skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I for one agree with the GP statement. The Lisbon treaty was specifically designed to override the will of voters, and is essentially identical to the EU constitution. This is a view, I feel, that's shared by the entire Western European press.

Needless to say, this has now been repeated, again, and again:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referendums_related_to_the_Eur...

And of course, one might say that the EU treated the election results in Greece, Italy, France and Germany with utter contempt. Greece most of all, of course, but the others aren't far behind.
This is like the suggestion to reinstitute a draft to stop militarism. I don't think they're good ideas...they create momentum in the wrong direction. Let's focus on making things better instead. Do no harm.
Hardware is now effectively free
I don't know anything about South America, but when it comes to Mexico there's a lot of both. In Texas I was hearing from a young age about rampant violence on the border. If you listened to some people, it was always a boiling bloodbath threatening to spill over into the U.S. You hear that year in and year out, and eventually you learn to ignore it. On the other hand, sometimes (much less often) people who routinely visited family in Mexico near the border would say now is not a good time to go, and talk about feeling scared everywhere they went, hearing gunshots and sometimes even seeing bodies despite their best efforts to stay on the safest roads and in the safest parts of town.
Yeah, its not like the sitting president introduced 25% steel tariffs and 10% aluminum tariffs or anything.
Except now the cartels have expanded into smuggling people (and the attendant unsavory side businesses), and may make more money from that than drugs. It may seem unnecessary, but there's a lot of real human suffering directly arising from cartel activities. I certainly think there are better approaches to stopping them than what we've been doing for the last 30 years though.

Untangling the “war on drugs” from the issue of human trafficking and other ills has to be desirable for everyone involved except the cartels. If you want a war on human trafficking, I don’t think you’d get much pushback, but let’s stop conflating that with drugs. Remember that almost 2/3rds of the drugs coming through is pot, which is a ridiculous thing even just from a trade-balance perspective.

At any rate, if smuggling drugs becomes unprofitable, cartels will still be forced to massively downsize. That will impact their whole operational space, human trafficking included.
This decision to move away from open infrastructure actually clarifies something I’ve been thinking about DDG recently. When you think about it, DDG is actually very similar to Apple in terms of its offer to users. It is a closed service which offers privacy as part of its marketing. That’s not to dismiss it outright or say the offer is not useful or not sincere, both are valuable alternatives to Google, but in the long run their promise has no legal backing. Both could switch to a different model overnight if their incentives shifted.

We could spend a decade evangelising for DDG, it becomes a significant mainstream player, and then gets sold to someone with totally different priorities. I’m happy to be corrected if I’m wrong, is there a legal barrier to this scenario playing out?
Yes, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18866729.
Only if you enable this feature.
Which is weird. I buy something in the store less than once per year.
Trend micro: Authentication non-existent in cranes and construction equipment
Does anyone know if this was due to a trim the fat internal cost cutting in classical MBA form? This sounds like more trying to stoke interest into the IPO. Other than IPO shenanigans they have felt like they are in general decline in interest from my local scope and the only successful ones I have heard of are people that genuinely need a houseworth of space for two weeks or more internationally.
It’s because most “gurus” don’t actually own and manage properties. The only way I can make a double digit cap rate in the hood is by doing all the maintenance and labor myself.
To quote my old boss: that’s capitalism, baby.
I don’t see how any of this is relevant to the topic of muggers.
Reminds me of my late grandfather, who was pretty much the poster boy for tech enthusiasts in their late 80s. His sole request for a care home when the cancer got too bad was that his room had an internet connection so he could continue exploring the world on Google Street View. Except that sadly he just couldn't actually use it any more without help and rapidly lost interest with help, and when the cognitive decline and hypercalcemia really kicked in he became convinced of and angered by the idea that Spotify was charging him £9 every time anyone asked his Google Home to play a song (in happier times he'd set the account up himself). His decline was rather more rapid than Alzheimers patients afaik, but again there was a tipping point where the only non-frustrating UI was a sufficiently large button to speak to an attentive human.
Mike Elgan wrote a post about this: https://elgan.com/blog/how-to-replace-facebook-with-nicebook

Perhaps Google will quietly sunset their Photos product in the next fiscal year...
Porsche used to be cool looking beautiful vehicles for whatever time periods. They really went downhill when they released the Cheyenne.
Ancient Rome was around 30-40% slaves, though there were many different kinds used in addition to chattel slavery (various forms of indentured servitude, etc), so it's hard to make clear comparisons.

However, the Roman empire wouldn't have existed in it's highest form without slaves. They were integral to the economy.
How can that be true? The kernel at least, knows how much you have and knows to block consumption until it crosses the desired threshold.
Zero cost abstraction is not the same thing as a free lunch. It's a goal that using the abstraction will have no runtime cost relative to implementing the same or equivalent functionality manually. It goes hand in hand in C++ with the "don't pay for what you don't use" principle (again talking about runtime performance cost).

When it comes to exceptions, it's generally true on x64 that you don't pay for what you don't use (there's no performance penalty to exception handling if you don't throw) although that hasn't always been true for all platforms and implementations. It's also generally true that you couldn't implement that kind of non local flow control more efficiently yourself, although the value of that guarantee is a little questionable with exception handling.

I'd argue that no language has a really good story for error handling. It's kind of tragic that we have yet to find a good way to deal with errors as an industry IMO. The most promising possible direction I've seen is in some of the possible future extensions to C++ - it's widely recognized as an area for improvement.

Template code bloat is another case of not imposing more cost than if you implemented it yourself and you have pretty good mechanisms in C++ for managing the tradeoffs.
It's not that foreigners aren't welcome. If that were true, we'd just ban foreigners and refuse to issue visas. It's a lot simpler and possibly more unpleasant to think about than that: we don't care about you. Foreign tourism isn't important to us. You don't pay the bills for all this bureaucracy, and he who pays the piper calls the tunes. You don't call the tunes, US taxpayers do.
So it's perfect time to start a powered-by-community smart device. NLP and voice commands should work offline, without license issues, trained for private use, no constant connection bullshit.
Business models are probably stickier than tech stacks.
This is a disclaimer and a speed bump for people who don't know what they're doing, who will mess with stuff and then forget what they did.

When you make products for the hundreds of millions of people who barely know anything about technology, such things are necessary.
Is it, though? Like let's go down some similar lines of logic:

> All websites that are dangerous should be banned. Hacker News is a dangerous website. Therefore Hacker News should be banned.

> Cigarette smoking causes cancer. Things that cause cancer should be illegal. Therefore, cigarette smoking should be illegal.

> Things that can harm children should be taken away. Phones can harm children. Therefore, phones should be taken away

All of these function as the exact same logic posited in the study. A is B. B is C. Therefore, A is C. However, this really doesn't apply to the categories above because when you start talking about 'dangerous' or 'causes cancer' or 'harms children' etc there is a wide berth for rational disagreement.
> Thus, the first 12 HP-35 portable calculators were made as a "hack" by and for other engineers at HP. It is rumored that the development engineer got carried away and implemented a full suite of scientific functions to satisfy requests from his co-workers. When these prototypes proved popular, HP decided to turn the HP-35 into a commercial product. The HP-35 was the first calculator with a full suite of trigonometric and transcendental functions.

This appears to be a summery based on the link above (http://codex99.com/design/the-hp35.html) but I think it's misinterpreted. The original states

> Eventually Hewlett, despite the SRI report, decided he wanted one and thought his engineers should have one as well. On February 2nd, 1971—Groundhog Day—he gave the official go-ahead.

The fact that he had a personal desire does not imply that it was "a hack" or anything less that a full commercial product from the start and there's no evidence to the contrary.
Right? I thought endlessly tweaking and optimizing my computing environment was super fun in my 20s and took some sort of craftsman like pride from it in my 30s. Now that I'm nearly 50 I am no longer very impressed with the cost/benefit ratio and just find it an annoyance.

I love that there are opensource alternatives to many commercial products, but I am sad at the relatively low quality of coherence and interoperability of applications.
> 52% of those who could be bothered to vote.

Not just bothered to vote, but allowed to vote.

Citizens of other EU member states, living in Britain, were not eligible to vote (with a few exceptions), and nor were British citizens who had been living in other EU member states for "too long". Moreover, 16 and 17 year olds were disenfranchised too, despite that age group being allowed to vote in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.
It's a function of what's typical. You might be coming to it from the position of having just this one issue, but keep in mind that the people answering that are likely seeing more than one such question every day, and most of them are premature optimization. Thus people bring this up, because in the grand scheme of things, it saves a lot of time for everybody involved.
Spring Framework's Migration from Jira to GitHub Issues
My CEO in the mobile video space explained the rise of smartphones to me very simply: economically, it was about transferring ownership of the customer from the carrier to the device manufacturer. Apple doubled down and broke the established mold by demanding ownership if carriers wanted their devices. Google whose entire house of cards is based on the web advertising model, had to respond. They responded by providing a near-enough software stack they could "open source" to create enough noise and lower-cost competition in the market to ensure Apple was not able to dominate. They did this well. But do not mistake their motivation: it was dollars all the way.
Emscripten and npm
THIS WAS A GREAT ARTICLE, THANK YOU FOR POSTING THE LINK.
Do the dimensions on something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Edge#Second_generation_(2... qualify as "monster"?

I guess 1.9 meters will be manageable enough for most drivers given a 2.8 meter lane.
It's my '7' key today...
Rotating the identifier means you lose the information about attrition rate.

If you have some number of users leaving, but a similar number incoming, then it would look like you have a consistent usage. Losing the info about lost users means you don't improve in retention.
Tim Cook can only change what he has control over.

He can't change the government of the UAE.

He can change Apple's security and privacy priorities.
hhhhhhmmmmmmmm 4 weeks only?
Corporate lawyer here.[1] There actually isn't too much in this that I would object to if this came across my desk… except the indemnity clause. It’s so broad I would imagine any lawyer worth their salt would request at least specifying the scope of the indemnification. Even knowing it likely won’t be executed as-written I would still suggest you consider adding:

> The Client agrees to indemnify, save, hold harmless and defend[2] the Contractor from any and all damages, liabilities, costs, losses or expenses arising out of any claim, demand, or action by a third party (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses)[3] as a result of the work the Contractor has done under this Contract.

(Without the explanatory footnotes, of course.)

The non-solicitation clause also sticks out to me because it seems a bit odd. I’ve never come across something like this in an agreement with a freelancer and I think I would be suspicious if someone tried to include this in an agreement. Are they going to try to poach my people as soon as the contract ends? I think it’s better to just leave it out - I can’t imagine many corporate attorneys would look for this specific clause, let alone insist it’s included. I don't work in Silicon Valley though so it might be different there.

Finally, this one is nit-picky, but it looks like you have a duplicate “is” in the second sentence of the agreement. (It’s captured in the screenshot on your site, too.)

[1] That means I've never given an agreement back to a contractor without redlining it – we just can’t help ourselves!

[2] Indemnification typically occurs after the matter is settled. That means if the Contractor gets sued for the work done the Contractor would foot all the legal bills and once the proceedings are complete the Client would cut a check to the Contractor for the costs incurred. Most freelancers don’t have the deep pockets their clients do so that could put them in a precarious financial position. Adding the duty to defend here means the Client would have to actively fund the Contractor’s defense of the claim, not just reimburse it. In some states this is assumed to be part of the indemnification but in others it must be specifically included in the agreement.

[3] Likewise, in some states attorneys’ fees are not considered part of the indemnification unless expressly stated and whether or not litigation expenses such as e-discovery or an expert witness are covered is still debated so it's best practice to clearly include them.
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> But devops really started within the software community fundamentally rather than the modern sysadmin one and there’s a lot of distinct differences in mentality that shows.

That is true.

> and for that reason alone I have to decline good engineers

Ultimately, that's the right call. Once certain a way of thinking solidifies, it is very hard to change.
The usual argument is that slavery is not market-efficient in an industrial economy, and, on the other hand, capitalism inevitably leads to an industrial economy, thus killing slavery in the process.

It's a contested theory, though.
Why are people such fans of Ddg and not searx.me? searx is entirely open source and you can run your own instance.

Ddg reportedly does collect some information (?), and their core is closed source.
Disagree. "...Just ask Amazon" is needless clickbaity extra words. Ultimately the opinion is that of the writer.
AWS for Everyone: new clues about Amazon's secretive low code/no code project
Urbit moon addresses are 64 bits long, comets are 128 bits long.

You need a sponsor to get a moon, you only need a unix computer and a network connection to get a comet.

I'm pretty out of touch with Urbit lore, but I'm not aware of anything you can do with a moon that you can't do with a comet. The planet is worth more because it can parent moons and stuff.
ya they're mostly red herrings. don't forget the impact on our sleep cycles which every day prove to be critically important to our longevity. for a pretty strong and compelling case for sleep (and against anything that gets in its way) -- check out "Why We Sleep" by Matthew Walker.
You are right.

I checked the definition on wikipedia after writing my comment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology

But further reading shows that my correction was wrong, and my initial assumption was correct.

Thanks for pointing this out :)
That reads like vBulletin vs XenForo to me. Funny.
Hopefully the code was written to depend on interfaces and not hard coded types.
Fair enough, typeclasses/traits were what I had in mind here. You're right that C# doesn't have a common interface to constrain your generics with for operator+/etc.
I guess you need to be selective about who your clients are. Just because they can pay you very well and buy any equipment or service you suggest, doesn't mean you should have them as a client. You don't want a client who will hunt you down and kill you if the network goes down. :(
A big part of that game is capital costs vs inflation.

Someone who bought their home before a price boom can often turn a profit because the rents follow the price to purchase (roughly speaking).

So if you acquired a bunch of properties in 2008 after there was a crisis, its likely that they're very profitable (month to month) now
What does that even mean now though? May was not originally sold on Brexit. Since becoming PM, what evidence do you have that she is not absolutely committed to Brexit? She may not be a True Believer, but she's a human apparently 100% intent on Brexit.
...or the basis of where funding comes from?
I think you missed what the parent was alluding to.
Thank you for popping in and clearing that up.

It sounds like this would push the battery harder than they're designed for. Does using your charger void the warranty?
It’s not really a choice of one or the other, most companies that contribute to open infrastructure also have a business model that relies on that. For instance Red Hat, it can be bought but both the business model and the legal backing for the tech licensing are sticky.
He was writing a summary of a talk from an Amazon exec. I suppose "per Amazon exec" would have been more exact, but are we just not allowed to have tone anymore? Style is out?
Optimizing PHP-FPM for High Performance
The "GM" that got the money was already restructured, it is "new GM", the shareholders in old GM were wiped right out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motors_Liquidation_Company

Propping up GM legitimately helped hundreds of thousands of workers. Whether it was a good use of the money is a different question than that, but the money didn't go to shareholders, it went to keeping the operations going.
Wait what? The law is very well documented. Just because you can’t easily comprehend it, doesn’t mean anything.

If I gave you documentation for Oracle you’d probably be at a loss too. My friends mom had a book stack one meter high off the floor.
What deal would you have designed, and how would it have avoided a border in Ireland?

Or, if you woulf have a border in Ireland, do you think all 52% of voters voted for that?
Nah, low center of gravity with nimble handling is better. I'll take an all wheel drive S4, ATS, C class or 3 series over an SUV any snowy day. Sport sedans have swagger too, the only swaggerific SUVs are the Escalade, Cullinan, Urus, Porsche SUVs. But those are out of the price range most of humanity can afford to buy within. I have never had a problem seeing traffic.
I really have a problem with this article, not because of the algorithm, but because of the presentation:

for(x...)
for(y...)
for(z...) {
...
}

I believe that code should at least attempt to be literate, and this just makes me shake my head in frustration.
As a feat of physical ability and endurance, this would have been far more impressive if a child's tricycle had been used.
I have actually used this very tool back in the day to help learn how to speak in a male or female voice. One of the five things I do is manipulation of my tongue to change the cavity of my mouth to make the space bigger (more masculine) or smaller (more feminine) which this tool demonstrates very well.

Edit: to be clear I used to sound male 24/7 and now I sound female 24/7 Rather than thinking you are speaking male or female it helps if you think you are playing a musical instrument with a number of controls that you control (with your mind whahahaha). Then it is just about learning what each control does and how to play them so you get the result you want.

Your voice is muscle memory so while at the start I had to actively "play" a female voice that is no longer the case and now if I ever want to "play" a male voice I have to actively think about how I am going to speak each word to make it male.
I’m saying the model it would like to criticize is not an interesting or worthwhile model to talk much about.
That and we have taken massive depreciation hits, which makes is less desirable to sell or trade if you financed a bunch of your purchase.
> Why would I want to buy a sedan when I could buy a crossover SUV with the same fuel economy for the same price

Mainly for better handling. It's easier to avoid a crash if one can maintain control of their vehicle during emergency maneuvers. A vehicle with a higher center of gravity is harder to control in those situations. For example see the following "Moose Test" videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5aM30TFZ-w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B5MDI-tGFY
I've been to Mexico, and one thing I knew while there is how corrupt police can be (some cops are genuinely good people to be fair), and I'm not even a drug lord seeking to bribe police officers. My brother in law had a US license plate, so he was popular to pull over, always getting asked for money, another time we all got pulled over by a pickup truck full of men with rifles (all cops) but we were all in a family truck, so they literally said "oh you're with family" and let us go. What in the world? What would they have done if it was just him, or just me and him?

In the El Chapo show, there's a group called "Los Emes" which is basically "Los Zetas"[0] and when I was in Mexico my brother in law told me they were the most dangerous group in Mexico, he certainly was not wrong.

As other comments have shared there's crazy violence in the border alone, a coworkers wife heard gun shots from Texas every day she was near the border for Hurricane relief.

In Puerto Rico where I'm from right now people are killing people in daylight[1], for what reason? Who the heck knows, it could be anything: looked at you wrong, owed drug money, whatever. When a big time drug lord gets arrested what ends up happening is people start killing each other to get to the top. Cops are resigning to work elsewhere in the continental USA due to loss of basic benefits. The former police chief in Puerto Rico doesn't even go outside after night time[2].

Puerto Rico isn't necessarily Latin America, and most people wont see the worse things happening in their lifetime if they don't live in those rough areas, but the cartels are pretty damn awful. I'm sure Netflix / Telemundo (or was it Univision?) wont get every detail right, but plenty of it is pretty darn close.

That all said, I still would go back to Mexico and Puerto Rico. I love both places, I would still be weary whilst in either of those places, but you gotta know where to go really. Drug Cartels are pretty brutal and have massacred civilians.[3]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Zetas

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/13/us/puerto-rico-crime-murd...

[2]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/puerto-rico-violence-former-pol...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_San_Fernando_massacre