skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Switzerland also has criminal and civil penalties for copyright infringement. Downloads, however, are not considered to be copyright infringement.

The situation in the US seems to be rather similar. For criminal law, the most expansive is arguably the DMCA anti-circumvention provision. Mere downloading or viewing a copyrighted work, however, is not a crime. Only uploading is, as it is in Switzerland.
I read somewhere that it's much easier to convince people of conspiracy theories once they have doubt in one. It is my theory that the UFO phenomenon is a means of injecting doubt into people's minds to make them a bit paranoid and question the reality of things. Once they believe something is going on or have doubts, it's easier to sell them on other half truths, lies and conspiracy theories. I have no proof of this but I suspect a vast majority of ultra conservative voters exhibit mental frameworks of people who believe in conspiracy theories. UFO coverage could be means of creating doubt and reinforcing conservative behavior. In short - it's a play to create, recruit and retain the ultra conservatives for the sole purpose of voting. Of course I realize the irony of my statement considering this in itself sounds like a woowoo conspiracy theory.
I do get that. On the other hand, if you look at the believability hierarchy—while eye witnesses rank pretty low, drive-by internet commentators rank significantly lower still.
It's the UK which is insisting on closed borders, specifically exit from the customs union and ending freedom of movement. The EU is just promising to reciprocate.

Brexit is the UK imposing sanctions on itself. You can watch the GBP tick up or down according to how likely it looks to actually happen on any given day based on stupid statements by the PM.
As I posted in another comment, here's my initial implementation:
https://github.com/ajxs/cxos
Apologies for the double post. I just wanted to ensure that you would see the reply.
That's exactly what they do. They are treating "robots.txt" as an "active legal tool". You could argue that they should make it harder, but I doubt they want to find themselves in court over every little thing. Better to make it easy to block to avoid liability, and also easy to allow that block to lapse - if they forced you to get a court order to hide information, then the information would be gone forever.
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You can see what devices are connected to your router for one. Also not if you: factory reset or change the password.
Developers develop different things. Some are crunching websites or GUIs all day long, but others sometimes have some numbers to crunch (at or after work), or things to prototype. So YMMV, but I maintain that it's better to check out good tools than not, because sometimes you discover new things to do after learning how they can be done.

> I would never export a DB to crunch numbers in excel for a plethora of reasons.

You wouldn't, but you might want to connect to one every now and then to test out some ideas.

> And for any statistical insight i would hope the service itself you are using [because i know you're not reinventing the wheel here] would provide you with the correct numbers with graphs you would have never even considered

A service you're using provides you with insights they want you to have, and their time and scope for creating new features is usually limited to the "minimum viable user". If that's the only thing you need then you're golden, but sometimes you need to ask questions or do something with data that isn't offered by the service.

What I'm trying to say is this: Excel is to tabular data what Unix scripting is to text. A convenient and powerful way to solve a lot of problems in a small fraction of time it would take to find a off the shelf solution or develop a marketable-quality product. You're a developer, so you probably don't need it all that much (though sometimes using a spreadsheet really is faster than writing a script). But non-developers do.
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Back in the day, this was why lyrics.ch was hosted in Switzerland.
The block requires active maintenance in the form of robots.txt. If the domain owner allows robots.txt to lapse, the content is automatically republished.
What if you don't have any itch? Seriously.
Technology develops rapidly in a constant effort to meet our demands, but there has always been a gap between humans and technology.
Whats wrong with inheritance? It is a big drive for economy. Or is it just that you don't like rich people?
weird/crazy idea: using individual transaction data from various sources (credit cards, cash deposits, etc), would it be possible to build up a macro view from 100s of millions of people?

Start small (not the US), in a geo where electronic payments dominate, and where privacy isn't as important. If the model proves valuable, build modeling tools and scale up.

Counterpoint: there's a very large percentage (by value) of transactions that are invisible e.g. business partnerships, cryptocurrency, etc.
Yes but if one has many of these disabled or logged out (the social media-type pages in particular) I imagine they couldn't get much for the sake of heuristics data collection anyhow,or if say you log in from a device where none of these accounts are also opened. I can't imagine Facebook openly letting a third party banking site or app scrape up its precious specific user data without first paying for it in "anonymized" form, ditto for Google, so how might that work if the bank was attempting that?
Yup, I've noticed that too. Even worse, some younger people would consider it to be a tremendous burden to write their own HTML/CSS/JS.
Don't worry, in a few years they will have their own sim card and network.

This behavior is despicable and we must not accept it just because "I wouldn't connect the network cable/wifi anyway". Because one day that isn't an option and by then it is already too late.
This is not unusual. My spouse works for Glassdoor. Entry level programmer jobs in Texas will get 2000 applications (not bots) within about 72 hours. Desperate people from all over the US.

I think at one time the advice to “play the numbers game” was correct for online job apps. Not anymore.

Even more saddening, Glassdoor uses a temp/test sample job ad. It’s for cat sitting. $15/hr. That will get hundreds of apps in 48 hours if someone forgets to take it down (is only supposed to go up for 60 mins max but things happen).
I had a similar case... i want to be able to download interesting videos with youtube-dl in case they or me go offline but i found having to copy the url, open a command line, move the proper folder, etc, type youtube-dl and paste the url be a bit cumbersome, so i wrote a Firefox extension to do all that for me.

This is extremely specific (and i had to switch to Firefox Developer Edition to do that since the mainline one doesn't allow unsigned extensions) but it was helpful and i got to learn how to make extensions for personal use (though the whole process to call an external program was a convoluted PITA involving adding registry entries, writing Python scripts to parse JSON, etc... meh).
Sure, what I was saying is that Switzerland could have distanced itself from US and EU, and it would probably have had a similar effect on the Swiss economy (and the CHF).

Without outside money Switzerland would be in a much worse situation.
Well, you could do 20 years after publication or 10 years after death, whichever comes sooner. Or maybe 10 and 5. I think most books make money only in the first few years anyway (but you want to make the term long enough that people aren't going to wait it out).

Depending on the length of the term, this may not work so well for types of books that have a longer tail (e.g., sheet music), but the current system has drawbacks too.
They used 8 p-bits and could factor numbers up to 950, which took about 15 seconds. They say "it's possible that a larger number of p-bits will mean a significantly larger sampling time." That seems likely to be a drastic understatement.
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Is it really that hard to disable the spying? What if I don’t connect my TV to the internet? What if I use my 40” 4K display as a computer monitor — is it still spying on me if I never have it the ability to connect to WiFi?
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Both of these replies are missing the asterisks to indicate pointer indirection. Probably HN is eating each asterisk, treating it as emphasis or something.

Also terse it may be, but this (assuming the missing asterisks are restored) is a good, idiomatic implementation of strcpy. Whether strcpy is good or evil is a separate discussion.
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Europe’s a long way away compared to verdant South East Asia tho
This is one of those mindsets that might not be objectively all that true but seems overwhelmingly useful.
Something something eat your own dogfood.
My ad supported Kindle Paperwhite has never turned off airplane mode either. I only turn off airplane mode when I have a new book to download to it and turn it back on afterward.
The EU wants the financial centre of the EU to be in the EU. That does make sense.
It's the same in germany afaik. You're free to download all you want but the first byte* you upload will get you a nice mail asking for x000 euros. As far as I can tell there is a big business of law corps buying raw ISPs data and sending mass mails to offenders.

* of copyrighted content
C17/C18 is a minimal "bugfix release" to C11, mostly standard clarifications.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C18_(C_standard_revision)
The archive needs to provide some extra-legal mechanism to allow people to hide data - otherwise they'll be in court all the time. The advantage of this system is that it runs both ways - sites can also neglect to opt out, having previously done so, which immediately republishes all the data.
It allowed me to write Cython for only small pieces of programs for which there is profiling evidence of a performance bottleneck.

Cython is a slight superset of Python that compiles to heavily optimized C or C++. So it is extremely easy to write & autogenerate Python bindings to your own C extension modules.

The difference is that it frees you to write Python (much easier to write & maintain) for everything, and only care about compiling down for speed in a few isolated places. Contrasted with writing everything in C/C++, this is a big advantage.
That's okay, and there's no shame in working a 9 to 5 job in that case. Not everyone is cut out to (nor should) be an entrepreneur.
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I work at Amazon and this is basically my experience. I don’t know why there’s so much FUD about it, and it’s been the same on other teams I’ve worked on as well.
Could you give some guidelines to keep an emerging architecture orthogonal?
"You are in a series of twisty passages that all look the same."
We actually don't know if a modern economy can give up on using fossil fuels. It's a hypothesis we're currently testing and hoping it will hold.
Somehow I doubt countries are going to start sanctioning Switzerland because they don't play ball on copyright regulations.
OTOH no more gig economy shenanigans, VC dollars destroying industries, less of a race to the bottom everywhere, less centralization, probably healthier competition...

I don't have anything close to a belief yet, but the more I hang on HN and read stories from various industries, the more I'm starting to feel that maybe we took globalization a bit too far, or at least we're now learning about bad side effects. Human groups tend to be recursive hierarchies, and to this environment our intuitions about trust and behavior are adapted. Global economy does its best to cut straight through that.

Many smart people must have already talked through this to death. If anyone has pointers towards reading material, I'd strongly appreciate it.
This is a good reason for a pi-hole type of ad blocker on your network.

When I noticed my Roku TV was sending something to some remote analytics or tracking server every 30 seconds whenever it was turned on, I just blocked everything coming from it.

Eventually though I factory-reset it and didn't bother connecting it to the network at all. All the on-TV apps are junk and I'd rather just use an Apple TV (which sends it's own analytics, I know).
Great viz, design & structure! But for the first time, I had the impression that you didn't report anything new or different. All the takeaways of this work were pretty obvious given the last couple of years research. Am I missing anything?
That doesn't seem strange at all to me. Some news stories come from 3rd party news agencies that sell the articles with non-exclusive rights. E.g. in Germany basically every local newspaper is built on top on articles sourced from dpa (Deutsche Presseagentur), and usually marked accordingly.

Of course there are also less reputable methods like just scraping articles from your competition.

Either way, it doesn't really _prove_ anything regarding it being a seeded PR piece, though my gut also tells me that it's likely.
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Ah ?
Interesting, a source would be welcome.
[OT] Hi Dylan! Just discovered your project - KISS. I respect you a lot for what you write, and you've been an inspiration at times.

Did you just decide one day that you have to write a distribution from scratch? What was the thought process, and how complicated is it actually. Also, I'd like to contribute if there's a chance.
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Why would conservative use of C++ not meet this mark? It's highly compatible with C, has container types, ranged for-loops, operator overloading which makes use of container types more sugary.
Because it is super offtopic. I would also downvote "does anyone have a favorite CLI recipe manager?"
Context would be a convenient tool for the job. You can create pdf, xml, and epub from the same source. You get the power of Tex but producing modern looking stuff is IMO much easier than with Latex. I personally usually use Latex for short articles and Context for books.
> So the message itself, and the thread that gave rise to it, are here. The exact date of the smiley’s birth can now be determined: 19 September, 1982.
I think you just answered your own question...
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How do you do that without also limiting the up-side? Globalisation has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. Localising economic activity would undo much of that.
I think it was the first article I've read on the issue that actually explained all the factors in a clear way. As it's a complicated issue it needed to be long. Even though the pilots evidently were incompetent, I do think he's too light on his criticism against Boeing. The failure mode on this system was too drastic, and unnecessarily persistent. Combined with the fact that all that was needed was one faulty sensor this was obviously shoddy engineering.
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Why not just order from e.g. Germany?
It's not impossible to imagine but it is surprising. Just seems like a very obvious test case. Try once. Try again.
There was a report that the Syrian civil war started with droughts forcing whole regions to emigrate to Damascus and then unemployed farmers starting to march in the streets. I can't imagine what might happen if the same level of drought occur in South-east asia. War? Civil war? Revolution ? The nuclear weapons stored there makes this a danger for everyone on the planet
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I am with you, I don't know why people are so scared about not going to work.

Due to some lucky events I was able to maintain some fairly large custom ERP system. After few inital years all the big problems were fixed and I was keeping eye on it for next 10 years. In reality it meant about 1 or 2 hours of work every (other) month and I was paid enough to be confortable, not that much, but enough to live the life I wanted. Kind of universal income reality.

What do you think? Did I missed going to the office? Was I depressed because I haven't been climbing corporate ladder? Nah, it was awesome.

I spent few years traveling, I worked on more then 50 projects (SW and HW), I tried to launch few startups and helped couple VC funded companies, I've even bought farm and and was fortunate to spend a few years with my newly born kids without constantly thinking about some deadlines that was not imposed by me. I never felt like I was wasting my life, quite oposite: I had so much time for exploring various projects and learn new skill and I didn't need to think about will-that-make-it-me-some-money type of questions.

I am currently working normal job (well, it remote and 4-days a week, but still) writing software for banks, telcos and other corporations and it just didn't filled me with purpose or self-actualisation.
How does that feature help in anything?
>In the event of a crash, we can also help expedite the insurance claims process.
How Much Does MVP App Development Cost?
If you tax to cover externalities then consumption goes down and producers make lower profits. The magnitude of these differences are debatable, but their direction is not.
Lots of motivational quotes in that article, and I guess it's appropriate considering the product.

People often criticise scientific studies for too small a sample size, sometimes even when the effect size is large enough to get significance at small numbers (i. e. n=2 is plenty when studying "can bullets kill").

Yet they'll lap up vague business wisdom with gusto as long as it generally agrees with what they want to believe.

In this case: they are millions of apps (and other businesses) far more successful than this that 1. Didn't scratch the founder's itch, 2. launched with far more than an MVP and even 3. are free either initially or permanently.

I don't think I could say which answer to any of these questions has higher chances of success, empirically. I'm most sceptical of "scratching your own itch" because it narrows your world to the restricted experience of, usually, middle-class white men from suburbia, USA, in their 20s and 30s, whose itch-scratching needs see plenty of competition while other demographics, non-consumer businesses, government and other groups have not just unscratched itches but plenty of pain (and money).

But people love to hear the minimal/what you like/charge a lot answers and that maybe points at the fact that "what would be more fun to work on?" is both the real question being answered, as well as a legitimate question to ask.
agent based modeling where the probability of the agents' actions is dependent on actual economic data...

more realistic sim city (city skylines)
The idea that Python’s strong suit is “glue code” or flexibility is a bit of a myth.

Python (CPython anyway) is nothing but a special DSL for writing C programs. Any part of Python is absolutely as fast as C if you want it to be.

In the projects I’m referring to, we just used Cython for this. Instead of wasting time writing in C for the whole project, managing memory allocation, building up abstractions over structs with macros, or using these things from inscrutable C++, we just wrote simple Python, used kernprof to measure places where running time actually mattered, and targeted those few small places with a Cython extension module.

Since the small part of performance critical code was much simpler in Python (using pretty much zero abstraction / functions only in Cython), the compiled Cython code was faster than corresponding components of C++ implementations (that took much longer to write and understand).

Most of the rest of e.g. Python standard library calls in the surrounding glue code is already C-level extension functions in Python with no measurable running time difference than C itself, and the rest of the custom Python code was measured in the profiler to be fast enough so as not to matter.

The “slow” parts of Python come from the object data model and a variety of protocols like iteration, properties and MRO. But it isn’t really fair to call it “slow” because it’s a trade-off to get those features. If you need an object that supports being iterated, having its string representation overrided, and inheriting methods from some mix-in, then you are agreeing to pay a running time cost for this. If you don’t need that stuff, you could just write what you need in e.g. Cython. With more heavily automated tools now like numba, this argument for using Python as a first choice for writing very fast code is only getting more mainstream.

Most of the time, you do need a bunch of “batteries included” features of Python and running time is not the resource constraint you’re worried about. And in the occasional exceptional cases when you need raw speed, you can use extension module strategies (e.g. how numpy was made) to be as fast as C.
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Companies have choice over how they package their products, and have a number of levers to change behavior: they might reduce the extent to which they provide packaging (does that single piece of fruit need to be wrapped in plastic?), or offer incentives to customers to provide their own packaging (eg cups at coffee shops), or might provide incentives for packaging to be returned instead of trashed (deposits on cans and bottles).

And at the end of all that, if a company still produces products that we know will probably end as packaging litter... hell yeah, charge them (and implicitly the littering consumers) for that negative externality.
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I wonder how many people subscribe to Netflix but torrent want the want from HBO?
This is not relevant for the political side of the question, e.g. it would not be possible for a citizen on its own to judge whether the merits of a treaty. Say, your senator campaigns on withdrawing from the Iran deal: how are you supposed to assess this position if the deal was in third-party-language Pashto?

In addition, I can present the case of France, where judges must disregard laws that contradict treaties (the hierarchy of norms being Constitution > Treaties > Laws > Executive orders). Therefore treaties, even with no national law to implement them, have a direct effects on the law.
Cartoon giraffes in general look very disturbing to me. Generally the length of the neck and legs are about the same but somehow every cartoon giraffe has amputated legs.
I feel the code above is clearly a bastardization, which is possible in several languages. Not to discount your point in the many bashisms, but that example is definitely not what's wrong with scripting.
Greed underlies this whole stinking arc of events.

Indeed, Southwest Airlines has had an outsized influence in development of the B737-NG and Max. Thank them for the retention of that archaic cockpit, with toggle switches instead of alernate action and momentary action switches. One type rating to serve them all!!

Boeing painted itself onto a corner and poisoned its management culture when it stuffed itself with McDonnel Douglass. Oh, those ratty Mad Dog airliners: cheap, crude, long lasting. Those and new 737 variants are the perfect drug for junkie airlines operating on the bottom dollar.
How do you know their wealth came from the apps?