skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are videos of beheadings where it literally takes minutes for the head to be cut off. It's not a swift blow to the neck with a sword. I remember one where the executioner had to borrow a knife from someone in the crowd because his wasn't sharp enough.
What would convince you that inflation is here?

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/warren-buffe...
Wow. So we are down to insults?

Well then: how about you as a apple user only care about yourself and want every developer to cater for your special needs?

And don't care that most of the world has no apple device (and maybe don't want to, or can't afford).

And I as a developer want to target a neutral plattform.
Because I care about all my potential users and not just apple and android ones.

It does not have to be the web. But this is currently the best we have.

Feel free to propose a better standard. And like I said: for full performance there are native apps.

For best portability there is the web.

I like choices.
https://www.mondaq.com/india/patent/865888/patents-and-the-i...
Extending Clojure with Python (2019)
With Cython you can get C level performance. The cost is that your Python code has to be written just as you would write C.

See e.g. https://github.com/thomasahle/fast_pq/blob/main/_fast_pq.pyx... for how much fast Cython code can look like C.
Thank you! That's great!
Warren Buffett disagrees with you
Lots of reasons.

1. Mixing travel and work results in doing both poorly. I'd rather focus on one or the other.

2. Having a comfortable home, my own furniture, etc. is awesome.

3. I love having dogs.

4. Seeing friends/family daily is more fulfilling to me than seeing Alps or Thai beaches daily.

5. I don't enjoy the planning, research, and bookings that back-to-back travel requires. It's a lot of overhead.
How does the knowledge that the USA alone put up $9 billion distributed to seven companies to aid development of the vaccines effect your position, and that the waiver is intended to be only temporary?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/08/08/feds-s...

Federal spending on COVID-19 vaccine candidates tops $9 billion, spread among 7 companies
Even UK housebuilders seem to be putting up a lot more timber framed houses than they traditionally used to, just often with an imitation brick facade.
It has been here for me for over a decade, per the price history of my purchases. Not that it should factor into account for purposes of national statistics, but it has and continues to affect my behavior (and of those around me).
> I read that many criminals in the US get away with crimes because of failures of procedure by the prosecution for example;

How does anyone know they got away with a crime if their cases never went to trial? Isn't that exactly what a trial is there to establish.

The USA has a long history of village folk "just knowing" that an accused is guilty. Seldom worked out well.

Pilots have procedures they must follow. So do cops. They just need to do their jobs properly.
Coming at this from another angle, I worked on a (.NET) project for a large construction company where the client wanted a subset of Excel-like functionality in the UI we were creating, but was adamant that we not actually use Excel.

Ok then, we had a go, and it was actually quite fun coming up with a scheme for getting calculations to propagate successfully and without getting locked into infinite loops; inevitably though the result was a very poor man's copy of what Excel can actually do.

So we went back and said look, far and away the best way to do this is to either use Excel itself, or embed it, whereupon the actual reason for their aversion to Excel came out: they had had cases, they explained, where project managers had used white ink in white cells to hide data and thereby forge financial calculations to their benefit, and they just wanted to prevent that from happening! I wanted to politely suggest that they solve their "technical" problem by getting more honest employees, but in any case the project got canned shortly thereafter.
It probably reduced the number of penalty points the patients themselves had.
Fun fact: while I don’t quite remember the actual name of those weapons (English is my second language), the buy short cut was deep in my muscle memory, my favorite: B13, B41(T)/B43(CT), B46, B51 and O3
They are alternative solutions to the same problem.
A country can take away whatever rights it wants to within its borders. That's the whole point of sovereignty.

Patent laws are also not some natural, inalienable right. They are artificial constructs, provided as a courtesy, because the government feels that in the general case, they are more beneficial than harmful.

In a particular case, they might be more harmful than beneficial.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27055991
Lem is a treasure of science fiction and I can’t recommend him enough.
> You can also wrap a page as an app on the App Store

For example Apple's store doesn't want these web wrappers:
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#min...
> Europe is bigger than where you live. Scandinavia builds a lot with wood.
OP is likely aware of such anecdotes.

Masonry is popular in (central and southern) Europe because forests were already cut down centuries ago so lumber prices are generally high. The abundance of lumber in Scandinavia and previously in N.A. thus explains why wooden structures are/were popular there.

So, the hypothesis that N.A. will build more with masonry and less with lumber is an interesting one.

http://masonrydesign.blogspot.com/2014/01/european-construct...
Some issues I think I can see:

1. The above law makes it clear that it is only a man who can accuse the wife of another man of adultery. Your code seems to permit other genders as accusers.

2. Similarly it seems only the wife needed to face the river ordeal. (i.e. every person subject to the river ordeal needs to have a husband) Your code seems to allow the husband to subjected to the river ordeal.

Sorry for nitpicking... it was not to attack your attempt at the code, but the entire idea of formalizing the law in this manner might be very tedious, and less precise in practice than natural language.
My personal motivation behind "law as a programming language" is to aid me, as a lay person [1], to understand it better.

An AST could help me quickly navigate between paragraphs, and make searching the law easier?!

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[1]: Just someone, who wants to understand law easier, and not spent years having to study it.

"understand law easier" also in the sense of TLDR law.

And yes, I'm aware of the interpretation aspect of the law, but just give me some easy to understand starting point.

Edit: formatting, formulation
Oracle cannot sue anyone for using ZFS, thanks to the patent protection clause in CDDL.
As someone living in NZ, I had thought the same in the beginning, until they mentioned corruption being a problem. I'm not saying it doesn't exist here at all, but it's so low it's on the bottom of the list of problems this country has
Whats a ute in Aussie lang?
>I keep seeing this argument, but do you get that there's an artificial floor placed by these benefits?

Artificial floor? This is literally a mechanism in place that adds more money into the economy. You can complain about the tax burden of unemployment insurance but that's not what I am seeing in your comment.

Seriously what the hell am I reading here? This is literally the free market in action, if you don't see it then your definition of free market only includes a market that only benefits yourself.

The minimum wage is crap because it is a price control. It prevents market signals from working. No additional money is being added into the economy, there is no guarantee that you find employment, it is literally a ban on work.

However, unemployment is not that, it is a defacto jobs guarantee except the job in question is merely seeking a job. The reason why job guarantees work is that they create additional money that drives inflation beyond the point where the job guarantee is necessary.

If the job guarantee is set at $1500, then inflation will rise until the private sector can afford to pay everyone $1500 or more.
no, it is that state money make faster. try many alternative at once with promise of some payment even in failure, run trial in parallel, these thing. same result would have reached, just taking more time. or maybe they would find private investing, we are not knowing.
It sure does. Compression and encryption and snapshotting and bit rot protection all native to the file system and the tools around it instead of having to cobble together lvm and mdraid and such.

Snapshotting imo is one of the best things. Copy on write file systems really are awesome. And FreeBSD adopting ZFS so early was a huge win imo.
Cpython and pypy are pretty mature and battle tested. You can find a lot of information on them.

Cinder and Python are pretty new, it would be premature to say too much, we don't have enough background information about them.

GraalVM is between the 2: it's been there for some time, but it's still not much known. I don't know anyone using it in prod. I would be curious about a writing on this one.
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I’m not sure that was an insult. It was just a honest assessment. Everyone cares about themselves. But Apple has to put users before developers.
great comment. some thoughts .

> this war began and ended

technically it did. realistically it hasn't for those who live there? (see also Afghanistan where the women and children now get to enjoy the mess and radicalization the US left behind). Maybe Iraq ended because we decided not to look at it any more?

> Should somebody have rightfully stepped in and stopped us from engaging in these conquests?

not sure if it would have made a difference, the real question IMO is Should they have intervened in the first place?. My own opinion has shifted in the past 20 years or so from supporting the West to step in and "do something! please anything to make it stop", to "how dare they suggest anything without cleaning up their own filthy disgusting hypocrite acts first". I believe the only way to make the West better is to implement change in our own society first (that is if we really want to have the audacity to lecture others). We can still use economic pressure to fight things but the moment our dear leaders suggest "pre-emptive strikes" there will be hypocrisy and injustice.

Also these events don't happen (didn't happen) in a vacuum. In this specific case the US can be blamed for repeating the same mistake[1] which the UK colonial powers decades before made when they invented "modern Iraq" by supporting niche groups and placing them into a position of power. In a way this is like somebody invading and toppling the US-regime in 2021, not understanding anything about the country, and giving the nuclear codes to the Amish (not that there is anything wrong with Amish culture or tradition but they do not represent the majority of the people). The US then propped up an illegitimate regime due to ignorance of the actual power dynamics in the local society at the time.

[1] https://archive.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/histor...
What's with all the griping going on regarding javascript? Twine is made for these "choose your own adventure" type games, and it's faster to use it than handcode everything while serializing all your app state to a cookie.

What's next, a bunch of complaining that electron apps are slow? That people are writing video games in managed languages?
That “intent of moral fiber permeating through our founding document” failed to do achieve much good for the the peoples of Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Cuba, Vietnam, African slaves, or Native Americans.

Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
> This assumes resource competition, which isn't a guarantee. Colonialism was driven by the need for open markets, resources, and vanity satisfaction from a declining class of European elites.

What about enslavement? Here Hawkings / Neil deGrasse Tyson make another interesting point: any civilization which could peacefully colonize a galaxy is not the kind of civilization that would colonize the galaxy at all. The very act of wanting to colonize self-selects for violence/exploitation.

> It's very likely that we don't have anything that a technologically advanced civilization would actually need. In this case, the situation would be more akin to Amazon coexisting with brick and mortar coffee shops, and less like Netflix competing with video rental shops.

Surely any civilization advanced enough to master interstellar travel would be better than we are at gathering intelligence and predicting humanity’s next move, which for all we know might threaten their interests.

If extraterrestrials are silently monitoring humans, isn’t it more likely to be for intelligence gathering purposes than for altruistic reasons? If the monitoring were intended to be altruistic, where’s the proof of the altruism?
Plus Codes works well, and Google Maps tells you the plus code for any location.
Let me rephrase it.

Being native doesn't matter. Plenty of people here learned English by classes, tv and online while not being a native English speaker and you wouldn't even notice it ( eg. me)

Some are noticable, like people from the netherlands have a certain accent while speaking and you still understand them perfectly.

Here's my point again: A native speaker has no single advantage over a non-native speaker, if they are at a certain level.
If you constantly work on the same code base day-in, day-out, breakage through the language or libraries is much less of an issue. You can keep up with current developments in the language and/or libraries, and update as necessary. Incremental changes are not a big deal, since you’re always around when they happen.

If you tend to write code once, and come back to it months or years later, breakage is a huge issue - why is the code that was working perfectly well in 2019 broken today? Why do I have to now fix 4 dependencies in order to do what I actually wanted to do (make some small change). This is the reason that I tend to write all my own code in TypeScript projects, but for my Clojure/ClojureScript projects I am much more happy to pull in the occasional library.

I would say that the “don’t break things” culture is less about static vs dynamic types, and more about the style of software being written and the maintenance expectations.
Doesn't necessarily mean anything, but I checked out the book on Amazon and see that:
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons; 1st edition (November 8, 2011)

I am sure there are a lot of good stuff there, but quite a lot has happened with html/css and browser support since late 2011.
There were plenty of agreements/contracts drawn up with nation states that meant they had definite buyers and a definite income from those contracts. Their R&D costs were assured of a return due to the install base. They are already being rewarded financially, they weren't making and distributing these out of the goodness of their hearts.

So they dont need to become fabulously wealthy, they just need to turn a decent profit. Which they are doing. And right now I would suggest that AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Moderna are 3 of the most well known pharma companies, because they were first to market with working vaccines, there are plenty of pharma companies that tried, failed and thus you dont even know their names. So those successful firms are already being rewarded. No need to call for outsized returns for these companies.
A tail emission is a healthy thing. It allows the network to remain secure in the absence of a backlog of high-fee paying transactions, which is what Bitcoin relies on for security once the block subsidy becomes insignificant.

The single reason why Dogecoin can't reach $50k is that it would imply a $6500 trillion marketcap.

Already at $7.7 it would reach a $1 trillion marketcap, so there's just not much room for price to grow.
Development of Pyjion continues here:

https://github.com/tonybaloney/Pyjion
Astros on Lunar lander will use elevators to drop people to the surface
I have not heard of that documentary.

For one, it's pretty bad for the environment. I hope you can agree with me that there is a consensus on this. From land use to transportation, to every other part of the supply chain (antibiotics, methane emissions, manure). Downsizing the meat industry would do quite a bit for the environment.

Secondly, meat is more expensive than plant-based products, generally.

It also spoils faster, and I wouldn't eat spoiled meat, as opposed to spoiled vegetables. Quality control is way more important as to avoid parasites, prions, etc.

Let's skip animal suffering.

I suppose you are getting to the last point, health benefits? I have little data on this myself, and health comes from such a maze of interactions that I don't find it surprising experts disagree, especially if you throw in various lobbies. Moreover, the answer likely depends on a person's ethnicity. However, there seems to be plenty of evidence that (a) excessive meat (or rich foods) intake is bad for your health, (b) eating a variety of products is better, (c) eating some meat, or substitutes, is required for a healthy diet.

The uncertainty seems to be on what exactly constitutes "too much" meat.

I don't think "all around" was meant to encompass anything else; are you thinking of something else specifically?
A programming Language for Law is a bad idea. Or, certainly, one must have a very clear idea of what the goals are for such a programming language. For example this (almost throwaway) comment from another post:

>I'm wondering what could result of the combination of smart contracts on a blockchain and this legal language

Is precisely the wrong way to be thinking about this.

The expectation of Law formalised into code is that the benefit lies from the execution: that if you can provide it with the 'inputs' then the neutral computer will do the 'hard work' of working through the consequences and output a decision.

The other intended hope is that the computer can act as a neutral mediator (presumably why what I quoted above also includes the words 'blockchain' and 'smart contracts') which will come to its conclusions justly and without prejudice. Indeed, if you have an agreed upon system via both parties, then it acts like the spinning table at the beginning of the Temple of Doom - allowing two parties with competing interests to come to an accord without trusting each other.

But it is pretty clear to anyone who has worked within a legal or law enforcement context that this is not usually the bottleneck. Lawyers and Justices are usually intimately familiar with the law, and so much of a trial or a case is working through the establishment of the inputs and any of the logical crunching is normally able to be followed through fairly easily by those present.

There is absolutely a case for tools around the law that may superficially seem similar to the above, but in spirit are the complement: search tools for users to easily find related documents, markup to declare and highlight evidence formally (for human consideration, not machine), editors that can assist with writing up legal documents etc.

Something that would seem to be the same thing, for example, would be to create a data model over the existing law to describe the legal architecture as alluded to in the description of the OP: dependencies, exceptions, related articles etc. However, the purpose of doing this in the OP would be to make this executable. The actually useful thing is a lot more banal - to allow things to be surfaced for human inspection and consideration more quickly and easily. It would be to try to spot contradictions and inconsistencies in the law making stage, not in the law interpretation stage. It would be to spot the impact of making a change to one paragraph beyond just the Act that is being scrutinised.

These things are decidedly unsexy to a technical audience, and don't have that same electric feel of 'solving a problem'. Indeed, many of the biggest advances to be made in Law are to be using de rigeur tools in the tech world (such as version control) in a legal context.

A TED talk that summarises some further points:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEN4XNth61o
For me it was the crackhead who climbed the telephone pole, got electrocuted by touching the wires, which caused him to fall off the pole, and then he then just stood up and walked off while on fire.

It made me both want to avoid crack and want to do crack.

That kind of invulnerability would be incredible.
Patents are monopolies give by States. In fact in the past, in countries like France, patents were sold to the highest bidder, like the patent for manufacturing straw baskets or ceramic containers.

Basically, if you did not pay the King,or someone else paid the King more, the State will destroy your business.

The modern idea of patents comes from that, adding the requirement to document an innovation instead of just paying money to the King.

The State can do end the monopoly at any given time. They have done lots of times in the past, specially in wars.
Lojban, a predicate logic-based language designed to be unambiguous, is also a good choice. Though there's a difference (usually harder) in learning a human to a programming language. Interestingly, its ancestor, Loglan, originating in 60s predates logic programming itself.
they are having some information remove from other places but are also having many misleading thing circulating, example being "election steal" in year past. like with regular media, alt-right and alt-left are having some thing you cannot find outside of them so reading a little is good (not fun but still good).
I thought it is the German couple behind mRNA, no?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/business/biontech-covid-v... https://www.nature.com/articles/d41573-020-00119-8
> As a content consumer I'm frequently annoyed, when I have to wait for images to load while scrolling.

That's the experience most javascript solutions gave you. This browser native solution will load images _before_ they're visible in the viewport so you do not get the fading-in flashes you often see. Combine it with setting the width and height on an element and your page also won't shift around as you scroll.

This will actually optimize for the reader as it will improve the time it takes before they can interact with your page. I also think you'd be very disappointed if you see the percentages of people that end up scrolling on any given page.
Pandemic has shown that mRNA vaccination manufacturing is a question of national security. I do not think those patents will be enforceable, if another pandemic starts, and countries decide to make their own vaccines. And countries like India, China, Thailand or Russia have pretty advanced biotech manufacturing and research.
I think they made it only visible for registered users, so it looked like there were no comments if you were a guest.
Really nice game/tutorial.

The best job interview I ever had was framed like this. The interviewer told me there was a bug in the system and had a stack of pages he'd printed out that would provide successive clues as to what caused it. I could ask them questions, in effect using the interviewer as a search engine/debugger.

It was the closest an interview has ever come to simulating the day-to-day of a web developer.
> I like apps that keep my data on my phone.

The paradox is that you have far less control with an app, and most come with even more analytics than a webpage. Apps in the Play and App stores don't make me feel any better than PWAs, quite the contrary. I've a LineageOS phone and use apps from F-droid to have a modicum of control and privacy, coupled with an ability to have it be usable without network.