skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The situation in Europa is somewhat more complex:

1. The laws say "not patentable" (European Patent Convention Art. 52(2)(c) which you find also in the national patent laws as it is harmonized by the EPC members) with exeptions that this means only the thing (software) _as such_ (EPC Art 52(3)), so a patent involving an apparatus and software/algorithms can be valid if the software provides non-obvious technical improvement -- which is the legal domain of patents. Pseudo-technical stuff like "it's technical because it runs on a computer and therefore has to move bits around for which we need electrical signals which are technical" should make it void, as technical means something with natural forces, e.g. a machine doing stuff in the real world -- in which case the software part makes it technical better. Software used for other non-technical stuff in the technical apparatus (like making more economic, searching/displaying information, etc.) also should not count, as it is non-technical.

2. However EPA practice seems to be more lax then the courts regarding the technicality requirements. And with the masses of patents being granted and only those go to the court where two parties see themselves in conflict, there are many already and they are getting more

More Details on Wikipedia.

And guess what?

Even if your company does not participate in this shitshow in Europe as the legal situation is _somewhat_ clear (as long they don't want to change the law again, like another commenter mentioned: there were several initiatives). If it is big enough to care about patents at all, it is probably also big enough to be doing business in USA and plays the game there, even if only for defensive purposes, as this phenomenon is even more widespread/serious there.

So there you can have it all: be an European employee, living in Europe, working for an European Software Company (doing nothing technical) in Europe and still involved in this mess, even as a (US) patent holder. (The good news: for successful patent registrations they have to pay you extra per law, at least in Germany.)

Just search on Google Patents for patents from (big) European Software Companies. You'll find a lot, but mostly registered in the US, at least from my sampling. And the stuff you'll find is not only from the colleagues in the US subsidiaries.

(Edit: Italics Formatting, Fix: does-->does not / Delete+Repost actually, as it did not save the update.)
Yeah. Tbh it reminds me very much of the classic LBJ quote "let's make him deny it".
Oh I'm sorry. But the point still stands, the article is mistaken that it would require arranging money transfers to outside the U.S. With bitcoin in the mix, it is not true anymore. Sure, you can call the bank but unlike Viagra, scammers don't need one fixed account there.
> This new research was based on what people said about their own jobs though.

Right, and apparently:

> those who work in clerical and administrative jobs are far less likely to view their jobs as useless than those who are employed in roles that Mr Graeber regarded as essential, such as refuse collection and cleaning.

Which leads me to believe that people are not a good judge of the usefulness of their work. I think most reasonable people would agree that it's incorrect to classify refuse collection and cleaning as useless jobs. Perhaps the people doing them don't find the jobs meaningful, but refuse collection is certainly useful; without it, everyone would have to cart their trash to the dump, or, worse, we'd just have trash everywhere.

So it strikes me that all of this is just kinda pointless. I think we can reasonably make the argument that bullshit jobs do exist, but the number of these jobs is a very subjective take, and people seem to often incorrectly value their own jobs.
Right which is where attempts to confirm the thesis come in, and as the article shows it looks like Gerber's conclusions were based on a heavily loaded question that severely biased the answers.
Do you have any evidence that anyone is actually doing this? I'm not talking about threads that can fit that interpretation; you can fit any interpretation to most threads.
> What your obviously remark misses out is my second sentence "Outside HN, CppCon and C++Now bubbles not all C++ codebases are as clean as we would wish them to be.".

Right, but we're not discussing C++ are we? We're discussing RAII. C++'s mistakes are C++'s mistakes, adding RAII to a language doesn't imply you have to replicate C++'s mistakes, nor are C++'s mistakes issues with the concept of RAII, or destructors.
I think most reasons for sequels is that people need something to do, HTTP/1.1 works for everything but people needs to feel they can improve things.

Unfortunately everything peaks because of physics and energy.

I'm not adding HTTP/2 or 3 to my HTTP app. server; HTTP/1.1 does everything I'll ever need and I have to focus on other things!
Could you explain the significance of the distinction you're making?
Website in tweet appears to be filled with suspicious malware like contents, beware
People from my mother's generation often started working when they were just 16.
So when I see someone talking about them retiring at 65 it's important to keep that in mind.
Very concerning thread. Maybe worse are the replies defending YC e.g https://twitter.com/figputt/status/1401050235141558274?s=19

Hopefully YC doesn't pull a coinbase/Basecamp after this.

Just because you have an private internal forum doesn't mean people should need to treat it like fight club, or be concerned about their place in the club for calling out bad behaviour.
No, the border between Cambodia and Thailand. And they were trying to keep the Khmer Rouge in Thailand, at least the members they couldn't kill.

For various reasons--human compassion, border control, protection of Vietnamese ethnic groups, geopolitical maneuvering, etc--Vietnam invaded Cambodia to put an end to the violent Khmer Rouge regime, installed a friendly government, and ended up in a protracted guerilla war w/ the Khmer Rouge, who would stage attacks from Thailand. In a way I guess it was sort of Vietnam's Vietnam.

It's been awhile since I read the political history, but IIRC Thailand tolerated the Khmer Rouge retreating into and camping along its border because Thailand and Vietnam were (and remain?) regional power rivals. They avoided direct conflict but were happy to poke a stick in the other's eye.
Agreed, but the definition of extremist seems to be moving; seems you cannot voice opinions anymore and it seems especially a US thing. Bill gates and Steve Jobs would be marked as extremists in the way they led the business now. Not political but angry and aggressive to the max. I think we need 'extremists' to not have a flat society where nothing happens.
> I found I didn’t know what he was talking about.

I found he didn’t know what he was talking about.
One of the interesting things about wokeism is that the core beliefs - the things that you must uphold and recognise as absolute truth in order to be recognised as one of the tribe - are not actually codified anywhere. Not only that, they keep changing (though at every step, you must have complete faith that the current beliefs are absolutely true and correct). There's not some kind of formal process to be inducted into the truths either - you have to learn them through being continuously immersed in the community of believers. Oh, and it's vitally important that you also believe that these truths are obvious to every decent person, and that the only reason someone would claim to have trouble understanding them is because they're evil.
Depends how much modern C and C++ Zig wants to implement in order to understand the types.

Generics, lambdas, concepts, templates, exceptions, ....
Wait... I "failed to heed" the word "or", but you get to ignore the word "person"?
This is a broad generalisation without supporting evidence - not sure if this helps improve the quality of the discussion. Can you substantiate your statement further?
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It's not at all unusual for people to start off comfortable with their level of faith in others, and then discover their faith was misplaced.

I gave up on Christians specifically when I discovered that Christians all believe different things. I would literally ask in chat rooms for a group to define one thing they all agreed on, and then watch as fights broke out - because when pushed they all disagreed violently on core ethics and dogma, and yet they also believed they were right and other people with different views "Weren't real Christians."

It turns out there is no real content to that kind of religion. It's all meta-justification for a person's existing moral leanings, and meta-interpretation of a "sacred text" which is broad enough to rationalise pretty much anything, including some appalling and terrible things. (History has plenty to say about that.)

The only true common belief is that religious self-justification is a valid and respectable process. That was the one thing they had in common.

Specifics and details were wildly variable window dressing, and heavily customised to personal taste.
How much trading volume does tether have compared to "bitcoin + all the other cryptos"?

Answer: a lot, Tether is the unit of account. If something happens to it the crypto space explodes as the volume of real dollar trades in crypto is a fraction of Tether trades.
I don't understand the second diagram. Is it supposed to be a top down view of the game? There's a line labeled "view direction" that's perpendicular to the desired direction of travel, and the velocity arrow is going in a totally different direction.
I kind of agree with this—one of my main criticisms of left-wing ideology is that it so closely resembles right-wing ideology, and it certainly seems to push a lot of people toward the right wing. In particular the intense left-wing pressure to suppress any frank, unscripted conversations about race leaves a lot of “ideologically vulnerable” people with nowhere to turn with respect to their questions than the welcoming embrace of right wing folks, which unsurprisingly swells their ranks. All of this intense left-wing bad behavior similarly gives right wing folks a sense of moral license to behave badly as well (for just one example, think of how the media and other prominent voices profusely excused and justified BLM riots all summer long and the precedent that probably set for the 1/6 riot).

“Reversion to the mean” is probably a good thing insofar as it means “moderating ourselves”.
Had RAAI been properly implemented in C++, doing something like new std::string("something") should have been a compiler error.

From type theory point of view, ideally RAII aware types should only compose with outher RAII types without escape hatches.

Rust and Ada do it better in this regard.
Yes, the many small competitors scenario means no one achieves economies of scale. There is little to no dead-weight inside each company, but consumers must pay more because the overall system is inefficient.

Going back to the "mega-corp" scenario, if you are a lazy person, a good strategy would be to join an org in a defensible (ideally monopolized) industry and work just hard enough to not get fired. Find yourself a bullshit job!
This has the same kind of flaw as dsm iv which bases psychopathy on prison related stuff.

Merit is more then your list of college awards. People with top grades are usually just average at work.

Good meritocracy is based on proving value.
Tax rates might be similar but income is way higher. It is relatively common to earn 6 digits in tech in USA. In Western Europe, not so much. Besides cost of living, which might be higher in US, finding 1000 for a new iPhone is way easier there.
tangetially related: Hong Kong's top court made a similar ruling on a similar case back in 2019

https://hongkongfp.com/2019/04/04/catch-computer-offence-not...
Yep, but I am not holding the burning bag of poo. So yes I know that but I am not going to be that religious person that does that first and I do not get why anyone would.
FBI sought info on who read USA Today news article for case
Ahh, a fellow soul feeling the burden of knowing the difference between mass and count nouns.
I am a cis straight white male, but I do have colleagues who are gay, lesbian, trans, and/or non-white, and all of those who I've spoken to on this topic do not agree with your take here.

It just goes to show you that everyone is different, and there's no such unified thing as "what gay people believe" or "what black people believe". Some like that their employers make business decisions based on the personal ethics of those in leadership positions, and some don't like that. That's just life, I guess.
2 weeks is exactly how long it took to get an item, and they lost 2 other orders and had appalling customer service. I had to resort to a chargeback in order to get my money back. They couldn't find or bother to find the order in their system.
That’s what made the money worthless in the first place yes. Badly regulated markets. The financial market then made the problem orders of magnitude worse. Again, not enough regulation.

It’s so weird how a story of greedy investors turned out to be the fault of the government in the end. “You set it in place, we simply had to bite!”
I don't know what to tell you. Empirically, athletes getting worked to the bone / abused by their coach who hopes the athlete will become a star and bring fame and money to them is absolutely something that happens.

Gymnastics is where the abuse is the most notorious, but it happens everywhere.
How is it anti-Apple stuff when both smartctl and Apple's own Activity Monitor reporting the same values?

And this article cite Marcan saying it's "reporting issue" while Marcan himself said multiple times it's not.
Have you ever read the Economist? Pretty much every article they write about markets is about how to better mitigate exactly the problems you list.

I know in America there's a species of free market puritan that believes regulation is always bad, and truly free markets are some sort of anarchist paradise of unfettered freedom. I blame Ayn Rand*. There are a lot of such people, I have worked for several American companies so I've met some of them. That's not the Economist though, look up one of it's withering critiques of the American health care system for example.

* Social welfare recipient Ayn Rand, to give her full title.
An obligatory quotation: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7484962-ford-said-on-its-wo...
Newly identified atmospheric circulation enhances heatwaves and wildfires
Building Beautiful Apps with Xamarin.Forms
Nobody calls graphing calculators "supercomputers" even though that's what they would've been in the 1960s.
Had to look that up, glad I did

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/07/08/pig/
I have to point out that your second source is a conservative think tank, and if you're conservative it generally means that the status quo is in your favor ("you like/are happy with the status quo") and any challenge to it looks like the start of a revolution.

Interesting article, though.
It's also pretty uncommon in the U.S, largely due to there not being a lot of canals relative to land area.
Regarding the first sentence: it really depends on whether or not it benefits the company. Most companies seem to restrict or remove their APIs once they become large enough to hold your data hostage.
And it's not possible to change/withdraw consent after allowing it. I've searched 5 minutes and found no link or widget that would get me to that screen.
So that's nothing to do with the network you're connected to, but do do with things like search domains.

The unix way has always to be provide an optional daemon (like dnsmasq, other daemons are available) to do unusual setups like this. It's not to do with networking, it's a higher level than that. I might wand .google.com to resolve via 8.8.8.8 but normal domains to resolve via 1.1.1.1 -- both of which might be via the same gateway, or perhaps via a different gateway on the same subnet, or perhaps a different interface entirely. Maybe I want .blah.com to connect via DoT but others to not. Perhaps my routing protocol changes the gateway I use to reach the servers I want.

None of that should be of any concern to the DNS forwarder
Not really. HN skews pretty right wing on things like this. It isn't nearly as commonplace or ridiculous as it would have you believe. I say this as a member of a "woke MegaCorp."
Designing a Fast, Efficient, Cache-Friendly Hash Table, Step by Step (2017)
> makes me think that a substantial number of video cards have included YUV decoding capability in hardware since the previous millennium.

You are correct, and you can find details on that by reading the card documentation (as far as it is available). That was in particular the case when cards had a fixed-function rendering pipeline.

With the advent of more general purpose cores on the GPU for the rendering pipeline, YUV decoding has been offloaded to them.
I don't really know what you're saying. It's not much less safe to provide liquidity to bitcoin than to do so for any of the trillions in securities priced vastly in excess of the book value of their underlying assets.
>I'd rampantly speculate that perhaps that time matches to the link being posted in a pedophilia related forum (with the forum behind TOR) - and the FBI would like to get a list of who might have followed it there.

now cue in all those stories of how people have been getting in trouble only because their ISP was using the same IP to NAT a crowd of customers.
A “64 bit clean” CPU would be nice, but practically you’d also want new 32 bit compatible CPUs for markets that need it. Gamers are still going to want to play old games with MORE POWER, business will want to throw more CPU at some process that is reliant on ancient code and so on. Apple has tried forcing the issue, and it didn’t exactly make everyone happy, and Apples view on compatibility is rather different to Microsoft’s or Linux / Linus’s.

So now you need to design and verify two CPU cores instead of one. The most efficient for an engineering staff and resource allocation perspective would be to just have the “x64-ng” core being the normal AMD64 core with legacy support lasered off. So probably not much in performance gains. If you had the designs actually diverge you’re going to end up with with duplicated work by more people / teams and thus less profit.

With the trend for dedicated low power cores, the companies already have two lines of core design to maintain, they aren’t going to want more.

I’m not saying it’s impossible, and a legacy free x86 core would be nice, but the business case for getting rid of 32 bit support probably isn’t there (yet?).

(You do also mentions Z series which has backwards comparability in some form going back to System 360 from the 60s - getting rid of this stuff is hard once it’s entrenched).
It's become quite popular in the UK. People frequently pull out guns or munitions like grenades and cause streets to be closed by the police. I'm not sure if they ever pull anything useful.
> When reason fails

And what "reason" might that be and how did it fail? :-)
What an awful journalism. They cite Marcan's tweets, but title this "news" as:

> Apple resolved M1 Mac SSD wear reporting issue in macOS 11.4

Seriously Marcan himself said many times reporting was always correct. E.g check the topic they cited:

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1396374313591140357
I would primarily contend that you don't need religion for those parts you find redeeming

All societies function on the 10 commandments without them being explicitly written. Convergent evolution of the concept of society leans towards that. Lying, coveting, and laying all result in the same outcomes.
> A generic coffee isn’t the product Starbucks is selling - they are selling the exact coffee you want, made perfectly for you.

Is that what Starbucks is selling where you live? Cause here (Europe) it definitely isn't. They sell the fast food experience for drinks, with slightly more hipster feel. (By the way I'm not saying this to be negative, i quite like what they sell, both in product and atmosphere)

Anyway, reducing product combinations is very common in the hospitality industry. A menu that is too bloated leads to customers being overwhelmed. I've stopped browsing my steam games list because I bought a few bundles a long time ago and now it's unmanageable...
Do they tie the progressive line on "Make the police accountable and maybe not spend mountains of money on buying them tanks tanks and maybe not let them literally get away with murder?"

Or is that not a 'progressive' line? (In which case, why the hell haven't we gotten it yet?)

I think the likely explanation for this conundrum is that people don't support <whatever strawman of the week is used to attack a caricature of a position>.
Tor is vulnerable to statistical analysis with which if you time it perfectly you can link exit nodes with specific user. [1] The fact that FBI is asking for those specific 35 minutes suggests that they are onto something like this.

[1] https://blog.torproject.org/one-cell-enough-break-tors-anony...
Well of course, companies aren't democracies. The CEO/board or whoever is in charge has all the power.
He wrote a book on what people thought about their own jobs.

The economist's rebuttal was to claim that making a meaningful contribution to the world was, in the opinion of the author, "a high bar to clear" for job doers and try to supplant that only with "I have the feeling of being useful" as sufficient for a job to be not bullshit.

It's not trying to undermine the concept of defining jobs by what the job doers say about them.

Thus by simply redefining "non-bullshit jobs" as jobs which are useful to someone rather than useful to society at large, the economist makes no actual comment on the "zero sum jobs" component of "bullshit jobs".
Would love to collaborate. PM me if interested.
Prof. Drosten, where did the virus come from? (German)
> Europe is at least 20 years behind the curve.

I fear you are correct. If current political trends continue, in 20 years race relations in Europe will be as harmonious as they are in America today.
I thought this article was going to be about how to "bunnyhop" in your programming job. Some tips/tricks that you can leverage to give you the same advantage in your job as bunnyhop does in-game.
Might be an idea for a magsafe attachment: a floater :)
And if I want to install a forwarder like dnsmasq or resolvd I've always been able to do that. A lot of the problem that people have with systemd is the forcing of it by the distros.
I looked but couldn't find your email. They're not public-worthy and/or a bit private hehe.
Interesting, how do you pronounce those words with the @ in them?
Have you considered that you might not have enough visibility into what they do to be able to judge? Obviously the percentage of useless work is >0% but you are just throwing numbers around.
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I appreciate your contribution to this thread

I like your conclusion: it isn't unified. There is a lot of pressure to conform to certain buckets and it also still can be an absurdity to do so.
That makes one think whether there is a market of a magsafe attachment which can be used as a "hook" to grab phones in situations like this. A proper attachment (with some anti-skid surface) could grab the phone much stronger than a plain magnet.

In any case, they could have used a magsafe charger as the hook, that should also work well.