skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a question of infallibility. Legislators will make mistakes. They're human.

The question is, what do you do when you find one?

Option one is that you go back to the legislature and have them fix the law, which then applies to future conduct. Particularly for issues affecting ongoing operations on this scale, this is a completely reasonable option.

Option two is that you go to the court and ask them to remake the law and apply it retroactively to past conduct, then impose billions of dollars in fines for following the law as it was written.

But option one doesn't extract revenue from foreign companies. Which is why people are suspicious of your motives when you jump to option two.

Option one also has the advantage that it can produce more coherent results, because the legislature doesn't have to operate under the pretext that it isn't making a change to the law when it really is.
>The word "serverless" is a new word which wasn't used for anything in particular, and it's fairly descriptive

Using it to describe distributed systems comes to mind, and would be more sensible than its current, mistaken use.
The GPL already doesn't prevent that kind of usage, so clearly that's not what the parent was talking about
Thankfully even iOS (I believe starting with 12.2) no longer hides the full domain name when EV is present, but EV will still make the domain's characters turn green.
eztv. They do only tv shows.
My org is still writing new code in perl5. The degree to which it's unappealing is, in my opinion, greatly overstated.
Isn't that mostly how Silicon Valley works too? Software developers like content creators are generally compensated well enough to live an upper middle class lifestyle, but their compensation doesn't necessarily match the value they create. Instead much of the value is captured by VC or production companies.

It's not just that. Society is still catching up to the ramifications of the additional value extracted by social media and tech media companies. People can't deny that automotive technology made much of the US population dependent in their daily lives on cars. (Whether this is a good or a bad thing is besides the point for this discussion. Probably bad in many ways, good in a few.) This gave the auto makers a certain responsibility for meeting minimum levels of safety, reliability, and environmental friendliness. Society eventually caught up to the implications of automotive technology, and this was reflected in laws codifying that social responsibility.

This is because those companies are the ones who bare the largest percentage of the risk. If a project completely falls flat on its face, software developers and writers, actors, directors, etc still collect their paycheck. It is the VC and production company that lose money.

Then it is also the "production company" which should bear the social responsibility for their impact on the media landscape and social discourse. As was the case for the appearance of laws and regulations covering the activities of the automotive industry, as that industry had ever greater impact upon the general public's life, so too is the case for social media tech companies.

If they reap the rewards, then they should take on the social responsibility.
I think you gave in to the temptation to point out that you're not like the rest of us sheeple even though it wasn't relevant.
> To me the detail looks quite acceptable, but I'm not directly comparing it against other photos so I might be wrong.

Oh, absolutely — the detail is pretty good. My point is simply that "pretty good" is the best you can achieve in this situation, because the limiting factor for the amount of detail is distance and atmospheric conditions, not the sensor — but that, in turn, shows that the step up from 50 to 100MP is not that useful, rather than showing off the advantages of the 100MP sensor.
Sangria is an excellent GraphQL library for Scala! Very sadly Oleg Ilyenko, the maintainer, passed away recently[0].

[0] https://twitter.com/etorreborre/status/1126921902386184195?s...
You're approaching this from the wrong end.

Think about vinyls, cassettes, VHRs, typing machines.

It's all about the cool factor, the "authentic", the "vintage". That's where the crank it's coming from.

The weirdo typing love letters on a mechanical type writer on the park bench. The weirdo cranking this thing on the subway, with his Air Buds on and the expensive sneakers.
Red Hat completes open sourcing of 3scale code
Zheap's design [1] sounds almost exactly like Oracle.

The way Oracle works, when you do transactional row update (e.g. UPDATE), the previous version is read and copied to the undo log, and then the update is performed in-place in the table even though it's not committed yet.

Each row (or maybe it's per page — it's been a while) has a "transaction slots" header, and the transaction then writes its ID to this list. If another, concurrent transaction does a SELECT against the same row, it will see in the slot list that this row is from an uncommitted transaction, and if your transaction isolation level is high enough, it will then look into the undo log for the currently committed row.

This design means that there's no transactional overhead for reads done against rows that aren't being written to, so it's optimized for the general case — performance is only impacted when a transaction has dirty rows and other transactions have to dip into the undo log to find the old versions. The downside is that commits and rollbacks are slower; for commits, all the transaction slots need to be updated, and for rollbacks the undo log needs to be copied back into the table.

Postgres's current MVCC is very elegant in theory — MVCC means never updating anything in-place, always appending, so there's never any read/write contention, and commits/rollbacks are near-instantaneous. But the garbage collection aspect ("vacuum") has always been a challenge, and Postgres has mitigated a lot of performance issues over time with clever hacks that compromise the purity of the MVCC model (e.g., HOT tuples, index visibility bits). I think it's definitely time for alternative approaches.

[1] https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/zheap/blob/master/src/backen...
I can't speak for actors and directors, but as a musician I have made peace that the only pennies I'll be having are from live events.

Even if you pay $5 a month for <insert music streaming service> and only listen to my songs, I get literally $0.00 (up to significant figures). They pool everything together so essentially you are subsidising Justin Bieber; just putting it out there...
That approach works for the very well known domains, but it doesn't even work for tech giants

Who is https://withgoogle.com?

Who is https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com?
Well, sure, thats all well and good in theory. How do you deal with existing laws though? Its hypocritical to tell someone to not "steal" GPL code, when you're downloading the latest Avengers movie yourself. I'm all for changing the law, but I don't agree with the approach that copyright law can only be fixed via civil disobedience.
Extended Validation certificates have always been useless
Another way to get $2T is to just spend it and not be overly concerned with debt.
The idea that every technological revolution (and associated period of rising income inequality) is associated with a financial crisis comes from Carlota Perez, Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. Her thesis is that a technological revolution results in an order-of-magnitude increase in productivity over existing industries; the resultant productivity gains let entrepreneurs (and associated parties: financiers, skilled laborers, landlords, etc.) dramatically undercut entrenched competition while still reaping large profits for themselves, eviscerating the incumbent industry. You get a phenomena of "two monies", where people & prices connected to the new industry deal with dollar values that may be an order of magnitude higher than those connected to the old industry. Eventually the new industry sucks all the money out of the economy and leaves people still attached to the old industry (which may be a majority of the population but a minority of dollars) unable to afford any of the new products. At that point all the expectations of future financial returns collapse, and you get a financial crisis that destroys much of the paper gains of the newly-wealthy. Very frequently you get a war, too, if the new technologies give a significant military advantage over the old economy. Eventually the horrors of depression and war convince the newly rich & powerful that regulation and redistribution is in their best interests, and the technology spreads across the general population (all of whom eventually end up working in the "new economy"), and the promised prosperity happens.

The canonical example is the Great Depression (precipitated by the series of rolling bubbles in the 1920s, which themselves were fed by the prosperity generated by the new meatpacking/radio/electricity/automobile/airline industries, and which ended with WW2.) Other examples include the Panic of 1893 (overbuilding of the steel & shipbuilding industries and decline of agriculture), which led to the Progressive Era in the U.S, and the Panic of 1857 (overbuilding of railroads, ended in the Civil War).
You're absolutely correct that good approaches to social problems (don't want to use the term "solution" which is ill-suited, I think) will not come from VCs: It will come from naive entrepreneurs, naive in the sense that they don't quite appreciate the problem they are tackling, because if they do they would never take it on. A simple fact I learned in volunteering that's applicable here, too, is that in tackling these issues money is not the bottleneck, it's finding people who want to be involved. If you have a good idea in this space it's not hard to secure money from many different foundations and sponsors.

You have focused on a single idea to criticize. It's true that some who venture in this space may be young, privileged, out of touch, etc. I don't think this negates the approach.

Many times what happens with non-profits is that they start great with founders' motivation but have a tough time turning that into a sustained operation.
I enjoy solving Sudoku puzzles. I had a puzzle book that I solve everyday on commute to school.

Then I created a solver in Python as well, it uses backtracking. It can solve the puzzle instantly. Never solved another sudoku puzzle ever since.
I recently heard it called as being in a state of equilibrium. Not sure if that's the one you were thinking of, but it was in the context of ancient construction techniques and describes the same thing.
To be fair, UWP and WPF aren't that dissimilar (and both are XAML), with differences in the readymade UI elements and a stricter subset of the binding markup.
Hopefully that last xaml framework is avalonia, it's definitely gaining steam.
That is one of the bad information: people that don't know how to use pip and venv shouldn't use pipenv, since you need pio to install it properly, and it will manage venv.

Don't run before you know how to walk.
I think you're making a category error by thinking of companies and countries as completely different.

In the global world countries can be seen as sort of quasi-companies that happen to have monopoly control on a particular area (a monopoly that is slowly dissolving with the internet) + force.

There are many ways a company can help solve problems that we tend to think of as government problems.
1. Government also buys services.
2. Startups can fix the services government does badly as an additive product, e.g. Gusto or TurboTax.
3. Startups can solve government problems directly, e.g. Fedex vs USPS.

The only real difference between the two entities is the power of force that government can apply to make you people their services. Which is sometimes useful, but doesn't make voluntary efforts at solving the same problems a bad thing. It is also not in competition. Whenever I see these arguments being made I see people who would rather limit their work on these problems to voting once a year, instead of actually trying to solve the problems themselves.
In-browser players with drm lag and don't give you options about video quality, can't shift playback speed or shift audio/video sync timing or add subtitles from fans etc etc.
> However, the idea that the government has any right to tax private property at whatever valuation they see fit is a quick step towards a totalitarian nightmare.

Many (most?) towns already have a property tax on houses and condos.
Streaming audio services decimated private trackers like What and Waffles. Anecdotally, I know a number of people who passed up torrenting GoT this year to just stream from HBO Go for the first time.
I think one thing is clear: In the 90s Congress + President didn't fuck it up whereas current Congress + President decided to increase deficits in good times which will make it very hard to respond to any downturn.
I have hunch that with the right NLP you could probably do this, at least in the UK. Every now and then I've looked at proposed alterations to acts of parliament and they've mostly been in a format like "In section 3a, paragaph 4, replace 'carrying a maximum sentence of 3 years' with 'carrying a maximum sentence of 5 years, and a sign in the town square telling everyone you're a bad person'".
There’s also ‘Paddy’s Wigwam’ as we used to call it, not very nicely I now see as an adult, as kids.

Liverpool famously has two cathedrals very close to each other, within a mile, Church of England and Catholic Church.

Nice pic link below shows both together with further individual pictures further down that page.

https://images.app.goo.gl/vy5ZJ43FBx9Y1S5A7
It's awesome that that's been your experience! I genuinely hope that continues.

It unfortunately is not the only experience, and the evidence I've seen points towards it being far from the norm. It's possible those foreigners you're meeting frequently are just jerks, and that that is contributing to it, but the possibility also exists that they might have that chip on their shoulder because their concerns are genuine.

The documentary iandanforth mentions is a good example of the stuff I'm talking about. You don't need to take my word for it - you can see the genuine experiences of others living in Japan.
Or, just maybe, the New York Times is the world's leading newspaper and therefore happens to publish a large number of articles, some of which overlap with HN's collective interests?
I work for a tech start-up, everyone above me basically has a PhD.

I dress down for work because I don’t want to A) feel out of place and B) draw attention from dressing better than my boss.

My boss typically wears ratty jeans and a t-shirt (often with graphics on them). I opt for nice jeans and a plain colored shirt most days.

Much rather this than have to wear a suit everyday, but I’ve got all sorts of polos, button-downs, and nice khakis I don’t bother to wear (but have worn at previous companies that were larger and more formal).

Doesn’t bother me, but I definitely know I alter my choices to fit with group dynamics.
Equifax just became the first company to be downgraded due to cyber attack
My point is that the argument is a false dichotomy. We could very well legalize filesharing without making the GPL any weaker.
Great idea.

Plus, you don't even need special bricks, use regular ones, and put as many one-square bricks on them as you need.
Not everywhere do Pirate Party and Pirate Bay have similar or compatible goals.

In Canada, Pirate Party claims to stand for:
- Increased privacy of citizens
- Increased ability of citizens to own and control their data
- Increased visibility and public discourse &debate of technology's impact on private lives, business climate, intellectual property, societal changes, etc

As such, it is the only party here to openly tackle, let alone make it their core platform, what I personally perceive to be the defining issues of the 21st century.

I feel that Pirate Party may end up like the Green party of few decades ago -- initially perceived as fringe, marginalized, irrelevant; until we realize they are tackling emerging core societal problems.

As such, while I'm extremely in favour of supporting creators (all my software, from OS to Photoshop is legally purchased; I duly pay my Netflix/Spotify/Prime, purchase photography and clipart when I need them, go to concerts, go to cinema, tip baskers, participate in Patreon, buy webcomic books, etc; and discussion on whether those appropriately pay artists is important but orthogonal to this one), I do support Pirate Party of Canada through my membership and might consider voting if they had a local candidate.
> Would you still be opposed to the technology? If so, your opposition has nothing to do with the above argument.

That's kind of a denying the antecedent propositional fallacy.
I actually went to register a new domain a few moments later and saw this. I have noticed it getting a little slower but overall I stand by my statements about the support.

That said, this announcement and emergency maintenance combo is not a good sign to me. Sigh.

Curious what you're using now?
Been talking to leaders in the space on building and run great teams, including interviewing process, retaining culture and other wide range of topics. Here is the link to the podcast where a brief summary of the episode is also available for quick read - https://podcast.nurture.team
Closing in on What Motivates Motivation
The vast majority of that is retirement savings, and the number of those folks has ballooned as defined benefit pensions have been discontinued.
I'm on board with this. This sounds like creating products / software that basically make public ops much better.

As someone with a background in education, this is what I wish more edtech startups focused on. Yes, instruction is core, but so much of what's failing in today's schools is bad ops -- hiring, sourcing, maintenance, managing student data, etc. It's also all based on many legacy public systems.
Are you being sincere? I find the end result of replacing all of the “old fashioned” architecture with “modern” designs leaves everything, no matter the city or country, looking sterile and the same.
That is incorrect, it does not apply to an f/1.2 full-frame lens, because you cannot switch to a smaller format. At least not without spending an exorbitant amount of money.
My experience has been different. Me and most of my meat eating friends have been trying and enjoying the Impossible Meat, not for ethical reason, but based on the knee-jerk perception that eating non-meat is healthier than eating meat.
> Wouldn’t that disincentivize production of new TV/Movies/Music?

I think fan fiction is a clear example of the kind of vibrant art community that could emerge if the law got out of its way.

The right to piracy wouldn't kill art. It could cripple the art business, though, but that seems to me like a fair deal.
>If the spirit of the law is to ban your business model, switch to a different one or stop operating.

That may end up happening. With the copyright directive and these fines, companies may find that serving EU consumers is not worth it and may start blocking EU users from their services.
Probably, but I don't think the H-1B program is meant to operate as a service for those people.

It's meant for companies to bring some in if needed.
Questions about Certain Bitcoin Registrations
If you want a nicer concrete church, try Hallgrímskirkja

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallgr%C3%ADmskirkja
The UWP XAML flavor now has x:bind which is probably exactly what you are asking for (control bind directly to their code-behind, no DataContext and DataContext inheritance). I've heard rumors about WPF x:bind support.
To Zinder
Create Your Own VPN with AWS
Musk isn’t known for being careful in his extrapolations, so I wouldn’t use “shows”, but something like “states” (“claims” is too negative)

Also, what is a “net new order”? If that’s orders received minus orders cancelled, that “50,000 as of last Tuesday” extrapolates to about 90,000 in the quarter (May 21 is the 51st day in a 91 day quarter), so if they are to beat the 90,700 deliveries, and all else staying equal, they will run out of customers, but only very slowly.

Given the simplifications in that model, I don’t think that is concerning, but if they want to produce 10,000 cars a week by end of the year, they’ll need about 40% more orders.
I'm not denying that it might help people, it just seems like a half-assed bandaid solution given the breadth of the problem.
>I've worked with quite a few emacs wizards. Do they write better code than me? Some do, some don't. It doesn't seem to related to their use of emacs though. Are they more efficient than me? Some are, some aren't.

Are they really wizards then? :^)
I'm very familiar with outsourcing.

I'm not sure where you're going with it. The existence of outsourcing isn't something I thought we were confused about.
Playdate
Glitch in the matrix. Someone left original CSS href in all copies of bamboos.
Moody’s downgraded Equifax from “stable” to “negative” due to cybersecurity
Maybe to avoid confusion with mathematical imaginary notation.
The author already doesn't control all aspects of distribution. It's for example okay to use copyrighted works for satire in many legislations. So lawmakers already agree that there are legitimate uses of copyrighted works that are out of control of the copyright holder. If we wante to we could extend such uses to include filesharing.
Of course not. The claim is that even though it might help people, it does nothing to fix the systemic issue, which is that we jail way too many people. The U.S. has less than 5% of the world's people, but almost 25% of the world's prison population [1].

The question is what happens when we try to radically reduce the number of people we send to prison. Is there still space for Promise to make the new justice system more efficient? Do they pivot? Do they scale down? Do they disband entirely?

Or do they end up opposing efforts that would solve the root problem?

I'm sure they have noble intentions. But a lot of these problems are not things that you can make money by fixing. They require laws and policy changes. Not band-aids on top of an inherently broken system from companies that are unaccountable to the citizens they're ostensibly helping.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/04/...
You shouldn’t need a stylus to use a device. Styluses are great for things you can’t do with your finger, like precision drawing.
Do you think practicing civil disobedience on copyright law will lead us to fixing it? It seems like the opposition is just digging its heels even further. In addition to fighting for their right to control distribution, they're also pushing for DRM, which is making things worse..
The first teaser trailer for Star Trek: Picard is here