skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
European corporations and political class are rich and benefit from high GDP stimulated by mass migration and foreign funds cornering the housing market.

But European salaries are stagnating and job security is dropping like a stone, while the cost of living is steadily rising. And public healthcare is getting terrible with months of wait for an appointment.

Spain is now used as example of a growing economy in EU but youth unemployment is high and rising and wages are peanuts compared to housing. A lot of native Spanish kids are just checking out. I guess the Spanish corporations and foreign investors are having a blast. And the boomers with their fat pensions and renting their real estate portfolio.

Of note, the same is happening even in China. I feel really bad for Gen Z.
Which constitutional rights have Americans lost over the past eight years?
It's interesting that incompetence ... Fabians started in 1884 and a lot of insanely destructive ideas seem to defend from those circles. We don't have the great leap forward it's slower but something as bad on a longer timescale
What we are seeing is a great levelling out of living standards across the world. Poor countries are unquestionably getting richer, while rich countries are stagnating and decaying. It's a period of readjustment, but self-limiting.
> labour enriches other countries while our country gets poorer.

in reality, the UK isn't poorer than before. It is about the same - no growth. It is only poorer when compared to the US's growth.

One's labour, when being paid market rates, does not make one's country poorer. And those profits from said labour was paid for by the acquitition of the capital - money was invested.

So in essense, the "poorness" that the UK feels right now is not a result of these companies getting foreign ownership, but the UK gov't lack of industrial policy and investment. Brexit is the last straw probably.
There is the SeedCapital route: https://english.rvo.nl/subsidies-financing/seed-capital
It comes out to a 15% increase, falling behind the stock market. What I really find interesting is that the previous year's growth was only a third of that, only beating the 3% CPI inflation by only a small margin, and possibly not beating real inflation.
That's interesting!

Here, failing to pay your bills is both a breach of fair play, and what "dodgy" people i.e. criminals and con-artists do.

But equally it means we can operate a bit more of an honour system in terms of lines of credit. Small businesses typically allow one another at least some amount of credit terms, which they would not offer a private individual.
> you're liable to provide whatever updates/support the customer may need over the course of the software's licensing period to enable the customer to keep running it

Does this include new layers for games, so that customers don't get bored? More seriously, this law is probably targeting big US companies. But smaller companies are suffering the most.
The president can grant one 90-day exception, if certain conditions are met. Those conditions have not been met.
> Microsoft PC certification

Why is that a thing to begin with? What happens if a PC doesn't have it? It's not like Windows would refuse to run on it.
No, I mean, in general, including languages which I work with for 20-25 years. Reading code is still harder than writing.
The government is the biggest rentier and monopolist of all. It's the elephant in the room.
That does not match my experience. The printer I have has had parts break with light use, and a really poorly engineered z-axis homing which results in wildly inconsistent zero heights and a very high print failure rate.
I'd rather take a student who put the same effort into building stuff with OpenCV, Eigen or Simulink though. ROS teaches a bunch of bad architecture habits that need to be unlearned, and which many fail to unlearn. People can understand it's bad but then they still build a framework and a distributed system full of async calls to try to replace it, for example.
EXIST in particular targets universities, though, so not every founder is eligible.
I have not drilled down into the data, but I think it highly likely poor people did not benefit.

I have read that the Empire was a fiscal net negative. That was offset by it being a free market area with policies that favoured the UK, the benefits from that went primarily to a small minority.
it is vague indeed, but the positions are all remote and the only thing i care about are time zones.
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They believe they can take market share from Google, which currently has a mkt. cap of over $2T, so with that amount of money in line, they don't care if they will hammer down the internet or the amount of hate & lawsuits they will get.

The issue is that they don't understand that the search business took decades to develop and be what it currently is. And is only so profitable to Google because they hold a monopoly because the US is an oligarchy.

The stuff OpenAI is building has been proven to be easy (and expensive) to replicate, with many competitors having posting similar results, even while starting later.

Whatever new iteration of the search business they will develop will likely mean profits will be smaller, but nobody cares as long as there are billions being invested in this space.

Not to mention their AGI goals. When you can't reliably trust their software to answer basic questions.

So, currently we are at the internet of trash age. We now have trash content being generated, trash bots hammering your tiny website and trash ambitions.

I doubt this CAPEX will go on for more than 2 years, once the bubble burst companies will start reviewing what they built and they will fix the Crawler bug you've just mentioned.
the problem isn't that they've done it.

the problem is that user got no choice. Some might prefer degraded performance, others might prefer to charge their devices more often.

Also seller should have no business touching anything that they've already sold - they do might offer support, but it should be up to user to accept it or not.
Personally i save about 75% with my heatpump over my old gas furnace.

We used around 1500m3 - 1800m3 worth of natural gas per year, and for the past couple of years we've used between 4000kWh and 5000kWh on the heat pump per year.

Granted, natural gas is expensive in Denmark, and while electricity is also normally expensive, if you have electrical heating you're excempt from paying taxes on electricity usage above 4000 kWh per year.

Currently, with heat pump and an EV, i'm paying less in electricity per year than i did in natural gas before.
Which regulations exactly you find burdensome or overwhelming and stopping you from attempting the become wealthy, change your life and the world maybe?

Why would you skip having 1 billion Euros just because you could have had 2 Billion but the government took the rest? Up until 1960's rich Americans payed %91 tax, and yet they kept their entrepreneurial spirit - why you can't do the same at the stated %50?

When Apple was founded, the tax rates were %70.
I was in Tirana last October, he seems to be treated as some kind of whimsical amusement and mascot rather than a historical tyrant. His residence is still intact and visible in the city center and is something of a tourist photo opportunity. AFAIK it's fully closed, but from the top of the rotating restaurant nearby you can see into it.
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Switching to % change - EU beats US.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-worldbank?...
They do it on purpose. Gmail allows adding dots between any two letter in the local side of the address, so I'll add them in different locations, for each account I have to make with an organization that prohibits the plus aliases.
two seconds is a VERY VERY VERY long time. That is mind-bogglingly, insanely slow.
I hate this claim. It's true on the surface, but just look at city statistics from 50 years back. If you think burning firewood to heat your home is good for the environment in any way, you're insane. Perhaps, perhaps, it's not a huge problem for global warming, but it's a problem for CO, NOx emissions, toxic gases, it's not efficient, it generates toxic ash, occasionally it's really bad in unpredictable ways (it can be toxic, it can be carcinogenic, it can even be radioactive), it's ...

It's really bad for the environment.
But the point here is not that you need to realize you typed something wrong and then cancel (in that case just don't enable the setting if you always want to abort). The point is that you need to decide if the autocorrect suggestion was the right one. Which you can't know until it tells you what it wants to autocorrect to.
The problem I see in the UK is a lack of hubs. I wrote to the Department for Levelling Up when it was a thing.

Finance has done well in the UK due to London and having a significant number of firms in a single place. I can get a new job for a different company, doing a similar thing, in the same building.

How does that work for any other industry in the UK?

Its no wonder that wages haven't risen when moving job also requires you to move house/schools/away from friends and family.

We need the government to get involved and create regional hubs for different industries and really facilitate giving them everything they need. Address transport, power concerns, housing, labour and education requirements. The government is in a far better place to be able to influence across all these requirements.
I think recently there's been a change which says that you can if you start a new company right away. But do check with an accountant for the inevitable pitfalls.
> unfortunately this can't last as those who go hard on progress and
tear down everything and rebuilding again

A notion of "bare progress" is the elephant in the room. Progress is a
vector. It has magnitude and direction. People talk of moving "forward
or back", but science also has a steering wheel.

> and the Americans and Chinese will make us adopt their ways.

This very notion of "progress" as a totalitarian force is also
dangerous. The boot is on the other foot from 80 years ago. When
Europe was starting a 1000 year technological master-race, more
measured minds had to extinguish that fire. I see many similarities
today - people seeing "progress" simply as dominance.

I liked the brain-dump in TFA, but I think it's over-complex and too
tied to a contemporary interpretation of capital investment.

We've been spooging away our talent for generations here. Look at how
we treated Turing. We mismanage or sell-off everything cool we invent.

What Britain still suffers from is class disloyalty. We still have a
strong but invisible class system which is now international
financiers. Those sorts "float above" the ordinary economy, they are
disconnected from UK interests and don't give a toss about
engineering, science, knowledge, education...
I think the AMS unit for the Bambu is somewhat sealed and has desiccant in it.

"take a load" - I don't know what kind of load, do you mean the fact that PLA is creeping under sustained load?

If that is YOUR usecase that is fine, but that does not mean that set and forget works just fine for others. Btw gun people use PLA plus just fine.
I’ve seen this exact trajectory play out with several friends. Get a good degree in robotics engineering or the like, options are working for civil servant pay at a defense subcontractor, or Ocado. Pretty much it.
Thanks for the link. A holdout set which is yet to be used to verify the 25% claim. He also says that he doesn't believe that OpenAI would self-sabotage themselves by tricking the internal benchmarking performance since this will get easily exposed, either by the results from a holdout set or by the public repeating the benchmarks themselves. Seems reasonable to me.
If my salary had been my only or even my main objective, I would have taken a very different route in my career. Sure, for some people it is, but there are other factors as well. But if you're from the UK, young and independent, and money is your main drive, what's keeping you from moving to the US, at least for a couple of years?
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Only the Conservatives? You think Blair, Brown, and now Starmer did great things for the country? Give me a break. The whole political class is rotten. And the upcoming "Reform UK" is a joke, to say the least.
You said that UK's salaries are 2/3 of the Germany ones, but this doesn't mean that the Germany ones are 1/3 more, they are 1/2 (or 50%) more. That's pretty far from 10-15%.
pick something that gives u joy even if it doesnt succeed

that'll give it the spark that's necessary
Not sure if I am missing something but you can definitely run (some?) GH actions locally with act: https://github.com/nektos/act

Seen a couple posts on here say otherwise.
Lightroom seems determined not to support HEIC export, even though iOS has trouble with all of Lightroom’s other HDR formats. From my testing:

- JPEG with HDR gain map is not supported

- AVIF and JXL HDR files look fine on initial export, but do not survive being sent anywhere from the Photo Library.

So far I haven’t found a way to export an HDR file from Lightroom and then share it with anyone, iOS or Android.
10-15% in the opposite direction. That is I stated they earn 10-15% more.

33% less equates to them earning roughly 50% more. The difference between 10-15% and 50% is huge!

(trivial example, if someone is earning £100,000, then someone earning 33% less makes £66,666. But Someone earning £100,000 makes 50% more than someone making £66,666)
Arguing about which sinking ship is going down faster.
> This gaslighting is getting a bit ridiculous

Totally agree

They always take the extreme part of your posts, find a minor counter claim, then imply we have total free speech
The green card lottery?
I can confirm that this works and is delicious.
But build a bike lane or even a bike shed, and they'll drag the city council all the way to the EU Supreme Court, even though half of that demographic voted Brexit.
> I'd argue here the more relevant point is "these specific people have been shown to have done it before."

This is itself a slippery move. A vague gesture at past misconduct without actually specifying any incidents. If there's a clear pattern of documented benchmark manipulation, name it. Which benchmarks? When? What was the evidence? Without specifics, this is just trading one form of handwaving ("everyone does it") for another ("they did it before").

> "AI" here is not being treated as an actual science would be.

There's some truth here but also some sleight of hand. Yes, AI development often moves outside traditional academic channels. But, you imply this automatically means less rigor, which doesn't follow. Many industry labs have internal review processes, replication requirements, and validation procedures that can be as or more stringent than academic peer review. The fact that something isn't in Nature doesn't automatically make it less rigorous.

> The majority of the papers pumped out of these places are not real concrete research, not submitted to journals, and not peer reviewed works.

This combines three questionable implications:

- That non-journal publications are automatically "not real concrete research" (tell that to physics/math arXiv)

- That peer review is binary - either traditional journal review or nothing (ignoring internal review processes, community peer review, public replications)

- That volume ("pumped out") correlates with quality

You're making a valid critique of AI's departure from traditional academic structures, but then making an unjustified leap to assuming this means no rigor at all. It's like saying because a restaurant isn't Michelin-starred, it must have no food safety standards.

This also ignores the massive reputational and financial stakes that create strong incentives for internal rigor. Major labs have to maintain credibility with:

- Their own employees.

- Other researchers who will try to replicate results.

- Partners integrating their technology.

- Investors doing technical due diligence.

- Regulators scrutinizing their claims.

The idea that they would casually risk all that just to bump up one benchmark number (but not too much! just from 10% to 35%) doesn't align with the actual incentive structure these organizations face.

Both the original comment and this fall into the same trap - mistaking cynicism for sophistication while actually displaying a somewhat superficial understanding of how modern AI research and development actually operates.
I didn't mean far in time or space, I meant culturally. These people knew writing (in Latin) just not for their language. They had agriculture, domesticated animals, feudal society, some of them were already Christian, their language was very similar to English conceptually so their concepts would be similar to ours (well at least mine)
Maybe? If you're in the area - would it be fair to characterize entry level software development jobs in Des Moines as "easily exceeding six figures?" I took a quick and lazy peek at a job site and I didn't feel like there were enough jobs to even make a judgment. (my filter brought up some Epic Systems jobs with no salary listings and some other stuff that is well below six figures)
Oh sorry, then I didn't maths properly. I always forget about the asymmetry of fractions

EDIT: Please don't downvote me for admitting a mistake
true, it's just that the topic of this post seemed strange to me, since you wouldn't use a programming language with GC for high intensity graphics app in native either, hmmm.
The U.K is not doing anything innovative that creates jobs and wealth. Instead the U.K. focuses mostly on housing wealth and building a property empire. This is evident with a govt that’s hell bent on stoking demand…after so many years they’ve only just stopped “right to buy”!!

If we want higher salaries then the uk needs to start creating meaningful and impactful products that other countries want…
The 50% tax being a roadblock is exactly what the lack of ambition is about. There's an implicit assumption you're only ever achieve just over the tax limit rather than hundreds of thousands or milllions over with share options etc.
For Apple, the same thing applies. Keeping an entire zoo of operating systems safe from malicious entities requires serious work that needs to be funded somehow.
I don't think it easily could have gone another way. Progress follows incentives, and money is a strong incentive. Only very fundamental changes to copyright and "publishing accountability" legislation could have put us on another path.
This Paul Graham fella seems to be a trumpet of bad ideas.
His hype-takes on tech influence laypeoples notions of the world.
His failure to clarify how tech functions is misleading.

Techne is the Greek word for hand.
Xitter is a megaphone owned by and fully utilized by a misanthropic bully.
In no way shape or form is it a voice of the people.
It is weighted multicast media with owners and nobility and a feed and an algorithm for prioritizing the owner and the nobility in the feed.

A protocol? Ha! We knew it wasn't a protocol or layer for anything before the so-called Arab Spring.

How many bad ideas has Paul Graham defended?

Despite the continuing proliferation of crypto-currency pyramid schemes, and their continuing ability to fool investors, they are a net negative for a planet in the throes of a climate meltdown.

Despite the reverent tones of baffled journalists speaking of LLMs as AI, despite the tech CEOs claiming that developers will be replaced tomorrow, anyone who knows anything about LLMs rolls their eyes, amd yet Paul will reliably write apologies for yet another destructive wave of investments in lousy scamware companies.

The king of bad ideas, chewed into bite size pieces for the masses.

What do i know, I'm obviously very unhip in this sort of fabricated false world.
> As a Brit, when I was raising the seed round for my startup, UK and European VCs would consistently try to haggle you down on price while the American VC's were exclusively focussed on trying to figure out whether this could be a billion dollar business or not (

Yes we have many comments on HN talking about how harmful the US VCs attitude is because they force good businesses into choosing between being unicorns and not getting funding.

I do not know the truth of it, but clearly its not obvious.

> Unfortunately the UK has not been well governed for 20 years or so, and hence economic outcomes as a whole have been abysmal.

I commented on this earlier. The UK's economic outcomes have been similar to comparable European economies (like Germany) and better than some (like France). Whatever the problem is, its not unique to the UK: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42766107

I do not think the UK is well run, but I think the west in general is badly run. Poorly thought out regulation, short termism in both politics and business, a focus on metrics subject to Goodhart's and Campbell's laws, and a poor understanding of the rest of the work (leading to bad foreign policy).
The safe job earns much much more unless you are the founder. Equity pay for start-ups in the UK for devs is very poor, or non-existent, and the base salary also very poor (and not even guaranteed to be paid if they go under). You can instead work for a company like nvidia, google or meta and get a huge base, and nice equity on top.

If UK startups paid equity to their devs, I would work a lot harder when I've worked at them, but startups require working hard and long hours and if I've got no skin in the game, what incetive do I have to make sure the company is successful.
That's because risk-aversion and laziness are the smart things to do. Yes, it would be cool to come up with the next Facebook, but most financial advisors will tell you that the actually best thing you can do is some form of "SP500 and hold 20 years" because from the perspective of an individual, the safe option provides the best expected outcome.

Similarly, why work yourself to the bone for a miniscule chance of success, if you can... just chill instead? I used to be a highly-motivated go-getter, but then I realized, this shit ain't bringing happiness, and I turned into a work-avoider who spends time in the office mostly talking to coworkers and playing games in the toilet. My overall life satisfaction skyrocketed.

Yes, the society at large does need people to do the needful, but this ain't gonna be me.
> I don't understand why it's so bad in a country that's supposedly amazing at financial services.

Because it's focused on predatory finance: funds cornering housing markets, money laundering, debt markets (think public debt and CDS), currency/rates speculation, etc.
That's only part of the truth though.

AIPAC is funded by Israel, and by it's own description AIPAC is an organisation made up of pro-Israel zionists. Oh, and the "I" in AIPAC stands for "Israel".
Sure, but at that point you're having to buy a car (which is much harder as a young person - car prices have gone up, insurance has gone up faster, the driving test is harder than it was and lessons cost more...), you'll need somewhere to park it which adds to your housing costs, you still can't go drinking, and in general you're cut off from a lot of what young people are doing.
Whos “They” yeah that’s a really good idea.