skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's really true, outside some niche cultural arenas. Sure, if you're at a posh member's club or a party of aristocrats people might be impressed by your lineage.

I would concede that in politics a degree from Oxbridge has an outsized cachet, and those universities traditionally recruited from elite private schools. However, this is diminishing over time, both because those institutions are proactively recruiting from a wider base, and because people are pointing out the unrepresentitive composition of political parties, which then self-correct to stay politically relevent.

The hereditary parts of the House of Lords are increasingly unimportant, and the Lords is of minor importance to the political process anyway. Royalty has been politically vestigial for more than a century.

But in industry and most business spheres your lineage is unimportant. Just like those other parts of the world you mentioned, it's personal accomplishment that matters.

Britain has big problems, but I think archaic veneration for family lineage is only a small force within them.
Buying Apple is a luxury in itself: don't expect them thinking about the non rich.
The way rail project costs are totalled up is different from one country to another -what costs are included and excluded.

In other words this website is making enormous oversimplifications and not bothering to explain or justify them.
Yes but it is XMMP now. It has been working well for us.
I suggest this exercise: Pick a random person from Queen Victoria's court. Look up where their descendants are today.

Chances are, they're still running the country in some capacity. (The example I'm thinking of was a Duchess. Her descendant was a beak at Eton who taught Boris and the haunted pencil).
It looks like a great product. I have to be honest though, I didn't read too much in detail - and this was the colour scheme seemed to "scream" at me. There is too much high-contrast colours (deep reds, etc.)

Just my humble opinion. Which I am allowed to have :)
i dont' know but the files themselves were malware. Are you saying they write the exploit on a pre-commit hook? WHat good would that do? I'm not commiting any code. It would never execute.
Please stop trying to make python fast. Move over to Julia already.
Lubbock, Amarillo
Figure out your data structure definitions early, along with where those structures come from and where they’re going, and write disposable code around them that builds them and gets them where they need to be. Stable data definitions make it easy to replace bits and pieces of your application as you go. Especially if you view mutability not as the default, but as a performance optimization you can reach for if you need it. (You often do not)
Random anecdata: when I was dating a doctor back in the days, 71% of her class were women too (Belgium, city of Brussels, a good university [the one were FOSDEM takes place yearly btw]). Nowadays most of my doctors are women (another country but my GP, dermatologist, urologist [!], etc. are all women).

On the other hand there are some types of work for which women seems to have very little interest in: for example I have never seen a documentary showing a saturation diver / underwater welder fixing pipelines where the person was a woman (nor a woman identifying as a man FWIW). There may be some but I take it it's 99%+ men. Reality check.
Anyone else was welcomed with this message on the main screen of element x?

> Upgrade available. Your server supports a new, faster protocol. Log out and log back in to upgrade now. Doing this now will help you avoid a forced logout when the old protocol is removed later.

Meanwhile the desktop client upon launching flashes old analytics and UI "tips" notifications that I closed already.
I like it. A few suggestions;

- When in the table explorer it's odd that the primary action - viewing a table - is behind a dropdown menu. maybe clicking the table name opens the browse rows screen and clicking a column opens with a select prefilled.

- Please default to a limit 500 or something like Jetbrains to prevent me making stupid mistakes.
AI Dungeon may have folded, but NovelAI is doing better than ever.
Transport projects seem to be particularly expensive these days in Anglo countries compared to European countries. For instance, we currently have a planned short tunnel in the UK (under the Thames but not in London itself) where the actual planning process has so far cost $400m.
> It works the same for both parties, not the nonsense you said.

One party has 6 supreme Court justices on the bench who we now know are explicitly working to further Republican causes [1]. The conservative supreme court is making rulings before hearing cases or reviewing evidence/decisions. They aren't interested in legal analysis which was clear with the trump immunity ruling.

So no, not "the same".

[1] https://theweek.com/politics/supreme-court-roberts-maga
Researchers discover new blood group system – MAL
"People value you a lot more because of what you’ve done vs who you are and, with some exception, nobody cares who your parents were."

Maybe on individual level, but as far as economy goes, mainland EU is still stuck with very old corporations and rarely generates some interesting startup (not just in IT). There has been a notable dearth of new European corporations since the 1970s at least. The old guard controls everything.

And London is full of European youngsters who came there to study and do some business, because the possibilities are broader there, including some VC culture. Try founding a new company in Germany; you will be met by a merciless paper storm that can only be weathered with help of a professional specialized in dealing with bureaucracy, and may take several months to overcome.

The UK is too complicated to fit into one neat box. It has its peers in medieval gowns, but at the same time, London is a very modern 21st century city, more modern than many metropolises on the continent. Perhaps Warsaw is more modern than London.
An OpenBSD box.
The main reason Britain is failing is it wiped out its industrial base.

Without that, it cant build anything effectively.
"It may have been the greatest rapid expansion in a given economic sector in British history, and it was the key reason we didn’t experience a Great Depression while Germany, the USA, and France did. "

But Great Britain (as it was then) did experience a great depression. 3.5 million people were unemployed in 1932.

Ok - one could say that the depression in GB was less pronouced vs. the situation from 1918 on, but I think that there is a lot of cherry picking & spin in this article. Comparisons are not made consistently and the context from history mean some things matter less in the UK and matter more, and have happened for particular reasons. For example folks often talk about reservoirs, but fundamentally the UK's reservoirs were largely built to support an industrial demand that is simply not there - and this capacity remains despite the loss of demand.

There are some good points, but I think they are obscured by the polemic.
Because there is no point, AVIF does not have inherently superior compression to JPEG XL.
Sounds like a good learning experience.

Yes, it's good to be a "team player", go "over and above", all that stuff. A little bit. Put in an extra 10%, but don't do an entire extra job for free.

The reality is, you can't really change your job, or the company, by doing a side-project to solve a problem. I know... because I've tried too.

The company has a structure, and policies, and probably stuff about job levels, corporate titles, time in a position before moving, etc... that you can't change. If they wanted a VBA scheduling and reporting application, they could have created a dedicated position to do that, hired a contractor, bought it off the shelf, etc. That's what they do for all the applications and projects that they _really_ care about. Yes, they're happy that you're doing it for free, without any of that administrative and financial headache for them. That doesn't mean that they care about it enough to make it worth your while, though.

As others have said... work on the resume, apply for jobs. The real opportunity for advancement is on the open market, you really can't expect to get hired as an X, but do Y, and morph it into a better job in a different department at a better pay. Sometimes that might happen, but in general it's not realistic, if they wanted to hire in the Y department, they would.

As for your current employer, you can be professional, and transparent, tell them you're looking for a career in software development, if they have openings you would be interested, if they want to create a position for your scheduling application then you will apply, you appreciate that they will be a good reference for you... but you understand that they may not have budget to continue developing your application, your software development aspirations may not be realistic inside their organization (hint hint) etc.
>it seems obscene to spend all that money in so small an area

Greater London has a population nearly three times that of Wales. So the bang-for-buck in this small area is much greater. I completely agree that we under-invest in areas like Wales. But that doesn't mean that under-investing in the most productive part of the country is a good idea.
The "Simpsons Go Calypso" predicted this in 1991? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93COkUCwqSw
Sam Altman: o1 models have reached level 2 of their 5-tier path to AGI [video]
> I had to have a multi-day argument over the precise way to define constants in Perl

Couldn't you have used whatever the other person was suggesting even if the change was pointless?
That's good to hear. I dropped at the time they started training their own models, and it taking forever, while simultaneously finding success with imagegen, and kinda pivoting to that, which further delayed their text model, at which point I stopped kinda checking them out.
Everybody seems to know what Element and Matrix are, but I cannot find a concise explanation on the website what they are. Element seems to be some kind of "communications platform", whatever that may be. Can someone please give a brief explanation for us not so cool kids?
That's probably true, but it's a quite separate problem (it's about power rather than attitudes).

Also, Victoria is only about 100 years ago. I suspect power and wealth are pretty strongly hereditary over that time span in many other democracies.
Do you think we should send independent investigators, and humanitarian institutions to do an assessment? Sure just wait for the Israeli investigation of their own crimes to finish, and in maybe a couple of decades, a few people can be let in for a couple of hours to verify the brutality.
So a timestamp per app bundle (name) is being saved somewhere on disk apparently. Anyone know where? Rather than muck around with my system clock (which can cause other problems I'd rather not deal with) I'd love to just poke the right values into whatever sqlite db they are probably storing this in.

What a miserable change this is. Apple is having its "Vista" moment.
I mean sure you would want to do that, but the above was very specific situation with existing feature set and an imminent novel problem.
The "CPU" (that is, the generic compute part) cannot encode 4K video in real time, that part is handle by codec-specific HW.
I’ll need to sit down and read this properly, but I would say there is a real stench of decline in England at the moment and pretty much everyone here would agree. It’s readily apparent the new government won’t save us already.

Public services in particular: 2 weeks to see a Dr, a year for an operation, unlikely for the police to attend your call out, stagnant economy, high cost of living and low wages. And all whilst we have one of the highest tax burdens in our history.
They already excluded older iOS devices before - on my older Air I had to switch to Fluffychat until I've got a newer device
This doesn't really seem relevant since no one is disputing whether the UK as a whole has enough space for more houses. The relevant comparisons are Paris vs London and then the various 2nd tier cities in the countries. Paris has a MUCH HIGHER population density than London, in part due to the housing mix, e.g. Parisian mansion blocks.

Prosperity comes from cities where densification is allowed (far too much of inner London is only 2-storeys) and being able to affordably put in supporting infrastructure.
Amazon's controversial RTO announcement started tech hiccup–ended with questions
If most of that are technical drafts going down to smallest details, I can imagine how it could be sort of reasonable. Large things like, say, nuclear power plants or huge ships have literally millions of parts.
My intro to programing was a TI-83, while bored in algebra 2 freshman year... I had no almost help so I was just figuring it out. Ended up making a 90% implementation of 2048, and about 1/2 of chess. While only knowing if, goto, matrix indexing, and drawling indvidual pixels. I learned Java later so I could mod Minecraft, and now can't stand the limitations of TI Basic.
The article's point is that these properties are not always desirable. Imagine someone messages a friend via an app, and mentions that they're gay, in a country where it's illegal. If the app uses signatures they can't deny that they sent the message. If it's based on key agreement (like Signal), then either party could have faked the exchange, so there's at least some deniability.
Weird how Western Europe stagnated after 1990, only Germany get some more “gas” for growth thanks to CEE and cheap energy. now it seems that importing tens of millions of low skilled refugees and workers with high social benefits is killing any innovation while taxing middle class and all high skilled Europeans prefer to move to US or even east Asia.

Which makes whole industry lag behinds and UK is probably biggest example of that it is just big banking and service hub with no money for any investments in infrastructure outside London making it more and more depending on single city with legacy service sector.
Even Poles are coming back to Poland a country that was 7-10 times poorer 20 years ago.
I've been here for 5 years and am almost thirty years old. I still have people regularly asking me where I went to secondary school. They are obsessed with class.
To spend time on thinking about performance, and then not write the code.
>The Taliban saying they need proof is a negotiation. There is no court of law. We could've simply bribed them. Imagine how much cheaper and how many lives would've been saved if we'd simply given them $1 billion to hand over bin Laden.

They wouldn't have taken a monetary bribe or other obvious quid pro quo. That would be offensive and bad optics. It's just culturally a non-starter.

A good solution likely would have looked like your typical Bannana republic playbook where the tin pot dictator (taliban) gets the US's help quashing any opposition part of that is people the US doesn't like make it onto that list.
Funny how everyone in the West was dependent on Russia si much. People weren't thinking at all?
I believe this has essentially been solved by the AM5 platform. The Ryzen 7000 IO die has a x16 slot which can usually be configured as 4x4, and has a tiny igpu which should be plenty for occasional server use.

The budget Ryzen 8000 CPUs are indeed quite limited, which is a shame if you wanted to go for an 8000G APU to use its powerful iGPU for transcoding.
> small circuit board embedded in it called the PCM or “protection circuit module”.

Which is, perhaps ironically, to prevent the battery from igniting from discharging rapidly (shorting) the battery. It also protects the battery from 100% discharge (which won't ignite it, but will kill the battery).

Makes you wonder if that's how it worked. If you wanted to use a lithium ion battery by just mixing PETN directly in the battery electrolyte ... (maybe it even dissolves, but you'd need an additive for that. Complicated. You could definitely put it directly in the battery in the same space as the electrolyte though) and then using the battery discharge as a "blasting cap", by sabotaging the protection circuit on command, that might work. That would maximize the effect of the PETN, might even use the, at that point superheated, battery electrolyte as shrapnel.

This setup would even auto-disarm itself. If it's not triggered for months to years it will, by itself, destroy the explosive slowly and safely. And yes, that will destroy the battery, but I imagine that's not a huge concern. Might be a problem if the battery then ends up in repair shops and people put it in battery testers.

This would also be completely impossible to detect at airports or the like. For directly checking chemical compounds they need to be able to touch them, so if you wash it and keep it clean it'll be invisible. And the battery is packaged in a metal! That's how all batteries work, so that's not suspicious at all. The metal will prevent other methods of scanning, and it'll be really hard to detect the nitrogen and oxygen of the explosive. I'm not sure if that would even be suspicious in a battery. It probably would.

I still think the fact that "plastic explosive" exists, the more modern variants is the bigger threat. Because you that way they can make an explosive that is a plastic. The very cover of a cell phone, or sunglasses, ... and the item itself can be the explosive. And of course, you could use something bigger. The danger of this is that people carry heavy pieces of plastic and it might be possible to take maybe even a few kilograms of explosive anywhere past almost any security check, because the explosive IS a suitcase, which would make a very scary amount of explosive not suspicious.
Big Tech's New Adversaries in Europe
I wasn't being rude to you either.

There are ways to get good data and best practices for social phenomena. It's just not easy.

It's not easy with science either. Plane crashes killed people like some Cthulhu horror tearing planes out of the sky before they realized square windows create stress points when flying at jet speeds which eventually destroy the plane.

People died because of that design flaw and it wasn't immediately obvious why.
Nah, they're voicing a real song from the 1930s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Smart_(Woman_Smarter)
You say that but the UK has not experienced the kind of energy disruptions that, for example, the Texans have since the 1970s.

Let’s also not forget the railroad problems you face. You’re probably the only country that makes Britain look good for its rail infrastructure.

Having driven on both American roads and British roads, I’d say UK rural roads are to a much higher standard. However that I can give America a pass on that particular issue because the vast distances in some rural parts does change the problem somewhat. But it is another example of how private investment doesn’t reach all parts of the US infrastructure.

Internet access in rural communities is much better in the UK.

Mains water quality is to a higher standard and available to more rural communities.

And let’s not even get started on the sorry state of US healthcare. The NHS might have its problems but at least it’s not leaving people choosing between medical treatments and bankruptcy.

The problem is, whenever the US government tries to step in to improve things, the ultra conservatives and libertarians then compare those policies to communism. Which is absurd.
Since the crisis of 2008 the USA has had several trillion dollars in stimulus spending. Very roughly speaking, Europe pursued policies of austerity, whereas the USA followed a more Keynesian route of big spending. On this matter, the Keynesians have been vindicated. In 2007 the GDP of the EU was slightly larger than the USA, but now it has fallen far behind: $16 trillion ($18 trillion if it still had the UK) versus $25 trillion for the USA. And the most important policy difference since 2008 has been large stimulus spending in the USA, versus relative austerity in Europe. More recently, President Biden was able to push through some big infrastructure bills, which should power the USA through the 2020s. (There are some qualifiers to be added about weaknesses in the USA system of funding and allowing construction, in particular the aggressive system of "substantive due process" that allows for any project to be stalled by lawsuits, but despite that, the USA has done better than Europe.)
Now the problem I am facing is not really about pitching, which I could do really well, but about their unresponsiveness. I can not really find someone who's directly in charge of this...
Vertical scaling is easy, but horizontal scaling is something that gets complex very fast for SQL databases. More tools, more setup, more things can go wrong and you have to know. If you have no shard like a tenant_id joins easily become something that involves the network.

Managed databases ofc take a lot of that work away from you, but some customers want or need on-premise solutions due to legal requirements or not wanting to get locked into proprietary offerings.
Its also that its really expensive. The reasons given are the cost of planning but I also suspect given all that has been exposed over the past 40 years that widespread corruption by governments in power is actually a big part of the ballooning costs.
Nowadays there are a lot of tools to setup this infra in a standard way very quickly though - in terms of CI/CD, tests, e2e tests etc.
A lot of these might be organically grown more than planned in advanced. There's some survivor bias in picking some big open source project and copying its architecture, as if that was the reason for its success.

It's still interesting to look at, but more as a curiosity. Maybe some of those ideas might come in handy someday. But I wouldn't start learning these as super successful design pattern and start forcing them onto your next project.
I don't think "state funded" is the important part to take away from the piece, it's a shortage of infrastructure in general, both state and private, in part due to incredibly restrictive rules. These days you can easily trap a planned piece of infrastructure in court cases for years for largely spurious reasons.
I am saying that we should not destroy a major source of prosperity. Targeted advertising is far more effective than untargeted because it lets you show ads to people who might have any interest in what you're selling.
Same in Scotland. And our tax burden is even higher (if you’re a middle or high earner at least)
>And a big, serious database server can handle insane number of rows and concurrent users. Stackoverflow famously runs on [1] a single database server (plus a second for failover, plus another pair for the rest of the stackexchange network).

[1] Or used to run, this factoid is from many years ago, at its peak popularity.
This is why everyone uses microservices and React. We don't know how these work, but we are netfligs/farcebook level companiez, so we must.
US is energy independent and is desirable place for middle and higher class specialist.
Compared to overtaxed and energy starved England which live from legacy sectors and cheap immigration workers and is not desirable for anyone not working in finances.
Developing Rapidly with Generative AI at Discord
Is ESS an OpenID compatible server, or does it integrate with OpenID backend? Looking for an OpenID provider for a small-medium friends & family group, so was hoping this fits the bill. There is a dearth of information on this aspect of the product line.
The result is purely static and the only redirection I make is from / to the welcome page; so using index.html as output would probably be enough to "just werk" with stuff like this or Github Pages/neocities.

Not sure about what you mean by preview, but here's how I do it: build the website, copy the output directory somewhere, run `sed -E -i 's#(href|src)=("?)/#\1=\2file:///absolute/path/to/dst/#g' dst/*/*.html` and open a page as file in my web browser.