skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Splitting up Bell (and the lab) was their idea:

Feeling that it was about to lose the suit, AT&T proposed an alternative: its breakup. It proposed that it retain control of Western Electric, Yellow Pages, the Bell trademark, Bell Labs, and AT&T Long Distance. It also proposed that it be freed from a 1956 antitrust consent decree, then administered by Judge Vincent P. Biunno in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, that barred it from participating in the general sale of computers.[4] In return, it proposed to give up ownership of the local operating companies. This last concession, it argued, would achieve the Government's goal of creating competition in supplying telephone equipment and supplies to the operative companies. The settlement was finalized on January 8, 1982, with some changes ordered by the decree court: the regional holding companies got the Bell trademark, Yellow Pages, and about half of Bell Labs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System
The problem is it is hard to figure out what is required.

I knew a lady (she died of old age 15 years ago) who was able to work 20 hours a week - not quite enough to live on - but when she went over 25 hours a week had a mental breakdown and spent 6 months in the mental hospital. It took many repeats of the cycle before it was even realized that 20 hours was her limit, but those responsible for her case didn't have options to help her because she could partially support herself normally and appeared able to do more.

The above is but one case - probably unique to just her, but I know of many other unique cases each with a different situation. The point is we cannot treat the poor alike. However not being able to treat them alike means there will be fraud anytime someone figures out how to work the system.
> Matrix.org is not a company

Correct there is no company by that name, but the website Matrix.org is indeed owned and operated by a company that would be targeted by this law. It is called New Vector Ltd.
Global Asm:

comptime{
asm("nop"); //Your asm here
}

Calling Main From an arbitrary point:

const root = @import("root");

//....

root.main();
I don't think you're being absolutist or cranky at all. I think there's valid reasons why you would want to export your site.

I guess the reason we call ourselves a "website builder" is because Makeswift lets you build, well, websites. As for "presentations that can be displayed on the web", it's a bit more powerful than that. All components use to build Makeswift sites are React components and we are planning on opening that up so that third-party developers can create components any Makeswift user could drop in to their website.

As for lock-in, again, I think you make a fair point. In the long term we will probably have a self-hosting solution but it's something we're not focusing on at the moment. Most of our customers just want to focus on designing a website and then clicking a few buttons to have it live.

Thanks so much for your feedback :)
When I used to work at Reputation dot com they had a service that would do this, opting out of most of the worst of the data brokers and other mailer/aggregation companies. They've pivoted to corporate reputation management AFAIK, but may still have the personal opt-out service as a side benefit.
This offers support for custom fonts which Google Slides doesn't, which is a big deal for a lot of people.
oops, fixed at https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix.org/commit/ae44fd66a71b... - thanks :)
This is excellent point. Zig authors like Go authors prioritize software engineering and hence upfront work on tooling, fast compilers, cross compilation etc. Whereas a lot of upcoming languages in last decade are prioritizing PL design part, so tooling will be delegated to external projects.

I have seen many say just combine PL design innovation and tooling part and it will be perfect but I think this will not happen because it becomes very difficult and sensibilities of these approaches do not match.
Does Implicit Color Bias Reduce Giving? Learnings from Fundraising Survey
>Unless granted by a government, monopolies don't exist in free markets.

Well, if we're going to make unsubstantiated claims:

That's entirely unfounded and demonstrably false.
> people being forced to work after 55.

Did you mean 65? Only teachers and a few other public union members regularly retire at 55 in the US, and even for them many choose to continue working to earn a fatter pension.

Except, of course, for the rare people disciplined enough to be frugal and invested a lot of every pay check, and became self made multi millionaires.
What makes Pitch better than purchasing templates? For instance, you can find professionally designed templates here [1].

[1] https://graphicriver.net/popular_item/by_category?category=p...
>most major American cities existed and were designed to provide for the needs of its residents before the existence of the automobile

Most major American cities that existed before the car still have public transportation. NYC is a prime example of somewhere you can live without a car. Most other cities still have functioning bus systems, though not great.

It's the suburbs where you really need a car, and the development of suburbs was spurred in large part by the car. So you have your historical order wrong.
They absolutely do. They're the debeers of the glasses industry. They make your glasses, they make your lenses, they run your vision plan/program. Every optician ever has to sign with them to get the standard selection, as does any name brand that wants their brand licenced.

But even beyond that, regional monopolies for carriers are somehow okay?

I think it's just rent seeking/retributions for favours not rendered.
Stuff like "mutual learning" is annoyingly general. I feel it's like the kind of business speak that's so high in the upper atmosphere as to be barely applicable on the ground.

I don't have the patience to suss out whether they're talking about a deep broad concept or just being too vague.

For instance:

> Organizational learning with AI is demanding. It requires humans and machines to not only work together but also learn from each other — over time, in the right way, and in the appropriate contexts. This cycle of mutual learning makes humans and machines smarter, more relevant, and more effective. Mutual learning between human and machine is essential to success with AI. But it’s difficult to achieve at scale.

I feel this is talking about a problem at my company -- I had a lot of stumbling blocks implementing AI predictions because the size of packages are stored as strings, weight information is inconsistent, etc. etc. so it's very hard to categorize things based on what's in the database.

Perhaps that's what they mean from "humans learning from machines and machines learning from humans" -- actually following decent data standards because you have to if you want to do anything with it -- but damn, just say that.

I feel this is a silly way of saying "maybe we should have actually listened to the programmers from the very beginning when they were talking about doing things the right way."
I'm not the GP, but I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_Am... might be a good fit if you're interested in this arena.
> If you measure the unemployed as anybody over 16 years old who isn't earning a living wage

Uh, a lot of 17 year old's don't work during the school year. And they don't define "living wage" in this article - does that mean minimum wage for 17 year old's? Minimum wage for 18+? $15/hr? Something else?

This is basically "if you take this ridiculous metric that nobody uses, you can get to 55% unemployment! 59% for $MARGINALIZED_GROUP!!!1"
> Shows you why your code is slow!

Because you wrote it in Python.

Seriously, Python is probably the slowest mainstream language of all. If you’re building something where performance matters, you should be using a different language.
Can you reference some reading material about the corrupt relationship you mentioned, interested to learn more about what happened and how.
It doesn't care if the trade is specifically monetarily based.

If someone is taking something from you, even for free or with payment in "recognition dollars", trade is happening.
> Thanks for the Kudos

You're welcome and you deserve it!

> Let's not imply that all decisions are malicous and all lawyers are evil.

I'm really not. But I can imagine that if you're a professional versed in blindly protecting IP - this is what you would do. The decision to do it in that specific way (suing infringement left and right) needs to come from the top and typically is not a decision that a lawyer would make alone. So, 3 scenarios:

1) this is an unsupervised default action of a lawyer that's just applying the law without guidance from management, because that's what they expect that they should be doing.

2) management approves of this and they're short-sighted thinking that the logo IP is more important than the community

3) management decided that they'll make a business move that requires stronger branding and purposefully want to kill the community to monopolize the support.

In case 1 and 2, we can hope that this will be corrected. I really don't like case 3, but again - I was never a very good business-person.

EDIT: Wow, so it was No.2. Glad to see the feedback loop working. But as pointed out by others on this thread - it's not that RPi should not protect themselves and their trademark - it's that they can do it in a better way than sending take-down orders.
If you're worried about power, the by far biggest monopolist there is the US Federal Government.
I'm not going to tell you where I live. But... no, I don't actually.
And Joe Rogans podcast #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWBCnvOuXK8
Also, the PEG parser's inability to point out unintended ambiguities fits well into the general anti-formalism of Python.
It's been transparently motivated by partisan politics the whole time, too, but even if it wasn’t that wouldn't stop the timing of the actual filing from being suspect.
If the current social turmoil in the US is any indication, we can assume a lot of disenfranchised people are currently hurting financially. When everyone works and has enough income to live the 'dream' such unrest is usually not present. As en example, after WWII industry was booming, and standard of living was very high.

Not so anymore.
Imagine not realizing project veritas is a HORRIBLE source. They have littering been caught red-handed doctoring videos
BetterCloud’s new Discover platform uncovers ‘shadow IT’ applications
The next generation of power plants will be virtual
> I've read there are positive effects of CONs

You can read about the positive effects of ingesting mercury if you want to.
We do all hosting ourselves at the moment. As for trying it out, we're currently in early access and you'll need an invite code to use it but if you apply [1], you'll get one in your inbox pretty quickly.

And thanks!

[1] https://www.makeswift.com/early-access
For me it's simply the fact that I do not have to pay a dime.
Doesn't seem to work – getposts.php returns an empty response, the URL in "Data Scraped from Facebook Page …" heading changes, but the posts displayed are still from that demo dog page.

EDIT: Upon further inspection, it does work for some pages, but not for all of them (even if they are public). Maybe some limitation by FB's page type/category?
_Ruby enters the room_
Pretty poor evidence generally, mostly on the say so of snake oil salesmen trying to convince political campaigns to pay them handsomely to do so with extremely uncertain results.

I note the conspiracy theory that Cambridge Analytica threw the Brexit referendum via Facebook has essentially completely collapsed over the last month or so. CA certainly wanted their clients to think that such a thing was possible. They were fantasists, for money.
Here's the HN post we wrote to help scope the project before we started:

Summary: you know those irritating “prospecting” databases which sell your email address to people who want to send you spam? (Hunter.io is a good example.) We built a tool, in partnership with our friends at a great law firm, which will unsubscribe you from more than 50 of them with a single click.

Background: my inbox is besieged by cold emails from people I don’t want to hear from. Recruiters, outsource software teams, boutique investment banks I’ve never heard of… it’s a constant source of mild low-level frustration. I don’t have the time to unsubscribe from them all, and archiving is work I don’t want to do. (They also tend to not honour unsubscribe requests…) They call it “prospecting”, I call it “spam”.

After GDPR kicked in, I started replying to them with a quick keyboard macro. If I type in ‘gdprfob’, my email client inserts a properly structured GDPR subject access and deletion request. As part of the subject access request, I ask where they got my email in the first place, and what consents they sought.

More than 50% of all the cold emails I get use some sort of prospecting database, and none of them — neither the marketers nor the prospecting databases themselves — ever obtained an opt-in. Of course there’s no obligation for them to obtain my permission, as their replies always point out, but that doesn’t really excuse either the discourtesy, or the fact that “this thing we do isn’t illegal” is as unedifying as justifying bigotry with "freedom of speech derrrr!"

So we’re cutting them off at the source. We’d love to help people stop these low integrity services from buying and selling their contact details. At the very least it’ll get you out of their system, but maybe if enough people do it, they’ll do the kind, courteous thing and switch to an opt-in service which obtains consent to list your contact details for anyone to see.

How it works: give us your email address. Once you’ve verified that you control the account, we manually fill out the forms and send GDPR deletion requests where filling in the forms is not possible. At the end, we’ll send you a receipt which you can use to take up your case with the ICO in case one of the deletion requests is not honoured. We hash your email address after the final receipt is sent so that we can double check you aren’t using us to spam the spammers, but we have no access to your data and our logs are scrubbed clean. We won’t be selling your info like unroll.me did, and we’ve made sure that we can’t ever do it just in case.
Perhaps that practice should be examined at every retailer.

Should we define a line between marketplace operators and marketplace competitors? Or at least define rules to better ensure fair competition?
Sean Hannity talked about it non-stop during Obama's second term, then mysteriously dropped it when Trump took office.

Basically, there are no surprises here. Everyone uses the numbers that favor them and hurt their opponents. Everyone.
> America is the world power least worried about physical geography and locations if and when the shooting starts. 2 oceans as moats, plenty of oil and natural resources on its home turf, and all potential flashpoints on the other side of the world.

Can you grow semiconductors on corn plants? Big moats don't help with embargoes, and if your economy is based on international trade (like the globalization crowd has championed), an embargo would be crippling.

Around WWII, they used to call America the "workshop of the world," but China has that title now.

Also, you seem to be forgetting that long range, intercontinental missiles and bombers exist now, when they didn't during WWII.
I mean, as long as we're fabricating fantastic situations we can maybe come up with one where PoW actually makes sense.

So the thing about PoW is that it doesn't matter how much is actually spent on the "work" part as long as you can't feasibly do more.

So let's add onto our climate change apocalypse some light nuclear war -- not enough that it dominates the end of the world as we know it, but enough that it destroys the infrastructure needed to produce the most specialized mining hardware, and maybe some of the larger datacenters.

Now you have plenty of scavenged ordinary hardware to keep the internet running, plentiful power (since in this hypothetical the population has shrunk dramatically without much infrastructure loss) and a finite supply of mining hardware.

This last would prevent the runaway problem of PoW -- you could string thousands of regular PCs together to compete with the good hardware, but the return would be low enough that it wouldn't be worth while to try to expand the mining pool until the old hardware started to fail completely or the new infrastructure was built to fab new hardware -- you might have a few decades before the old incentives to grow the pool kicked back in.

Granted, this is all pretty far-fetched, not the least the social component of people wanting to use cryptocurrency as a widespread unit of exchange, but hey, I'm work-shopping a story set in a dystopian future here, not trying to sell Bitcoin.
De Re Atari
New Gadgetbridge released with daily activities and three new supported devices
Here is a readable PEP * https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0635/
I consider Shopify a website builder, but I can't export my website to other hosting services.
I’m much more interested in the Ad-tech Monopoly. The Doubleclick merger should have never been approved.

“Other states are still considering their own cases related to Google’s search practices, and a large group of states is considering a case challenging Google’s power in the digital advertising market, The Wall Street Journal has reported. In the ad-technology market, Google owns industry-leading tools at every link in the complex chain between online publishers and advertisers.

The Justice Department also continues to investigate Google’s ad-tech practices.” [1]

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-to-file-long...
State Management in Venus Fly Trap
Mechanochemistry shakes up carbon capture with simple way to trap gas
Yea, if something is a Natural monopoly, which search almost certainly is, then it should be a publicly owned utility.
Python should do Long-term-support releases, and annual stable releases. (an old suggestion too - https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0407/)

Unlike 2.7, I do not see a consensus on a 'standard' version for python 3 between 3.4-3.7. (not any of the others, that's for sure)
Show HN: Local SEO Community – a forum-ish site to discuss local SEO tips
py-spy seems also very interesting, thanks for linking it. I always found cPython to be quite difficult to work with, and usually reverted to line_profiler or some sort of UI for cprof files.
The main added benefits of pyInstrument to me is the high signal vs noise ratio, as it is evidently clear what is taking the most time while retaining the option to dive deeper.

I am also curious to try out the on-demand profiling integration with Flask, seems like a cool thing to have running in the background for my side projects
No, you are right on. It's really a bespoke to techstars_ solution for Google Cloud. When I think I web, I think HTML and HTTP and all the resources that can be accessed under those two. Note, the web can also be SFTP and a plethora of other resources.

The lock-in here is created by a clever use of the word "Web." It's the same use that allowed marketers at Netscape to call LiveScript JavaScript because it would sell better by bandwagoning on Java. We all know how that went: decades of new users confusing JavaScript and Java. The same mistake is made here by confusing users betweent Makesswift and Swift!

The Web Remembers!
1. A book holder. I noticed I got back pain from studying in recent years. This was entirely attributable to my neck position and buying a book holder stopped this. This, in turn, decreases the resistance to keeping a regular study routine.

2. A box of a 100 wax ear-plugs. Unwanted noise stresses me, and now I can reduce its intensity by 80%.

3. An electric moped. Allows me to zip between cars and avoid traffic, effectively cutting travel time by 1/3.

4. A collection of decent, second-hand suits. Most people underestimate the signaling value in dressing smartly. I've noticed that strangers are far more likely to strike up conversations with me when I dress like a gentleman - you seem much less threatening, more like a "civilian".
Yes actually, but not in the main things they are known for. Apple pay along with the "Facebook scrip" controversy marketting which got a backlash when really it was just an extension of the existing banking system (because of course it would have to be to be useful for the goal of moving money to and from bank accounts). Both are trying to get into an online finance market. Google Wallet too.

Probably a fringe performer but they see big enough potential to run nation wide TV ads for something with very limited adoption.

The funny thing is that it addresses the one silly/paradoxical anti-competitive use of anti-trust claiming it is monopoly for a cross competitor to introduce new competition into a market because there are multiple involved in it means it is hardly a unique situation given there are at least four tech into finace crossover attempts.
I've heard em called "Reverse Okies"

Not super popular in the Northwest; WA is expensive enough, and open complaining about it in Boise and MT.
You're totally right, this is critical. If you want to check out how we do responsive design, you can do so here [1].

We're constantly iterating on the product so some of the UX and visuals in the videos might be outdated, but the core is the same. We'll be updating these soon!

[1] https://www.makeswift.com/videos/designing-responsively
Does this not in fact support the claim that they are not quite the monopoly that people make them out to be? That it is in fact not that easy to abuse their power in owning the platform to gain market share in messaging?

I'm not sure what people want these days: people are angry that they have successful products that people use more than competitor's prodcts, and also angry that they have unsuccessful products that are shut after failing to gain traction.
Reasons Your Open Rate Is Low and Strategies to Boost It
I could write a concrete example that will work in zig and fail in common lisp, but maybe this link is enough?

https://ziglang.org/#Order-independent-top-level-declaration...
Alright, I will do a quick write up. I guess I could post everything on Github (code and blog)? Suggestions?
Thanks for the summary. Do you have a list of the 50 or so databases you unsubscribe from? Do you have any metrics around how many such databases exist in total?
> If it was very widely used this bug probably would've been caught

As the top-level comment says, it rarely causes crashes.
Aside from the other cogent comments about how to effectively measure unemployment and what that might tell us about the economy, this article is pretty shite.

> "Axios on HBO."

What does that even mean? this is literally out of Idiocracy. -brought to you by Carl's Junior

> author of Capital

First line under the headline contains a link to marketing material with a prominent sign-up link. gotta pump up those conversion numbers, i guess.

> rate rises even further, to 54.6%. For Black Americans, it's 59.2%

this is such a bullshit, zeitgeisty move. provides no useful info, is a non-sequitur solely for the purposes trying to ride the BLM wave. grab that emotional engagement.

> A person who is looking for a full-time job that pays a living wage — but who can't find one — is unemployed. If you accept that definition, the true unemployment rate in the U.S. is a stunning 26.1%

as others have said, the ability to not find any job and whether or not you are above the poverty line is a very different thing. muddling these two makes me strongly doubt the clarity of sight from the author and guarantees i wouldnt sign up for anything related to his opinions.
I think section 7, and it's identification of how AI can be used, is quite useful. It's a good way to categorize AI technology, at least.
‘Magic’ Material Is Now the Big Thing in Physics