skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's quite a bit of slippy argumentation in this article.

The anecdote about the filming of Barbie is misleading. The UK has been strongly competing with Hollywood for filming for years, as it's one of the few places in the world that has the local high-end moviemaking infrastructure to compete with Hollywood, but without the militant unions. This isn't a new phenomenon and the unions factor is mentioned near the end of the article, even though movies are presented as a new trend at the start.

Then the article goes off on a big Brexit-related hit job. They say "Sterling has lost 15% of its value against the dollar since the 2016 Brexit referendum", "For the stagnating post-Brexit UK economy..." and "The pound’s sharp drop in value". For the real currency story see my other comment but briefly the currency had been in decline since 2014, but reached its pre-referendum value about 18 months after the vote when it became clear the promised 800,000 job losses and "emergency taxes" weren't going to happen. The actual leaving of the EU had little apparent effect either, with GBP/USD being the same now as in 2020.

That makes sense because the UK economy is services-heavy and the EU single market only did anything for goods trading, not services. That's why the UK has always exported more services to the USA than the EU and why leaving didn't actually impact UK/EU trade despite what the article claims. There's a Parliamentary report that shows a graph of long term UK/EU trade (in slow decline due to the falling size of the EU relative to rest of the world) and you can't actually see Brexit on it at all, because the effect was too temporary to show up.

The WSJ also tries to blame inflation on Brexit but again, a quick check of the real charts shows that this isn't the case:

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/inflation-cpi

Inflation wandered around between the 0%-2% band that the central bank was targeting up until the economically disastrous lockdowns and associated money printing to pay for things like furlough and eat-out-to-help-out (which the US wisely did not copy). The GFC had a much bigger impact on inflation than Brexit.
That’s a scary situation. I wonder how could someone maintain access to cameras without your WiFi login information? Maybe if the DVRs have cellular access, but I haven’t heard of those before. What an interesting problem. You mentioned your kids, but do you think you’ll ever feel like you’re not being watched?
FWIW, in the small desktop app I'm working on now, this library would fit my use case perfectly. Certainly the features mentioned above are powerful, but I think you're right in your belief that plenty of projects don't necessitate such complexity.
Russian ship with nuclear material for the US held in Germany
I think it’s quite unwarranted and very judgemental. I’m myself a non native English speaker and come from a country where the majority aren’t a native speaker.
>Redditors are frequently sophisticated with their spreadsheets; many of them could clearly earn three orders of magnitude more from the financial industry if they stopped thinking that the right way to monetize spreadsheet skill was in gaming credit card signup bonuses.

It's a pretty decent outlet for having something complicated to work on. Another would be EVE Online with the added bonus that it's also an actual game. My guess is most of those people are just trying to min-max what the companies allow them, rather than trying to find an exploit in the system that prints money per spreadsheet CPU cycle.

I am suspicious that anyone can get a job in finance with only churning (or EVE) spreadsheet skills. I have rarely found "well if you can do that hobbyist but seemingly proximal activity, you can walk into a decent-paying job" to be true in tech and I suspect it's true for finance too.

Maybe the finance bros just need a leetcode-for-spreadsheets website to run their technical interviews to open the floodgates though.
My favorite is their nuclear duct tape:

https://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-17542R/3M-Duct-Cloth-...
(Guessing that you are not referring to my 'Either their "surprise" was purely theatrical (or journalistic gloss)' phrase.)

Do you view "university researcher" as pretty-prestigious & cool social status tier - which is provided "because they deserve it", for people who spend years grinding their way up an academic XP ladder?

Or do you see "university researcher" as expense which the public pays, because it expects considerable public benefit from the supposedly-highly-skilled work which the researcher does?

Complex dark patterns, default-to-share, users who just keep clinking Yes, and relentless monetization of user information have been routine & well-known things for quite a few years now.
That is the government's aim yes. They want you to carry a spy device so they will encourage any carrot or stick. Carrots being "look at this shiny thing" or have some dopamine". Sticks being no parking, no banking, no menus, and more.
The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in Chicago is small but good. I found Darger's art there captivating and disturbing.

https://www.art.org/henrydarger/
Someone competent? More like a drama queen butthurt that his pet project did not win the popularity contest. Not the kind of person I want to rely on for important tools.
Recently we had a Teams outage at work that wasn't AWFULLY disruptive, but the only reason that is is that we don't depend on 365 cloud services to get anything done. We use Slack for chat features and more casual calling services (non-meeting) though of course Teams managed to be down on a meeting-heavy day, and we ended up organizing Slack huddles to get around it.

The only real cloud service we use is OneDrive and the CEO is pushing us to get away from it because it has all kinds of strange problems with file permissions and we constantly have to call IT to unlock files.
debug/info/warn/error methods are coming. For the latter, since I use a pack expansion ( `...` ) of `field<T>`, maybe it is already possible to omit the type name. I shall put that in a test case and update the README :)

Thank you for the feedback.
>Both can be bridged to Matrix, which can be accessed with any OS you like with FOSS software.

I do this. It's great for protecting your location data and select meta-data, but the contents of your conversation are just as vulnerable as ever because the other party might still be using native apps.
The real estate lobby is the largest lobby in the US.
At least the environmentalists learned yo make their pics more believable.

The old pic of a sea turtle with a deformed shell with a new-looking 6-pack rings around it convinced me to tear apart those rings for more than a decade, then someone pointed out how new the 6-pack rings looked and I felt like an idiot. I learned never to trust enviromentalists.
Apparently bleeding enough in this case.
Living things have been spreading to new areas and driving others to extinction and being driven extinct for the whole history of life. It's an extremely natural thing.
But the impact is deeper nowadays.

What was the worst that could happen when you bought IBM back then?
Google sues crypto scammers for allegedly uploading fake apps to Android store
> In the field, everything started looking different from what was on the spreadsheets. Unlike EV owners comfortable with the idea of charging a car battery at home and on the road, business travelers and vacationers suffered from range anxiety and didn’t want the hassle or worry of having to find a charger in the wild. Rudy Gardner, who as president of Teamsters Local 922 represents Hertz workers at Washington, DC’s Dulles and Reagan National airports, says travelers after a long flight would arrive at those Hertz locations to find that Teslas were the only vehicles available. “People didn’t want to charge them,” he says. “At the end of the night that’s all we had left, so they’d go to Avis.”

This is incredibly true. I travel a lot for work. Many (MANY!) of my colleagues don't want to deal with electric cars. They (Teslas) are too different, and charging them (non-Teslas) is an ordeal.

This was (and still is) amazing for me, as I can rent very nice EVs at low corporate rates, but there is no way this is good for Hertz or Avis.

> Hertz’s Teslas got into accidents four times more often than the company’s other vehicles

This is a wild, but very unsurprising, stat. Teslas are so, so, so different from regular cars. You have to _want_ to get plugged into this ecosystem. It's great for Turo (where you know what you're getting into) but horrible for the salesperson who has a meeting in two hours and needs a car RIGHT NOW.
Or how about we stop excusing megacorps altogether and stomp them both down? This isn't a football team type of competition, its 2 megacorporations that don't give a shit about you and they both deserve to be strangled into submission so that their whole business model doesn't hinge on mass surveillance.
My point was that the interpretation or 'feeling' you get, doesn't has to align with what Miles Davis thought to induce.

Therefore it doesn't really matter what Miles Davis was planing to do because if Miles Davis doesn't tell you exactly what he felt and thought you would feel about it, but you still enjoy the music, you don't need a Miles Davis as long as you enjoy the music
1 makes sense, but 2 is very unnecessary. I’m not a native speaker myself, and my main suspicion did not even involve humans writing this.
100% agree. I'm deeply anti-Brexit, but out of all the EU countries, we were probably the best places to make a go at it. We export mostly services, speak the global lingua-franca (lingua-anglo?), have a great geographic position, and unlike almost every other EU country, our biggest trading partner is not in Europe.
And in 2 years they'll move back
Tax credit for mortgage interest encourages speculative investment in the housing market. Tax credit for credit card debt encourages consumer economic activity.
The average Hollywood movie in the early 1970s cost $6 million.

A budget of 1% the average counts as “micro.”
I think most of the french gendarmerie has been using openoffice then libreoffice + thunderbird for 2 decades already. Initially on windows that have progressively replaced with linux over the years.

I've read 4 years ago that out of 85k desktop computers, only 8% where running windows 10, the rest was running ubuntu LTS.

I would say that being a branch of the french army, migration was easier.
The double sided tape that unreels from a dispenser with no liner still baffles me, and I have a PhD in materials science.
Which is kinda stupid, when the economy is based on people consuming.

I guess Reagan's friends at that point wanted more money for Wall Street to gamble.
This is actually the reason lower fee cards exist. If every card had a 5% transaction cost no merchant would sign up for that card brand. If the merchant is convinced their average transaction cost will be lower because some of the cards will be cheaper you can get away with some expensive cards.
Although she also massively increased the wealth of the working class by opening up more property ownership. UK wealth inequality is amongst the lowest in Europe.
I disagree with your assessment. Maybe you could flag the comment instead of derailing the thread?
I wish stripe or some company would create a zero fee credit card that is truly equivalent to using cash. The wealth transfer from cash payers, merchants, and some card users to other card users and the cc companies is one of those gross injustices, a small and persistent leech on society. Surely there’s a way to do cc transactions for near zero? What is the point of all this tech otherwise?
From my slackware 14.2 install:

$ cat /etc/profile.d/z-dot-in-non-root-path.sh
#!/bin/sh
# Traditionally Slackware has included '.' at the end of the non-root
# $PATH, and kept this behavior long after it had been dropped elsewhere
# due to the relatively low attack risk by having it at (or near) the
# end of the $PATH. But times have changed, and having this as a default
# violates POLA (principle of least astonishment) just like removing it
# back in the early 90s would have. So, by default this script is not
# enabled. If you'd like '.' back at the end of your $PATH for non-root
# users systemwide, make this script executable. A better choice is
# probably to leave it off and let individual users decide to add it
# in their local profile scripts if they want it. Even better is just
# to start programs in '.' with ./program, like most of us have been
# doing for years.

# For non-root users, add the current directory to the search path:
if [ ! "`id -u`" = "0" ]; then
PATH="$PATH:."
fi
And yet that isn't at all relevant to the content of the article, and pointing it out isn't a valid criticism of the article.
Though one can write off losses from gambling in the US.

I wish the tax code had more a more positive slant per your point, but lobbying seems to be a bigger driver.
I know that, no need to feel insulted. I never said otherwise and that wasn't the point.
You're assuming that it was a plan in reality it really wasn't

the brexit vote went an unexpected way, and people had to actually figure out how to deliver the undeliverable policies that were promised.

The problem being that the people doing the promising had never actually done anything of substance outside of talking bollocks for a living.

The people doing the delivering _did_. However the probrexit side said "give me solutions not problems" followed by "no no, thats just propganda, you're the enemy of the people, I will find someone to put this moon on a stick" Thus we ended up with lord fucking frost.

The anti brexit people wouldn't take anything less than full reversal meaning that we defaulted onto something utterly shite

Now we are left with industrial quantities of diarrhoea smeared over everything, which is going to take years to clean up. The problem being that the next lot are promising not to use soap to clean up brexit. They are promising to shine it to a bright polish.
FYI, in VS Code, you highlight the error in the terminal, right click and select "copilot explain this." One less layer of indirection. In C++, I ultimately only end up using it for 10% of the errors, but because it's the type of error with a terrible message, copilot sees through it and puts it in plain English.

I was so impressed with gpt-4's ability to diagnose and correct errors that i made this app to catch python runtime errors, and automatically make gpt-4 code inject the correction: https://github.com/matthewkolbe/OpenAIError
The UK recruitment industry is extremely competitive/aggressive. After Covid, they realised they could even outcompete the Americans on their home turf.

UK estate agents are also expanding abroad at an increasing pace.
+1 for this, for the value of the jacket and the court costs.
This is precisely why Microsoft freaked out when Germany last tried this. It led to them inventing this nebulous "TCO" concept wherein they massively overestimated the costs surrounding moving to FOSS in order to try and convince clueless managerial stakeholders to stick with them.
Gas stations are ubiquitous. Charging stations are not.

You don't need to use any brain power to fill up a gas tank. I've never driven an EV before. When I'm on vacation or business trip, not sure I'd be in the mindset of learning how to find a charging station and charging a car for the first time in my life.
I rented on Turo for a couple of years. I had a relatively low-cost 4-cylinder gas car (Toyota C-HR) and an EV that cost twice as much. The ROI on the gas car was much higher, as I could only get about 25%-50% more for the EV. That said, I did find that the quality of the renter was higher for the EV (as in things like smoking in the vehicle, etc)
I think i got your point.

And i still argue that this 'soul' thing doesn't exist and it doesn't matter.

Music becomes popular not because it has a magic soul to it but because it triggers enough people at the right time.

And covers are often also super popular and i myself was not always aware that a cover was a cover. Which also indicates to me that some music wasn't magic because of its soul but because the search space for interesting/intriging music is HUGE and it takes time for us to walk through it.

Edit: Nonetheless, I do count myself to the group of people who value things more than others IF it has more personallity. Like if i know this thing is handmade and very well build vs. the same thing machine build.

But this is appreciation and luxury. In case of me not having the money to do so, i would not say that the mass produced thing is bad just because.
An area of huge counterfeit is companies purchasing low cost legit adhesive with a 3M logo on the liner, and then coating a different adhesive on it that looks like it would work but doesn't and selling for profit.
Blockchains are costly and don't solve these problems.

It is as evidenced by the way blockchains are used now. Cryptocurrencies are the most important applications, and few people actually own them, and by "owning" I mean being able to make a blockchain transaction. In most cases, they have an account with a third party who does the blockchain stuff. In other words, a bank. In fact, it may be an actual bank, which is probably for the best because actual banks are highly regulated and are less likely to just take your money and disappear.

Cryptocurrencies quickly became just another financial product that is being integrated in our current system. And for the other ways cryptocurrencies are used, these are mostly illegal (drug trade, ransoms, scams, tax evasion, etc...) and governments are working on that.

Other prominent applications of blockchains: NFT, DAO, etc... are even crazier than cryptocurrencies. All the madness of our current financial system without the regulations that make it somewhat usable to grownups.
No. OpenStack sucks to deploy and maintain with the result being an inferior cloud with a lack in services.
In a future where most of the data of the 21st century has been lost, I wonder what future archeologist will think of our worship of Rick Astley.
This reminds me one of the reasons I hated C++ so much. 1000+ lines of error messages about template instantiation, instead of 'error: missing semicolon'.
> I don't want to be a pessimist, but working with non-traditional tools is going to cost the taxpayers more money when important documents are not formatted correctly or the software behaves differently than the proprietary alternatives.

That is a bit short sighted, if we didn't work with non-traditional tools the whole computer/internet wouldn't exist and we'd still be writing stuff down.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-defence...
> And how do you do that? You think EU companies will stop buying Office 365 subscriptions to reduce their dependency on the US?

Well... yes, I think that's exactly the argument being made here. Reliance on foreign cloud infrastructure is a liability, and the US does not hold any of its companies accountable for blatantly unethical and reckless data practices.

I'll admit LibreOffice is relatively underpowered and unintuitive, but I've been using it for years and I find the compatibility issues to be overblown. I'd hazard a bet that most employees of companies using MS Office could make the switch and be used to it within a couple weeks. Certainly a much, MUCH easier transition than one between ERPs, for example.

> Why do you think Google uses SAP instead of rolling out their own solution?

SAP can be hosted entirely onsite, and at Google's scale that's almost certainly what they're doing. The problem is the infrastructure, not the origin of the software itself. Note how the EU never had anything against MS Exchange Servers.
> They’re killing innocent people for no good reason.

They're killing innocent people as the least-bad option.

Hamas killed a bunch of innocent Israelis. Hamas has stated, clearly and repeatedly, that they intend to continue doing so until they have killed them all. Israel has decided that Hamas has to be destroyed, in order to protect innocent people.

But Hamas surrounds itself with civilians[1]. Faced with the the choice of killing Hamas (and killing innocent Palestinians in the process), or not killing Hamas (and having Hamas kill innocent Israelis), Israel has chosen to kill Hamas. This is not a choice between killing innocents and not killing innocents - that choice is not an option. This is a choice of which innocents die.

[1] Why does Hamas surround itself with civilians? Because it knows that Israel is reluctant to cause civilian casualties. They went far enough this time that Israel has overcome that reluctance.
Those requirements can be met by writing your log data to a pre-allocated memory buffer and flushing the buffer yourself.
The leech is the point, there is no "otherwise."
It was! Auto leases were deductible too which was a big subsidy for the auto industry.

Once rich people figured out how to get poor people to be angry about things like higher marginal tax rates for rich people and “death taxes”, we raised taxes on the suckers to benefit the richer people.
My point was that both are static, but you’re right that one being done at the type checking stage probably makes a big difference in the feasibility.

> the potential to produce surprising results

That’s actually the big reason for that capability. If you do

let result: Result<_,!> = …
let ok(fine) = result

, if result ever changes from infallible to fallible, you get a compile error rather than the runtime error you would get with unwrap. In fact, when looking it up, it turns out that specific case was a big part of the motivation for the “!” type in the first place! I think the above code probably compiles in nightly because of that.
Car Play will not enable with Siri turned off (at least in my 2019 Subaru).
compression. encryption. handshakes. datetime. rng or prng. i'm right there with ya but nontrivial tasks require nontrivial knowledge. i don't have an answer for obfuscated backdoors like here, or bad code that happens, but i do know if i tried to audit that shit, i'd walk away telling everyone i understood nothing
What I mean is that it doesn’t use git as the source of truth for packages (unless you point at a git repo instead of crates.io). It does use a git repo for the index.
Presumably they do not because they want to track you via your credit card number, and permitting Apple Pay (maybe others too) would hinder that.
Despite the horrors portrayed in the article, I'm disturbed that every critical comment here was flagged and is dead.
Excellent. This is the final version without any harmful side-effects:

if [ ! "`id -u`" = "0" ]; then
PATH=".:$PATH"
fi
How is it possible to save more than 100% ?
Thanks for supporting this project. Bilal.
> The armed forces of the United States, with some exceptions notable enough to be scandals, are carrying out our collective agenda.

I'd need some very good evidence before believing this for any country, not only the US. The people's interests haven't been in the equation for quite a while now. This phrase only works if you replace "our collective agenda" with "the agendas from the rich and powerful".

The typical counter-argument is that we indirectly choose our representatives, but that's a naive take at best. The only people with real power in a capitalist world are the ones with... a lot of capital.
People who are encumbered by credit card debt are usually people who would still be better off taking the standard deduction these days.