skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's why Europe is so underrepresented in big-tech internationally and the biggest wealthiest European companies are fashion related(LVMH) where the selling point is the name brand without any substance.

Not sure market cap is really the metric here (and only 2 of the top 10 are currently fashion related, the rest is pharma, semiconductor, food, ecommerce, banking, etc.), since those can be easily inflated to completely unreasonable levels and are more an indicator of marketing success than anything else.
Maybe take a look at the export statistics and you'll find machines and chemicals taking up a very large fraction.

However much more interesting is how much of the global economy depends on certain companies: Siemens automation (larger market share than the next two competitors combined). Chemicals - BASF is currently the largest chemical producer in the world (with also the largest chemical production complex in the world being located in Germany). Semiconductors - Without ASML, Zeiss and Trumpf (nevermind all the chemical companies) you will have a hard time producing the chips in your iPhone or any modern desktop/laptop.
No matter how much I am not a fan, but SAP might also be of relevance in a few companies..

Also Nokia and Ericsson are not gone from the mobile space, they just focus more on the backend stuff. So while your phone might no longer be from them, there is a decent chance that your phone will be talking to a Nokia or Ericsson device over the air (especially since Huawei hit a bit of a snag in the US and parts of the EU).
This happens because the US is exporting inflation. That is, countries need to sell more of their local currency and use more USD to buy the same quantities of dollar denominated products, resulting in the USD going up. This is one of the reasons why they will try to decouple from the USD.

In the past, countries had no other option than to continue using dollars. Nowadays there is a growing group of nations willing to trade in other currencies.
4. A lot of modern software would be so painful to package that nobody can face packaging it anyway.
Although it’s best practice to run images through a compressor at some point in the build/deploy practice…in reality not everyone does that.

But if you work with Photoshop-generated PNGs with alpha transparency: try to work in some sort of post-Photoshop compression. I can get significant improvements on these type of images.

https://imgur.com/ouTiSrP

(Yes, this would be a dumb image to save as a PNG, versus an SVG with a shadow, but, just for quick demo purposes.)
Same in percentage or in absolute numbers?
I wonder if the first point is due to a paradox of advanced tools.. society lives around "how do you assemble teams to solve big problems", they need organization tricks more than logic/language ones. That's why RoR, go, etc win, they allow most groups to end up with something workable. Haskell and the likes are more about exploration.. not tending to companies needs for profits.

About the last point, my tiny observations is that language too advanced don't get used as dependencies.. they get ignored until the crowd matures enough to get the ideas in their own ways and pull a gene transfer.

- lisp idioms (map, filter, destruct) => all dyn langs

- react / vue .. basically let over lambda and closure based programming (I even believe vue provide/inject is near equal to dynamic variables)

wait until someone there likes to thread state or rng seeds through 'chains of functions' and you'll see monads pop up
> The solution to this is to change the license to forbid redistribution, not to write an open letter.

An open letter is a much softer approach. There's room for options between "legally permissible, end of story" and "completely prohibited".
I dreamt about the US startup scene for ages; now I get to be part of it
The biggest challenge we have with stablecoins is justifying why when US Dollars are ubiquitous and "free".

I think there are some good arguments for stablecoins in markets that desire dollars, but they are hard to get -- or for high denomination notes, however, we suspect there would be additional regulatory challenges here.
If "information is a measure of surprise", then you don't want every prediction to be wrong. You want every prediction to have a 50% chance of being wrong. Half of your experiments should be failures.
But there are many manufacturers of cameras. How do I know that a particular clip should even be signed?

Signatures don’t change the provenance problem.
I dunno. The regular wood frame houses are pretty much like lego already. Cut standard-sized beams, assemble a frame out of them, put in pipes/wires, drywall on top, insulation inside, trim & paint to your liking.

Making modular wood+drywall+trim sections in a factory could make it cheaper, but that's just another way to transfer wealth from the local workers to another factory in China, conveniently excluding transportation from your CO2 calculations.
Identity theft is not flattery
Maybe if we spent a few more years improving computers and materials before so many launches, we could have done more with less money. Likewise for the disastrous Shuttle program.
Yeah, they contrast their method with homomorphic encryption, which makes me share your suspicion
Religiously motivated persecution of sexual minorities isn't just "past few centuries".
No I am telling you that your implementation is subpar even to open source once that need only few shot training.
The USB standard and the processes and groups governing it are quite unlike those for ActiveX.
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I’m currently a bit overweight, like maybe 10-15lbs. This is because I have some combination of bandwidth-consuming and focus-consuming things going on that results in me not doing an obviously correct thing: get the fuck back in shape.

Every hacker in the peanut gallery deep-down knows that they should know Haskell and Lisp well. They resent the fact that their job or personal life or whatever doesn’t leave room to get serious about computation theory. And they vent this frustration endlessly on people lucky enough to have had the bandwidth at the right time to thoughtfully contrast computation with physical computing machines (the only person I know to stomp Lemire in AVX is a GHC hacker).

I’m kinda fat because I haven’t fixed it yet. People don’t know Haskell and Lisp well because they haven’t fixed it yet.

Neither is an appealing look.
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It is in EU's interest to keep trading with Russia

It is not in US's interest to let EU keep trading with Russia

USA wants the EU to be their giant marketplace where they can sell their culture and products

USA also wants to weaken Russia so they can finally contain China North, East, West and South

Seems like you were sleeping the past century, blurry days ahead!
I'm willing to bet that your friends and family wouldn't be happy if the European Union would mandate using IRC everywhere. Heck, why not go further and stick to the good old ntalk [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_(software)
I wonder if the issue could be solved by upstream. Spin up a new email address for each release -- xscreensaver-1.0@some_domain.org, then once they've moved on to version 1.1, set up an auto response and stop checking the email address.
I think people around the world underestimate just how much support there is in the US for things like "broken English" and immigrants generally. There are some high-profile political counter-examples, of course, but by and large, immigrants still find the US much more welcoming to immigrants than most other countries.

That doesn't mean it's safer, and we still often struggle with delivering health care, but it's a weirdly welcoming place.
Yes, it does: an armed populace is harder to push around.
Proponents of electric cars love to talk about daily commutes and charging at home over night and how they never have to "fill up", while either never leaving a 200 mile bubble around their home, or pretending they're okay with paying an extra $1k+ to rent an ICE car for road trips.

As someone who does not have a commute and mainly owns a car for the 600-2000 mile road trips I take _at least_ every ~6 weeks. I'd much prefer a PHEV, which incidentally can drastically increase range while also handling the ~30 mile average daily commute electric-only quite easily.

The absolutism is tiring.
I would not go so far as to call selling our time to produce what ads and marketing create demand for as free trade.

Polls show little interest in making McDoubles and tons of interest in healthcare and education jobs.

Somehow there’s always financing for cheap consumer jobs while costly jobs face more uncertainty: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1505597901011005442

The market is unfalsifiable like a religion now. Free trade is captured by rent seekers who believe past success in one special context makes them the best person to handle any context. The memes are no longer based in historical religion, but the lack of critical challenge and blind allegiance to normal humans self aggrandizing story, being dictated at by they who live privileged lives far away is as traditional as it gets.

I’d like to see a rescope of political power that better conforms to where all this value comes from: https://www.unlv.edu/news/article/future-american-city-state

https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the...

Coddling certain sensibilities and foisting nostalgia driven politics on the masses, tacit ageism towards youth through hand me down gossip and schooling of industrialist owners who need cheaper labor, are hardly hallmarks of a free society.

We moved manufacturing into rural areas a century ago seeking cheaper labor, then overseas for the same reason. Human agency is dictated by financiers empowered by political tradition. There’s no theory I know of that concludes they are absolutely making sound choices for anyone but themselves. The blind faith in grand schemes thing has got to go.
No, it means lower prices on the limited number of goods which were oversupplied that nobody wants right now. It doesn't mean lower prices on the stuff everyone is still buying like food and gas.
What about https://slate.com/technology/2014/01/robot-odyssey-the-harde...

Learn some boolean logic ;)
I'm not a regular Target shopper, but when I've gone in for specific purchases (basic clothes, small appliances, gifts) I've found only empty shelves where what I wanted should have been, surrounded by stuff that looks like it's been there for years. Reminds me a lot of K-Mart or Sears in the first years of their decline–nothing you want and everything you don't.
I was going to disagree as I used to know one the standards people at Intel quite well (who always regretted that USB was orientation specific)--and I didn't remember anything like that. But you're right. Intel was pushing Ajay Bhatt was one of the people Intel highlighted as a face behind Intel's technology. (Although the campaign wasn't specific to USB.) https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2009/05/intel_ad_campaig...
You can simultaneously believe that financial transactions are private communications, and also that a securities broker being required to verify their customer's identity pursuant to KYC and AML regulations is reasonable. Your post is very vague (since the comment you're giving thanks to focused on a semantics "gotcha" and completely avoided the actual point) so I'm curious as to why you think KYC/AML regulations are invalid and brokerages and centralized crypto exchanges shouldn't be subject to them in the light of "private financial transactions".
They did.

Found this from comments on ProductHunt

> thanks for a great question. Candidly speaking, I’d say we’re taking a “move fast” and “seek forgiveness later” approach. The plan is a) to try to apologize and get a license if there are demands and if that doesn’t work b) create new synthetic voices that are not of real people.

This infuriates me to no end. People with that kind of mentality fuck up the entire startup ecosystem for everyone.
Only if you have better lawers than Amazon (lawops?)
> there is an argument for semi-onshoring, aka not quite getting it to the US but reducing supply chain risk

"Friend shoring" [1].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-24/-onshorin...
Eh, Berners-Lee could have written that proposal for a different collaborative project, or someone else would have eventually.

We already had gopher. Web was an incremental step.
inflation started way before Russia/Ukraine was a thing.
1. I think this is just a headline. Maybe the page is rendering wrong for me but i don't see an article.

2. The Blaze is a Conservative media outlet started by Glenn Beck. It's not straight news.
I mean... for the most part, these are issues that the upstream maintainers should be fixing. For example, the font rendering in Bottles broke when they updated to GTK4. Instead of fixing this in the actual GTK4 codebase, the GNOME foundation recommended that everyone start using Flatpak, where they could apply a very specific system patch that works around this issue.

This is the problem with encouraging this "use our kitchen sink" behavior. It encourages poor development practices, and it ends with developers grovelling and asking users to switch their packaging systems. Imagine if you tried installing an app on Windows or MacOS, and they demanded that you install a separate package manager along with it. It's an unacceptable demand to make of anyone, and certainly shouldn't be the behavior we encourage if we want to live in a world of high-quality Free Software.
What happens after the expiration date?
Following this completely imaginary "never end a sentence with a preposition" rule is some bullshit up with which I will not put.
It was a very bad idea. "We don't need nuclear power, we have Russian gas" is pretty hard to defend as an idea, really. Especially after Russia went pretty overt in its ambitions to re-establish the empire. And the invasion of Georgia was years before construction of Nord Stream 1 started and Nord Stream 2 went into planning. The annexation of Crimea years before the construction of Nord Stream 2 started.
looks like physics disgrams too
As in... Cash?
if you're biased against crypto, then you want this to be legit

if you're a crypto influencer, you might try to see if you have been implicated in the supposed leak

but if you're skeptical ... how can you be sure this isn't a scam?
just google "usd [country] exchange rate"
Meh. I have had the time to learn a fair amount of Haskell and do a few projects in it (mainly interpreters). It's a fun language in some ways, and it was nice to know how to use it because it expands your ways of thinking, but beyond that it's not terribly useful, and I don't think that it's much better at that than other functional programming languages. Learning about the type-system is neat but IMO not as perspective changing as "getting" purely functional programming.

However, as an actual tool to do actual work, I really don't see why you would go about it for anything but very specific projects.
Probably highly industry dependent but I would generally agree. Professional networking probably would be email and linkedin at the top. With so many people using gmail sharing your google account address also loops you into chat and all their other services which adds a whole nother layer.
Self-hosting Gitlab typically consumed about 1/8 FTE for projects I've worked on, which comes out to 50-100 users break-even point, depending on your sysadmin salaries.
No, it's not Open Source. It's a perfectly justifiable decision, but it's not Open Source, nor is it equivalent.

Yes, your license means that individual users can make little patches to customize the product to their needs, and even share these customizations with other users. That's great!

But the license effectively prohibits borrowing code from your codebase for use in other projects, meaning your code does not become part of the aether of Open Source code that anyone can build upon. That's a very important part of what it means to be "Open Source".

It also effectively prevents any large-scale modification or forking effort, since maintaining patches as the underlying codebase evolves is a hard job, and the license prohibits people from funding such effort. If users want timely security updates, they will need to stick close to your version of the codebase. So the lock-in is there.

Again, this is all a perfectly justified direction for you to take. I don't blame you at all, and I definitely understand that it's Amazon's fault that we cannot have nice things. But it's not Open Source.

On a tangentially-related note, a little tip: You have defined all noncommercial organizations -- including education, public research, and government -- as being permitted users. That may be dangerous. I was the founder of Sandstorm, and these organizations were exactly the ones most interested in paying for our product -- literally the only big sales we ever made were a couple universities, a big research org, and a government. Despite being non-profit, these orgs have lots of money and a need for self-hosting.
They sell CI/CD pipeline service, which one can build their infra around. This is supposed to work "in the cloud" with availability/reliability of the cloud... and this is one of their selling points.
Or instead of that, people could use their legal and democratic rights to enforce a standardization.

If you don't like it, feel free to vote for something different. But apparently the people in the EU disagree with you, and believe that the world would be better off if they enforced a standard.

> Do you really need the government to make your choices for you?

A user does not have a choice to use USB-C with certain devices right now. That is why there is a law, that now allows users to choose that.

If Apple doesn't like it, then I guess they can of their own free choice, choose to leave the EU.

They do not own the EU. They can take the deal, follow the law, or shut down in the EU. Thats their choice to sell to that market.
Interesting. I've been told that the suit is so ubiquitous over history and nationalities, because it flatters older and portly gentlemen more than other items.
I still run into challenges with ID3v2 tags on a regular basis trying to manage my offline music collection.

One of the most frequent problems is how to organize various pressings of an album. Specifically, if I have an album that was originally released in 1970, but my copy in question is a Remaster from 2001, what do I use for the year? 1970, or 2001? You might initially think to pick the Remaster year, but let's assume that this is Album II of Famous Band, and I don't happen to have a rip of the original release. Now when I'm navigating through the band chronologically (as I usually do), the order looks like this:

Famous Band - 1968 - Album I

Famous Band - 1969 - Album II

Famous Band - 1974 - Album IV

Famous Band - 1980 - Album V

Famous Band - 1990 - Album VI

Famous Band - 2001 - Album III (Remastered)

My solution thus far has been to tag the album with the original release year, but then change the Album Name to "Album III (Remastered, 2001)". It's still not perfect, though.

It's somewhat gratifying to see that streaming platforms have the same problem, though, as I can see on Spotify/Tidal/Youtube Music that they regularly disagree on the release date of an album if their source is the remaster or re-release pressing.
It can be disproved within reason. The only new thing a magic new cable would bring to the table is more power, which is not practical to have.

The big innovation I'd love to have? Having only ONE charger for all my devices, forever. That absolutely destroys any "innovation" Apple or whoever can bring to the table.
I don’t think the moon landing is celebrated because it gave us Velcro and Tang. I don’t think Einstein is so famous because he helped create the foundation for cell phones.

Daily quality of life is important but I think there is a deeper feeling about life that most people share.
While the product itself also looks interesting, I'd mainly want to congragulate the developers on their choice of licensing. While it might not be for everyone, there really needs to be a larger movement of exploring and upgrading OSS licensing models to better fit today's digital economy.
>I created a new DB architecture that is radically different than anything I have seen. It is a set of performant key-value stores that can be grouped together to form relational tables.

So ... MongoDB + Neo4j

Maybe one or the other without the combination?
I imagine to myself how absurd it would be to make this same statement about places like New York City or Dublin at this point.

Immigrants with money and/or skills want to live in your country and you want to say no?

It’s almost unfathomable to me. 1/3 of NYC wasn’t even born in this country.

If the system isn’t being run well with the right incentives, sure, that’s a good criticism. The incentive and taxation system could be fixed to ensure ex-pats assimilate and live as locals.

But I think that blanket statement of “don’t come here, we might not be so friendly” is more of a xenophobic response.
Then at least one isn't USB-C? Or the spec isn't good enough?

The regulation (I hope) is about actually adhering to USB-C, not merely shipping with USB-C connectors. And the bar to pass should be to be able to use a large stack of USB-C chargers and work.
Jack of all trades, master of hyperfocus
And therein lies the actual problem. Far less complex systems in other countries with similar per capita GDP do not have this issue. And part of the reason they're less complex is because they don't allow a basic human need to be managed by a mostly for-profit system.
I find it very surprising something like this would be a random post on eBay instead of going to a big auction house to verify the authenticity and get it in front of a large audaince of deep pockets.

The last one went for ~$500k.
When I encounter this, I will tell them politely that while they were my first choice, I have an offer in hand that I will be pursuing.

This gets them out of their "so many choices" analysis paralysis mode and if they like you enough, into a FOMO mode where they risk losing to to an unnamed competitor. If it doesn't get them into a FOMO mode, then they weren't that into you in the first place and you saved the time waste.

$0.02.
"What's this? The American working class is struggling because wages haven't kept pace with cost of living in 50 years? Surely suppressing wages even more will fix that!"
I haven’t seen this mentioned yet…

The West coast Port Workers Association contract is being renegotiated and if I was a savvy buyer I would stock up inventory before and after the negotiation window instead of having my inventory stuck on a boat in the Bay Area. This obviously isn’t the whole answer, but a possible contributing cause.

Also there has not been a lot of coverage on this considering how big of a deal a strike would be if they could not come to terms. The most recent article was about 4 weeks ago according to a cursory google news search.

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/us-importer...