skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quality of life, if you define an actual proper life as something happening outside of work hours and sleep.

We don't worry whether my insurance will cover the next health issue that will happen to me, be it broken leg or lifelong costly treatment. I don't have to desperately try to save maybe 1.5 million $ to put my kids through decent university, if they desire to do so. I am not brutally tossed on the sidewalk when I am fired, both employer and state gives a LOT of support to not fall off the societal cliff and end up as typical US homeless person. We have way more resting time to recharge via holidays (this fellow from 1.1. is running on 90% corporate work contract and thus sporting 50 vacations days per year - now thats QOL improvement, I've already planned 6 week+ vacations for this year). We have on average simply healthier lifestyles and it shows literally massively.

I could go on for a long time. But you can ignore that - compare usage of mental health medication, from what I've seen its much more massive in US, manifesting the additional stress that US population is cca exposed to.

Its a balance - you add more money, you remove more 'humanity', and the additional stress is there and very real. Everybody has different ideal spot, and this also changes a lot during life. Isn't it better to have 2 systems next to each other, and everybody can pick how they want to live your life? Focus purely on money is stupid, their added value in life quickly diminishes once a person is not poor, then other aspects of life become much more important. The complete opposite is same, 0 progress. Something in between, as always, is the best road for most.
Indeed this is what I do with lemon zests. I put them in a blender with the juice for 10 minutes at maximum power (as a result, the mixture must become hot). Add two egg whites beaten into stiff peaks for 3/4L, and you'll get the softest, tastiest lemon ice cream you've ever eaten.
What are the possible capabilities here?
> The UK's economic outcomes have been similar to comparable European economies (like Germany) and better than some (like France)

Who says those countries were well governed though? IMO they are all run by idealogical morons
How much content (tokens) can be analyzed (input) and generated (output) on your paid plains? It's not clear.
I did read your comment.

If you think that XKEYSCORE is used to "wiretap", in the sense that someone goes out and hacks someone's computer or phone, you clearly don't know the tech enough to speak about it.

Which makes your first statement of abuse of power wrong.

My point was that you can't name a single case where someone, even through metadata collection, was targeted through abuse of power (i.e because of a personal reason unrelated to the law), which generally should make you at least question what you believe.

But instead, the way your brain works is that if it can't rationalize some evidence presented to the contrary, you automatically fall back on things that you know are bad, like "American Imperialism", however unrelated it may be. Much in the same way in which MAGA hypocrisy works, where anytime you present any evidence of corruption, the most common response is "well democrats are bad too".

I do wonder if this brainrot within people around the world, not just in US, is irreversible at this point.
I'm a bit surprised that nobody mentioned prusa as a replacement?

FMU that's where Bambu originally copied from!?

My short dive into 3d printers stopped once I was highlighted to the micro plastics pollution they create in the air, but still I would've gone for a prusa, already because all parts are free soft- and hardware.

Or is there anything else I'm missing?
We already offer those, just look at diego garcia currently, or RAF Menwith Hill in yorkshire which is an NSA base.
The highest marginal tax brackets tend to kick in very, very early in Europe. That makes a huge difference.
> And all kind of software do, not only FOSS.

Sure, I agree. That's basically all I'm saying. FOSS gets rid of the tracking and dark patterns but it's still not what I'd call user-focused. It's like in proprietary software the decisions are made based on what the developer wants, and in FOSS it's made based on what the developer wants. But in theory with FOSS there could be people out there who are taking the opportunity of freedom from profit-driven orientation to actually figure out what users want and do that with the same level of drive that proprietary companies apply to seek profit. But it doesn't happen. It's not terrible, it's not even bad, but it's not what I'd call truly user-focused.
(tree-transform-if predicate
transformer
(second tree)
depth)

> A problematic function indentation

> Nineteen! Nineteen spaces of indentation! It's getting unruly.

Why, is there a shortage of whitespace these days??

> Such an indent, when used in deeply nested code, makes it too wide and unreadable.

Ah, I see! Well, I would argue the problem is not the indentation style. What makes your code unreadable is that it's too deply nested, and I would bet that no indentation style can help with that.
Being an engineer means mastering your production tool. For everything to do with physical production, you need to be close to the means of production to gather essential information on quality, capacity, operator feedback (machine and quality operators are invaluable sources of information.), etc.

Most information is not digital or hardly digitizable.

I don't completely agree with the article's classification of ARM as a hardware company. ARM produces VHDL and resells licenses, but does not produce any chips. It's closer to a software company than a TSMC.
imagemagick does not support RAW video formats.
Which specific owner is the Chinese government?
It's harder but how often you do it?

Most of Europe builds primary residence houses out of concrete air bricks of some kind or just plain bricks. Wood is used mostly for roof support. Wooden houses are usually built for vacation places.
It also affected his Steam account and games unrelated to CoD, especially games developed by Valve. Valve consideres profile standing in matchmaking.
Should individuals routinely risk their own livelihood to benefit a select few capitalist? Does this improve the life of the average American? Seeing how they vote it seems generally it does not?
I'm scared too - the iPhone is pretty completely locked down. Microsoft Realllly wanted TPMs to be mandatory for win 11. It seems like only a matter of time that your OS will be inconfigurable.
I ended up calling customer support and they added it on their end.

At least they did it this time. One time I went to get an oil change at Valvoline. They asked for my email and I reluctantly gave a +valvoline email address and the manager straight up would not type that into the computer. Dude thought I was up to some major shenanigans.
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Haha, good one!

(I hope?!)
Perthite Brit here. I’m hugely curious about the situation before the Europeans came. Was there really no writing? Were there really no boats? It’s all so murky because the history was literally not written by the aboriginal communities. But has a story been passed down?
Bluesky has 3.5M DAU.
This is a valid point, and reminds me of those appalling scenes when Netanyahu received a standing ovation from the sycophantic US Congress, in the middle of his genocide of the Palestinian people [0]. And that scene in turn reminds me of old footage of Adolf Hitler being applauded by crowds.

https://www.dailysabah.com/opinion/columns/a-standing-ovatio...
If you are surprised this happens given Jan 6 events you have been living under a rock.

There is a good chance there will be no more fair elections in US.
they didn't transition to transformers and I focussed mainly on CNN's, which whilst still popular don't have the same financial draw, and weren't easily re-purposable for transformers.

See techtechpotatos (Dr ian cutress, currently imho one of the best hardware analysts) videos on it for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZmakgRZYxU
Building a robot army is a ridiculous idea.

The efficient & practical way is to stop renewing residence and work visas, making acquisition of visas harder through complex demands of high language proficiency, and a high amount of money as proof-of-funds, perhaps requiring a local referral too. It's what countries that don't want immigrants but don't want to say it out loud do.
> Humans definitely have control over how a corp behaves.

I will counter this with: The argument that the humans that make up a corp are in control over it, and that the corp behaviour simply results from their flawed and greedy characters, is just a convenient way to blame someone because the real problem of understanding what kind of entities corps are, and how to influence and control them is too hard.
Instagram unveils Edits, a video editing app to rival CapCut
Not really asleep at the wheel. More like they invented the wheel, produced the open source slicer (a fork of the original slicer but vastly improved), which was then used by Bambu who could manufacture a printer for less in China rather than in the EU.

Prusa themselves run 600 printers. They are commercial grade. If I was using a printer for commercial design or prototyping I would go with Prusa. Not only because I would prefer my designs were not sent overseas by an always cloud connected printer.
A billion isn't really that much. Most billionaires are billionaires because they own a company that is with that much. Is the solution to take the company away from them? If so people will not try to grow billion dollar companies, and that isn't a good thing either.
Twitter was almost immediately popular and it stayed popular, it's a revision of history to claim that it wasn't or that most people abandoned it in 2010. Twitter famously had scaling issues that resulted from demand for its use, and when the server was overloaded, they would print an image of a whale being carried by birds, the infamous "Twitter fail whale" (https://business.time.com/2013/11/06/how-twitter-slayed-the-...).

You can see in the article above that even in 2013 they were talking about Twitter's rise to prominence beginning in 2008.

Twitter was/is a fantastic resource for one-to-many social media communication. Celebrities flocked to it. Media publications analyzed it and ran stories on the platform. The API used to be quite open and basically free so it plugged into countless apps and was often used in hackathon projects. Hash tags became signal for trending topics. Even the public '@' tag (don't 'at' me bro) basically came from Twitter (or was at least, popularized by it). It was a phenomenon. Reaching 10% of Facebook's reach is hardly anything to scoff at (who had hit 1 billion users around the same time), and dwarfed the population of nearly every nation on earth. Twitter had outsized influence on the public conversation because you could get a message out to millions from a single account, which wasn't possible with Facebook due to friend requests (at the time, Facebook was more purely a friend-to-friend network and pretty sure you were restricted to at most 5K friends).

Twitter didn't even require a login to view Tweets. Embedded views in other apps helped to cement its virality.
I think Linux should first fix the lack of STT and TTS integration before AI
It's pretty cool how the site looks gorgeous and even has working menus without any JavaScript.
One of my coworkers at Apple once wondered aloud to his manager “What does anyone actually have to do around here to get fired?!” (About a coworker who effectively only made work for other people)

There were actually very fast ways to get fired - but if you were likable and didn’t leak you could work there seemingly forever making no progress and frustrating the people buying the “do your life’s work” pitch.

I was in a small auxiliary team though. The main way you could get fired was becoming the “directly responsible individual” for something important to a senior person and dropping the ball. But there were so many roles the senior people didn’t trust or care about that there was ample opportunity to never have one of those hot potatoes tossed your way in a team like mine. Frustrating, if you wanted to catch one and do something that mattered (tm) as young me did.
That information could come in handy, cool.

A complementary method is to attach a writable NFC sticker tag to the phone. Though it has to be placed far enough from the phone's NFC antenna in order for both/either to work.

The upside is that you get a second tag of your choice (physically) on your phone. There are even UID-writable sticker tags out there (even if they can be a tiny bit harder to find).

You also don't need to replace your default transit card, which could be inconvenient depending on where you live.
> Today I learn that one major bank is considering leaving the UK in view of excessive 'red tape

Or failure to compete with startup banks...
Come on even makerbot wasn’t that blatant. I believe a lot of us haven’t seen it coming.
This is r1 not r1-lite-preview. Supposedly r1-lite is a much smaller model, where r1 here is the 600+B MoE, same size as Deepseek v3 they released earlier.
This might've been true when Twitter was still Twitter, but now it's X, it has dropped below the average - it IS the ad-infested, paywalled, dark pattern website. Linking out is (even more of) a positive.
Scaling up: how increasing inputs has made artificial intelligence more capable
Does this mean anything for the future of Python overall? Or is it just Google?
Is it cryptographically possible to give different keys to everyone so they can't be shared?

Or only if you re-encrypt the content for every key you hand out?
I'm currently being treated by the NHS and they've been excellent, and I got a same day appointment with a doctor last week.

Admittedly I did phone the surgery at 0800 to get it. But this is awful hyperbole.
The reason why many CI configs devolve into such a mess isn't typically that they don't extract complicated logic into scripts, it's about all the interactions with the CI system itself. This includes caching, sharing of artifacts, generating reports, configuring permissions, ordering of jobs, deciding when which jobs will run, deciding what to do when jobs fail, etc. All of this can get quite messy in a large enough project.
Corps are an alien life-form. They are permitted to kill without themselves being killed in return or in retribution or as punishment. They are an abomination.

And they are the product of a fluke of legal-economic history.
Here's a story I tell from time to time. When I was at uni, we had an internship as part of the course. The course was a joint course between Engineering and Econ/Management, so you could choose from a very wide variety of industries to satisfy the thesis requirement. The business school would coordinate the internships.

So I went interviewing in the engineering firms to the west of the country. Aerospace, materials, that kind of thing. Someone offered me £12K/year. Even for a student, that seems kind of low as I'd be looking for a short term accommodation somewhere. I kept it secret from the business school because I knew they'd pressure me to take it.

A couple of weeks later, I got an offer from Intel. Not in engineering, but in marketing. £15k, just about enough to pay rent and eat. But a lot more than engineering. I took the job and has a great time, and I still know people there. Turned down the return offer, due to the firm itself seeming a bit complacent, but also...

During the internship I went to see my friend in central London. He had landed the coveted Goldman's internship. Fully paid apartment for the period, with a view of the river, plus money. £37k/year if you include the free rent.

So when I went back to university for the final part of the degree, it was clear where I was going to look for work.

I got a job at a prop trading shop, and in the first week a guy told me about his story. He had originally taken one of the jobs in the west country, some sort of aerospace engineering. He had accidentally seen his boss's paycheck, and that made him start looking for work in finance.

These days, what are your options realistically in this country? Particularly if you want to hang around your family in the south?

Finance, big law, consultancy, certain US tech businesses. I don't even understand how doctors live here.
Nominal tax rates were 70 or 90 per cent, but no one really paid them. The tax code was full of loopholes for that purpose.

You can't rely on such paper figures to determine real tax burden in the past.
We have to be cautious about the attention-grabbing stuff that's everywhere now, but we're only human and easily tempted. This is bad for unsupervised children/teens. Even young adults can be pretty immature now.

When I go out for a walk in the forest, I see maybe one or two people walking a dog. Where is the rest of humanity? Watching TV, playing a mobile game, whatever...
Does London have a different tax policy to where Jaguar Land Rover is based?
To be clear, I was not in the AI/ML org but the news org so make of that what you will. I can also confirm a similar and at times even more bonkers experience.

I also think it is expected for any sufficiently large bureaucracy. Scale is hard.
Commentary on the situation from Louis Rossmann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIyaDD8onIE
You could argue that doing nothing is actually more risky! Nothing stays static in nature! You move/change or you die!
Does it? How many people skipped getting rich because they could have been richer? Any factual examples?

BTW, rich don't actually pay much taxes. The luxury life they live is usually not taxed, most of the things they do is considered business expense.

When a worker flies to Ibiza they first pay social security and income taxes, then they pay consumption taxes like VAT.

When a businessman flies to Ibiza they deduct whatever they can as an expense so they don't pay income tax and VAT. For whatever they can't claim that it is a business expense they will pay with a cheap loan against their assets and avoid paying income taxes. Since they still have those assents, they pay just the interest later when the assents increase in value. If their business fails those assets fail, the bank takes the assets and no taxation happens.
then maybe corps should be dissolved. publicly traded corps are here to maximize profit by any means necessary, and there are individuals that work for them, and also those who invest in them. at the end of the day corp is a group of humans with certain interests.perhaps, rouge corps that act against humanity should dissolved and / or be heavily taxed with taxation helping the public overcome the hurdles created by this corp. in reality, politicians are helping these corps grow even bigger.
This is interesting, but as other commenters have noted, the general point applies more broadly than hardware versus software, or UK versus the US - if you're only trying to optimise for income, 'go work in the US and/or the financial industry' is solid advice for many people, and the macroeconomic incentives driving this are not easy to shift. I also make much less than my counterparts in the US - but here in South Africa moving to the UK to work in the finance industry is considered a major win for many people, because the salaries are better and is considered higher 'prestige' for some reason.

Eleven years ago during my MSc. in theoretical physics I was writing Fortran code to solve scattering equations to serve as input into quantum field theory calculations. Since then I've worked for a bunch of startups, alternating between writing boring backend services and doing 'data science' that is often no more complicated than linear regression or writing SQL queries. The continual hype, toxic positivity, and unhinged growth expectations has made me essentially tap out mentally. I also consider this a 'waste of my talent' (not that I was ever really a great physicist!), but as I get older I am no longer sure what would have satisfied me in that regard (is this bad or good? - I honestly don't know). More money would be nice I guess. I typically get bored/frustrated and change companies every few years - I'm currently 3 years in at a fintech (elixir backend).
The UK is two countries, you can either live in/around the prosperous one with high cultural capital, good quality public services inc transport, or you can live in the other one.
The tech billionaire war on "woke" is targeting workers
I was so happy when HDMI caught on that the troubles with VGA ports in meeting rooms were finally a thing of the past.

But now I randomly get "HDCP not supported" messages when trying to make a presentation because... I have no idea why. It's just a giant fuck you from the recording industry.

I could download a torrent of any movie I want, so the tech is obviously not preventing piracy.

It's just making random things in life harder than they should be.
If what here says is true: https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1880768996225769738, then R1 may as well just be the better model. You can scale up R1 with lower token count to achieve better than o1 high results.
hey could you please share the`meta` tool you mentioned , sounds interesting ! couldn't find it on internet [skill issue]
Yes and it's made worse by using "deciseconds," a unit of time I've used literally 0 times in my entire life. If you see a message saying "I'll execute in 1ms," you'd look straight to your settings!
There is nothing new about trans people --- it's just that fewer of them are in hiding now. And "pretending to be the opposite sex" is transphobic, you may want to rethink.
I have triple-pane windows since 2014. No leaks, no fog. Superb comfort. Same with countless friends, colleagues and neighbors.

Almost nobody has been installing single-pane windows around here since early 00s. Double pane is the default. Location is Eastern Europe, if that matters.
> a way to actually improve personal security,

I'm not sure this is true. I've studied trust models in some depth now
and I think that cryptographic enclaves are at best an analgesic and
sedative. Don't fall for any myth of symmetrical technology that can
be used "for evil or good".

The purpose of this technology is to assert logical ownership over
computation under remote physical control of another. That would serve
your interests and rights iff you purchase a cloud computing resource
you want to make secure in an untrustworthy data-centre.

Sadly "security" gets used as a bare noun.

One must always ask three questions:

- security for who?

- security against who or what?

- security to what end?

DRM is a generally a net loss to security of the physical machine
owner, since it is a way to hide code and functionality within the
perimeter of ownership and control. It's no worse than blobs or
treacherous silicon, but any security conscious operator should avoid
or remove it. It is opaque "security" for vendors/content-publishers,
and "security" against the owner and operator.
So far, your view (that the individuals making up the corp can significantly influence its behaviour) has been the approach the world has taken so far, and yet, corps are not exactly getting more well behaved.

Please reconsider whether continuing to do the same (simple and easy) thing we've always done, that we've already seen does not work.

Take a step back, re-evaluate the problem in a new context, even if you don't end up agreeing with my perspective, attempting to think about the situation in a new light might be helpful.

It might be that something in the way corps grow up, maybe their environment (regulations, lack of same, incentives, consumerism, trade, markets) may influence them to grow into the immoral unethical monsters they often become.

Maybe we should consider them too dangerous and harmful, and simply destroy them, I'm not convinced that's better, but maybe there's a way to understand them at a different level, that allows us to "write articles" they understand well enough to actually adjust their behavior (and not just try and circumvent whatever "obstacle" has been put in their path).