skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s an unfortunate crossover between people who want whole food and people who follow Gwyneth Paltrow, believe in Sedona vortex fruit cocktail crystal magnet medicinal woo, and have had their catalytic converter stolen 7 times for reasons they could never possibly comprehend.
We should require companies to use the word "license" rather than "buy," unless you receive a universe-wide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferrable at will, independently verifiable license (i.e., what it means to actually own a digital product).

I suspect that would quickly create a much more robust market in services offering upgraded worldwide licenses, and so on, and the market would clear at some price for those upgrades.
For sure:

- mobile phone and data roaming, the most notable user-facing innovation

- the single market itself with all the associated side legislation (GDPR, VAT OSS) that allows every tiny small business to serve the entire EU

- Schengen free-movement zone

- Euro currency

- SEPA instead of national schemes (ties in into the single market aspect as well) with everything from card payments over wire transfers to direct debit covered. Strong authentication required for opening bank accounts. No more paper cheques. (Directly compare all of this to the hot mess that the US is)

- EPD PS2 that forces banks to provide APIs to third parties, e.g. budget planners

- unified drone legislation that allows me without tons of paperwork and individual permits to fly my drone everywhere reasonable in Europe
Useful on the job? Absolutely. They give me hope that when my life is over I'll have done something more significant than pushing bits between API calls.

Disclaimer: I'm nowhere close to finishing any of the books.
And just as you can with the current MacBook lineup.
The EU created a technical standard (which basically just says, "use USB Micro-B"). Phone manufacturers voluntarily signed a Memorandum of Understanding, stating that they all agreed to abide by the standard.

None of it was binding or involuntary. Which is why Apple never released a micro-B phone and all other manufacturers were able to upgrade to USB-C.
If your button says "buy" and you do indeed "rent", you will loose my respect immediately and Inwill go out of my way to avoid buying anything from you.
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This is a SQL query term that I came across for the first time today - and I've been working with SQL databases for 30 years! Just goes to show there's always something new to learn.
The number of people could indeed be quite low, but I’m glad the use case is supported.

I buy digital films occasionally, only the ones that I know I’ll want to re-watch every year or two. It’s a much nicer experience to call one up on a whim than it is to find out which (if any) streaming service currently has them, sign up, then cancel. That’s worth the $10 or $15 I paid, especially considering that the wine consumed during each viewing matches or exceeds the same cost, depending on how many folks I’m watching them with.
It can be the opposite as well. I liked programming when I started doing it, over 30 years ago now. I don't like doing it anymore, although I am "good at" doing it, and it's really the only skill I have that will earn me the income I want to have. I will happily abandon it the day I retire and at least right now I my first priority is going to be reducing the amount of computer technology in my life to the absolute minimum.
A couple of months ago I pirated "You Won't Be Alone". I finally got around to watching it last night and today I'm going to go buy a digital copy of it. Note that I already have a digital copy, it's what I watched last night! But the film isn't available on any sort of disc, and it was an amazing movie and I want to support the filmmakers any way I can. I honestly have no idea how much of my $20 is going to flow from Amazon to the production company to (hopefully) eventually the director. But what else can I possibly do?
This proposal appears to be nothing more than a broad survey involving sampling and screening. This does not culture anything or infect any animals or any such.
I'm currently going through Fascicule 6A dedicated to SAT solving and I can tell you it is by far the best reference. I haven't found anywhere else a complete reference that builds a SAT solver from scratch while explaining why each technique is used.

Regarding more classical algorithms, I never bothered reading the other fascicles. I think there are much more practical references but none is as complete and detailed as Knuth's treatment. He goes to the bottom of any algorithm, not just proving it has the right complexity but also asking what inputs are the most difficult, what other problems it can solve, etc. In the end you understand the field much better and have a good idea of what the boundary of knowledge (ie research) looks like.

But, and I say that as an ICPC world finalist, if you just want to solve practical problems you probably won't need TAOCP.
But can you hack it?
"Why?" is probably the best response to this news, since Elon Musk was admant about seeing this through.

He was scheduled for a deposition this Thursday/Friday which might have been related to this sudden announcement: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/securities-law/musk-to-be-depo...
Echoing some of the other posters here: Clojure is fantastic, hiring (several) Clojure developers is hard.

Conversely, you can also get to the end of your roadmap quickly (Clojure being great) and end up overstaffed.

There's a different line to walk with languages like Clojure.

Source: I walked this line.
VisualWorks was the same

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32432411

except when it was using ENVY/Developer

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mastering_ENVY_Develope...

Also my guess is that with Gemstone the code was in the database (but I am just guessing).

https://gemtalksystems.com/products/gs64/
OnionPoison: Infected Tor Browser installer targets users located in China
> think Google but in cahoots with the authoritarian government

Sure, but the split appears have been very successful in this regard.

https://clickhouse.com/blog/we-stand-with-ukraine
The following questions helped me: what do you spend most of your free time doing voluntarily? Where do you have a backlog of material that you are afraid of showing to the world? What things do you take for granted because they come easy to you, that others have expressed appreciation or amazement at/offered to pay for?

Also, question your assumption that you need to find 1 thing and devote most of your time to it. Why? What's your goal?

If it's enjoyment, why 1 thing? If it's money, you only need to choose the highest paying profession that you can tolerate.
If the officers actions don't fall under qualified immunity then he can be sued personally and would be responsible for paying any damages awarded. The taxpayers might elect to cover the officers damages but they are generally not required to by state or federal law. There are some exceptions to this like New Mexico which abolished qualified immunity but at the same time required that the employer of the police cover any damages resulting from cases where the officer would have previously been covered by qualified immunity.
Steve Yegge Joins as Head of Engineering of Sourcegraph
Revenue Share Protocol V1
> are usually distinct in packaging and form.

That's the key point. It's deceptive (and should probably be illegal) to make a product look like medicine. It doesn't matter where you place it, if you put a banana on the side of the aspirins no one is going to complain it didn't cure their headache.
Well done, love the improvement shown in the side-by-side comparison!
What's wrong with the Bill of Rights given us by the Founding Fathers? They've served us well, giving us the most free country ever, and the free-est markets and capitalism. We should not add to them.
3D game running on FPGA shown to be 50x more efficient than on x86 hardware
A better connector would be round.
> Says who?

Who cares? Seriously, the OP made a claim that

> What just happened is, EU, a political organization enforcing the use of a technology on a company which operates on free market.

said claim being almost completely incorrect and devoid of fact. The reality is that in Free Markets, there is still heavy regulations.

I want to know, just what sort of Free Market you are living under that doesn't have regulations on consumer devices.
Clicking five semi-random links on the first page of pubmed is not a comprehensive review of the literature.

If you search homeopathy on Cochrane, who are somewhat the gold standard for reviews of medical evidence, 6 out of 6 that I checked concluded there's not enough evidence to say it works (there are more but I got bored and didn't check them all).

> People can dismiss the science, but that doesn't seem very rational to me.

On the contrary, homeopathy is like a low-level skill check for rationality. If you can be convinced homeopathy is real by a questionable grab-bag of studies, you can be convinced of anything.

There are also studies and meta-analyses showing parapsychic phenomena are real.

It's not that difficult to produce positive studies if you're motivated enough.

It's not just a case of "mechanism of action is unknown", it's that given the nature of homeopathic remedies, any possible (non-placebo) mechanism of action for it goes against our current understanding of physics and chemistry.

And any suggested mechanism for how water with not a single molecule of active ingredient is effective would additionally have to explain why it only works if it's packaged and sold at your local drugstore. Tap water should be high-strength homeopathic medicine for everything. After all I'm sure people have dumped homeopathic ingredients down the sink at some point. Water is cycled so most water should have most homeopathic properties already by now.
There's an extra level of misdirection here - those zinc lozenges say "homeopathic" on them, but are not homeopathic in any traditional sense. Homeopathic generally means that whatever 'active' ingredient has been diluted to the point that not a single molecule remains and the supposed therapeutic value comes from some sort of BS 'resonance' or whatever that the molecules have supposedly left on the remaining water.

However, if you look at the fine print, it's something like a '1x' homeopathic dilution, and it in fact contains the correct amount of zinc gluconate, which is the active ingredient that has been tested and found to probably reduce the duration of the common cold.

Edit: That said, zinc acetate has been found to probably be the more effective substance for reducing the duration of the common cold, and the main brand of those don't pretend to be homeopathic so are probably a better bet.
Yeah I think it probably has some kind of warning on the box. I keep it around. Once in a blue moon something I eat hits me wrong. I don't really want to go out and find a pharmacy in that state.
Railway sort of offers this: https://railway.app/button.

I've seen it around a couple of times, but ofc it's not hit the same momentum that Heroku had back in the day.
Originally they were just standard NPCs. They did not instakill. And while quite tough, they could be defeated. So a strong enough group could go in and clear out the guards until they respawned. At which point the town became lawless. I think the shift towards effectively being deities smiting criminals was complete by the end of Beta test though.
Ok fine, now I can’t wait for the EU to ban USB-C crapphones that people keep buy and trash every second year.
SQLite only works as a concept because it is not networked. Nobody truly understands the vast and unsolveable problem that is random shit going wrong within the communication of an application over vast distances. SQLite works great because it rejects the dogma that having one piece of software deal with all of that shit is in any way a good idea.

Back your dinky microservice with SQLite, run multiple copies, have them talk to each other and fumble about trying to get consensus over the data they contain in a very loose way. That will be much, much less difficult than managing a distributed decentralized database (I speak from experience). It's good enough for 90% of cases.

Remember P2P applications? That was basically the same thing. A single process running on thousands of computers with their own independent storage, shuffling around information about other nodes and advertising searches until two nodes "found each other" and shared their data (aw, love at first byte!). It's not great, but it works, and is a lot less trouble than a real distributed database.
There's been a lot of discussion about this, recently.

I think that some form of persistent medium might be useful, but the comparisons between, say, CDs, and digital music files, isn't really a "fair" one.

One of the biggest things about any physical media; whether it be vinyl record, CD, or even an SD card, is that the media has a finite lifetime. It may be a long lifetime, but the clock is ticking.

When we buy a CD, we aren't buying the music. We're buying the physical media on which the music has been placed. Tick-tick-tick... Eventually, the CD will die. At that point, we can't expect the music store to give us another CD for free. We have to buy it again.

I grew up in the age of vinyl. I brought the same album over, frequently, because the records wore out. I never even thought about it.

I could record the album on tape, and have a somewhat longer-lasting copy of the music, but that, too, would eventually die. I would often record the album, as soon as I got it, then play the tape, thereafter. It prolonged the life of the album.

If we buy digital art (music, photographs, movies, TV shows, etc.), we can do so in physical media (a locked DVD, for instance), or as direct digital, "virtual" media (streaming, downloading, etc.).

The first (DVD) can be copied, like I used to copy records, but the second (downloading, as opposed to streaming), could, in theory, save a full-quality copy of the art, in perpetuity. If you got it in a thumb drive, or SD card, then the media would have a finite lifetime, but the difference between that media, and, say, a CD, is that the copy would be direct digital-to-digital (I think most CD copies, these days, are also "pure digital"). That A/D conversion introduces some "lossiness," that makes the copy ever so slightly (or, in the case of cassette tapes, a lot more than "slightly") lesser in quality than the original.

It's not quite as black-and-white as people on either side like to make it.

For the record, I am not a fan of the ability to "take away" art that may be on physical media in the possession of a customer (as opposed to blocking access to art on some kind of external media, under the control of the publisher).

Things like Kindles and iPads are a sort of "grey area," where the device is the media, as opposed to a player for media that is introduced, externally.

I have no solution, but I'm not a fan of the extremist, over-simplified rhetoric that either side uses.
Note sure, but npm create-* might be more used now
> Consumers aren't going to give a shit what some foreign government mandated, they're going to be pissed at Apple that they need to buy all new cables.

For sure, but only if Apple wouldn't provide such cables, which they do.

Currently, cables bundled with iPhones are Lightning to USB-C. It has been like this for several years.

I suspect that the kind of person who would buy a new $1,000+ phone with an USB-C to USB-C cable in the box, and bitch and moan about the $30 worth of Lightning cables about to end in the trash, is the same who vociferously complain on the Internet and then still buy the next years version.
we do not have the same power plug in all of the countries as every country has it's own requirements, sets of rules etc.

in any case, power plug type G is by far the safest and best. the EU should probably force everyone to adopt it, no? :)
The credential for the job listing is related to the treaties and visas for people applying to work in the US.

If the job listing on the BLS didn't specify that it needed a degree, then the software developer wouldn't fall under the H-1B or the TN visa. Instead of the H-1B (which is a specialist worker) it software developer would fall under the H-2B and anyone (degree or not) could get a visa because no skills are required... however that also means that it would fall into the "one time occurrence", "seasonal need", "peak load need" or "intermittent need" for people working on the H-2B visa.

Another "this makes things interesting" with a switch from a specialist worker to a non-specialist one, is that there is a list of countries that may apply to work on a H-2B visa... and it doesn't include India.

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The job listing defined by one agency BLS has impacts on the way people can get visas and which visas.

Removing the degree requirement would effectively make it so that there are no even marginally qualified applications with a visa.
BLS projections about individual jobs and payrates are a joke.

They had pharmacist as a growth career at +10% from 2010 to 2020, whole year after year, entry level and hourly payrates went down, easily verifiable by reading online forums. How can that be?

Then in 2020, they finally changed it to -3% growth, but due to the pandemic measures and people quitting the field, payrates have actually gone up.

They should be reporting changes in pay by quintile or even decile. And the new laws in CO/WA/CA/NYC requiring pay ranges in job listings should make it much easier to see which way supply and demand curves are moving in near real time.
Why should he?

TL DR

Petty whining

Pompous corrections

Why I’m right in large bold text

Why you’re wrong in large bold text

At the very very very end of the teeth pulling, nails on chalk cringe fest.

……it’s a joke guys hehe…..
> It's not a "deception" if you understand that you don't really "own" digital content.

No, it's the wrong word regardless, and in any event I seriously doubt that the average consumer actually understands that they're being lied to.
Having built a business on Clojure: I'd highly recommend it. Stable, developed in a mature way over many years, with a fantastic and mature community.

Together with ClojureScript it's one of very few solutions for writing server/browser apps with shared code, which enables interesting economies.
Agreed. This is the better way to argue that we vote with our dollars. If iPhone had a monopoly (which they absolutely don't) intervention is welcome. There is no reason anyone is forced to use a Lightning cable and still enjoy the fair marketplace.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33082482
This is not correct.

Phone manufacturers signed a non-binding MoU, agreeing to use Micro USB. This was completely voluntary. That is why they were able to upgrade to USB-C without any issue.

This law is different. It would be illegal to upgrade to a better port. And the barrier to creating, testing, and having adoption for a new port just became way higher than it was before.
I bought volume 1, figuring if I actually worked up the gumption to finish it I'd continue from there. It looks very nice on my bookshelf.
> I once had a client who was sending an email list marketing emails -twice a day-. Every time he did it, he saw a handful of sales, so he would just do it again, get a handful more. How people felt about the emails didn't even cross his mind.

I [briefly] worked with an entrepreneur like your client. It was all about collecting his leads and getting a fraction of them to pay. To him, the Internet was nothing but a "channel" full of human wallets that you suck money through. He even had all these physical euphemisms he used to describe his actions against his customers. We'll hit them with a popup and then convert them. Our backend will blast them with E-mail marketing and harvest some more through our partners. Oh, no! Regulation! I guess we need to consent them now so we can blast them more and hit them with another newsletter. Same "the Internet is full of NPCs to exploit" mindset. I didn't last and felt like I needed a week-long bleach shower after parting ways.
Anybody here familiar with the pluggable storage API? It seems like there were a couple of promising projects that have since been abandoned, like zheap and zedstore. Even Citus Columnar seems to have stalled in functionality. Are there still major limitations for the API? It seems like there is a lot of demand for different storage methodologies with different tradeoffs, and I'm kinda disappointed that this progress has stalled.
Better transfer speed would be a benefit to USB-C. It comes up using an iPhone as a camera when wifi is congested or just not available, e.g. a college campus with device registration required. Dongles for phone to HDMI could work without needing compression as well.
I don't know why you're arguing, it sounds like we agree. Apple makes the product iOS, it's weird that one part of iOS (the camera/photos system) is completely incompatible with another part (the browser). You'd have expected them to add HEIF support to their browser, delay shipping HEIF until it's supported in their browser, or automatically convert from HEIF to a format that's supported by their browser.

Your argumentative tone would've made sense if my criticism was directed at the Safari team for not implementing HEIF support. But my criticism is towards Apple for failing to make a cohesive product.
Yes, that has not changed. It isn't like authors sold their books door-to-door in the past. If anything, self-publishing is easier now than in the past.

... But authors who have tried that have also found the public isn't receptive.
Practical transparent verifiable and long-term reproducible research using Guix
I hope that the protesting works and that it achieves freedom for Iranian women, Iranian LGBT and Iranians in general.

It seems not much has been said about the gay men regularly executed in Iran, by government or vigilante/honour killings. I'm just hoping the protests achieve something and that the protestors, after fighting for women's rights there, don't go on to continue executing gay people after all is said & done.
About your update, raise your hand who hasn't been in that situation.

Anyway, it caused by that status thing. Your teacher knew it, and you didn't yet. But he couldn't just tell you.
Besides being fun for sure because you can use whatever you want for your own stuff I don't see what's special about clojure here. They are using react (behind a wrapper), IME, clourescript is not worth the hassle. On the server they are using ring/compojure which is similar to js/express, python/flask that can get the job done equally well in this case. The story would be more interesting if they were using something like datomic instead of postgres since datomic is were clojure could differentiate itself.

Keep in mind that they have to juggle between almost four different languages, Java, Javascript, Clojure and Clojurescript, almost because there are differences between Clojure and Clojurescript. Instead of for example just using one language: JS.
Do those have large li-ion batteries? Lets say you'd diy your own charge controller, I could see that get treated differently since you could cause a nasty fire that way.
Sure. Police misconduct should be primarily investigated by anybody but that police department, and prosecution decisions should be made by anybody other than the prosecutors that police department regularly partners with. Congress shouldn't investigate its own ethics violations.

Same with all government things, really. I think we really need some sort of "executive integrity" department whose sole mandate is investigating and prosecuting people generally considered out of reach of the justice system. Judges, legislators, attorneys general, etc.