skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They didn't win a majority, and did not form a coalition government, and then took Gaza by force
Especially with software like Miranda IM or Trillian, you didn't have to care which network your friends were on, you just had the one client.
Sure. For one, prohibition keeps the equilibrium price higher, which reduces equilibrium consumption. This RAND report from 2000 estimated a free market cocaine price would be 3% of the price under prohibition.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP909.html

2nd, if you prefer a more direct account, this doctor describes the effects of BC's safe supply program. Basically they bought opiods and gave them out for free to addicts. These were often resold, crashing the market price, increasing consumption of these as a gateway drug. This is to illustate the expected effects of a lower price: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-we-must-end-...

This widely cited study on prohibition of alcohol in the USA found a long run 30% cut while prohibition was in force, with a sharper initial cut: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w3675/w3675...

Overall legal production is generally cheaper, and a cheaper price produces higher equilibrium use. You could of course tax legal drugs, but you'd need a war on illegal supply to enforce that.
Portland has way more problems than just drug. I don't feel safe walking in downtown even during the day. Parking is a gamble whether or not you get your windows broken, almost a third of my friends had terrible experience when parking overnight in Portland, doesn't matter if it was a public park or in a hotel park.
Yes, he’s the poster of the linked video.
"a person from Switzerland who lacked fingerprints. The phenotype was mapped to chromosome 4q22. In the splice-site of a 3' exon of the gene for SMARCAD1-helicase, a point mutation was detected."

In the future parents might want to genetically modify their children to have this mutation :)
"Spatial videos are captured in 1080p at 30 frames per second in standard dynamic range."

Won't this look extremely soft and stuttery on a Vision Pro? Even on a standard screen these videos will look quite bad compared to the 4k60 recordings that every Apple phone since the iPhone 8 can record.
I copy/pasted the example into iTerm Build 3.4.8 and got Simplified Chinese.

When copy pasted it here in this comment box (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:120.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/120.0), I also got Simplified Chinese. What do you see?

刃直海角骨入

By the way, I do NOT have an Intel Mac, I have an Apple M1.
One of those lenses is a Ultra-Wide though, with a _very_ different FoV than the other one.
> Wordstar-keys: Implement wordstar cursor control keys in Linux using xkb

You can do this in fvwm too.
> Wordstar cursor control keys are the answer. They let you move your cursor all around your file using intuitive motion keys that are activated simply by holding down capslock while you press them.

They aren't a good answer, we can do better

Capslock is a bad prefix, it's a lateral pinky key, why not use a thumb key like right alt?

> ^Q acts as a prefix,

That's another pinky bad one

> ^E/^X moves up/down

But JK exist and are on the home row! Or use inverted T, that's still be better as for 3 cursor keys out of 4 you wouldn't need to shift fingers

> ^KY yank (i.e. cut) block

Parenthesesized explanation suggests little benefit from this unclear naming mnemonic, so better to either use the more widespread X to rely on muscle memory or a better located key vs a diagonal one (which X also accidentaly is)
It's naive to see religion as fairy tales. If used correctly, the tales are a medium of communication to instill values, discipline and morals in the masses.
> I was impressed, but I also realized that this meant that it was suboptimal for minimizing temporary registers. However, I couldn't think of some algorithm that would multiply it the way I did when I wrote that assembly, since I hadn't really had an algorithm in mind when writing it.

If the compiler were minimising touched architectural registers, it could use the same multiplication method it already does, but output this code:

lea r8, [r9 + 4 * r9]
lea r8, [r8 + r8]

Or this:

lea r8, [r9 + 4 * r9]
add r8, r8

If it used your multiplication method, but with the register allocation decisions it appears to use, it could output this code:

lea rdi, [r9 + 8 * r9]
lea r8, [rdi + r9]

So the compiler's decision to use temporary RDI looks to me like a register allocation decision only, independent of multiplication method. (But maybe affected by an lea/add decision).
> in the US, you build a product and you tap into a market of 340m people

For better or worse, California is changing this around privacy regulation. It already did it for car emissions. Well-crafted rules can drive industries to change. Poorly-crafted ones can scare them away.
then fonts are programs, like type faces
Your thought process in commendable but years of this has made me cynical. No one wants to live in the same apartment complex as junkies. If you put them all together it turns into a crime filled cesspool. A hard drug addict is essentially toxic to any situation you drop them in. The solution is to forcibly treat them in rehab centers and then maybe follow up with free housing. This is followed up by drug testing for atleast a few years otherwise you lose your free housing. If the person relapses, the worst that can happen is they are back in forced rehab and at the very least are off the streets, out of sight and not bothering regular people.
> This fact alone makes it not a monopoly.

"The hypothetical possibility of competition" is definitely not enough to conclude that something is not a monopoly in any legal sense. A monopoly doesn't require 100% control of the market, nor is owning 100% of a market illegal.

> by simple logic you prove that Google does not impede competition

Again, "the hypothetical possibility of competition" does not mean Google isn't impeding things. In fact, the case established quite the opposite:

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Unlawful Restraint of Trade (Sherman Act Section 1 and California State Law)
Question No. 6:

Did Epic prove, by a preponderance of the evidence and in accordance with the instructions given to you, that Google entered into one or more agreements that unreasonably restrained trade in a relevant antitrust market?

Jury answered: YES

Question No. 7:

If you answered “yes” to Question 6, which of these agreements did you find to be unreasonable restraint(s) of trade in accordance with the instructions given to you?

x DDA agreements

x Agreements with Google’s alleged competitors or potential competitors
under Project Hug or Games Velocity Program

x Agreements with OEMs that sell mobile devices (including MADA and
RSA agreements)

Jury answered: ALL OF THE ABOVE
These days you can ever hear folks asking questions like "do we really need to collect that" or "can we make it so we never have to process this bit of information" which, in retrospect, should have been the default for the tech industry.
The specific correlation is that homelessness goes up with the local rent:income ratio.
Those are income-based and the quoted generational figures look at mobility from poor to median, not median (or above median) to rich.

I would like to see these figures for wealth. I have a hard time believing it’s easier to climb from the top 20% to top 1% of wealth in any European country vs the US or China. Wealth is a more consequential measure of socioeconomic status than income anyway.
Because smokers can hold jobs and are productive members of society. Unlike meth and heroin, nicotine does not make people attack other people, does not make people miss work, does not make people irresponsible.
Good list, but as a european in SV I’ll share my $0.02:

I’d distinguish “how SV started” from “why it persists”; there are some excellent histories of the genesis of SV and what perhaps few understand is that it wasn’t an organic accident but a very deliberate effort by DARPA to forster this environment of easy funding. Without this SV would still be orchards.

Of course why it still endures despite the eternal “SV is over” proclamations are everything he lists.

In France, initiatives are very often top-down - bureaucrats invent a project and try to rally organizations. Even when it works, it’s almost alway useless and fizzles.

In Denmark I saw more SV mentally but the economic and tax climate is such the big rewards are heavily neutered.
I don’t think that it’s that judges are scared of big tech. I think the antitrust teachings from the 80s and 90s were Reagan (Bork) style philosophies which have since become outdated. But federal judges are often older folks and probably lean on their now-outdated “law and economics” theory of antitrust
In my experience Google Play Protect can be disabled, and shows a warning an app might be "Harmful" and sometimes prompts to Uninstall or Ignore the warning, afaik no unprompted uninstalls
The side effect of that is that some people will get it into their head that they're the chosen ones and push their religion onto others at great cost. Religious nations have already shown that.

Consider video games as the opiate instead. At least they don't fuck up your health and you might come out with stronger problem solving skills.
One of the two cameras is the ultra-wide camera so it gets some additional parallax and visual information than just the separation to the other camera.
Antitrust is not about legal obligations though, it's about competion and user harm.
Static-language clients need to create a class (or collection of classes) for each GraphQL query, or forgo type safety (typically just null-safety, but I suppose you could treat each result as a dictionary type). Creating just the schema-level types, with relationships modeled separately, does throw out some of the benefits ("just the data you need") but simplifies the client, moreso if the client may perform multiple complex queries on the same data.
This sounds like you're advocating a stance where anyone who shows up to a music festival with a bag of weed for their friends should be shot. That's a rather extreme position that seems much worse than the potential harms from the drug itself. Can you go into more detail?
Whats missing:

Employment law: US makes hiring and firing much easier. Ramp up, ramp down, get rid of a bad employee as needed. Not that easy in EU

Intersection of culture and stock: In SV, its all about skin in the game. Its an incentive to skip vacations, and work late. When you have the notion of a massive pay day it can be motivating. I dont know many folks from the EU who skip vacations...

China tried to just make working insane hours a rule (996 culture). It did not give them the desired results.
Like most articles on this topic, this one makes the implicit assumption that Europe not having grown huge tech corporations that rule over people's lives is a problem, rather than an accomplishment.

Kind of like assuming that there must be something wrong with urban planning in Paris or Berlin, because there aren't any skyscrapers in those cities.

The first and foremost purpose of a state is to enable (all of) its people to live safe, prosperous, and dignified lives. Europe is light years ahead of the United States in that regard. Until proven otherwise, I treat every cultural and regulatory difference between the two places as a contributing factor to that, rather than an obstacle to be overcome. The US is a nightmarish country to live in, unless of course your wealth is significantly above average.
Dutch here and I completely agree with this observation. Culturally being an engineer in Europe is not "high status" and also not high paying.

TLDR: companies and culture actively stimulate young engineers to move "upwards" (which in EU culture means: becoming a manager) while at the same time coming up with press releases on how they can't find engineers locally.

It seems to me like an entirely self-manufactured problem.

Also the fact that large companies such as ASML and Philips form illegal cartels to keep salary levels down (while importing as much labour from abroad as legally possible) doesn't help to stimulate people to remain an engineer.

Then there's companies like Philips who actively patent troll (or steals IP from) every local start-up they can find or convince to share more info.
Decriminalizing test kits that let you identify the presence of fentanyl in other drugs would be a great start - but those are instead illegal and classified as “paraphernalia”.
Well, I agree halfway… at the core of any social contract are rights and obligations. I think part of those obligations are to contribute to society (I think we agree up to this point)

However, I believe a part of that contribution has to be in an objective, quantifiable way - which translates to taxes. The rights we consume from society are tangible and expensive. A city populated only by of poets would collapse of starvation after 12 hours…

That said, if a Society feels they need to foster a specific part of it (culture,social work, etc) they can enact tax breaks to reduce the financial load of those making that contribution.

But taxation comes first (as an obligation).
I think there is a lot of opportunity in this space. It’s rare to see this many comments speaking of the pain points here.

I recently was a co-founder of a delivery app in the CPG space, and I think this space is ripe for disruption. We were running micro-fulfillment centers and staffing delivery drivers, but I wanted to pivot into a SaaS model taking on the data-plumbing between manufacturers and retailers. It absolutely amazed me that NOBODY seemed to have even half-decent API’s.

I wish people could all just get together and decide on things like a universal barcode system. You’d think things like electronic inventory transfers would be the norm, yet we were still dealing mostly in paper receipts.
The key is whether someone falsely believes they are secret.

Using your fingerprint instead of typing a username? Fine.

Using your fingerprint instead of typing a password? Uh oh.
It is, but only for the subset I think is absolutely necessary.
It’s very likely they have special deals too.

Without saying too much, I have personally witnessed such a deal at company with a measly 2-3 million app downloads. We had a physical product in the Apple Store that was doing very well. Our sales guy somehow negotiated lower IAP fees in exchange for higher cut or exclusivity of our retail product. Everything is negotiable if you have leverage.
"Thank you. You are cleared through Voiceprint Identification."

I immediately thought of "2001: A Space Odyssey"
Your point about languages and cross border regulations may be true, but is doubly so for the United States. In some (narrow sense) the US is like a highly devolved EU - you have 50 different countries but they all speak the same language (not even really different dialects), use the same currency and largely have the same legal requirements for technology firms.
In theory you might be able to remap things in software using ex. keyd, though I haven't played with it enough to comment with confidence. Though I do agree that programmable keyboard firmware would be better.
𝔗𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔍𝔞𝔭𝔞𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔢 𝔢𝔶𝔢, 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔱𝔢𝔵𝔱 𝔢𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔦𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔶 𝔩𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔰 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰. ℜ𝔢𝔞𝔡𝔞𝔟𝔩𝔢, 𝔶𝔢𝔰, 𝔟𝔲𝔱 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢 𝔰𝔦𝔤𝔫𝔦𝔣𝔦𝔠𝔞𝔫𝔱 𝔢𝔶𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔞𝔦𝔫 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔭𝔬𝔰𝔰𝔦𝔟𝔩𝔢 𝔠𝔬𝔫𝔣𝔲𝔰𝔦𝔬𝔫!

The article doesn't focus on it as much, but it's also just as much an issue for Taiwan vs Mainland Chinese script. There's a lot of subtle font differences, and traditional Chinese rendered in a simplified Chinese font looks very much out of place, even if the right hanzi code points are used.
Would be nice if you could send universal text editing commands like "go to line" to any app instead of trying to guess which keybinding it has mapped to it
In a word: "no".

Back when I worked at AusCERT, there was a really nasty remote exploit discovered in OpenBSD. It was responsibly passed on to the OpenBSD folks who fixed it in a timely manner. However, because the exploit was never officially made public, they refused to publicly admit that it even existed or was ever a problem. Their remote exploit counter remained suspiciously unchanged -- it ought to have incremented.

While I do believe that they are doing their best and are far beyond the norm, I have little doubt that other "non-issues" have appeared over time.
I know multiple people that have said the same.

It had nothing to do with “green text”. They were annoyed that when people shared photos with the group they came through at shit quality.

Outside of what I’m sure are some articles very in tune to teenage culture (BRB, POS), I’ve literally never heard of this as a status symbol—purely as a functional issue.
Don’t use ORM for performance critical DB operations and write SQL by hand might be another answer. Case in point: I recently improved performance of my email app by about 250x by replacing SwiftData with native SQLite database (and manual sql queries). The message data is under 1M rows range plus a lot of blobs/attachments (under 10MB each).
>E.g. It’s not illegal to be the only seller of gasoline in the country. It is illegal though to bundle laundry powder with gasoline sales to corner the laundry powder market.

I mean, it's far more than that. Most importantly:

>Historically they have been held to include exclusive dealing, price discrimination, refusing to supply an essential facility, product tying and predatory pricing.

While IANAL - even as a plebe I can pretty easily tie refusing to allow third party app stores to both refusing to supply an essential facility, and product tying.

Why should my choice of hardware or OS dictate the apps I'm allowed to install? That's 100% product tying. It would be one thing if third parties just had no interest in supplying an alternative app store. It's another thing entirely to lock them out via your monopoly on the ecosystem.
You mean in the US it's easier to exploit people?
I don’t think the parent is particularly clear about what it’s referring to or why the Apple decision would be binding. It just looks like two ships passing in the night over precedent vs estoppel.
> the hoi polloi

Fun fact, "hoi" is plural for "the" in Greek. So "the hoi polloi" literally means "the the many."
Housing plus making it legal to use in shared spaces is a good start. E.g some shelters in Seattle have a covered/seating location outside, in sight of the front desk, and residents are encouraged to use there instead of in their rooms so that they can be seen and cared for.
You’d be surprised. Maybe you just haven’t noticed them because you have a cat.
I've read all the comments and looks like no one has mentioned this, but as someone who worked a total of ~25 years, on both continents (10+15 years), I have the following observation, and it really is a simple one:

American hardware/software engineers work really, really hard, compared to their European counterparts.

Given identical goals, same level of funding, same underlying tech, and similar market size, a US startup will almost always be more successful then its European counterpart, simply because of the difference of total amount of work done in a given month/year.

I've worked with outstanding people in both continents. Top-notch, impressive engineers. I can easily say, the output of my US colleagues were significantly higher.
(In response)

1. These are not separate markets. Incorporate in Germany, calculate the added value tax differently, add some i18n to be sure, and that's it. Trade union ftw. Your online SaaS product is pretty much the same everywhere. Where things are getting complicated is different taxes for different types of products; so in general the trade of physical products.

11. A lot of VC funds use the structure of a Kommanditgesellschaft (GmbH & Co KG) because they cannot be taxed once the shareholders move to a different country. This avoids the potential double taxation problem. Gmbh & Co KG > Holding GmbH > Operative GmbH is usually the tax layout. But I agree, it's a burden for startups that cannot afford to waste 80k + legal fees just for the legal setup.

What I like to add to the problems:

- capital is owned by banks, not by tech VCs and neither by tech people that got rich by doing tech stuff in the past. In a state wide competition, the best voted startup was doing an online email phishing presentation for corporates. Place number 2 was a hobby baker that needed a second oven. (Not kidding you, it's _that_ absurd). All startups with actual potential in terms of scalability and impact usually get lost in the first pitch competitions in the lower ranks, and they cannot get up because the regional village bank manager who is part of the jury doesn't know shit about computers or smartphones.

- usually the incentive for lead devs or early engineers to join the startup isn't existing. If you cannot pay a competitive salary (which you can't as a startup) they won't join, or rather go back to their cushy consultancy jobs.

- ...which leads to the next problem. A lot of people abuse startups as a jump in their career path, where their immediate goal is to work for "the big five" which are consultancies like KPMG, Accenture, PwC Global and the like. Those types have grown in size over the last years and the response usually is "I heard this is how to get hired by them..."

- angel investors are a joke here. The offers are as ridiculous as "20% for 50k", because they have no idea how quickly a software dev can make that kind of money while freelancing. And they specifically target early stage startups fresh from university. It's almost a scam scheme.
One company was honest about what their platform allows and disallows. You might not like how they choose to run it, but they did what they said.

Another company made claims about their platform (both to end users and to business partners) being "open" and then acted directly counter to those claims, in efforts to prevent competition.
Same codepoints. Software can only choose the right font if it knows it's in the Japanese language. I'm sure if you set your browser's language to Japanese it would select the right font, but since it's probably set to English instead, it's selecting a "default" assumption for the language of those glyphs.

App localization (where you specifically select "Japanese" as the language you want an app to display in) is the main target of this article, I think.
What nonsense is this? Smoking weed next to someone does not lead to addiction. Every place that I am familiar with some form of legalized marijuana consumption says you can't do it just any old place you feel like. So this is also just more BS being spread. You have a very misconstrued understanding of something, and now you're calling it libertarianism.
I'm not American, so no I have not read an article about why American children are being coddled.

However it is a well known phenomen that the youngest generation gets picked on by those already in the workforce. Or are you saying that Gen X is still generally worthless compared to the older generations?

The idea that Chris Rock was being a prick and mocking a group of people being unacceptable and rejected isn't any more surprising than comedians making racist or disabled jokes being rejected 30 years ago.

There are plenty of actually funny people who don't need to do that.
Likely also referenced by Microsoft whenever antitrust came around for a cup of tea and a bit of a dance.
They are going to live on the street whether you think it's ok or not. Homeless people avoiding shelters has been a thing since looong before homelessness was even talked about in terms of decriminalizing (and legalized drugs were a literal pipe dream). Having talked to many homeless people over the years, shelters really do sound quite awful, actually worse than jail in many ways.
Agree with all your points. We just need the people in power to recognize and act on that, instead of pandering to the extreme vocal minority and throwing money at an industry that has no incentive to make itself more efficient and effective.