marxist.

That's very far left and is opposed by most people including in the Labour Party. Basically, those guys were the Communist Party and unsurprisingly people did prefer to keep the Tories...

It was the same in the 80s when Labour was essentially unelectable. Blair saw that the centre left was politically the best bet, and pragmatically that social policies needed the private economy to produce wealth.
I don’t disagree but I would consider MS turning into the modern day IBM to be a failure.
Love it, couldn't help but sing!
Maybe Trump and acting DHS director Chad Wolf intentionally failed to act to stop it from happening. So many ways to coup.
Didn't down vote but, on the point of the electorate being responsible, you are correct.

What many observers fail to realise however is that, in our two-party system, we are usually voting for the least worst candidate rather than the ideal.

Next time around we have a rather unique situation where the 'least worst' is going to be hard to pick and many voters will, instead, simply abstain.
Moving goal posts, but yeah, Europe lacks a SV with venture capitalists raining money on every crazy idea, with Tony Stark like feudal lords pushing their minions to sleep in office with promises of free drinks and pizza, hoping to capitalize on the startup being sold.

Thankfully.
People like writing that is easy to read, not writing that is good. Newer generations don’t even read books. Try to write down, not up. Shakespeare was great. Nobody reads Shakespeare and if he wrote today people would tell him to knock it off, use the active voice, shorter sentences, more couplets.
Yes, I think this is true.

But it wasn't an active choice. By the early 1980s, most forms of manufacturing had become uneconomic because of union activity. And, amazingly, this is still the case (there is a refinery near me, was bought by Ineos, they had a multi-decade package of investment based on an agreement with the union not to strike, deal closed...union went on strike almost immediately, Ineos never put another pound in, invested heavily in Europe where unions are more co-operative, they are now beginning to shut down the refinery...it is that simple).

The only exception to the places you have listed is Manchester: towards the south of the city, they have built up a really competitive ecomm hub (with the airport, with the port, and with the support of local govt to build warehouses)...inflation has totally destroyed this industry (China subsidizes international shipping, most of these companies fulfilled orders for Europe/US out of the UK...the rise in air freight finished them). Glasgow is largely retail/govt-based, the North-East is seeing very promising investment in the free port but is very troubled, Birmingham muddles through.

The problem with things like manufacturing is that it overlays several areas that are problematic for the UK: planning, infrastructure, labour, labour mobility, energy...none of this stuff works anymore. For example, not many people know that one of the first modern CPU was made in Scotland (this was when Intel were making a similar chip for the first calculator in the early 70s)...but the industry just died in the 80s.

Again, people will talk a lot about deindustrialization but far less about why this happened. In the 60/70s, the govt invested heavily in local production, almost all of these companies failed or were sold to foreign buyers who could manage them properly (Rolls-Royce is the only exception I believe). There was no active choice, all other options were just removed by repeated failure.
Historically, unions in the United States have been strongly anti-immigrant because they were seen as competitors who lowered wages. Anyone who has been on HN long enough has seen the undercurrent of anti-H-1B sentiment whenever the topic comes up and a union would bring that nastiness and racism out to center stage.

No, no immigrants in tech are going to want to vote for a union because a lot of its members think immigrants are part of the playing field that needs to be "leveled".
> 90% of humanity would vehemently disagree with that.

> The USSR, North Korea, and Cuba all have/had lower levels of inequality than the west

> In China, hundreds of millions are wealthier than they were two generations ago. They have increased absolute inequaliry and increased equality at the same time.

Sources? Do you have any data or metrics available for your claims (outside of Facebook memes)?
I think good writing is more about the higher level: effectively communicating a point. Mechanical components, such as grammar, are important but don't help express ideas.

As a tangent, I think a lot of the soft influence you mention requires effective communication, not effective writing. In my experience, it's important to understand the context and information that others are working under/with, and to make sure that relevant information makes its way to people who need it.
M0. I’ve never seen an SoC with an M1, which is a core specifically designed to be implemented on an FPGA.

Cortex-R is also pretty common (R5 on Zynq-7000 and R7 on UltraScale MPSoC, for example)
I really wish I had your optimism, I just don't.
People like Sam Altman and Kai-Fu Lee don't hide that they are coming for our jobs. They don't even try to sugar coat it, "cognition/intelligence as a commodity" is what Sam Altman wants and he said that everyone working only with a computer is probably the first to go away.

I can only hope they are wrong by a decade or more like Musk was about self driving cars.
youtube is the only thing i find it hard to do without. i thought maps would be a hard one to give up but ive been using openstreetmap for 5 years now and ive only needed to use goggle maps maybe twice in all that time.

i would imagine its a bit hit and miss depending on where you live and whether there have been people contributing to osm in that area

i also don't have much use for traffic data which helps
you gain in gas savings what you lose in flexibility?
With IT spending forecast to rise in 2023, what does it mean for startups?
"Overture is intended to be complementary to OSM. We combine OSM with other sources to produce new open map data sets."
https://overturemaps.org/resources/faq/
I’m gonna snark on this one.

There is no mystery or surprise here. It’s basic functional qualification. You buy or make a thermal chamber and cycle release versions of your device before you ship one. This isn’t some uncatchable mystery, they just didn’t test adequately.

Depending on the product size and cost you may also do this to every individual robot off the line. This is not uncommon.

This isn’t “hardware is hard” this is “we thought it was software with screwdrivers.”
Are homophones considered as rhyming with each other? I’d assume that identical pronunciation is exclusive with rhyming.
The Linux foundation is heavily captured by companies like those others on the list. It only seems odd on the list for historical reasons.
It's not, the client is local.
Does it ultimately matter? The goal is to improve text communication with other humans, so whether that's accomplished by human or AI skills is not really important. We've used technology in all aspects to improve our quality of life, and this is another extension of that.

I think it's great OP decided to build a product to help them with this. It shows two great programmer virtues: impatience and laziness. And by posting it here, they can certainly bask in a bit of hubris as well. :)
First hit is free/cheap. This is common for dev boards for whatever component a company's trying to get you to buy a million of.
> I read somewhere that new versions of Office 365 applications would be in React.

I'll believe that when I see it. I think performance is too important to do vdom reconciliation on every keystroke.
>run circles around even an RPi 4 when it comes to doing something like controlling a long strip of ws2812b RGB LEDs

Why would a Raspberry Pi have any issue with this?
Laravel + Turbo + Alpine + Tailwind
> There is a problem with correlation vs causation in the article’s logic

No, there isn't. The causation is self-evident, and also unsurprising since it's the whole point of unions.
I assume they meant computing a minimal perfect hash, so they can seek directly to where the password hash would be in the file if it exists instead of binary searching.
End of an era.
The lack of thumbnails in the file picker was what started my KDE journey years ago. Doubt I'll ever go back to a GTK desktop but glad to see this finally implemented.
> Corbyn was a leftie ... but he’s a leader of a left wing party

Corbyn was hard left in a distinctly centrist country whose "Left Wing Party" is (despite its roots) very much left-leaning centrist, and who's only ever seen real success while occupying the middle-ground.

> voters want something like Tory-lite. Blair did that and no one wants to go back to it

If nobody wanted to go back to it then we'd have Rebecca Long-Bailey as Leader of His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition, not another centrist.
How will this impact googles ad business?

I thought Google was targeting using email content... Also this will impact their ability to use AI for things like spam filtering and smart labeling

"You upload a user’s S/MIME certificate and wrapped private key using the Gmail API, with the service account private key file. For each user"

If this is end to end encryption why are you uploading a private key to Google? Am I confused?
Do you have something to comment about the language, though?
They do marketing not music.
Why aren't poor Americans immigrating elsewhere if they have "nothing"? The poor in other countries are risking their lives to come to America.
This would be amazing if Google use anything like an open standard for
their cryptography, so that anyone can write and use interoperable
mail client plugins, or use GPG to talk to gmail users e2ee. Why am I
haunted by the suspicion that won't be the case?
+1, switched years ago, never looked back
The only reason blue collar workers' unions changed their tune is because they were unable to stop the flow of illegal immigration. On the other hand, restricting H-1Bs and green cards is a battle that many think they can win.
To everybody who thinks this is just correlation and not causation - read the post properly. They mention:

"Labor unions both sustained prosperity, and ensured that it was shared; union bargaining power has been shown to moderate the compensation of executives at unionized firms."

And give a link to a study. This result has been seen across countries, and is the CAUSAL link you're looking for.
Indeed. Lunduke's Linux Sucks series go into detail.
The audio trouble that's "not clipping" is perhaps a timing screw-up which means the audio frames aren't played back as intended.

Suppose we're working with 1024 frames, ie in stereo that's 2048 x 16-bit samples = 4096 bytes, enough to make about 24ms of audio at 441.kHz and due to a screw-up in the driver or subtle difference in how the hardware works, we're only delivering those frames to the card just after they're needed. Maybe 4 frames of audio are emitted before out 4096 bytes arrive on the card, so those 4 frames are nonsense (maybe left over from previous). This sounds... not great.

In a "low latency" mode we send less data, more often (that's what "low latency" means). Maybe we're doing 64 frames instead of 1024, but still 4 of them are nonsense because they arrive too late. Now, instead of a few frames, it's getting on for 10% of all frames that are nonsense, we can make out a tune but it's going to sound terrible.

The fact that repeatedly restarting sometimes "fixes" it can happen if it alters the relationship between when exactly the frames get sent and when the card asks for them by fractions of a millisecond, so as to adjust that 4 frames "lost". If we get it down to 0 frames "lost" it sounds perfect, 1-2 frames will sound much better than 4, while say 8 frames would sound atrocious.
It was definitely not neutral. But any effort by a government body to censor public forums crosses a dangerous line. It's not the FBI's job to do that, and they lose credibility in the public eye as a neutral arm of law-enforcement.
there is a market for supporting content creators. most people dont want or cant afford to pay. of those who do and can, many would prefer to do so ad-hoc (vs subscription). offer them that power and i think you'd be surprised. just like a waitress who receives a $100 tip.
Yeah. It’s fine. It doesn’t bother me. Gnome’s UI is consistent, has good fonts and margins, is minimalist, and gets out of my way. It has all of the settings I need in one consistent, easy to search place. I get the entire screen available to me with no huge useless dock or similar thing taking up real estate. It just works and works mostly how I want. :shrug:

It’s obviously not for everyone, but I like it. I also appreciate the focus and the way they cut out features that add complexity and inconsistency to the UI. So, I’m general, I’m a fan. It’s not perfect, but I like it a whole lot.
I moved from building sites on WordPress to Drupal about 5 years ago and never looked back. Thankfully I’ve only ever used the new (8+) architecture so I’ve never had to deal with all the procedural stuff.

I enjoy using the CMS immensely. We build sites with a lot of well-structured data (mostly transit, and other government) so Drupal is a great fit. We also use it to power some services and it works great headless. I don’t get the derision I see on HN about it a lot, but it doesn’t matter. It pays my bills. I don’t need other people to like it. There’s certainly a large community of people who do.
Depends on your needs.
A good CS undergrad is still very valuable, and for me a good structure, peers and context in which I just have to learn this help a lot, so I might’ve gone for a top CS uni or something. Besides you meet so many talented people.

Interactive online platforms are amazing nowadays so I would definitely try Datacamp to explore the basics and feel it out, maybe even stick with it if I’d see I can make a decent progress on my own.

And definitely would jump in the amazing online communities that are out there, make fun projects alongside others and so on.

I’d explore my bootcamp options too. If I’d see something like launchshool for DS, I would go for that :)
I keep it docked (mostly) and it works great.

My ONLY beef is that the AMD drivers do not work 100% with Blender so you don't get the accelerated Cycles rendering. Otherwise, it is great.
the first pass is usually an algorithmic digest. the human element is required to recognize a subset of all transactions as requiring further analysis. some transactions require special consideration in either tax or reporting contexts. if every accounting system were a relational database, and every entry had multiple foreign keys to every appropriate classification, we could virtually eliminate CPA's. as it stands each accounting system is bespoke and idiosyncratic. some of them record transactions on sheets of paper.

source: dating a CPA
In theory, neither is bad. It really depends on the implementation. We're too used to seeing gimmicky products. That doesn't mean we should discount something before it's been produced.

I'll let the product speak for itself.
I tried an obvious and uninspiring idea:

"online christmas tree retailer"

and I got back the equally uninspiring and almost certainly already taken domain names of:

christmastree, christmastrees, christmastreeshop
Is this sarcasm? I actually cannot tell.
There is a really interesting and seemingly important conversation going on about how globalization will evolve. This touches everything from trade agreements and financial unions like the one Britain exited to restrictions on technology export (e.g. to China) and data harvesting (e.g. EU server requirements) to new thinking about immigration (usually restricted) and labor (expanding benefits and improving wages, more often promised than delivered).

There are credible arguments for clear answers on aspects of this debate, for example that fear of immigrants is almost all xenophobia, as opposed to genuine protection for labor and the poor. (I’m not saying this, but in corners of the broader conversation, you can credibly make these sort of arguments.)

But I don’t think there’s a credible argument that this whole global conversation has some pat clear answer and this article seems to just be simplistically saying we need to go back to a wholesale embrace of globalization. It’s pretty polarizing, for example calling Jeremy Corbyn (a heroic figure to some in the left) an example of Labour losing its mind. It treats Brexit as unalloyed bad. No acknowledgement I can see of why so many people felt compelled to support it.

It feels to me a hard conservative opinion presented as The Truth. Compelling I guess if you agree but given how under siege globalization is right now feels odd to read something so unabashedly one sided. Even in The Economist.
If so smart move by Gates, he's got enough reputation problems as it is. In general I would not be surprised if more and more people are going to distance themselves from Musk over the next couple of weeks/months, at least until he starts behaving in a more rational and balanced way. I can't imagine that someone with his smarts isn't able to see that the path that he is currently on is leading straight to the abyss and even Musk won't be able to recover past a certain point. He needs to get this sorted out and soon.
I wonder how fast the PSRAM is. Is it 200MHz at 16bit?
(author) Did it have sound? What speed was it?
But several layers of parentheticals delimited by commas are ambiguous to parse in the general case.
Did I say Rishi Sunak was American? No, rather that he has strong connections with the US.

If I have a house in France and went to a French University does that mean I have strong connections with France. Of course. Likewise with the US.
I don’t think this is obviously true… We don’t know for certain the nature of reality, and cannot positively claim that a hash table would give the same results as a sufficiently advanced predictor, because it supposes the predictor is deterministic. Assuming the predictor is advanced enough to be considered intelligent, that might not be the case.
They don’t want to break the monopoly into parts, the want a part of it.
Common cause makes strange bedfellows.
It's not more a secret or shameful than a Hollywood director paying consultants in various aspects (from slang, history and politics to fashion, interior design, and cars) to make his mafia movie more historically accurate
This exactly mirrors my experience. I got started just before WPF came around. I felt pretty confident with winforms, and did eventually sink enough time to get good at WPF. But WPF was never really fleshed out, it was missing so many features, and I ended up re-creating several winforms controls that just no longer existed.

Then I stepped away from UI development for a few years. When I came back, WPF was in exactly the same state I left it, but we also had UWP.

I made one UWP app and decided to fully abandon Microsoft.

Microsoft is doing the same thing to the runtime, too. How many different versions of dotnet are there? Which one do you need? Are they interoperable?

I tried to build a little WPF tool as an internal widget at work. In total, there's five checkboxes, two textboxes, six combo boxes, a console shoved into a text panel, and a button. No textures or assets. I attempted to build it as a single executable for convenience.

What I got was a 140MB exe and a half dozen dlls.

Now I've decided to abandon C# entirely and move to something less awful. C# was my first real programming language, and it's always been the first thing I go to, but between Microsoft going downhill and all the technical issues, it would be less effort to learn Rust than to ever open visual studio again
In that case, Republican politicians publicly complaining about social media moderation in threatening terms would be far more problematic than the FBI notifying Twitter of tweets that are in violation of their TOS. Yet I don't remember the "Free Speech" proponents doing anything but applauding these types of "informal coercion."
I was cosplaying GPT on the first joke about a pun. I read the text without ever pronouncing it and parsing it right into abstract ideas on a literal level. It took me 30 seconds and reading it aloud to understand it. Had anyone told me this joke aloud, my reaction time would be much shorter. This joke relies on a level of senses and context that language model does not have. Ironically, when GPT-5 or 6 is out, this very post is going to be included into the corpus, LLM will learn to discard its own previous irrelevant explanations and infer the explanation of the pun. It is all fun and games to find examples like that but the rate of progress in this field is nothing short of staggering.
Lyft offers new incentives for its drivers to shift to electric vehicles
I had another case of the same development hell and I feel one coming in my current job soon. It’s easy for middle management to draw yearly plans in the slides. However reality can bite hard with silicon bugs, unusable libraries or even bugs in development tools.

This camera disaster was in a big old company. They wanted to get mpg pictures straight from the camera to show on other device. Half million € was gone between planing and first buggy prototype. A company was hired to design it externally. This external company generated design with matlab rendering it non-debuggable.

I think it’s managerial thing. I was screaming many times as simple developer not to hit own leg with an axe. But I felt like I was barking. Manager has always last word and there is a need for convincing to do technically sane thing. Now I just do what I was told. Even when technically it makes no sense. I don’t need additional tensions with insulted manager (anymore).
The people who had access to them previously had a modicum of ethics, the current management not so much.
Closed source or not, the trust comes from provider serving you the same payload. Even if it was open source it could be changed.

So if you care about that you can't trust any webmail. Instead use Thunderbird/mutt/whatever and GPG/PGP, like you could for the last 20+ years.
So because most people on this site are American and might misread the title, the authors have to consider changing it? Why would the authors of Carp care about the demographics of Hacker News?