skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not serving a country because you can’t be bothered to comply with their data laws is completely different from banning your people from accessing foreign media products simply because they are foreign of the wrong kind.
My unsolicited advice (for founders) is to hire the best people you can afford.

I've seen startups blow 2-3 headcount worth of budget to secure a FAANG engineer, only to realize that engineer needed an SRE to deploy their code, a tools engineer to setup their CI/CD, etc. The founders were so excited to add "FAANG engineer" to their Series A deck.

Firing this engineer was tough because the startup went to the board to get approval for the salary + equity offer letter. To make matters worse, this engineer was kept on for 6+ months without shipping anything ... because firing would've gone into the next board and investor update.
the next liquidity event if Automatic doesnt buy it will be an IPO, I would guess
This article (and previous ones by the same author on the same issue, and the discussions that always follow these articles on HN) make me even more pessimistic about the future of innovation in europe. Europe is less innovative because it's too pleasant and europeans are too moral. If only such explanations are allowed, is there any chance for improvements? Is it possible in europe to admit that even one thing works better in some other country?
The Euro is a reserve currency as well
I believe the point is that the price of each individual good or service is a dimension. They all can move independently of one another, CPI is just an estimate of the total effect of inflation by using a weighted sample of particular items.
Two Jokes in the Case of FTX
First the CEO's name is Bankman-Fried. They say the name is often an omen. Watching the congressional hearings today, the "bank man" is fried indeed.

Secondly, they were using QuickBooks. Very quick.
Sure that is great comedy fodder, but it isn't really at the same level of the others.
The people I have seen advocate for that absolutely realize that as they want to rob these words of their power to offend.
Whataboutism.

The refuge of people who have no other arguments.

By doing that you are effectively conceding that the original concern with TikTok is justified.

You just think that other bad things are happening.

So, I am glad you agree completely with everyone else, that yes there are problems with TikTok!
I'd be happier if:

1) Some random mode couldn't kill M-% search and replace. Something somewhere does it in some of my installs.

2) Magit was reliable on MacOS. On one machine, it's fine. On another, I have some random issue with emacs server and therefore I'm not able to commit, or do anything where I can edit a message buffer.
I think there should be an counterpart to "log analysis" which is "logging strategies for your app". Which should be WHAT to log and WHEN.

Stuff like, if you are exposing an HTTP endpoint, you should log the request URL and the time it took to serve it. Or if you are invoking an extenral service, you should log the response time of that service.
Yes, language servers provide that feature, too, and all language server clients replace „xref“ with their own implementation. „lsp-mode“ even provide some gui extensions to Emacs so it can display a hover window when there are several possible matches for your definition (e.g. all overridden methods in your inheritance tree). That’s quite cool.

But the disadvantage is you now need to run a static analyzer in the background parsing half of your code base to find definitions. On very large code based this can create slow downs.

Furthermore, finding definitions by means of static analysis cannot always work, especially so in dynamically typed languages or in languages employing generic variables.
Tech aims to block hatching of billions of male chicks fated for culling (2021)
ContentGroove: An API to analyze your videos and recommend sharable clips
An answer matched in tenor and tone to the question, but nonetheless entirely serious,

is that because while the obstacles are grave, the consequences of failing to overcome them are much graver still,

and to the best of our collective knowledge,

industrial scale fusion would be the least bad answer to our energy demands for the next epoch.

That is true but also does not obviate the need for other parallel efforts and other technologies whose challenges are also very grave, e.g. the need for very near term very large scale carbon sequestration, for a modern electrical grid with deep redundancy and resilience, the need for effective safe scalable stores for energy from whatever source, etc.
Very blatant violation. They are just hoping they do not get nailed, and if they do, the fines are cheap enough to still make it worth hiding the pay range.

See page 4, it is spelled out pretty clearly that the posting itself needs to advertise the range.

https://cdle.colorado.gov/sites/cdle/files/7%20CCR%201103-13...
The hohlraum is destroyed in the process, and currently costs millions of dollars to build a new one.

Hohlraums are expensive but not millions of dollars. This 2004 report puts the cost at about $2500 each (still far too expensive for a power plant of course) while examining ways to get them under $1 each.

"Cost-Effective Target Fabrication For Inertial Fusion Energy"

https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/828518
There's always been a dark side, it's just become more acceptable to say the nasty stuff out loud.
They can't exist any more for structural reason.

This generation was classically educated, without TV or social media in their childhood. They spent the time we're wasting on HN reading _books_ and following the discipline their elders learned in WWI. They had plenty of occasions to tinker.

I claim the brains of those generation was structurally different from ours, and we're talking about the best minds of this generation.

It's a trope to say that our "best minds are working on ads" - the reality is that, no, we webshits are not the "best minds".
They've said it might, someday, be modified to do so. The current iteration of it requires a manned crew.
I think it's less about chinese, and more about foreign power.

if russia made tiktok, I think you'd see a similar response.

given what we know about how people's attention works on these apps, and how impressionable people turn out being, I can understand how putting that power in the hands of another state could be problematic.

That being said, it's also problematic for US-owned entities. They just get a by because capitalism, and because we're still figuring out what social media guard rails would even look like. Foreign ownership/control could be an obvious one.
Foreign energy reliance is finished and has been for some time. North America can produce more petroleum energy than it uses. In both 2020 and 2021 the US was a net petroleum exporter.
Naomi Wu has been calling this the 'snot cannon' since it was announced. Going to project the wearer's microdroplets much further than they would typically go. May marginally protect the wearer at the expense of exposing everyone around them to any pathogens they may have.
This was what I would type into every computer I could find in Sears :)

Seriously though - I had to run that for every PC we pushed out the door. In my later years I looked up what I was really doing - very interesting stuff indeed!
> I don't really recall extended memory ever being used much on PCs running a real mode operating system like DOS.

Extended Memory/XMS was pretty much a DOS thing, though. Anything using protected mode would not need it, and be able to just access the memory directly.

> that weren't really made unnecessary until Windows 3.0 (or other OSs with a protected mode)

Windows 3.0 was "sort of" a protected mode OS. The actual Windows part ran as a 16bit task, similar to DOS in EMM386. That changed, again "sort of", with Windows 3.1. There was a thing called "Win32s" to run 32bit Windows applications, but most of Windows was still a single 16bit task.

Windows NT was the real deal, though, shedding off its real mode roots with essentially a reimplementation. It only became part of the "mainstream" Windows versions with Windows XP (Windows 2000 was based on NT already, but still marketed alongside the "legacy" Windows 95/98/ME).
This is true. The issue is that already a relatively small nuclear weapon is perfectly sufficient to wipe out most to all civilian structures. However, it does so in a roughly circular area, and you need to increase the initial explosion a royal lot to increase the devastated area by a bit. And as you increase the overall spherical blast of the weapon in order to increase the circle of doom on the ground, more and more explosive power just vaporizes air.

That's why MIRV was introduced. One ICBM delivering 10 - 20 small warheads result in much greater devastation than an equally heavy warhead in one package, because less power is wasted on air and space.

It's morbid math, but it makes sense.
Also Repeal Day for those who want to get lit.
Compared to what – Why code matters when discussing software design
> Crypto != Bitcoin

Please explain your reasoning.
> Because the biggest concern is still Chinese ownership of US customer data.

This legislation doesn't ban all Chinese government controlled apps that users might share their data with, only those that are social media specifically. If users cannot view content generated by other users, then it isn't social media and isn't banned by this bill. If the app doesn't sell digital advertising space, then it isn't social media (according to this bill) and isn't banned.

A Chinese government "backup app" that lets you upload all your documents to a server in China would presumably not be banned by this bill because it lacks those social media features. Maybe it would be banned by another law, but not this one. Or consider a Chinese "keyboard app", that logs everything you type. That's not social media, so this bill doesn't ban it.
OJ Prices Are Rising
There are 2 ways to find a company in Estonia through E-residency:

1- Create it yourself (using your E-residency and various e-services)

2- Use a service provider that handles all the steps. Note that this method may have some limitations. Service providers can be found at marketplace[6]

For the method 1, here are the costs:

Finding company:

- Creating a sole-proprietor company (FIE): 20 euros, one time [1]

- or, Creating a limited company (OU): 200 euros, one time [2]

Accounting:

- Using Estonia's e-financials (yourself): free for first year, 5 euros starting next year [3]

- or, using an accounting company. I used to pay once a year hourly rate for end of year taxation (R-Form) ~60euros a year. See marketplace [4] for other accounting companies.

Other requirements:

- An Estonian contact address is required to find a company. There are companies providing this service in E-residency Marketplace[5]. Last I checked it was from 5euros/month.

- An Estonian contact person, if you are not a resident of Estonia. Same E-residency Marketplace[5] has some service providers.

[1]: https://www.eesti.ee/en/doing-business/establishing-a-compan...?
[2]: https://www.eesti.ee/en/doing-business/establishing-a-compan...
[3]: https://www.rik.ee/en/e-financials/service-fee-0
[4]: https://marketplace.e-resident.gov.ee/?services=19
[5]: https://marketplace.e-resident.gov.ee/?services=4
[6]: https://marketplace.e-resident.gov.ee/
Why didn't you reply to the other comment where they asked you to provide actual opinions?
We have found pointer files to be surprisingly efficient as long as you don't have to actually materialize those files. (Git's internals actually very well done). Our mount mechanism does avoid materializing pointer files which makes it pretty fast even for repos with very large number of files.
I'm an Argie. I've tried mate in all its forms. I liked mate cocido as a young kid, but not anymore. I've of course tried tereré as well. My wife is a heavy mate drinker, and she takes it with a spoonful of sugar -- tried it, didn't like it either.

Nothing could make me like it now, trust me.

Just pointing out the parent commenter thought he was buying a kind of herbal tea, which mate is not, and he prepared it wrong (though I suppose mate en saquitos is the closest to a tea). No surprise he didn't enjoy it!

Calling mate "a hipster thing" hints at ignorance, don't you think? It's like calling green tea a hipster thing just because you aren't used to it. Millions of Chinese people would disagree!
We may be talking past one another and seem in agreement mostly except for your opening assessment.

The original if clause may be true( "If the expectation is that everything will be cheaper next month than this month, that creates an incentive for everyone (and every business) to delay purchases as long as possible (because they will save money buying in the future"), but it is not applicable to the current environment as we are not experiencing deflation, but inflation. As in, business are not expecting lower cheaper ( lower prices ). They will be expecting less high prices. If they will curtail spending it is because got prohibitively expensive. If anything, they will save money buy stocking up, while the price is low. I personally think your interpretation model for what is happening is off here.

Hope that makes more sense now.

Let me see if I can sum up the main argument until now:

You post >> If the expectation is that everything will be cheaper next month than this month, that creates an incentive for everyone (and every business) to delay purchases as long as possible (because they will save money buying in the future).

I post >> [ but ] Nothing will be cheaper ( decrease in price ) [ next month ]

You post >> I strongly recommend you review the definition of deflation.

I post >> "Deflation is a fall in the overall level of prices in an economy and an increase in the purchasing power of the currency. It can be driven by an increase in productivity and the abundance of goods and services, by a decrease in total or aggregate demand, or by a decrease in the supply of money and credit."

You post >> "Deflation is negative inflation, if you want to think of it that way. Deflation is _not_ small positive inflation."

I post >> this post since we seem to saying the same thing so I revisit initial assumptions
Ehhh that's still misleading. It makes it sound like when the officer testifies about your statements, it goes through a magical filter in which only the inculpatory(is that the word?) stuff can come in, but not the exculpatory. Like...

During Mirandized interrogation:

Doe: "I grabbed her wrists after she picked up a knife to attack me."

In court:

Prosecutor: "What, if anything, did you learn from questioning Mr. Doe?"

Officer: "He said he grabbed her wrists."

Defense attorney on cross-examination: "In what context did Mr. Doe grab her wrists?"

Officer: "After she picked up a kni--"

Prosecutor: "Objection! Hearsay!"

Judge: "Sustained. Jury will disregard anything about the accuser picking up a knife. Wrist grabbing stuff is fine."

^Not remotely how it works, at all, but what you might falsely believe from being told "your words are admissible against you, not for you".
> is it?

According to GitHub yes
https://octoverse.github.com/2022/top-programming-languages

Usage also declined year to year on the Stack Overflow survey.
Many frameworks solve this with logger context. Add the properties you want to the logging context and all future logs in that context will have that property.

One simple example - Serilog enrichment https://github.com/serilog/serilog/wiki/Enrichment

This does however assume your entire application uses the same logger. But this is generally a requirement in services that require tracing like this.
Peak Golden Age Consumerism.
Doing taxes is probably the worst part and off-putting to people who are thinking to be entrepreneurs. Between accounting for differnt levels of VAT, reporting every 3 months etc, it becomes a huge hassle and every mistake is a fine.

Regulation mostly reduces profits because of so many rentseekers
Please for the sake of our children ban this toxic stuff.
Vine was shut down before TikTok even launched.
Haven't read the article yet but personally I think the number one reason is culture. Europe is so conservative it is unreal - it still has kings, queens, and aristocracy ffs. You've got centuries of antiquated customs, old boy networks, and oppression to overcome. America was literally built on the backs of people who had had enough of that restricting nonsense and broke off for a better life.

Tech scares the European elite shitless because they don't understand it, it's the complete opposite of what they stand for and it threatens to destroy the tools they use to maintain power. It distributes knowledge among the people rather than concentrating it with the few, it is egalitarian rather than classist, and it favours competence over traditional customs.

Europe is not good at innovating because the elites don't want to innovate. They want things to remain as they are. The selfishness is astounding and they can only get away with it because the US military gives them protection. Take away US aid to Ukraine and a substantial portion of Europe would most likely be under Russia control right now and the rest would be engaged in a war for the continent. Europe need to wake up, stop being lazy as fuck, rediscover self sufficiency in energy and security and toss out all the old bullshit that is not fit for the 21st century and holding them back. Otherwise it will end up like the UK currently is, sliding into oblivion because of delusions about its capabilities, its traditions and its standing in the world.

One counter point to my tirade above: the US only gets away with what it does because the dollar is the world's reserve currency. They can subsequently fund moonshot start ups in a way that is not possible elsewhere in the world.
Does anyone actually start smoking because they need nicotine? I've never heard that. It's always been peer pressure and only then do they get dependent on the nicotine.
They could have fun with it, but it mostly seems so performative to me.

Make a pro-waterfowl bill called the POND Act? Sure. That’s kind of fun.

Make a voter ID bill called the SAVE FREEDOM FROM SCAMS Act? That’s what I’m tired of.

I do understand SB 1589 isn’t exactly memorable. Just don’t make it look like you’re trying to hard? Maybe it’s like comedy in that way.
That's a really powerful tool. I can force you to slow down an make sure that you the reader focus on one section of code I've written?

A statement that forces you to switch out of inaccurate skiming mode is insanely useful
TikTok was available internationally for a very long time already, just under a different name. ‘Early’ TikTok was nothing but a rebrand of musical.ly
Of course, TikTok is clearly the impetus for the bill. My point is that it isn't a bill that only applies to TikTok.
Enforcing trade agreements isn't the same as censorship. Having said that, this legislation does seem like it's more about censorship than trade.
Just for the card
I really like a lot of what comes out of NZ, but not this sort of nanny state action. I believe it will have all sorts of negative consequences out of the public light and control. It's a high-level combination of "Won't someone think of the children?" and "Do as I say, not as I do". Definitively a political winner that doesn't impact anyone of voting age for the current crop of NZ politicians.
For me, the only way to reduce smoking and drug usage is through education -- prohibitions just end up increasing the black market, violence and incarceration rates.
Something something china bad.
> US banning any social media is bad for US citizens

[Citation needed]
Why are they using these "flash pumped" lasers if more efficient ones are available?
Alas, it looks like I'll have to use my Maxwellian knowledge for good rather than evil after all.
It is already widespread, being used for 10-20% of US energy, isn't it? And 30-40% in several European countries. I think it's definitely possible since it's already in place, we just need to talk about it more.
If the laws of USPS made during 1800s pigeon mail carrier are still on the book, then yeah, mail fraud.
> US users whining about not being able to transfer their own currency to others without either multi-hour delays or costs

Never heard that in real life, everyone I know just uses Venmo. I occasionally use Zelle and Apple, too, but frankly I like having the money transfer service at arm's length from my real bank. Especially when I'm transacting with a stranger.
Soviet Union built this and it wasn't really practical and ended up leading to test ban treaties

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
Think about who is being restricted here, because it's not just TikTok. Why are you ok with the government dictating which apps you can and cannot install?
It's a problem with lithium batteries in general, not just Tesla.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/recycling-firm-fined...
3 times with the same person? Yikes.. this is a much bigger red flag than getting hired in 24 hours. That tells me they are unsure of me or themselves getting an offer on the spot is a sign they actually need to fill the position and they believe you can
Minimum security prison, at least in the United States.

https://blog.globaltel.com/white-collar-prison/
It's infuriating how incredulous he acts.

It would be like giving a microphone to a nabbed thief who says 'I can understand why someone might construe breaking into a safe as a reason for concern. That's a reasonable criticism'.

Oh, you think?
We already had a partitioned internet for years now

Imo this legislation makes sense because our companies are more or less banned from entering China’s domestic market. Why should we allow their tech companies in when they’ve banned ours
How is that possible? In Portugal, for me it will be 0,26€ / kWh in January.
I don't think a pure fusion bomb will have any form of advantage compared to the current hydro-bombs. They wouldn't produce more energy, but will need more gear to reach ignition.
> I believe it will have all sorts of negative consequences out of the public light and control.

Can you please name some?
That's not how banks work. You can't go into a bank and withdraw $100k in cash. Most banks don't hold that much cash.
By the way, our mount mechanism has one very interesting novelty. It does not depend on a FUSE driver on Mac :-)
You probably won't ever see this, but I learned yesterday it isn't even illegal in my area, so I was wrong on several fronts. Wow.
Number of patents is a stupid measure and it's not better then common sense and common knowledge. You're writing this on a device produced in asia, and designed in the US, running an operating system made by a US company, using a browser made by a US company. But european companies have patents, so they're doing fine.
Fred Brooks is gone, but his IT management lessons will live forever
China doesn't ban US tech that obeys the CCP's surveillance laws, like Apple does. This targeting of tiktok is pretty specific by US government, because it singles out a company rather than act as a law.
OK, cool, that makes sense. Wasn't trying to nitpick your wording or anything, was really just like, "wait, what are they doing that's making it worse, that I've not noticed?!"
2nd part is a window of length 14.
Nice! Exactly the things that I'm thinking of playing with. Thanks for sharing.

> going to actually host the site on VPS but have my home network push static files to the VPS. My site is mainly for me and this way I can fully disconnect between home and VPS.

Smart. Thanks for this tip.

I've been looking into dynamic DNS services a bit, to see if I can/should use that for pointing to a webserver at home. Also, I'm considering to make a distinction between internetconnected but personal/private apps on one hand, and publicly served apps/sites on the other. Maybe I should just start and try to get a website online from home.
See also the HN discussion of the SEC charges: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33967386