skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can’t even have a market of IP without government granted ownership of IP.

What on earth are you thinking? For essentially all of human history, every work of art was produced for the market, and it was impossible to own any IP.
Oracle had it for decades - ie outlines.
I don't think the GP's solution is really that unreasonable - it's just that there's something missing. Like you said:

> Modern goods are fractally complex: individuals can't be expected to become experts in all the disciplines required to judge the quality of a good.

I think the idea that individual consumers can individually exhaustively assess the value of their goods is not really reasonable.

However, I think it's reasonable to believe you can construct a system where a large number of consumers, enthusiasts, and experts pool their knowledge together in order to much more accurately assess product quality.

For instance, if we could conduct wide-scale long-term surveys of the reliability of large appliances, e.g. by requiring that appliance technicians log service visits for an appliance into a database (that could be run by a non-profit), then that would significantly increase pressure on manufacturers to build robust products. After all, if the cheap $2k fridge is listed in the appliance database as having a lifetime one-third of that of the $5k fridge nearby, far more consumers will opt to buy the latter, because now they actually know that there's an advantage to buying that one.

Also, consumer testing labs like Consumer Reports and ConsumerLabs do some expert testing of products, which is better than nothing.

I think that the problem is information asymmetry - companies know how bad the products that they're selling are, and consumers don't. The free market system only works if buyers have "good enough" information to make a rational decision (although that's a necessary, not a sufficient, condition), and we're not in that state right now.

> Government interference in purchase decisions is a big hammer. It is hard to imagine policies that would actually help.

I agree - it's far harder for the government to legislate vague things like "appliances must be built well" then something like "appliance lifetime and service visits must be logged into a registry".
I had a 200MB plan for $35/month until early 2022. It was an old Koodo plan.

I never used it. I don't do a lot. WiFi at home, drive to work, WiFi at work, drive to home.

Travelling with the kids I've found the new plan makes life easier.
Having a BASIC of web programming seems cool. If that’s “all” this became it would be tremendous. Most folks here might not finding themselves reaching for it often if at all. But that’s also true of BASIC.
It's not a lie if you believe it.
Missing my point, ethics regulations like Model Rules of Professional Conduct that lawyers must adhere to are important like the health code. We should make it easier for anyone to be a lawyer, just like you or I can open a restaurant.

If you serve cockroaches in your food or give fraudulent advice, you should be blasted on the local news (and sued).
> "we should disqualify people from positions of trust faster than we should jail them"

Sure, but the revoking of license can be codified into the law, essentially, the same "disqualification" but under the same framework of law as for any other crime and punishment, most of it anyways.
I hate all that tracking and marketing bs as much as the next guy but if the marketing team is the main stakeholder and is responsible for the budget that won't work. I also might be a bit biased as a freelancer but every team I worked in so far had other freelancers on it and if we strongly recommend aginst a practice but the client insisted then we basically had the choice to either abandon the project (and therefore our current source of income) or simply do what they say. I would love to be on a position where refusing is an option that would not cost me my gig.
You would only take this route if you lacked the means to pay law school tuition, or maybe if your parents were reputable attorneys who are willing to apprentice you.
Flip the phone into portrait mode.
Blockchain-enabled, AI powered fashion startup mmERCH announces $6.4M seed round
Actually it is not. That is the improved version of it with additional rules to try to avoid black always win.
No, although that also would help (though I don't think the downside is worth it).

I'm talking about people up north realizing that massive amounts of immigration isn't exactly great for home/rental pricing. "Build more homes" is easy to say but hard to do - you need skilled workers, there's only so much land in specific areas, NIMBYism, etc. "Reduce immigration" for some is hard to say but in practice is easy to do, and it has the exact same effect.
How is this idea different from JIRA's Plans?
If that document said something along the lines of "a SIGKILL may only be issued when XYZ" where XYZ didn't include this case then I'd agree with you. I don't see anything in there that says when a SIGKILL should be or, more importantly, should not be generated. So it seems perfectly valid for an implementation of an OOB memory access to generate a SIGKILL and a SIGSEGV. That SIGSEGV will never be seen because the SIGKILL can't be handled and will kill the process.
Free market seems disastrous here. Most people hire an attorney… once? twice? in their entire lives, and the consequences of that person being incompetent could be life-altering.

There’s not a quick enough feedback loop here, I think. The vast, vast majority of people would not be “informed buyers,” so to speak.
The idea is that a lawyer that hasn't gone to law school or passed the bar is a worse lawyer. If true, then they would presumably be the cheapest lawyers too. This means the quality gap between a good lawyer and a bad lawyer will be larger than it ever has been.

The skill gap between a very good lawyer and a worse than average lawyer is already huge. The impact of this gap is highlighted by the O.J. Simpson quote "In America, you get as much justice as you can afford."
I think bloat could be prevented if it was noticed the moment it is introduced.

After application evolves bloated, it's difficult to go back and un-bloat it.

Bloat is often introduced accidential/y, without need, and unnoticed just because developers test on modern and powerful devices.

If developer's regular test matrix included a device with minimal hardware pewer that was known to run the product smoothly in the past, the dev could immediately notice the newly introduced bloat and remove it.

A bloat regression testing.

I call this "ecological development".

We should all do this. No need to aim for devices that already have trouble running your app / website. But take a device that works today and test that you do not degrade with respect to this device.
The bar is bullshit, I had to memorize stuff like "men couldn't file for rape under common law" WTF is that.
Interesting! I'll try to find time to test it out.
Spoken like someone with zero legal experience.
If you forfeit your copyright for the purpose of a tax right off, and to abandon your responsibilities to the work, then your work reverts to the default status (prior to any copyright law) of public domain. (And, Yes, you better make sure you have the rights to public domain every part of the work, or you don't get the right off.)

If you retain ownership rights (+ responsibilities) then you don't get the tax write off.

That seems pretty simple, no?
Yes a bunch of incompatible opinions is the solution.
From TFA:

> Lastly, law clerks can become lawyers without enrolling in law school by completing standardized educational materials and benchmarks under the guidance of a mentoring attorney, along with the 500 hours of work as a licensed legal intern.
When I click the pricing link it states:

" 10%

Pricing as clear as the Caribbean sea.
We only charge a flat fee of 10% of your minimum application cost — even if you decide to invest more. No hidden or extra fees."

Then there is a button that states, "Calculate your costs" and when I click it I am taken back to the home page.

I'm a little confused by this. What is my minimum application cost to move to another country? I would suggest presenting an example perhaps.
Every second movie dubbed to German sounds like some cheap porn. Go figure…
Much more so than academic accreditation.

Anyone can come off the street and take a bar exam. Not everyone can afford the time and financial burden of attending law school.
When CA lowered the pass threshold on the bar exam, one of my friends who went to a regional law school decried the move because it will open up the profession to even less-qualified lawyers. She said that she'd seen enough bad lawyering with the higher threshold.

I wonder what firms will end up employing these barless lawyers, and who will end up retaining their services. I also wonder if they'll be able to get malpractice insurance. I would think it would be quite expensive — like getting car insurance for someone who opted to get a driver's license without taking the driver's test.
I have used HomeKit for a VERY long time now and I can't remember the last time Siri had an issue controlling devices. It works 99% of the time and the 1% of the time it doesn't work is a rather specific part of the house where my watch has connectivity issues so Siri hangs.
Let’s get rid of med schools, too. Right? I volunteer you as the first patient for those “doctors” who didn’t go to med school…
Nope.. Machine to machine plans most likely
Or disreputable attorneys with a winning attitude.
Are these harmful responses actually harmful?
Like every organic chemistry book in the world has instructions on how to make TNT.
Are you seriously suggesting that whatever breakdown in diplomacy happened here was due to a principled stance against corruption & dictatorship? Because off the top of my head we’ve supported

- Sukarno

- Pinochet

- Mohamed bin Zayed

- Mohammed bin Salman

- Ferdinand Marcos

- Pol Pot

- Every South Korean military dictator pretty much

But this time, this time it was just too much for us to bear?
I didn't know it before, until I subscribed to Parallels Desktop and found that it's a user-friendly remote desktop app, especially when used on an iPad.
Seriously. Rigor matters.
Those $4,000 cars now cost $10,000.

https://www.iseecars.com/what-happened-to-affordable-cars-st...

https://site.manheim.com/en/services/consulting/used-vehicle...
The 500 hours is somewhat meaningless because that could all end up being doc review on a single case. That is to say, it's possible to complete hundreds of hours of work without actually learning anything about the law. (IAAL)
I.A.N.A.L but upon reading the license you provide with the boilerplate, seems like it is problematic at best. It possibly makes the whole thing unusable and non-distributable. Looks like this license has some of its terms cut-and-paste of other licenses without regard to what it actually means legally.

For example, your restrictions clause direct conflicts with the license grant when you mention that a licensee is restricted from :

- Modify, adapt, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or create derivative works based on the SwiftShip boilerplate.

Creating derivatives, modifying and reverse engineering are basically steps needed to adapt it to certain types of apps.

And then this:
- Remove, alter, or obscure any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices from the SwiftShip boilerplate.

Ok not really a contradiction but let's say you want to add end-user-visible copyright/trademarks... Then one cannot remove it to make their brand new app 100% on brand and without a third party brand splattered all over it.

Always read the license people...
Apprenticeship.
3. My read was that they receive the occasional nsfw pic, not that they provide them.
Religion and ideology help organize societies, and Christianity used to be a central focus of community life for the everyday peasant in the Middle Ages. Nations, companies, and the markets obviously aren't a definite existence in our times, and in other places and times they have a very different existence than today. But today they are a central pillar in organizing our societies.

Religion seems absurd because they don't mesh well in our societies anymore, but countries and enterprises, for example, may seem an absurd and harmful notion to people of another time and place.
https://github.com/google/clusterfuzz

At least Chromium has integrated multiple different fuzzers into their regular development workflow and found lots of bugs even before going public.
centifoot... You had centimeter right there! "Americans will do anything to avoid using the metric system" lol
To be honest, none of that stuff has been true for 15+ years anyway.

Linux just works now. You put in the Ubuntu/Debian/Arch/whatever USB, you install it, it just works.

I can't remember the last time anything broke on any of my desktop machines and it wasn't my fault for intentionally doing breaky things.
Passing an ethics test and background check may indicate you're fit to be an attorney, but it certainly doesn't give you the skills or knowledge to be one. I do believe that there are a variety of ways someone might come by those skills and knowledge, and that law school need not have a monopoly on that.

But just as I wouldn't trust a plumber or electrician to work on my house without being licensed to perform those tasks (despite acknowledging that this licensing process is not perfect), I wouldn't trust a lawyer to represent me whose only independently-assessed qualification was that someone thought they were an ethical person.

> free market and who customers choose to rank the merits of their lawyers is their own prerogative.

We can't even get reliable, non-gamed restaurant recommendations, for crying out loud. What makes you think consumers will be able to make an informed decision about lawyers in the absence of any sort of licensing body?
And on Xenix earlier, and on SVR4 and SVR3.
I don't think your comment really contests their point that a lawyer will be hard-pressed to be hired by a decent firm without a law degree. From what I've heard, it is already difficult enough without having graduated from a top law school.
Why don't we get more round-a-bouts in America first before we start talking about a fourth light.
I have one of these with a MacBook Pro 6,2 that I did the same upgrades to. However I finally decided to retire it when 2nd replacement battery swelled and Chrome stopped supporting OSX 13.

It didn't look like a good candidate for OpenCore Legacy because of the dual video cards, but it feels so gross recycling a perfectly working computer.
In reader mode the colors in the table disappear. Ironical the author does style that.
Fancy Type Systems is indeed vague, but I’d disagree with No in 2024. They are slowly winning. Definitely a Maybe to a Yes. E.g. Rust is hugely popular/successful and has brought a much more sophisticated type system to system programming.
> And thus demonstrated is the value of lots of different implementations of a spec. Already one hole found in the spec

That's a bit of a... non-sequitur. Imagine if you had tweeted "eggplants are my favorite vegetables", someone corrected you "actually they're fruits", and then you declared: "And thus demonstrated is the value of Twitter! Someone already made me a better-informed citizen in response to my tweet." This feels kind of similar.

This isn't to say what they're doing isn't valuable, or that there isn't value in having lots of implementations of a spec. Just saying that implication isn't there (yet) with this particular example.
It’s not my neck that is the issue, it’s as much or more the pressure against my face.
Sometimes to correct injustices you need to study them.
Weird, definitely didn’t for me. Wonder what’s different between us?
> They are non-experts in most goods, it is hard to see why they would be sophisticated buyers. Being a sophisticated buyer surely involves an understanding of the market and quality signals of a specific good.

You might think they are at least experts in (seeing through) sales tricks?
They are both verbose. But cobol is more data definition oriented.
Maybe the view is broken for you for some reason. I see a list of a few countries on the homepage with the lowest currently being Dominica at $109k and the highest bring Malta at $865k.
Ah, that makes more sense -- it might be a good idea to integrate with the upstream library as a submodule rather than lifting the actual .cpp/.h files into the bindings repo. That way people know the upstream C++ code is from a much more active project.

Despite my snarky comments, thank you for contributing to the python ecosystem, this does seem like a cool project for high performance URL parsing!
Legal systems. And getting the Russian and American legal systems to cooperate is about as hard as getting Russia and America to cooperate.
> But the axiom doesn't imply the existence of "all" subsets of A.

I feel like that would be a consequence of the axiom of choice.
Editorializing the title to something grammatically-incorrect? Please don't.

I consider it significant that both of the examples he cited are interactive programs. Thorough testing is low-payoff for those, for two reasons: it's common to tweak behaviors a bit, and if something is broken, you'll notice in the process of using it. Not no tests, but fewer tests, makes sense.

At the opposite end, I'm working on a VM, and you better believe it's got tests. Not enough, it needs more, it always needs more, but they're a godsend. When I add an optimization to the compiler, I want confidence that it hasn't broken other behaviors, which frequently it does at first. They've enabled several refactors, with at least one more big one on the roadmap. Change one end of the pipeline, change the middle, change the end: half the tests fail, figure out why, the tests are green, all is well.

It's almost a tautology but: write tests for a reason. Good reasons change over the lifecycle of a program. Early on, fixing simple invariants and preventing regression is a good motive, but with the recognition that things are going to change. Dogmatic TDD can lock in a design too early, if literally everything has a test right from the beginning the effort of every change is multiplied.

For a mature systems program designed to be robust and load-bearing, complete coverage could be a good goal. For something like a text editor or terminal emulator, that's probably overkill outside of the core components. Tests aren't free, but no tests can get pretty expensive too.
An artificial barrier to entry. What a racket.
I had to upgrade my 12" Macbook because Youtube Music brought it to a crawl. I could play music or work, but not both.
And this is why I keep coming back to Common Lisp
Make it “industry standard best practice” to provide devs with absolute top end cutting edge hardware “for productivity and efficiency gains”. Repeat this at every opportunity at conferences and industry events until it becomes ubiquitous. Profit as devs slather abstraction layers, trivial libraries, emulation layers etc. on because “developer time is worth more than CPU time” and “it’s not slow on MY computer”. :D
> This blog you are reading took me roughly a week to write (that’s a pretty long time for me), fragmented into multiple sessions.

Writing is hard. A good essay takes days if not weeks (sometimes months) of iterations.
The author’s blog post is well written and a week of effort is fair, IMO.
I'm not a lawyer but my understanding is that it is quite a bit harder. Laws schools teach their students to pass the bar exam, but an apprenticeship will focus on whatever the lawyer is working on out of economic necessity. A few thousand hours of tedious corporate or estate law paperwork is a far cry from the general education you'd get at a law school from dozens of lawyers and legal scholars. So to pass the bar exam, you have to self study everything that law schools teach plus practice several thousand hours under a real lawyer. Even not having academic LexisNexis et al subscriptions is a huge disadvantage.

Most people who take the apprenticeship track are pretty exceptional because they have to convince a practicing lawyer to essentially hire them with zero experience. The lawyer-apprentice relationship is very hands on, not like an intern or even a paralegal.
The devices they simulated aren’t disaggregated. They measured accessing a device that’s a single PCIe hop away from the CPU.

They don’t provide absolute numbers, so it’s hard to compare with other technologies, but note that you can (in theory; and in prototypes) dispatch and complete multiple NVMe I/Os per cache miss, thanks to amortization. CXL
is blocking the CPU for the equivalent of multiple cache misses per I/O.
I have very little Linux sys admin knowledge and have been using it on my home notebook for 5years and my work one two years now.

Really no issues with the OS.

I was using the very excellent 2015 Mac book pro before, but despite hardware that isn’t quite as nice (not bad though) that hardware I can’t go back to Mac OS. I know I pay a premium to get it pre installed over windows, but it’s not bad.
get a WRX
Reddit doesn't even run satisfactorily in my gaming laptop. I can run AAA games but a website is noticeably slow.
Thanks for this! I was able to uninstall Horizon Feed and Social from my Quest 3 using this tool!
If the electorate wants to restrict immigration so be it. But it won't solve housing shortages caused by restrictive zoning. When apartments, duplex, townhomes, condos, etc. are literally illegal this will cause a shortage. Parking minimums mandates, setback requirements, floor area ratio rules, may issue permitting processes push down supply and push up cost.

Just imagine if we banned building new grocery stores or expanding existing ones. Lines would get longer and longer and produce would quickly go out of stock. And then instead of fixing the root of the problem, we banned people from moving to the area due to grocery shortages.
Yeah, I don't see any inherent reason why you couldn't use wind/water/geothermal/solar energy and then electricity to get as far up the tech tree as you like. Or just some other form of chemical energy. Some of the steps sound more annoying or slow, but unclear why they'd be blockers.
Yep, exactly. It's fashion. FOUC-chic.
I passed the California bar exam on my first attempt (I only say this to head off cries of sour grapes), and I think this is good news.

The MBE in particular is an embarrassment and the NCBE should be ashamed of themselves. The idea that the MBE or any portion of the UBE is a reasonable test of one's ability to practice law is worse than a joke, as it extracts an enormous amount of money in preparation and administration fees from applicants.

An expanded form of something like the California Performance Test would, in my opinion, be a pretty good test of minimum competency to protect the public, but if what we're actually offered looks like the UBE, just forget the whole thing.
In the case of the devices we're talking about, performance is effectively functionality.
It might become way easier to start companies, as there won't be a need to nearly as many people. It might end up being more of a equalizing force in the end.
You or I can open a restaurant, but if we don't understand health codes and food safety, we're going to get shut down by a governmental body before we serve our first customer. Assuming we can pass a food safety evaluation and can open our doors for business, the worst that's likely to happen is that people won't like our food and won't want to come back. No one's lost anything there except for the cost of a meal and an hour or so of their time.

I'm sure I could pass an ethics test, no problem. But my first client as a self-described "lawyer" would almost certainly lose their case, and that could cause them significant harm. I'm sure there are ways forward from there, but I don't think I'd characterize this as no big deal, simply because I'd then get bad LawYelp reviews and no one would want to engage my services anymore.