skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that its practically impossible to legally invest and create a business in the EU makes that almost inevitable
> USA tech sector was basically bootstrapped by federal money/grants/investments given in no different way of what EU is doing right now

There are MANY different ways to channel money into business or non-profit R&D. I doubt you can ignore all the differences and declare that what the US and the EU do or did is the same.

I am not saying it doesn’t exist, but I am personally not aware of any similar multibillion declaration made by the US.
I think we need to be more honest about what the definition of violence
is. Equating real-life violence to fictional or simulated violence really stretches and dilutes its meaning. It also completely misunderstands the psychological motivations and incentives behind each one. One of these two activities leaves an /actual/ person hurt (and then dead) and the other does not. One of these two activities is a safe way to explore your curiosity about very morbid and common human concerns (conflict and death) and of them is not. They couldn't be less different.

Diluting that down to "solving your problems via violence" just completely misses that distinction in favor of a boogeyman.
The origin of Afghan resistance was Soviet invasion. It was the 120,000 troops of Soviet mechanised infantry over 10 years that made Mujahedeen who they are, not a dozen CIA instructors showing them jumping jacks in Pakistan.
I mustn't have explained my situation clearly

I'm a junior/mid Web dev who has an 8 month old, my wife is on maternity leave, when she goes back to work he will go to nursery.
Truth Is Amazing
time, and knowledge of how to write such a letter in a way to seem "serious legal threat"
I cannot view the webpage directly, but Google does have the page cached:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Xvyif8...
> So for example, if only a few bytes have changed and the binary is only a few bytes different in size they can mostly rely on the tools.

That's not how compiled optimized binaries work, especially not with Apple platforms, ever-changing Xcode and Swift compiler versions, etc. Have you tried comparing the binaries of minor app updates? (I just tried comparing the binaries of my own app updates, where I have the source code and know what changed, but it's not pretty, and not "a few bytes".) Moreover, App Store reviewers are not the least bit qualified to even make this determination with regard to "bytes changed".

Two binaries aren't even going to have the same load address for the __TEXT __text segment, and thus a lot of stuff will be different. You think App Store reviewers have any conception of the structure of a Mach-O? Now, one might try to hand-wave and say the "automated tools" will take care of everything, but that's extremely unlikely. Diffing binaries is a skill that requires a human with extensive experience in reverse engineering. If it were totally automated, then all of the securities researchers out there would have those tools too, but they don't. There are of course tools that help a lot, but the human researcher is still essential to the process.
MANPADs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIM-92_Stinger#Soviet_War_in_A...
Kevlar rattlesnake guards? Didn't know they existed, but of course they do. Mind sharing a bit more about the ones you use?
Yep, this cannot be repeated enough. Government funding is how a lot of innovations happen, but it's not as visible as a private company bringing that innovation to market.

To put in optimization terms, private companies are good at following the gradient. Government funding is necessary to escape the well and find new minimas.
I do not understand the legal consequences of this. There were whales that paid thousands to have items in the game - those just vanish?

Edit: These whales took the game seriously. "Meet you at the office to discuss something" serious. I expect a class action very quickly. Disclosure: worked at zynga.
>I think much of the relevant chip design knowledge we had (ARM) left the EU this morning.

The larger ARM Cortex cores are still designed to a large degree in Southern France.
Tinder is a good example from a mainstream company. Also Facebook: better tha there mobile app.
STM is also very strongly French.

And these three are only the largest pure-semiconductor companies. There are many dozens of smaller companies and quite some fabs. A lot of automotive electronics is done by European companies. Also, many international semiconductor companies have development sites in Europe.
Totally agree.

And how about this: If you get food poisoning from a restaurant, you deal directly with them to resolve.

If the food has been delivered by a 3rd party, what rights to resolve would you then have?

Restaurants can simply state that the food was tainted after it left them, delivery firms can state the food from the restaurant was bad, etc etc.
The UK also has a sizeable lobbying industry. We also have cronyism, as neatly demonstrated by the "My Little Crony" interactive published a couple of months ago:

https://sophieehill.shinyapps.io/my-little-crony/
I suspect that we will find out that insurance isn’t paying much at all for most health care procedures, and the bulk of the cost is payed by the patient.
>however I believe that the semiconductor manufacturing market is already heavily saturated

Is it? It seems to be headed for a TSMC monopoly as far as I can see.
Is distcc actually any faster than running the builds locally on a half decent machine? If I recall the latency associated with getting the file to the build machines often exceeded the local compilation duration. I remember being really excited about the idea, and really disappointed with the results.
That's absolutely right, at least in terms of the Chrome browser history. I always found this limitation astounding.

I use the History Trends Unlimited extension to work around this (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/history-trends-unl...)

With 5 years of history the stats page is a bit slow to load but the search feature works great and it can export to CSV
This is only true when considering a specific software design that implements the state machine. I'd say the most popular way to define a state machine in code is how Xstate does it: https://github.com/davidkpiano/xstate. You define your states, and then you define your inputs, and then you map out every single transition between states.

This is probably the most inefficient way to design a state machine. There's a simple mathematical explanation for that. If we agree that a state diagram is a directed graph consisting of N nodes, then there are N^2 possible transitions (that's the definition of a completely connected graph). This means there's a large space of possible transitions relative to the number of states, which means there's a high probability that you will have to modify lots of transitions when modifying the state machine itself.

In this article, this author is sharing several alternative designs for state machines, which don't look like they suffer from exactly the same problem. I'm most familiar with TLA+, where you describe a state machine simply with one logical predicate: the "Next" state relation. This is the most powerful way I've found to define state machines, and modifying one function to entirely change the behavior of the state machine is very easy in practice.
Both AMD and Apple Are fabless, so maybe The EU can partner with them like how Apple has partnered with TSMC.
The problem with Jira is management shifting overton windows over time and making it into a blocker to work instead of a tracker of work. I just checked, on one of my main work boards, to create a new ticket, there are 33 fields to fill out, at least half of which are mandatory. In the middle of a highsev incident, I absolutely hate the time sink, and have been trying to figure out ways to automate away jira as much as possible. I think Jira can be used correctly, but over time PHB's ruin it's potential.

The other problem with Jira is the Atlassian push into confluence that tends to go with it. Confluence is so infuriating. Oh what, you want to do a simple operation like copy-paste data from one section of a table to another? Fuck you. You want built in markdown? Fuck you. You want to embed github pages? Thats a plugin and an ordeal to get approved...etc

People always talk about how it's just a wysiwg and so its for the non-techs, but the thing is it's so specific and non-standard they are still having to learn how to use it anyway. Why not just get them working on github wikis or something?

Also: ffs, stop trying to do "smart searching" for me! It's literally the most useless feature ever, and has never returned anything close to what I was looking for. Yay for having to learn JQL just to do a semi-advanced search. How many query languages do we need to know these days?
Lyft lawsuits claim poor driver screening led to 'sexual predators' raping fares
Infineon, X-Fab (formerly ZMD) are coming to my mind.

Not sure you would include foreign companies with plants in the EU. Nexperia, TI, GloFo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat...

Aside from that I'd expected chip designers like ARM (+licensees), Bull Atos (would you call that an OEM?) and related software companies to take part in this.
I know of two companies getting money. The first ones entire business model is EU funds. They “make” only the necessary burocratic documentation. They have zero intentions of producing anything. The other is large and dirty af with bribes.

If you try to compete with them for EU grants, you are going to get an investigation into your business for misspending EU funds. Because they know the right people.
And there are still a lot of relevant European companies. ASML, STMicroelectronics (which is Swiss, but is spread across many EU countries as well), NXP, Infineon, Bosch (sensors & semiconductors), etc.
The problem doesn't seem that related to trademarks to me. These app delivery platforms are impersonating companies, not selling their own products under someone else's brand. The food comes from where they claim it did. The issue with impersonation is that customers who got worse experience (cold food, long delivery, etc.) end up blaming the restaurant for it, even though the restaurant had nothing to do with it.
I might have looked positively at this if the bureaucrats would have actual skin in the game and would be judged by the outcome in 5-10 years. But in the likely case that this will fail and most of the money will be drained through lobbyism etc., nobody will talk about it and they will come up with the next thing they can throw money at to come across as being super innovative.

Disclaimer: I used to work at a company that was particularly good in draining these kind of funds without delivering useful outputs.
It doesn't hurt but it's not an economic miracle either, it's a luxury if it isn't self sustaining.
Perhaps. Could also be that management uses the tools they are familiar with, even if overkill. I use Git for one man projects even though Subversion or even just periodic rsync would suffice.
It isn’t working. This isn’t a hypothetical problem.
> "... A separate regulation that applies to insurers has not been finalized."

This part of the puzzle is still missing. IIRC the providers are required to use patient's insurance (and the associated prices), when patient does have an insurance. So, for example, if cash price is lower, than the effective negotiated price (factoring in the deductible and copay), one would still be required to pay the insurance-based price. Granted, in most cases patient would have no idea about what are those prices are until getting the bill. Hopefully, this part will get more transparent.

This is especially noticeable with the high-deductible plans available under ACA.

It's getting harder and harder to clearly see the interests of providers and those of insurers separately from each other. Especially with the recent consolidation in the healthcare sector.
Yeah but that's ARM IP though. There's a window of opportunity with RISC V, but something tells me that the fact it's open source rubs against some people.
Ask HN: Why does amazon.ie redirect to amazon.co.uk, as import taxes now apply
Orange Money Bad!
MANPADs were not delivered until 1986: by that time my dad already completed two 18-month rotations to Herat.

Anyway MANPAD handling skills are irrelevant to what we discuss here.
Good news. Yes, as with all government money, there is some pork barreling involved, but there is a long history of such government initiatives laying the starting seed for high tech industry development. It means money is invested in Europe tied to a certain purpose. Giving talented engineers a job perspective and companies a field in which they can invest into.
Disclainer: KDE developer

Yeah, KIO is an awesome piece of software. Yesterday, a fuse interface was released[1] so that non-KDE software in Plasma also get most of the benefits of KIO.

And speaking of browser tabs, Plasma Browser integration allows to switch to an open tabs from Krunner directly and it works with Firefox, Chrome and Microsoft Edge.

[1]: https://feverfew.home.blog/2020/12/31/kio-fuse-5-0-0-release...
But isn't this typical to R&D ? that only 1 of N projects gets used for commercial purposes ?
Hierarchy of Engagement, Expanded – By Sarah Tavel
The EU spends less time picking winners than countries did back in the pre-EU days. If you take that evidence at face value, it suggests that the EU isn't trying to pick enough winners.
The ID login flow is basically UI-less. The user taps the login button, a separate identification app (that basically all swedes have) is launched, and as soon as the authentication is completed the user is navigated to the logged in view. It's a very seamless experience, and a lot of swedish apps work this way.

On the other hand it means that it's impossible to determine which user is logging in until the proper auth is complete. And thus you cannot have "special accounts" using this flow.
> … government grants during WWII

Seems like we're missing some "proper" motivation/focus/constraints now like war on this scale can provide… not just the EU, but this kind of diktat-innovation is increasingly more present everywhere…

Probably goes hand in hand with the ever present bailout olympics for those deemed TBTF…
Contrasting my kids' experience with an au pair and daycare, I think the daycare model of a few adults watching a gaggle of kids playing with each other is more "natural" than one kid alone in a nuclear household mostly interacting with adults and arranged "playdates" with other kids.
> Well the difference is that as a general app developer you barely ever need to interact with Google.

Those days are over. Want to access text messages because you have 2 factor logins? Want to access phone logs because your apps measures how much time you spent on the phone with each of your clients?:

Be prepared for a lot of bureaucracy.

Of course you can't even access texts or calls on an iOS device, but then again when that's the case none of your customers can ever force you to build a feature around it.
>Yeah but that's ARM IP though.

How does this matter? Do you think ARM won't license their IP to European chip makers?
> There is no question that crypto is in yet another speculative bubble, but like I said, it is speculative bubbles that allow emerging technologies to go mainstream and finance themselves. Odd as it may seem, a lot more people want to buy Bitcoin at $28,000 than wanted to buy it at $5000.

Yes, but: if most of that money comes from the pocket of ordinary people, and a bunch of geeks (or the usual Winklevoss twins, Tim Draper [0], etc) will cash out and drive the cost down again, the ones losing a ton of money will be - as usual - the ordinary people.

As much as I like Fred Wilson, sometimes I'm really surprised by comments like this one. It seems he's not realizing the danger of this new crypto "bubble", and who's going to pay for it. But "we all have to eat". [1]

[0]: https://www.wired.com/2014/07/vaurum/

[1]: https://simone.substack.com/p/we-all-have-to-eat
Well, you kind of need to deceive yourself in this way if you want to justify your work to yourself.

Kind of easy if it makes you tons of money.
The previous top model NXE:3400B, "weighs 180 tons and needs 20 trucks or three fully loaded Boeing 747s for shipment. The price tag is $120 million." [1]

[1] https://www.laserfocusworld.com/blogs/article/14039015/how-d....
My 2020 Summary:

Powell tricked all the VC's into thinking they were geniuses.
It may not even be a 'mode' as such.
Exactly. The rules and bureaucratic burden of getting involved defeats the entire point. Even if you go in with the most noble of intentions.
"Nothing will fundamentally change." ~ Joe Biden
Netbsd is often a better fit for the older or more resource constrained machines.
Ask HN: How has the pandemic changed your online-social behavior?
What has changed about your online-social behavior since the pandemic/lockdown? Have you become more social online or less? Have you adopted any new apps or tech to have better engagements with friends and family?
While that's probably correct that without NASA support SpaceX may not survive 10 years ago, on the way to becoming the innovator it is today. Financially speaking however NASA has spent less to buy launch capability from SpaceX than it would have to otherwise.

From the R&D perspective NASA doesn't really have any say in how Starship/Superheavy are developed, which is the cutting edge of space launch. Nor does it dictate the timeline or milestones of the program. Not the same compared to the EU's initiative.

In fact, SpaceX's success shows a different path: let the private sector innovate, provide support in terms of know-how, credibility and potential contracts.
You could write the same critique of banks and the postal service, except that those institutions are far more brittle and failure prone, unless propped up by the justice system.

Bitcoin is far, far from perfect, but to claim it’s a failure is at best myopic and most reasonably just dumb ignorance.
I agree, or even something like openwrt. This was just to see if it could be done, it’s not the most practical OS for the hardware but it runs pretty well!
Hmmm... Just after I watched this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF3sp-q3Zmk and thought the future was RISC-V
Look no further than this comment thread. HN (and Reddit) is filled with conspiratorial rants about journalism and the news media. This is not to dismiss valid media criticism but the vast majority of posts on HN make laughably inaccurate assumptions about the news business.
Ah, the login flow is in a separate app. That does indeed make it tricky!
You mean that resource wasting shop, that is sending huge airplane parts all across Europe for political reasons? I don’t even want to start about the subsidies considered illegal by the wto...
Even if done inefficient (to which standard?) the current state of doing things can be a net positive.
For kicks you should get your hands on a copy of W.H. Auden's "Age of Anxiety"; an entire long poem in the modernist style, with 20th century modernist themes, but written mostly in the alliterative verse form of old Germanic poetry.
I find this very interesting and is something I get right as a habit.

Is there any resources pointing to such best practices and/or accessibility?
I too think it's preposterous that it's somehow okay for companies to simply make disappear things you've bought/spent money on/anything like that.

This is the main reason I avoid games like this. It's just a trap, nothing keeps the developer from retiring the game whenever it feels like, nothing keeps the developer from releasing an update that completely changes how the game plays. If you like a game now, next week they can rebalance it and introduce microtransactions and that's... perfectly okay it seems?
> That's not what aliasing means.

?? Aliasing doesn't just happen when you're converting an analog signal to a digital one. It can also be introduced when you're manually building or converting a digital signal with the intention of it sounding like a given analog signal, or like the ultimate output of another digital signal. It was this usage I was referring to. For example, if you downsample a digital signal from another digital signal without filtering out frequencies above Nyquist. Or in the example I gave, if you draw a square wave with the expectation that it sound like an analog square wave, not realizing that the sharp corners you've drawn didn't add in high-frequency odd harmonics, but rather partials with Nyquist-reflected aliased frequencies. It's this second case which causes problems for naive approaches to digital wave-design: you can't filter out the incorrectly-introduced reflected frequencies after the fact, but rather must build the wave in the first place to not have them.
> I am still amazed at how good this community is, despite having grown into a much larger one over the years.

HN is pretty good, but there are still issues with conspiracy theories, get rich quick schemes, etc. that get traction in low visibility posts.
I used to believe the "proper motivation" - like winning the war - mattered. Then I read "War Is a Racket", a 1935 short book by US general Smedley Darlington Butler, which in many places argues that even during an active war, companies will happily steal and squander the war funding. So now I'm not sure how much you can expect from such motivation.

Probably it's best to assume that some amount of graft will always happen, just dump the money, and hope something good comes out of it...
That does describe my own experience with 2x FP7 projects well.
The Antique Microwave Oven That’s Better Than Yours
Indeed. While many rejoice that the Trump era is over and a ‘proper’ politician is taking over, they forget how awful traditional ‘proper’ American politics can be. And Biden is very much part of the establishment.

Don’t misunderstand me - I’m absolutely not lamenting Trump’s loss; but it’s reasonable, I think, to also not be excited at all about Biden’s forthcoming approach.
That's an excellent question. To me, the difference is "is agile development part of our process?" or "is agile our entire process?" I once worked on a development team that did a great job of using agile as a narrowly-scoped thing that applied to the act of producing work. They viewed picking their large product and engineering changes through a different lens, which was trying to constantly put yourself on a holistically better footing with both your customers and the engineering codebase. It wasn't "agile" in the sense that it didn't follow any specific methodology - it was top-down, not iterative, etc. But the work to meet the objectives could be done with agile development.

So to me, it's a question of how good teams are at isolating agile development to be scoped to just development. Can they separate strategic thinking (which JIRA basically tries to prevent) from commoditizing development (which JIRA excels at)? If you just rely on the tool that makes work easy, you're not going to get there.
Google's AI can now accurately answer questions in natural language
One use that I can think of (never tried it myself, though in theory it should work) is if you are trying to cross compile for a processor architecture that doesn't have decent speed (many embedded chips), and the package you are compiling is difficult to cross compile (where the build script makes decisions based on the local environment or is otherwise to get to play nice with a cross compiler).

In that case you can run the build on the target CPU, but instead of calling gcc locally it calls distcc pointing to a cross compiler installed on a fast machine. This can be useful if you are compiling a bunch of packages from a distribution.