skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Personally I really hope something like https://plus.codes/ will catch up. People should be easily able to provide address without knowing or caring about local arrangements.

It would already be a better solution indeed. But ultimately I would prefer to have a kind of unique identifier for my person that is not based on my location nor my name, like for instance A23C-B442-9F72. It could then be associated to a first name, last name, and geographical address in a database. Delivery services can then look-up the geographical address and your name at delivery time to find you or your mailbox.

This would avoid so much troubles for stuff like:

- Moving: I can change my address in one place and everything will be delivered to the new place, no needs for thousands of calls and letters to companies to update every subscription.

- Changing name: Whenever someone is changing his name for any reason (weeding, gender change, etc.) it should only be modified in one place.

- Disposable address: It should be possible to get disposable identifiers that can only be read by delivery services for hiding your real identifier/address from suspicious website

Of course this system is not perfect and probably has drawbacks, but it would be already a step in the good direction for me. Implementation details are left open for discussion (Centralized vs distributed database(s), checksum for spelling mistakes, financial repercussions, etc.)
Did a naive glitching approach in JavaScript around this same timeframe. Just loaded into a page as data element and started flipping random bits when you clicked on it. Tried it with jpg too but the results with PNG we’re way more trippy and cool.
Too bad the videos were staged. While not a great design, it was not the disaster you proport. 2 tv shows were found to have faked fires. Fake news is not new.
Stickers are a good way to do this. It rather surprises me the number of conferences (including tech ones) that have mandatory dropdowns with traditional Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms/maybe Dr type titles (or M/F). Whatever your personal take, it just seems like an all downside and no upside for conferences to continue doing this.

Of course, some get downright silly. Look at some European conferences (e.g The Economist) and you get about a 25 title dropdown with all sorts of aristocratic titles (Earl, Duke, Your Holiness, etc.)
I think it also has todo with scope creeps. When a product / Service is developed, new possibilities are appear and customers are always trying to put these in the scope without adjusting the time / money necessary
Sounds like the same thing that happened to Aaron Swartz...
> the biggest death penalty rates, of the whole world,

aren't they beaten by Singapour on the execution per citizen ratio? They certainly were, a few years ago.
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It ranks only slightly above Hungary on this freedom index:

https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world-2018-table-cou...
The American tax debate
I ran away from Java years ago due to its stupid, heavyweight interface/class based OOP.
Now most of projects're using Typescript to simulate Java again on browsers/nodejs.
Am i done yet ? No, of course, i still use javascript and unit test as before.
How do people listen to classical music?
It is a part of that town's identity, and the inconvenience to courier corporations is no good reason why they should give up on that.
It's not about individual people's identity, it's about the town's identity. This bit of cultural distinctiveness - no need for scare quotes as that's exactly what it is - makes it of historical interest and attractive to tourists.
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All these examples of bad badges, but not a single good one? A picture would have been worth the entire blog post here.

Update: Huh, apparently that angry fruit salad at the end was supposed to be a good one. Fortunately the one on the homepage looks decent: https://badge.reviews/

Github: https://github.com/BadgeReviews/badges
> Crackdown on the media, compromising judicial independence, and measures leading to increased obscurantism

That's one interpretation. The alternative is that the media used to be owned/controlled by the (former) communists, and so was the judiciary.
You didn't read the article, there's one at the bottom.
See also: Krasnoyarsk dam inclined plane

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krasnoyarsk_Dam#/media/File%3A...

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Krasnoyarsk+Dam
But physical addresses are physical address, they specify a place, not a person. We'd have to set up a paralell system, and expect the government to be able to fund and handle both... Yeah, they can't do either for the current system...
Are you disagreeing? Because, well, that's kind of the point.

Not that I entirely agree - science lets you pull on threads to see where they lead, and sometimes they're tangled up with other threads, and you pull those, and you end up with a great massive ball - but it's also nice to have a fresh end to pull, and that can come from anywhere.
That's the opposite of what happened.
"Proper" just in that its members are voted for (and often, the national regional populace can't even vote them directly, they are appointed by party leaders and the vote is wholesale).

Not proper in that it's wanted, established by popular demand, accountable, has checks and balances, and moves according to the voters will.

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2014/05/15/elected-yet-st...
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"Ditch the QR code" -- cannot agree enough. The two sources of unsolicited email that Gmail doesn't eliminate (at least for me) are political actors and people who scanned my badge at a conference. So far conferences haven't refused me entry for putting a QR code sticker over their QR code which contains an alternative email address but I wish I had the opportunity to give the conference organizers one email address and a second one for embedding on the badge.

Or, as the article suggests, just let me supply an email address when vendors and sponsors ask.
Who are "the" technorati? Are you talking about actual individuals who changed their minds, or a general "group"? If the latter, the contradictions are based mostly on that.

Google had goodwill and fooled a lot of people for a bit there, sure, but that was over 15 years ago -- and when were Microsoft, Apple or Facebook known for their "moral core"? To whom?
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You still need an easy way to tell people how to get to your physical address to visit you.
> The only thing I found really remarkable is nobody else really seemed to grasp it.
In my experience new build houses and apartments are never on time either.
Thanks for the details!

Airlines don't like admitting mistakes, and even less they like reimbursing people.

We tried the membership discount, and it worked as it should. (I bought it with the flight, so it applied instantly. Then I booked for a few more folks. But lately it doesn't make much sense, because it's only valid for one year, and who knows which budget airline will be the cheapest when we actually figure out when and where we want to go.)
Bingo: Eircodes were invented for exactly this problem.

Eircodes are unique per delivery point, whereas 35% of addresses were (pre-Eircode) non-unique.

This caused problems for, e.g.:

(1) Delivery people, except the state postal provider (An Post). As you rightly said, An Post kept a note at the local post office (not centralised) of who lives where. For anyone else (e.g. FedEx) it would be literally impossible to tell where to deliver an item, if the address is non-unique.

(2) Ambulances not able to find the correct house.

(3) More complicated provisioning for, e.g., fibre broadband - how do you avoid incorrectly disconnecting a neighbour, if the neighbour has literally the same address as your customer?

Now, an Eircode is sufficient in itself to uniquely identify the delivery point.

To see this in action, go to Google Maps and put in an Eircode, e.g., "D02 AF30 Ireland".

Or go to https://www.eircode.ie/ and put in an Eircode, and the rest of the address will be shown.

But to go the other way (from address to Eircode) literally requires, for non-unique addresses, the person to click on the correct property on a map.
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I am in the process of choosing data storage for my event-series DB. There are various opinions on using RDMS, NoSQL or Columnar. Was there any exploration done on using Time-series DB for event-sourcing other than TimeScaleDB(https://blog.timescale.com/time-series-data-why-and-how-to-use-a-relational-database-instead-of-nosql-d0cd6975e87c/)? Or is it even a good idea to use Time-Series DB for event sourcing?
>I'm seeing this trend (it is a personal statement)

So it's anecdata..
> try to choke free speech and opponents

Well it's not that different in the West...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/its-not-fr...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/09/geert-wilders-...
Someone should write a scifi story about alien ethics dumping.
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Witten's talk at the IAS on this subject may also be of interest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYugyhoohhY
They actually considered setting up offices in India and China, which would have meant that they don't even need to travel if they were posted there. But FDA officials just weren't keen to move there.

Quoting from the article:

"To help Indian factories change their culture in the wake of the Ranbaxy scandal, FDA leadership originally planned to put more inspectors on the ground. This proved harder than expected. Instead, the number of India staff shrank from a high of 12, in 2013. to only four at one point in 2017. Eight FDA employees are stationed at the India outpost now, including two drug inspectors, the agency said."

"The original argument for having foreign offices was that staff would have a chance to learn the customs of the country and build key relationships with government officials to instill best practices, said the FDA’s Woodcock. Inspectors based in-country also don’t need a visa for each round of inspections, while those based in the U.S. do ..."

"The problem is that the FDA can’t find people who want to live in India, Woodcock said. Difficulty hiring forced the agency to close its Mumbai office in 2016."

"Because of those challenges, the agency has largely ditched plans to build up offices in India and China and is instead relying on a U.S.-based cadre of inspectors who fly overseas for a few weeks at a time, she said. This cadre was supposed to number as high as 20 people, but 12 were serving in its ranks as of December."
When I last read about it it wasn't mentioned, but could have happened meanwhile. In general the competition was places like China (and even then, the numbers were unfavorable).
CQRS also alleviates a lot of the pain people experience around event sourcing and distributed systems with event evolution and manipulation. There are many cases where it's inappropriate for consuming services to be aware of the internal representation of events. Giving them a 'snapshot-centric' view of the data can be a simplification in both directions.
Wouldn't make it less of crackdown on independence even if all the owners were who you say they were.
Because it's rendered directly from README.md.
That way it's easier for me, because I don't have to render it every time I make a change (I make a lot of little edits all the time), and project's Github page (https://github.com/gto76/python-cheatsheet) always has the same content as webpage.
Is this much worse than what is happening in America under Trump?

Personally, I'm less worried, if the Eastern European countries goes repressive they'll be leaving the EU one way or another..
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Yeah, I've been there a lot over the past few years. The problem to me is that there's too many different 'promos' at any given time, much like what you mentioned. But there's always been a 1 gig, 3 day load for 50 pesos from smart and globe.
Just yesterday it occurred to me that Deep Fakes could be used to create some of the most potent disinformation campaigns ever. Already now we have had memes with misattributed quotes and photos edited to associate Clinton with the devil, satanic rituals and so on. Think of how much more impactful slightly off quotes and speeches would be.
It can be both. They can get new customers in markets while old customers are actively trying to move away from them in higher numbers than ever before.

I'm one of them. While I'm not completely de-Google-ing my life, I did set up Firefox at work and use DuckDuckGo for my searches there now.

I do not like DDG. Google almost always gave me what I wanted, whereas DDG is about 80% of the time. I often end up wishing I'd just used Google the first time instead. 80% sounds like a good number, but it means that I'm often frustrated with it when I wouldn't have been with Google.
You can't say it's really independent if it's all owned by (proponents of) one political party.
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Have we finally reached the point where people no longer know what a phone book is? :D
How much would you pay for this? Would you also accept a small delay to receiving mail?

With enough capital it would be fairly straightforward to provide a forwarding service for this. You could also have spam filters or reject mail from specific senders, provide scans of the outside of the letters, specific delivery dates etc.

Given how we are ordering more and more things online nowadays this could be a very exciting opportunity.
> You didn't read the article

It's against HN guidelines to accuse someone of not reading the article.
Neither dict nor set preserve order. This is a misleading snippet.
I like your proposal. I was just thinking about this problem recently too. In an era where people are becoming more privacy conscious online, they can make reasoned decisions about how much of their data they shield from megacorp$ that are eager to vacuum it all up. But if you want to partake in the convenience of online commerce, how do you effectively shield yourself from providing your home address to dozens/hundreds of companies?

I wonder if there would be a market for the service you're describing today. It seems you could achieve it in the current postal system. You sign up and are assigned a unique identifier, which you use as your "Name", then ship to a local address maintained by that service, who then forward it on.

All you're doing in this case is just centralizing the trust from each individual online business to the reshipping service. Is that a reasonable first step?
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"I'm concerned about interference with learning and development needed to interact with actual people and the physical world"

Books would cause the same withdrawal from actual people and the physical world, yet I haven't seen anybody warn of too much reading in quite a while.
Zulip could be a good product, but UI/UX should be fully reworked, IMHO. Now it is so far away from Slack, unfortunately.
EU MPs are elected.
As someone who probably gets a good dozen full-blown conference name badges a year, I mostly agree with his comments with the exception of a few things.

1. Badges with two attachment points do reduce flipping but they don't eliminate it. I'm sympathetic to using the back of a badge for useful info like a map of the venue or even a plastic sleeve for a schedule. So it's a tradeoff. But if you're not going to use the back for something useful, print on both sides.

2. Preferably use a lanyard if it's a "real" conference. It's often hard to pin stuff.

3. I get his comment on the QR codes but larger conferences need some way to scan people at booths and possibly breakouts (for attendee reports). NFC/RFID can work too and is sometimes used. Not clear to me one way is a big win over the other.
other user to another user> It was off topic. That tweet is not about bug. Don't panic.

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I understand now: the communists are actually the illuminati.
It should not be conditional though. Both the single mum and the ageing alcoholic should get provision, not either/or.

Provide everyone with a room, it need not be luxurious, just basic enough to allow needs to be met. To be clean, warm and dry. Realistically a 64 year old isn't going to get much chance of a job. A couple of sentences in the article give no insight into the background. Who knows the history or cause of that addiction. Though I still feel it irrelevant to housing, while very relevant to a working treatment. No amount of "turning around" is going to see her getting housed without some level of outside assistance, just a year or two before retirement.

What's the alternative, leave her to age and die, and probably suffer worse health outcomes, with more cost to the state, on the streets?

I briefly alluded to the British System[1], it was once globally famous. Addicts were offered treatment, but prescribed free heroin or whatever. They could be an addict and hold down a job, perhaps support a family. There was literally no need to push drugs, or commit crime to support a habit - that came after their outlawing.

To imagine it in combination with this housing first policy, I would expect it to see everyone housed. Then everyone offered help (counselling for abuse or PTSD, addiction treatment, AA, anti-depressants, mental conditions or whatever's needed and just as would be offered to the population at large). Then allow them to choose, with encouragement rather than compulsion to take up those treatments.

I made the comment about people in gainful employment being addicted as you seemed, and still seem, to be suggesting that the housing be conditional. Which is then not housing first, but housing maybe if deserving enough.

Housing is indeed finite, but it's not so rare or expensive that Helsinki (or London, or NYC etc) can't provide enough single apartments to ensure that sleeping on a park bench or in a tent under a bridge is a memory of an unimaginable former time. Like child labour, workhouses, corn laws or rickets. There aren't so many homeless that it's remote and unachievable, or unaffordable. Then we can try and help resolve some of the issues that might have landed them homeless in the first place.

With that all said, either variation would be a huge step forward from ignoring the problem. :)

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/yw4nnk/when-boots-prescri...
Even if you don't have it built?
Oh. Too bad then
When talking about such things, we should always remember how resistant some people were to new technologies (like electricity, the bicycle, mass schooling, the radio, the TV, the walkman, mainframes, gaming PCs, chatrooms etc). Most of those fears turned out to be overexaggerated. My favrite is the fear that hearing one sound pattern (multiple times, for example one song played from tape, instead of a live performance, will somehow make us go crazy.
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Why do these badges emphasise the first name so much over the surname? If I'm talking to someone at a conference seeing 'Mary' or something won't help me much. I need to see the surname 'Wollstonecraft' or something in order to be reminded about what they've worked on that I know about and what I wanted to talk to them about.
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I have evaluated Rust a while ago, before i updated my C++ skills to C++17 with vcpkg / cmake and learned go using the new go modules functionality.

I think rust is overly complex, and very quirky but.. It has some good ideas that i have taken and used in my own experimental languages i have developed like the error/ok branch structures.

I think Ocaml is even more quirky than rust, they are using symbols (|) to define select statements, i would to be honest rather have something more readable. Reminds me of perl a lot.

Both use "let" for defining variables that i'm not a fan of as a keyword.
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> (p is independent)

But this does not hold for most real-life data streams.
I de googlified over a year ago, but just realised I was still serving some fonts for my site via google... I'm totally happy to be "mostly" google free now.

I still need my hit of youtube...
:(
Gits bi-modal nature is a wonderful representation of a sanely architected Event Sourced system. When needed it can create a delta-by-delta view of the world for processing, but for most things most of the time it shows a file-centric view of the world.

IMO a well-factored event sourced system isn't going to feel 'event sourced' for most integrated components, APIs, and services because it's working predominately with snapshots and materialized views. For compex process logic, or post-facto analysis, the event core keeps all the changes available for processing.

Done right it should feel like a massive win/win. Done wrong and it's going to feel hard in all the wrong places :)
sooner or later they have to make a full length feature film using this technology
I disagree vehemently with rules 1,2,4, and 7. I value my privacy and don't want to provide my name and details to everyone I pass and every vendor I talk to.

At every conference I've attended, I remove or flip my badge immediately after entering. I've never felt that this impacted my ability to meet new people and connect with them, so I don't accept the author's assertion that it's necessary (or even helpful) to make new connections. The remainder of the rules are predicated on rule 1, which I think leaves them irrelevant.

I'd go so far as to say that if a conference tries to enforce rules 1 and 7 (everyone has to wear a badge and no flipping), then I will simply decline to attend. The only badge that I'd be happy to wear continuously is a badge with no legible PII that's used purely for access control, and even then, most of the time, conferences don't require that kind of access control.
Whataboutism. No, it's not "much worse", but what's happening in the US isn't exactly great either. It's also different… The US issues are more impactful on the rest of the world than Hungary's issues are.
App Store search is at least partly to blame for this too. For example Uber is available in France but of course it does not work in all cities. The countries is just a larger version of the same thing.

Ideally apps that have regional restrictions should be able to declare that and then when you do a search it would not show results outside of the scope unless you searched for the exact name or enabled outside of region search.

Users are partly to blame too, selling an untranslated app in France will bring down tons of 1 star reviews specifically calling out lack of French version. I suppose some developers just decide to not deal with that and retire the app from the store.