skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting! Has the difference in damage always been the case? Back in the <= 1.6 days I always thought the AK and M4 were pretty much equivalent. I would always pick up the one I couldn't buy as I thought it was cool.

But then I only played against bots and at LAN parties so it was never too serious.
It's pettiness on both sides. The sort of thing we used to solve around a table in Bruxelles, now we have to send in naval ships. Naval ships, btw, that are often joint-built with them so we can actually afford them, with all that it entails...
Interesting, I suspected as much. Japan has extremely low unemployment but the low inflation (historical rate pre covid) indicates that the jobs are not being paid a high salary. In other words, a lot of the people are still underemployed.

I can believe that unemployment numbers are easy to game and that politicians mess with them in a non productive way.
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(paid) work or leisure is a false dichotomy. What people want, and what fulfils them, is meaningful activity, not 'work' in itself.

Work can provide meaning in various ways (care for colleagues, creative expression, a 'goal' to work towards, etc.) and the idea of having more money can be somewhat meaningful, of course (especially if you really need it!).

But there are tons of other meaningful and fulfilling things a person can do with their time, and I'm willing to bet that most people would prefer most of those over having to do 'stuff' for a 'boss/manager' in a hierarchical organization that might (in part) not provide much meaning other than making money for them and hopefully enough for yourself.
> The act of keeping persistent data should be transparent to the user, via "download" (save to disk) and "upload" (load from disk) workflows.

That's horrible. If native apps would have to work like this to persist anything, instead of billions of users worldwide, they'd probably have 50-100x fewer users.
> Goedel's incompleteness theory shows that an axiomatic system can either be consistent or complete, but not both.

Goedel's theorem is about a specific form of incompleteness.

I think you'd have to provide some additional arguments why the theorem would be relavant in this context.

In other words: I don't think law as a formal system needs all the features that are preconditions for Goedel's theorem.

Similarly: Most proof assistants are very much usable without allowing arbitrary recursion.
Port is a fast and anonymous way to browse the internet.

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Excuse me, but showing "Palestinian children blown to bits" was probably the biggest contributor to global pressure on Israel which resulted in Oslo accords, Israeli military pullout from Lebanon, and Rwanda not burning to the ground completely.

Such things indeed play a vitally important role.
So you're saying there's absolutely no loss of readability in something like Lisp opposed to Python?
My initial, knee-jerk view was that the government is stealing private property. Bad, bad government screwing with the free market!

But here we are talking about Intellectual Property and patents. Which themselves are a government-granted monopoly...

Truth is patents are mostly used to stifle innovation while their original purpose was to encourage it. A company inventing something novel will have a pretty nice advantage over the competition even without the government's help. That's not even taking into consideration that besides patents there are other tons of difficulties when copying a product. Manufacturing alone is pretty huge. Then marketing: the original vs the cheap knock-offs.

When in doubt, I think it's better to err on the side of the free market and of non-intervention. But, to come full circle, in this case the government encouraged companies to publish their research with the promise to protect it. So my only conclusion is, again, to never trust the government.

/rant
That just means your company should go out of business and free up resources for a more productive company.

Edit: How does the more productive company survive? Well, there is a "company" down the street creating customers who have $300 per week to spend on things they actually need.
In Greece, we get a lot of tourists (mainly from England, I want to say) who seem addicted to sunbathing. They've been doing it so much that their skin looks like leather, though I can't say how healthy that is, because I guess everyone here looked like that before the invention of sunscreen.

Between the risks of melanoma and the risks of not enough vitamin D and who knows what else we need from the sun, I can't say what's worse, but I don't think staying pasty-white and avoiding all sun contact is healthy any more.
I don't think it was LiveLeak, but seeing the footage of the Station Nightclub fire online was enough to permanently change how I view crowds and indoor spaces. That stuff is quite scarring - but I'm grateful for the knowledge.
And that's why we should also write tests, to make sure the intention of the law works at all times.
> the author's conclusion is more or less "no, Apple isn't trying to kill the web;

Allow non-Safari browsers (not just re-skins!) on iOS and I'll believe the author.
This is simply wonderful!

Full color next? https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/rainbow/
Maybe Nikola Tesla was on to something when he fell in love with a pigeon...
Lab-grown chicken start-up approaches price parity with real poultry
Management is just setting a clear objective. Maybe there is some specific repercussion that will occur if the objective isn't met - delay the release - or maybe it's just arbitrary. This may get better results than if no objective is set.
Also an example of how to write an email convincing someone to do something
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Money. Power. Influence.

People will say what helps their paycheck.
Comments like yours come up whenever anyone dares discuss ZFS or FreeBSD. Sure, you can use Btrfs, xfs, ext4 or whatever the hell you want on Linux if you want. Nobody is trying to take away your toys. But Linux is already dominant -- you don't need to convince people to use Linux. FreeBSD, however, doesn't get attention it deserves. Hence why threads like these occasionally pop up.

And for what it's worth, ZFS development pre-dates Btrfs. You can make all the arguments for Btrfs that you want but ZFS is still the vastly more mature filesystem out of the two. Hence why the few examples people can come up with regards to Btrfs usage are companies with the resources of Facebook (as opposed to ZFS which is used by companies large and small).
I thought of https://www.pixijs.com/
Get this running on ARM, and you'd have Rpy running on Rpi.
> In Webland, there are four massive cities called Amazonia, Appleville, Facetown, and Googlemore, and one-third – or 2 billion citizens – choose to live inside these cities, but they represent two-thirds of the economic activity of Webland.

Interesting (even if slightly cheesy) analogy.

I can't understand why we're still talking about the Open Web as an unambiguously good thing at this point. The principles sound solid but history has played out in very different way to any expectations of Open Web advocates. Does the logic of the Open Web really still make sense for today considering the current landscape?
https://github.com/microsoft/Pyjion was a really nice attempt to marry CPython with JIT in a rather generic way, but it was abandoned quickly.
> Yeah capitalism was much more ruthless in the early days of the US yet there seems to have been less depression

What makes you think so? It is 100% honest question: what historical evidence makes you guess the rates of depression in early days of US?
From product planning to product discovery
This wealth concentration in cryptocurrencies is a direct result of their front loaded emission. Half of all Bitcoin was emitted in its first 4 years; about 70% of current Dogecoin was emitted in its first year; 70% of current Ethereum was emitted in its first block.

Reducing wealth concentration (to be closer to the one in fiat) requires a more even coin distribution, such as a purely linear emission of 1 per second forever.
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Perhaps if they started making new, innovative games like they used to (prior to Activision merger), instead of just rereleasing their old stuff.

There's nothing new, with the exception of expansions to WoW, which is essentially also just "more of the same". They tried to make the entry bar to WoW smaller by squishing max level from 120 to 60, but somehow completely failed to accomodate casual players by timegating everything worth doing behind a massive time investment.
Future of Surveys
>Income/wealth gap is just a result of the increased savings rate in the corporate sector.

I do not see the connection here. It seems more direct to say that the supply and demand curves for labor have shifted in such a way that the price of labor has gone down for the labor many people are selling.

>Of course, investing your savings into growth is fine, because that will both employ people and net a return for your business.

That’s one of those how to draw an owl things. Maybe if the whole country got behind it as an effort, it might work if properly executed. But one or a few companies doing it (without the caliber of organizations like Apple) are probably just going to end up with worse financials, and get punished for it by investors.
Occam's Razor postulates that the simple solution is often the right one. That does not mean it's always so. For the longest time Occam's Razor would have favored a flat earth, before we knew better.

Alien intelligence would also be alien enough if it wasn't interstellar. Interplanetary, inter-dimensional or subterranean would be alien by my standard, too.

The Videos might have been plausibly explained, but i would argue that the pentagon has certainly more footage and sensor data to base their statement on.

And please do try to take photos of planes in the night sky with your smartphone camera. The image quality is not great.
Scalable Applications community was born
There is an argument that the mind of people changed a few thousand years ago, part as a cultural phenomenon, part as a genetic selection process.

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

(the genetic selection process is mentioned in the book, the wiki abstract puts more focus on a cultural development)
Wanted to emphasise the value component.

If your building a product to sell (versus something for personal use) then you should try to quantify the value someone will get out of it (not always easy) - but - if you can model this then that helps with your strategy for pricing.

Put simply - if client gets $X value from the product you should be able to capture % of $X.
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>Software is an axiomatic system. Human behavior is NOT.

I am not aware of any system of law that covers all possible human behavior. Common law systems theoretically could because part of the determination of what is covered is up to the courts, thus when you have a new human behavior it is uncertain if it is covered or not until you take it to court, but in a Napoleonic system the coverage of the law must be explicitly stated.

Thus Napoleonic systems would try for consistent but not complete.
You've literally just read the headline and not the content. What's happening is that FreeBSD are now collaborating with ZoL rather than the two teams working in parallel to create the same features -- thus needlessly duplicating effort.

To any sane person this news should be viewed as a victory not a loss.
What is mutable by default in Clojure? Nothing. You need to explicitly declare mutable variables with a special notation. Are you talking about the underlying VM? Yes, the Java API are mutable, not surprise here, it's not Haskell.

Imperative? What is imperative by default in Clojure? Nothing. It's one of the least imperative Lisp, favoring functional constructs all over the place unlike Common Lisp or even Scheme.

Blocking IO. Ok. So you want JavaScript? You have async i/o lib for Clojure and the primitive of the language to create threads are relatively good (relative because the limitations come from the Java VM).

Zero guarantees at compile time. Almost true. It' s a dynamic language and does not pretend to be something else. It has pros and cons. Like modelling a domain is very simple since you almost always reuse the same datastructure and having ubiquious immutable datastructures build a solid foundation for an ecosystem of libraries.
Mostly what you say is correct but there are a few points which make the story less outrage-provoking.

First of all "shifting income to a US company" has nothing to do with the set-up. Apple and everyone are obliged by decades of international pricing-transfer rules to book "profits" the the jurisdiction where the "value" was created. This is why most of the 30% or so margin Apple makes on an IPhone sale in Germany (for example) is booked as US profit. There's nothing nefarious going on here - the invention, engineering, design, etc. was all done in the US so it's perfectly correct that most of the profit is booked in the US. The rest of the profit will be booked in places like China (manufacturing), Ireland (packaging, localization) and Germany (distribution, logistics, sales) but the profit shares for these activities is understandably low.

The exact same thing happens in reversion when BMW sells a car in the US for example - most of the profit is booked in Germany.

Yes they used the Irish/Dutch sandwich to allow them to "park" these US profits in Bermuda (I believe). And yes, while these profits are sitting in bank account in Bermuda, Apple pays no taxes on them.

But the point people miss is that the tax liability doesn't go away - it's just been deferred.

Under political pressure, year or the year before (I think?) Apple repatriated a huge amount of profits parked in Bermuda going back years and paid US corporation tax on these profits. So the existence of the Irish/Dutch sandwich didn't allow them to evade paying taxes - it allowed Apple to defer paying them.

The advantage to Apple of course is the like the advantage to individuals of deferring tax payments - you get "use" of the money until you pay the tax. You can also wait for favorable to changes in tax rates before repatriation. But ultimately the tax is payable.

I think this idea (globally unique to the US) of allowing your corporations to expand globally without immediately booking foreign profits to the US corporation was designed as a sort of subsidy to help US companies compete abroad. If the US just got rid of this rule, then nearly all of the outrage over corporate tax evasion would go away I think. And this is why only US corporations used to have set-ups like the Irish-Dutch sandwich - it doesn't help companies domiciled anywhere else.
Binance was fully remote from the start and growing vary fast last year, also Bitcoin and Ethereum development is fully remote (I'm not sure about Uniswap though for example).
I do not see why I would want to use brick rather than lumber. Wood plus proper insulation plus drywall is quicker, easily modifiable, and lets wireless signals through.

It makes almost everything a much simpler do it yourself project.
> a country can't take away the rights of companies (or people) without their consent or modifying the patent laws.

That's not a problem, modifying laws is the default way how countries do things - if a country says "we'll do X" they most likely mean "we'll modify our laws so that X will happen".

But IIRC the patent laws of many countries already contain specific clauses for a simplified process to void patents for lifesaving reasons if they want to do it.

And it's worth noting that patents aren't a right, it's a privilege selectively granted by the government because the government expects that the process as a whole benefits the general society (by facilitating innovation and publishing of technical innovations instead of hiding them), not because the patent owners have a right to require it. The government does not have to offer patent protection; it chooses to grant a temporary monopoly for a limited time if certain conditions are met, and it can (essentially arbitrarily) decide what those conditions are.
Ubuntu, Firefox, sucky country adsl with unkown speed.

I don't mind for the upload to be slow, I just let it run, but getting to the page should not be.

I mean, this galaxy.jpg file is a third of you webpack JS bundle size!

It has no added value for me. I get the cool factor, I know it's pretty, but still.
Thanks! Will check it out
There is no contradiction. Countries which put more focus on the intent of the law (like Europe) tend to have fairer outcomes than countries which focus too much on the wording of the law like in the US. I read that many criminals in the US get away with crimes because of failures of procedure by the prosecution for example; this is a clear sign that there is too much focus on the wording of the law. If intent counted more, then nobody would be acquitted of a crime on the basis of a technicality.

It's the fact that people have accepted the primacy of the written word that they allow themselves to be swayed to accept verdicts which don't make sense. It's important to factor in the fact that criminal justice involves multiple jurors, so you don't want some outdated wording written in the 1900s to allow one bad juror to use wording of a law or precedent to convince other jurors of a conclusion which best matches the wording but defies common sense.

It's like in the US constitution, there is this paragraph:

”No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts"

And yet today the US government (which is clearly an alliance of states) pays back its debts by printing more money not backed by gold. People have used the wording "No state" to imply that the Federal government is not a state and therefore, it doesn't apply. But clearly this defies common sense about the intent of the law which was to prevent the government from printing unlimited money not tethered to any scarce asset to inflate away its true debt... And yet this is exactly what the federal government (the alliance of states) is doing nowadays.
Those aren't individual viewers though, that's multiple-counting everyone who watched more than one event.

A bit like splitting the Superbowl into discrete ad-delimited sections and repeat-counting everyone who stayed tuned in.
How does the dupe detector let this through so often?
TSMC Pressured by U.S. Government for More Chips to Automakers
I think you're trying to counter my off-the-cuff (re)-definition of accessibility. You're pushing it into the sphere of "it's just for disabled people".

I agree that's how the word is used most often. But using it that way others disabled people. Othering allows decision-makers to ignore the out-group because "it's not economically viable to support them" or because "it's too difficult" or "we'll have to learn & refactor, which takes time away from features"... or whatever.

I consciously put forward the suggestion, somewhat masked by my flippant tone, that developers (in the sense of anyone involved in "making": CEOs, management, designers, engineers) could do a small shift in their thinking that would open up the idea of access for all. This would push back the othering of disabled people, would include them. It would allow developers to work more creatively with the idea that their fellow humans interact with with products and services in myriad ways.

Even if you want to take the tighter definition of accessibility put forward on Wikipedia, the topic can still be opened up to new perspectives. Consider the differences between the medical and social models of disability. The medical model says that disabled people have deviations from mean physiology or psychology that must be addressed symptomatically, under "medical" supervision. The social model[0] pushes the disability out to our social systems. Sure, some people have "incapacities" - challenges with movement or sensory processing etc - but the dis-able-ing is enacted by the social systems (design patterns, funding, font-sizing, stairs vs ramps, stigma, othering) that ignores the needs of anyone off the mean.

I struggle to see clearly at distance. The fact I don't know which train to board is more because the station designers built the timetabling system with a typeface that can only be read comfortably by those with mean/median vision. If they printed it larger, I could stand in the crowd and read the sign like everyone else. If they'd installed a PA system and announcements, I could use my hearing instead. (fortunately, most stations do work this way now. Hopefully you can see the systems thinking in my example).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_model_of_disability
Now, how they are going to solve the versioning problem of the same program having to deal with the ever changing laws, contradictory law statements and scripts that need to contain several versions and contradictory versions is going to be very interesting.

After all, those could benefit programmers too.
How Data Scientists Can Reduce CO2
Those places are cesspools because white supremacists are there. A cesspool isn't a cesspool until you fill it with shit.
Nuitka is a static compiler, transpiling python code to C, and binding it to cpython. pyston is an interpretter, but with a JIT.
The latest web app I've been annoyed with to the point of just giving up has been FluffyChat, a Matrix client written in Flutter. The mobile app has been working fine, although somewhat unstable, and the desktop application didn't work at all (I believe desktop support is pretty much in alpha so I can forgive that). I've settled for trying the web app instead.

It works, but it feels off. It consumes loads of CPU, it's not close to the normal responsiveness of a real application and the whole feel is that of a video game UI, something alien to the rest of the system.

Putting Flutter Web into Electron honestly sounds like it would just produce slower Electron apps. One of the strengths of Flutter is that it can target multiple native systems with no code changes, so if you're going to provide a native download, just make a native executable and be done with it.

The state of Flutter Web is quite sad because it could easily become the de facto standard for web app development for platforms that would otherwise not allow your app (say, an app that wouldn't pass Apple's stringent requirements).

I don't blame the developers using Flutter to make apps for the shitty Flutter (and Flutter Web) performance, Google made the choice to drop all native components and render their own either through OpenGL or through a web canvas, and the usability problems that stem from that choice are Google's problem. Even after a few hours of messing around with Flutter, I could see its potential for app development. I'll still prefer a "real" native app any time, but I accept that not every dev shop has the resources to maintain separate code bases for the different platforms they support.
I love that you use 4 indirections before getting to you main, parenthetical, point.
I wouldn't go that far, but it's certainly not a free speech platform. That does have its advantages, though. 4chan, for example, takes a toll on my mind -- even when I'm careful about which parts I visit.
3 days of stalking someone is going to make robbing houses very easy.