skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Townhouses can be as good as detached or even significantly better (due to no windows in between) if built "correctly" (good thick brick/concrete party wall in between both houses or can be awful just as you fear if they were built shoddily all at once with nothing but thin framed drywall. Buyers who only insist on detached due to noise would be well served to carefully consider rowhouses, but inspecting them closely for this.

Rowhouses are a really, really good sweet spot for affordable yet private as long as they have the good noise eliminating party wall, so I would support the government just mandating them being built this way (it doesn't cost that much more, but over time by driving out bad rowhouses, it would improve their reputation).

Rowhouses enable a density similar to apartment buildings while allowing privacy quiet, ownership of a yard and roof deck, the ability to tear down and build any way you like, and pretty much all the accoutrements of suburban living but just a little smaller. It's great to own the land under your feet and have no one below or above you.
Show HN: BSD licensed data acquisition package in Python suitable for labs
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Its supposed to be as simple as possible to understand so that students from non-coding background (but studying engineering or sciences) can understand. Therefore, any feedback, contributions or comments are appreciated.
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to give a different perspective,

why are VC's somehow the cause of "tech industry"? this seems like a very US perspective on tech in general.

Also, VC's in the US have another large advantage. Very, very cheap money because the status of the US dollar as a reserve currency compared to the euro and other currencies.
China hasn't caused any fentanyl deaths in the USA. The USA has caused them, by doing the war on drugs.
You have a weird definition of “terrible”. How much EU taxes are being paid by Apple, Meta, Google, etc?
I agree, it is the only feature paddle has over stripe IMO. While having only monthly payouts, high fee, lower conversion
Townhouses
Protection of the water we drink is a legal right. Which is why companies cannot dump waste into the river, no matter what financial impacts it has on them.

Protection of user data is a legal right, or increasingly recognized to be. Companies have no right to sell it, or misuse it, no matter what financial impacts it has on them.

Rights cannot be contracted away or sold. They are rights.
In the Bay Area there is Alameda Island, which didn't start as an island either...

https://www.kqed.org/news/11983858/alameda-the-island-that-a...

It's only barely one today.
As I understand it the threshold is usually $100,000 in revenue or 200 transactions (following the Wayfair decision), the latter of which is easily reached...
> If I recall correctly, I…

Only on HN does someone asks questions about an obscure cool thing and the original author enters the discussion. Thanks for the explanation.
Nobody is against regulation that disfavors large incumbents to support competition instead.

You'll struggle to find people who are against the Digital Markets Act for this reason. It literally only targets the potential monopolists.

However, virtually every other piece of regulation does the opposite.

Regulation usually gets trotted out after the downside of doing [new innovation] is experienced. This always happens, because doing something new always involves unknown risk. Most people aren't entrepreneurs and hate risk, so they pass regulation, and the market gets locked down so nothing new happens again. Incumbents and their army of lawyers can easily comply or are grandfathered in, and challengers are permanently disadvantaged. That market is officially dead until the next fundamental leap forward in technology.

What's different now though, is the hysteria over AI is leading regulators to pass this incumbent-cementing regulation before we've even had a chance to experience both the upside and downside, so the innovation never happens at all.

Combine this with a rapidly aging demography in Europe, and I only see this trend increasing. If there's one thing old people hate, it's risk and doing new things. Meanwhile, those same old folks are expecting massive payouts (social benefits) via taxation of the same private sector they're currently kneecapping with red tape. While ironic, those two trends converging aren't great for Europe.
I haven’t written Java for a while, but this is always a good starting point.

I always start without any extensions then slowly add them as I see a need.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/java/java-tutorial
Looks wonderful. I think being able to type examples from a textbook or a tutorial into this and see each stage visually would make people learn a lot faster.
Interesting… I just replaced mine after nearly 8 years of operation. It had started to fail about 2 years ago though because it would throttle down to 900Mhz after about 30 mins of gaming, so it became the home automation/camera server
A lot of things are Turing-complete. The funniest one to me are Powerpoint slides.

https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accidentally_turing_comple...

https://gwern.net/turing-complete
Those don't actively impede everyone else, so I don't mind if they use them for free.
If the EU cares about its citizen's privacy why does it do everything in its power to spy on its own citizens?
Because it's rare for a branch result to be random. The compiler/runtime/cpu/etc can often guess which result is more likely, and correctly not do the extra work in the first place, and so that's usually the better strategy than spending silicon and heat on the wrong answer just in case.

I think a lot of people don't have an intuition about how accurate branch prediction can be, but if you look at your own code, you'll quickly realize "well, yeah, control flow is almost always going to go this way and we just have this branch so we can handle the exceptional case" -- compilers can often deduce this pretty well themselves now, and cpus/jits/runtimes can develop some pretty impressive heuristics as well, and when all those fail you can often add explicit hints in your code that tell your compiler/etc what you expect if they can't guess.
I also had the page load very slowly, and it actually reloaded 3x while I was trying to read it. Something is off about that website :(
i don't think you know what socialism means if this is your interpretation.

Lets not forget that half of the EU actually lived under a quasi socialist regime not that long ago...
Used in the way the author of the article presents, or generally the way you could use them in Clojure, Racket and Scheme macros are pretty similar. However at least in Racket you have a lot more control over certain parts of the way compilation affects the macro (look up phases for example). I assume Scheme has similar constructs, as does CL.

Note this is ignoring anything about the reader, for which Racket has substantially more powerful functionality around than Clojure.
The reality of living in Russia is the perfect example of the false equivalence of the sentiment that “a government is just a mafia”. Magnitude matters.
No, but the EU and the citizens thereof should then accept that Meta or other similar companies in similar situations can't operate within the EU.

The EU regulators and select HN users might be okay with that, but EU citizens on average probably won't be.
Most devs in Sweden would be very happy to get US wages so this feels pretty much like bullshit.

Also, Spotify could open offices in other places in Sweden (or Europe) if they want to be in places with lower CoL than Stockholm.
> A big whale company performing that many M&As to little startups is essentially fueling future competitors.

What an absolute load. They are stamping out competition, concentrating market power, and making red oceans even redder. If you were an investor I wouldn’t give you my money to gamble with.
Why would they have issues? Cars in the posited scenario aren't banned
Funtoo Linux is shutting down
No, the same circuits would execute them interleaved just like they execute multiple hardware threads now
On the contrary, I see the VC influence on American tech has been incredibly destructive. No one builds companies or products or services to last. Everyone is only in it for the quick buck. Basically every service provided by big tech has turned into a chase to cover it with ads and seek as much rent as possible while never actually improving anything. The state of software has gone downhill precipitously in the past decade and it’s only getting worse as VCs gain more and more control over the entire economy from housing to education to financial services to insurance.
Maybe terrible is too strong but the trajectory is not great: https://www.euronews.com/business/2024/07/25/germanys-busine...?
Could there be a middle ground to remove the account ID as a correlation between posts? The posts could remain as a graph of replies without retaining who posted which.

I know this means someone could still use stylometry to try to reaggregate the posts, but that's less reliable than HN actually telling us that the same authenticated user made all these posts over a decade.
> How might one practically ban SEO?

From a legal standpoint, this seems far easier than banning advertising of any form. Which, if you'll remember, has (some) constitutional protections within the US. In contrast, it's a bit more difficult to claim such a thing about SEO. We regulate the activities of business all the time, and SEOing just doesn't seem expressive in the ways that "free speech" are.

From a practical standpoint, I do not have a clue. It seems as if this would just drive the worst of it overseas, where it is not possible to investigate or to prohibit effectively. I'll await the other guy's answer, maybe he has something more clever than I can come up with on a Friday at 5pm.
The other cool thing about an OOP approach to this problem is that you can hide your optimized LUT behind the OOP if you're careful about the design of it. This lets you have your cake and eat it too. Your users who might be more comfortable with an OOP approach get a way to declare the kinds of shapes they're interested in and the number of shapes they want to work with. Then you can take responsibility for building a LUT that meets their needs and give them the supporting optimizations they need to be successful.
Well now that site is a crock of gold from the Old Web, isn’t it? Just the kind of thing I enjoy exploring in my idle minutes, and far better for my state of mind than doomscrolling Reddit, Facebook, instagram, TikTok, and the rest.

Thank you for sharing!
> Where do you draw the like between information of a product and advertising?

I guess anything that's invides my brain without my consent (so all billboards, bus-stop LEDs, etc) is annoying ads.

Now, if you see a product ad in a magazine related to the filed that makes more sense (and I'd love to go back to the internet where ads were based on page context and not user tracking data btw)
Is the local tech market alive?
Haven't read the paper, but guessing, in the limit, this is simulating the electromagnetic interaction between electron shells of atoms?
I'm distracted by all the references to being "old" because the author remembers the 1990s.
This reminds me of Exist[1], although their inputs are mostly automatic and so the data quickly becomes overwhelming and tautological ("you spend more time active when you work out for a longer distance"). Glad to see another entry into this space.

[1]: https://exist.io
I’m really just relying on OpenAI’s models for now, and supporting the same 65 languages GPT-4o supports. Was there a particular language you’re interested in that you’ve found the models produce disappointing results?
To be clear, I like login.gov considerably more than random SaaS logins.
> You'll struggle to find people who are against the Digital Markets Act for this reason. It literally only targets the potential monopolists.

I'm against the way it's being applied to Apple. I don't think that the government should dictate that consumers aren't allowed to choose a platform that's a locked down walled garden if that's what they want.

We have platforms that aren't walled gardens (Android) that many of us happily use (myself included), and Apple shouldn't have to become something that it didn't set out to be just because a few other big tech companies feel stifled by Apple's rules.
Noted :) Thanks for the feedback
Thank you! Yes, it will be coming soon to the PlayStore
Uncle Bob sounds good verbally.

Like "small functions." I say, okay, okay, stop writing these 2000 lines of spaghetti, I'm a hundred percent on board.

Then when you get to the concrete example, it's decomposing this 15 line function.

Good idea. Calibration is waaaay off.
They don't want to walk because cars make walking less pleasant, more difficult and more dangerous. Everywhere you look things are made slightly easier for cars and slightly harder for everyone else.
Near-Grounding Incident in Great Barrier Reef Attributed to GPS Malfunction
And if you're looking for more like it, IMO the best derivative album would be "All The Grand Memories Of All The Lovely Years"[0] at over 11 hours long. I haven't listened to it all, but some sections do some interesting things ([1] as an example of a newly-formed memory in late-stage disease).

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tP43Q_VWyM

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tP43Q_VWyM&t=30573s
Why not make Sales illegal too.
It's actually better. Because disabled parking is still a thing.

Also you can easily find a parking space, because it's somewhat expensive. But that means I can go downtown on a Saturday, easily find parking for a few hours, do my shit and drive home. Yes it costs 10-15usd for 2 hours of parking. But that's a small price to pay.

Reducing everyone's ability to drive greatly increases the people who actually need to drives ability to do so.
> Regulating the tech Market is great for local tech

Except, it is not. At least not in the situation that the EU is in. Because all regulations are a constant burden on business, small relative to big corporations, huge for medium companies and insurmountable for startups.

The EU has no big players, not a single one! We have a few medium players like SAP and that is it. So, we are already far behind and every weight we load on to drag us down is another nail in the coffin.
Very cool. Took me 2:38 and felt fun. Nice ergonomics.

Note the z-index of the close X button on the results page was too low. It hides partly behind the card inner frame.
US only country where developers' salary cannot be expensed the same year
Feature Preview: Hands-Free Code Navigation [video]
> I get that...
> Sure, I get that...

Doesn't sound like you get it. You ask why people have an aversion to starting their own business and people are giving you reasons that you don't want to accept.

I've done both. Working FAANG is way easier than running your own business. Orders of magnitude less stress. That's why some people can "rest and vest" at FAANG.
Saying Java is terrible has been a thing since Java first came out.

"It's strings aren't even mutable." - some C++ programmers.
All advertising is a step too far, I think. But banning accepting any remuneration to deliver, display, or cause to be viewed any advertisement, and limiting physical ads in places viewable from public areas seems like it would improve things. Buildings shouldn't be covered in ads, and the internet shouldn't be largely based around scamming as much information out of people as possible to jam ads down their throat, but a business should be allowed to put up flyers on their own storefront. I mean, if you're really pedantic about banning all ads, that probably precludes restaurants posting menus out front.
So the answer to the bad old internet is to install tailscale on everything?
Do you actually get relevant online ads? I usually get ads about the thing I just bought
The Human Brain Project's final 3 year period could have actually delivered a platform for actually modeling real human brain data, and GDPR totally blew that possibility out of the water: no one had the budget to take on the legal risk, and everything was finished up with synthetic/augmented datasets or done "locally".

our colleagues in the US and China are chuckling, so we'll just move our science there.
Apple's chips are based on the ARM architecture, which is inherently more power-efficient than the x86 architecture used by AMD and Intel for their laptops. Apple also designs these chips in-house.

Apple is using a combination of high-performance and high-efficiency cores (Big.LITTLE architecture), allowing the chip to balance performance and power usage based on the task at hand. They also include dedicated hardware for specific tasks (like video encoding/decoding), which can be more efficient than performing these tasks on general-purpose cores.

AMD and Intel design chips for a wide range of devices and systems, requiring a more generic approach. This limits their ability to optimise for specific hardware and software combinations. Apple designs chips solely for its own products, allowing for tighter integration between chip, hardware, and software.
well, lets not forget what happened since the start of 2022...

the invasion of ukraine has a major impact on the european economy, but that has very little to do with the article in question...
Please don't dissuade them/us from doing so.
The fact that the measurement for good advertisement is how good it steals our attention should be enough to forbid it. It's psychological rape.
this argument doesn't work, because you could always argue that the consumer chose this product, and thus its features and practices should be allowed. Apple had it coming for a long time already, one way or another. And Microsoft also will again the way they are going.
>Nine months after our public launch in 2021, we surpassed $1M in ARR and never looked back.

>Along the way, we received many acquisition offers and (Series A) term sheets from investors. But despite the allure of these opportunities, we knew that what we had built was truly special and needed the right partner to take it to the next level.

Wow. This is quite the smart and ballsy move. Congrats to the team. Looks like y'all knew what you were doing.
The context: I asked you a precise question about your claim, you answered it in the way you chose to.

You are welcome to clarify if you'd like.
It's not specific to stripe, it's acquisitions in general. It's consolidation. It's a move towards monopoly. It's a step away from a competitive market. Even the most hardened capitalist cannot claim with a straight face that this is a good thing.
Going to build a small droneship to circumnavigate the Earth
> No, but the EU and the citizens thereof should then accept that Meta or other similar companies in similar situations can't operate within the EU

More pointedly, that they can't be built in or run from the EU.
which doesn't make any sense, b/c afaik almost here AI regulations impact usage etc, not chip makers.
A post-doc in my chemistry lab had the saying, “two weeks in the lab will save you a day in the library”
I will look into that.
PVP and leaderboards attract a different audience than normal gacha players which is why it tends to be rare-ish in gacha games. (Almost none of the popular ones focus on it).

Most of the time, the social aspect of gacha is to show off your "collection" rather than to show off your "skills", so adding PvP and leaderboards doesn't do much for most players.
Instead, gacha games tend to have "social" features that do let you show off your "collection" in some way, like profile cards with character showcases, "supports" mechanisms that let friends and strangers borrow your characters, or sometimes just blatantly a score for your gallery completion %.

Also FWIW, Genshin actually has PvP, it's just that it's only present in the card battle mini-game. And my impression (could be inaccurate though) of that is most players are not particularly "into" that mode.
> Now, large tech companies haven't wholesale killed people (unlike say tobacco, or talc powder, 3M and half of their solvents, weed killer, most car makers, etc etc)

It's nearly as bad. Social media causes addiction and mental health problems especially for the youth. PISA scores are going down. It can already be seen now, although not many 20 year olds have had a smartphone for more than 10 years. Here in this country every 7 year old has a smartphone and it will get only worse. Physical health is impacted because of kids are tapping on a screen instead of running and playing. It has impact already to language learning and social development of babies because parents interact with their smartphone several hours a day and instead of interacting with their baby.

Of course there is other tech than social media and smartphones. But at least in these areas equally strong regulation as for tobacco and alcohol would be required.
Lots of reasons, but three big ones:

I like to root for the home team (tech entrepreneurs like my former self getting paid out for taking a risk makes me happy)

M&A activity is a positive sign for the economy. Stripe wouldn’t be buying companies if they thought the economy was about to fall off a cliff, and Stripe is full of smart people (disclosure: I am a former Stripe).

If there were no acquisitions happening, starting (another) company would be much tougher to justify to my wife and my self.
Television Camera at the Berlin Olympics (1936) (2023)
On iOS there was a message "iCloud Private Relay will be available tomorrow" - and things seemed to keep working for me at least.

On macOS it took 16 hours (!!) before a message finally popped up that said "Private Relay Unavailable - Private relay will automatically turn back on when it is available."
I find the whole aspect of having MoR a fear mongering tactic to get you to pay extra transaction fees

99% of SaaS won't reach the MRR needed to justify MoR

Of the 1% those breaking through 7 digit MRR can simply hire in house to manage tax remittance and not confuse their customers with invoices labelled with MoR's branding

All in all this seems like the fear campaign has worked beautifully for Paddle and Lemonsqueezy but some of us saw right through it and never really felt the need to pay 5%~11% (!!)

Looks like Stripe will shut down MoRs one by one
I don't think big-tech companies exiting is a bad thing. They're so used to getting their own way and making the rules that it's probably signal that Europe is on the right track.
from a personal and social perspective, I see nothing wrong with it. In fact, even in the EU we still ahve a lot of BS startups. We imo need more sustainable businesses, that value actual societal value/value to consumers or businesses over growth and shareholder value.
Не, я тебя вижу ;)
Appreciate the answer.
- Side effects; how do you handle two different writes to memory?

- Double the execution units; very expensive for wide vector units

- Massive waste of energy as half the resources will always be wasted no matter what

- Bad scaling, i.e. four branches ahead would require 16x the resources
That's not necessarily an edge.
https://www.ma.imperial.ac.uk/~buzzard/xena/formalising-math...

has the example:

0 ≤ x^2 if x : ℝ

which humans simply use without proof. The IMO doesn't challenge participants to prove everything, only the main ideas.
I'm not sure I follow. The incumbent capital class is driving policy decisions around this. Where's the socialism?