skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is horrible! You should really visit the Justice For Subpostmaster Alliance web site for the nitty-gritty https://www.jfsa.org.uk - there are some very interesting reports to view/download.
From my limited understanding of how nationap debt works, it also matters a lot whom the money is owned to. If it is mainly citizens of said country, the situation is very different from foreign investors holding the bonds. Just ask Greece (which, surprisingly, wasn't mentioned in the summary, and I assume the book, as a poster child of austerity going wrong).
Likely due to algorithmic trash being pushed on them constantly. No surprise many of them think ai is intelligent or are obsessed with animal porn and anime.
I met someone in Berlin who told me that he was a member of the UK Conservative party, and that he was on-course to become a Conservative party councillor before also leaving the country. He made at least four testable false statements in that discussion (I made notes, one was for how long Cameron had been prime minister), so take this with a pinch of salt:

He openly admitted that the Conservative party manifesto of 2010 was a lie. That it was totally impossible to do what they promised about the deficit. Now, I'm not sure I remembered the manifesto pledge correctly, but even with that caveat, he still insisted that lying was absolutely acceptable. He refused to accept that normalising lies in this fashion is a problem (I wish I'd asked him about the Boy Who Cried Wolf, but I didn't) and then promptly changed the topic.
Considered 'democratic' only by countries that liked the outcome. Referendum for independence in the Catalonia? Not democratic, and illegal according to the West. Referendum for Kosovo independence? Absolutely democratic in the West, a sham according to Russia. Crimea referendum to join Russia? You start seeing the pattern?
> As discussed in previous posts and as Twenge et al. (2022) showed, it can’t be the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. The timing of that event is exactly the opposite of what you’d expect, namely: the epidemic should have started in 2009 and then gotten progressively better after 2012 as the economy improved in the USA and other countries.

The economies might have gotten better, but middle and lower classes have less and less opportunities to benefit from that. Lack of money while growing up will make children unhappy if this leads to social exclusion and deprivation.

Also kids are aware of the climate crisis since around then. Smartphones and social media might act as an amplifier, but such major shifts are usually multicausal.
> But pilots have legitimate concerns about these recordings.

They have concerns. Legitimacy is a matter of opinion.

> Those concerns need to be heard and addressed so this change can be made safely.

Actually, they don't. Pilots trying to hide evidence are free to find another job that isn't as safety critical.
In economic terms, bond-buying and tax-paying are the exact same thing, real consumption forgone by current workers. IMO, the profligate deficit spending of the baby boomer generation's prime working years is a symptom of massive demand for government bonds rather than the cause of some moral failure by leadership.

Like, it is true that oversupplying government bonds creates some really nasty economic effects, but so does undersupply. The government budget is not a household budget, and it's simply not true that their debts can or should be paid back.
I worked for a company. The system was basically a crud web app, where users could upload medical imaging data, and send it to be processed in the background.

We had the web app set up on Kubernetes, yet the background jobs had to be manually managed by admins at the company. There were less than 300 users in total and the only time Kubernetes scaled beyond one pod was when something was broken. When I joined, they had just implemented the Kubernetes stuff. I thought it was kind of overkill, but as the new guy I didn't feel it was my place to point it out. Buy hey, some people got some nice experience on their resumes.
> Is it the legacy rails/mysql stack that is the largest culprit or is there systemic rot in the engineering org?

The culprit is change. Infra changes, config changes, new features, system state (os updates, building new images, rebooting, etc...), even fixing existing bugs all are larger changes to the system than most think. It's really remarkable at this point that Github is as stable as it is. It is a testament to the Github team they have been as stable as they are. It's not "rot" it's just a huge system.
Agreed, these broken software systems are a symptom and cannot be treated solely as a technical problem to be fixed in isolation.

HMCTS is spending ~50 - 100x the amount required (on private consultants) to create these broken IT systems whilst other parts of the justice system are starved of resources.

A radical change in culture and leadership is required.
Twilio will ditch its Authy desktop 2FA app in August, goes mobile only
Interested to see if the findings are applicable to bottled juices, bottled sodas, pex piping, etc. Also canned goods (beers, foods) where there's a plastic liner in the can.

If some of the contamination is "pre bottling" then the issue may be way more pervasive than just bottled water.
Good choice if you like intestinal worms
> But Fujitsu still keep getting government contracts.

The brand is getting a bit too tarnished though. I wouldn't be surprised to see them rebranding soon.
Deciding to sell this on the darknet is a life changing decision, white to black overnight and imagine not really something most would contemplate. Payment in BTC probably from an already compromised address so loads of factors. Probably an easy + quick 2BTC though
US political emails are even more annoying when you aren’t American. I flag all that stuff as spam without hesitation. If you do that, I hope your entire domain ends up flagged as spam.
Austerity was an absolute disaster for the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_government_aust...

> Most macroeconomists now agree that the austerity programme pursued by the Coalition Government in its first two years was both too severe and unnecessary and set back the economic recovery which was underway in the first half of 2010. The Office of Budget Responsibility confirmed that the austerity programme reduced GDP, while the Oxford economist Simon Wren-Lewis has calculated that the Coalition Government's austerity programme cost the average household £4000 over the lifetime of the Parliament and severely damaged those public services which were not ring-fenced.
Timnit Gebru
You do need to pay rent to Big Petrol though.
4 seat seems like a waste of resources. Why is there no public transportation oriented project like this?
Paneer is brilliant. We usually make a batch if we find some milk on sale. It doesn't matter if the milk is homogenized.
“Thanks for coming to us with this, we’re looking at it right away” wouldn’t take a lot of time or commit then to anything
The failing of the gold standard was that it never limited money in circulation. Gold standards in practically all economies allowed for unlimited amounts of money to be printed at the whim of the central banks. Just that the central banks had to guarantee to pay out the set value in gold (or sometimes silver). At some point ppl realized that there wasn't enough gold in the vaults, which is why trust in the value of money (which is the actual backing force) vanished and hyperinflation happened.

So the gold standard failed because it was bound to fail. It was bound on the false illusion that every penny in circulation was backed up by a gold brick, which it wasn't.
Thats complete FUD. GDPR fines are proportional to the size of the business and scope of the violation. There are companies that have had data breaches, failed to report them, and still only been fined ~300 EUR. There are others still who have been fined nothing subject to compliance.
Can anyone here comment about their experiences using ChatGPT to learn networking concepts? Are the responses accurate?
Can you (or anyone else) recommend reading materials for me to understand 1) how state economy actually works 2) what austerity actually is and why it does/doesn't work? As someone who was a little kid in 2008 austerity is just a mean tory boogyman that made my life more miserable and required everyone to treat people who needed social welfare subhuman but I don't really understand what the actual thinking was behind it.
Boycotting elections/etc is always stupid. This is how the Soviet Union allowed the Korean War to start with the UN officially involved on behalf of South Korea, despite the Soviet Union being a member of the UN Security Council who could have vetoed it. They were boycotting the UN and so neglected to veto it. They certainly learned their lesson though, and won't make that mistake again.
Just focusing on this statement:

> "Democratic control over economics" looks like people voting for more services and lower taxes.

The services part seems clear but "lower taxes" makes me ask what kind of taxes are we talking, income tax, sales tax, corporate tax, capital gains tax, corporate tax credits, import duties, national insurance (UK government health service levy), wealth tax, etc, etc, etc

There are so many taxes and 100 more exceptions and loopholes and so many vested influences pushing for changes that benefit themselves. The current political processes aren't capable of a systematic review and revamp of all of the taxes.
AI is just more software to manage and operate.
"There is no standard protocol for when to announce a defense secretary’s hospitalization or temporary inability to do the job"

Alarming, to say the least.
True. I'm not religious but when people stop worshipping the invisible sky daddy they turn to worshipping OnlyFans models, Amouranth-style twitch streamers and toxic masculinity gurus like Andrew Tate.
> Again , what changed since 2008? Why is this worse now?

Because of 16 more years of a downwards trend.

> were parents any better 50 years ago?

Probably not, but they didn't have iPads to give. They were probably as bad as now, but maybe pointing to better or higher standards. Since we're using generalisations here, I'd risk saying that generally speaking (in my view of South-Western Europe), a few decades ago it was less possible/socially accepted to become a 30-year-old useless bum. Nowadays I'm no longer surprised about having a conversation with a 20-something-year-old and finding out he doesn't quite understand the idea of the need to work in order to survive, let alone provide.

Of course, these are generalisations, but I'm afraid they are increasingly becoming indicatives of how things are.
Swiss here who worked in the national dairy laboratory before switching into IT.

What does this calculator mean by the cheese type "Swiss"?
Also, politicians can get more and more creative at excessive spending, at some point even outspending any kind of economic growth. And even if they don't outspend, at some point inflation comes along and kicks things over the edge.
European Parliament is not even a parliament because it can't propose any laws in the first place. It can only approve or decline laws proposed by the European Commission. It can't act on its own.
The only such a parliament in the world
Hah. I have josephg@gmail. I sometimes wake up to threads of 6+ password reset attempts over an hour from someone who doesn’t know their own email address. For a couple years I got pay stubs. And monthly cell phone invoices from India.

I think that email address gets more email for other people than email for me at this point.
greece defaulted on some of its debts -- it's more about whether that's happened. To my knowledge the UK has never in its history defaulted on its debts, and I'd imagine neither has the US since at least the civil war (but i assume never).

The debts of governments of this type is about the lowest risk investments its possible to make, and they're treated that way.

But that also means severe economic crises in those countries has an outsized impact. If the US debt were to increase 12.5% of GDP YoY for years, the entire global financial system would melt down -- as US debt is basically the baseline of the entire system
My point was that there is only so much we can understand. Let me give you a concrete example, one which I have chosen to be easy to understand--the irony!-- : You are a biologist and are given the task of reverting skin senescence in a billionaire client of yours. I'm choosing this example because senescence is a very individual process, with different biological pumps[^1] stopping at different points in time and for different reasons. You can choose to understand how the processes worked together to produce the present system state and skin condition. But that's not your task, your task is to revert it. Understanding seems like a logical first step, but along the way, you (always) discover that these processes involve tens of thousands of interactions between an order of magnitude more of metabolites working at different stages and compartments, and that you can't keep a general intuition of them in your mind[^5], other than the very basic "sh*t breaks". But that's okay. You can always put all of it in a database. Then you only need to remember where the database is, and the dozens of different simulations that are interacting with that database. You will also need to understand the organization of the database, and what the simulations are doing, but there are way less of those and they follow human-made ontologies, sometimes they even come with documentation. If you play with those toys correctly, you will come with an individual intervention for your billionaire that you know will be sound, even if you don't have a comprehensive chain of reasoning of why expressing your customer's variation of 3D9S[^2] 7.5% less will help make his skin better[^3].

In any case, this is an area where there is some vigorous debate[^4] right now.

This is somewhat similar to how we don't understand the precise effect of a weight amount trillions in a LLM, but we can still architect, build and profit from the LLM.

[^1] That's a name I use for clusters of connected pathways, but the distinction is arbitrary and in this case the clusters were created by a graph clustering algorithm.

[^2] https://www.rcsb.org/structure/3D9S

[^3] If you are thinking that I should have made this example about cancer: the most frequent cause of cancer is cellular senescence. I couldn't muster the cynicism of making an example about the symptom instead of the cause. But most of my colleagues in search of public funding will. Go figure.

[^4] https://direct.mit.edu/posc/article-abstract/31/5/594/115643...

[^5] Or, worse, you risk holding to the wrong intuition or understanding. Because we tend to misunderstand complex things much more easily than simple things, you know.
The gold standard was, partially, abondonned due to the Vietnam War in 1971. German hyper ibflation, read up on it, it was hilariously bad, happened in the 1920s.

So, inflation under the gold standard was even worse than under fiat at times.
>>the things that get cut in "austerity" are often not the most wasteful things.

That's how bureaucrats play the game. When an organisation gets their budget cut, they don't immediately look through the services they provide to see which ones can be cut or delivered at a lower cost. The first move is to float stories about cutting their most popular services to generate adverse press for the budget cuts. c.f. local councils in the UK threatening libraries whenever they get a budget reduction (or not as much of an increase as they would like).
How does a travel router help in this case? Preconfigured VPN?

(Asking out of total ignorance)
I thought about it a bit more, and maybe you are right. I could name it "Paper for Business" to make sure regular users don't use it.

I will ping you on LinkedIn if and when I will make a separate app.
And it allows them to throw mud at current leaders of the opposition, who were then in positions with tangential responsibility (well, Davey arguably had real responsibility, and his defence that he was lied-to is weak).
Not exactly, both cl and glsl can be aot, but the runtime will be limited to some newer version and then the market coverage will be niche, those vendor are so lazy on updating the driver and fixing the compiler bugs...
> set back the economic recovery which was underway in the first half of 2010

This was really obvious at the time. The economy was recovering slowly, and then the Tories got elected and induced a recession. It kinda amazes me that this wasn't obvious in advance of their actions, but whatevs.
I forgot to ask my question which was "why are vendor compilers based on clang over gcc", but it must be related to LLVM?
Now I think the interesting barriers are those with log n queries or sqrt n queries.
But that doesn’t happen at a global level.

The medium is the message!
People pretend like this is a new startling development. But we are not even close to the youth suicides numbers of the 1880s. Luckily now we are talking about how we feel and try to get better, compared to the rest of human history. To me there is obviously no new epidemic, but just finally an acknowledgement of issues that has always been present.
What I'd like to see is some kind of "ongoing" or dossier for news. So when an errata or new development happen, even years later, you get a notification and can update your knowledge.

Specifically for things like "future miracle cure for X" or trials. Like "what happened with the Panama Papers"? Then you'd get a full dossier of articles, links, comments etc. It may require some standardized way to link news article together.
The technical appendix to the judgement in Bates v Post Office:

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/bates-v-...

The judgement in question:
https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/bates-v-...

[edit: added judgement proper]
Taxation in the UK is currently at the highest levels in recorded history. It is not true to say that "taxation is low". It is also not really true to say that government spending is low recently either, so it is a bit of a myth that there's some ongoign "austerity" in all the 15 years since 2009. In addition, we just came through a pandemic where a large portion of the population were paid to do nothing. The "austerity" narrative just isn't reflected by facts.

What's going on is that the UK population is greying and far older than it once was, and huge portions of the UK budget are going towards paying pensioners, the NHS etc. Worse, the triple lock ensures that this part of the UK budget is essentially inflexible. The perceived "austerity" is jsut a reflection of demographic trends.
The name and brand styling are so atrocious though. Feels like an Ed Hardy t-shirt became a water bottle.
It’s been done before. A decade ago, DD-WRT shipped on Buffalo routers from the factory with some custom additions.

(1) https://www.buffalotech.com/products/airstation-highpower-n3...
But do people generally vote for parties based on their attitude towards the budget/austerity plans?

Because my experience is that the big parties in most countries cover so many topics in their political agendas that people are voting for them for all manner of different reasons. Sometimes it's the social/moral aspect that they care about more than the economic one, and sometimes vice versa.

It's unlikely any conservative will vote for the more left leaning party based on a dislike for austerity, and vice versa.
Does anyone know of a report in to the actual technical fault of the system?
I would say that's more 'realistic' than 'cynical'. The current government is incredibly unpopular so it's no suprise that they'd latch on to something that will be universally seen in a positive light when resolved.
> Then there are pieces of data that should never change, like a company's CUSIP (essentially the primary key in a database of stocks).

I hate to break it to you, but tickers and CUSIPs do change.

The world of 'corporate actions' turns out to be a catchbasin requiring human intervention.
>> Low taxation

Er, no. The UK currently has the highest tax burden for 70 years.
We are all Luddites to some extent
I would have pointed you towards the BPI-R4, but they haven't quite got the accessories around it out the door yet. (Ie. The 802.11be radio add-on card and the case are not available yet)
We continue our journey through ad platforms and their campaign settings. Now, let's talk about setting up a Google display campaign. Select ‘New campaign’ and the objective. In this case, we want leads.
I would hold SQLite up against anything.

Likely the second most widely deployed software ever. https://www.sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html

The best tested piece of software that I know of. https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html

People call it a toy database. Some toy.
I think it's about this solution being easy to make with CNC routers. Traditional framing is not made for automation, so they went to precut sheets of plywood. It's similar to 3D printing: You could make a doorstop in 30 seconds from a block of wood and a saw, or you could print it in 1 hour from plastic. The second option is better if you have no saw and a printer.
But what do we do with that information? Un-invent social media, ban it? How would such a ban work and what should it cover?

At this point I feel like we should pick a time in history, say the late 1930s or 1940s, somewhere around there, and use that as a frame of reference. Any new technology would be assessed based on the value added to average persons life, vs. the overall cost to society and the planet. Only if it hit a certain threshold is it to be implemented. Social media is out right away, negative impact on individual and society and provide little value that postcards and "letters from the readers" didn't already cover.
June 2, 2000
I don’t disagree with you, but before assuming it’s the fault of gmail classifier I would look at Google Workspace admin configuration. There are a lot of settings that admins can tweak and toggle that can mess with email deliverability. You can even create specific rules that only apply when users within the same workspace are emailing each other.

Google Workspace can even be configured to use an external smtp service behind the scenes. Can also be configured to proxy emails through 3rd parties (in which case the email might be leaving the Google ecosystem and then reentering it from a non-Google IP). There’s a lot of silly (seemingly unnecessary) features on the admin side that could trip up a spam filter.
Hakan; Ignore the open source stuff for now. I speak as someone from within the industry. You may not listen to me and be upset later. If those who say this had done even half the work you did, be sure they wouldn't be talking like this.

It seems that there is a serious effort. And your work clearly crushes other codecs. This will cause serious discomfort in some circles. I don't know much about HALIC, but it is said that it is also a very serious work.

There's no point in rushing for open source. First of all, improve your work as much as you can. If serious offers come later, you can evaluate them. Don't give up control.
I would highly recommend Byline times as well. They also do a digital edition on top of a print one.

https://bylinetimes.com/
I've tried in the past to read some books on the topic but failed. Too much theory, too little practice.

Is there some gamified course? Perhaps literally a game? I remember playing a game where you build your CPU with NANDs, is there something like that for networking maybe?
Yeah that happens all the time, to the point where I had to add specific rules in Google Workspace to never send those to spam. Same with other transactional emails like receipts from some places that I had marked as "not spam" 4 times and Google still couldn't figure out the next one.