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> Starlink is helping Ukraine.

The company owned by the dude who wants immediate Ukraine surrender and threatens Ukraine armed forces with disconnecting them?

Oh so helpful.
The new iPad Air has a 13" model and Pencil Pro support. Starts at $799. The main difference between it and the iPad Pro is LCD screen vs OLED screen.
Hardly, it's full of people that each individual member state had no say on whether they were there or not.

Why should someone elected by the Polish electorate, or the Romanian one, have any say over what the British or Germans do? Especially when it's British & German money funding the project?

The EU is clearly going in a direction the British people do not like, and therefore they did the only thing they could after concessions were refused -leave.

If the EU were only interested in co-operation and trade, this would not be a problem. As it is, apparently it _is_ a problem. Why would that be, except to punish the British for daring to say "this isn't working - we don't want tighter integration"

Meanwhile, the EU continue to fiddle whilst Rome burns. British politics may be boned, but the people now have the ability to sack the lot of them as they did last summer. That is worth far more than a few % of GDP (which the British govt. have no interest in, or they'd be pushing policies that help growth - lower taxes, higher speed-limits, cheaper trains, reduction in gas prices etcetc) : as it is, all the stories we read are about slower roads, more expensive trains and higher taxes.
Wow, I wonder if they'll make it up north any time soon!
We do have devolved powers, so Scotland and Wales* have functioning Regional Governments, with devolved funding from a formula that gives them substantially more money than they collect in tax.

So they should be doing great right? Wrong. They massively struggle and yet live in a "best of both worlds" scenario, they can run the health service, transport, taxation policy and all things that affect regular people without having to worry about the annoying stuff like defence and foreign policy. So why do they still have very poor outcomes? Look at the welsh NHS, it's horrific.

Essentially most of our productivity comes from London and the SE. That means by the way if you're smart and educated but grew up in the welsh valleys, the first thing you do is move to London/SE where all the jobs are. Can Wales attract a google office to Cardiff when all the talent is in London?

*NI is a long story.
Aren't there a bunch of emails and what-not about it? I think that's what people are referring to.

EDIT:

> Other MessagePack people could've sent a mail to the mailing list. You could've had comments relayed on the microphone for IETF meetings. Did that happen?

Yes
> Which people?

The 51% of voters that voted for him… (correction: 49.8%)

> I hear that it is the same people who voted Donald last time who voted Donald again this time. No others voted for him.

This is wrong. There were more republican voters this time around than last time.

> The issue seems to be that many people who are not trumpists did not vote at all.
Maybe i'm wrong, but it seems that if everyone who could vote actually did vote, then Donald would have lost.

This is a constant issue in the US. Low voter turnout causes seemingly unpopular candidates to win.

Go out and vote, people. Please.

> So ... maybe he won, but i hardly think he represents the majority is US citizens.

Never said it did. But if you don’t voice your opinion when it matters, then your opinion literally doesn’t count.

So, the American people voted for trump and this administration. Either through their vote or their inaction.
Indeed. It was a shame that the country suffered in the experiment but it was quite cathartic to watch her faceplant so utterly and publicly, for purely ideological reasons.

In the end, her stint will be what she deserves: a footnote in history, and the answer to the pub quiz question “who managed to beat Johnson as the absolute worst PM in the history of the UK?” Maybe someone will call a variety of lettuce “truss”. That’d be entertaining.
That's too simplistic. Even a dictator has to balance many things - the loyalty and competency of his generals, prevailing sentiments of his troops and of society in general, and much more. Large scale dissent is problematic even to authoritarians. An extended strike by key workers, like truck drivers, could cause outright collapse and regime change, so can a military coup by disgruntled troops.

What Xi has said so far may have been misrepresented by the media, and exaggerated to rally public support for the new Cold War and for more military spending. What Xi actually said is he would not allow formal independence of Taiwan, and that he prefers closer relations/integration with Taiwan for an eventual "reunited" outcome, saying nothing of the status quo or that he would change it by force. For as long as the economic deterrence exists, I highly doubt that a war would happen over Taiwan barring one of 2 scenarios: 1)Taiwan declears formal independence by amending its Constitution, or 2) western troops, bases, or "security guarantees" are established over Taiwan
It reformulates the visit transcription as medical notes. That's the "virtual assistant" part afaik.
I’ve been waiting for a Mac version. Why on earth would I type anything of any length on a phone when my favorite docked laptop setup is an option?
I'm kind of obsessed with old formats and how they are like a fossil record of a period of computing that's gone, and that I have nostalgia for. Wavefront was such an alluring application when it was around. The peak of Silicon Graphics era mystique. It was one of the big 3 from the time that included Alias, and Softimage. Then, over time there were various mergers and acquisitions and all the apps started to kinda meld into a commonality – we lost a bit of the unique magic of all these different approaches and opinions.

You can see something similar in the MIDI specification. There's actual manufacturer codes and if you read through them you get a kind of 'who's who' of the synth era.
Nintendo also used PowerPC for GameCube, Wii and Wii U.
They could just be doing it to be petty and cruel to "government workers" in general. There doesn't always have to be a genius 5D-chess play. It's very possible the administration simply believes the federal workforce is full of their political opponents and just wants to grief them. A major component of the campaign and their base of support is rooted in cruelty to out-groups, so they're technically delivering a campaign promise to their base by just making people miserable.
I really started to enjoy my iPad Pro M1 messing around making music.

There are hundreds of fantastic apps out there from mixers, sequencers to excellent synthesizers, effects and samplers. For an idea of what this can look like, here's a video: https://youtu.be/ft8erjlzg4A?si=lCg77DZAUYNa1SEf

Add a midi controller and you can make pretty much any kind of music you want.

A great benefit over mac / pc computer based music making is that the apps are very affordable.
We acted quickly post-9/11, buying duct tape and trash bags and taking off our belts at the airport.

You may be surprised how the public can be united against a human enemy. The success of the Right during COVID was turning the outrage away from the invisible virus and onto the humans forcing them to wear a mask.
At my former job the (then) CEO said outright that forced WFH mandated in 2020 actually brought some minuscule improvement in general process efficiency.
Ask HN: Anyone Land a Job Through FlexJobs? Or Just More AI Hype?
So, has anyone here actually landed a legit job through FlexJobs? They claim their AI-powered system finds you the perfect flexible or remote gig, but from what I’ve seen, it’s mostly recycled job listings wrapped in some algorithmic magic. I’ve also noticed they operate under multiple names—anyone else picked up on that?

If you’ve used it, did it help? Or did you just get a bunch of irrelevant job matches while wondering if you just paid for access to Indeed with extra steps? Curious to hear real experiences—did the AI work for you, or was it just another case of "sprinkle some AI on it and call it innovation"?

Obs: I have no association whatsoever with FlexJobs, as it's not free, I want your opinion before committing to their platform, I guess you can relate to my concern here.

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Where at? Where I live in Pennsylvania, and not the most populated of areas, there are at least 3 groups open all the time for donations (two local Hospital systems and the regional Blood Bank). Plus, there are no less then three mobile blood drives at fire halls; schools; churches; civic centers (i.e. VFW; Lions; Elks, etc...); libraries; etc... seemingly every week. If you don't see signs, you often see it posted in grocery stores, libraries, anywhere a community billboard might be.
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Paraphrased quote from one of my professors years ago:

Writing readable perl is easy, just code it like it's LISP.

Granted, he was working with it in AI/bioinformatics.

One of my classmates who moved into the IT/management side of things historically got much quicker responses from the dev team whenever he volunteered to code something, as he was always going to do it in perl.
https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus?ind=Q05
Well at the very least it will be interesting to see the fallout when the lidar-less Tesla robotaxi flattens its first pedestrian.
It's more in scenarios where I enter the room and I ask the patient whether this is their wife/husband etc. It's not like I'm going into the room and saying "hello patient you appear to be a human female". The model is having difficulty figuring out who actors are if their are multiple different people talking. Not a big issue if all you're doing is rewriting information. But if multi-modal context is required, its not the best.
Adults are just children with more money.

Everyone needs guidance. There are plenty of stories of interrupted suicides that ultimately changed the fate of an individual. They were saved and they were glad they were saved. This happens at all ages.

The fact that you can say that being old enough to go to war means that someone is old enough to make life altering decisions as if just this arbitrary numeric number means something because it was encoded into law shows that you’re not ready to say who has the right to go to war, go to war yourself, nor say anything about who has the right to go suicide.

Think before you follow some arbitrary rule and make that rule the axiom for your logic.
to support custom key mappings, as many people with fancy ergonomic keyboards use
Scientific research doesn’t have to directly impact personal decision making to be useful and interesting. This study provides a data point suggesting a link between having tattoos and skin cancer - it’s certainly interesting to the medical field to better understand what increases the risk of cancer. A lot of research into smoking cigarettes and cancer also didn’t have much impact on people who decided to smoke, but it was also valuable knowledge.
> If you believe that it is never acceptable to participate in suicide in any way, you absolutely should not want this.

This is interesting, if you have a reason to believe this that's not some flavor of "my religion told me to", I'd love to hear your justification for why it's never acceptable?
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Partly because they're a niche product and making legended keycaps is more expensive, and partially because ergo layouts are so varied that it's hard to accommodate everyone. Especially if the keycap profile has different shapes for each row so they're not entirely interchangeable.

There are a few low-profile legended keycap sets around but they typically only cover the "top" layer, which is the easiest to remember anyway. If you want legends which show every function of every key you'd have to get them custom laser etched to match your personal keymap.
no, they don't, this is a very dumb thing to think.

there's a medium sized chunk the American Right, which has now won, who unrelated to Russia or China or whatever actually want the US to become sci-fi dystopia of authoritarian christo-white-nationalism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_attempt quotes the figure that only one out of a dozen suicide attempts succeeds.

The most common method is pills. The most common outcome is complete physical recovery. That was the case with my daughter.

The mental effects are real, but hard to differentiate from the effects of the mental state that drove the suicide attempt.

Note, the success rate varies. Older people succeed at a higher rate. And so do men.
Probably, maybe, who knows.

If a collective west made transitive trade embargoes, anything could happen.

But yes, the world is growing, and the west is a smaller piece of the pie than we used to be.
> But curious, is Zelensky using the pretense of war to stay in power?

See this from just a week ago: "Zelenskyy offers to resign in exchange for peace, NATO entry"

https://www.politico.eu/article/volodymyr-zelenskyy-offer-re...
> you also might be more prone to showing your ink off and therefore exposing a greater area of skin to the sun.

Seems likely
Should doctors also require patient consent to Google disease symptoms?
That's the entire point of twin studies and case controls. Did you read the article?
Well after about 15 years of governance, the conservatives were voted out of power. Unfortunately the problems in the energy and housing sectors are structural and mostly located in the local government, and I am unsure whether this government has the political clout or even the will to deal with them considering the immense entrenched interests involved.
> But when a C developer writes a multithreaded program they need to really understand why multiple threads are necessary, proper use of locking, and how it will impact the overall application. They need to look beyond their tiny bit of code and the assigned task.

Not really, just add the "volatile" keyword to global variables at random until the bugs go away!
Climate change is set to increase city fires around the world
Most inks up until the 20th century were carbon black (some vermilion and prussian blue). That changed with the introduction of both organic and inorganic color dyes over the last 100 years. Only recently has there been much regulation at all.

https://echa.europa.eu/hot-topics/tattoo-inks
The problem is neither Waymo or Uber make their own cars, and the cars they use weren't purpose built for self driving. Both of those points give Tesla a huge economic and competitive advantage in the long run. Uber/Waymo are the middlemen, once OEMs start building their own purpose built self driving vehicles there's a good chance Waymo/Uber get factored out of the equation.
This isn't the place for that.
Oh, and specific to Tesla from a WP article last week:

“ About a third of Tesla’s $35 billion in profits since 2014 has come from selling federal and state regulatory credits to other automakers. The credits are given to automakers that meet certain standards, including selling a certain percentage of zero-emission vehicles. Tesla is the largest seller of these credits to automakers that don’t meet the standards and want to avoid paying a fine.”
Try https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=673035. The project itself didn't get traction, but an article about the project did
> Android OS itself performs an order of magnitude more spying that iOS does.

Citation needed. (and no, Apple's promises do not count). iOS seems very pushy to turn on every time online services and bluetooth.
Our treatments for depression basically don't work. But that is another story.
I have the ultimate hackers keyboard (silly name, I know)

It's a really good split keyboard with symbols printed (optional).

https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/
Well, GP isn't wrong. Nazi Germany controlled most of Europe in WWII, fought against Russia (Soviet Union) and lost...
sgraz beat me to it! I’m working on an almost the same project (thin, slick, aluminium, ortholinear). Guess I’ll have someone to look up to. (:
If her suicide was successfully stopped this wouldn’t have happened.

Now she’s trying to suicide again.
Ontario to Slap Export Tax on Electricity to U.S.
Let's hear it.
Isn’t it an open secret that Germany’s bureaucracy is littered with Russian intelligence officers?

The whole WireCard scandal there really opened my eyes.
> Meant - by who? The technology itself doesn’t want anything.

The people who created the project and who are writing the code, obviously. This is clear from the context; you don't need to nitpick stuff like this.

> Wasm isn’t a grand design with a destiny it’s “meant to” reach.

Yes it is. The destiny is being able to create dynamic websites with languages other than Javascript. The first step was Asm.js which allowed compiling other languages to Javascript. Then we got WASM which compiles them to a binary format instead. But you still need some Javascript glue to interact with the DOM APIs. And now there are extensions in progress that will remove that requirement (GC, reference types etc).

> Rust was never meant to be a high performance systems language by its original creator.

Yeah citation needed. The very first compiler release already described it as "a strongly-typed systems programming language with a focus on memory safety and concurrency."

https://web.archive.org/web/20130728230358/https://mail.mozi...

Even before that the website described it as "a programming language for low-level, safe code."

https://web.archive.org/web/20110924054534/http://www.rust-l...
Yes. Global EV sales were 1.9 million in Dec 2024, 1.3 million in Jan 2025, and 1.4 million in Feb 2025. This is apparently typical after the holiday spending each year.
Worst case, the current stupidity fully cements US's fall from hegemony, moves the world away from USD as a reserve currency, reverses global brain drain to US, and the economy never recovers.
A few important ones:
- Avoid memory allocations as much as you can. That's a primary thing. For example, case insensitive string comparisons using "a.ToUpper() == b.ToUpper()" in a tight loop are a performance disaster, when "string.Equals(a, b, StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase)" is readily available.
- Do not use string concatenation (which allocates), instead prefer StringBuilder,
- Generally remember than any string operation (such as extracting a substring) means allocation of a new string. Instead use methods that return Span over the original string, in case of mystr.Substring(4,6) it can be a.AsSpan(4,6),
- Beware of some combinations of Linq methods, such as "collection.Where(condition).First()" is faster than "collection.First(condition)" etc.

Apart from that (which simply concerns strings, as they're the great source of performance issues, all generic best practices, applicable to any language, should be followed.

There are plenty resources on the net, just search for it.
I dont think this perspective is valid in the context of a fully intentional and informed medically assisted suicide.
> Native WinUI–fast startup, light operation

Did anyone notice the Windows Calc app became quite slow to startup recently? It takes 2+ seconds to transform from the empty window with a calc icon to the actual calculator UI.

I should get Win7 calc.
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Approximately the same percentage that respect them now IMHO.
“Abogados Cristianos” (conservative association) has the same reputation for the left-leaning than “El jueves” (far-left comedy publication) has for the right-leaning.

Let’s be a bit objetive with our opinions.

Edit: downvotes for telling the truth.
The plural of anecdote is not data. Yes, that can happen. That's not what happens most of the time.
It's dumb and I hate it. It's exactly the same with job applications: AI generated resumes and AI generated cover letters read by AIs, we might as well save the compute time and send bullet points, but no we all have to continue the dance even though the music stopped. So many bright minds working on such degenerate technology... the flip side is that I spend less and less time online as LLMs greatly accelerated the slow rot that had taken hold of the web
>Nambla’s OpenAI powered Whisper

I hear the sound of 100 defamation lawyers cold calling Nabla right now
I didn't vote for Brexit, but the thing is it's not really helpful to re-rake the coals on that one - it knocked our GDP, some kind of common market with the EU would clearly be good for trade.. but to what end, we can't change this.. surely better to discuss things we can actually change?
The hoops that ZFS has to go through are twofold: licensing and unstable internal API. I don't see how a microkernel (on its own) fixes either of those things.
I’m sure it’s still the reason so I wouldn’t worry too much.
That's right, they don't just hate creatives. They'll go after anyone.

I wonder what the hyper-capitalist's end game looks like. One giant company that covers everything with one man sitting at a dashboard, tweaking parameters? Is that one man even necessary?

I wonder what our plans are for when "the economy" prefers to do it's thing without us. Writing poems all day? What capitalist instrument will provide "money" for us to spend in this giant machine?
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Russia has proven it’s not a peer is the issue.

Prior to invading Ukraine one might have thought so, but the experience there shows the challenge in thinking that.

Meanwhile the last time the US military deployed to a traditional battlefield the opponent army lasted a matter of months.

Lord willing we’ll never know about these hypotheticals.
What a wild take! I'd love to see the citation for that claim?