skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not exactly a new concept in law. Take pornography out of it and look at businesses like hooters who can require their waitresses to be attractive to because they are hiring “models” and not regular actors. Their level of attractiveness is explicitly changing the laws involved.

If it’s problematic for you take it up with the courts, these sorts of things were decided long before I was born
next gen x86 WS will rip off any m2 chips whether it is intel or amd. with DDR5 8/12 channels and 128 pcie gen 5 lanes the m2 chips can not compete…
I am not a lawyer, but the article contains the assertion that state liquor licensing law forbids it.
(I live in London) You didn't save til 40, now own multiple properties? Yeah our generation can't do that. While having a high paying job is great, it usually comes hand-in-hand with HCOL and obscene local property prices, meaning you have to either a) move to and live somewhere else (work remotely?), b) have to settle for living somewhere basic for a few years, c) rent forever.

That decision really sucks. Previous generations didn't face this. Yes of course, we have to set our expectations accordingly. But some acknowledgement from people like yourself who got started in easier times, and didn't actually go through this, would be appreciated.

https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-inco...
128 position CCs really hurt you when you want to tune something requiring exact value like filter to specific frequency. Some expanded to the hack of using 2 CC values to control one parameter but that's hit and miss.

Per-note modulation is only slowly getting there and severely sub-optimal (MPE is using a channel per note, cutting down number of devices you can drive from single MIDI port significantly).

Now I would say "hobbled" is overstatement, but it definitely have annoying parts that we have to deal with for decades now.

On top of that there are the usability issues, uni-directionality and simple protocol made it easy to make peripherals in the 80's but nowadays it's liability, because simple thing like "ask the device what CC it accepts and what they are named" is impossible in standard
This will probably be as effective as banning underaged drinking in the US.

The only upside is that NZ is fine with vaping. So they aren't cutting people off from nicotine, they are just banning more harmful forms of it.
I can't imagine finding out if something is older than 20 years would be prohibitively expensive - especially when those other platforms would have to do the same thing were copyright limits to change, meaning infrastructure would probably rapidly be developed to enable it. Most platforms don't even care, and Google just lets anyone claim anything and leaves it to the claimants to sort out.
I work at a shop where a few people are JMP users. I think it's a problem when a proprietary app is only available to a handful of users at a site -- they tend to get a lot of work dumped on them, and nobody can use their stuff without going back to them. It's a different experience when a site has a site license.

This isn't specific to JMP of course. A good thing about Excel is that businesses are OK with just paying for "everybody" to have it.

Also, people use Excel for more than analysis. It's also a crude database and platform for creating small "apps" that do things, that are easy to share with others.
This is only true in the sense that all creative people are generally paid exceptionally little for their work, and make practically zero money. But of those that do make a living, it is through having a robust and regularly selling body of work that is still paying money years or decades later.

This is also partially why royalties were a huge fight against Disney a little while ago, when Disney started to refuse to pay royalties for Star Wars and Marvel works after acquiring the companies that owned them. Those works were still selling years/decades after their original creation and those creatives were still owed that money.
I wish more companies took this approach. A current Amazon listing has the Pi 4 4gb for 170$ usd and Ebay similarly has 120$ for an open box. I've seen the 8gb ram frequently listed for over 200$. I recognize the shortage of new Pis but, at those prices, I don't understand the demand. I just found a used, tested, ebay listing for a Intel NUC Micro PC i5-7260U 2.2Ghz 8GB RAM 250GB SSD with Windows 10 for 160$. That's not a cherry picked example, similar specs are available across multiple listings at the same price +- 20$.

Are there situations outside a power draw limits where choosing a Pi makes more sense than a used NUC or business mini PC at a comparable price?
I've always loved the tactile feel of floppy disks. The way they slide into slot, lock into place, and plop out when you push the button.

I want a floppy disk form factor with a storage chip inside. As an added bonus, it should have an e-ink screen for labeling.
His due date to publish an article was still there.
Just this evening I was complaining to a friend that top show 150% CPU usage for Firefox and I don't know the reason because both about:performance and about:processes are useless. They weren't telling me look this horrible site is using up your CPU. My friend's response? Use Chromium.
If you grant moss and bacteria, then more complex life forms become inevitable. There are _advantages_ to be being multicellular, or multicellular life wouldn't exist. It's energetically advantageous for a plant to acquire a woody stem and stand up above the moss, or for a simple organism to work out how to have eyes, or teeth, or legs, or an exo- or endoskeleton. Assuming an environment that affords nutrients and is stable over a long time, once life kicks off it should keep complicating itself. It wouldn't stop at simple forms.
There are definitely two kinds of coders - once that think through everything or at least when it comes to names, method definitions and such they just know what they want. Then there are people like me who is never satisfied with the name or the parameters or the order in which they are passed or the name of the parameters or how the function is structured and want to split it further...etc. So I'm constantly reaching for the refactoring tools of IntelliJ.

OR, as you said, since I have mostly used IDEs all my life, I've learnt to leverage these tools and so I don't always aim to write something to perfection the very first time. Instead I use my IDE as a whiteboard and see where it goes.
What she's alleging seems to be: the MSG conglomerate is using their large footprint to punish law firm employees unrelated to their dispute using venues also unrelated to their dispute. Doing it out of spite sounds possibly legal, if petty. But the other possible intention would be to try to dissuade law firms from taking a case against any MSG property, to try to deny legal representation to the plaintiff. Not a lawyer, but surely there's a law against that?
Lot of people doing deep work do it on a schedule - and a very hard one at that. It’s based on the creation of habit, instead of relying on luck to be in the zone.
The most important thing after all is to show up!
Why does a browser company need to own a social media space? I am an avid Firefox user but don't see any pragmatic point in this "exploration".

Maybe they want to own their instance and therefore control their identity? That kind of makes sense—we might see more of that from individual businesses in the future. But this announcement is not about that.
> The company in February projected an operating loss of $43.2 million this fiscal year on sales of $47.4 million and an operating loss of $44.7 million in fiscal 2023 on sales of $63.5 million.

Nice stats haha.
Thank you. I should have expected the Fox News article to leave out key details and contain only the sensational part.
I think that's exactly the point the parent comment was making: that, as with driving, an individual who is unable to take the wellbeing of others around them into account can/should have their privilege of individual autonomy restricted.

Obviously there's a difference between defecating on the sidewalk and recklessly injuring someone with a car, so the question becomes how we define harm.
It won't be 95 years forever. For works created in or after 1978, the term is the life of the author plus 70 years.
Microsoft offerx XMLNotepad for a similar idea, but free (gratis and libre): https://microsoft.github.io/XmlNotepad/

(I haven't used Symbolclick, presumably it has more features or something for the money)
F# for Performance-Critical Code
"Starter homes" (1-2 bedrooms) see lots of turnover as families outgrow them.
AFAIK, a vanilla flake.nix does not help you start/stop services like docker- compose does. You need extra customization. devbox is like a wrapper around nix and docker-compose
How much of that is just consumer choice? Of course you can’t compete against large grocery stores if you charge a higher price but offer nothing of higher value.
GPL found a way to utilize an evil law to do some good. What we need is to first scrap the evil law, then pass a FOSS protection act. (Besides, a 10 year copyrighted is so long that GPL would still be mostly enforced.)
I’ve a set of Wera Joker adjustable wrenches, and for anything they can’t handle a couple of Kniper. Between them I don’t have much need for anything else.
We do. We're building more connective tissue
I use this all the time.
Why would a programmer continue to program after retiring?
I just wish you could have you own domain while not hosting an instance, like just pointing your DNS records at an email server hosted by somebody else.
Multi family properties can be owned as a condo and therefore as an investment. The idea that land appreciates but the house on it doesn’t is absurd, if you subdivide into condos the condos don’t own the land the condo association does. But the condos are subject to supply and demand and have a price, either as rent or as an investment as a condo owner. The utility of the land is what has value. That’s why when you look at land for sale it’s not all uniformly valuable. Land that can be used for multiparty housing is more valuable than your typical city single family home lot because it has more uses. A 5000 sqft lot can only host so many people even if it’s zoned for multiparty construction. A 20000 sqft plot can host a bunch of units and is more valuable per sqft as a result. Once it’s been developed into a multiparty development the cash streams on rent or the implied npv represented in the unit price are for the HOUSING not the land - the housing is the useful element. But if you don’t think housing should be an investment, I still don’t understand who you believe should own the housing. Whoever owns it necessarily has invested their capital in it and presumably to make a profit - either through rent, or appreciation, or both.

I think the density argument is specious. If you increase density prices may drop in the short term but as prices drop demand increases and supply gets exhausted and you’re back to rising prices, just with more people. To make housing affordable you need to do the opposite and decrease densities by making it unnecessary to live in a small number of extremely expensive urban areas and make it more attractive to distribute people to many different cities. Just cramping more people into small units in SF doesn’t solve jack.
https://archive.ph/0VfaK
> And it results in all manner of grotesque and absurd behavior that robs people - mostly women but also men - of their humanity and autonomy.

I disagree that “humanity” and “autonomy” belong together in that sentence. I’m pretty sure that having kids by roughly 25 is how the human species has evolved to function. That’s the nature of “humanity”—the human condition.

That “sentiment” you decry—the social pressure to marry and have children in your 20s—is probably necessary for a sustainable society to exist. As you acknowledge, it’s nearly universal. And I can’t help but notice that the exceptions—what you call “progressive” societies, where “autonomy” has vanquished “humanity”—are all in decline. They are all propped up in the meantime by immigration from societies like the one I’m from, where moms and aunties start hassling you to get married once you hit 25.
Way harder means what? An extra 3 days of effort to the future open source Obsidian clone?
Justice Department Announces Largest Health Care Fraud Settlement in Its (2009)
The big guys (Disney, big discography labels, ...) can afford to open a branch in every country. The small guys that made an independent film are screwed.
Germany forced Project Gutenberg to take down a few books for Germans who used the site a couple years ago, despite the site being entirely operated from the US.
No one has the right to force anyone to do anything. If you steal you go to jail, if you're being weird about marginalized groups exploring their identity and asking you to respect it, I'm gonna call you smelly. Simple as.
Because they're supposed to be working on their browser, not dicking around with social media.
I did not read this bill, but I am vey worried that regulating it will bring crypto into the fold of regular financial markets/constructs and the government will bail out any perpetrators of fraud or mismanagement, like SBF, going forward. We have collectively lost the ability to say you screwed up and so you suffer the consequences and instead bail out collective failures of corporations. The larger the failure the higher the chance of bail out. I honestly don't see any value in crypto, am not alone in that, and unless that changes I don't want it to brought up to par with USD based constructs.

I should add that I would like to be educated if I am wrong in this thought process.
The purposes of those concepts are totally different.

The purpose of trademarks is customer safety. If it wasn't illegal to infringe trademarks, it would be much easier to distribute fake products, and companies would have less incentive to build their brand on quality.

The motivation for copyright is similar in that it exists to incentivize beneficial behavior (creating valuable works). But it's different because it also limits the distribution of the works. If this "cost" is too high, there is no economical sense in having so long copyright.

Trademarks are not intrinsically valuable (to society). Limiting their use has no cost.
Do we need this same type of comment on every single post about Mozilla/Firefox? Does it not get tiring after a while? Because they are definitely tiring to read.
They weren’t lied to. Green cards for those countries have been backlogged for decades. Presumably anyone who has filed for a green card since the early 2000’s knew the situation they were getting into? The government is quite transparent about it.

And check out the backlog for extended family green cards for the Philippines. It’s similar.
> MariaDB's eponymously named open-source software ...

I'm sure they meant 'eponymous open-sourced', as named is implicit in the meaning of that word, but I'm less confident whether an eponym can be granted based on a familial naming attribution?

A few years ago I had a weird exchange with someone on these forums who enlightened me about the maxscale licence change, and identified this as a key turning point (not in a good way) for the MariaDB community's shift in attitude. [0]

I grew up with MySQL, even met Monty one time at a London meetup, moved to MariaDB at the appropriate time (around when Debian switched over), but have since embraced the joy of PostgreSQL (mostly because that's what we use at work). Not that PostgreSQL is without architecture / licensing complexities on the HA front.

[0] https://www.infoworld.com/article/3109213/open-source-uproar...
> It wasn't Mozilla who financially contributed to "California’s infamous anti-gay referendum"

> Actions can cause consequences, even if it sometimes takes time

Can we collectively, as a society, be mature about these things?

Eich is allowed to hold those thoughts and donate to campaigns if he wants to. It has zero bearing on his ability to run an organization (as evidenced right up until his ousting) anymore than your viewpoints hold bearing on your ability to function in your job.

Just because you might disagree with his viewpoints doesn't mean he can't hold a job... it was absurd back when this happened, and it's all the more absurd today.

> but it was incredible important for Mozilla let him go

No it wasn't, and nothing changed because of it... it was just some temporary flare-up fake outrage all too prevalent on social media.

The idea that Mozilla, the organization that allowed itself to be overrun by neo-ideologs, is somehow going to be a good arbiter of a social media platform is laughable at best.
This would outlaw the cryptocurrency industry in the USA. Anyone running a miner or proof-of-stake validator would be a money services business, meaning they would have to collect personal identity information on anyone submitting transactions to the network. This is technically impossible.

This bill will not pass, but if in some universe it did, the blockchain industry would move entirely offshore. It will not kill the industry, but certainly set it back and make the US a non-entity. This is a very reactionary, "don't let a crisis go to waste" situation following the FTX debacle.
Whenever I need to explain MIDI to someone who has no idea what it is I ask them if they know what a player piano is. If they say yes, I say: It's that, but for computers, they seem to understand.
> What makes social media unhealthy is a the fact the whole thing is a giant marketing exercise.

No. That's not the problem.

Remove all ads from Twitter or Facebook, bestow a quadrillion-dollar endowment on them, and they'll still turn into shitty, toxic cesspits, because of the way the algorithms bring different people together... In a way that tends to maximize anger.

Now, it's true that 'maximizing engagement' was the reason that those algorithms were built the way they were, but that's only tangential to chasing ad revenue. As long as there's work being done on growing the network, regardless of the reason, the temptation to build it out in that toxic manner will be present.
Years have passed, but so have many 100's of hours. Looking back, Borland Sidekick was a major productivity booster for MS-DOS.
That is a possible solution for the paradox. The comment I replied to was talking about a different star system.
I appreciate the Ruby love in this post, but it's worth pointing out that the author is clearly new to the language. I say that because he writes Ruby as if he's writing some other language, and not idiomatic Ruby.

This:

dirp = Dir.open(".")
for f in dirp
case f
when /\.rb\z/
print f, "\n"
else
# do not print
end
end
dirp.close

Could be made much more Ruby-native (and simpler!) as:

Dir.open('.').each do |f|
puts f if f.match?(/\.rb\z/)
end

My point isn't to play the "I know the language better than you, so nyah nyah" game, just to suggest that if the author likes Ruby as much as he says, he should learn it better.
Or reordering parameters.
Missing a /s ?
Here's an amusing thing. Even if they were within Jupiter's orbit and decelerating and pointing straight at us, we wouldn't be able to detect them.

Nuclear bombs produce a fireball here on Earth. In the first microsecond when the explosion actually happens, they produce gamma rays and X rays. The atmosphere is opaque to those rays, which is to say, it absorbs them. Their energy is enormous, so the part of the atmosphere that absorbs them becomes superheated. That's what the fireball is. That's what produces the bright flash.

In space it goes without saying that there's no air. The fireball doesn't form. The explosion itself will produce gamma rays and x-rays (the blackbody radiation at 100 million degrees).

They will go in all directions, including towards Earth. But once they get to Earth, they'll be absorbed by the upper layers of the atmosphere.

As seen from Earth a nuclear explosion happening somewhere in the vacuum of the Solar system will be invisible.

But we do have gamma ray and X-ray telescopes. On satellites in space. Only not that many of them. If they don't look in the right direction exactly when the explosion happens, they see nothing. Another difference between a nuke detonated in space and one on Earth is that on Earth you can see things (like the mushroom cloud) for hours after the explosion. In space, the explosion happens, and one second later nothing. There is absolutely nothing happening one second after the nuke goes boom. So our telescope needs to point exactly in the right direction, exactly at the right time to have a chance to see something.
Sure, but for an expert user, it doesn’t take long to figure out when you have a wrong answer. And in a case like this, the wrong answer is because it was set up with a question that doesn’t make sense - ripgrep is explicitly described as not being a library.

This kind of objection seems to me to be in the same general category as saying that you can use a programming language to write incorrect code, which is not a meaningful objection to programming languages.
If you think the money can come from outside of the system (a new source specifically and only for this purpose) by all means it sounds great, people paying less for school, and people being able to treat studying as a job that brings food on the table seems great. I think treating the system as closed is more realistic though, and in that case it’s redistributive i.e. zero sum.

Edit - of course something I was missing in this comment is possibly increased efficiency inside the system. It’s thinkable that higher average attendance would result in higher pass rates and lower educational costs. If that turns out to be a significant effect it might not be zero sum (though I’d personally still not favor such a system for reasons I mentioned in a different comment).
CEC (the HDMI Consumer Electronics Control interface) is satisfying, in a similar way. An ethernet for, more-or-less, video-based consumer electronics. Exploring it is a joy, if only because of its constraints and simplicity when compared with TCP/IP.
Warren Buffet offloaded all his remaining Wells Fargo shares earlier this year, was a signal things aren't good.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/05/20/warren-buffett-ber...
Oh well that's certainly a relief in this context! I do appreciate the input here, but maybe to help you engage with the actual thought a little better (and for my edification, perhaps) do you have any reasons or theories as to why this is the case?
// I can’t even afford a home right now on a tech salary

As another poster commented - where have you looked and what have you tried?

From recent experience, a nice but modest house in the suburbs of NYC is like 1.5 million. An equivalent house in a nice suburb of Cleveland is like 500k, and a smaller 3 bed/2 bath there can be had for under 300. If you are willing to go further afield (but still be in a town with a decent school etc) you can get that for under 170 [1]

What's the thing you can't afford, the 1.5 mil or the 170k house? And if you really can't swing the later on a tech salary, maybe we can talk about what's going on there because you should be able to.

Also heuristically, whenever someone talks about stuff like their landlord's mortgage rate rather than factors under their own control, it's a bad sign.

[1] https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/9672-E-Idlewood-Dr-Twinsb... for example.