skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, even if they're not, they're getting squeezed out. It's hard to stay afloat trying to just do a thing without your eye on the "prize" of getting bought out by Google et al.
He seems more like a moron.
The culture sector in London is notoriously badly paid. Mostly staffed by the intellectual trophy husbands and wives of the financial sector.

Even similar sized public sector organisations (thinking education) pay far better. A senior headteacher with 50 or 100 staff will do a lot better than a cultural manager.
What do they offer more in your experience?
"In and around Europe" is extremely vague. It covers something like 50-60 countries, all with their own systems. And "somewhere around Europe hours" adds most of western Africa to the mix.

There is remote.com[1] (that I think I found via HN years ago) but I have never used it personally. It lets job seekers filter by timezones:

[1] https://remote.com/jobs/all?timezone=europe-amsterdam&timezo...
Sometimes print-based debugging is your only choice
> We should have an option to only reveal types of specific items. For example I could hover over a variable and then reveal to me that it is a boost::beast::basic_flat_buffer<std::allocator<char> >.

Which IDE do you use that does not support that already?
Yep! And opting out is either prohibitively difficult or outright impossible for most people
Was interviewing for a role. Interviews lasted for 7 months total, 12 interviews, for 2 teams, and then they closed the roles and didn't hire anyone. Not really impressed by Apple.
Yes! Thank you for helping me affirm internally that I'm not crazy.

I agree all of these other arguments that people are fixating on are complete red herrings. The 'fairness' of letting them operate their companies here and not letting us operate there—totally non consequential argument and a red herring. The free speech thing is a blatant red herring and the Supreme Court agreed in a unanimous decision. If America is the sinking ship, then these arguments are the deck chairs.

Totally agree on the antisemitism points—the way that the platform is manipulating it's algorithm to shape opinions is very nefarious in that it's subtle and becomes difficult to prove directly. But researchers look deeper and deeper, they've been able to find evidentiary smoking guns. I would posit that there are many clues hiding in plain sight that have not been looked into yet.

Anyways, I would have expected a lot more discussion around the points that you and I bring up (points of actual consequence) rather than what I'm currently seeing on HN.
I don't think you can print cash/paper money.
Yes, but what does it matter? Google has equity owners all over the world, but we still treat them as an American company, too.
They already do and it has been that way since "opening" up their markets.
That's not how the law works, though. Let's say Trump goes back on his word and doesn't sign this executive order, and then ByteDance (etc.) get into legal trouble. If they can convince a judge/jury that they had a strong reason to believe that they'd be acting within the law as they believe it would have been executed by the incoming Trump administration, that could be a persuasive defense.

That doesn't mean TikTok would be able to continue operating, but it could mean the parties involved wouldn't have to suffer penalties for their operation up to that point (past the ban date). But maybe it wouldn't work, and a judge/jury would throw the book at them. We just don't know until and unless it goes to court.
Surely this is sarcasm?

Yes absolutely. China.

You have to give away 50% of your local subsidiary just to operate there.

And why do you think Google and Facebook don’t even offer their services there?
It's not about the state itself, but about temperature. For things to burn you need to have three elements:

- a fuel

- an oxidizer

- enough heat

It's the fire triangle.
An executive order can't overrule a law, but it can direct the DoJ not to enforce a particular law.
Maybe we should reconciling the best of the past with the benefits of today...
> I do make compromises in the software stack we use for business simply because my employees are not as radical as I am and I need to be able to work with normal humans.

That becomes the problem. Not just in the business world either. Like if all your friends are communicating on platforms that are locked down and harvesting your data, how do you arrange to get together for a burger? If all the stores closed down and you can only buy things on Amazon, how do you clothe yourself? Obviously I'm exaggerating but the big problems of this situation arise precisely because most people don't realize it is a problem, and thus working "outside the system" requires an increasing amount of effort.
I always assumed they did this because they DON'T want you to be able to filter their spam email or know who they sold your email address to. It may be a bit cynical to call the entirety of the internet a shallow money trench intended to put plastic marketing messages in front of increasingly jaded digital natives. But there are a lot of companies that behave that way.

To make things more annoying, I once had an email address that had a three-level domain, think me@email.example.com instead of a domain with two components like me@example.com. I found more than one email validator that insisted that this was illegal.
Sixel is a fun side quest as well, if you want to encode it on your own. You get to work on a color quantization and/or dithering algorithm in $CURRENT_YEAR.

And if you're doing text with images, integrating both Sixel and Kitty is especially painful because they have completely different display models.

(In particular, Sixel is cell based, so you get Z-ordering for free - with the caveat that writing text on top of images destroys the cells.

Meanwhile, Kitty has Z-ordering, but it's per-image, so e.g. to draw a menu on top of an image that partially covers text, you must send a new image with space for the menu erased...)

For those who are interested, the best resource I've found on this is the notcurses author's wiki: https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Theory_and_Practic...
I just buy a game from itch.io, download a zip file with it, unpack and play.
> But you can possibly sense the difference between 2 and 3 deciseconds (200 ms and 300 ms) after some practice.

At 120bpm a sixteenth note is 125ms, the difference is very obvious I would think
This gaslighting is getting a bit ridiculous. The oppression did not start in the wake of Southport, it has been in place for years. But I'm going to talk about Southport first. People were arrested for pointing out that the Southport murderer was a Muslim terrorist. Well guess what, he was: https://news.sky.com/story/southport-stabbings-suspect-faces... The media said it was all disinformation and put forth many straw man claims to smear people who are fed up with their government covering for the crimes for immigrants.

>Conspiracy to commit arson has been one of the most serious offences in English law for centuries, and that's even before you add the murder part to it.

I'm not defending conspiracy to commit arson. It is a fact that people have been jailed for far less serious things. I heard some reports that people were jailed for recording the riots or even posting about the existence of the riots.

Nevermind arson, Britain jails people for flame wars online: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2017/10/14/british-police-a... And that is OLD, and nothing has changed. I hear regular reports of absurd arrests coming out of the UK.

As the article says, "section 127 of the Communications Act 2003, [...] makes it illegal to intentionally “cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to another”" and that can be and regularly is used to punch down on people expressing simple grievances. It is entirely subjective what causes "annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety" or is intended to do so. Our mere existence probably causes annoyance and inconvenience to some people. Got a problem with immigrants who don't respect your culture and disproportionately commit all the crimes? Well, it is going to cause some brown people to be anxious if you talk about it, so off to the slammer you go. That is truly how it goes, unless you're in a good position to fend off political attacks.
I don't think that's true, you'll get the same sentiment ("Sonnet 3.5 is much better than GPT4/GPT4o [for coding]") pretty uniformly across Reddit/HN/Lobsters. I would strongly agree with it in my own testing, although o1 might be much better (I'm too poor to give it a fair shake.)

> In enterprise usage, i think 4o is smoking 3.5 sonnet

True. I'm not sure how many enterprise solutions have given their users an opportunity to test Claude vs. GPT. Most people just use whatever LLM API their software integrates.
No, it does not at all require ByteDance to suspend service.

It requires Apple and Google to stop distributing the app on their app stores, and it requires any US-based hosting providers that host TikTok services to stop providing those services.

ByteDance could shut down any US-hosted services and serve from outside the US, and be entirely compliant with the law. The TikTok mobile app might become out of date and stop working (for people who already had it installed on their phones), but www.tiktok.com would continue to work just fine.
Apache DevLake
Both things can be true: I am happy with the European welfare state and still think there are structural problems.

UK and EU are rich, even if their economy is not doing great.
And there's nothing wrong with that, now is there.
The calendar thing is working correctly. Every event has a time zone attached, even if you didn't notice it or change it. If your appointments involved other people and you had sent out calendar invites, they would have noticed the wrong time.
Not sure where the best place to mention would be, but 0.1 deciseconds is not unreasonable, either...yes fastest recorded random reaction time maybe 1.5 ds (coincidentally this is the average gamer reaction time), however non-random reaction times can be much faster (e.g. on a beat).

So if you wanted to go that fast, you could, the invokation should have relatively stable speeds (order of some milliseconds...
The challenge is making community computing ethical
My recollections of being bullied is several decades old by this point, and it's probably something that varies from school to school, but I am convinced that bullies won't stop until they are forced to stop. The means may be verbal or physical, but a bully will keep going until there is actual consequences for their actions.

I am fortunate enough that I was too young to get sentenced when I snapped, and that I somehow managed to not get badly hurt in that fight. On the other hand, sending those twats to the scool nurse's office and just laughing at their bruises the day after... Worth it! I still smile when I see my own nose in the mirror.

Mind you, teachers are often powerless in many such situations. They can and should follow whatever procedures they have, but the main problems are the toothless anti-bullying policies and those are usually set though some vague government policy rather than schools themselves.
That’s only partially true though. I don’t think Uber itself is not allowed to operate anywhere. Rather it’s business model is illegal in some cities/areas. Usually you can still use Uber to hire actual taxis there.

However exact same rules apply to its European competitors like Bolt. Make it entirely unrelated to this situation.
If you want to meet lots of people, start meeting them. Meetups, volunteering, sports, hobbies. So many opportunities.
It would be nice if we could trust corporations to stay some kind of course and have our best interests at heart, but they don't, and at some point it starts being our own fault if we keep enduring it. It then follows though that once you have full control over your tools, it's our own fault if we choose not to go solve the issues, but that doesn't feel entirely fair.

We can't personally be responsible for everything. So to bring it back home to enshitification, a free market, free from monopolies or duopolies, should be the solution. As one product gets shit, a hole in the market opens up and could be filled. That's not happening though, so what's going wrong? If it could happen anywhere it's Sillicon Valley, so much money and the culture of disruption and innovation, all the right skills are floating in the employment pool. But software keeps getting more and more shit.
I used to think this, but using o1 quite a bit lately has convinced me otherwise. It’s been 1-shotting the fairly non-trivial coding problems I throw at it and is good about outputting large, complete code blocks. By contrast, Claude immediately starts nagging you about hitting usage limits after a few back and forth and has some kind of hack in place to start abbreviating code when conversations get too long,
even when explicitly instructed to do otherwise. I would imagine that Anthropic can produce a good test time compute model as well, but until they have something publicly available, OpenAI has stolen back the lead.
Twitter’s api was comprehensive and open back then. So was Facebook’s. You had a world where there was a centralized social graph and a centralized communication hub that everyone could build off of.

Certainly a different time.
I switched to Linux a couple years ago and overall am glad I did, but it's only a partial solution.

As I see it, one way to phrase the problem is that Linux (along with its ecosystem) isn't really user-focused either. It's developer-focused. Tons of weird decisions get made that are grounded in developer desires quite removed from any user concerns. There are a lot of developers out there that do care about users, so often you get something decent, but it's still a bit off-center.
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Yes, there are advantages of a stable and well functioning systems that don't have disruptors and we indeed benefit of it as having good lives but unfortunately this can't last as those who go hard on progress and tear down everything and rebuilding again will eventually get ahead on everything and won't let us just be as we now see with US billionaires having impact over Europe.

Americans feel more pain but are also rewarded, Europe has no option but to become progressive - otherwise tere will be no more Europe and the Americans and Chinese will make us adopt their ways.

Oh, BTW, America is also struggling. The latest political developments are an attempt to change course - they are trying to become a bit more like Europe with the race and class based politics holding roots. They say they are anti-regulation anti-discrimination(of whites specifically) but the core MAGA movement is all about putting barriers and preserving old ways for the benefit of a subset of people. Americans are too in soul searching. Their MAGA literally means fixing what is no longer great but their demands are actually quite conservative and they already begin falling off with their accelerations partners.
With 3D printing out for a while now, there's zero good reason IMHO that there isn't a 2D-plotter retrofit which allows someone to attach one or more [colored] pencils or pens. I'm really shocked the overpriced ink monopolies weren't attacked in this manner, as a young child I distinctly remember a kiosk in a grocery store which 'printed' messages and images on blank cards using colored pencils, for customer order. None of this is remotely new.
That has nothing to with them being US companies. Or are there any jurisdictions where Bolt/(other local company) is allowed to freely operate but Uber is banned?
Brilliant, thank you !
This is the Google model then. Base everything on open source, even allow unofficial builds of your operating system (LineageOS, Graphene), but slowly introduce more and more device attestation and DRM so it becomes de facto impossible to actually use anything but the closed builds because everything from banking apps and electronic identification apps to streaming apps will refuse to run on your "unsafe" operating system.
JLR is based in the metro area of Britain's second city. It's not exactly the middle of nowhere. Rolls Royce is in Derby, on the edge of the Peak District with much to offer. Much cheaper housing with more space available. And unlike in London, driving a car isn't hounded by terminal congestion.
I think it's human nature under capitalism. I think before the 1800s there were loads of different societies that valued things like community and mutual support over "got mine".

This is the fundamental assertion of anarchism -- people generally like helping each other and like feeling useful. If basic needs were covered, we'd use most of our time doing things that felt meaningful, and those things would make everyone's lives better.
Better to lower baseline for everyone than to be the naive sucker that gets taken advantage of
> They spent 560 hours diving at the wreck site to make detailed diagrams of its many cracks and fissures.

I feel a bit jealous of them, me being in tech, doing hard work like this to preserve the history of humanity.
“… we have a verbal agreement that these materials will not be used in model training”

What about model testing before releasing it?
I don't like Zuckerberg at all but the counter point to this is that the Woke movement went too damn far to the point of creating a thought police and you can count this as part of the recent backlash we're seeing everywhere.
i think you will find the majority owner of google are american.

And i'm not saying it matters - i'm saying that the OP is lamenting that the UK is no longer owning innovative companies.
No, if you're lonely and don't want to be, that's your story. If you don't actively try to solve your loneliness, you will, very likely, remain lonely.
Well I certainly won't object if oai marketing was based on testimonials from their fanboy customers instead of rigged benchmark scores %)

Your fragrant disregard for ethics and focus on utilitarian aspects is certainly quite extreme to the extent that only a view people would agree with you in my view.
> So why would talent every consider moving to the UK to build a startup in 2025 anyway?

A lot of people choose to start businesses near their friends or families.
Whats far more important than academic skills are social skills, how she fares on that aspect? Thats where real threat of this lies, not general population having IQ 80.

Life without good or at least normal social skills is pretty miserable in many aspects, almost can't be fixed once adult, and has much larger impact on what I call 'life success' than career can ever have.
> it's crazy to see so much of a flip-flop so quickly

I wish people would understand that Trump has no ideology. Over a span of decades, Trump has been critical of liberals and conservatives, often at the same time. He's praised conservatives and liberals, often at the same time. His political positions are aligned with whatever benefits him the most.

He doesn't care about making life better for the middle class. He doesn't care if immigration restrictions are relaxed or tightened. He doesn't care about whether or not transgender people have access to health care or can or can't serve in the military. He only cares what positions on those issues will benefit him and his friends at any given time. And if tomorrow holding the opposite position will benefit him more, he'll switch, just like that, and somehow convince his base that's what they believe too.

Trump is the one who was championing the idea of a TikTok divestiture or ban, back when he was president the first time. He's only changed his mind on that because opposing the ban is better for him now.
"American Israel Public Affairs Committee""
To be fair being legally mandated to sell significantly reduces that “free market price”. Technically it’s certainly not “free” anymore..
That was never the issue, if it was, the US would simply force certain privacy legislation upon companies, like the EU did.

It's about the global monopoly on tech products that the US has, which is obviously threatened by Chinese competitors. You saw the exact same thing with Huawei.
Even internally in the USA, you will see the full spectrum of EU-like VCs to Sand Hill-like VCs.
Salesforce AI Research Falsely Claims #1 on Leaderboard
Are you so sure?

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A2228?utm_ca...

Not quite the same, and hopefully likely to fail if it hasn't already, but it shows that interest exists in regulating 3D printers. When enough interest exists, things will happen.

JMHO.
That reminds me of the Microsoft of 20+ years ago, I remember reading an interview with Bill Gates where he had been frustrated with something in the new software and tried to pursue getting it fixed, but was stonewalled and diverted until he simply gave up. Contrasting this with Steve Jobs reportedly being a massive dickhead, barging into developer offices, shouting and screaming and firing people who didn't jump to do what he wanted immediately, but the Apple software worked and didn't have the cruft in the end.
1991: nope, let’s elect a parliament

1997: one more time and without pyramid schemes[1]

2009: nato

2014: official eu candidate

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_schemes_in_Albania
There shouldn’t be a single printer on the market that doesn’t come with basic emergency cutoff features.
Tech Talent Quest
Maybe it's time we have a global government that can have more power than global corporations?
That makes as much sense as saying you bought an Apple laptop expecting it to be hackable
Is this a defect under the EU law?

If so one could get a refund :)
But all the cool kids are using paredit or parinfer which means you don't actually ever write the closing parens yourself.

Counting parens is silly when the editor can do it for you.
As far as I remember you couldn't even run these programs after listing anymore.
Smashing the disk with a hammer takes seconds. Or dropping it in a shredder.

Used disks are not worth hours of time to overwrite with random data. Just physically destroy them.
Seems like the policies used by the Chinese government for decade are becoming more internationally popular (for better or for worse..).

I can’t really feel bad about when it’s the same deal they offer Western companies. Well.. to be fair Google or FB couldn’t even get anywhere close to where TikTok is.
An API fuzzer I've been building for several years now: https://github.com/Endava/cats