skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed that's so, but it's not what I said. Those politicians want to dismantle the NHS because they believe that it will inevitably fail regardless of what they do, indeed that it already is failing, and that there's just no way to make that structure work, no more than the USSR could be made to work. That's not the same as wanting it to fail. Clearly life would be easier for them if it weren't the case as then they could avoid being blamed by voters for it.

The book doesn't say they want to replace the NHS with a US style system. Have you read it? I haven't but according to the Guardian - the least friendly and neutral reviewers imaginable - they argue for a French style system instead:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/aug/22/britannia-u...

Sometimes these are less fearsome than you might expect – Raab likes the French healthcare system; Truss admires the German economy – but often the foreign models cited are Asian

Observe: no mention of the USA. But it seems that the book must hardly mention health, given that healthcare isn't even mentioned on the Wikipedia summary of the book and the Guardian review mentions it only in passing.

The idea that the Tories hate the NHS for ideological reasons and want the US system is a common idea on the British left, but that's not what they really think. What they really think is that the NHS is a lost cause and a European health insurance model would work better. They also think a US style economy would be beneficial. Given that the US is now a lot richer than the UK and their economy is motoring ahead, it seems the book's prediction of a "slide into mediocrity" has come true. The ultimate determinant is wealth - given enough of a gap, a poor Britain will always have worse outcomes than a rich USA regardless of how healthcare costs are paid.
We do physics this way exactly because it works so well - it is "unreasonably effective", as the saying goes.
They're working quite well in Ukraine
To be honest, I would prefer to have my guts sprayed with honey and exposed to a large colony of ants.
agreed, WSL1 was an ambitious, cool project
Yeah, this comes up over and over again: people see that connections are being made, but because it's hard (not impossible! but considerable work) to trace where they're coming from and what they actually _contain_, we're left with ambiguity.

(you'd need the Windows kernel debugger and to reboot the thing in developer mode. This is a pretty niche skillset)
A cooperative booking organization would have strong incentive to keep their members in the straight & narrow. It is a cooperation problem and institutional enforcement is a proven recipe for ensuring that.
OpenSUSE to be precise. Having participated in a few of their community hours and learned that they are actively working on containerizing the server. This approach will eliminate the need for specific requirements and allow the server to run seamlessly on top of any distribution.
What's the point of comparing all US states to single European country? The same it doesn't make sense to compare all EU countries to single US state.
That's awesome! Benefits of open licenses, it's a win-win for both parties.
It isn't controlling behaviour if you both have equal input into designing the budget, and both agree to and support the idea of having a budget in the first place.
It's very hard to anonymize a crash report if it's more than just a backtrace. If it contains any user data - which might be relevant and useful to debugging! - it's not anonymous.

Edit: wondering if the correct approach is actually a GDPR one ...
Doesn't it get loads of dust?
What do you mean? Soberity is indeed not fun, it's just more peaceful and not miserable.
This stinks a bit of survivors bias, for every successful person who tried "built it and they will come" there are 1000 people who failed and had to go back to whatever they came from
There's a lot of memorial benches missing in the area I'm staying at in Malvern, UK. But I found out that C.S Lewis have a bench dedicated to him by the local theatre.
LazyVim isn't really like those "fully fledged" distributions as it doesn't include nearly as much stuff.

I did find this comparison not too long ago https://medium.com/@adaml.poniatowski/exploring-the-top-neov...
> there's no substance on what is actually sent.

Does Microsoft provide any transparency on what is sent?
Yeah using data from a 7T MRI giving higher spatial resolution definitely helps!

The fMRI dataset includes signal from the whole brain but we only use the data from the visual cortex for this study.
If I remember well the operations of the root DNS are delegated to other companies/organizations (Verisign for example).

I don't know how easy it would be to insert lies in the root DNS servers, without it being spotted, and without it triggering a potential war if it impacts ccTLDs.
This is just a recency bias thing. There are gigantic private cars, private ships, private planes and even private rockets used everyday all over the world. Not to mention gigantic mining equipment, huge oil platforms and so on and so on.

Safety is always critical and commercial and non-commercial projects both can have safety issues or engineer something very safe.
He compared it to Windows XP not Windows 10? What's the point?, we already know that Windows 10 collects all the data
> forgive me if I am wrong. what I can see from rudimentary search on IR35 is that it is meant to make people pay the same tax whether. employed or working as a contractor.

It's not that you're wrong, it's that what you're suggesting is naive.

There is no "equivalent" tax rate when working through a limited company and when IR35 applies per contract and not per worker.

That's just not how tax works here. Instead you pay an accountant to estimate your accounts, hand them to HMRC and they either accept them as correct or hold a tax investigation.

HMRC can't and won't tell you what you should pay, they just say yes or no to the estimate you provide them.

There is no way to know what a potential future fine might be because they could reopen all previous year's tax returns.

If they can't tell you then how can anyone else know what they should set aside?
Yes, as they can expose sensitive data.

Doubly so if user isn't informed about that.
Not a book, but learning analysis changed my view on math. In my BSc in CS I only learned discrete math and maybe some algebra also a bit of geometry, but no analysis!
Analysis is in my opinion harder to start with and maybe requires some more discipline. I remember when I finally understood how to actually use the extreme value theorem or realising how useful the triangle-inequality is for proving.
Another cool thing about analysis is that all machinery you develop is used in applied math. The most useful math like Fourier, DE's, Stoc. Proc, SP is all analysis under the hood.

Another thing that chanced my view on math (somewhat depressing I admit) is how important programming and systems knowledge is for using math in the real world. We had a math 'expert'/professor write an important routine at work for a year, and we ended up deleting all his code and rewriting it.

I am also biased in this regard. For me maths is just another tool, but math is not about writing algorithms it is about writing proofs.
> Similarly to how Tesla's future failure or success is irrelevant as they've already succeeded in the most important task of proving that EVs can work

They’re still pushing forefronts. NACS and infrastructure roll-out. Iron-based battery chemistries. Cars versus only SUVs.
NULL terminated strings are a fact of life in many cases and C just needs lots of string functions to cater for different use cases. e.g. usually for me truncation is worse than crashing (corrupted data basically).

When I read arguments they are full of people thinking that their one size fits all and that somehow having too many variations would be bad.

This seems illogical to me since I've had to write my own string copying routines enough times because the one that fitted my need wasn't commonly available. Purism with C is just stu.... well anyhow.

A "good" fat pointer library for C would help a lot - something that could pop a NUL onto the end when you needed to put the string into an OS function but I would also have to groan at the idea that NUL termination should be outlawed in some way. At the C level you want options not limitations.
Ask HN: How do you manage a DevOps position with ADHD
Hi HN !

I'm wondering how you are managing a DevOps / SRE / infrastructure position with ADD/ADHD.

In my experience, it has been quite difficult because a lot of the time, the work makes us wait on pipelines to finish, machines to start, script to complete, cluster to respond... Without talking about the distractions of On-Call, slack messages, and questions from the rest of engineering.

During this wait, I can get distracted, and have a really hard time coming back to the task at hand, even sometimes forgetting what I was actually doing.

Do you have any good strategies for dealing with that ?

Thanks !
Totally agree. When he started saying "just write books and readers will come" I had to think about https://xkcd.com/1827/

Not to say that all he says is rubbish. "Pennyless beats bitter" is a good heuristic and shows that he does not claim that it could not have gone south.
100% and I dislike having two vim configurations to maintain which is why they also have https://github.com/LunarVim/nvim-basic-ide

With LazyVim I basically got rid of the both, and now my vim config is literally a few overrides https://www.lazyvim.org/configuration/general that are not distribution specific at all.
> I don't doubt that Windows collects and transmits telemetry data (hell, text editors do that nowadays), but if an analysis of that exists, it is not in this article.

Such an analysis does not exist because that traffic is encrypted. Which is also the reason why using Windows 10/11 is not fully compliant with EU privacy laws in places like Germany, as there is no telling what Windows is actually phoning home.

Officially Windows 10/11 can be used but only after jumping through a lot of hoops that involve turning off the telemtry and phoning home, but even then only with an "acceptable residual risk" [0]

The only reason this isn't a bigger topic is because there is no realistic alternative; Everything is tailored to MS, and MS spends absurd amounts of money and effort to prevent anything from changing that.

So the majority just goes with the "easiest" and most convenient solution, even when it might actullay be an "illegal" solution that enables a ton of industrial espionage.

[0] https://www.heise.de/news/Datenschutzkonferenz-Hohe-Huerden-...
I argue "buying out the competition" has always been FB's MO.

They are not even remotely close to having the technological foundation of Twitter and FBs internal incentive structure fortifies short-term thinking.
I think he is doing other things these days https://research.redhat.com/blog/project_member/ulrich-drepp...
Trouble with Lichen by John Wyndham (1962) [video]
On the other hand, Bulgaria used to be significantly more developed than Romania back in the early 90s, yet has been significantly surpassed in 2023. Granted, Bulgaria isn't using the euro yet but the BGN has been pegged to the euro since the late 90s so for most intents and purposes it is using the euro.

IMO this is a better comparison than with Poland and the Baltics since Poland is a massive country and has 5x the population so there are a lot more factors at play.
> Now we face new challenges: figuring out which data should be moved to the edge, finding efficient ways to transfer data from centralized data centers to the edge, and keeping everything in sync.

Why would you need to do this? D1 is meant to be a complete database and intention is to host everything there.

> However, when you involve a database, this advantage starts to fade away.

Why? Define database and what your needs are. Dynamodb or Cosmosdb for example can be multi-region read/write databases. You can deploy it in every region supported if you need to. What is missing?

Other examples...

- Mongo Atlas (hosted mongodb) supports global multi-region.

- Astradb (hosted cassandra) supports global multi-region.

- Cockroachdb supports global multi-region. It has a more interesting approach of allowing you to specify the "home" region per row.
Without consent? Definitely.
"Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner" [0]

[0] https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017...
The secret ingredient is crime.

Microsoft is as big as if is today because it broke the law in the past and avoided severe punishment from the DoJ.
> I think you could fit compressed county-resolution basic weather data for entire countries into a few kilobytes.

More than that, you could compress city-resolution detailed weather data into couple dozen kilobytes. The easiest way to see it is to observe that, if your app downloads some kind of weather map image generated on the server, then that image already encodes some of this data directly, through colors of the pixels. If you ignore human readability, you can pack much more information per pixel, at the resolution of... the image. And that is not even the most efficient encoding for it.

Hell, even dumb weather APIs that respond with weather predictions could pack several times as much data in the response if they ditched the horribly space-inefficient JSON response format. There's no technical excuse at all to not ship you the whole continent's worth of weather data with each update, removing the need for the server to know your location.
dau? Dumbest average user?
A new podcast for developers who love Postgres, Path To Citus Con
flashback, but reminds me of this

https://slate.com/technology/2015/02/lenovo-superfish-scanda...

> When Lenovo preinstalled Superfish adware on its laptops, it betrayed its customers and sold out their security. It did it for no good reason, and it may not even have known what it was doing. I’m not sure which is scarier. The various news reports of this catastrophe don’t quite convey the sheer horror and disbelief with which any technically minded person is now reacting to Lenovo’s screw-up. Security researcher Marc Rogers wrote that it’s “quite possibly the single worst thing I have seen a manufacturer do to its customer base. … I cannot overstate how evil this is.” He’s right. The Lenovo Superfish security hole is really, really bad.

'it did it for no good reason, and it may not have known what it was doing'
My whole computer is like this. I use sway/i3. On my home computer I don't use a login manager so you have to type "sway" to get something graphical. At that point you probably don't know the key combos to open a shell, much less a web browser. And, yes, I do use emacs...

My girlfriend simply calls my computer "broken".

One time my brother was in my study and I needed to shut down my computer. After bashing on the keyboard for ten seconds or so he commented "THAT is how you shut down your computer?!" It honestly hadn't even occurred to me it might seem weird from the outside.

I wouldn't have it any other way, though. Sure it's nice if a machine "just works", but machines don't just work. They are layers upon layers of complexity and if I have to understand them then I might as well interact with those layers directly.
As a developer that has has countless users spew bile at me for being unable to fix "it didn't save properly"...I'm quite split on the debate of telemetry.
> The best way to assess a startup's value is to play a bank evaluating them for a traditional no-frills loan.

In Shoe Dog by Nike co-founder Phil Knight, he describes how the banks kept refusing to borrow them money because they refused to value based on future cash flows. Eventually, Nike switched to another bank. The first bank could have made a lot of money there.

In general, even Buffett after years of very conservative valuations (Sigar Butt Investing) switched to "buying great companies at fair prices". Why would you buy a company that barely keeps up with inflation if you could buy one that literally grows exponentially. If you hop from Sigar Butt to Sigar Butt, you can also grow your money exponentially, but it's harder because you pay more taxes, brokerage fees, and have to work more on finding the right enters and exits. Conversely, if you are as clever as the Nomad Investment Partnership and just only bought and hold Costco, Berkshire, and Amazon from 2005 to now, you would have gotten great returns on investement without having to do a thing.
next step: milk cattle? (although they have the XX/XY system)
If you work as a contractor in EU, you absolutely need multiple clients. Single client sets many red flags in tax office, and should be avoided.
How about dividends and stock buybacks? How do those help the poor? If trickle down economics (read: giving money to rich people in hopes that they don’t just hoard it) actually led to more jobs, more housing, and better mobility instead of the opposite, you wouldn’t have to pay off economists for them to advocate for it.
No, we do physics this way because we don't know any other way. When this way fails (e.g. quantum gravity, turbulence), we assume that the problem is that we haven't tried hard enough yet. Which may be true, but it's also possible that the computational approach simply doesn't work for those phenomena.
> Anecdotally, everyone I know that used Firefox has stuck with it

You guys know people that use Firefox?
I hope not, as entire reason he went there was to punish the bankers for their role in the 2008 financial crisis ;)

(https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/zzhd9/comment/c69cam...)
> Where I live, the subway comes every 3-5 minutes, like clockwork.

aka, you've just qualified your use of public transport with the condition that you would not ever need to wait more than 3-5mins. What if you had to wait 30mins or an hour?

In the majority of cities in the US, esp. slightly more rural areas or smaller towns, this is clockwork public transit is highly unlikely to be the norm.
The crash reports are only looked at by automated systems and by Microsoft developers who can only temporarily keep them on their machines. Microsoft is interested in improving software and not violating people's privacy.
Where would you drive a car like that then? On your driveway?
> What you call "cut down tall poppies" others call "correcting thousands of years of aristocracy-fuelled unfairness". European wealth has much older roots.

What does taxing _income_ of upper-middle class high-earners (who are probably coming somewhere from Eastern Europe and are not related to Habsburgs or something) have to do we dealing with _generational_ wealth of old-money families? In fact, descendants of well-off parents seem to do just fine. If anything they basically becoming landed gentry considering how unattainable housing has become.
Beta Alanine has a propensity to depositing itself in the olfactory bulb, so do we see diseases or malnutrition?
> I don’t think smell is essential to taste in general

Depends on the ingredient. Some, like cinnamon, rely more on the sense of smell, while with others it doesn't matter much. In the end other senses always have some kind of effect on it, even if it's just the placebo kind.
Wouldn't really talk about aviation. We're still killing lots of people due to dodgy maintenance. Lack of understanding brought us popular hits such as the Hindenburg, and cars/ships/etc don't fail as catastrophically but they break all the time.
> Do you have any good strategies for dealing with that ?

Instead of thinking of that as the "problem" -- maybe it's an "opportunity".

> During this wait, I can get distracted

Well, great! Fix the wait. Ask the questions during the wait. Why does it take so long? Can you optimize it? Can you fix it? Can you run it in parallel etc...

I don't think there has to or should be a long wait. Most infrastructure builds, CI/CD etc are bloated, unoptimized and take too long for no reason.
> Seems like it's still working quite well.

one could say the same about exxonmobil, chevron and haliburton
Dagnammit - I thought it was going to be a video version, but it's just audio.

As a John Wyndham fan, I reckon it's about time there was a film version of The Kraken Wakes.
Portable Grindhouse: The Lost Art of the VHS Box
It just doesn't impress people anymore compared to what the recent AI wave is capable of
That's weird. A cat is a cat is a cat, any alien with a visual organ and a perfect ability to paint, would reproduce the same thing.
Inside his mind he might have completely different associations with the image, and this weight manipulation trickery doesn't get us closer to those hypothetical associations.
One of the many reasons I never run Windows natively any more. If for some reason I need it(rare), it's always in a VM, preferably with no internet access.

Turns out it was a good policy to have, because when I built a new desktop/home workstation system recently I happened to go with a gigabyte mobo, which has that firmware hole enabled by Windows essentially willy nilly downloading and installing whatever unsigned blobs you throw at it.

Had I ever installed windows directly on that machine, I would have had to assume every component with any form of non-volatile storage on it(i.e pretty much every component except maybe the CPU itself) was potentially compromised, making it useless as a workstation, at least in doing any kind of work for customers, which I prefer to do from home. Because once the firmware is compromised, all bets are off.