skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Merging could become 100% accurate, for one thing.

How so? Merge conflicts don't arise from the inability to locate the proper change, but from the inability to decide, which of the change, if any, would be proper.
It's worth noting that's Data Protection Act (2018), there was also Data Protection Act (1998) which predates GDPR and had many of the same laws. People outside of the UK only started caring when a regulator with enough teeth (and penalties harsh enough) took notice, but data protection has been a requirement in the UK long before GDPR and should hopefully continue long after it.
The UK economy is not very dynamic and becoming less so. Low wages, high immigration, low investment.

It’s not just a mentality thing, there are legitimate reasons unfortunately
I fucked up, rice is about 600 cal/lb freedom.

> Are you the salafist you speak of?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salafi_movement
> In the UK to go bankrupt is to be painted with indelible red shame dye

Is it? Do people generally know when someone (personally, or in this case, since we're talking startups, their company) goes bankrupt?
The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact could also be considered an integration of German and Russian geo-political interests to achieve a lasting peace in the region. Just surrender.
I have come to be a big fan of small steel dowel pins, though I do wonder about them ultimately loosening in PLA as a result of (causing) cold flow.
Poland had a dynamic startup scene for a while, and it was enegrized even more when basically the whole IT sector of Belarus had to relocate there.

One caveat is you're not going to see the level of exits that is possible in the United States, but the talent is there.
Not the UK, but I'm a Californian who lived in Ireland for ten years. The risk aversion is _intense_.

Me: "I want to build a house"

My Irish friends: "That's a bad idea, you will fail, it could fall down, you don't know anything about houses". They were extra horrified that I didn't want to build it out of concrete blocks because "you can't build a house out of wood"

My Californian friends (but one in particular): "Fuck yeah I'll bring a nailgun"

And this applies to EVERYTHING. If you have any ambition it's "notions". People scold their children for being "bold" (admittedly the word is used differently, but still). If someone makes one euro more than you they're a horrible capitalist bastard.

I point out that workers in my field are paid three times as much in the US (or more) and somehow am a class traitor.... for saying we should pay labour better.

Anyway, Europe has a bright future as a cheap third world backoffice for US companies at this rate. The fact that people here are paid closer to zero than what they'd make in the US is just sad, and they deserve better. The health care isn't even that good (though Ireland is especially bad at this).

Maybe that's just Ireland though. I'm in the Netherlands and it seems a bit better, maybe because the only people I talk to are other immigrants.

(I built the house, with contractors as well of course. It's a beautiful, warm, well-insulated, wood frame house with ridiculous new world features like high ceilings, aircon, and deciduous trees to the south)
Similar to another reply, my M2 16GB MacBook happily runs Mistral 7B, and it will do a decent job of most requests.

I use it where I’m dealing with internal code or data for work where I need to know it’s all staying on-device.

I’ve had it roughly translate portions of code to another language (normally one I’m very familiar with so I can vet it), create mermaid syntax flow charts for code where I need to visualise a process for non-technical consumption, and compare two very similar job descriptions to understand where a candidate might be better for one role or another.

I have on occasion also asked it to condense a wordy email going out to senior staff but I find Mistral 7B is a bit all or nothing and will take my 5 paragraphs and shrink them to a couple of sentences with lose most meaning. Having to hand hold it through each paragraph and then rewrite in my own style is never much of a time saver.
None of this addresses the resettlement or removal of existing people, which is plainly a violation of article 49.

Establishment of settlements is also at least tacitly, and in some cases explicitly, supported by the government, which undercuts the claim that this is citizens acting solely of their own accord.
Some people probably want dump phones for privacy. I'm one of them. None of these "dumb" phones are dumb enough to offer that. I still use a Nokia N86 for that. 3G network is already gone and it will be a very very sad day when 2G is taken offline.

Luckily, 2G is still used here for various car/truck fleet trackers, and fire/burglary alarms and it doesn't use the same frequency as 3G/4G/5G, so there's probably little reason to take it offline in the next 10y or so.
But like the brain, language is Turing-complete. Any information Mary's brain can figure out can also be described in language. If the brain could deduce something that couldn't be described with math and language, it would be doing something outside of our current understanding of physics.

You could respond that even though computability theory tell us it's possible to describe in language, the description would be far too long and complicated for Mary to understand. But I think that misses the thrust of the thought experiment. Even if we imagine Mary being so smart that she could understand and absorb the full written description of the color red, it still doesn't seem like that should be the same as experiencing seeing red. Most people's intuition would be that internal experiences are categorically different than facts.

And also, intuitively, the experience of the color red doesn't seem complex. The dumbest person on Earth can easily experience it, as can a newborn baby with no knowledge to draw on (I guess assuming newborns are sentient). Even a honey bee may be able to experience it. It's such a simple thing that it seems weird to think it's theoretically possible to describe with language, but the description is too complex for humans to understand.

It fundamentally feels weird to think that any combinations of words could ever be the same as experiencing the color.
To the Person Sitting in Darkness (1901)
The OpenAI board was right
Whilst I dont want to defend the relatively low compensation for public-sector jobs in the UK, it is more nuanced than just salary.

In this case, it was actually a salary of £50,550 - £57,500, so total compensation of around £75k (circa $95k), as the pension scheme is in the order of 30% of your salary. Then there's the usual US vs UK medical cover and vacation allowances.

It's still a way off, but the gap is smaller than you think when you crunch all of the other benefits into a single number.
Sorry but I find your criticism quite misleading. For one, the countries you labelled as problematic aren't the only ones on the list, so the $3b is vastly understated. The list includes sells to 58 countries, so I don't think that you can claim, as apparently implied, that the US is more ethical in how it sells weapons.

Russia would currently pay a premium, so Iran selling $1.8b (assuming the leak is ballpark accurate) would translate to what at market rates?

But most importantly you ignore the shear difference in size of the US military activity. Russia and China together wouldn't be able to do the same damage if they put all their resources together and only focused on it. The size of the US military operations (as shown above) is absolutely unmatched (bigger than the next 10 biggest countries roughly)

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EDIT: Looks like the US has a 40% share of global arms exports, again more than the next 8-ish countries together. Number two for instance is France with 10%. [0]
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The US has propped up and supported extremist regimes for over a century, something neither China nor Russia nor any other country can claim.

Extremist regimes include the worst historical outliers like Nazi Germany, which relied heavily on US exports to undertake the holocaust (IBM) and had very friendly industrial relations before '41. There was also strong support for the Nazi party amongst industrial US leaders in particular (e.g. business plot).

Of the Allied forces, the US went into war the latest (only after Japan and Germany declared war on the US) and gave generous amnesty to some of the worst murders from both Nazi Germany and Japan.

No other country on earth can claim anything like this.

Please don't minimise the crimes of the US by trying to compare them to other countries when the scope is so extremely different. The US has been at perpetual war nearly every year since the last 120 years or so and has done quite horrible experiments on their own population... it really would be good to start having a conversation about it.

[0] https://www.statista.com/chart/18417/global-weapons-exports/
We don't judge nations in the present based on their historical peak. The UK hasn't been capable of building anything like that for more than a century; the hammering the Germans gave them was really exposing weaknesses that were already starting to set in from the 1910s.

The UK is no longer known for being an industrial leader. Or indeed for achieving anything in particular except fading away with a certain gracefulness.
I even installed S-PLUS 8.0 in order to look for this - but Sdatasets doesn't seem to have been shipped in the base install. If anyone knows...
The danger here is that the model hallucinates while "simplifying" and omits important information that would prevent a strike.

Or, if you're more conspiracy-minded (which is not necessarily unwarranted with the likes of Palantir), the model can be deliberately induced into "simplifying" away collateral damage through careful prompting, providing a veneer of plausible deniability.
Our instinct is to regulate and tax the technologies that are being pioneered in California, in the misguided belief that it will give us some kind of competitive advantage.

I don’t think that that’s the reason for regulation: it seems to me that US companies traditionally don’t care about externalities (environment, privacy, accessibility, etc.), and regulation is required to bring them into line. That doesn’t always mean that their business model will survive unscathed, but that’s generally a good thing.
> The talent arbitrage is absurd, physics grads with 1sts from top Russell Group unis fighting to be paid £30k/yr.

That much?!?

I'm joking, but I've always wondered with FAANG never set up large R&D centers in Southern Europe. They have good universities and salaries are extremely low, even lower than in the UK.

Plus good weather & co. The actual Mediterranean climate :-)
That is why I wrote "(of a non-elite university)".
1:3 Scale VT100 with Working Keyboard
On my android phone using Firefox, I either have to scroll 2x the default witdh to the right, or zoom out completely to fit the text on the screen. The text is barely readable to begin with, becomes impossible when the whole thing fits. Zooming is not a solution because the text won't reflow.

Does it not behave like this for you? I think Chrome handles it better. What browser do you use?
Safely?! Ha ha, unless you mean safe for the ship ...
Fixed, thanks for reporting!
Everyone here blaming the costs of living in London being a major driver for people looking for security: SF is not cheap either!

I don’t think you can boil it down to that only.

What can be others fundamental reasons? also for Europe in general?
It was chemical warfare. If you've seen the birth defects and health effects, it's shocking.
The US can also throw a firehose of money at stuff just by virtue of being big and more of a monolith than Europe, in general.
I'm a simple human, I see an AI sparkles emoji buttonI press it.
Estonia and Bulgaria both have good English speaking levels, decent visa schemes, low and flat taxes, very good in the case of Estonia and maybe getting there in the case of Bulgaria government digital services, and lots of people in tech (so hiring shouldn't be a problem if you can provide good salaries).

Also, Romania, Poland have good reputation in this space but I don't have any direct experience with them.
The low salaries are a double edged sword - the talent is cheap, but the kind of people who might start a company are unable to build up enough savings to take the leap. It's partly due to low salaries, and partly high housing costs.

It's crazy that politicians on all sides talk about growth, but then consistently do almost nothing to address the single largest thing that's sucking the life out of 20-30 year olds.

Saying that, it's clearly not the only cause as housing in SF and NY is also really expensive.
The cultural commentary does seem right to me. People in the UK are probably more risk-averse and anti-ambition. There’s also some stuff about the culture of investors, like the thing about US startups making wild claims. This only really works because the investors in the US understand that the claims are nonsense, and VCs don’t sue the companies for fraud (because the companies are typically dead and it’s an iterated game).

Nevertheless I do wonder about the effect of people being able to move to Silicon Valley:

- moving there can be a good move for ambitious young people – it’s surely easier to raise capital, find employees/cofounders, etc

- for most internet businesses, starting in the US rather than the UK can be an advantage – doing business internationally can be harder and the US is 5x the size and wealthier on average.

- given this, there’s a reasonable selection bias in the pool of companies in the UK seeking investment: they are started by people who were ambitious enough to start SV-style startups but weird enough to not be doing it in the US. If those potentially-UK startups in the tail of outcomes are disproportionately being started in the US instead, that’s really going to suck for a VC.
At least in the UK graduates from prestigious universities can get good jobs. Where I'm from (Italy) even that is seen as crazy
Have you seen TeXmacs (https://www.texmacs.org/)?
In 2076 we might.
There's already manslaughter which Charlie Alliston was charged with. I wish more motorists were charted with manslaughter rather than "death by careless driving" which has far lighter sentencing guidelines.

This is largely just culture war nonsense by the Tory party trying to get more of the right-wing vote.
iTerm2 3.5.0
To be fair, I was sharing my perspective, thanks for sharing yours. I guess we both offered some anecdata here.
The first two work just fine in Adobe Acrobat Reader on iOS. The third is garbage, probably because the producer didn't include a ToUnicode map or equivalent.

The format supports a lot that is not commonly implemented by PDF readers (or PDF producers).
What is it about the story that puts you off? I might agree it’s not a masterpiece of interactive storytelling, but given the subject matter I’m hard press to find a different kind of story you could tell with it.
> It's pretty rare to see such a balanced perspective with respect to Windows when someone starts off with 'UNIX'.

I dunno. I've posted some pretty balanced opinions on OSes: I've frequently criticised Windows, Macs, Gnome, Plasma and more.

They all each suck in their own specific ways. Most people acknowledge this.[1] Many people are just like me: we put up with the crap on each system in order to get work done.

[1] The exceptions are almost always Mac and Gnome users: trying pointing out that UI can be objectively bad, and the default Mac/Gnome experience fails on more than a few of the objective UI metrics, and you almost always get multiple Mac/Gnome users saying that UI is all subjective.
People don't know but bankrupcy bans you from openning another company for about 10 years I believe.
Why? The data clearly points that nobody will go out of their way to protect IP laws. In majority of the world nobody could care less about some hollywood actor with tough to spell name getting their voice cloned.

It's really weird that someone would think that IP law is more important than access to information. Must be some dystopian bubble.
> I think that one aspect is just that US is more ok with bullshitters and con artists: they consider it's part of the game.

Startups aren't any more fundamentally scammy than any other business trying to get your money.

Oh sure, some are scammy, but that's true for big established businesses as well.
It comes with an inability to do lots of things for 6 (I think?) years, including things like not having an overdraft and more importantly to this conversation, prevents being a director of a company.
They start with superstructures etc, making the ships lighter. Then they pull them further up the coast as needed.
Websites should set the base font size to the browser default, and scale that only for text other than body default: larger for headings, smaller only for truly superflous text, or notional elements such as super- and sub-scripts.

Readers who are aware of the ability to set a browser-level font default will be annoyed at any other behaviour or choices. Readers who are unaware of that capacity, the overwhelming majority, are a lost cause regardless, but will likely use other mechanisms to zoom pages to a comfortable reading level.

Otherwise, Air UI/UX are Beyond the Bend.
One elementary need DI (or perhaps IoC more generally) provides is the ability to mock certain parts of your application for automated tests. While I'm not a fan of mocking too much and prefer higher-level tests (integration/component), mocking is still quite often needed. Is there some alternative to IoC/DI?
Oh sure, Israel managed to astroturf millions upon millions of votes, and manged to control the votes of around 50% of Europe.

Yes, definitely, that's what they did.
This whole exchange from 1:04:53 to 1:10:22 takes a whole different meaning....

https://youtu.be/P_ACcQxJIsg?t=3891
The expected return of working for Big 4 in your 20’s is a coke habit
But reputations are what they are, and you can't dispute that those four unis are top drawer by that "measure" if we can even call it that.

Regardless of what you think of QS. I also think it's silly to have uni rankings, but the way to think about them is that they simply construct a ranking that shows what people expect based on reputation. If you don't have Harvard and Cambridge in your top tier, your ranking is wrong.
I came across this guy last week when I was learning about implementing basic lighting in shaders and Phong lighting is the starter for that. So I looked him up and what a tragic story.
Yes, they are regulated abroad because they are rightly frightened of what SV will do to them without it, it's unrelated to "competitive advantage".
"quantum computers, nuclear fusion, self-driving vehicles, space exploration and drug discovery"

The mark of bullshit. No one can make this judgement.
Presumably because an ambitious young person in southern Europe would rather move somewhere like Zurich for higher pay rather than getting paid less in southern Europe? Who are those R&D centres going to end up hiring?
That is quite a damper on their plans to become the next manufacturing hub. Cheap workforce is useless if you can't power the plants.
Not really, plenty of Windows workloads are still about C++, in-proc COM and user space drivers, do require C++.

Not that WinUI really matters after all the mess WinRT/UWP went through, but it is basically C++ COM/WinRT with .NET bindings.
Greed Killed the Unbreakable Glass
Apparently idiots on HN like to just flag rather than admit they are wrong.
I love how you named the scammer ungustly in your blog. He was quite an Ungustl :)
> concrete cancer

You mean decay ?
In other news, the cost of no ey has increased several hundred percent since 2019.
Firefox Reader View handles this OK. It’s the sheet of paper icon to the right of the URL.
Do I have to pay extra for no ads?
Smaller countries, less money to throw around in general.

Focus on more traditional sectors and a general fear of software solutions (partially justified since many software things are net negative).

First mover advantage for the US as the country that invented the transistor, the social media, internet, etc. Especially in this era of Extremistans (see: Black Swan), being first is super important.

Oh, and this isn't talked about enough, US protectionism (and focus on locally produced things), look at all the efforts to keep jobs in the US, to keep Chinese companies out, etc. As an example, even when Apple was crap in the late 90s and early 00s, it still had relatively high percentages of the desktop/laptop market compared to the rest of the world, just because it was the poster-boy of US computer companies. It's more subtle and it's imperfect (see the steel and auto industry being overrun by foreign companies).

It's very complicated, but 1 & 2 are probably the biggest factors.
Go pretty much uses a global errno, it’s literally analogous, and is a terrible language from an error handling perspective, that failed to learn anything since C.
Japan has Uber Eats and Dominos also and they're very popular. There are literal cafes in Tokyo where you can get Uber Eats delivered to and eat there.
I have not keeping track of this anymore,
but, from the last time I read on this:

A LOT of people go disabled, amputee from freak accidents, on a regular basis, and receive NO support from the owners, and life expectancy go really, really low.

The whole business is controlled by a group of people, who have no ethical sense, and environmental concern, and these people are so powerful, no one can do anything to them.

There's no pollution control here, so all the harmful chemicals go into the sea, and land, which basically have made the whole seaside area unusable for crops, which mean, people who were farmers can't farm anymore, and have to work in these yards. And die pretty fast. And obviously, as the chemicals are getting mixed in the land, it is affecting the people too. But again these people are so powerful, no one can say anything about it.
Is a tech company only successful if it has a trillion dollar valuation? So there are only 6 successful tech companies in the whole world?

As always, you have the good counterexamples of critical for the world companies such as ASML, ARM, Zeiss, Ericsson and Nokia (5G) that don't have such high valuations. Does that mean they aren't successful or needed?
For a long time they didn't, and they'd worked better than ever.
If you want you can use Vivaldi browser on mobile as it has a built in ad blocker.
A few personal anecdotes aren't very convincing arguments about the future direction of the world economy.
How forced and in your face it is, only to then remove the "working yourself out of debt" part at the end and just destroying most of the reason to keep playing, at least for me. And everything being unskippable while you are stuck inside the small room unable to do anything but listen to it.
It's time to install solar panels on the facility I guess.
The claims are hyper ambitious, that's not the same thing as being nonsense. Aiming extremely high isn't somehow fraudulent.

Lots of kids have plans to become pro athletes and almost all fail, but that doesn't mean all those plans were nonsense to begin with.
Do you mean there was food still on board when the ships arrived?
People don't move if their lives are decent enough.

If FAANG sets up shop in Milan and pays 80k compared to the local average of 40k, few people would rather move to Zurich for 150k and have to learn Swiss German and have worse weather and few local friends.

For comparison, Eastern Europe has FAANG offices and people working there generally don't move as much, and the few that do leave, generally go to Switzerland (ok) or the US.

But those are the ultra ambitious, maybe 10-20%, and they generally leave because Eastern Europe has a lot of other structural problems that aren't really there in say, Spain, for example Eastern Europe has pretty bad healthcare in general, infrastructure is much worse than in Spain, general quality of life is also worse than in Spain.