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Ask HN: How do you think the EU's new DSA and DMA laws will impact the industry?
If you're not familiar this legislation, here's an article that will give you an overview:

“Brussels is poised to become the big tech police after passing the Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act in July. The two landmark pieces of legislation have ambitious goals and steep penalties meant to loosen major tech companies’ grip on the digital market and force platforms to better handle illegal and harmful content.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-08-02/europe-will-face-challenges-enforcing-new-tech-bills-dma-and-dsa
I think the issue is that they might just yank access without a word and on absurd premises, and following that the near impossible task of 1) getting in touch with a human, and 2) a human who's also willing to help instead of just deflecting your plea.
My interpretation is that school is a not a great place to learn how to act in the real world. In particular, school is way more hierarchical and command-and-control than the real world.
I wish they added a humour setting like the robot in Interstellar had.
Also related by the same author:

Show HN: LambdaLisp – A Lisp interpreter that runs on lambda calculus - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32879848

Woodrush's projects are stunning. Like the warrior poet he's a hacker in the classical sense. Everything he builds just makes me think, wow, I can't believe something this cool actually exists. For example, he build a LISP engine for a 512 Byte Blc lambda calculus I wrote. I thought my own work was mostly educational, the sort of virtual machine that would never interpret more than small learning exercises but then woodrush comes along, hands me a giant binary blob of lambdas for me to feed into its standard input, and suddenly, I have LISP REPL in my terminal!

One thing that's easy to miss though, in this blog posts, is just how well the stuff he builds actually works too. Normally with hobby projects like these, you'd expect to see more bugs when it's initially announced, or at least some pain getting the thing to work. But not with woodrush. His stuff always works so perfectly that it makes life difficult on discussion boards, since the only response that comes to mind is: wow!
Why would you think it does?
It goes both ways though - if I can't stop thinking about something that's just not quite working yet, then I haven't/can't 'clock out'.

I think I'd like a job with truly flexible hours: work all evening on something if it's occupying my thoughts anyway, but then get a full 'evening' to chill, full night's sleep, and start the next day when I'm ready. I can do the former, but I'm still going to be expected to dial in ~to pointlessly summarise it~ for stand-up in the morning. (No I don't have young children, yes yes this wouldn't work for everybody.)
I use pocket for this & spend considerable time tagging each new entry. My link library is approaching 10k articles, and is slowly becoming my go-to when referencing a favorite subject.
The really crazy part is that if it were trained on more domain-specific example data then I think it would give pretty great answers to many of the niche questions in those domains. I fully expect that most businesses / industries will have tailored training datasets in the next few years to enable chatbots that assist their employees to do their work. It is at least a partial answer to the high turnover problem that business now face.

I have probed it at varying levels of depth in my domain and found it to answer at least as good as an entry-level engineer. This could easily be improved with extended training data. The problem is that when it begins to get things very wrong (or leave out important details), it would be difficult for an inexperienced user to determine that since ChatGPT responds so confidently to every query.

It will be interesting to see how this all plays out.
Creator of the page here, you are right of course. I just fixed it. Source code is public at https://github.com/hertg/epochalypse
Oh come on it's not such a big brain moment the fact that there are more quality elements involved for projects beyond a license that someone would take in account.
I'm pretty sure you can think many just by yourself but elude you at this moment for "reasons" that have exactly to do with sympathizing with the main developer or contributors.
As a soon-to-be PhD graduate, I'm perversely curious as to how much these clandestine chemistry jobs actually pay . . .
Pretty decent article (don't agree with everything, but for the most part)

> Code is secondary. Business value is first.

I wish I could shout this from a mountaintop. If there's one thing I could change about engineering culture it would be this. But then again I would lose my edge if everyone understood this, so maybe it's best that they don't

Engineers: If you want to stand out in your career - take this to heart. Code is not the goal. Money is the goal, code is a tool to get the money. You work in a capitalistic business, whether you like it or not. Push your colleagues to build the thing that makes the business the most money, not the thing that is the "best" engineering solution. You will get tons of pushback on this - but eventually your pushing will bubble up to someone who works in "the business" (directors, executives, etc) and not just other engineers and they will invariably support you. This is your contrarian view now. This is your answer to Peter Thiel's question "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?". And you will thank me in 10 years.
We can have a law that requires an AI to store everything it produces, so that anyone can query it.
> I am proud to share that all of Rent the Backyard’s customers either received their home from us or received a 100% refund.

That makes it sound like the customers are renting their back yards to third parties, and the company was just selling a product.
I have issues when I join large rooms with my tiny private instance. Does anyone know if there is some setting that can fix this or is this currently a flaw in the way matrix is federated? I don't need the history of the channel and I don't need stuff I missed when I wasn't present.
Mine too. Probably clocked 3,000 hours in Pysol.
> It would however be weird to do a CGI program in Go, because that language already have a really good build in webserver and more powerful/easily accessible features for interacting with requests compared to what CGI provides.

Noting that not everyone has the ability to run standalone servers on their web hoster. Shared hosters generally enable CGIs but cannot support per-user standalone servers, in particular not on common ports like 80 or 443.
If you're comfortable with Google's ad practices (which is the usual reason why some hate using Google), the fact that Google doesn't have a good customer service (even compared to AWS and Microsoft) means that if you were locked out "for your safety" you don't have any recourse (while AWS and Microsoft (if you have an enterprise product like Azure, retail services are Google-like in support) allows you to get in touch with an actual human and resolve your problems).
...by having wheels and electric motors

Still cool, but misleading title.
Depends. I recently got a request to 'polish' some work up.

The definition involved making a document look 'professional' or 'corporate'. No update to the actual quality and clarity of the information.

Complete waste of time and brain cycles.

The request was from a venture cap (natch).
Jazz education is a blessing and a curse. Most high level high school programs are focused on the Essentially Ellington competition, meaning that they learn to swing, to play with humanity and emotion, and to blend together. All good things, and I do believe that Ellington is the greatest American composer period. But it appears learning an 80+ year old style usually is not a gateway to discovering the modern day equivalent.

Still, if you look in the right places jazz is still very much alive and evolving. I made a top ten list for 2022 if you want examples that acknowledge the tradition but don’t touch the worshipped canon and to my ears are relevant to right now. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NUGbkID4mmc
Is there any planned court case about the copyright fair use question ?
Your comment speaks the truth but yet misinformation like the comment you are replying to is what gets upvoted, on Hacker News of all places. Embarrassing.
An oak tree is a tree.
So, who would do the actual work then? Probably I know: others.
I have followed this tutorial and wrote my own.

https://www.mit.edu/~yandros/doc/specs/fcgi-spec.html

Easier than integrating a 3rd party tool.
so when first powerplay lost, looser starts second one to isolate dev (so therewould be reason to fire?)
Researchers use human body to harvest waste energy to power wearable devices
What datasets were you using, how large was the model and what was the noise schedule? I’ve been contemplating implementing my own from scratch as well. I’m surprised that training with conditional labels did not help as much.
One thing I don't see mentioned is taking pride in your work. I see my work as an extension of myself, and I want it to be as good as possible. I could hustle and shit out a bunch of hack jobs that are "good enough", but I can't take pride in that. Also obviously I have to make compromises to get stuff done, but my fear is that by being okay with hack jobs that I lose the ability to produce polished work. When given the time I will always opt to do polished work.
Yes, the company needs your receipts for tax compliance.
According to this article Hitachi and Otis elevators have exactly that.

https://soranews24.com/2017/08/18/the-secret-undo-codes-for-...
Because we don’t know if anything from archeology is “for ritual use (for real).” Sometimes people just do odd stuff because it’s cool. Mount Rushmore should make you wonder about giant ancient statues.

In 10,000 years people might be looking a remnants of Christ the Redeemer statue and think it’s clearly for ritual use. But we know it isn’t for ‘ritual use (for real)’ so someone making such an obvious leap would be wrong, thus making other such seemingly obvious leaps could just as easily be wrong.
Doesn't that suggest that tooling wasn't the issue after all?
Ask HN: In 2023, what’s the easiest way to build an (iOS, Android) app?
I have a simple app idea in mind (2-3 screens, daily use app, simple storage, eventually in-app purchased for “extras”). Trouble is I haven’t coded formally in 15 years and attempted to learn objective C and Swift a few years back…but dealing with Xcode UI/design drove me mad.

What’s the recommended path to get up and running with app development in 2023? I have a self-imposed goal to launch the app in 3 months. All input welcome- recommended approach, online tutorials, support groups…? Thanks in advance!
You think a “majority” of the US is racist, misogynist, Christian fascists?

You really think this?

How many such people do you personally know?
N is not the only thing that matters here. It is important but if you’re disregarding results solely on that basis then it’s unfounded.

I noted from reading the paper that they based their sample size on a previous paper that shows the effect size for contractual muscle strength to be 0.6 and turned that in to a sample size estimate (in that paper). The same technique was used here and they nearly doubled the sample size from the previous study. It seems from a first reading that they have the statistical power to make the conclusions they do.

The study that shows 0.6 for effect size was a meta analysis that i do not have access to via my institution, but I’m curious as to why you think this paper is no better than anecdote. Perhaps some other part of their methods?

Their results show at the very least that it might be worth a bigger study (more N) but there’s nothing outrageously wrong with their methodology, is there?
Just point the nameservers to Cloudflare or wherever you are hosting your website.
OP here. Thanks for a lot of useful insights and references.

An overall comment about a lot of the replies: A lot seem to say "you do not want to use URN because X" in much the same way I think that one might criticise JSON when JSON was launched:

What is the point of using JSON? Don't you realize that both systems still need to agree on a custom protocol?

Yet JSON is wildly successful.

I could have worded my initial request better (and the comments make me realize that, and brings my thinking forward, so thanks for that!)

What I am really after is: I want to have is a standard way to refer to "an ID taken from an existing public registry", in such a way that readers realize

A) they are looking at an ID in a registry

B) they see which registry

C) in a way that is mostly self-documentary (unlike OID!)

That is only solving a single one from a ton of issues; much like two systems cannot communicate just because they both speak JSON.
I recall one time at the beginning of my career having some VP look at the project we were working on, and her only feedback was "make the box bluer."
"Narcos" might not be fully factual - but I think Colombian drug cartels were burying cash.
96.7 on my phone
It certainly is prohibited by law (at least in the case of a non-approved educational institution) by the Universities Act of 1997: https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1997/act/24/section/52/e...
Undo codes for Japanese elevator floor buttons
Creator of the page here, you are right! I made an error in my thinking when I created the site yesterday night. I just updated it.

Thanks to @drewtato for letting me know in https://github.com/hertg/epochalypse/issues/1
Switched also in 2022 from gas to induction. Never going back.
No open fire, cook faster and also cleaning became much easier.
"Look, we have people who know how to do this. We can just hire a bunch of other people and have our people sit down with them for an afternoon or two and tell them how to do it, right? Why hasn't anyone done this before? Guess it's time to disrupt the market."
Does it have to be native, ie can it be a web app at least to start with?
To me "business value" means it involves "doing business", which comes down to "making money". A compiler enables creating software that has 'business value' but the compiler has no 'business value' to the maintainers of that compiler (unless it's a commercial compiler which is a very rare breed nowadays).
The Winter Street Studios Fire Bombing
Thank you so much for this comment. And to OP for posting this question.
Reading both your posts I felt as if someone had read my mind. I really appreciate the time you took to ask and share you experience.
True, I mean ESR is known for being pro gun, and a lot of people here in Europe would not agree with that. However, if you don't agree with the primary developer on something as fundamental as your being, chances are you don't want to collaborate with them, do PRs, or give them feedback. On top of that, the person has caused drama, which is a sign of instability to a FOSS project (just take a look at all the drama TdR (or lets call him deraadt@) caused over the years...).

Given how easy it is to obfuscate a vulnerability in code I would not want to run code programmed primarily by someone who has a peculiar world view (except in a sandbox). At least its a yellow flag to audit it well (but that is no guarantee). With regards to FOSS projects its just a time bomb till some nefarious actor (Russian, Chinese, North Korean, Iranian, etc) does something bad to a popular FOSS project. But the worries are the same when the author is unknown (TrueCrypt, for example), and some people have been paranoid about SELinux ever since.

Taking above into account IMO the heads up is fair. And with all that, you're still free to make up your own mind. Nobody is telling you that you should avoid the project. They're suggesting you look into it.
Can't get close to that again!
I agree wholeheartedly. As a BJJ brown belt, I asked it how to escape from an armbar. The response I received was a long paragraph that essentially amounted to "Don't panic, don't allow your elbow to get hyper-extended, try to make some space, and escape." While none of that is wrong, it won't get you out of an armbar.
Interestingly, I am often in the position of leader/boss/manager/client. One of my favorite questions to ask specialists is: "of everything that's in our scope, is there anything you think is not worth doing?" Another working paradigm I find critical to effective management is limiting myself to a tiny "nitpick budget" so that we focus on what matters without eroding morale/trust/time/attention (if the job is not being done to core standards, I'd find a new specialist altogether).

Once again, the distinction between good work and polished work is critical. (It deserves its own essay!) And I agree with you – the ability to make this distinction – and to never push against against core standards – is a basic requirement.
What does nginx have to do with mod_rewrite?
> and {"scheme": "nin:DE", "id": "..."} for a German citizen. (This is to refer to "a legal entity that can own something and that we have an agreement with")

Off-topic, but there isn't really a general ID number for German citizens. There are some numbers for social security or tax purposes, but most people wouldn't give them to other entities and people wouldn't think of them when asked about a ID number in other context. (There is also a number of the ID card, but that only identifies the card and therefore changes whenever you get a new one) So this example would at least not be self-documenting.
I would apply the same warrior poet accolade to whoever made Cosmopolitan libc and that wonderful emulator+debugger combo called Blink(enlights) that was posted recently.
Some of the "right" tools are right only in context of a professional team anyway. Especially true when deciding how to organise a project.

If it is just me, for me, I will write it simply and from scratch or use a familiar general purpose framework like rails or laravel. One I have lots of experience with so the project actually gets done, instead of spending all my energy learning another new tool.
An entire forum dedicated to the Game of Life? That's pretty cool.
Loving the "of cabbages and kings" ring to your comment.
Often imitated, never duplicated...
Try flutter - in my experience it is the shortest path from idea to working application.
> Banks increasingly regard safe deposit boxes as more of a headache than they’re worth. They’re expensive to build, complicated to maintain and not very lucrative.

I think this article answers the question as to "why". I remember about 15 years ago the bank by my house opened up and passed on an offer that people who opened one of their high-deposit checking accounts would get a Safe Deposit Box for free. At the age I was, I really had nothing of particular value to store there and it seemed like a silly thing to get but I was curious.

Reading the leasing agreement, the bank made it very clear that the "Safe Deposit Box" provided far less assurance that my (non-existent) valuables would be protected than they would in a good safe in my home. The paperwork reminded me that purchasing insurance for the Safe Deposit Box[0] was a necessity and the bank would not be liable for losses.

It's basically a product where the entire thing the customer wants to buy, security at the expense of convenience, is precisely what they are not selling you "despite the name". To make up for that problem, apparently, my local bank thought it'd be best to give them away to people, like me, who have no use for one. Of course it's not lucrative! People who would be willing to pay a reasonable sum of money to protect their assets aren't going to rent a Safe Deposit Box with a "your stuff will probably be there, but get insurance" guarantee.

[0] Do they make Safe Deposit Box insurance or do you add those valuables to your homeowners? I never found out.
Here’s me: https://luciano.laratel.li/

I was happy I could get the domain! Pretty simple hand-rolled server-rendered site using the kit-clj[0] and neat-css[1]. Main backbone of the site is here[2]. I used to use a CLJS SPA but it was overkill and not as nice to use (load times particularly.)

[0]: https://kit-clj.github.io/
[1]: https://neat.joeldare.com/
[2]: https://git.sr.ht/~luciano/laratel.li/tree/main/item/src/li/...
Even if you have a per diem you still need to expense things, just less of them. So the system still needs to exist.

Unless your per diem is completely over the top, you'll need to expense flights, hotels, team dinners, client dinners, etc.
Do you actually want to bet money on this? I’m willing to play!
If a non-polished (or is that just not-good-enough?) work result comes with negative consequences at a future point in time, of course polishing reduces the opportunity for some urgent fire-fighting activities, and reduces the possibility to become the hero to solve the problem.

If it's just some work output for the purpose of practicing / studying, it wont come with such consequences. No-one is going to read it next year, and even if, it won't matter.

Fail/pass quickly for practice, to get the experience to work carefully for when it matters.
The installation at Pompei happened in 2018, and it was - essentially - an experiment, in co-operation with the Ministry and CNR, nowadays there should be (but I couldn't find them) some results/reports/etc., and these roof tiles should have been much more known and "industrialized", at least for small batches, production of these tiles should have begun in 2016 and company was fouinded in 2017.

But seemingly (the same family/firm also makes some actually very nice led lamps disguised as stones/bricks/tiles, here: https://www.medealed.com/ ) business had a stop or anyway a break (maybe Covid-19 related?).

It is easy from the Partita IVA (fiscal ID) to find out the turnovers of the last few years of the firm and more than small they are tiny, even for a single family artisan firm.

Hopefully 2022 has been a good year for them.
I noticed this too. Thanks for digging this out! Maybe you should put that sentence on both Wikipedias, so the next person wouldn't be wondering about this!
Minor nitpick: It's CVR, not CRV.
money is not the goal. providing a useful and valuable product or service to customers is the goal.
No, this is something I can't agree with.

The whole point of social norms is that they define some boundaries of what is acceptable and not in some community. If someone violates the social boundaries because "they are looking for some way to make a living in any way possible" (which is not an excuse, I mean, "any way possible" would also justify stealing, robbing and murder to make a living) then they themselves choose to be "not us" and deserve to be shunned by our community.

This also does have a certain effect at solving this problem - if you know that telling people what you want to do is going to result in losing reputation and refusing to assist you, then that does act as some deterrent. The social pressure reduces the likelihood that people will choose to join that industry, and it reduces the likelihood that people in the industry will refuse some activities even if they are profitable. Even from pure game theory and evolutionary psychology we can observe that 'punishing defectors' is a viable strategy that gets some results.

It is important that we do not legitimize or normalize unethical behavior just because someone is trying to make a living through marketing; so whenever someone says "ah, we're all in the same boat, isn't everyone doing this?" it's important to loudly remind everyone that no, we're not all acting like this - ethics is a thing and proper people refuse to do improper things.
>>I’ll be a C student and graduate in 3 years vs. being an A student who graduates in 4

Why be a student at all then? you can finish in zero years.