skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it is very likely Fooljitsu and Crapita consultants manage to convince them that existing systems do not comply with the relevant laws, and propose an in-house system. I have worked in software consultancy myself. The problem is that the project often starts with senior Engineers, who then gradually get moved to impress new clients, with the final product being delivered by overworked junior Engineers.

Until the government gets better at overseeing such large projects, this will keep on happening. However, as governments not spending their own money, but tax payers money instead, there is little incentive.
It's not quite that simple.

Sonic focuses their fiber services only in areas that are most profitable to install fiber. As far as I know, they only install fiber on telephone poles that have free space, in areas that are high density. The cheapest install option for the highest possible revenue. I live right next to an area that has Sonic fiber, but there's no telephone poles, and an install would require an expensive underground installation. As a result, my area isn't even on their roadmap for future development.

If you're outside the areas covered by their fiber service, Sonic feels it's still perfect fine to charge $50/mo for a 50 mbps asymmetrical DSL connection.
Turned out to be a huge waste of time and if I had actually billed them it would have been such a high sum that they would never be able to pay me anyway.

For example, several meetings in the local coffee shop where subjects covered could be done within an email. They once arranged a meet with their database guy so we could discuss how it would be stored and accessed etc? Both looked at each other as if to say wtf are we doing here?

The lesson for me is that if you don't value your time then no one else will.
With respect, you're reading too much intent into my words. I am
vehemently pro-privacy. In fact I seriously consider over-intrusive
authoritarianism to be a mental health disorder and have read somewhat
into the works of Adorno etc [0,1] (cue a dozen responses bemoaning
how everything done at Berkeley in the 1960s is now-debunked leftist
rubbish)

Part of that is helping people to have a realistic but not paranoid
view of technological society. My work also means I help people who
have serious crimes or security issues to solve, and have legitimate
investigatory needs.

I think privacy violations are not rooted in economic greed, but in
unboundaried, controlling impulses that get encoded into technology.

Hope I am responding respectfully and appropriately, sorry if I got
you wrong. BTW, in a safe way (ie not online) take one of those
"authoritarian personality tests". It will shock you how much we have
hidden in ourselves just ready to be provoked by demagogues or
disinformation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Authoritarian_Personality

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rethinking-mental-he...
Yes, but how often do you experience power outages … I think in the last
15 years it only happened to me once.

You must not live in Texas or California.

or other things that lead to weird temperature changes?

You're a lot more upbeat on current fridge reliability than I am. LG lost a class action suit regarding their junk "linear" compressors a few years ago, and despite multiple supposed revisions you can still find appliance repair folks badmouthing their current crop of linear compressors on youtube. To the best of my knowledge, my vile LG ex-fridge didn't have a linear compressor, but it did have a habit of icing up the evap coils until the fucking thing couldn't keep the temp down. LG sent a tech out twice, he couldn't figure it out. I got tired of throwing out food and tired of ice buildup hitting the fan and making an absolute cacophony in the middle of the night… so they finally bought it back.

I've seen some grumblings that the switch (in the US) to R600 is killing durability, but I'm not sure I buy that. If you dig through some of the service literature out there you'll see that companies across the board are also cheapening the sealed systems (e.g. aluminum replacing copper).

you know you should close the fridge door.

A common complaint about my current fridge is that the doors do not close on their own. The detent is wicked strong. I suspect you'd have to tilt it back to an uncomfortable degree to overcome it. E.g. the door probably wouldn't stay open at all on its own.
You only need that if you want to ensure no other developer uses the AI features of JetBrains, the plugin doesn't do anything until you pay them / activate a trial.
> The plugin is installed by default and visible in the right tray so it’s basically an advertisement (...) a paid service

A persistently visible ad for a paid service you don't want, in a paid product you paid for? That alone is a justifiable reason for the outrage.

But the more important bit is that, if legal says "no", then "but it's inert" isn't an answer people are willing to risk their employment for.

Also:

> if it turns out it’s phoning home with training data by default then I will also change my tune, but it doesn’t seem to be doing that

We live in the age where open source package managers and build tools come with built-in, opt-out invasive telemetry, and I'm talking bona fide OSS, not something by Microsoft. It's reasonable to assume that the plugin is, or at some point will be, phoning home, until proven otherwise.
Same - it doesn't help that I read Futamura as Futurama the first 3 times.
There’s plenty of evidence that many of the minerals in hard water are beneficial. I use mineral drops to reharden my RO water after removing the flouride, and hexavalent chromium in my tap water.
That vaccine worked out really well for under 45's didn't it?
The untrusted code might try to access the host machine. Or run an endless loop, or fill the disk. I think OP is looking for a service that would deal with these edge cases (timeouts, resource limits, extra security layers).
For you last point regarding national level outages: I am quite sure that trains companies would instantiate emergency systems in that case – maybe just by letting people travel for free. Such an event is also not expected to last for long.
Guess the obvious question is why don’t you want types in your config language? Pushing all the validation to parsing state just makes it hard to write valid config, because you only know if the config is valid when you feed it into your program.

Having the ability to pull all that validation forward, and into your IDE, means you can be told about invalid config as you’re writing it. To me the idea of only wanting to validate config at the last possible moment, is a bit like advocating for only using simple text editors, and replying purely on build failures for feedback. Sure you can do it, but why would subject yourself to that?

Pkl is interesting because it makes it possible to describe not just the types, but also valid configs. Effectively allowing you to ship your applications config parsing and validation into Pkl, so your code can just expect valid config. Then Pkl can expose all that parsing and validation logic into your IDE, so you get pointers as you type. Just like you do in any modern IDE for any modern language.
I suggest looking for blog posts about this, you're gunnuh wanna pick out a plugin manager and stuff. It's kind of like a package manager for neovim. You can install everything manually but usually you manually install a plugin manager use it to install the rest of your plugins.

These two plugins are the bare minimum in my view.

https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter

Treesitter gives you much better syntax highlighting based on a parser for a given language. It's much more robust than the regex-based default highlighting.

https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig

This plugin helps you connect to a given language LSP quickly with sensible defaults so you can get IDE features. You'll still need to install the LSP though.

https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig/blob/master/doc/ser...

For Python you'll want pylsp. For JavaScript it will depend on what frontend framework you're using, I probably can't help you there.

pylsp itself takes some plugins and you'll probably want them. They're documented at the top of the readme. https://github.com/python-lsp/python-lsp-server

Best of luck! Happy hacking.
yet it's all the same category, which also exists in VPro, so there is no difference
If I wanted that product anyway, I'd sign up with my other email address I use when something looks spammy, and take the £300 discount.
They probably aren't getting decent bread. Grocery store bread is mostly crap and/or ridiculously overpriced (like $6 for a mid-sized loaf of 'brioche' with more sugar than butter), and bakeries are much less common than grocery stores.
It's more likely to be lower levels of vitamin D in winter. Viral transmission is very poorly understood.
Where are you based where derisking is illegal? Here in the UK it makes the news fairly frequently when someone notable becomes unbanked because of CIFAS or SARs or similar.

Also, I wasn’t able to get a debit card until I was 12, but perhaps that has changed over the past few decades.
House clears bipartisan business and family tax relief bill for Senate action
Fascinating! In case anyone missed it there was a similar article a few days ago dumping a Pokemon ROM through the loudspeaker.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39037104
Keyed dependency injection services in .NET 8 example
Simple example for keyed dependency injection
Researchers remotely exploit devices used to manage safe aircraft landings
Why Volvo has pulled the plug on its electric car brand
I share to a large degree this viewpoint that I'd rather see laws and better technology as a solution to the ever connected and tracked future that we live in. I try to use cash in Sweden since we don't have those laws yet, but replacing paper, metal and cashiers would be good if the drawbacks could be resolved.

The laws we already have do not work. A large part of Swedish intelligence policy is to trade information with partners like the US, and I would consider it extremely unlikely that highly valuable data like bank transactions was not part of that. The US intelligence policy in turn is known to use such information occasionally for commercial purposes, when it has a national impact.

The Swedish courts are also not trained to deal with low-value evidence data. There is an assumption that if data exists, it must do so because there was a reason someone deemed it worth gathering. This assumption breaks apart when data is always collected as a default, which means courts would need to be retrained when this kind of data is presented as evidence (we are slowly getting there but still very far from where I would feel safe). It also makes investigatory contexts dangerous, especially if records are part of fishing operations where single bit errors in storing, retrieving, copying and relaying records can have extreme effects. This include swish which records are very common in court hearings. In some cases it seems that only a single swish record is enough for someone to get charged with a crime, with the accused having to provide evidence to prove that they are innocent.
Quite the opposite - WSL(2) is one of the best things that have come out of MS in a long time.
It's less a complaint and more a warning to people who try to use this kind of marketing. It generally doesn't work, and where it does.. only very narrowly.

If you are losing money to try and attract customers by this method, you may just burning money. They won't become regular customers, you just lost money for no reason. His point about it working to attract Uber DRIVERS makes sense because it's like a hustle culture thing. You could probably attract sales people or affiliates with this kind of thing, but again, not retail customers.

I had a friend who ran a gym and for a while he kept trying to get more people in using Groupon and Classpass. The problem was that literally zero of them ever converted to a regular membership.

So full paying members were complaining that the classes were getting crowded, meanwhile he was collecting pennies on the dollar from the discounters. In his case at least it was "free revenue" in that it didn't directly cost him anything to serve the discounters. BUT.. If even a single regular member quit due to crowding, it offset 100 Groupon/Classpass people. That's how skewed the economics are.
Yes, but e.g. even though the gravitational force exerted by my body affects you only in miniscule amounts, it’s still there.

(Miniscule until I manage to stuff my face with enough donuts.)
Relevant excerpt:

> The House-passed Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024 restores Section 174 expensing for US-based R&D investments...
Electronics (excluding gaming console), furniture, interiors design stuff, appliances, clothing and beauty products are frequently 30 - 50% margin. I previously worked with buyers, the toy department expected around 40% margins, electronics didn't want to deal with anything that didn't make them 45%, unless it was part of some promotion.

You can always get a 20% discount on appliances in big-box stores, if you're flexible on the brand. I got 66% discount on a extractor fan when updating our kitchen, that's just insane.

Edit: depending on your script, you could get the Busybox image and use that as a base. Probably a little more work, but it does fix some of your dependency issues. It doesn't have bash, git or fzf though, so there's a fun challenge getting those build.
It is, that is the whole point of this discussion…
10-15 years is also an insanely large amount of time when it comes to digitalisation.

15 years ago IE6 received its final stable release, but it would still go on to be supported for another 8 years. That’s also the same year Chrome was released, but it would take another 4 years before it overtook IE in market share.

I used cash semi regularly when I moved to Denmark nearly 10 years ago. I haven’t touched Danish currency in the last 3-4 years.
I'm a parent myself. But I also keep in mind that I owe my career and life comfort mostly to my parents being clueless about technology and too busy to supervise my use of computers since I was 9 or so.
There is no such thing as a real picture: Samsung defends AI photo editing
Still less than the cost of securing the dollar!
Pkl has been widely used at Apple for years. It is not a greenfield project.
And the people who don't get electrocuted by your non-CE-compliant hardware are thankful for that. Good thing the equivalent is coming to software.
I think it is common to check that all the charges are valid--since there is a lot of credit card number theft around. But I think it is uncommon to check that they are the correct amount--instead you eyeball the numbers and don't do further checking unless a charge seems unreasonable.
Compiling Pattern Matching
Reporting bugs will cause more to get past the beta?
Which just-so story without evidence do you mean? Are you saying a liquidity trap does not exist? (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidity_trap)
Your comments come off similar to a slave owner bragging about how many slaves they got at various stages and complaining about how ungrateful those slaves were to you.

Completely forgetting the slave aspect that comes with murder, deportations, rape, lack of self determination or any other human rights.

russophobia in this case is merely the dislike to being invaded and murdered by russians.
I’m a native english speaker and I view “hate” and “can’t stand” as being synonyms. I can’t for the life of me draw a distinction between what either phrase means.
All these metrics are easily manipulated. Test scores can be manipulated by giving easier tests. Measuring number of police call-outs just encourages not calling police on emergencies.
https://archive.ph/K6muo
Probably because the original comment said “Futurama” not “Futamura” due to autocorrect [0], and was later edited to correct the misspelling.

Even now the OG comment says “Fuamura” but the quote in the GP comment has the original “Futurama” written in it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39239965
So call it easy to deploy, not efficient use. Or "ease of utilisation of excess energy generation".

The point is that bitcoin would use as much energy as possible as long as it is profitable regardless of fact it is over-produced or under-produced. And regardless if it is "clean" or not.

It also would drive prices up, we already saw it with prices of GPUs/memory.
It's increasingly difficult to get high-end performance with a simple device with a good user interface.

Incidentally, I happen to have almost the same refrigerator as the author (same thing, but without the hot water dispenser). My only failure so far has been the condenser fan after seven years of operation. It was clearly an electronic failure of the onboard motor controller, which honestly has no excuse to fail.

I also have a more-recent Kitchenaid 48-inch-wide side-by-side purchased in 2020. It's a remarkably simple appliance given the year of manufacture. Yet the interior lighting is horribly unreliable. The freezer killed three lighting modules in its first three years. They inevitably go high impedance, usually emitting zero light. One of the three was still emitting a tiny amount of light post-failure. The lights are all in series, so when one fails the entire chamber goes dark. I've even had one of the replacement lighting modules fail already. This component is clearly flawed and I'm tempted to design my own replacement.
The scapegoating happens because the software is the one "tangible" thing in the chain of blame. It's the one thing that can't be queried and reply with "if I had known...".

I do agree with you that Ofsted will likely use the same deflection tactics.

It is a failure of all of the humans involved. Whether it is inadequate acceptance testing, prematurely closed bug reports, optimizing for [unreasonable] timelines, or lack of oversight (and to be clear, I am not advocating for micromanagement).

I feel both of these statements are true: 1) certain people bear more fault than others and 2) developers aren't blameless.

I would like us to reduce our "blame surface area" with a reasonable amount of effort over what we _can_ control.
> Lots of people have adopted something like this;

Really? And how many systems have made any effort to use it, on OpenBSD most of a programs static address space is now automatically immutable (main program .text, ld.so .text, .bss, main stack, dymamically-loaded shared libraries, and dlopen()'d libraries mapped w/ RTLD_NODELETE.

Nobody else have done the work on a complete operating system.
> it doesn't seem sensible to claim it's superior to other platforms when you don't know about them.

I didn’t, I just said I probably couldn’t do so with Windows. If you feel comfortable with ZoneAlarm, then great, but I personally am yet to be convinced that it’s even possible to really lock down a non-Unix (or Unix-like) system. In any case, I’m quite certain I couldn’t do it, and I don’t have nearly enough confidence in my understanding of how Windows network security works (does anyone really?) to say whether any given application works or not.

But if it works for you, then great. All I know is that Little Snitch does the job easily and effectively, and I don’t trust anything else to work as easily or reliably.
Yuck.

Where can I find a list (even partial) of OSS tools with opt-out telemetry?
Exactly. Look at population density inside those cities. You'll find the US is living in what they call cities, but that they are all far from one another compared to the rest of the world.
The other thing I miss from the Amiga is quite difficult to quantify, but it's that sense that you have the computer's full attention.

I put it down to low latency between the mouse counters and the hardware sprite, and immediacy of visual feedback due to the on-screen gadgets being rendered in a high-priority task distinct from the application's task.

A 40-year-old 7MHz computer can genuinely feel more responsive than a brand new machine thousands of times faster, because of those two things - even if the machine then takes minutes or hours to complete a job the new machine can perform almost instantly.

BeOS was probably the last system which offered that same degree of responsiveness.
I swear I know this twist from a short story in an English textbook I read in school. Seemingly set in the mid-19th century, a pair of young teens, maybe a group of three, were in the process of exploring outside their village (I think with the intention of leaving for good) -- knowing it’s not allowed by village authorities -- when they walked onto a modern paved road and saw the headlights from a vehicle and didn’t know what they were looking at.

I never watched the movie but from all the conversations I’ve heard about it, it sounds like that’s the twist. This 19th-century village is just a probably slightly cult-y hideaway for some people in modern times. Is that right?
You joke, but this is surprisingly close to the name given to Dumbledore in the Dutch translation of Harry Potter.
To me, the distance to government doesn't really affect my trust in government.

I agree that uncapping the house would improve things, but I do not think that it is fundamental to improving things.
> serializing modules determining whether a scalar is considered numeric or string depending on which reading operation accessed it last

I need to hear more about that.
I agree with you. I've seen other people write about this before and it seems that the people talking about it are people who happen to make a lot more money than the average person. Good for them, but that doesn't mean that people who make less money just have the wrong mindset or some kind of moral failing.

I apparently have gone from an extreme "scarcity mindset," when I was in my 20s with questionable job security, to a moderate "scarcity mindset" now that I'm in my late 30s with a higher income, better job security, and 10x more in savings. It's still moderate because I'm a government employee with a relatively low ceiling on what I can make; not much room for growth.
All because telling you to GTFO isn't an option. Typical customer support is thus a proof-of-work scheme: to get it, you need to waste some significant amount of time and energy up front.
https://archive.ph/MPNMU
If you’re homeless (and esp. if lacking ID), getting a bank account is a pretty tall order.
Also, imo, a lot of companies greatly underestimate the real runtime cost of AI.

You can’t just throw AI into your existing product and hope that it will fly. Even the most impressive implementations will hit the hard wall of money. Adding AI to an existing product is far from free and you’ll probably need to upgrade your Pricing pages if you add AI to your core offer.

Heck, even OpenAI is currently having a hard time making ChatGPT+ profitable even though they are pricing it at $25 a month. So imagine all those companies hoping they could easily add "ChatGPT" to their $9.99/m business.

I think there is a reason we still don’t see Siri or Alexa powered by GPT while everyone is hoping it’ll happen : Siri & Alexa have always been designed to be cheap and they still dont know how they will sell you the $30/month Alexa Prime.
There are things that are justified to exist whose sole purpose is keeping things in-check. If any of your aforementioned tools gets abused by the authorities we can still fall back to using cash. If you take away the fallback alternative, then abuse is much more difficult to keep in check. This is called Game Theory.
My eldest has gone off to uni in Scotland this year, and he’s literally spent no cash at all in his time there. The only cash he uses are 1 pound coins for the gym lockers, and they return when you’re done.

He spent 3 months in Germany last year, and used cash for just about everything.
No colonization happening. If you don't want to follow the CRA, then don't make a product that gets into the EU market. If you want in the EU market, you have to follow EUs rules.