skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
American checks and balances aren't relevant to the EU. The CLOUD Act requires that American companies turn over data stored in the EU without any involvement of EU due process and checks and balances, violating EU laws. The CLOUD Act effectively drafts all American companies into the American intelligence community. This is not acceptable to the EU.

punnerud is not confused.

Edit for response:

> Which European countries aren’t able to compel a company to help them by providing data in a matter of national security?

EU companies being so compelled by EU governments isn't relevant to the EU; which obviously supports that.

> This idea that all American companies are somehow arm in arm with the USIC is a ridiculous notion that isn’t supported by facts.

That is the purpose of the CLOUD Act. That's what it does. If Microsoft has a server in the EU with EU citizen data on it, the CLOUD Act requires Microsoft to hand over that data in violation of EU law if the US Government requests it. The fact that the US Government has checks and balances of its own is not relevant, the CLOUD Act still compels American companies operating in the EU to violate EU laws.

> There is a reason why most American tech companies in particular make a point to repeatedly and very loudly proclaim [...]

Their proclamations are irrelevant. US law requires them to violate EU law. As long as this is the case, the EU has no rational choice but to ban EU companies from giving EU data to American companies.
> a friend of mine was on the design team and he assured me that NURBs were going to be the dominant rendering model since you could do a sphere with just 6 of them, whereas triangles needed like 50 and it still looked like crap. But Nvidia was so tight fisted with development details and all their "secret sauce" none of my programs ever worked on it.

(1) Someone designs something clearly superior to other technology on the market.

(2) They reason that they have a market advantage because it's superior and they're worried that people will just copy it, so they hold it close to the chest.

(3) Inferior technologies are free or cheap and easy to copy so they win out.

(4) We get crap.

... or the alternate scenario:

(1) Someone designs something clearly superior to other technology on the market.

(2) They understand that only things that are more open and unencumbered win out, so they release it liberally.

(3) Large corporations take their work and outcompete them with superior marketing.

(4) We get superior technology, the original inventors get screwed.

So either free wins and we lose or free wins and the developers lose.

Is there a scenario where the original inventors get a good deal and we get good technology in the end?
Is the function doing something I care about? If yes, the name should tell me what that is. If not, why's it there at all?
My understanding is that these are unobtanium now, and that the only reason it took off was the first boards were heavily subsidized by Intel.
The “No Name” brand does exactly that.
No, I think you've confused "I don't like these people and if you don't like them either here is an easy way to avoid them" with "they're stomping on my rightgs!!!!1!!!!!1!!! waah!"
I'll drop this here:
https://github.com/manuel/wat-js

If you have delimited continuations then you can construct coroutines/threads/await/async, promises etc.

I guess that this might be suitable for many scenarios thanks to nodejs, but the runtimes it relies on are not exactly small.
If your family has $10MM in the bank, you too can take (and report) to IRS zero income.
I'd be curious to see a good school most the opposite direction. Admit ONLY based on SAT or SAT+ACT or something. Effectively allow students an "instant acceptance" option. I highly suspect that this "SAT-Only" group would be competitive across most or all metrics.
I didn’t say talent doesn’t exist. I’m questioning your asinine, evidence-free assertion that business acumen is a genetically heritable trait.
A comment key works for commenting JSON objects, but not for commenting specific keys on an object or values in an array.
Truth is offending a copyright monopolist is a crime unto itself. The law will bend over backwards to make sure anyone "circumventing" their will is punished.
Target has a very impressive security system. There is a uuid on your receipt that can be used to track your movement within the store beginning from when you walked in

They also have a top forensic lab that some smaller law enforcement units rely on, and they do it for free!

https://corporate.target.com/article/2012/02/an-unexpected-c...
What do you mean by bias?
"Although GM crops are completely safe to eat"

While I think that's far from settled, it's certainly true that Bt corn encouraged the liberal use of Roundup, which is not completely safe.
According to that link (thanks) it looks like mopeds require license plates and can’t drive in bike lanes. So what I’m seeing out my window is illegal.
What exactly do you mean like by

“ I think it might make sense to create countries or places where people in the bottom 10% live with minimal conveniences, a place like Thailand when everything is cheap.”

Like a “full service convenience place” for the part of society that doesn’t want to work and outsource that to a cheap third world country and make their population work at low cost for the unemployed of the first world?

Or collectively create a place where “the bottom 10 percent are left at their own abilities” ?
As always for those niche languages, if the answer is not personal entertainment, then the reality is that it's just poor judgement.
Chaucer is a really interesting author. I studied 'The Miller's Tale' in A-level English (aged 17 / 18), and loved the bawdy X-rated story that was smuggled in via weird medieval English.

For a different perspective on another of Chaucer's characters, I also recommend 'Chaucer's Knight', by Terry Jones of Monty Python fame. The book is a bit controversial, but it's fascinating to see what appears to be a tale of courtly chivalry analysed by a modern satirist. Jones suggests that the Knight is really a blood-thirsty mercenary associated with multiple historical massacres, and points out where Chaucer is being satirically critical rather than simply praising the Knight.
You just need money to game extracurriculars activities and GPA(pay a tutor to do your kids work every day or go to a private a school).

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Oh sure. The US governmental structure doesn't easily allow dictators. And it's much easier for an FDR-like fellow to rewrite the Chinese constitution to allow a dictator than to so rewrite the US one.

FDR was probably as close as we got to a Xi like figure, who was able to bend the Supreme court to his will by realistically threatening to pack it.
Related reading which I didn't see posted yet: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/mit-admiss...

Lot of great stuff in there, but here's one quote:

> Richer students don’t just get better SAT scores. They also tend to outperform on everything else that an admissions committee would use to select students. Personal essays? Their style and content are more strongly correlated with family income than SAT scores are. Recommendation letters? They are subject to teachers’ classist and racist biases, and even knowing how to request the letters requires significant social capital.
100% if you didn't experience the delta between software rendered and 3dfx hardware accelerated live as it unfolded 3dfx does not tell you anything.
> check if you have TikTok installed

I don't.
After re-reading, I think their point may have been to describe that one experience as a total failure, not the cashierless store concept in general.

But it definitely can be read either way, so that's confusing.
JFR is nice but I can't seem to find issues as easily with the new JMC as I used to 5.5 or before. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong though.
> Legacy gets one looked at

I'm not that familiar with the US legacy system but even if it is just "we'll definitely take a look at your application" that isn't competing on even ground is it?

It might not guarantee you a place but it's clearly an unfair advantage.
It’s about the connections, not the content. It’s about being with a cohort of people that can play at your level and share ambitions. Rubbing shoulders with rich kids who are average isn’t as useful as you make it out. Rich people will invest in smart kids that have the prestige of a top university with or without their own kids being connected to them.
Thanks! Right now the language's codebase is about 50KLOC. There's an interpreter for fast iteration and a compiler built on LLVM for producing native binaries. I'd like to make more progress on the parallel computing functionality before sharing it more widely.
In parts of the US it's "grampa's axe": I've replaced the handle 3 times and the head twice!
Custom PyTorch with on-chip acceleration: https://cloudmarketplace.oracle.com/marketplace/en_US/listin...

Not as fast as a GPU, but less than 5 seconds for a 250 token response is good enough for a Discord bot.
And yet everything is now behind locked glass at the pharmacy. I doubt the cameras are that good at catching shoplifters.
Sounds great, I'd like to know too!
I feel like we're less than a decade away from being able to hook LLMs into gaming. How incredible would it be to have NPCs driven by LLM?
These machines have several things that we don't see much these days: "Made in USA", which the author mentions, a CPU that takes so little power that it doesn't require a heat sink, and a low power design that means the whole system doesn't even need a fan at all. Some have fans, and some come without fans.

The hardware is incredibly reliable. I've been running one RaQ for two decades now, and it has compiled continuously for years. It compiles all of the NetBSD binary packages for mipsel found here:

https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/mipsel/9.0...

Another RaQ had a power supply that failed. I took a power supply from an old external drive enclosure, connected +5 and +12 volts, and everything worked. It's amazing how much can be done with so little power.
It’s interesting that so many of the comments are basically, “it’s objectively better in every way, and the people in industry who aren’t using functional languages are too short sighted, greedy, or dumb to see it.”

Could be, but every time I’ve heard academics talk about an industry practice with this level of contempt, they’ve been missing something really obvious. What is it in this case, that syscalls break the purity model in any non trivial real world use case? That performance isn’t actually up to snuff with these runtimes?
The latter two flags are roughly equivalent to `-flto` on gcc/clang, and it's not a fair comparison to enable it for VC++ but not gcc/clang. (It seems that you can set(CMAKE_INTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION ON) to make cmake enable lto).
Well, feel free to try and bridge that gap.

Emacs is likely to continue to exist for a long time, but the gap between it and modern IDEs is also likely to widen over that same timeline.
And most people do live in the cities and don't do such round trips too often.

And many people doing a lot of city jumping fall into a more high income area and use IC/ICE trains not covered by the ticket (faster, and more convenient).

And that is grate! Because it part of what enabled the push for such a ticket.

Now we get a ticket which mostly is just about having a 49€ ticket for you local public transportation, while also having the convenience of not having to bother when taking some week end trips to close by lakes or similar, while being a big benefit for the people living in the "countryside" which is overdue IMHO, while also giving people more options to live outside/close by a city which can take a bit pressure from the housing market. And to top it off it makes it easier to sell it to better earning car focused people hopefully helping with a shift away from people owning/using cars all the time.
Ok but is this

>You mean they can go to the DOJ and ask for a subpoena and then go argue to a court that somehow

like - how much more difficult is this than getting a warrant? I mean this doesn't make it seem very difficult https://lorr.com/how-to-subpoena-documents-examples-process/

It's not having a trial or anything to get the data, it is a judge (or in the link, a court clerk?) signing off on the subpoena or am I confused as to how complicated and difficult and time consuming that actually is.

Because getting a warrant is in my experience not like something that takes months and months where people argue and there is a likelihood that even if the warrant is granted that you can appeal to have it overturned, and it seems like a subpoena is no more difficult than getting a warrant and maybe easier.

At any rate, aside from the fact that the American government has often been shown to take more data than needed in their searches of people - that is to say abuse the layers of checks and balances - the European government would of course worry about potential abuses and disallow on the better safe than sorry view of protecting its citizens.

on edit: slackdog made a more relevant point than I did anyway.
This happens in the US too though. We have about 10% as many people, so for undergrads, it’s really just ~ one more level of applicant filtering than we have in the US.
20 bob is a quid.

Source: Yorkshuh
If it's a game, then clearly a winning strategy for the poor people is to steal / seize / obtain the resources from the rich people by any means available? Seems quite actionable, if perhaps socially destabilizing. War is a game, revolution is a game, bank robbery is a game?

Perhaps, however, there's something fundamentally problematic with this 'life is a game' viewpoint? See Tom Cruise as 'A Player' in Tropic Thunder, that at least was meant as satire:

https://youtu.be/Omgf9WuGwq8
"Or ban legacy preferences at the very least"

It would be interesting if there was a rule that forbid you from attending the same school as your parents.
There is this belief among some, that the wealthy have an advantage when it comes to standardized tests such as SAT. This isn't true. Correlation isn't causation. You can't use your wealth to buy SAT scores. The best SAT tutoring available is Khan Academy, and it is free.
In my limited experience a lot of programmable lighting rigs are communicated with via DMX messages over the ArtNet protocol. Essentially you send UDP messages over a network. I wouldn't know a specific affordable laser rig to recommend but you can look for DMX lasers as a starting point.
> Especially post-Snowden.

What does Snowden have to do with Facebook? I'm asking in good faith.
>Don't collect more data than you have to, limit the power of any systems you implement

That is basically the opposite of what these companies do, and their business models rely it.

Some people realize we live in a surveillance dystopia with corrupt government, and others have not yet realized it.
So, more of them and bigger and having employees stock them up from the back like these British ones from the '60s?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3rGPXXk8VE
I first saw this years ago, shortly after starting my first professional Java dev job, and I thought it was hilarious at the time.

I have since found that Java itself steers developers in this direction and this type of naming is actually quite natural when working with Java.

That being said, I still find it really amusing. Kudos to the person who made it
Is the app required for a return or can you use your credit card to enter? I've always just used my credit card to enter but have never done a return at one.
As a human you can only focus your eyes at one single thing at a time.

Whether you have to move your head/eyes or press a key to switch between the documentation and the IDE does not make much difference in term of efficiency.

I actually find it more comfortable, ergonomic and fast to have a single screen and switch the workspace. That also means that my (physical) setup is minimal and easy to manage, and that I do not get unnecessary distractions or things moving (notifications, messages, ads, animations...) in my peripheral vision.
And then NVIDIA ate everything.
In the US parents' income is already considered when applying for financial aid. Just add that info to admissions
You need to login to Amazon to purchase things from Amazon.
Maybe you are just expending your willpower on things you really don't want to do? Maybe you don't want to be a programmer? Maybe go do something else. I don't know your financial situation or goals but if you can make less money maybe find something entry level in another totally unrelated field. I took a 65% paycut once because I was in the same situation as you, completely burned on my career. I took an unrelated office job and was able to thrive because I had an existing skill set (technology) that made me standout. I was able to apply programming to speed up and automate processes at my new job. A lot of this was simple MS Office macros. I started to like programming again because I was doing it out of my own choice, no one expected it.

I was quickly promoted becuase of this and got raises swiftly. This eventually led to the company allowing me to start my own company and build them a saas that they paid me for every month for a decade even after I left. I found I enjoyed development again.

[ Years later, I found out, I just enjoy developing for myself but that's another story :) ]
Copyright is anything but temporary.
I had a law prof once correct a student: "If we all just tell lies then this entire system breaks down." People hiring ringers, telling lies during the examination process, is a problem. It it isn't a statement against the concept of examinations. The answer is to make it difficult to cheat (ID etc) and establish appropriate punishments to dissuade. The ability to cheat illustrates a flaw in the testing procedure, not any flaw in the actual test.
While certainly true that functional programming provides an intrinsic advantage to programming parallelism, parallelism is limited by hardware constraints. To best take advantage of CPU architectures，”function” execution needs to optimize usage of caching layers and execution threads. This naturally lends itself to the development of event loops/schedulers in functional runtimes like node and erlang.
They built one of these near us (years ago) and never opened it. They recently announced that it was going to remain unopened indefinitely.
I pay $3200 for rent in a great location, a very nice loft.

Your right, you don't. You also don't need to go to MiT to succeed in tech - but it really helps.
> Do you have a source for that?

I know people who work there.

Your average Walmart has hundreds of camera housings. Every single aisle has a couple. The amount of cabling alone to populate them all simply doesn't exist (as you can often see, it is an open-box ceiling), and monitoring that many cameras is impractical (in particular for a store staffed at BARELY sustainable levels).

Just look at how understaffed the floor of these stores are, then ask yourself why they'd have a disproportionate number of loss-prevention staff working relative to the floor staff. A big store absolutely will have tens of cameras, but even all those may only have a single person for all (or zero persons depending on shifts/staffing).

That being said: Some stores have legitimately rolled out facial recognition to pick up known thieves as they enter the store. But that requires four-ish cameras and the technology is pretty turn-key.
China has 1.4 billion people and 150000km rail tracks.

Germany has 0.082 billion people and 40000km rail tracks.

Japan has a very different train system on an island. Germany is in the middle of Europe with a mesh of trains, long-distance and local - connected to all of Europe. One can take an excellent French high-speed train going from Germany to Paris/France. From my home-town there are freight trains directly going to / coming from Shanghai/China, more than 10000km away. There is a sleeper train going to Sweden, trains going to Switzerland. You can literally see people boarding a train here in Hamburg travelling 1000km to Switzerland, carrying their ski equipment.

> 10 years ago i made the mistake of crossing the whole of germany by train. was a complete waste of my time.

I was crossing Germany by train from south to north just this week. No problem at all.
I bet "why not ban legacy" is answered with "legacy donations mean two things: No chance".

https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-why-elite-colleges-...

"To find out why elite colleges love legacies, two business school professors were granted access to 16 years of admissions data at one elite Northeastern college. The upshot: it’s in this school’s clear self-interest to take them. Alumni children who received offers matriculated at much higher rates, giving the school more certainty in their future enrollment numbers. And these loyal families with multi-generational ties to the college were far more likely to donate funds, money that the school needs, in part, to offer scholarships to others."

Colleges want to look good... but no chance in hell they'll give up consistent students of families who donate.

Cost effective? not when it'll cost them millions or billions in kick backs.
I get the gist of your comment, but isn't prestige kind of the point (at least partially)?

If education was the point, you don't even need to spend money for cheap local community colleges, you can get a very good education from MOOCs like Coursera (I am doing one right now, in fact), edX, heck youtube even.

But the whole point is that an organization is staking their prestige against your qualification. There wouldn't be a barrier to entry in the first place for the MOOCs, so the point wouldn't even arise.

----

I know the HN commenter base prides itself of favoring "experience" over "qualifications", but let's be honest here.

When they are both starting from fresh, a "traditionally qualified" person would have access to more opportunities, because the barriers are lower, which is what parents are aiming for, and the more prestigious the qualifying authority, the lower the barrier.
My Dell laptop’s got a WiFi 6 card and a fingerprint sensor. The WiFi card works (although I don’t have a WiFi 6 network). The fingerprint lets me register fingerprints, but I can’t log in with it, which is probably another case of crappy software.
To paraphrase Marx, "AI fads appears twice, first as comedy, then as tragedy"
It's an unpaid personal open source project.
Gearing up for battle with Big Tech for using their content for AI training
People will do what they can to make their children's lives better. It just means the system was poorly designed
I have returned items at all three and I always show the return instructions from my email, because it is easier to navigate than the app.
Nokia was massive outside of the US, it had name recognition bigger than apple in Europe even in 2009 and still pumped out some gems like the N900.

Yes it had huge systemic issues. Structural problems, too many departments pumping out too many phones with overlapping feature sets, and an incoherent platform strategy.

But Elop flat-out murdered it with his burning platforms memo and then flogged the scraps to the mothership. It came across as a stitch-up from the word go.
> The Austrian and especially the Swiss railroad systems are far superior.

At this point Switzerland regularly makes German trains wait at the border because they are delayed and would mess up their schedules.
Yea but I read the comments here instead of the article

Now I'm going to forever be checking to make sure my chocolate has more than 8g of protein per 100g of product
It isn't protected as a trade secret if they mostly freely shared it with .edu addresses. And once it has been leaked out widely publicly it isn't either.
So this is a kind of...Grexit?

I'm sorry. I'll show myself out.
Yelling "if you like this don't tell anyone about it" is neither of those