skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2) App stores have reached a size that can now be considered a "para-web". The 2 companies that police them (Google and Apple) don't have the resources to offer a solid experience for neither users nor developers.

Of course they have the resources, it would just cut into their margin. This is a case where I think only regulatory action works; either that or app stores need to take a back seat rather than being a primary part of the os.

If you think about the amount of control that an app store affords you, I think most of these companies would be happy to run an app store even at a loss. What I don't think is reasonable is the amount of anti-competitive leverage it gives them. I don't think it's in any sense safe to start a business that depends on these platforms, even if it can work most of the time. I think that's a case where regulation really is reasonable.
I’d love to learn more about governments’ “benign curiosity” toward early crypto. What form did that take, exactly?
I had related issues.

My solution since then was to work through a soft link to a directory inside the mounted drive.

Whatever the failure mode, when the storage disappears, even if the users do a “mkdir -p” (which seems to be the underlying issue you are describing)
truth to be told, we learned that the hard way ;)
but we learned! :P
Yes, it was

I will wait for the re-submission to go through (up to 7 days) before I file an appeal. I know it's crazy long but better to follow due process
Doesn't compare to being robbed and or mugged. I live in a city center, this already happens on occasion very near to my home. I don't need more of it.
> The author should consider removing their blog from the Google-owned property they are currently using, lest it also get removed with no prior warning.

I don't think Google has a reputation for deleting critical blog posts -- can you reference any stories?

Don't get me wrong, there are many reasons to host your own blog. But fear that Google will remove content critical of Google seems pretty far fetched to me.

On topic: It seems unfortunate that there is no grace period for the developer to resolve a minor issue like missing links to a privacy policy.

disclaimer: I work for Google (on something unrelated).
All while juggling corona virus and wasting time on shit like brexit.
Apologies for derailing slightly but it's strange that you lump UK in with US there, when the UK rate is even below the NL rate (and among the lowest in the world).

The US is an extreme outlier in this regard.
You are an EE? You should know the major websites like digikey and mouser. They are really easy to search. They have tons of categories to narrow your search if you need something specific.
I don't think they are banning ICE cars--just new ICE cars. Anyways, simultaneous with electric cars being a big thing, e-bikes are taking off. Many European cities are wonderfully suited to e-bikes, so that may take the pressure off of needing to own a car for local trips.
The mandatory vehicle inspections [0] will likely cut them down before they die a "natural death".

Links:

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_inspection
Indeed. I should have said illegal _and actively prosecuted_, unlike small-scale trade at the Amsterdam coffeeshops that most foreigners are familiar with.
From what I gather there were programs in place to finance sustainable development in the Amazon by donor governments abroad. And I'm sure this could be expanded given how the climate disaster becomes more and more apparent. But only if the recipient government is willing to cooperate. Which seems to be the main problem now. With the current 'whatever-denialist' at the helm it's impossible to find constructive solutions that can benefit all involved parties.
Contracts forbid earning money not what you do over the weekend on your own GitHub. People need to be smart about their online presence as well, not that they are obliged to but companies can be a pain to deal with over trivial matter. Decouple yourself online from what you do IRL for things you do not want people breathing down your neck for.
A morbid Streisand effect
It won't change anything in my country (Ger). People think they can nudge consumers, but we already have the highest energy price in the world. It would only make sense if there would be alternatives available that would actually change anything in reality aside from pushing state income.

Don't listen to my complaints, people are rich enough to ignore this tax (it isn't technically a tax) aside from the poorest of course.

Anyone would use the less CO2 polluting alternative were it available.

This is plain bad policy crafting in my opinion.
that won’t happen for two reasons: at some point the cost of this procedure will exceed the quality and length of life expected and a 90 year won‘t be a candidate for heart transplantation anyway
The rules seem to target new cars not old.
This is a little, cart before horse; obviously, nothing is free.

Charge customers. Go ahead. In the first place, Advertisers are the actual customers. Freemium models for retail consumers are a business choice.

People are notoriously bad at processing obscured costs. You see it with things like plastic pollution and waste - that cost is never added to the price of M&M packaging. Tomorrow if it were, people would respond logically and change their buying habits.

To call this entitlement, when its an issue of market structure, is to drive this conversation into identity and morality arguments.

The dominant models in tech are some version of freemium, because “network effects”.

Solve for that either technically or legally and you don’t have to start attributing blame where none exists.
>>You're ignoring the part where it cannot be conveyed, like when people are mentally ill, incapacitated, etc.

We already have provisions for when someone cannot make decisions for themselves, like guardianship. We do not need to subject the entire population to guardianship-like subordination.

>>You keep calling this a monopoly, but it is not a monopoly.

It is a monopoly: the licensure rules have a monopoly over all providers. Your argument seems to be that people cannot choose for themselves, so it's better we impose this monopoly on them.

But if they can't choose an effective delegate in the marketplace, who says they can choose an effective politician to vote for in an election, who will then appoint the regulator that vets their market options? It's better to go with a decentralized approach, where each individual is free to choose their own delegate, rather than a centralized one where the entire population votes every four years for one delegate that gets the power to vote for every one, whether they consent or not.

>>Do you have a thesis paper or something that we can see? We really need more information about what exactly you are proposing beyond 'remove licenses, free market will work',

I think the burden of proof is on those who advocate for continuing to limit people's right to freely contract and purchase the goods/services they want.
A personal note on Cuba and what it can teach Americans now
208 countries and 10,000 trials wouldn't change the fact that conspiracy theorists peddled this thing as one of many miracle drugs. When a broken clock shows the right time you don't need to apologize to the clock.

For me, as a US citizen, my energy is far better spent getting people to take the vaccine that has a sample size of hundreds of millions of doses and has given us a wonderful chart that's going down and to the left. And, to put it bluntly, podcasts guests trying to make a name for themselves for pushing alternatives as "contrarians" have no place in this discourse.
I think the only time it "mattered" that I had side projects was one CEO who emailed me on two different occasions that he "noticed" my one-commit abandoned github project and was interested in talking further about hiring for a position at his startup.

In other words, the project was meaningless (probably scraped off linkedin) and just served as an icebreaker to try and get me onto a phone call.
There's an article on this, for those disinclined to watch video, at phys.org:

Device taps brain waves to help paralyzed man communicate

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-07-device-brain-paralyzed.h...
Someone above stated they were just near the Amazon, they saw someone's privately owned lot got invaded with bulldozers. I'm not sure if private ownership is the answer, the Amazon is extremely huge.
The last English king to try to reign with no constraints was Charles I, it didn't end well for him.
That ship has long sailed, my friend.

At least in my country, with a high school education our parents could get a job that provided a decent life for a family on a single income. As I say, that is long gone.
Well, company might listen to employees requests and treat them well. That would be the reasonable thing to do (at least to be able to pay less; but also because employees might produce important feedback).

However, if company doesn't do that 100% of time, employees do not have moral or lawful rights to sabotage company.
I just really hate seeing/typing RIGHT OUTER JOIN when it could be just ⟖. It feels like it takes me a microsecond to read the symbol, translating the glyph straight into its meaning in my head instead of subvocalizing it first and thinking what does this mean then. This takes way more time and struggle with the words. Also the whole query consisting of many such words becomes too big to read easily or split into logical parts visually and also looks ugly from the purely aesthetical point of view.

To me sea of the SQL language elements represented with words intermixed with table names and other words into one uniform ocean of words seems at least no better than the names intermixed with the distinct kind of symbols (each of which I recognize instantly).
They used to run the same ads when it was Obama and Trump.
"study"

It wasn't a study, it was basically a MGTOW chain letter. Anyone who has experience in science knows that the arguments it purported to show were cherry picked nonsense. A conclusion looking for evidence.

And yes, obviously people read it that way. He was fired because he wouldn't stop arguing about it, remember?

People acting like sharing a "study" that [minorities] are intellectually inferior is just normal behavior for an engineer. Who the hell does that?
Facebook asks for removal of FTC Chair Khan from antitrust cases against it
Thanks for getting down to brass tacks. Of the things that you mentioned, I think that interior pointers are the only thing that is relevant.

Java has an API for executing the GC on demand, and VM engineers I have talked to over the years think it's a knob that apps shouldn't have.

Wasm already supports multiple return values, so you don't need to box value types on any boundary--they can be flattened whereever they occur.

Pinning memory has to do with interfacing native code that could potentially do unsafe things. That doesn't fit into wasm's model, and would only be necessary for interacting with platform APIs, which are being designed not to need that. Same for "marshalling to native code".

I don't understand what you mean by GC regions. Realtime Java had GC regions and a complex system for trying to allow threads to run without touching the heap. It really didn't go well. I think if regions are useful for a GC, the engine should do inference of them, because adding regions to the type system infects everything.
the way it should be done is not just crossing it out. You also add the signatures of both sides to the redaction. One copy stays with you, the other with the employer.

In digital terms, it's easier just to amend the whole file.
It also doesn't say who the agreement is with. It says it's a company, but there's no company number or registered address.

In the UK (which is the claimed jurisdiction) this is a legal requirement for websites.
How does this compare to partial clones and sparse-checkout? This question was raised as an issue in the project but was closed as "not really an issue", which I guess is true.

https://github.com/esrlabs/josh/issues/23
At least in the US, average sale price of a new car is $40k.
Making your own hardware only for tinkering it's pretty painful. I think it's better to make a functional prototype in a board like that, and then making your own board of you need to.
Because drive-by shootings that kill innocent, uninvolved people are not a thing?
This is a straw man argument. GP is talking about valuing outcomes differently.
Would that be a bad thing? Or would that mean we'd have healthier competition?
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And what if you are wrong, idiot?
DeFi does not exist without CeFi. So I agree wholeheartedly that there is an inherent problem with the cryptocurrency world today. But I'm still fascinated by decentralized concepts and the explosion of creativity around this. I think even if 1 percent of what's being created has long lasting implications for our world, then we've done well...
I think sensible policy crafting would have required to reorder these approaches.
Oh the irony in offering a subscription plan that charges people to remember to cancel their subscription :)
That is more of an issue where you have high drug usage. Drug traffickers generally aren't in the robbery and petty crime business. Most of the drugs in the Netherlands are passing through to elsewhere in Europe.
Easier, maybe. Honest.... obviously not. Also most (maybe all) of my employers have confirmed previous jobs listed on my resume.
First, they came for the journalists...
Mocro maffia has already infiltrated the justice and police departement. It’s detrimental to the rule of law and very hard to get rid of once corruption takes root in those departments. A weakened rule of law will affect everyone.
Short-term informs long-term, and like it or not, most people aren't super accurate precogs. Short term is the default. Long-term has to be trained and requires both experience and a lot of effort to develop and keep accurate.
"Wie meine Westentasche" in German – "Like my vest's (waistcoat's) pocket.
Successful people don't follow the rules.

Most rule violations don't get noticed. Of those that do, most are ignored. Of those that aren't, most are met with a warning. Most of the time it's sufficient to respond to a warning by: apologizing, pleading ignorance, correcting your "mistake", and promising to do better.

"It's better to seek forgiveness than ask permission."

IANAL.
In regards to what specifically?
For a second it seemed like you were about to list the good Twitter has done.
That's an individual brand view and it's showing percentages. Automakers are releasing more models across more brands these days. Volkswagen, for example, owns 12 automotive brands and most of them have EV models out now:

https://www.volkswagenag.com/en/brands-and-models.html

So far in 2021 Volkswagen has about 27.8% of the EV market in Europe: https://eu-evs.com/bestSellers/ALL_MONTHLY/Groups/Year/2021

In Q2 only they had 30.1%: https://eu-evs.com/bestSellers/ALL_MONTHLY/Groups/Quarter/20...
Genes and Aging Are Still
I stopped talking about them because no one ever cares. Removed from resume and everything. So it's a bit hard to tell if I have side projects, you would have to ask. Nearly all of my skills are from side projects.
The only problem with that is that 90 year olds are often not good candidates for any serious surgery. You'll have a better chance with an old (otherwise un-notable) heart than with major heart surgery for a long time.

If your heart is actually failing, fine, but then it has nothing to do with being 90 - you could be 25.
They didn't ban it
Especially while you're an employee of the company you're pitching to.
For me as a user it adds a lot of value.
Change the world in some as-yet undiscovered way? I have much less than 1% confidence that any of the crypto ideas I've heard so far will change the world.
Smalltalk never really got substantial adoption...
It sounds like you reject their methodology, which is fine, but that doesn't mean they were wrong, just that they are failing to prove it.

As far as I can tell the reason why many people on twitter thought there was a massive russian bot problem is because they(I) saw the massive influx of political bots and shills with the rise of the election and could clearly tell someone had their finger on the scale.

Russia seemed the most obvious culprit given various signals coming out ahead of the election (and after it) eg https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/15/kremlin-papers...
As I mentioned there should be a warning before a removal, or alternatively resubmitting shouldn't take up to 7 days. I fear having upset many users :-(

I woke up at 7AM this morning to an "App removed" alert
I'm looking forward to playing Q-Force, the video game xD
And that they're much larger, and their "filters" are more mature than young trees.
To make the consumer think the egg is so fresh from the chicken that the feathers are still stuck to it I suppose. I'm sure it got A/B tested at some point.
It depends on the bug. syzkaller does an excellent job finding race conditions, but it can be difficult to generate a reliable reproducer for them. It often succeeds nonetheless. In other cases there can be a wide gap between the proximate and root causes of a crash. For instance some system call bug might corrupt memory in a way that only results in a crash some time later, when some asynchronous task runs, in which case it's also difficult to find a reproducer. Sanitizers can help identify such bugs earlier and so reduce the amount of manual analysis needed in the absence of a reproducer.

I'm not sure what happened in this case. The linked report does indeed have an associated reproducer.
memcpy is the only defined way to type pun in C++. Anyone intentionally avoiding it probably has UB instead.
I though it was:

Acul din carul cu fân

Literal translation: The needle in the hay cart
There's a different doctor that is using turbines to continually move blood. They have special bearings that prevent shredding and clots. Interesting note: a patient with this system will have no detectable pulse!

https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-02/no-pulse-how-...

Also, it seems that this doctor was pushing the turbine heart system on patients that didn't actually need it in order to further research.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investigations/article...
They took our 3 games I had published with them. It sucks. I think I'm not up to date with their new AD api or my games were not configured to properly display ads for people below 13 years of age. This whole thing happened exactly when my old computer failed (my developer key and projects are there in this computer, which I cannot access right now).
-Guess what: many muggings are committed by drug addicts in need of funds to finance their habit; regulate the drug business and much of that crime segment will go away.
Megacorps want an ally to prosecute them. Go figure. Yeah me too, my judge should be my favorite uncle.
Maybe he’ll become a resident cartoonist, documenting the inner life of these tech giants through his work.
According to the World Bank, The Netherlands are the 23rd country in the world with the lowest organized crime:

https://tcdata360.worldbank.org/indicators/h3031de56?indicat...

They are tied with Switzerland with the 27th lowest homicide rate in the world:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
Questionable. Prices for fuel will rise and people pay more. End of story.

Infrastructure sometimes requires you to have a car. Fuel price must change by a few magnitudes to change consumer behavior.

I can guarantee that 2022 will have more cars and more energy use than 2021. To be fair: I don't think there is any policy that could change that fact.
I was more saying that you buy the components and put the pieces together according to the datasheet.
That sounds like the worst of both worlds: allow a massive market to develop and then funnel the money into the criminal sector…
> $30k isn't cheap imo

Many non-treehugger analysts are projecting upfront price parity is expected by ~2025 without subsidy. Coupled with lower fuel and maintenance costs the adoption curve will really take off at that point. Will they be for everyone at that point? No. By 2035? Seems likely they will be for the vast majority of people, my guess is there will need to be some option for plugin hybrids for some.
Technically correct, but so unhelpful. No way I'm using a project that has this kind of community engagement.
He’s just saying that if you’re an American, you probably don’t have much hand in the destruction of the rain forrest via consumption.
This. We can't just plant more trees to make up for the trees that have been cut down. It's not a 1:1
oh don't worry: the 1% will just go to Mars and leave the peasants to fend for themselves :)
Germany floods: At least 42 dead and dozens missing after record rain
That was what I expected from the description as well. After reading the readme it's not clear to me what problem this is trying to solve, and why this is the solution.