skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the U.K. we allow our elected representatives to “nominate and scrutinise” appointed positions in the House of Lords.

The result is a bunch of dodgy appointments in exchange for political favours. The whole process reeks of corruption, but it’s tolerable because the Lords don’t have the power to originate or block law (although they can frustrate the process).

The appointed EU Commission is much worse. The appointment process for commissioners always seems to select failed/tainted/alcoholic nobodies. The current EU Commission Chief is a failed German politician whose stewardship of the defence ministry was condemned from all sides.

And the EU Commissioners have a LOT more power than the UK’s Lords. For example, the EU Commission is responsible for coming up with all new EU Directives, setting budgets and representing the EU internationally.

The European Parliament is a charade of representative democracy, in that it waves through pretty much all legislation that the Commission comes up with, and if it votes “no” it tends to get asked to vote again until it says “yes” (see Copyright Directive, 2019)
Bitcoin is borderless, laws are not.
Often, if you tune up your settings for performance and interactivity, I/O will suffer, and viceversa. Your beast serving/copying tons of data concurrently might not be the best one to play that Vulkan/GL 4.5 game without frequent slowdowns.
That's a brilliant game mechanic.

I think for reality we should still remove power out of politicians
This is the problem with opaque account bans on Google and Facebook (and smaller others).

It should be required to reference specific rules or policies when effectively denying use of a service.
Every time I see something new on righto.com, I get excited! I get to learn :D

Thank you so much, both for constantly sharing what you know and for preserving what's one of the most interesting times in the evolution of computing.
What are the reasons you're confident that it isn't Russia or Best Korea?
I’m wondering why didn’t you leave yet? The US doesn’t want to give you a visa or something?

Or is the tyranny here stopping you from leaving?
> if you knew him at all it would be stupid to think you could get away with this.

You don't have to know him; he's made it clear that he thinks rules are for fools.
What about every service owned by the government becomes private and offered by private companies and we remove the goverment completely?

I'd kill to see The Machinery of Freedom by D. Friedman in real life
What about mixers (or just regular Bitcoin transactions with both stolen and non-stolen inputs), though?

Which coins remain “tainted” – none, all, or the same amount that went in tainted? But which?
> A recent one: Unity CEO sold a huge amount of shares a week before they announced the pricing change on Unity.

It had to be an already scheduled sale or he will get busted. That doesn’t fly with the SEC.

> Pfizer top-people bought a huge amount of shares before their vaccine was publicly approved and they sold it the moment the public was made aware that there was a vaccine for COVID-19 approved by the FDA

By shares with expectation of approval is fine. They didn’t know it was approved.

> Microsoft bought a lot of Activision Blizzard shares a few days before they announced they would buy the company.

Do you realize how stupid this statement is? You buy a company by buying shares. Building up a stake before tendering an offer is the normal process.

> If you have privileged information, for example, that your product will be approved, something that isn't public knowledge, it should be considered insider trading.

That is insider trading and would be prosecuted if that’s what happened.
If you are of a mind to change a tuneable parameter yet cannot tell me why this tuneable will have the desired effect, or why it is so-set in the first place, then I will not allow you to change it (in prod).

“Chesterton’s tuneable parameter”.
Help them organize and unionize. Otherwise, they remain serfs.
Both made bad decisions and should lose their money and be mocked by midwit redditors.

The difference is FTX was criminal negligence, SVB ordinary negligence. SVB was due to bad bets the bank was legally allowed to make, FTX was due to bad bets made illegally with stolen money.
Github does that and it always makes it very difficult to understand when something was actually done/committed.
I doubt grapheneOS requires much less effort to daily drive than others. Sent from my Librem 5.
They also have views around rent control and alternative medicine that are off putting for some (and me).
I would place my bet on this being some kind of app compatibility mishap rather than Google actively blocking Geekbench and 3DMark.

Apparently Pixel 6a owners also had this problem, but with none of the Tensor G3 performance speculation in the article: https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/wc4m3w/pixel_6...
There is no practical difference. You can't really know if the graphics driver comes because it is "injected" by whatever or because the system loads it; from the point of view of the process it is exactly the same (code you didn't explicitly request magically appears on your address space). If you are already loaded by the process you can do _anything_ you want to it, including loading other modules.
The big desirable thing about the EU is it's strong social net and relatively modern urban infrastructure. If you like the city or don't have a safety net from some other auxiliary source such as family or church it's superior. Otherwise the US wins out in factors such as an overall more vibrant economy, more personal freedoms, not having a major landwar on its borders, etc.

Also all this just applies to the actual good parts of each region. There's no point in comparing rural Alabama to Serbia cause we already know they're both shitholes.
You cannot trust any establishment site when it comes to talking about any item or topic that is supported as a important narrative by the establishment. Anything goes as far as that's concerned because the establishment rewards anyone who supports a narrative that is under siege, as is the climate change narrative obviously
> File last modified: the other day

I think I'd be ok with this. I love the KDE fuzzy clock that says it's "about lunchtime", much more human than the examples people are decrying here.
Never attribute to malice, what can be adequately explained by incompetence.

They simply don't understand the implications of what they are doing. They should involve more technologically savvy privacy experts.
I appreciate your stance, though it's dripping with the zealotry you are complaining about. Just in the other direction. :)

I like the nano, but it suffers from the "I may find myself doing work on it when I'm trying to not be working" problem. The X1 series are great though, I've been a big fan and user of the ThinkPad X1 Carbon for several years.

I will say, my iPad had nothing to do with any kind of love for Apple. Buying the iPad was to prevent myself from being able to use it for work, and I do think it's served that purpose pretty well. It also beats the hell out of my X1 Carbon for watching movies.

But I don't really understand how people can seriously claim they use it to entirely replace a laptop. It's just too awkward of a device for that use case.
Typically they aren't.

Unfortunately, laws are not magic spells that prevent activity from happening, they merely provide penalties for those caught breaking them.
I assume that if you pay for your car with bitcoin that has appreciated in value that you still owe capital gains tax as if you had sold it? If so what’s the advantage of paying using bitcoin?
The word pioneer doesn’t imply a solo actor… why I chose the word over invent.
FTA the performance difference isn't hugely worse from a comparable chip IMO. Maybe they did more damage by trying to suppress.
People walking around with guns in public are not the people mass shooting. You’re confused about correlation vs causation here.
Yep. Just the usual hysteria.
Do you have a blog or anything? Sounds like an interesting life!
Meanwhile, other groups of people you might find insane are also devoting their lives to shouting down changes you actually support or find critical. The lesson for even the most faithful elected representative is that the signal/noise ratio of public opinion is too unreliableto take seriously.
Seriously, of all the platforms that do this pattern, this one is the most user hostile.
That's only if the text isn't also a link. For example, on hacker news, the time is also a link. So long press shows the preview of the link instead of tooltip on iOS.
it's not a waste of money, that android version is a security mess
In a hyperinflation scenario, holding bonds to maturity isn’t going to help you.
I’m all for using a library to help you with migrations, and even a full ORM like Django has its niceties. As a DBRE, I just want the end result to be performant, scalable, and to encourage good SQL habits.

Knowing SQL can help inform the choices a dev makes in the ORM - for example, knowing about semi-joins may let you write code that would cause the ORM to generate those, whereas if you didn’t, you may just write a join and then have to deal with the extra columns.
> I have nothing to hide so please read all my comms big daddy government

Dude everyone minds that their _private_ correspondence is being read by prying eyes. Just because you’re technically inclined to do so [enable e2ee per chat] doesn’t mean that the lowest common denominator human is capable or willing to do so. Which is why secure by default - without state compromise a la Telegram & WhatsApp - is so important.
Ford isn’t going to be able to sell EV trucks to a consumer cohort that doesn’t want them. That’s why the Cybertruck is so exciting. Tesla went after a persona that wasn’t served, one that also tilts younger. Most people buy a pickup to social signal, not for actual truck use. So Ford’s loss here may be Tesla’s gain, won’t know until that model is shipping at commercial volumes.

Very similar to how Harley Davidson tried to sell an EV bike (Livewire) to their existing customer base that is getting older and dying out, and had to spin it out as its own brand instead.

Automotive purchases are highly emotional, so if you want to move the metal, you have to sell according to the emotions your buyers have.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/26907/you-dont-need-a-full-siz...

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/27/harley-davidson-spins-off-li...
In all likelihood, it's possible, if not probable, that the culprit may be residing in a jurisdiction that openly refuses to cooperate with international law enforcement.

The guys on the other side of this kind of stuff being caught at all is the exception, not the norm.
I think electric dehumidifiers are way underused. In a cool wet climate, they're really all you need to stay comfortable down to the 50s. Anywhere you have cold wet air, it can be converted to dry warm air much more efficiently than resistive heating with those things.
Which is why I was switching banks until I found one not forcing me into the duopoly.
Yes. Try googling “neuromorphic ai accelerators” and you’ll see a bunch of them.
> and corruption is actually being prosecuted.

In which world do you live?
Rich Rebuilds talks a lot about the true cost of EV conversions. Here's one good video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og1dEaDXbwg
Most of the time, Germans complain about the wrong things (e.g. their postal system, which is outstanding).

The trains suck a little bit. But this is mainly caused by two reasons:

1. Years of under-investment

2. No separation between bullet trains and freight trains (compare to China!)

1 can be solved over time. Point 2 is trickier. In general there is some but not enough fantasy. I would suggest:

a) more investments

b) several bullet trains connecting Europe.

c) more sleeper trains

d) self coupling trains.

Yes, you can go from Frankfurt to Paris in the same train. But why not from Warsaw to Madrid? With self coupling cars this might be feasible.

OT: This is interesting for freight. https://www.cargobeamer.com/
Why don't you read some books?

- Out of the crisis and The new economics, Deming

- Workplace Management and Toyota Production System, Ohno

- Peopleware, DeMarco & Lister

- Managing the professional service firm, Meister (delegation)

- Leadership Handbook, US Army
Maybe I do not buy enough different vegetables in a single trip to feel at all inconvenienced by the weighing vegetable problem. I also understand that some people will always prefer employee/human checkout for various reasons.

I would expect that AI could help to identify what vegetable is being weighed, but it will probably never know whether or not that zucchini is "organic"/"bio".

As a fairly low tech (but maybe too costly) solution, I could imagine a system where the vegetables at the store live on a scale that spits out a bar code value based on the weight of what a customer removes, which the customer would then take to scan at checkout.
First and foremost, have your team's best interest in mind. If nothing else, it will help you see things from their perspective. Especially when it's your business, you will have a tendency to subconsciously expect that they are as committed to it as you are, and that's the farthest thing from the truth.

Delegation: be sure that the person you're delegating to can actually handle the task, wants to handle the task, and that you are really OK with them taking on the task. Don't "delegate and hover." Delegate and leave them alone until whatever time you've asked for feedback on how it's going.

In general think of being an manager as always being concerned with how you can best make your team successful. The comment from /u/ws66 that "you now work for them" is very insightful.
It's a lot easier to do something than it is to stop people from doing something. Usually to prevent actions you need total control or strong incentives. This is the same dynamic as browser feature development. Adding things is easy. Preventing additions is hard. We end up saying yes to things that disadvantage most people.
Using Bitcoin has certain advantages such as cutting off the middle man, bypassing non-transparent AML regulations and having almost instant transaction settlement without waiting for days.
> When he began his daily commute in January 2016, he had few problems with the hour-long journey on a high-speed intercity train, bookended by cycle rides. The trip would have taken three times as long by car

This part confuses me a bit. Deutsche Bahn was bad 7 years ago and it has only gotten worse, but travelling more than 230km a day while depending on DB seems like a bet that can only go wrong, no matter when this started
We now need to create underwater Doom with them!
Yep. In conspiracy circles they like to demonise the EU. They don't know what it is or how it operates and can't be bothered to find out.
> see the vice president with bags of cash given by the Qatar and co

Yeah, she was also behind the infanous cyber resilience act!
On my connection from bumfuckville in south-east Germany to Berlin, all involved trains run on a 1 hour schedule, but they are not perfectly connected to each other (for instance in Leipzig I miss the ICE to Berlin by just ten minutes).
Sometimes when the previous train is delayed I'm lucky and catch that. Paradoxically saving me time despite a train being delayed ;)

All in all I can't complain, last 6 months were bad because of an unbelievable amount of construction work so some flexibility was required (eg going over different cities or taking an "express bus" between two cities, but now the connection is working normally again.

With at most one hour until the next train, I guess it's mostly ok if one plans ahead with some wiggle room. People are really getting riled about the tiniest things these days.

PS: the most likely delay on that connection is the ICE between Munich and Hamburg via Leipzig and Berlin, the regional trains are pretty much always on time (except when there are construction sites of course).
My perspective: grew up in Texas where I was not able to leave my little housing development (void of anything but houses) independently until I got a driver's license and car at 16, then went to university in Baltimore with its sketchy buses, subway that appears to have been built to bring housecleaners from the inner city to the wealthy suburbs, and commuter trains that were mostly good for getting to the stadium downtown from various suburban Maryland parking lots.

Germany's rail system, despite irritating delays, is a wonder to this Texas gal, and changed my relationship with driving. Intercity rail is about as irritating as flying, delay wise. Getting good with the schedule app adds a lot of agency - I've made lots of spur of the moment connection change decisions (having the 50% off flexible fares card also helps).

The rail system has been a bit of a victim of the Deutschlandticket's success. When everyone who kind of takes the subway or train sometimes and can commit to 49 EUR/mo now has unlimited rides on everything but the high speed trains, they use it. And Germany had a really nice summer that extended well past the usual summer time, resulting in packed trains to anywhere vaguely scenic up to this weekend.
Oh good find - thanks!
But they don't price their cars in crypto, of course.

> "Prices will not change, no fees, no surcharges if you pay through cryptocurrencies," Galliera said.

> Bitpay will immediately turn cryptocurrency payments into traditional currency on behalf of Ferrari's dealers, so they are protected from price swings.
Tesla knew this the entire time, and why they fought so hard against a dealer model.
Maybe you can try getting DivestOS running. They only have 14.1 (Android 7.1.2) but unlike old LineageOS builds they patch security vulnerabilities and include some hardening.
EU nations push back decision to allow weedkiller glyphosate
reminds me of the days computers had a "turbo" button and a LCD read out of the clock speed on the case. "66Mhz" => "90" ... now we're cooking
If the presence of testosterone can improve the function of damaged liver, there's no reason to think that a healthy liver would get damaged by it. I can't even think of any mechanism that would be involved.
Also Volla OS.
> I am intrigued how often people with the attitude that if you aren't don't anything wrong you shouldn't mind being observed apply that philosophy in only one direction. I see people who are upset that Snowden would leak and provide visibility into government actions, but don't blink that the revealed actions were actually the government spying on its own citizens. So governments are entitled to privacy, but their citizens are not?

I am strongly in the pro individual privacy camp FWIW, but I'm bored so I'll take a stab at steel-manning the premise that governments are entitled to privacy while individual people are not:

One of the obligations of governments is military defense. Governments are required to protect their people and the reality of war necessitates the keeping of some secrets. Failure to recognize this reality would constitute an abdication of their duty as a government. On the other hand, private persons are not permitted to wage war (this is why governments are obliged to defend their people, because they forbid people from doing it themselves.) Since people are not allowed to wage war on their own, the "realities of war" justification for governments keeping secrets doesn't justify people keeping personal secrets.

Rebuttal to the above: throughout history and particularly in the 20th century, tens of millions of people were killed by their own government. While governments may need to keep some secrets to effectively defend their population against external threats, people also need the right to keep secrets from their government to defend themselves against that domestic threat, which is every bit as real and concerning as the external threats.
Going from sole principal to having a staff is a unique transition compared to
the typical “engineer to first level manager” so not all advice is going to work.

Here is one approach. Not perfect, and there are obviously going to be cases where it doesn’t apply. All models are wrong, some are useful.

A good metric for delegation in your case is “How much work am I doing that could plausibly be done by someone else?” Let’s call that value X, and the ideal value is zero.

Ex: you are the only one who can make strategic decisions for your company. You are not the only one who can send a promotional email.

Your process as a manager should be to systematically lower X over time. Reasons X is nonzero include but are not limited to:

- New staff need training to learn how the org etc works. This should be temporary but unavoidable, and explains why you feel like they are making more work for you.

- Staff need to upskill to take more off your plate. This means either you pay for training or train them yourself. Short term loss for long term gain.

- You have not hired the right kind of staff for the workload you face. Maybe you hired an engineer, but on balance you should have hired an accountant since that actually takes up more of your time.

- There is more work than can be handled by staff. This is an urgent problem that you need to resolve. If you burnout staff you end-up in a death spiral of turnover. The solution might be to replace inefficient processes/systems/practices, reduce work through trimming features/customers/whatever, or hire to handle growth.
I think is also the one I remember playing. It looked very similar but I remember it being slightly more graphical.
What exactly did they do here? X linked video is broken for me, and the article just says the performance is bad. My pixel 6 just got Android 14. Possibly just OS/new hardware related?
People also become tired of engaging in the constant need to decide on various issues and disconnect. Legislator have to vote on hundreds of issues over the course of a year. Do you want to have to do a public vote every week? How do the people stay informed enough to understand the issues and options? How many times will they vote before it becomes too onerous and they stop participating? Then you just get the special interests voting on their issues.

This happens a lot in the US in the primary elections. Everyone complains about the poor quality of Republican candidates and how they wish there were better options but the primary voter has already limited the field.
Isn't that the same as just turning it into a Bitcoin exchange and giving the cash to Ferrari?
Isn't that mostly due to different electoral systems?
People who commute regularly remember the days when there was some problem--not all the days when things worked pretty much as expected.

I will say that I went in maybe 50% of the time into my city office at one point and it was about 90 minutes each way. It got old. Get up at 6am, drive to train station, take train, 10 minute walk to office. It's just a big chunk out of your day and the train could get very crowded. Almost never go into another office these days and that's about 2 hours each way.
That's false. We've had autocratic rule off and on in the US. Most US Presidents have shown self-restraint with that authority, usually during wartime. George Washington could have been king, and declined. Abe Lincoln had authoritarian powers, as did FDR. They both wielded the power (mostly) justly and set it aside without incident. There are other examples of benevolent dictators from history, for example Lee Kwan Yew of Singapore. In all cases there are valid points of criticism, but the net effect of their rule was positive. Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Trump, Putin, Un, etc are cautionary tails, but that doesn't mean that authoritarian power is always used for self-gain.