skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can’t think of any new apple product launch in the last 15 years, since the iPhone, that had only a small difference in hardware compared to incumbent offerings. With the exception of Beats and some accessories.

Even some of their dongles were groundbreaking, like the lightning to hdmi video adaptor with a full ARM computer inside to compress and decompress the video stream in real time.
https://tinlizzie.org/IA/index.php/End-User_Programming_by_A...

Here is one of many places where Alan Kay talks about making programming available to everyone.

It’s a good starting point for work exploring the deeper idea of enabling people to ‘bend software to their wills’.
It's even more confusing if moves have a different operation order from arithmetic ops and comparisons, no?
The problem in this case isn't with the copyleft licenses. It's with the CLA (i.e., "even though my project is copyleft, if you want to contribute to it, you have to give me a pushover license to your changes too"). Without the CLA, this project would indeed be safe from him doing this.
> Icons and links that move between the time my brains initiate the chain of events to press on something and the time my finger actually hits the target are causing me so much frustration :( That goes beyond loss of productivity and is literally affecting my mental health.

I'm looking at you, Visual Studio...
This an early 'open source' - it did not allow for free commercial use!

http://www.xent.com/FoRK-archive/fall96/0269.html

> an open source code model ... Individuals can use OpenDOS source for personal use at no cost. Individuals and organizations desiring to commercially redistribute Caldera OpenDOS must acquire a license with an associated small fee.
Construction industry seems to still be short everything, doors ,windows all those parts needed to build a house.
> all when the company is essentially dead and doesn’t have any extra 2500€ per year left for filing

That’s bankruptcy.

> Could all be done with a small number of forms and online or for a small fee in many other countries.

> What’s the benefit of doing all that?

Frankly, I have no idea. Maybe they do want to make sure that the process stays legitimate. I believe you can do all of this without having to show up in the country by giving a lawyer a power of attorney. But you better have the money to close all financial matters.

When I was shutting down the Ltd, I did it via my tax accountant. And yes, I did tax filings for the last year too. The only difference was that there was no grace period for liquidation.
I saw Miguel de Icaza, the founder of GNOME and GTK creator, using a Mac on a podcast about Terminal.GUI.
What millennium of stasis? See the 'Real Life' section on https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MedievalStasis (of all things).

However you are right that the Industrial Revolution sped up the pace of change.
So I think (and this is I admit largely based on my opinion, I don't have good data for or against) that punishment is less of a deterrent so much as _how much there is to lose_ from the punishment... Note I don't mean (just) financial loss, but also how much the punishment will damage ones standard of living.

For example, someone who was living in absolute poverty might get involved with a gang both for physical protection and to be able to live even somewhat comfortably by being involved in the drug trade; and from there may get involved in some amount of violent crime in order to maintain that life... Now the gain for me here is relatively speaking pretty high (get a much higher standard of living) and if they do go to prison, well, as shitty as prison is I already would be living a pretty shitty life outside of it (be barely or unable to pay bills, would live in an area with a decent amount of violent crime so being scared of violence in prison is comparatively less of a big deal, etc)

Contrast this to "person from rich background commits fraud to become richer". If the penalty is "they lose their ill gotten gains and have to live in their comfortable home for 18 months" that... isn't risking very much either, so that isn't a strong disincentive. However if the penalty is serious prison time, the kind of fines that would absolutely ruin them, etc. then doing crime again carries significant risk

My theory as to why punishment isn't a disincentive is largely that for serious crimes the risk of it happening isn't high enough, and the punishment isn't extreme enough for it to matter for people in poverty who would be inclined to crime... and because we punish white collar crime so rarely and so lightly the risk and severity of punishment is too low to discourage that as well.

Obviously how this is corrected depends on which you are trying to address. For "low class" crime (drug dealing, etc) we already punish pretty severely as a society, and raising the standard of living for our poorest would probably have more impact (they'd have less to gain and more to lose). For white collar type crimes more severe punishment (so something significant beyond what was gained by the crime is lost) would probably be an affective disincentive.

Again though, this is just my opinion based on my imagining of what would motivate me to commit crime
How does a headline like that pretend to be “News” ?
Copilot can fill in type annotations in python, “resolve” some bugs, explain code, “make it more robust”.
The features are available in copilot labs, they are obviously very much WIP, but they are definitely not useless.
OpenBSD gets better all the time, but not larger. It's what made me switch.
The difference in average size of the sexes in humans (sexual dimorphism) is associated with some degree of polygyny (males tend to be larger).
nvALT was one of my "gateway" apps into really finding my happy place. Before nvALT I thought Apple Notes was sufficient for me. It really revealed to me what things I wanted to be using notes for that I wasn't. But I also wanted more structure and a better mobile app than the Simplenote app.

Today Drafts fills the "easy entry" portion of nvALT, while a combination of Bear and Obsidian serve as the primary ways I organize information after that. But nvALT opened the door for me.
Yes, it was fractional (in the sense there wasn’t enough gold to redeem), but the peg held. Economies grow much faster than gold reserves! The US still has the most gold in the word by a vast margin.
Check out Ujjayi or "oceans breath" if you're interested in breathwork. The latter name refers to the sound that happens as you breathe in and out in this way. All you need to do is to constrict the back of your throat as you exhale, which makes the exhale longer in a very organic and natural fashion. Because of the slower exhalation it is said to stimulate the vagus nerve in a very positive manner. More people need to learn about the link between a healthy body (and mind) and the vagus nerve IMHO.
I feel like we're talking at cross purposes. My point was primarily that OP's Chromium patch could be the start of an excellent tool for website creators to unlock their own sites' and web applications' rendering potential, and level the playing field between smaller startups and much larger technology companies.

I'm quite familiar with anti-scraping and anti-ad-blocking countermeasures, and the first thing any such tool would block is a non-standard rendering engine like this - so unless the website creator consents, this really doesn't hurt or help consumer-friendliness (which, I agree, is in a sorry state these days) in any meaningful way.
In the US marriage is 100% handled by state governments. In California you just need to get a marriage license, sign it, and turn it back in.

I think a difference between the US and European countries is in the US legal documents don't have the same weight of finality as they do in Europe.
I hire for two primary characteristics:
1) smart
2) gets things gone

Everything else can be trained. Although Honesty/Character are critical, it’s hard to assess in an interview.
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> This always seemed strange to me. If your team can't be trusted not to make spaghetti in a monolith, what stops them from making distributed spaghetti in microservices?

It's far harder to update multiple services to handle requests they should not handle, let alone update a deployment to allow those requests to happen.

Walls make great neighbors, just like multiple services make teams great at complying with an architecture constraint.
From what I can see on that old photograph they look completely normal, about the same level of attractiveness as what I expect to see in an average high school or college.
Same for some other companies in the 5 letter acronym.
If those rules end up being flawed, now you're stuck with an automated flaw execution engine.
FTX Falls into Bankruptcy So Fast Court Papers Get Left Behind
Germany is near the top of the list of countries with the least need for foreign investment - it is a capital-rich economy capable of financing all its economy domestically and looking for investment opportunities in the surrounding countries (both EU and outside, e.g. as of very recently Russia), not searching to receive investments.
Isn't there a sentence from M.Ford which summerizes the monetary system?

I remember when I decided to understand the monetary system: once, I pierced through its fake complexity, only disgust has been remaining since then.
Absolutely. I remember drooling over SGI, NeXT, PowerStacks, even the BeOS SMP Hobbit box, all throughout the 90s. I wanted a RISC workstation, ideally a SMP one, so badly. Unfortunately it just want a realistic proposition.

Meanwhile my actual computer was either a Mac IIe or a 133 MHz Pentium Packard Bell beige box. In retrospect, this was probably a benefit - I really focused on learning how to do low level systems programming to make my code performant (I was really into demo scene).

Still, my interest in RISC and PowerPC did eventually pay off when my first startup company sold a million handheld PowerPC-based portable media players in China in the mid-2000s. I got to meet a lot of the original PowerPC engineers and team members and, as Freescale was our official partner, was able to tour the production facilities. My unhealthy obsession somehow eventually paid off - and now I can play with these machines in my free time.
His press secretary did mention it 3 days ago and called for more regulation and said they are monitoring it:

https://fortune.com/2022/11/10/crypto-regulation-ftx-sam-ban...

The DOJ and SEC have both been reported to be investigating.
I understand your general point, but I don't think the specific pictures in the articles are good examples: the ladies look about average to me, especially if you remember that the people in the pictures were poor and not selected for beauty (if anything, someone beautiful enough would probably work a different job).
It's a funny coincidence: I referenced peeps from this group at work last week.

The issue is back then was: association / propinquity was bounded by physical locality because it was effectively pre-internet. The closest you could back get then was happening to attend some place like Caltech, MIT, or Stanford. Sure, you could've stumbled upon some usenet groups or BBSes, but geographically-diffuse interest groups pre-web were unlikely.
It’s not clear why you’re taking about warranties.

It’s strange to suggest that bad code is good because it provides a chance for others to fix it.

It’s also obviously not true that if developers wrote great code the first time we wouldn’t need open source.

On the contrary, that would make open source far more valuable because it would be easier for people to add to or modify, and a better example for newcomers.

The author is not attacking the existence of open source. He is saying it is necessary but not sufficient for empowering people.
Okay, and what about Poland and Germany? Or Germany and France? Or Belgium and The Netherlands? Or Germany and Italy? Can you with 100% confidence tell that all companies in all cases between those countries do business in English? What about a Belgian company from Wallonia and a French partner? Or Luxemburg and Wallonia?
If you barter with someone you don't need to pay sales tax or any other Imperialist tax.
I can't tell if that's Matt in the black shirt front-center or not w/ their eyes closed. Maybe he's standing on a chair or something in another row.
I went into this kinda hoping there'd be enough guidance to write a shader that does this. Anyone have that article?
that's a labor intensive business
Latest upstream kernel should work, because every time I send patches to arch/powerpc I manage to break one legacy platform or another, so there's still people testing them.
That's not a reason for the dollar to be worth anything. Pick any value for a dollar in terms of berries, and a 10% income tax will work out to be the same percent of your berries taken away during the trade. Similarly, you can pick any value of the dollar and the property taxes on your forest land will come out to the same number of berries. Since any dollar denomination works, the equation can't fix a value.
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> You needed to install a special little endian firmware (ARC)

Was this the same ARC on Alpha gear? I got a PDW tower for cheap on ebay a while back, got it to boot... A few times before the I/O board crapped out, and I remember one of the two firmwares was called ARC. (the other being SMRC I think? For OSF/1 and VMS and anything else)
"Luddites may disagree" aka "whoever disagrees must be a $this". You seem to have a lot unuanced, inflexible and strongly held beliefs about this all. Perhaps consider if there's space for a world in which cryptocurrencies aren't a silver bullet.
Not so.. for example in Australia..

https://www.ato.gov.au/Business/GST/In-detail/Rules-for-spec...
This is false. Barter is taxed. Of course it has to be, otherwise why would anyone choose to pay in dollars and be taxed?
> So let’s look at a dollar traveling through the system. The Fed decides that $1, yes one more dollar, needs to be added to the economy and then everything will be dandy. The Fed purchases a Treasury bill from Bank X for $1, putting $1 on the deposit side of X’s ledger (remember, no physical currency is involved here). Bank X, subject to a 10% reserve requirement, is then free to lend out, that is create deposits, representing up to $10. The Fed “created” $1 but the commercial bank, X, “created” $9.

I'm confused. This seems to imply that commercial banks can magically credit their customers with $10 just because they happen to have $1.

I'm not able to do that. If I want someone else to have $10, I have to hand or wire them $10 in currency.

Do commercial banks really get to do this?
Yes, it's overstated but never the less until then (ind revolution), life was very agricultural (that did not change appreciably) and thus centered around land (ownership and control). One cannot make more land. As the population grows there was less land per person to develop, maintain and extract sustenance and growth from, so to the factory it was.

Most importantly, life on a farm did not improve much, metal instruments did replace more rudimentary farm implements. There were additional advances here and there such as rotating crops, better ploughs drawn by oxen --never the less, you'd follow the cows typically barefoot and you'd suffer from any adverse weather event, too early, too late, a frost, no lifting of the rains, etc. One's fortune was at the whims of the weather and the pace was unrelenting. In the Winter it was time for repairs and household chores that waited a year.
Crypto com paused ERC20 withdrawals because they ran out of gas
I had no idea that barter was taxable.
The Federal Reserve Act had the original reserve requirement at 40% IIRC (as in, what the fed needed to keep).

Current reserve requirements: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
I've never seen the acronym NeWS before.
https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc420

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p525#en_US_2021_publink1000...
Whether or not the title is misleading, my experience is that my zsh loads slowly. You are downvoting me for sharing my genuine real world experience with a program. I’m sorry I hurt your feelings with my real life.
If you are a "python developer" which in my book means you default to Python for any project and try your best to avoid any other language even bash and js(/typescript), Rust is probably not the best thing for you.

I am a Python developer. This is pretty much what defines me. Being a general purpose developer with familiarity to one langauge is what helped make me my living until recently. Now, being a devrel I need to be familiar with a BUNCH of languages at least on the syntax level for our SDKs.

The third/fourth language for a Python developer the default suggestions are Go, Rust, C#, Java/Scala etc....it varies but there is a pattern. A low level language that frequently makes it to HN front page or something that your supervisor wants to explore because they say it in HN front page.

Even though we are a Go shop and Rust is hyped as hyped can be, I don't consider either to be as fun as Python. The syntax and logic feels absolutely weird. Python gets you up and running in no time. But these language just doesn't feel write. Too much verbosity, too much diy, too much etiquette. The things that make these language loved to actual "SWE" makes me hate them, as I am not a "SWE", I just love solving problems programmatically even though it inherently makes me a bad programmer but I am a passable Python Developer and I can live with that.

Then after much doubt and much imposter syndrome-ness, I found it, the perfect third/fourth language for a Python developer, Nim. The tag line itself says all, "zero dependency executables". It is closest thing to feel like Python while it keeps everything elegant (in SWE terms, I guess). This language is a godsend if you are making custom tooling.

Give it a shot, if you made it through this rant.
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I understand what you're saying, and was aware of that (I saw some questionable behavior by others), and operated responsibly. I can't get into a long description of it right now.
Curious what the process would be like to start a comparable company (an LLC maybe?) in the US? Certainly a bank account, notary, and town/city official would have to be involved, and probably a lawyer and accountant.
The initial point release could not run on the RS/6000. There are people who have successfully installed and used it in the following years; it does however require modifications and source that were created after the fact. I’ve personally installed Solaris on a PPC ThinkPad, which is even more different from a PowerStack than an RS/6000 is.

My mention of the RS/6000 was mainly to point out something which Spijdar explicitly called out, which is that these PowerPC ports (which wouldn’t be on most PowerStacks anyway as everyone I know ran Unix on them) targeted the PrEP/CHRP platforms explicitly. So just having a PowerPC chip of the right family isn’t enough.
I’ve followed Kris Harbor on YT for a long while. He’s got a hacker’s mentality and a work ethic that puts most (including myself) to shame. He has recently started spec’ing and building custom, small-scale hydropower systems for clients.

The only person that comes close is Kevin Crawford [0], who built his own dam and waterwheel, multiple wind turbines, and has had solar installations for decades. He’s a retiree, and is not the greatest videographer or editor, but shows off an engineering ingenuity that is rare.

[0] - https://youtube.com/channel/UCBhVwpMUjnzFDisTL64PwHA
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"Fractional reserve banking" is the thing to look up but, yes.
Reserve requirements as of 2020: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm

Remember, the balance in your account is nothing more than the bank's record of its liability to you.
I could imagine this been used, once it's more mature, as a Weasy Print (html to PDF) replacement. (assuming it ends up supporting PDF's or adding a different svg2pdf convertor)

There are countless use cases where a system needs to generate something printable, such as a PDF report, ticket, gift certificate, etc. And generating something that looks great from a system that is good at generating html can be a challenge. Being able to convert a rendered html page to a vector graphic opens up a lot of options.

I already have an AWS Lambda function running Weasy Print for when I need simple PDF generated from a webapp. It'd be great to be able to switch to something like this that does a better job at rendering HTML, and therefore having the option to make more beautiful PDF's.
My wife and I tried in our mid to late twenties.We ended up needing to do IVF and the people in the waiting room largely looked a lot like us - decently young, fit, etc. I wish there was better data on this over the years.
It's the build process for the container-image (i.e. the Dockerfile or equivalent) that the tooling being discussed here is analyzing; not the resultant container image, nor containers spawned from said image.

The goal is, presumably, to figure out when a given docker image was created in such a way that it burns in a vulnerable version of some library; so that the author can be alerted that they need to (update their Dockerfile and) rebuild their image.

"Dark matter", under this definition, is anything that gets injected during the build process of the image, that is not itself traceable to some other versioned package management system with vulnerable-version deprecation. Without such information, an automated agent like the one described in the article cannot then propagate deprecations from consumed package-versions to produced image-tags.

A good example of such "dark matter" would be a static binary built outside the Dockerfile using a CI system, where the CI then creates a docker image by running a Dockerfile that simply injects the expected prebuilt binary into an image with an ADD stanza. Does that binary contain vulnerable versions of embedded static libraries? Who knows?
>I'm not sure why "good faith" is being brought into question, and I certainly haven't challenged the good faith of those who disagree with me. So I'm not going to address that aspect of the conversation.

Per the commenting guidelines, we are expected to believe people are commenting in good faith even when they say:

>A wild-eyed crypto believer might lose anywhere from a few thousand to a few million of their own money in poorly placed speculation.

>A sophisticated market-maker will facilitate the loss of billions (about $10 billion in this case) from numerous people.

Which is either a deliberately bad comparison (akin to janitor vs CEO), or completely irrelevant in the context of what SBF was saying / what Levine thought.

A wild-eyed crypto believer would make all the same mistakes as the sophisticated trader and run the exchange into the ground while breaking laws. The sophisticated trader will typically run their business within the legal framework, while taking as much profit as possible.
Then the person discovering their fraud get their money. It is fraud detection all the way down.
In much of the world feral honey bees are a temporary thing now, untreated for varroa they die.

Places may have bees that are varroa tolerant but it’s nowhere close to that where I am in New Zealand.
Not the parent poster, but likely because "If you “have the resources and the knowledge” then you don’t even need the source code. You can build your own browser from scratch." is true if and only if the resources required to modify the browser are equivalent to the resources required to build it from scratch - otherwise obviously most people who can do the former do not have the ability for the latter.
IMO, that doesn't matter, and OP is correct that taxes are what really drive the pump. If you owe $10 in tax, and all you have are berries, you have to sell the berries to get dollars to pay the tax. Your desire not to go to prison for tax avoidance thus creates demand for dollars.