skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least between Finland and Sweden it seems to work fine. My mother is from Finland and lives in Sweden now. She got a phonecall from Finland when it was time for her pension. Just confirmed with her and set it up so she gets her pension transfered to her account every month. She had just about forgotten about it since it was 40+ years ago she moved to Sweden.
My laptop is raised to the height of my other monitors by Feynman's boxed set of Lectures on Physics, Aho & Ullman's Foundations of Computer Science, and a Scott Adams compendium.

This way my computing is based on a strong foundation...
Overall I think geo-locking was bad, but I wouldn't go this far:

> Geo-locking is such an obviously bad idea for consumers.

Depends a little on the consumers, really. Region-locking enabled them to sell cheaper copies in lower-wealth areas, the same way that movie ticket prices were lower. Without geo-locking, pricing strategy gets much more complicated, but it's a fair guess that consumers in regions 3-6 (that is, the majority of humanity) would have either paid more or gotten movies later.
I've spent a lot of time doing the latter and had trouble understanding the former the one time I needed it (during a high pressure project where I simply didn't have time or the quiet time to spend two days digesting it).

Glad to know that the problem isn't totally me :)
The 2016 and 2017 MBPs had garbage USB-C ports which wore out their detents after like 10 insertions. The charge cable (or worse, data cable for an external hard drive) would fall out or lose connectivity with the slightest shift in position.
Apple make billions every quarter and at this point no one can realistically unseat them.

They collect pretty much all the profit in the phone market.

They don’t technically have a monopoly, but they are in an incredibly strong position which is close to being guaranteed for the short and medium term.
Or…no footage exists.
> This could be considered a good thing.

Lower wages, lower job mobility, asset deflation, consumable inflation -- YAY!

...
Yes - you can find book rebinders who can take a paperback book and make a bound book out of it.
This isn’t 1980, raising interest rates doesn’t fix supply chain issues. This isn’t inflation it’s a real supply shortage. By the fed doesn’t seem to know how to help with that so, let’s just tank everything. Killing demand to get workers back to lower wages and unemployment up seems to be that real goal.
Not an expert, but I would expect hunchentoot https://edicl.github.io/hunchentoot/ for the backend and a Common Lisp "dsl" generating javascript for the frontend.
Google is pretty bad, and there’s no way I would buy any Google manufactured device (hunk of e-waste?)

Your point is valid though, there are hundreds of other companies involved in this standard, many of them will make fantastic devices and there’s no reason to ignore them all because of one bad vendor.
Comparing things isn't saying that they're the same, in fact many times it's to say they are different.
By that logic we should be sending thousands of dollars a year to our operating system vendors. Are you by chance a Red Hat employee?
Personally, I think this is the best solution I've heard. It still has problems in that copyright holders need to be proactive and it punishes work that can't pay the copyright extension fee that doesn't become popular until later but I think these are reasonable compromises to make to serve the larger good.

I haven't figured out a way to push this narrative in any meaningful way. People have a hard time distinguishing arguments against copyright from arguments for copyright reform. Most of the time I have to stress that I'm not for copyright abolishment but more reasonable copyright terms and extension protocols.
Act-on | Frontend | Portland, US REMOTE | Full-time

Act-On is a marketing automation platform for SMBs. The UI is in transition to being completely written in React and Typescript (there is legacy Angular and JSP code but unless this is interesting for you, you won't need to work on that), plus React Testing Library and Cypress for testing. This position is part of the core UI development team, meaning you'll have plenty of opportunity to bring your creativity to the task. You should have at least four years of React experience and at least two of Typescript.

https://act-on.com/careers/careers-aggregate/?p=job%2FozULkf...

We're also looking for a Senior Product Designer (https://act-on.com/careers/careers-aggregate/?p=job%2FoUhKkf...) to join what I see as a very strong, user-centered UX team.
Gitlab Ultimate uses Rezilion to accomplish a similar aim. Rather than using the principle of "reachability", Rezilion analyzes at runtime what functions and classes are loaded to memory. Much more deterministic and less of a guess about what code will be called.

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/03/23/gitlab-rezilion-int...
No, I am writing it from the universe where I looked at the closing price on friday and then checked the open price on monday, and I was consistent with it.

All while you posted friday close for TSLA and compared it to monday open, but didn't do the friday close for SPY. If you are looking just at monday-open to monday-close (which is what you did for SPY), TSLA moved from 243 to 242. As of today, TSLA is over $246.
Thanks, that's three people now; you've changed my mind on this point.
Just like patents are right now.
If there is nuclear risk from Russia, losing a war of conquest that Russia started, Russia ought to take a step back and reassess their options rather than reaching for the canned sunshine.
Since vacation is defined as positive and fun I wouldn't call it a class vacation.
Would love to see your contributions on libSQL!
They exist but they cost $15,000.

https://www.totalphase.com/products/advanced-cable-tester-v2...
Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights
Keffals: A Case Study on Internet Terrorism and Mass Media Manipulation
I used Spark for a while, as it supported Exchange/O365 out of the box which was one advantage over Thunderbird. It also has decent mobile support.

But Thuderbird is a superior email client, IMHO
One one hand, SQLite would probably be a more expansive project if it allowed contributions in the same way PostgreSQL does. On the other hand it would likely make it both a larger and more complex project.

I think a better tradeoff would be making the case for why SQLite should have the hooks needed to implement the edge computing bits desired without forking the project itself or attempting to replace what has made it so great for so many years.

This approach would allow the extra behaviors to be managed out of tree and allow more free experimentation as a result without prematurely landing on "blessed" approaches to these very complex and frankly not yet well solved problems.
Ask HN: Why Musk’s Twitter news is not on front page?
I came to read the commentary about Musk’s offering to complete the acquisition of Twitter, instead we have Donald Knuth on the front page. I love computer science, but I am yearning to read your thoughts on Musk’s change of mind.
Yup this is huge government overreach and the EU increasingly looks hostile to tech companies which produce most of the value in modern economies.

Don’t like the lightning cable? Buy a different phone, it’s really that simple
I like https://www.trueup.io/layoffs a bit more because of the stacked chart. I was [pleasantly] surprised that September layoffs were less than half of the ones in the previous month.
For me glossy screen is deal breaker, 1080p is just right resolution.
Small nit: if you actually read your citation, it's not Norvig's law, but Proebsting's law[1]. It's a pessimistic spoof of Moore's law, but IMO just reflects how much closer to optimal we started from than the first transistors were. Or maybe how much of a head start we've had doing this on paper for centuries.

Like, I would frankly be surprised if we ever got more than one doubling out of Proebsting's law.

[1]: https://www.gwern.net/docs/cs/algorithm/2001-scott.pdf
It was a grappling exercise meant to simulate a riot. The article unhelpfully offers no explanation for why the training schedule changed.
How is it a falsehood? The EU was threatening to enforce micro-usb unless the companies get their shit together. They did, so the EU didn't have to, then.
My argument was against all the people saying "but this way we're going to be stuck with USB-C until the end of time!". The EU was happy with the market going from micro-USB to USB-C at it's own pace. They didn't want to legislate "use microUSB forever" and they didn't have to.

The EU's preferred way would let the industry continue to innovate freely as long as the market converged on common, open standards. But 30% of the market (=Apple) using a proprietary non-licensable plug was too far away from the idea of market experimentation.
In this world? Their share price assumes > 200% annual YoY growth for the next 6-8 years at least. Stock price is down 15% in the last 5 days (GOOG up 4%, META up 4%, F (ford) up 2%: not a general market movement) so the market seems to agree with me?
1. Objects are sets of keys

2. JS has Map/Set which allow other composite types as keys and can be converted to objects for JSON serialization then deserialize back to Map/Set.
Now you can, but back in the day of hardware-only players, those were also region locked. So it was much stronger than an honor system originally.
Maybe be it's not all bad but it gets worse
Youtube was a jewel. Sign out, clear your cookies, and take a look at the default recommendations to a new user. It's a cheap TikTok clone.

It's a shame, because I've learned so much. I have also wasted a lot of time and attention there.

Edit: I should clarify "learned so much". I learned a lot by watching knowledgable and skilled people share their experiences and wisdom. However, there comes a point where you are just watching someone else lead their lives, instead of leading your own.
Lack of legislation
Choosing a license that is not as good as public domain is a way to preclude "rejoining core SQLite".
The simple explanation is he knows he is going to lose (as everyone has been saying since he tried to back out), and either be forced to buy the company or pay a break up fee. With most thinking the fee would be in the 10B+ range, there's an argument to just go through with the sale and at least end up with an asset. In some ways at 10B+, he's pot committed.
Theologician sounds like a perfectly cromulent word, we should establish a doctorate in it immediately.
Not large, but they do often have some kind of battery.
It's the Portability Regulation: https://www.jipitec.eu/issues/jipitec-9-2-2018/4728
In Eagleland, one does not simply do wire transfers. They can take days and are usually reserved for large sums of money.

Some American banks participate in a network called Zelle, which does allow instant electronic funds transfer. But, Zelle is available exclusively through your bank's phone app.
Ah, makes sense, thanks for clarifying, I really appreciate it. Until this moment, I was genuinely trying every possible interpretation I could think of, but this one never crossed my mind.
As someone with a startup this makes a lot of sense… I don’t need (and can’t afford) full-time roles for everything and part time roles may be a bit more flexible for where we’re at.
100%. But this is not a positive thing for men or women.
Just lip service? Chromium (and blink and v8) have been used as the basis for a significant number of important open source projects.
They fired 107 shots, some of which made it into my old teachers’ house. Completely wild that none were charged as those actions were actually worse than a gang related drive by.
I heard this argument and thought the same, but looking into it there is no standard definition for a recession. Two quarters is a nice layman version people share, but it does involve other factors. This isn't something that's changed recently, economic textbooks from the early 2000s say this too. Just something some people heard and ran with :)

When people hear these anecdotes, check yourself! In an era of fake news and bubbles you have to be accountable to yourself by researching if common sayings are really true before sharing them.
Chaos is here to challenge duality
Instead of a one-size-fits-all tool, I prefer having a ton of sample projects which demonstrate different use cases. Give me the barebones hello world, the typical simple project, and the nightmare of C dependencies, and I can figure out what I need.

That's not trivial to maintain, but neither is the tool.
Zimbabwe has 200% interest rates and 280% inflation iirc

https://www.africanews.com/2022/06/28/zimbabwes-key-interest...

Why am I being downvoted? All this is is a data point showing that rising interest rates don't have to bring down inflation.
Here is some code on GitHub that does call site checking using SemGrep: https://github.com/lunasec-io/lunasec/blob/master/lunatrace/...

(Note: I helped write that. We're building a similar service to the r2c one.)

You're right that patching is hard because of opaque package diffs. I've seen some tools coming out like Socket.dev which show a diff between versions. https://socket.dev/npm/package/react/versions

But, that said, this is still a hard problem to solve and it's happened before that malware[0][1] has been silently shipped because of how opaque packages are.

0: https://web.archive.org/web/20201221173112/https://github.co...

1: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2018/11/27/fake-developer-s...
Maybe exotic is a better word? It is certainly not seen as often as Java is, but it is no Malbolge.
They have changed their minds on features before. E.g., FULL OUTER JOIN. They should and almost certainly do feel free to change their minds on features relating to distributed DBs.
Musk exclamation #9819891821981, after the previous 9,819,891,821,980 exclamations were just his usual self-serving, self-aggrandizing hype/troll comments, do not a good front page post make.
Reading your cite, Norvig's law is different. He credits Todd Proebsting with that observation. (Peter Norvig's law is that something that is at 50% adoption will never double again.)
I’m suggesting that plainly-labeled placebos should replace homeopathy, so no need to convince me of the value of placebos! I’m just not interested in litigating the medical evidence with homeopathy proponents, because that tactic has been tried for decades and is an abysmal failure at ending homeopathy. (You’re welcome to keep trying if you like, but I’ve nothing new to contribute to such efforts.)
SiFive rolls out safety centric RISC-V based Automotive processor IP
I believe Dolby Vision is only on 4k Blu Rays, so you're probably good.
I guess we'll just throw out the W3C too
I'd wager that physical vs. digital media does somewhat affect the outcomes here…
It did NOT vaguely look like Dorner's truck, it was a completely different make and color! Literally the only similarities were having a pickup bed!
> Extremely well written and maintained and high quality as of now and having a plan to make sure that can continue in the future are sometimes entirely different things with needs that oppose each other.

Software that's truly "extremely well written and maintained and high quality as of now" has the option of a plan like:

> "At the time of my death, it is my intention that the then-current versions of TEX and METAFONT be forever left unchanged, except that the final version numbers to be reported in the “banner” lines of the programs should become [pi and e] respectively. From that moment on, all “bugs” will be permanent “features.” (http://www.ntg.nl/maps/05/34.pdf)

If your software needs perpetual maintenance, that's a good sign that it's probably not that high quality.
I've always enjoyed this one: https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdo...
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I'm looking for automation, scripting, making developer tooling, and prototyping. I can pick most things up really quickly and I like to write good documentation. I'm N3-level in Japanese.
> BLS salary data comes from surveys of employers. I would expect that data to be much more accurate than forum posts.

I would expect it to be more biased towards employers. For example, pharmacists were complaining about only getting scheduled for 32 hours per week of work. That is a 25% reduction in pay.

They have also had to accept drastic decreases in quality of life at work, increasing their own personal liability for malpractice.

These kinds of things would only happen if the supply of pharmacists was outstripping demand of pharmacists.

> Also, growth in number of jobs is not necessarily correlated with salary changes.

For the purposes of their “job outlook” section, I do not see why it would not correlate. And not just salary, but pay to quality of life at work ratio, which is hard to define as a number.
Fair enough, It could be read that way.

I get frustrated that the code of ethics gets so much attention of sqlite, in a bike shed type of way.

But by mentioning that, I think I've drawn even more attention to it. My bad.
I live in Paris. For tourists or travelers the alternative are not really ready. Ticket on smartphone support is bad (only specific models, and no iPhones) and unlike London or Brussel, you cannot use your credit card as a ticket.

So your only hope is to already have a dedicated rechargeable card. But this card is not sold in the automated machine. So if you are a tourist in some small station and you realize at midnight that you need to take the subway, there will be no way to buying a ticket…

Im all for ending those tickets, but the RATP is really bad at supporting alternatives.
So I get that people have issues with lazy doctors who pass out pills like candy. But that's not how ADHD is handled. It requires a diagnosis which takes time, then pills are prescribed from a physiatrist at low doses at first.

As someone who was diagnosed with ADHD in my 40s, it was a great relief and surprise at how effective stimulants work. I have struggled my entire life, and have burned myself out multiple times trying to maintain a balance in my life. There's a huge mental burden every day. Trying to remember what you need to do, remember the best strategies to stay on track, spiking anxiety, feelings of guilt and shame, which can spiral into depression.

These sorts of judgement statements, dismissive words from family or friends, and indifference from the public over mental health has kept many people from seeking treatment for a very wide range of issues.

We need more empathy towards the fact that mental health IS health. We need more insurance support for these issues (because it's expensive!). Furthermore, we need more empathy and support towards those that do get addicted to ANYTHING. Addiction is not limited to drugs.

Starting with the assumption that people are drug abusers is damaging, and is entirely faulty.
Never heard of him, is he another great computer scientist?

I'd love it if someone like Chris Wellons or Per Bothner could work on them, but filling Knuth's shoes may be a big task for one man.
No, it's a warning. If Google's enthusiasm for this protocol makes or breaks Android compatibility with Matter, what happens when (not if) they walk away?

I don't trust Apple and Amazon to keep the faith either, but Mountain View is the weakest link here.
> Still, it is odd that iOS 16, including Safari, has added support for AVIF but HEIF still doesn't work in Safari.

Exactly. Safari had the motivation/resources to add AVIF support, but not HEIF. So it seems like Apple chose to back the wrong horse (HEIC) at first and is now pivoting to AVIF
If UML is dead, I do hope there will be a replacement; I dread having to create diagrams in LucidChart again -- even if they're technically incorrect.
At a previous job, HN's "Who's Hiring" was by far our most successful job posting. Frankly it was the only successful recruiting method of those we tried (setting aside personal referrals).
Interesting. Can you elaborate? Last I heard creator revenue is a direct result of total ad views. A quick google search would seem to confirm this is still the case.
This related article from the same blog, and its comment section, helped me understand the current state of matter and the trajectory of the standard after 1.0. It seems it will take some time to support the full range of typical devices. It’s also unclear what manufacturers will need to do to ease setup and interoperability within their own apps.

https://staceyoniot.com/5-ways-matter-will-disappoint-users-...
.... a submission doesn't have to be on the front page for you to be able to read the comments on it.
There is a supply shortage in some areas... and there is price inflation as well. That's actually what you'd expect with a supply shortage that isn't very evenly distributed anyway, but when you add dramatic expansion of the money supply in a period of very low interest rates on top of that, you'd certainly expect to see dramatic price inflation to match, as we have. The idea that a supply shortage is causing all of this seems insane.
I've wasted much more time than I should have reading HN today but somehow this comment made it all totally worthwhile. Thank you!
A magnetic attachment and break/away connector would be welcomed over the current usb-c connector. Now you can't have it.
I imagine it would serve a similar purpose to fucked company[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company
> Which may be true, but it can also be a self-fulfilling prophecy if everyone is doing that on all platforms. Which would be a shame.

This also happens with inflation. It is probably because people start acting differently. The hypothesis is that if people are preparing for a recession then demand goes down, which pushes prices up, which is identical to inflation. Obviously this model is far too simplistic but it is still interesting.
While I agree with the sentiment, the analogy is quite flawed.

Build once, run on any GPU is an excellent idea. We've all suffered for too long from the artificial limitings of GPU development and market manipulation at the hands of wish-I-could-be-a-monopoly NVIDIA.

The same way we can take any halfway decent software project and compile it on any architecture, whether it's Alpha, PowerPC, ARM or amd64, we need to have GPU code that can just run wherever, whether it's on AMD, NVIDIA, Intel, Apple ARM, or on general purpose CPUs when GPUs aren't available.

But what we DON'T need is another Java - we don't need broken backwards compatibility, stewardship by a backwards, money hungry corporation, tons of overhead, security nightmares.

We need open languages that can target any common platform, thank you, and if that's truly what Intel wants, too, then I'm all for it. Just not like Java, thank you.
Not OP but I think it probably is fairly common for them to be held accountable. I haven't seen any statistics on it, but I regard it is the most plausible case. You're claiming otherwise. What reason can you give for me to change my opinion?
You know what they say, right? Economists have predicted 9 of the last 5 recessions. Talk is just talk until people start believing it.
'License' and 'EULA' basically do what you propose in the software world. They were a ploy to get more rights form 'buyers' than copyright allowed.

It works so well that a lot of people think companies can't sell software without giving the right to unlimited copies, even if a book or dvd are trivial counterexamples.

Basically the button 'buy' changes to license
There were Stadia exclusives?