skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Few democratic countries can manage their finances well. Switzerland comes to mind. But the general experience is that if the population can vote itself more money and services at the cost of a) either someone else, or b) growing national debt, they usually will. We are well down the same road in Czechia.

Europe has a very long history of banking, but at the moment when the Euro was created, most of the obliterated national currencies were weak, reflecting distrust towards their overlords. Switzerland, the country with the strongest national currency in Europe, never felt compelled to join the bloc.

Historically, authoritarian countries tend to go bankrupt over war expenses, democratic countries over handouts. The British pound was strongest at the time when the country was somewhat semi-democratic, neither-nor. But that is a very unstable configuration.

Pick your poison.
There was also concern over population explosion back then (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb).

But talking about population has become quite the taboo. Utterly unacceptable to restrict reproduction, but it's cool to take people's transport/heating/protein away to save the planet?
A mere email... I had a situation with a bank when their website accepted new password but the backend implicitly and without feedback trimmed the new password to 10 characters.
Pentagon didn't inform Biden, White House for about Austin's hospitalization
"transactional versus marketing"

In my last big job we had big discussions about what is marketing. What can marketing pack into a transactional without it becoming a marketing email? Banner? A tagline in the signature? Testimonials? Also - b/c Germany - big discussions with legal on that topic.
It wasn't ignored by the rest of the press. Private eye was one of many outlets, an important one granted, but the story was repeatedly reported on and investigated over the years by the local papers, Computer Weekly, TheRegister, the BBC, ITV, The Guardian, etc. Indeed Nick Wallis, an independent journalist, has covered it very closely for a very long time (including a special in an issue of PE):

https://www.postofficescandal.uk/

The scandal has hit the headlines many, many times across all the outlets, particularly in 2019-21 with the litigation and appeal cases. It was the subject of an episode of BBC Panorama in 2015 (fronted by Nick Wallis).

But it all comes to nought. The victims are still out of pocket and still have criminal prosecutions. If the media are to blame, then so is the judiciary, and so is the government, who have had it in their power to provide financial redress. And of course the Post Office and Fujitsu are the culprits.
"Democratic control over economics" looks like people voting for more services and lower taxes.

Austerity occurs when the cost of government borrowing becomes so high governments are would be functionally unable to operate in the medium term without brining it down.

After the finance crash the UK was increasing it's debt load at something like 200bn GBP/yr, iirc. A rate that credit-nervous markets wouldnt sustain cheaply.

Austerity is the way the ideologues talk about the consequences of economic collapse without having to learn anything.

What you never hear from them is alternative policies that address the specific economic problems periods of austerity are solving. You hear instead about ever more elaborate abstractions that ever less map on to any observed reality.
Except that you are giving away your voice as training data
while there is a lot of ugly planes in the threads, this airtruk is indeed the ugliest
Single run?
Former Post Office boss returns CBE
As a small contributor to OpenWrt, I don't like the whole: release one version of their proprietary fork of OpenWrt and then just do security fixes on top of that.

If they really want to focus on hardware and base everything on top of OpenWrt, it would be easier for them to upstream as much as possible and let the community handle updates. Even donating would be less expensive. It would be somewhat of a win-win situation IMO.
At least ss is an acceptable and widley understood replacement for ß.

My last name end on "ić" so every time, even on many EU shops and websites, I get to choose if I want to write my name wrong with "ic" and definitley get the package(cause the post understands) or write my name properly and get my package in 90% of cases.

Its just plain weird that a Spanish/French/UK online shop will support their weird characters but not full Unicode.
GM's Cruise offers a settlement to Calif regulators over pedestrian accident
It happens to be even worse.

Because we have no way to detect all the cases.

A lot of the cases were handled in the "Post Office courts" (I don't remember the correct name, not a British), and there are more or less no records of them. So you need to ask people affected to come up and find ways to validate them, then create a case for quashing it. It is a total FUBAR mess.
Sometimes you’ve been aggravated for so long that doing something might be worth it for your own sense of balance.
I think Inside No. 9 also had an episode on this theme. It’s a seriously underrated show and practically unknown. It sort of occupies a middle ground between Black Mirror’s dark satire and Resnick’s absurdist realism, now that I think of it.
yeah lol, google is the king of "its not a bug, its a feature".
SEC Twitter hacked. Falsly claims that SEC approved BTC ETF
This was interesting: https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2021/07/15/what-went-wrong-with...

Sounds like a rather complex distributed system which no one fully understood combined with the failure of the database to meet ACID requirements.
I appreciate the review, especially in making connections between fascism and economic policy. Historically, fascists had support from powerful economic groups because of their ability to deliver on highly unpopular economic measures. The current state of politics in the West is that while (some) governments are not outright fascist, any pretense of them representing the political will of the majority of its population is crumbling. They serve a minority of very wealthy individuals much more than they do their general populace, and we accept that as fact.

To play devil's advocate, however, I would argue that there is sound rationale for not allowing economic policy to be decided in an a purely democratic way. If everyone had equal vote in what the government should do monetarily, the result could quickly evolve to a disaster, which we have also seen in places where dictators try to appease to the population as a whole by subsidizing costs and wages.
There are no authoritarian countries in the bloc. So what is your point?
> It contains no useful information whatsoever.

It’s a claim about the nature of an argument. Do you believe it’s not possible for an argument to be idiotic?

> Why would the former imply the latter?

Because restricting speech that’s critical leads to a degradation of the quality of dialog.

Idiotic arguments exist. So do spurious arguments, disingenuous arguments, bad arguments, pointless arguments, dishonest arguments, and so on. Which of those adjectives would you like to ban when discussing the quality of an argument?
Social media is of course not responsible for all our problems, but I do blame specifically social media for making people (including myself) who are materially well off and live a comfortable life irrationally angry about things outside of their control and think that everything is going to get worse and worse (which is a reinforcement loop because then some of these people start exhibiting destructive behaviour which does make things worse).
I've had enough problems with JVM deployments over the years to just not want the hassle in order to use something which adds marginal value. If you don't, then by all means, use it - I'm not suggesting it's bad for everyone. If it provided some massive major advantage over the large number of other options, I'd consider it too, but I don't see anything that indicates that's the case here.
This is nonsense, the opening paragraph isn't a contradiction, it's describing an equilibrium, and the difference between the actions of a single firm and aggregate demand/supply.

This has been studied for over a century, why this being repeated uncritically in media?
AudioEye Has Dropped Its Suit Against Me
Could Nostr now use Twitter/X or any other transport as an alternative?
There is work in progress in the high-level inquiry that should manage to produce most of it. Besides that, you can try to check the appeals court reports, which are not too bad.
> The survey also reveals 13% of people are unaware if their phone actually supports 4G or 5G

Include me in that. I have an old phone with a discount SIM installed. I only use it for certain international calls. Wikipedia and elsewhere describe it as "GSM / HSPA+ / LTE", and then explain that LTE "is also called 3.95G and has been marketed as 4G LTE and Advanced 4G" etc.
A contact form is too complicated for this. I think an abuse header with an address to forward the entire mail with headers should be standard.
In the EU this would hurt so bad they probably would've needed to close shop.
EU itself is quite an undemocratic institution. Jean-Claude Juncker and his infamous quotes about pushing through legislations is fantastic.
probably done with an app for a multiplication of the revenue
I mean “responsible spending” is just a right wing talking point that is only deployed on things they don’t like. Governments, like companies and individuals, can and should take on debt in appropriate circumstances. The shocking thing with austerity, as the IMF has underlined, is that it shrinks the economy so much your tax revenues fall by more than you “save”.
That isn't how evolution works (or at least it is a gross generalization that is borderline wrong).

You own cells mutate over your lifetime and the mutations may trigger genetic features across your entire body. Sometimes, these mutations cause errors that we call cancer, but not always.

Evolution is when a certain genetic feature provides better fitness (which doesn't necessarily have to come from a mutation), and then gets selected through mating. For example, if suddenly people with brown hair were a better mate, it would be much more likely for the next generation to have brown hair, until non-brown hair were "evolved" out of the gene pool completely and it would be impossible to not have brown hair.

This is how we got orange carrots, which are distinct from the previous non-orange carrots, for example.
https://www.ciscopress.com/

That is generally considered the gold standard for professional network education.

Yes, it’s networking according to Cisco and in some cases they do try to push some of their products as commercial solutions. However, the proprietary stuff is clearly identified by Cisco intentionally in the educational materials because the goal is education first even if you favor a competitor’s products. Cisco makes money on their educational materials and certifications so they can afford to separate their tiny bits of proprietary stuff from the education as necessary to build a strong professional labor force ready to consume their products years in the future.
No, I'm European, from a country with strong unions. I always thought that the right to strike makes sense if both sides need to invest in the struggle- if one of the parties can inflict damage on the other with no cost for itself, what prevents it from advancing completely unreasonable demands? "Their innate reasonableness and common sense" is not a satisfying answer, as any power that can be abused will eventually be abused.
What kind of performance is achieveable with some of the features that Vcc enables (true function calls, function pointers, goto), and what are some of the limitations?

On GPU, function calls are much more expensive than on CPU. Usually it seems to be worth inlining as much as possible. Implementing a stack for recursion on GPUs is also likely to have performance implications. The whole point of using a GPU is to obtain good performance, but I can see the argument for having these features in order to port CPU code to GPU code incrementally.

For function pointers, how does that work? Multiple different implementations of the function are needed to support different devices and the host, which limits what a single pointer can do.

EDIT: To answer my second question, neither function nor data pointers are portable between host and device since Vulkan doesn't support unified addressing.
> they only swooped in when [...] it looked like there would be political dimension.

I'll tell you more: it's only being pushed now, after the tv production, because it tangentially involves the two leaders of the opposition.
Change Referer value to something generic such as "urn:activitypub:Mastodon"
Lets just keep the blinders on and ignore the other projects in Europe:

- Flamanville: Construction start 2007. Hopefully finished 2024. Five times over budget

- Hinkley Point C: Political decision and construction start 2008. Investment decision 2013. Hopefully done by 2028, costs spiraling. n:th of a kind reactor.

- Olkiluoto 3: Construction start 2005. Done 2023.

- Hanhikivi: Never passed the phase when they tried to certify a Russian reactor for western safety requirements.

The problem with nuclear is the Baumol Effect [1]. The construction industry has barely become more efficient while labor costs has increased. Thus magically investing another trillion dollars in subsidies for nuclear is not certain to meaningfully make it cheaper.

We have already had one massive round of subsidies, those didn't pan out. France famously experience negative learning by doing in their nuclear program. [2]

Given the outcome of previous wind projects it is almost certain that it will be on time and on budget.

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

[2]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03014...
There is a special place in hell for people who require login to unsubscribe
Would you drive over a group of people with a bus? Would you do it in GTA?

There is a big difference between the digital world and the physical one. Many actions e.g stealing are very different in these 2 worlds and have very different implications.
Doing nothing includes not saying anything, of course.
I think it is not only about worse, better. Standardize the process, like a talking in engineering language, building/improving debates. Also open projects as for me have own style, feels like Ikea really.
The non-austere "Free stuff for you! Vote for me!" political strategy has worked pretty well while technology improvements has made stuff faster than politicians can give it away. But it's a precondition. If technology ever stops improving at this rate, we're going to have a hard time, and no amount of words will change that fact.

To be for free stuff and at the same time be for degrowth, decel, limit resource use, etc.... seems naive to say the least.
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Helio: Libre Music Composition Software
The proverbial "Swabian Housewive" comes to mind. States, governments and economies don't work like your household budget.
> so they're far from the only group guilty of benefitting from openwrt without contributing

This is certainly true. SoC vendors often base their SDK on a fixed version of OpenWrt and then add proprietary patches on top. Then sell the SoC + SDK to a device vendor that adds additional proprietary patches and sells the device.

The issue with this is that the only way to fix security issues is to back-port them to the exact kernel version the SoC used as a base, and after a year or two, they completely drop support and you're left with a device that has known security vulnerabilities you can do nothing about.

How many old routers are still in use that are used as part of a botnet?
I think people are more put of by the exact way/formulation the blog starts out with then the content it is about.
I'm a bit surprised to see this at the top of HN. Maybe the US is still asleep, and the Friedman fanboys have not read that yet.

This look like a good book and I am likely to buy it. From a systems standpoint it is quite obvious that capitalism tends to concentrate wealth in the hands of those who already own capital.

Piketty showed the historical data agree with that: as long as growth is less than capital rewards, wealth concentrates.

We need a systemic solution to that, and that can't happen with représentative democracy. We need direct control of the means of production by those who make them work. This means stronger unions, but also platform régulations, as users are unpaid knowledge workers giving away their data in exchange for a service, an exchange so one-sided and highly beneficial to the platforms that states are losing their sovereignty to the platforms.

See bratton's The Stack to know more.
In grad school, I (briefly) researched synthetic DNA logic gates. Using these, you can build neural networks in DNA [1] and probabilistic switching circuits (my co-authored paper) [2].

To do this, you design DNA strands that bind to each other in designated regions when mixed.

To make a logic gate, you just make some bindings conditional on other bindings. To detect that the gate is closed, you make the final binding uncover a fluorophore, which is detectable by a machine. (This is all called a *displacement cascade*.)

Using our techniques, the DNA bindings could not be undone. However, I imagine that a source of new DNA strands to replenish the old would effectively implement re-callable functions.

[1] Neural nets in DNA: http://qianlab.caltech.edu/nature10262.pdf

[2] Probabilistic switching circuits: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1715926115
This is not the right question. A Turing machine can model any algorithm, but no one uses Turing machines in practice.
> reasonable people do not spend beyond what they have and if they do they do it in reasonable ways

That’s true, but debt held by a country isn’t really the same thing as household debt.
When run unchecked, capital will happily suck all the money from the economy and into its coffers, and the fun thing is, it has no idea what to do next. Next it would very likely invest these money in the worst possible way and cause a big crash. Think about is like of a centipede instead of sentient creatures at work. It does not know what to do once it eats its leaf. We know it's going to morph but the thing is oblivious to it itself.
I agree that hyper-individualism is a big part of the problem. People need friendship and connection to be happy. If everyone is "doing their own thing" and looking after their own needs first, its a barrier to that. If you're depressed, going and helping someone else who is in need is often a good way to snap out of that depression (assuming its situational more than clinical depression). Even if the other person isn't obviously grateful, simply seeing that you made their life a bit better can put things in perspective, give yourself a purpose etc. Its often really low effort, e:g just actually bother to talk to someone , give them a cup of tea whatever. But people often fail to see this option that can make 2 people happy, because individualism gets in the way. People are almost embarrassed to offer or receive help and friendship, particularly in the US I feel ...
Ridiculous. Working class != labor unions. Militant labor unions murdered numerous members of the working class who dared to cross their picket lines.
It scares me a lot that modern economies don't understand yet the worst tax on citizens is the Inflation tax. Still can't understand why we're still trying to make things work after centuries of failures.
Obviously monetary base expansion to support non austerity policies is the biggest inflationary factor.
This isn't proof.
Its wishful thinking.
We don't yet understand the data structure of DNA fully, we don't know how a chemical storage system that is inherantly inert and relies on nanomachines (that it itself is responsible for providing the code for creating) to be useful even exists, let alone how it was made.
How many happy accidents would it take to create cloudflare? This is overwhelmingly more complex than cloudflare and yet it works, and not only works robustly, but with exquisite UX.
Having a reasonably powerful router from 2016, the only thing that would motivate me to upgrade is Wi-Fi 6E (6 GHz).
That why the existence of class action suits is a good thing (imho). It balances power to some extent. The unfortunate reality is that only the lawyers make money in such cases.
That isn't necessarily the EU being undemocratic but national governments using the EU to do things that are difficult to do back home.
GDF15 linked to maternal risk of nausea and vomiting during pregnancy (2023)
Pro tip for anyone ever making an app like this. Ditch the calculate button, and update the calculation everytime any input changes.
If you gut all the features like persistence and rolling back errors then you can definitely make things less complex.

But then someone wants to access their email and it turns out the server restarted so it’s gone.
Side effect of being an AMD SoC? These changes are usually implemented in its BIO- I mean UEFI.
11 years ago I visited Lombok, and island adjacent to Bali in Indonesia, where people generally lived very traditional village lifestyles and most adults over 30 were illiterate. They had recently been provided 4g cellular coverage, and all the teenagers and young adults were lounging around doomscrolling Facebook lite on their $50 android phones. There was no multigenerational transition for them.
something can simultaneously be standard practice in one community, essential for security, unusual in another community, and illegal in many parts of the world, though nobody seems to have found any laws against the standard mailman unsubscription mechanism in this thread

it is understandable that people who are not familiar with a cultural practice might seek to marginalize it, but that does not make it right

i don't really care about making life easier for people who send email advertisements (a cultural practice i am sadly all too familiar with) but i think discussion email lists are important and valuable, even if you personally don't participate in them
Wealth concentrates because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential_attachment -- it has nothing to do with "capitalism" -- an era which contains historically unprecedented periods of comparative wealth equality.

The only processes known to make substantial impacts on this process involve mass death.

Write a simulation yourself, it's relatively trivial. You'll find PA a force of nature which little can overcome.

2x0 is still 0, 2xbillion = 2billion

And thus from equal starting points and equal chances inequality becomes ever more extreme.

Rutheless redistribution on the scale of a small tribe might, within that tribe, work for a time. But wars between tribes fix this 'temporary reprieve' -- since tribal power follows PA.

There is no known policy, at least none i'm aware of, which can preserve the tiny populations needed for equalising redistribution which at the same time prevents them from preferetnailly attaching to each other.,
How safe is AI? Need for AI testing now more than
I have been following the news about AI's incredible achievements, and while it's fascinating, I can't help but wonder about its reliability and safety. The advancements are truly impressive, but I'm cautious about depending too much on AI without ensuring it's trustworthy.

I'm keen to hear your thoughts on this delicate balance between AI's capabilities and the critical need for safety and reliability in its development and use. What's your take on this ongoing debate?