skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The OP is right – at least according to Ernst and Young [1], who wrote in 2022 that:

> Since the UK’s EU referendum, 44% (97 out of 222) of the largest UK financial services firms have announced plans to move some UK operations and/or staff to the EU – a figure that nearly doubled between March 2017 (53 out of 222, 24%) and March 2021 (95 out of 222, 43%)

> Since the referendum, 24 firms have publicly declared they will transfer just over £1.3trn of UK assets to the EU – a figure which has remained broadly flat over the past 18 months

> In the last quarter [i.e. Q1 2022], the number of Brexit-related staff relocations to the EU has been further revised down, from 7,400 in December 2021 to just over 7,000 as March 2022 closes – significantly down from the peak of 12,500 announced in 2016

> While many worst-case-scenario contingency plans have not been enacted, EY anticipates ongoing operational and staff moves from financial services firms across Europe as Brexit increasingly becomes part of a broader conversation about strategic business drivers and operating models

There has been no post-Brexit boom in financial services [2], with a variety of "business friendly deregulation" changes either "yet to be implemented" [as of Dec 2023] and with "none so far having a substantial impact".

[1] https://www.ey.com/en_uk/news/2022/03/ey-financial-services-...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/post-brexit-big-bang-reform...
My parents' house still has fuses with fuse wire. They had it rewired when they bought it in the 1980s, and that was the standard then.

A fuse blowing is so rare I don't think they're worried by the inconvenience. It might happen every 5 years or more.
If there was another store that had all books amazon had, with a Kindle like experience on all possible platforms and e-readers, I might consider that.

The only other store that I know of is Rakuten and that’s by far a worse experience.
It is similar but different to what YouTube did (which also sucked).

How many musicians do you know of that only ever released one song? This isn’t about the streaming revenue for one song (though that is how Spotify tries to frame it). There are 1000s of artist who might have even been fairly successful at one point who have dozens or more songs in their back catalog that don’t have over 1000 streams per year. Add up the lost revenue from all of those together and it isn’t about just a couple bucks anymore.

Further, even approaching the argument from how much it means per song is granting Spotify a pass that this is in any way fair to artists. Why should the top 1% of artists take even more money while the struggling musician now gets nothing?
> why did you make a point about it requiring work?

Because a previous comment said it wouldn't require work. Now you also are saying they'd need to implement it. So we agree it needs work.

> Just admit your argument made no sense

Framing this as "admit" might make it seem like a fait accomplis, but I need a higher bar than that to be persuaded. Biased language only fools very basic readers.

> they're just not comparable.

Why not?
I have the same setup. I used it to make a green light go on when we have more than 500 watt excess solar production, so my wife knows she can turn on the washing machine for free.
Good to know that the keen eyes here found the key hint halfway through the article, at the end of a paragraph: _Capita_. Leeches on the public purse.
Apple should be spending some money on robotics. They’re obviously going into spatial computing.

Robotics is also spatial computing.
I do too; it shows me who can be professional.
For books, I always go to bookshop.org first. They pass some profit along to a local bookstore of your choice.
You need a lot more than scrap farmland. The amount of water semi fabs consume is insane, and Taiwan doesn't have abundant clean water sources.
Their economy looks fine:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39066751
the sentence ends with "...Stroh rum" instead of "...Stroh auf dem Boden", which is an additional joke in austria because of a locally well known brand of rum: "Stroh Rum"
This is perhaps true (but I'm not sure it is), but consider the context of this thread: we're specifically making arguments to an audience of people who care about artists being paid.
Sorry, but _what exactly_ «it seems to do» from your point of view?

My «second brain» now is almost 300Mb of text, pictures, sound files, PDF and other stuff. As I already mentioned, it contains tables, mathematical formulae, sheet music, cross-references, code samples, UML diagrams and graphs in Graphviz format. It is versioned, indexed by local search engine, analyzed by AI assistant and shared between many computers and mobile devices. And (last but not least) it works: it allows me to solve my tasks way more faster than with the assistance of external, non-personalized tools (like ChatGPT, StackExchange or Google).

I know no tools for all this tasks except org-mode. Well, maybe Evernote in the 2010-s was something similar — but with less features, with more bugs and with worse interface.

Personal note-taking _is_ a complex task per se (well, at least for someone like typical HN visitor). I've seen many note-taking tools, that were ridiculously featureless, stupid and inconvenient because they were _not_ complex enough.

> Sure if one wants to do emacs-gardening it is fine.

1)You can use org-mode outside Emacs. See for example Logseq (https://logseq.com/), organice (https://organice.200ok.ch/) or EasyOrg.

2)Org-mode works in Emacs out of the box, you don't need any «emacs-gardening» to use org-mode.

3)The term «Emacs-gardening» itself sound a bit like hate-speech for me. The complexity of Emacs customization is overrated, mostly due to opinions of people who never used Emacs or used it in the previous millennium.
I think interest rates are a much bigger factor than AI at this point!
Leaky ReLU is the best though.
phreaking was literally theft lol
Still weird how someone who can't control their emotions can spend hours sitting calmly in front of a debugger while coding over many years. I feel like developers have exceptional self control compared to most people.

Personally I still feel empathy towards people even when I'm angry at them. If rational people act like complete assholes to me, I start thinking that maybe they were molested or something really nasty must have happened to them.
Has anything important changed since 2018, when you wrote that? :)
"Huh, why is this even a difficult thing"

> the beneficiary may be asked to confirm that they are not the same deceased stranger every 12 months since the system, administered by Capita, does not log a disproved link

... and there it is. Crapita, the source of all woes, decided to do a just-good-enough job rather than a good job.

Come on. Even DVLA can handle the case where 2 (or more) people have the same first and last name, and middle initial, and date of birth, when issuing driving licences. They don't mix those up.
why are they publishing music on spotify then?

I've discovered many artists on spotify and have paid for their live concerts.

Curious, how do you discover music ?
Traditional spraying shouldn't be possible with 2FA, but SMS can be spoofed, etc.
Please stop using France as a trashbin. We already bulldoze enough agricultural land every year and make life impossible for farmers (wtf are we doing with our own food producers in an age of ecology), if we want to remain sustainable, we should not stay as overpopulated as we already are and we should not overexploit our resources. What do you expect, “just build 56 more nucular reactors”?

If anything, we should decrease in population.
Maybe the behaviour of LLMs can shed some light into this discussion. Does a LLM have free will? Obviously not because it is just a software running on a computer. But even when you ask an LLM exactly the same questions you will get totally different results. Sometimes it makes up things and sometimes you can push it to state that 1+1=3. It depends on the surroundings but also on some "magical free" will of the LLM to answer differently each time. Of course it is because of the random seeds that are needed to start the inference. Even though the human brain is not a LLM, we learn that there are systems that behave like having "free will".

just my 2 ct
Maybe in the USA, but over here, many book stores are a lot better at selling books (both on- and offline) than Amazon
I didn't expect tech to significantly leave London unless it became a lot harder to hire foreigners in the UK, and as far as I know it hasn't - non-EU immigration has increased hugely since Brexit. Unlike e.g. food or manufactured goods, software and related services don't have tight regulatory borders and the services are generally sold globally, not into discrete markets.

Finance is deflating like a slow puncture. There's fewer listings in London[1]. Open positions[2] is another early indicator. I believe the US is generally a bigger beneficiary than any EU competitor city. There is no emerging EU alternative to London, instead other cities are consolidating in specific verticals. It's a bit tricky to split out finance industry trends from the broader economy of course.

[1] https://www.standard.co.uk/business/peel-hunt-london-listing...

[2] https://www.efinancialcareers.ch/en/news/2024/01/brexit-bank...
They focus more on it, but in a lord-of-the-flies kind of way. You either get the cues, or you don't in which case, tough luck.

It's the same in other fields, e.g. sports/physical ed often works that way, language and maths as well depending on the teacher. But with none of them, the failure to impart that knowledge increases the risk of murder (as seen here, even though that's an extreme case.)

Edit to add: and in cases like Hans Reiser it's doubly sad because he surely was a smart kid. Sending him off into special "emotional intelligence classes" probably wouldn't have affected his intellectual skills in the slightest (or maybe even in a positive way). But while it's an aspect that most schools try to impart through osmosis, they don't detect when they fail, or even when they notice, there's little they can do about it.
Simple, beautiful website that serves its purpose.
His amazon.co.uk data seems to be missing
The site where they put up this blogpost has less respect for user experience than the simple and functional website they called ugly.
Exactly my point as well when I went to the site. Fast, click here, uncheck there, kaboom, instant change. No gazillion nested divs, precisely to the point of what it says it does. I guess Peter Voica, the article's author, cannot comprehend pages without having blank spaces at edges.
I just cancel most monthly subscriptions as soon as I get them so I have to consciously re-subscribe every month if I want to use them.
Last time I checked Zig still had a subtle form function coloring for function pointers. See for example https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/8907
Do you mean encryption decryption happens locally of each individual note and only the encrypted string is stored online?
How would you trust to sync the decryption keys across devices?
The space was probably calculated to be sufficient until 2038, after which the clock won’t be correct anymore anyway. ;)
There's a fairly large advanced hi-tech industry hub in the Netherlands. Philips and ASML are big names, but there are very many more. As they're all fairly near each other on the scale of things (often near Eindhoven, with more "non-physical" tech in Amsterdam), there's some Silicon Valley-style network effects at play.

Also French labour laws and norms are probably frightening to union-phobic Big Tech companies.
The Dawn of Cultural Schizophrenia (2023)
..._Wensleydale a Stilton to the Brie or Roquefort_
in terms of employment: more people are employed in UK financial services than before brexit

https://www.standard.co.uk/business/city-jobs-boom-brexit-ex...

the simple fact is most of these jobs serve the domestic market and were never at risk
My friend bought a book that was literal gibberish in its thousands of pages. Yes he got a refund. The question still stands, especially among an open source community, WHY is Amazon the defacto? I argue let's stop that
Chile searches for those missing from Pinochet dictatorship with the help of AI
Try out Forker shorthand. You can learn it gradually, and the first steps are omitting vowels and simplifying some letters. You then progress to various abbreviations. Ultimately, it's based on the English cursive so there's nothing too exotic to learn in terms of orthography, although I guess if you are younger there is a chance you never learned a cursive style! I'm a novice but feel like it doesn't hurt readability that much, and it's quick to learn.

Quick intro: https://imgur.com/a/zYyON
Chicago's Field Museum Covers Up Native Display
But we're not talking about a service outage. In the context of an outage at a service provider I might agree with you.

In this instance, a system used by the cybersecurity team to do its actual job was breached - not some development or testing server.

We don't know what it was exactly that these attackers were looking for or what they found. But it is absolutely possible that the information they gained enables them to protect an ongoing or future attack against Microsoft's customers.
The bot simply did as it was told and didn't hurt anyone. The fact that this is seen as a malfunction says something.

The real purpose of the bot was never to help customers, but to try to fob them off.
> I assure you that every artist that wants to make money will have set up _something_ besides Spotify since it’s practically impossible to make money through them.

you are wrong in your assurances( eg: i am listening to this on spotify at the moment Odeon Yılları Album by Nesrin Sipahi ) and your "other options" have nothing to do with how you listen to their music. Ppl listening on spotify also go to concerts they are not mutually exclusive.
Please connect to reality.
Agreed in general.

"and it isn’t about just a couple bucks anymore."

And I want to add, that for quite some musicians, a couple of bucks can make the difference between being able to (partly) pay the rent, or not.

And those are usually the ones making interesting music. So I rather would like the trend reversed, less for the superstars, more for the unkown artists. But this is unlikely to change with these services.
What does UB mean
I am not the decision maker, unfortunately. The UK is on track to solving the cost of housing, by tanking the economy, but people still won't afford said housing since they won't afford the mortgages. Hope the NL finds a better way to solve its issues.
Yeah I find this particularly funny with infosec because the usual state {level,funded,sanctioned} actors are Russia, Iran, and North Korea, of which only one is a nation state.
I read a lot of books. It's pretty much my main source of entertainment. Nobody else came up with something like Kindle Unlimited where you pay a flat fee and read as much as you want instantly. There's entire genres that only exist on amazon that will never appear in a bookstore.
> In the last quarter [i.e. Q1 2022], the number of Brexit-related staff relocations to the EU has been further revised down, from 7,400 in December 2021 to just over 7,000 as March 2022 closes – significantly down from the peak of 12,500 announced in 2016

it’s interesting that there was no mass relocation of jobs out of London:

https://www.morganmckinley.com/uk/article/london-employment-...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/385366/uk-finance-insura...
The website isn't the money maker.

It's the backlinks that allow it to rank. Getting them requires a lot of knowledge & work, like publishing articles on Medium or receiving links on HN.

Unsurprisingly, it looks like the creator is an SEO-expert with years of experience and dozens of projects.
Now that you have root access. Check for a microphone device or other things that could be utilized for surveillance.

Im always skeptical of IoT devices.
Floating point calculation is "noisy" and yet there are models that use smaller and smaller floating point numbers without losing much accuracy.
Mq-deadline scalability improvements (with more than 100% improvement)
If I see you using allowlist (and denylist?), I promise not to correct you. That way we can all just rub along peacefully.

(Edit: flagged? Jeez. I upvoted you).
As we're beginning to discover in our generation, censorship is largely down to the individual censor, and if you're looking for some kind of underlying rationale, you're wasting your time. Censors too are sad bastards, and the one ray of dark sunshine in their little lives is to make others miserable.
Free speech and Drew are not exactly known to be good friends.
I'm boycotting them because of many things.

Although youtube music is in the plan, I don't use it, because the UI is not that great and there's this weird entanglement with youtube videos.

I generally use (video) youtube and soundcloud for music. They're the easiest way to find the stuff I like to listen to.
I’d be interested in crunching the numbers if I had time because there can’t be too much in the cost delta.
> The OP is right – at least according to Ernst and Young [1], who wrote in 2022 that:

> Since the UK’s EU referendum, 44% (97 out of 222) of the largest UK financial services firms have announced plans to move some UK operations and/or staff to the EU – a figure that nearly doubled between March 2017 (53 out of 222, 24%) and March 2021 (95 out of 222, 43%)

> In the last quarter [i.e. Q1 2022], the number of Brexit-related staff relocations to the EU has been further revised down, from 7,400 in December 2021 to just over 7,000 as March 2022 closes – significantly down from the peak of 12,500 announced in 2016

the number of people employed in UK FS is 2.2 million, so that's 0.3%

for comparison: last year 87,000 new UK jobs were added

structually most of these 2.2 million serve the UK domestic market and were never at risk of going to the EU
Here is an example of an artist not on bandcamp . This is what i am listening currently on spotify( I have no idea who this is)

Odeon Yılları
Album by Nesrin Sipahi
Are they worried about you (the startup) or about OpenAI?

If it's the former, there's nothing new, startups have fought this battle for a while.

If the reluctance is around OpenAI, there are several options: Azure OpenAI services is ok for most companies that are on Azure. And if not, then you can use open source models, which you can fine-tune for the specific task.
I lost 450$ on amazon.com for a product that never arrived. Apparently I complained too late and they 'have no shipping info' - might do an ask HN about it and try my best at a writeup.
For teaching purposes you are definitely allowed to lie, as long as that lie can be resolved eventually (not necessarily in this semester ;-). That's how we have been generally taught about integer divisions and negative square roots. But behind the scene, the `dx` notation can be fully generalized and made rigorous with differential forms, or that was what I have been told.
Sometimes the merchant will switch a product with reviews with a different product. So it looks like it has 1,000 reviews but in reality most reviews are for something else.
Yes, Bandcamp leaves a bigger percentage to the musician - from nothing/less. For a variety of reasons, Bandcamp is not actually being used and thus not doing for artists what Spotify has. You can start a personal crusade to combat that, but as long as you do not actually make it work (and I think there is good reasons rooted in what Spotify does well over Bandcamp and the service the former provides that the later won't), this is what is actually factually true.

Let's just skip the part, where we imply it's somehow okay to circumvent fair use, because nobody is making money off of streaming anyway or any such nonsense. Streaming as intended is fine for now. People can just use Spotify, or any of the alternatives, as they are intended and that's fine and on the whole better than anything we had before.
PCIe 5.0 does 32 Gbit/s per lane, which means you need to run at least at 32GHz and probably more if you want to sample the signal more than once. So no, we are at way higher frequencies already.
I might be uninformed here, I have yet to hear of anyone actually being replaced or reqs being reduced because of LLM scripting. I understand the threat, and it seems like a competent programmer could maybe squeeze out 1.5-2x their work with such a program, but is anyone actually doing that? Are any hiring managers or CTOs authorizing that instead of hiring a human?

I’m not saying it won’t happen, but so far it feels like the only reality is that we’re all a bit uncomfortable that it will happen eventually.
Good point, though bad example - the USA is kinda infamous for throwing their weight around like that. The UK… is run by people who still think the UK's natural place is to rule most of the world.
I would guess that your bank wasn't one of the 6 biggest banks in the UK in 2015.
> interestingly it is still available for on demand order via other channels

Where, if you don't mind my asking? This would make an excellent birthday gift for a good friend and I'd prefer to get her the print edition, but a quick search is failing to turn up anywhere that offers an actual hardcopy besides Amazon.
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( chuckling )

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So what? You think only ppl listening on bandcamp go to live shows? How is it relevant to the current topic.
Providing a little more context before things get blow out of proportion.

This is the first time TSMC has done two large feature set in one node generation. TSMC's N2 will first use gate-all-around (GAA), with an improved N2P coming with BackSide Power Delivery Network (BSPDN).

As with any new large node features, capacity will be constrained, so instead of the usual one additional Fab online per year expansion in leading node, they are bringing online 3 in the space of 2 years. This is also discounting that we dont know the total Wafer output of each Fab. But if we look at the recent Q4 report it does seems HPC ( or likely AI ) has infinite appetite for wafer capacity. So I wont be surprised if it is indeed a substantial increase in wafer capacity on leading node.

We will know ( or we can infer it ) once they start doing 2nm revenue reporting. TSMC tends to be very transparent with these sort of things. Something I hope Intel IFS will copy as well.
>> He created a website that looks like it was made in HTML...
Bandcamp is widely used all over the world. My band made 6 times more money from Bandcamp than from all the streaming sites combined. People from all over Europe, USA, Canada and Australia bought our music.
Anjana Ahuja (the author) is one of the best science writers I've come across - expressing technical ideas in a very simple expressive way, so that even simple financial minds can grok the concepts :). One of the highlights of the FT for sure!
> "it usually builds a new fab to meet demand of its alpha customers and then either adds capacity by upgrading existing fabs or building another facility. With N2 (2nm-class), the company seems to be taking a slightly different approach as it is already constructing two N2-capable fabs and is awaiting for a government approval for the third one."

Customers would probably want to have plants outside of Taiwan, but proactively approving a new plant and starting to build one even before you have customers gives more leverage to Taiwan. This is just as much about Taiwan's security as it's about good business.
I have a feeling that this will be resolved soon.

Frontpage on HN tends to bring results.

I wish the authors luck, and would love to hear the resolution.

For myself, I haven't brought any books on Amazon for a long time, but that's mostly because I dislike the Kindle app, so I get my books through the Apple iBooks store.
Can you beat GNU Chess?