skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What makes you think the UK is doing better? Most reports have found the opposite, with costs in the hundreds of billions range versus where the economy would otherwise have been:

https://www.euronews.com/business/2024/01/12/brexit-here-is-...

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/london-mayor-says-brexit-ha...

https://news.sky.com/story/brexit-new-report-suggests-uk-311...

One potential confound is that the UK was starting with a strong position so if you just compare it to, say, Portugal it’s still looking better but that doesn’t tell you the gap wouldn’t have otherwise been even wider.
Coca-Cola's former CEO Brian Dyson's commencement speech
They are not the same though. This leads to issues with prominent people, see Vaclav Smil, making the case that it'll be too difficult to transition from fossil fuels because they conflate these two things. Some do it out of ignorance, others know better and do it since it's in their financial interest.

As long as we conflate the two, people will more easily be misinformed and think they need to replace their 41 MWh of heating oil with 41 MWh of electricity. But they don't. They need at most 41 MWh of heating. And as you said, your heat pump is probably getting you and average COP of at least 3. Meaning they will need to pay for fewer "MWh" in order to get the same amount of heat to your house.

It is more efficient, just as it's more efficient to charge and EV of a grid running on natural gas than it is burning the petrol in an ICE. Both are also far better for pollution.
Imagination
is an old washing machine
that never breaks
No point unless coupled with ability to immigrate. Why would China educate foreigners only to see them leave? There is no payoff.

It makes sense in US because of for-profit universities and easier immigration. That is not situation over there.
Where we shop (in western Europe) there are these shiny huge apples, often each of them has a separate sticker. All ultra sweet because, well, people are often stupid and our instincts are too strong for some situations that we didn't yet evolve to handle better. Sugar addiction from early age is one of them. Human liking of sugar developed during times where sweet fruits were rare and no ultra cheap refined sugar or HFCS was discovered. Companies deliver what people buy more.

Then at the side there are big bags (~3kg) of these not so appealing small apples with various flaws. These are the ones we buy, either bio or not, and they are much less sweet. They last less, presumably less chemistry within to keep rot away for longer, which is a good (even if annoying) sign.
I wasn't talking about that. I meant lateral motion
Yes, I'm aware of all of this.

What you people don't seem to comprehend is that every political party in Canada has the same views on this matter. If every party has the same policy in regards to an issue, it's not an election issue.

By claiming it is you're claiming one party isn't going to defend Canadian sovereignty.
I have, twice. Once on medical x-ray machines, once on a device used in cancer treatment. I am not currently working on medical devices, though.
Happy to fight for engineering, any day :)
The response here would be significantly different if this was about measuring the performance of software engineers in wealthy countries.
Prosecutors are not famous for caring about internet arguments, weev (who is a piece of shit for other reasons) got sentenced to 41 months for effectively incrementing an integer in a url - https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/new-york-man-sentenced-41...

"he concocted the fiction that he was trying to make the Internet more secure, and that all he did was walk in through an unlocked door. The jury didn’t buy it, and neither did the Court in imposing sentence upon him today.”"
McKinsey were major contributors to the opiate epidemic. They should have been banned from any US government business already.

https://www.mckinsey.com/de/news/presse/settlement-funds
I am very lucky that my youthful years were the mid 90s, when mp3s were still too slow to encode and DVD didn’t exist. I got to accidentally wipe or crash drives on purely experimental computers.
Well technically even DeepSeek is not as OSS as OLMo or Open Euro, because they didn't open the data.
We are doing these things. But we don’t and shouldn’t expect them to just work immediately. It’s a slog, and we’ve got to keep at it.
good way to put it. how do you plan to get rich form this top signal? short a specific company?
You writing something personal serves as inspiration to people who just want to write.

Many years ago I started writing as a goal to make it something big. But I was very far away from acheiving anything close to my goals, and writing started feeling like a chore.

Now I am working on my personal blog as a platform, not only for writing, but for self expression in design and programming. Because I just read your post - it makes me want to speed up the process of finishing my own blog (it contains many engineering quirks that need to be ironed out as it is not a simple website - hence the time taken to make it).

So what I am trying to say, when people read your posts - you are moving the needle. You are not changing anything spectacularly, but rather have some influence of people's perception over certain things. And now - you moved me closer to finishing what I started months ago - this should serve enough of a dopamine hit for you to continue doing what you are doing, however you choose to rationalize it :) (assuming you even get to read this comment)
Pretty sure malaria won't cause hemorrhagic symptoms.
Its good to hear that :)
We have to remember with the flood of all the news around DOGE - the point of all this is NOT to have an effective, efficient way to manage the federal workforce or even to have good government. The point is RAGE: Retire All Government Employees. Curtis Yarvin and his ilk are the inspiration for this, basically the point is to replace the government as it is now with a technocratic monarchy led by the whims of a single person who can lead like a CEO.
Viking Skulls Reveal Morbidity
I should do another article on the best aliases, because this is a great one. I want it just because I want to do the Arnold voice every time.

Now I want to do: `git to-da-choppa`
But immigrants do not vote unless they become citizens, do they?
Also only possible because we use Signal as compiled by themselves and not by trusted third parties from a source kept clean of any future client-side backdoors. The client is open source, right? https://github.com/signalapp

(Reproducible builds is a cool technique.)
I keep seeing this idea that because a company is headquartered in some place, means they don't have to follow the laws of the countries where they operate.

Yes, Signal may be headquartered in the US, but that doesn't mean they can just ignore the laws of other countries, which is exactly what may happen here, depending on the outcome.

Sweden may propose a backdoor (a utterly shitty idea, I agree) which Signal may decline (which this submission is about). Then the next step is either Sweden giving up on the request, or placing fines on Signal until they comply or outright ban it, or Signal deciding it isn't worth it (prevent Swedish users from using Signal).

All within their capacities and rights, even though I again think it would very stupid approach.
And if you're in a remote meeting, share your screen. Instantly focuses everybody. Even if you whiteboard in real time it'll make your meeting far more productive.
> Believe it or not, nobody suggested you need to run everything by a partner!

Believe it or not, nobody suggested you need to run everything by a partner! I would expect someone to at least watch a video once before posting it in a congratulatory post on YC's feed. It is not a criticism of startup culture but watching that video I genuinely question how far quality has fallen?
To me, the fact that a blog post would be used to train AI is a good thing. Hell yes I want my writing to inform the future zeitgeist! I guess it helps that the things I want to write about are novel things no-one has ever written about. I could see how AI would demoralize me if I were otherwise employed writing Generic Politics Blog #84773. But as someone who writes original unique content, I'm like, hell yes, the more readers the merrier, whether they be human or AI or some unholy combination!
The miscarriage of justice here is that she was acquitted of the widespread and deliberate medical malpractice, not that she has been jailed. She absolutely was a danger to everyone who trusted the tests from her machines.
Swift and .env
I would love to make "side revenue", but frankly I am awful at practical idea generation. I'm not a founder type I think, maybe a technical co-founder I guess.
But what’s the problem for workers to ask the same AI to write some piece of text about their work?
> so bizarre ... what the hell is that supposed to tell someone?!

I liked this bizarre comment. It was like seeing a physical geometry proof for trig. Or like thinking about primes while riding a bike for an hour.

In 10 - 15 seconds this comment offered a flash of appliable intuition into primes I'd not appreciated before.

Granted, the bulk of that was first gathering that the top 3 rows of digits were a series turned sideways (printing them rotated would have made that instant). Joys of plaintext.

But then the pattern popped, and the code, including the optimization, made sense, but now from the "grok", with MTOWTDI.

Neither their commentary nor their function names and comments, caused the grok. I could "accept" the assertions, but to me neither naming nor comments were intuitively self-evident the way the diagram was.

Both of them commented on having to dwell on what the code was doing to consider refactoring. Once this flash happens, one no longer needs reference code at all, it's just another property of primes.
Indeed. One of the most important properties of a cryptosystem is its resistance to ordinary human screw-ups. And that's before you get to intentional co-operation.
MicroLua for the RP2040 has a nice dsl for the PIO assembly with some special use of methods:
https://github.com/MicroLua/MicroLua/blob/main/lib/pico/hard...

function pio_timer(_ENV)
public(start):
set(y, 0)
mov(y, ~y)
wrap_target()
delay:
pull()
mov(x, osr)
loop:
jmp(x_dec, loop)
mov(isr, ~y)
push()
jmp(y_dec, delay)
end
> According to its website, DISA collects a wide range of personal and sensitive information, including details about an applicant’s work history, educational background, criminal records, and credit history.

Apart from everything else, Why was this being stored after the check?
"not replying to this email automatically renounces your citizenship and you must leave the United States within 48 hours"
Aw, you described it so much nicer than me. I feel bad now.
It painfully misses that "there are 5 weeks left" because I have to calculate it. I don't care how much have gone, all I care how much is left!
Again, if these agencies are never actually held accountable, this is functionally identical to "unaccountable".

I mean, what if Congress created them to be unaccountable? Then both things would be true!
Glaring example supporting the first hypothesis is that Denmark reinstated blasphemy laws in 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law#Denmark
I downvoted, because they wanted to create sympathy with a victim, and to achieve that, they made it a woman. What is the takeaway from that? I'm out of charitable explanations.
I wouldn't like to be this kind of person, but, in the case of git, the best you can do you is forcing yourself little by little to use the Git CLI. It's far from being beginner friendly, but it shows the things the way the really are. GUI git tools hide things under their hood, which is ok for most cases but when you need a little more complex thing you are limited to their capabilities.

For instance, I wrote this post last year about how you can use Git as a powerful debugging tool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39877637
Killer T cells could protect against 'bird flu'
ChatControl: EU Ombudsman criticises revolving door between Europol and lobbyist
Is there an advantage to doing this over setting the GIT_PAGER environment variable?

(Weirdly, git doesn't seem to honour the PAGER var (which would be even better), although its man page claims it does)
<< Such as no job security, or severance packages, feast and famine cycles?

FWIW, there is no real security in corporate either and I work in a relatively insulated industry. That said, I can't call myself a freelancer with less than a few gigs under my belt so it is possible my perspective is skewed as I eye 'greener' fields.
Good thing I missed out on metaverse and blockchain, or I'd be in debt.
Seriously, I have optimism about them too, just not jumping on that train yet.
Thanks for the feedback :)
What other choice did Apple have? To ignore the law of a country where you operate just because you don't agree with the law is a terrible standard to set.
In fact, they are negative because they say that this can't be done without opening up the service to vulnerabilities that could be used by others.

> I ett brev till regeringen skriver Försvarsmakten att lagförslaget inte kommer kunna förverkligas ”utan att införa sårbarheter och bakdörrar som kan komma att nyttjas av tredje part”.

> In a letter to the government, the Swedish Armed Forces writes that the legislative proposal will not be able to be implemented "without introducing vulnerabilities and backdoors that may be utilized by third parties."
This has been my experience after largely leaving social media. I’m much happier with less noise and nonsense in my life. It’s been a significant net benefit.
> having their military strong enough

That's not how Sweden remained "neutral" though, although I'm not sure I'd agree Sweden been neutral since 1814, wasn't exactly neutral before/during the second world war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_during_World_War_II
I don't think fingerprinting can be stopped as long as JavaScript exists. There will always be some minor difference you can exploit or some cache you can misuse.
Being explicit about expectations isn't micromanagement
Colleagues, the business. The important things are that performance management is a) used to identify those performing far below what is possible, and b) that there is a good faith effort to support those people to perform better.

Both of these things are mis-handled by many companies, who will use it to encourage more performance out of those who are already as productive as practically possible, and that the tools are used in bad faith or with no intention of helping people, only as an excuse to fire them.
Original title (too long): Chat control: EU Ombudsman criticises revolving door between Europol and chat control tech lobbyist Thorn

> Breyer welcomes the outcome: “When a former Europol employee sells their internal knowledge and contacts for the purpose of lobbying personally known EU Commission staff, this is exactly what must be prevented. Since the revelation of ‘Chatcontrol-Gate,’ we know that the EU’s chat control proposal is ultimately a product of lobbying by an international surveillance-industrial complex. To ensure this never happens again, the surveillance lobbying swamp must be drained.”

> The complainant emphasised that although Thorn describes itself as a non-profit organisation, it generates significant income through software sales, and heavily invests in lobbying and public representation.
Non-violent != white collar
Will keep fighting.
I feel it is the honourable thing to reference where ideas come from.

Attribution exists so that we can understand the impact that we have on the world. I refuse to be gaslit that LLM's poor facimilie is a positive net outcome for the individual creator or humanity.

To use a stolen culture analogy, we can't put the genie back in the bottle, I don't think that anyone should be discoraged for not wanting to help Jafar become even more powerful and oppressive dictator.
Not the same a 3+4 but there are lemon roasted peanuts,
I've not had them, but lemon roasted pistachio's are really good.
My «voice» isn’t heard from a trained LLM anyway. Only a vague, blended and remixed imitation at best. As a human I have no interest in feeding that beast.
It's bizarre, isn't it? Anti-nationalist nationalism.
I don’t see anything wrong with those names. A bit hard to parse but the name moves with the function call while a comment does not.

It’s annoying to look at but when you actually read the function you know what it does. A more elegantly named function is less annoying to read but less informative and doesn’t provide critical information.

The name just looks ugly. But it’s like people have this ocd need to make things elegant when elegance is actually detrimental to the user. Can you actually give a legitimate reason why a method name like that is stupid other then its “hard to parse”. Like another user said… use snake case if you want to make it easier.
Yes, that's what I said. They think the stock will perform better in the future.
That specific quote is in the original comment of this thread :)
Just use AI to craft the response then...
In the age of AI (and way past the age of scanners and decent OCR) the IRS employs people to do manual data entry multiple times into a computer to enter forms into their databases. BSO systems from the SSA take 2 weeks to get a access to a service to file wages.

The fact that treasury allowed 4.7T to go out the door without a description or traceability should say enough.

Bottomline, there is a lot of nonsense going on.

Culture:
One of my army buddies tells me that they must use up all the ammo at the end of the year so that they can request more budget the following year.

Government is clearly corrupt, we've just legalized (and normalized) graft. It's funny that the same people that criticized corporations about graft under Bush-era republicans, now believe that government programs are above reproach.
Google ultimately did that for China. The outcome in that case is that the domestic market filled in the gaps, while complying to all relevant authoritarian legislation. I do not believe that the same would happen for every market where these stunts are being pulled off, at least not to the same level of quality.

Why are European countries trying to pull one off from the China playbook, while simultaneously being shocked that companies react to authoritarian moves in the exact same way as they have done in the past, is beyond me. Is the hubris so large that they honestly can't conceive their "requirements" as being "literally the same as China?"
Good to hear that :)
Why not put the prose in the name of the function?
What is this, army of accounts for hire to sway sympathies like its election times?

Most people in prisons, especially US prisons, are not anyhow threat to society. That 1 or 2 joints that got people in bible belt states for solid 2 years is one example.

If you are questioning basis of basically every law system in place anywhere in the world, thats a fine discussion but please frame it like that. She is a criminal, fraud, liar, thief and god knows what else, in range of hundreds of millions. Jail for her, a long one, no special sympathy for nepo kids. Sort of litmus paper of whether US justice system still works as intended.
How to Become an AWS Hero (2024)
Sorry, who in Ancient Greece inherited the same position as Alexander did? Philip II was a one of a kind, once in 20 generations kind of guy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_Macedonia_under...
"Thieves got robbed, called the police."
I read that these super fast killing ebola cousins emerge periodically but seldom spread far exactly because they kill before the infected person can travel far. Fingers and toes crossed that this idea is more than cope.
see

>Is America tired of Musk and DOGE? Poll shows dwindling support for cost-cutting billionaire https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
Call your senators and reps constantly. Show up at town halls.
> leaving only a small number of highly specialized positions available.

Stupid question: how do you become a high level programmer if entry and mid level roles disappear?
Spotted one typo, the reference to Hanchette in the section on Matra Datavision should be Hachette.

That section could also mention that the Matra software is now opensource.
Ghost payrolls.

If you don't understand ghost payrolling then you don't understand government. This happens at almost all levels from city to federal to varying degrees. I've seen flagrant more subtle abuses over the years. Try to understand the USGOV is the largest employer in America and unlike the private sector, it's unable to rely on its "board" (Congress) for effective oversight or reform. You're witnessing an attempt at a "turnaround" with all ugliness that comes with it.

Trump, like or hate him, is determined to put a dent in the fiscal nightmare this dysfunction has created for America. Hopefully everyone understands the problem isn't going to be fixed, but if he can achieve a substantive reduction in expense it will either give the next administration momentum to continue rationalizing government, or it could just as well provide cover that "enough/too-much was done" and its time to expand and spend again, into oblivion.
What AI is good at, or, please don't fuck up my job and ETFs
Obviously they are building an org chart with detailed functional information. cc’ing your manager is a brilliant data point

They’re using the data to decided which 80% of agencies and departments to cut
Less env pollution.
What's funny is that it's other EU laws from totally different parts of government which are, at the same time, pushing to allow for side loading of apps and alternate app stores on iOS and Android.

https://www.google.com/search?q=apple%20eu%20alternative%20a...

The end result of which, if done at large scale, means that an EU government couldn't ban signal, short of forcing all its domestic ISPs to be downstream of a China type great firewall, or simply null route all the IP space where signal's servers are located.
You should research Henry Ford if you think that supporting Nazis is enough to take a magnate's auto company down.
Looks like a very cool way to interop with Python from Elixir without maintaining a separate Python stack (which is a PITA)!
Reducing the problems of Brexit to the Northern Ireland situation is quite blinkered.

Businesses (especially smaller ones) have suffered immensely as a result of supply chain issues, lopsided bureaucracy and red-tape.
Sure, but it seems like this was posted to (and now deleted from) the @ycombinator X account with a "Congrats on the launch!" message.
Great comment, Mike, and thank you!

It really resonates with me because during my university years, I myself had a poor social network. As soon as I started interviewing, I was like, “WTF is this?!” whereas some better connected peers seemed to somehow “just know” how to be prepared to interview. There definitely wasn’t equal access.

Thanks for trying to make things better!
It's not bizarre. What Elon and his group want is a "CEO for America" someone who has complete and total control and the ability to pass any law and fire anyone at any moment. Government itself is in the way of that goal.