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Is Liquid Glass not just a means to slowly force old phones to be obsolete? - My iPhone 11 is fairly slow now and they’ve probably bought forward my next phone purchase by a year

I’ve not got the context on why Brazil was chosen here (paywall) - but I coincidentally read a story on here of Richard Feynman visiting Brazil whereby he assessed their teaching and tried to impart his teaching and learning techniques.

People need examples of success in their network. Most people have frankly never met or heard of anyone who founded a successful startup- and therefore would never think of taking on such a risk. I agree that in some places there is a sense of malaise, but if we are to believe founders are a 1-2% outlier of the population, I don’t see why America’s 1-2% should be so much more ambitious than the UKs. I think it’s more a cycle induced by lack of funding.

I am a former Mech Eng who trod this path. Started at JLR, moved by self teaching into software. Engineering in the UK felt like it moved at a glacial pace that only made sense in the days of final salary pension schemes. Senior management really struggled to get their heads around why young people were so impatient, but we were not competing for the same rewards.

Klarna use a huge dark pattern on their payment processing (irrelevant of bnpl), whereby they store your details for future use by default, even without an account. Last time I checked you only needed a couple of pieces of easily identifiable information to be granted access to “your” autofill. - I know all the H&M group shops use it as their payment processor in the UK.

My local library inherited the staff from other libraries that closed well over ten years ago. This means they have a constant staff of circa 5 people, meanwhile they do no real outreach into the community nor are they friendly, and I am fairly certain they get fewer than 10 people through their doors each day. I believe that libraries are an essential public resource, but I don't think it’s productive to have resources that are essentially beyond scrutiny as that in turn leads to a very poor service.

I’ve noticed the risk appetite of investors in the Uk is much worse. They want a much larger slice of the pie early on, so there’s much less incentive to do a risky startup, rather than a sure thing like GS / Google. There’s nearly no risk in working at GS - you will work hard and you will be paid exceptionally well for it.

AWS textract now has the functionality to offer a table cell based on a query - if I’m not mistaken. I’ve seen nothing similar to this and would be very interested if there are other solutions.

Given a quick read, I enjoy it and see why it is different. I can’t get on with Medium because of their login process, and HN is great but I just doom scroll comments and don’t really use it for technical learning. - I already found an interesting article on SQL optimisation, so thank you.

Are you able to share that research thesis? Or any key papers on how this should be done? Knowing SOTA on these approaches is always nice.

Genuinely interested here, who are you referring to as ‘feral’?

I see a lot of very well educated non-feral people in the UK struggling to make good wages and a ‘proper’ standard of living. I think that’s what is meant by a broken social contract ?

My employer is now struggling to outsource our jobs to Europe because the prices are too high. I try not to think about it too much, but a move to Ireland looks enticing.

Who needs shelter when it’s so warm outside?

I believe this to be the case also. In the UK we have lots of cases cropping up of PE being the bad guys, but the current owners being to blame for buying these companies in unstable positions and allowing the sellers to make fortunes. It does often seem like it is Pension funds making these poor investments. I am also really happy to see this line of questioning on HN, as it has been lacking in previous discussions.

Magnesium is harder to machine. The chips produced can be highly flammable.