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The largest problem I see is shipping times. If I need to download a new software "part" (library or other), the shipping time is the download time, nearly instant.

If I need new hardware pieces, its either next day shipping, a few days by air-freight or three weeks on a boat from china.

This limits prototype turnover time, and means iterating quick is much harder.

Finally you have the problem that hardware is expensive and an additional cost. A hardware startup has all the same costs as a software company but with the addition of hardware.
verbal agreement ... that's just saying that you're a little dumb or you're playing dumb cause you're in on it.
paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10120
> It's conflating a bunch of things.

Not really. I am talking generally about this notion that we need to keep importing people.

> Menial routine work for juniors has been eliminated or automated to the margins, that much is true. No office-boys and far fewer supermarket cashiers. For those with people skills, there's plenty of café work, but that's about it.

That is often repeated but I don't think that is quite as true as people make out. There aren't robots yet (or likely to be) stacking the supermarket shelves. Yes self service has taken most of the cashier jobs (not all btw).

> And a shift, for various reasons, to the contracted-out agency model for cleaning. Mostly done by immigrants, but they work harder than most semi-retired Brits would be willing to. Even if they're less flexible than the old boy who'd fix a bad door or window as well as sweeping the floor, and have none of his loyalty.

In other countries to emigrate there you need to have skills they need. When I moved abroad previously the company had to justify looking outside of the country to employ me. I don't understand how it can be justified that they can't find cleaning staff. BTW I employ a cleaner so I know roughly how much they cost.

> UberEats on the other hand is taking the mick. A lot of their workers are undocumented, the self-employed contractor status allows the operator to avoid the normally stringent penalties for immigration law breaches. I don't know if they lobbied for the law to be that way, but it's a massive loophole. So this is illegal work and maybe shouldn't be conflated with legit immigration. How much it's a problem I'm not sure.. the actual numbers are quite small, but like the loudspeakers on the bus thing, it's a very visible breach of the norms and rules, so there's an argument that it's bad for society on that basis. And like I say, the operator is blatantly exploiting it, they can't be blind to what's going on. I'm pretty liberal on immigration, miss the positive contribution the former Eastern Bloc countries made prior to Brexit, but the whole food delivery sector is overdue a clean out.

It doesn't matter whether it is small or not (I don't think it as small as you are making out). It shouldn't be happening. Also just because you don't like the people that are highlighting this issue, doesn't mean that the issue isn't important.

The reason why things are a mess is that nothing gets sorted out properly in the UK. We have had leadership failures now for years.
This reminds me of one of my favorite scenes from "The IT Crowd"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12LLJFSBnS4
Beat them out in what way, or by what metrics?

If you're comparing against other major fiat currencies that's a pretty easy bet. The only way the dollar loses meaningfully, or fails completely, is if it is no longer the reserve currencies given priority over those other fiat currencies. This has to happen eventually but it seems pretty safe to say it won't happen within four years.
Or until the US invades Greenland, and will be barred by the EU of ever using ASML machines again ;-)
Nope. Nobody is talking about what colour is white, but contrast that is forced upon user that hurts eyes.
That repository is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time on Github, although it doesn't seem to be meant as a joke.
Interruptions are productivity and creativity killers. Middle managers are of questionable utility but that layer of an organization would be much more effective if it focused ruthlessly on removing distractions.

I worked at a small company where a significant portion of my effort went toward shielding my team from the distractions created by a CEO who couldn’t seem to help meddling in every aspect of the business. I think it’s because he started out doing, or at least being involved with, many of the functions of the company and had a hard time letting go as we grew. Even after the organization grew to 50+ people he couldn’t keep himself out of the nitty gritty details, but the format of the distraction changed over time. Instead of walking up to people and interrupting them in person (a double whammy according to this study, including both an “important” person and the in-person aspect), he would send what we called “Slack attacks” throughout the day. These were paragraphs-long Slack messages without any semblance of organization, punctuation, or line breaks. Fortunately, many of these messages were sent during the very early hours of the morning so they could be dealt with first thing in the AM, but that wasn’t always the case.

In the first phase I literally moved my team location and reorganized the desk arrangement so it was harder for him to get in and bug everyone. I had to “guard” the area and try to stop him from physically entering the space, which was always a strange dance. I couldn’t control his Slack messaging behavior so I worked with people to understand that while yes “the CEO is asking you for urgent work in Slack” seems like a valid reason to switch gears, but instead let me work to figure out what actually needs to be done and we’ll catch up later about what to do.

It was a weird dynamic but there was no doubt the distractions were a drag on performance. Every time he went on vacation we saw a marked increase in productivity, and more creative solutions seemed to come up as well. I don’t wish this type of environment on anyone but in a way I’m glad to have gone through it and learned some lessons about interruptions and how to avoid them.
Sovjet union was a donut empire- all value generated was produced in the ring around the empire core and then exported to russia.
Doesn't that article you linked make a similar point about trans being a recent concept, and that the validity of retroactive application is disputed?

> The modern terms and meanings of transgender, gender, gender identity, and gender role only emerged in the 1950s and 1960s. As a result, opinions vary on how to categorize historical accounts of gender-variant people and identities.

> [...]

> A precise history of the global occurrence of transgender people is difficult to compose because the modern concept of being transgender, and of gender in general as relevant to transgender identity, did not develop until the mid-20th century. Historical understandings are thus inherently filtered through modern principles, and were largely viewed through a medical lens until the late 20th century.

> [...]

> Absence of autobiographical accounts has resulted in historians assigning identities to historical figures, which of course may be inaccurate.
> It's just a giant fuck you from the recording industry.

I eagerly await the moment when AI folks will just buy a bill to abolish copyright and send the content industry packing to do something more useful than sitting on swaths of human culture and clipping coupons.
And what are ASML and the Netherlands in general getting out of it?
I have explained the difference already and cited specific examples. It’s a you problem if you’re trying to interpret the words another way.
Oracle Forms, in my opinion, not too much. I started doing Oracle Forms in 1998, but it had really dropped off by about 10 years later when web became common. There may still be legacy apps running there though, for instance I believe a military business had some very high security data which was viewable only in Forms. For use cases like that often people are slow to re-platform! At one point all the UK natural gas metering went through Oracle Forms, I worked on the original and upgraded systems and around 8 years ago this was still the case.

Oracle apex is still used though because if you have an Oracle DB it's such an easy way to build a website over it. It's way easier than Rails or Django, but it can also be enhanced pretty much like a normal web app, it's all restful etc. I know a couple of people who've been working full time on it for decades now,
The UK government did, for all intents and purposes, choose austerity after the pandemic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_government_au....
Pretty sure the reason ASML has to comply is because they rely on American suppliers. Without those American suppliers, they wouldn't be able to build their machines.
That's not how racism works.
Devs often think that you need polished engineering to make it into the market. But the reality often is that half baked products built on lush dinners with prospective clients, dreamy promises, strong sales skills and effective market win the game over and over. Of course, if you also have a well engineered product, even better. But it is clearly not necessary
We used to live next to a tank division base in USSR. Once a conscript soldier was assigned with maintenance work on a tank. Trying to be helpful he attempted to remove laser rangefinder while the officer was away. But it being a two-person job he inevitably dropped and damaged it. He was court-martialed, got three years of prison and had the cost of the instrument withheld from his future income. The rangefinder cost was about 24000 rubles while the average Soviet monthly salary was ~160 at the time.

Now this was not Balkans but it is always startling how fundamentally inhumane and atomized all Communist societies are, in very much the same way. Am convinced one could transplant a Cuban to Romania or a Bulgarian to North Korea and save for the language and cuisine they'd instinctively know how the things work. How you should get hold of your groceries, when it's a good idea to bribe, who is important in informal way, what you shouldn't say and just how much effort you should put into your work. This was truly global, Borg-like culture like nothing before.
I'm unhappy about browsers dropping RSS support too but did you or anyone else actually use the browser integration for anthing more than discovering that an RSS feed exists?
Cheap compared to the US. On-par for most of the Western world. Expensive on the international market.
Azure DevOps specifically has a very broken approach to YAML pipelines, because they effectively took their old graphical pipeline builder and just made a YAML representation of it.

The trick to working with this is that you don't need any of their custom Azure DevOps task types, and can use the shell type (which has a convenient shorthand) just as well as in any other CI environment. Even the installer tasks are redundant - in other CI systems, you either use a container image with what you need, or install stuff at the start, and Azure DevOps works with both of these strategies.

So no, it's neither hard nor impossible, but Microsoft's half-assed approach to maintaining Azure DevOps and overall overcomplicated legacy design makes it a bit hard to realize that doing what their documentation suggests is a bad idea, and that you can use it in a modern way just fine. At least their docs do not recommend that you use the dedicated NPM-type task for `npm install` anymore...

(I could rant for ages about Azure DevOps and how broken and unloved it is from Microsoft's side. From what I can tell, they're just putting in the minimum effort to keep old Enterprise customers that have been there through every rename since Team Foundation Server from jumping ship - maybe just until Github's enterprise side has matured enough? Azure DevOps doesn't even integrate well with Azure, despite its name!)
> why are you so obsessed with the State of Israel?

Because my government has suffered from Israeli interference, and because my government is supporting the apartheid state of Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people - providing weapons, financial aid, political aid and manufacturing consent for genocide.

Because Israel is carrying out a modern day holocaust, all while constantly lying and fabricating evidence. Because I've seen/heard/read with my own eyes and ears the insane horrors the IDF is inflicting on the Palestinian people - just such incredible, unfathomable evil. I can never unsee what I've seen.

Because Zionists and their Hasbara lackeys spread hatred, racism and Islamophobia, and have smeared opponents with false claims of antisemitism.

> do you seriously believe there are Hasbara in HN?

Yes, there are all over all forms of social media [0] [1]. It would be stretching credulity to believe they weren't active here.

> most people in HN are anti-Israel

Haha, laughably false! This is the same kind of tired deflection that Hasbara use all the time.

[0] https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/the-art-of-deception-how-i...
[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-2369589...
Attackers with that level of sophistication could most likely bypass any protective measures the SSD has or find some other way to exfiltrate data, like installing a transmitter on your RAM.

If that's your threat model, then an adversary getting physical access to your device even once should mean it's now unusable anyway, regardless of how secure you think it is. There's just way too many attack vectors.
No, it was dynamic based on voltage. iPhones with worn batteries had higher performance at full battery and swapping the battery with a fresh replacement restored full performance even at low battery percentage. In fact this is how the slowdown was discovered: someone replaced their iPhone battery with a non-genuine replacement and it got noticeably faster.
State of Kaniko: Unmaintained?
> Often, I find myself in need to find all references of "Active" from your example, which doesn't work with union values.

I'm able to do that just fine in VS Code / Cursor.

I set up a union like this:

export type TestUnion = 'foo' | 'bar' | 'baz';

Then use it in another file like this:

const bar: TestUnion = 'bar';
const barString: string = 'bar';

If I select 'bar' from the type and choose "Go to references", it shows me the `const bar` line, but not the `const barString` line, which is what I would expect.
I read some, including 1984. What's your point? 1984 portrays exactly the kind of world I’d want to avoid - one where the government controls access to information and rigidly suppresses foreign influence.
The Guardian and many other newspapers appear to be controlled by the CCP as well:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/23/israel...

The UN is controlled by the CCP:

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/11/1157286
Trump isn't president and the ban went into effect before he was. There's no legal extension possible anymore under this specific case.
There are a bunch of crates available for scripting in Rust/Bevy (Rhai, Rune, Luau, Teal, etc), anyone who've tried specifically Rhai with specifically Bevy before and could share their experience?
The comment I replied to only places blame on Conservatives. There is a name for this: "lying by omission".
The US already threatened to invade the Netherlands not so long ago, worked like a charm. I'm pretty sure your scenario would be resolved just as easily
If you are looking for alternatives, I highly recommend the Qidi q1 pro

Despite an initial issue with the hot end (which was easy and fast enough to fix with help from support). I’ve been really happy with it

It prints pretty much anything. Fast, reliable and very cheap compared to equivalent printers in the market
>can be completely avoided abolition of the country borders

Home break-ins can be avoided by abolishing locks on your front door and leaving them open for the public. You go first please.
wouldn't "growth" have to be reinterpreted for such technology? cause part of its appeal is to _not_ grow unchecked. you don't want everybody on there and you want the setup to be a little difficult. about as difficult as it was to hook up with the web in the 90s.
The answer here can be found if you just "follow the money" and realize that while some investments follow international boundaries, other types of investments are highly mobile.

The lack of UK hardware startups is due to the lack of local VC appetite and the unwillingness of US VCs to fund a non-Delaware incorporated company. Therefore the investment from a VC to a startup is generally "bounded" by geography.

The lack of UK VC appetite is due to the fact that there are just not that many LPs that want to give their money to a UK VC given their choice internationally. The LP investment to VC is "unbounded" - meaning it just follows exactly where the returns are highest.

What we really need is for UK startups to break the international border between silicon valley and the UK (or anywhere else for that matter). This means setting up a Delaware C corp, selling to the US, but keeping most of the talent in the UK.
its like how 30 years ago when people would numblessly flip through hundreds of cable channels for hours, but with endless tailored content and extra dopamine shots on top from social feedback

its very telling how, while youtube (classic) also has these same ingredients, the ux of looking through a menu is far less addicting than the slot machine mechanism from swiping up
I get why people would want to push this forward in general, but except in a case down the road, many years from now, is there a real case right now for running your typescript code without compiling it?

Maybe library compatibility?

My first reaction is that this just further fractures the ecosystem, where some codebases/libraries will have TS that is required to be compiled and some will not, adding a third kind of TS/JS code that's out there.
Wildfires in forests are indeed burning trees.

Wildfires in suburban communities are burning non-wood materials, including many things made from hydrocarbons.
> I think it’s more that the bar for getting a hardware startup off the ground is much higher than a software startup - everywhere in the world.

I hear ya on this, and it's not just the setup costs, or the testing or the certification... It's a non trivial task to run a hardware company. Even the stuff you don't expect. For instance, a good friend of mine founded a health startup that makes wearables, and they were almost torpedoed in the first year of operation by some mouthy influencer who went about publicly calling their beta release product a fraud. This is despite the fact it worked and did what it should.
As someone who is also implementing a naive "walk the AST" evaluator for lisp, what would be considered OK/fast/not-slow in the case for 1 million loop iterations? Would ~30ms be considered fast or "not-slow"?
One thing that you have to accommodate in this assessment, is that Yamaha run the worlds largest networks of music schools, and new musicians coming into, and subsequently graduating from those schools often had a fixed budget for their instruments.

The DX9 was Yamaha's way of marketing to those schools in a fashion that would imply affordability, while giving access to the 'professional' tools that commercial musicians would use (DX7). The idea being, the student starts off on the DX9/DX100/DX21 and then - when they graduate and can eventually afford it - upgrades at a later date to the DX7.

They used this strategy very successfully for decades, to expand their market and capture devoted fans of their instruments. Even today, Yamaha's product lines are designed to be affordable to students, and eventually when those students become professionals, provide a 'guided upgrade path' to the higher end products.
Eh, well, this is a bit embarrassing! On mobile, I can’t local a chart that covers the post war until now, best I can find is https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OUTMS which shows late 80s onwards BUT shows a drop at 2008 onwards which goes against my argument (notwithstanding the big gap between both charts)
Aside from computer hardware, another industry that the UK is nowhere near ambitious on (despite its fortunate geography) is offshore wind power.

This is an area with ridiculous potential in the UK if the will and the financing was there to build it.

[Conservative analysis shows](https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/can-solar-and-wind...) that if only 10% of the UK's EEZ was used for offshore wind, it would produce >2000 TWh annually (over 2 trillion kWh).

That is equivalent to half of [all the electricity consumed by the United States](https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/use-of-elect....) - from a country with five times fewer people, a GDP one-eighth the size and a total land area 39 times smaller.

Not only would developing this sector be an industrial driver in itself, but the sheer excess of carbon-free power could be used to power the growth of other sectors - from energy-intensive data centers to heavy industry. Needless to say it would also act as some protection given geopolitical risks with fossil fuel supplies.

And also the [development of novel energy storage solutions](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/01/thermal-...) means concerns about periods of low wind will likely become less of an issue over time.
Netherlands(ASML) or Denmark(Greenland/Ozempic)?
My ASUS 1215B EEE PC, the netbook generation, came with Linux as typical of them, had wlan problems, and after the AMD driver was replaced by the open source one, it never achieved the same OpenGL capabilities as it had originally, and hardware video decoding never worked after Flash was gone.
A lot of people hold the view that privacy isn't important unless you have something to hide. They likely wouldn't care about some government on the other side of the world knowing what stupid tiktok videos they watch.
Which would be an EO counter the constitution and obviously not durable itself. In 4 years the next DOJ can just enforce the law on the books with 4 years of evidence of companies openly breaking it. It'd be a slam dunk case
I have to respect the PoC, this parallel Pollard's rho is really cool! It's a good reminder that a hash isn't a perfect barrier separating the outputs from the inputs, if the inputs are sufficiently bad!

The fact that this is a valid way to do a Pollard's rho:

public function iterate(string $publicKey): array
{
$sk = $this->uniformToBiased($publicKey);
$pk = sodium_crypto_scalarmult_ristretto255_base(
sodium_crypto_generichash($sk)
);
return [$sk, $pk];
}

... is probably not something most people would have thought of. You don't want to solve the DLP, just a fancy birthday attack to get a collision. Lovely stuff.
"The wreck will be conserved, protected and eventually reassembled".

I wonder if Phoenicians labelled the parts of ships like their fellow Carthaginians (Chanani)? Or is this a Carthaginian ship but it's referred to as Phoenician?
They most certainly did

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_government_aust...

What they didn't do, unlike PIGS, was also tough reforms which are paying back now

https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/flying-piigs-nations-s...
Someone else already answered, just a tip for future searches: If you know somewhat the context (in this case Rust), adding just one keyword to your query (in this case "Miri Rust") will give you the right answer as the first hit :)
Sure, I'm not arguing that. The context is just different enough to be important in my opinion.
As popular as the platform is with the younger demographic and the voting preferences of said younger demographic it's political malpractice for democrats to not try to at least salvage some face in this whole ordeal, whether you think the blame is misplaced or not.