skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jürgen Udolph - the researcher in Onomastics who has proposed the generally accepted theory - is well respected. The names of families and of places in that region northeast of Berlin resemble those from Hameln/Hamelin. However, he does not claim to have found the one true truth. A possible alternative is that both things happened - locators recruiting the younger generation around Hameln as well as the incident that became the story of the Pied Piper
The API one seems even clearer to me:

Boies: Mr. Gates, is the term proprietary API a term that is commonly used in your business?
Gates: Let me give you …
Boies: all I’m trying to do is …
Gates: … the common meanings that those words could have and you can pick one of them and ask me a question about it
Boies: no
Gates: Do you want me to define proprietary API or not?
Boies: No, I don’t want you to define proprietary API. I didn’t ask you to define proprietary API. I asked you a simple question about whether the term proprietary API was commonly used in your business. Now I’m prepared to sit here as long as you want to to answer questions that I haven’t asked. But I have a certain number of questions that I am going to ask at the end of these other answers. Now this is a simple question. You can say yes, no, or it is used in lots of different ways. But then I can choose what to follow up on. Or you can simply make whatever statements you want and I’ll go back to my question afterwards. Now, is the term property API a term that is commonly used in your business?
Gates: I don’t know how common it is. It has many different meanings.

Maybe because I'm more technical, but it seems painfully obvious here that this could be an API without open implementation, without open standard or a private one and he avoided that one well and understandably. But I agree with the sibling comments, this was probably as much a PR campaign as an antitrust one.
What meaning of oil are you using?

Skin works a lot better with oil, for instance, and it isn't absurd to say that most cells in animals are made out of oil.
Best of luck and thank you.
If you build a round tower or a circular fort (which is optimal in both area/wall ratio and strength) (edit: or use any other ‘locally convex’ layout), attackers who manage to sneak up to the wall at a location where there isn’t any opening in the wall (i.e. most places) can hack away at the wall relatively (they may still be hit from above, but even that may be limited, depending on the design of the wall) unimpeded, as nobody shooting projectiles out of the fort can hit them. So, such attackers could work for days or even weeks to bring down part of the wall.

These designs are such that, wherever attackers are standing near the wall, there’s a position inside the fort from where one can hit them, often from both sides.

You also don’t want you projectiles, aimed at attackers, to hit and damage your own wall.

Projectile range and rate of fire mean one cannot simple scale up a smaller design to make a larger one.
This assumes that wfh actually works out well for productivity, employee retention, etc. I don’t think it’s clear that that’s the case.

I may be biased; personally I can’t wait to be back in an office.
Classes that don't focus on the painful, difficult conversations the parent mentions are worthless, so the point still stands. These classes can be detrimental because they are learning theater. They give the mere appearance of language comprehension.
Maybe it sounds different in person, or perhaps this was the umpteenth time it happened and the lawyer was getting frustrated, but on reading that snippet it seems like the lawyer was being the jerk. Just expand upon what you mean already.
Just gonna say, I'm pretty upfront about when not to use elixir, and I have found your attitude to be very pessimistic across several platforms.
"The gist of it is that those other corporations cowtowed to the administration and could then got away with scummy antitrust behaviour"

I think the reality is simpler; antitrust enforcement in the states is laughable and historically has been more the exception than the rule. Even the golden age of robber baron breakups was a historical anomaly due to a freak accident.

Having worked on a ton of competition filings, I can tell you that this isn't an administration specific issue; competition law itself has been defanged by a history of refusal to enforce.
LOL, yeah, sure.
How to understand and explain complex topics?
Depends how easy it is to change visibility. My point is polyrepos make things you need to be careful about like adding internal dependencies and API changes hard. Monorepos make those deceptively easy.
Good lord what I wouldn’t give for a better goodreads. Never has so much useful and actionable data been squandered. For example, I could write pages about how bad the “top books” lists are. The Goodreads Choice Awards are purely and literally popularity contests, for example. Why would this be the case - you have millions of user ratings, you should be using those to surface exciting and unknown books rather than throwing people back at the same few authors they already know. The lists work exactly the same way - they discard ratings entirely and only take into account the quantity of books. It would be as if you said that the top 40 is the best music because everyone listens to it.

So you don’t think I’m all talk, a while back I got so fed up with this that I wrote my own script to scrape goodreads and find the actual best books, not just the most popular, and I found a wealth of really good and unknown books, including two books that are now my favorite books of all time. It was a side project that took me an hour. Why goodreads can’t do this is utterly beyond me.

Aaaargh!!!
It’s an interesting question.

First it’s wrong to assume there cannot exist multiple sets of laws in the same physical place, which reduces to effectively the economics of offshoring. Amazon delivery contractors deploy undocumented workers or people with unlicensed driving skills, paying them $7/hr and charging Amazon $15/hr. It’s economically positive for sure. The drivers live here. Is it really the same country or the same laws?

It’s also wrong to assume people have tried or will document the consequences of their try. Apple already earns more than $1m per retail employee. The gulf between Apple and BestBuy’s revenue per employee is much bigger than the savings due to offshoring anywhere in the world. I personally don’t think it’s obvious why Apple Retail stores are so successful, it is multifactorial and very difficult to reproduce, so even basic service jobs may never be worth trying to offshore (whatever that means) if there’s absolutely no way it could really matter. Another way of looking at it is that retail store bankruptcies occurring today were inevitable, the economics of what they were doing never made sense, so even if offshoring could save them money they were still doomed. This is a much harder conversation to have about IBM or Accenture, who have made offshoring a consistent economic positive for someone, we just can’t be sure it is for their clients or for them. However, it seems pretty obvious that a robot (or an abstraction thereof, like an automated warehouse) can do a lot of what retail workers do.

So I still think it’s all about the mechanics of the job, and it’s definitely a signal if you can WFH.
I'm not the author nor a contributor to this project, but its been a light in the darkness for me as I use mainly PHP in my dayjob, and I've personally only ever used the Functional Programming faculties, which I find much kinder/more reasonable/more useful than the ones in the standard lib- I actually think the author buries the lead (or at least what I consider the lead) a bit by putting the routing stuff in front of the FP (not to say that also doesn't impress me, it reminds me of phoenix which makes me happy :] )
> other side of the aisle

I wasn't aware that Nancy Pelosi was rioting.
The fact is, Google is a US company and they benefit from the security provided by those agencies. Your analogy, colorful as it may be, belies reality.
By offering them a lot of money - i.e. buying them.
What if the rule was that aggregators could not also be advertising platforms? If you’re both linking to stuff and selling attention, it creates tons of perverse incentives, whereas if you’re just creating content and selling ads, the incentives were better aligned. Notice that the 20th century saw a big shift to centerist media because that’s where the money was, and now we’re seeing the opposite.
> so that at least some page sticks

The alternative is that nothing will ever stick against them.

If politicians never engaged in polically motivated anti trust enforcement, then no anti trust enforcement would ever happen.

And that sounds much worse.
Quasar time plus position, motion vector, and acceleration vector should be a good enough reference for anybody.
But shouldn't the cost go down for the company as well? Now they no longer need to use office space to accommodate you or provide you with a space to eat/bathroom/take breaks. Rent in the valley is a nightmare and companies could save a lot by not needing a physical space for the entire workforce.
There are loads of bastion fortresses in France thanks to this guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sébastien_Le_Prestre_de_Vauban
https://www.max-ai.com/ seem to be
Do you have anything to back this up besides snark?
Don't make breaking API changes, you can't deploy them atomically. You have to support the old API until everyone has safely migrated and confirmed no rollback will be needed.
> deep insights about how they really work

It's not about "how they really work", but what data they operate on and what problems they can be applied to. When I first heard the term "transformer" from a friend, I didn't have any association in my mind because it's a very opaque term, but once he explained it to me as Graph Neural Networks, it very quickly clicked.
No, plastic degrades each time it is recycled. They knew that, every materials scientist knew that, and it is just not possible to fully reclaim recycled plastic.

What really pisses me off is the use of the recycling number as marketing. Which is still ongoing and being modernized. Leave a complaint card any time you see compostable plastic being used in a city that doesn't have specialized industrial composting plants, that stuff is worse than trash because it's also misleading about how to dispose of it and makes the store look green when it's really just making things worse.

In almost all locations, PLA, "compostable plastic" (often labeled number 7 or 0 for marketing) is not only not recyclable but actively contaminates compost and recycling plants. I see all these places using "compostable plastic" because they think it's more environmentally friendly. It's a noble goal, it makes me so sad to see.

The stores that pick those containers do so because they want to project an environmentally conscious image, and the "eco" marketing on this utter trash gets them to pay top dollar for those containers instead of just using paper. I feel so bad for these stores, it takes a PhD to dispose of this misleading and dangerous material properly.

As a normal consumer, if I saw that logo and "compostable plastic" guess where I'd throw it. Compost? Recycling? Probably one or the other right? Wrong, if I put it in the compost I make the compost produced from the food scraps contaminated and unsafe for use. If I put it in the recycling it gets melted in with other polymers and contaminates them, degrading the other plastic even faster if the whole batch doesn't need to be thrown away outright.

Edit: The one saving grace is that I know that where I live trash is incinerated. So at least I feel less bad throwing this stuff in the trash. It was just oil that made a temporary detour as a container before being burned for electricity. Still, I'd rather they just use unadulterated paper (no little plastic spouts glued on), glass, and aluminum which are all easily recycled or burn clean.
The shells are crushed and shredded after economically separable discrete parts have been removed. Magnetic and eddy current separation is used to break out ferrous and non-ferrous metals from the shredded pieces. The plastic bits are as hard to recycle as any plastic, but most of the metal can be effectively recycled.

In the United States, more than 95% of the 10-15 million scrapped vehicles annually enter a comprehensive recycling infrastructure that includes auto parts recyclers/dismantlers, remanufacturers, and material recyclers (shredders). Today, over 75% of automotive materials, primarily the metals, are profitably recycled via (1) parts reuse and parts and components remanufacturing and (2) ultimately by the scrap processing (shredding) industry. The process by which the scrap processors recover metal scrap from automobiles involves shredding the obsolete automobile hulks, along with other obsolete metal-containing products (such as white goods, industrial scrap, and demolition debris), and recovering the metals from the shredded material. The single largest source of recycled ferrous scrap for the iron and steel industry is obsolete automobiles.

From Argonne National Laboratory report "End-of-Life Vehicle Recycling: State of the Art of Resource Recovery from Shredder Residue"

https://publications.anl.gov/anlpubs/2011/02/69114.pdf
I'm saying that a marketing managers don't say this:

"What's your marketing budget? We can help you spend it!"

That's what agencies say.

Some marketing managers may like to talk about 'budget spend' but that's only one part of what they do, and remember that every 'marketing manager' knows how fickle spend is and is not going to care about 'spend' but rather 'ROI' on that spend.
> I don't get why people are so comfortable with the idea of politicians wearing their dislike of certain corporations on their sleeve, such as Senator Warren seems to do for Google.

You're talking about elected officials. Transparency of beliefs is exactly what you should want. That's the entire point.

> Right now, it almost feels like "We don't like Google, and we gotta throw the book at them so that at least some page sticks". This attitude is akin to selectively weaponizing the law.

Senator Warren is a lawmaker. She makes the laws. Throwing the book is the job of the executive or judicial branch. Hopefully Senator Warren has a good reason to justify her beliefs that the people agree with, but if she believes Google is bad for society in specific ways, it is literally her job to create laws that make it more difficult from them to do that. This article is about the justice department doing things and Senator Warren is mentioned as encouraging them to move faster as an aside.

> it explains why, for example, no one cares about Comcast

Senator Warren does. https://thegrio.com/2019/12/20/elizabeth-warren-blasts-comca...

I don't have any particular thoughts on Warren. But I do think large tech companies wield too much power and should be broken up to reduce this power. I would vote for lawmakers who felt similarly. That's about it. I'd be down for a political platform that is exclusively just wanting to reduce the influence of a handful of specific companies.
I can only imagine an attempt at the initial clone.. the hg client is ridiculously slow, memory-hungry, and full of dumb behavior that seems to assume local connections
Yes it seems like a leading question.
I think it is also just a huge incentive to simply throw anything into recycling bins. Just glancing inside the one at my complex reveals it is used as a normal trash bin by many.
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When I first heard that in the US they just throw all "recycling" in the same bin it sounded insane. I'm used to sorting into colored glass, clear glass, paper, cardboard, metal, compost, batteries, plastic and "general".

I'm pretty sure the metal and plastic (if it actually is ever recycled) categories could benefit from better segmentation too.
there are degrees of general purpose. I think the point is "more general purpose than just web servers". That it excels at high-end embedded is part of the point. Should you sue it for low-end embedded? Probably not.
This isn't really true. The Google oss policies (opensource.google) require that you use a recent version. As a result upatreaming functional changes is encouraged and easier than maintaining a local patch set. Sometimes there are local changes but they're usually non functional stuff to make the library integrate with google infra.

They do vendor, but that's for security and efficiency reasons mostly, not to avoid giving back.
I am not sure I think covid will for force a rethink of the cramped open plan hot desking trend of the last - so you might have less desks in the same footage
How many of you are there?
Or maybe we should stop companies from making genuine truck loads of the garbage? They make it cause it’s cheap, and they don’t give a flying fuck about the world.
Just another data point, but I absolutely don’t miss my 2.5hrs round trip commute. I spend on average 1 hr more working, and run the other hour. And still get an extra 30mins family time. Win-win-win situation. No, I don’t miss going to the office.
Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18632719 perhaps there is some details about how they made it.
Would you share the titles and authors of those two books?
I really wanted to like QAnon as a conspiracy watcher. Unfortunately I was never able to wrap my mind around its stream of consciousness writing. It seemed like a bunch of right wing blather that used buzzwords to tantalize pro swamp drainers.
What are the most important changes that your team is prioritizing?

What are your biggest challenges with making them?
Specifically green and brown bottles are cost-effective to recycle. Clear bottles typically are not.
Also from 2018

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18482590
Can Pipewire do high-quality voice calls (Skype, Zoom) over Bluetooth on Linux?
IIUC unix timestamp simply counts seconds (well defined interval of time) from epoch onwards. It is then up to different calendars to interpret this number as a given day / hour /... This is the beauty of it - it is always an accurate (well, at low speeds at least ;) ) measure of time. In other words, no, some days might not last 86400 seconds.
Yes back to individual offices
> I'm also cooking lunch at home instead of going out several times a week for mediocre takeout. saves me a good chunk of change and I'm eating healthier and tastier food.

I watched a McKinsey presentation last week which, among other things, went into what ways of doing things forced by the pandemic did they want to carry forwards and what they didn't want to carry forward.

A couple of things that people most plan to carry forward were increased home cooking and online grocery delivery.
For me WhatsApp has gone from my favorite app to something I won't touch except almost as last resort.

I had no issues with old WhatsApp whatsoever and I'm not aware of anyone else having any either and I'm part of multiple groups that used to use it extensively.

The only thing that has improved meaningfully since then is end-to-end encryption, but as much as I love that it is only nice-to-have for me and I would feel a lot safer with just ordinary encryption as long as Facebook wasn't snooping in my contacts and metadata.
haha, yeah the annoying thing about elixir is that sometimes, you give up, roll your own solution (because it's not terribly hard to do), and then right after you're done, some team has built a slightly better solution (because it's not terribly hard to do).
Think Phone Hacked
Why do I got 4different phone apps n my phone orbic wonder phone by Verizon
45 minutes - write a simple API matching the spec in one of the 3 languages on your/our laptop. Use Google if you have to. Someone will be in the room to help answer questions. API should be functional. Returning fake data is fine (or provide data in a sqlite db)

45 minutes - do code review of this extremely buggy code like you'd review a coworker's code

45 minutes - presentation on a technical topic to one or more team members

45 minutes - behavioral. Let's talk about failures, conflicts in your career. Who are your role models? What do they do well? Leadership abilities, career progression

45 minutes - troubleshooting. Here's a docker container. Make the service inside it work
You are misrepresenting the checks in the paper system. There are representatives of all major parties and the state at the voting station. The representatives have competing interests, so you can trust that they won't collude. Plus the state rep has a legal responsibility to ensure there is no cheating.

You put the piece of paper in a locked box - a lock that was checked by all these reps. So, no wrong votes in the box. At the end of the day, all party reps watch as the state rep counts the votes. So the counting is also right. Then the counts are written on a final document, which is then signed by the state reps and party reps. At the main station, more party reps can check that all papers were collected and correctly added for the final tally.

Anyone who wants to mess with the voting has to corrupt all of these reps for a voting station, in order to probably move the votes by like <1%. Then repeat for many different voting stations to actually change the winner. As long as you trust the local party rep (hopefully you have interacted them) who is standing at the voting booth, you can believe at the emotional level that your voting booth got the right result.
Microphone jamming apps (like PilferShush Jammer) and electrical tape exist, at least.
Exceptions aren't typed though so you either have to decode it in some way or treat every exception the same.
The question of whether part of UK's governance should come from Brussels is one that can only be answered by a referendum. To rule otherwise would be a breach of the peoples' right to self-determination.
> If politicians never engaged in polically motivated anti trust enforcement, then no anti trust enforcement would ever happen

There’s a largely apolitical organization that is supposed to bring antitrust cases under a structure set up by congress.

Sore, politicians can and do champion specific issues (in the case of antitrust, Teddy Roosevelt comes to mind) but by and large you’d prefer that the politicians remained high level (let’s have a structure to help keep the air clean) and the bureaucracy remained low level (let’s see what we can do about NOx emissions).

If all antitrust had to originate in congress there would hardly have been any, ever.
Honestly, I feel that most tech goes this way when you have a monoply. Everything has a nature lifecycle, theres new life, interest, peak, and death/replacement. However, with some of these large corps (i.e. Amazon in this case), they can choose to hamper the growth and avoid competition.

A lot of our tech can/should be a lot better than what it is. Use the tech to help people collaborate/get together/share. That was the great thing about reddit in it's hayday.
>> You imagine that in between there are competent and honest people counting the votes

They don't have to be honest at all: you simply allow each competing political party to designate their own people to count the votes, so they keep close eye on each other. Of course you also allow people not affiliated with any party, independent international NGOs, etc.

The main advantage of paper votes isn't that they are completely unhackable, but that the hacks do not scale - you would need thousands of co-conspriators to influence something like US presidential elections.
PET is also useful to put in a recycle bin (or in the PET bin, or bring back to the store, whatever is the correct thing to do where you live), it's highly recyclable. I'm always surprised to see that a lot of places don't seem to care about it and don't have special accommodations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PET_bottle_recycling
Especially if you have a regular culprit who has crappy audio and keeps harshing the mic that gets tiring very quickly.