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For the past 10-15 years there has been a broad based trend toward authoritarianism. I see it on both the left and the right. Most libertarians seem to have become either fascists or authoritarian socialists. What you see in forums reflects this larger trend.

It also seems to be a global trend that spans cultures, nations, religions, etc.

I am not sure exactly why this is happening, but my guess would be a lot of extreme change very fast driven by technology. Most people are intimidated by rapid change. The tendency is to run to the big alpha and close ranks with your own tribe. Your brain stem still thinks you are a hunter gatherer in the African savannah.
I did freelance for about 4 months five years ago, and I felt that this mindset became really hard to avoid. I would end up waking up at around 7AM, start working at 7:15am, take a 15 minute break to make a sandwich for lunch, then work until 10pm.

Doing this long enough gets really depressing, and I found it difficult enough to "turn off" that I ended up working a 9am-6am regular job again.
I wish I believed this as strongly as you do. The Chinese internet is isolated in a lot of very meaningful ways and the Chinese economy is not going backwards. There's probably a drag but it's not significant enough to stall progress.

You can unfortunately retain a lot of the utility of the internet while simultaneously sucking out the ability for it to be effectively used for political activity if you're willing to build the infrastructure required.
Big data? It's a BI tool you animals.
I can't see a single reference to this being somehow something you couldn't do before in the linked page. It describes what it does, it doesn't make claims of superiority over other approaches, ...
I need to know if the name is a reference from The Fifth Element?
Looks like being / going "mobile" is the new thing @ Blizzard.
Don't feel guilty. The other thing you can do is donate those books forward (assuming they've not completely fallen apart), to a community library, or a local school. Children's books, especially for younger kids, can take a real battering, so new supply is often welcome.

My son's primary school has a really extensive collection of books you can borrow, all of them donated by past parents. They have them on displays outside the appropriate classrooms and you just take whichever ones you want and bring them back when you are done with them. No need to check them out.

One of the reasons projects like this don't always means-test is because it puts people off asking. A lot of people see it as shameful, it can be invasive and more time-consumeing, having to say "I'm poor, here's the paperwork and supporting documents to prove it, please give me help". In addition, the savings from limiting it are often partially or totally outweighed by the additional cost of all that beauracracy.

In the UK there is an additional payment that goes to all pensioners in winter to help with the cost of heating. It's automatic because there was a real likelihood that making it means tested would simply mean that many who could benefit would never apply and the admin would cost more than was saved. I think it was the same argument for making school meals free for all kids for the first few years.
I assure you Asians and Africans breathe just the way white people do. No gills involved.

I also don’t quite understand why you are calling for more tests on „healthy“ people? The bad interpretation is that you consider all Asians and Africans to be „unhealthy“. The good one is... seriously, I can’t think of a good one. One would certainly want further tests to also include the sick people one hopes to identify?
I'll tell you where this parent is. He is trying to find tools to make phone use safe for his kids and finding nothing except excuses and denial from telecoms, phone manufacturers, and app developers.

Smartphones are a playground filled with jagged edges and predators behind an entrance of flashing lights and music. People made it, profit from it, and those same people should be held liable for their actions.
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Until we have skynet online.

edit: I was talking about starlink.
Assumed that Elon Musk named it skynet
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But how much is a backpack?
I've tried building a retropi box on a regular RPi and it was too slow for anything but original NES games.

How are you able to build these with Pi Zero?
I'm very happy to hear this. Metabase has been critical to understanding our data, and dead simple (and free) compared to Tableau/Looker.
The solution seems relatively straightforward to me, but maybe I'm missing something. If you want to engage on a platform designed explicitly for adults doing adult things, you give them your driver's license number or non-driver's ID number. They can instantaneously verify that with the government electronically and determine the age of the person associated with that license number.

To further prevent problems - like kids taking their parent's ID and then changing the name and age - dating sites could bind the age of the site profile to the license provided. So if junior uses his old man's ID, he's going to show as 45, not 18, and he won't be able to change it. That has the additional benefit of stopping a lot of the lies related to age on dating sites.

Lastly, they could also bind the first name only to the profile, hide the last name from other users, and allow a nickname or preferred handle to be displayed. So you can't upload a license for John Doe, age 30, and then say in your profile that your preferred name is Tony and you look 15. This would be a red flag to anyone. But makes perfect sense for Robert who likes to be called Bob, or William who goes by Bill, and actually look their age.
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The government does, sure. And just like China, the appropriate government employees will be given access. But the public? The technical ones will find ways around it and the general populace will just go on without.
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Is there anything similar for network graphs?
1) Don't post conspiracy theories with nothing to back it up like its real information.

2) You don't need a virus to take down the internet. A fairly limited missile strike could take out enough of the backbone to take almost everything down.

3) This is a real danger all first world countries are aware of and prepare for or under-prepare for.

4) If World War 3 starts when China takes down Netflix.... our generation will have been a complete failure.
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> Surprising it's Russia, not China, doing this first

China already did do this first. All their internet traffic already passes through government controlled choke points, and their citizens primarily use domestic Chinese-only systems, at least partially because foreign competitors are blocked. The things Russia is testing here are some basic capabilities of a great-firewall type system.
My guess would be that people have paid for it to happen through some very effective propaganda.
I think the problem is that, in the U.S., recruiters have captured that market. Since they captured it, they also capture 20-40% + of the rate because of this "added value." And I say that with the maximum possible cynicism.

How do individuals compete against recruiters? Why would this marketing person take a few grand from me, when they can be a recruiter and take 20-40% + of my rate for doing nothing but the intro?
A lot of the air in the games industry is being sucked out by Fortnite. Indirectly this is the cause of these layouts. Fortnite directly completes against Overwatch and it is taking away time that gamers would otherwise spent on other A/B titles.
This is great comment and while Zeit/Next.js related folks are happy to explain in this thread why Next is so great, they're not give us any reason why we need to login for a random tutorial.

Maybe it's to generate leads? Leads which can be converted to paying customers? This why this whole thing shouldn't be on HN, this thing is conflicted from the ground and driven by commercial interests.
> Modern React apps (basically since 16.7)

So like, a month ago?
I thought the whole reason companies care this much is because it enforced. The go to example of what happens when you treat contractors like employees is what happened to Microsoft where they got sued for breaking this line.

https://www.reuters.com/article/businesspropicks-us-findlaw-...
It seems to be weighting recent web pages a lot more since a year or more. It's annoying to search something and get 10 pages of recent pages rather than something from a year ago mixed in somewhere.
Why is this person down voted so harshly?
It's on topic. It's relevant and to my opinion even correct in mentioning this.
Russia does it without shame in the open whereas the western (our) countries achieve this by scaring the people enough "they want it themselves". What's so wrong about that?
I have this same issue but instead of money I feel like I'm wasting time because I could be learning and improving my professional knowledge. I wonder if that's also unhealthy.
I wasn't trying to overthink. But the market is volatile at the moment and the next decade is rather uncertain. Thinking you can just throw your money in and get 7% over the next decade and get to $1M may not be the best strategy.

We aren't talking about losing sleep over volatility here. We are talking about a situation where someone specifically wants to hit $1M in a decade.
From what I see, Blizzard is slowly rolling out everything they need to eventually get rid of realms entirely as separate technical entities.

Cross-realms features are everywhere, the concept of PvP servers is no more, and if they manage to upgrade the auction house system to something more global, realms will be mere namespaces and players will be able to seamlessly play with all other players from their region.
>I'm reasonably confident that Swiss law doesn't allow for a clause to force me to work without compensation, and I'm quite confident that local law does not regardless of what Swiss law says.

Yes, this is not a valid clause.

> The indefinite NDA though strikes me as legally valid,

There isn't a indefinite NDA,

>"The expiry or termination of the Agreement shall not affect the
validity of the obligations of the Researcher entered into under
the Agreement (including but not limited to the Fair Use
Restrictions, the Reporting Procedure and the Responsible
Disclosure)."

With the termination of the Agreement, the contract is void, these obligations can't be prolonged. There is only an exception for trade secrets which will continue even after a work contract. But this is no work contract. And second there are no trade secrets in here.

Anyways the whole agreement is fuzzy, this clause
> "The Owners grant access to the EV Solution Source Code in the
Program to the extent required by the (Swiss) Federal
Chancellery Ordinance on Electronic Voting (“the Ordinance”)
(1). No part of this Agreement shall be construed as to provide
surpassing rights or to permit its use for other purposes. "

gives full public access, with no strings attached. The later clauses are contradictory to this one.
The second I saw "followed (by) 3 simultaneous offers for highly-paid jobs". My thought was that's money left on the table. This person should be working with others as a team
When you assume the compiler reads it the same way your brain does :)
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Does that help much? The distinction between "web app" and "web page" seems fuzzier than the question "would a SPA lib/framework be useful here?"

Is Reddit a web app? Is Twitter? Facebook? They all started with server-generated HTML, all kinda feel "document-like", all of them involve scrolling (if that means anything.)

Is the "app" boundary further along the chain, like at Google Docs?

I think instead of trying to come up with definitions to classify things (and probably argue for the meaning of those definitions from the conclusions we want to draw) we should ask,

- Will this help developers?

- Will this make users lives better?
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Ah, the good old "MapReduce is basically functional programming 101" trope, usually resulting from a fundamental misunderstanding of the problem the framework / tool in question solves.
And what about that news requires internet level transmission? We have SMS, Radio, & TV still. I'll bet the next morning newspaper would do it too.
At my last company, I headed the Engineering org and was told by my CEO that there was was no time for refactors of our monolith (and not a good one at that...access to HTTP request all the way down, for example) or anything silly like that, so we went a very similar route. We did what we called the zombie rewrite, which was an inside out refactoring that left no changes on the surface.

Step one was to slowly rework things into logical services that still relied on the underlying legacy code. Eventually, we got to the point where cross functional domain logic was accessed via logical services rather than direct use of classes in other domains. Once we accomplished that, we slowly worked back down to understand, optimize, and refactor legacy code in digestible chunks. The final stage was to work up to the REST API level to create a more sane implementation of the web bits that preserved existing behavior.

It took the better part of a year to do all the work, but by going piece by piece (which allowed for understanding some wonky code), we had very, very, very few regressions and minimally impacted our overall ability to still deliver on the roadmap.
The core stays the same, they are only adding static types. I am certain they will make sure nothing meaningful will change in the outputted JavaScript, except for potential bug fixes uncovered by the types!

Your apps should not be affected at all.
it would most likely end up totally meta, with ads for recommendation engines. Would be hilarious to see it happen though.
Actually, it's pretty on point if you get the culture and political references for the UK. One would suspect, without looking, that the OP is British.
A bit disappointing that the article, which devotes seven paragraphs to discussing this image, does not actually display the image in question. Surely there is a public domain photograph of the image itself that would have been suitable to embed into the article?

EDIT: My mistake. It appears to be in the top-left corner.
Agree. There seems to be a consensus in the art world about that. Do you think though that at some point the creators of the algorithm and people whose images are used as training sets etc should get some value out of it?
Dead or detained for a few days/weeks/months? I would choose detention. Don't want to speak for dead Iraqis but I expect the majority would choose temporary detention at camps too.

At least the Uyghurs have the option of moving to Turkey post-detention if they feel this action by the Chinese government to keep peace within its borders is truly unjust.
At a time when detached homes in Toronto and Vancouver are selling for a million or close to it, this will have no impact. Foreign buyers have numerous options to move money out of their countries through the regular banking system or via in-person cash transfers. Both of which have far less risk than a virtual exchange run by a twentysomething now presumably dead.
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Not the person you asked, but... Yes. If you do things right and get a little lucky, you can make much more as a freelancer or consultant.
They haven't even given a valid reason to consider the solution shitty enough to reject. All I could derive from their comment is that they doesn't like ads at all (while ignoring the fact that nobody else has managed to implement a working solution, that ads work, and that Brave is implementing the one solution that has traditionally had plenty of support (micropayments) and some hope of working).

Like, weren't micropayments all the rage just 5 years ago?

Are ads really the problem in itself? I'd say the real problem with ads are ad networks that track you, create a profile of you and use that to personalize ads, meanwhile providing an attack vector for malware and site owners abusing it historically in the form of Flash or other ugly and distracting ways of displaying them. Brave is providing a way to display ads that don't track you and don't infringe on your privacy. I don't see the downside here, only the upside that we can continue to have a 'free' internet where not only the well-off have access to vast swathes of the internet.
> Next.js is also going to help you with [...] routing

I respect your experience and knowledge but people in this thread say exactly the opposite: Next.js' routing is actually not helping you.
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Because people see it works in their own private communities.

Just from acknowledging its effectiveness doesn't mean people are defending it, just recognizing that it is a really effective practice.

I think its outrageous that someone's lack of vilification is seen as tacit consent of the behavior.
A F2P BR set on WoW, that might do the trick ;-)
I suspect marketing Datashader as an "accumulation buffer" wouldn't have the same effect on its target audience (data visualisation developers) as presenting it simply as a way to "Turn data into images".

I'm also curious (as a fledgling graphics programmer) - what leads you to believe that Datashader uses an accumulation buffer internally? I would think that they use some magic to draw all the points in a single draw call using instanced rendering, but I am very naive :)
It was just a comment on usage of the slippery-slope fallacy here. Sarcastic, yes...but I felt the original comment borders on fear-mongering.
I've always said I could never be hourly (or freelance) because I'd never take a vacation; instead I'd just be thinking about how much money I was losing. Same would apply if I had a work arrangement where I (say) got 3 weeks of PTO but arranged for enough extra pay to cover a 4th week of vacation "unpaid".

I'm sure if I had enough in the bank, and was on a quasi-sabbatical or quasi-retirement, I could view extra freelance income as the "cherry on top", but in terms of money to pay the bills, it would be incredibly hard.

I appreciated the author's comments on paying for time saving things that make you happier (I HATE doing the laundry, but we cook almost every day), as well as the comment about dog walking.

I think this just means you have to find the joy in things you choose to do with your time. For example, I once mentioned that I feel I don't find enough time for hobbies, but a friend mentioned cooking dinner every night, working out, and a few other things that are part of my daily "routine" as things that I choose to do, things that are "productive", but in a way that we don't typically give ourselves credit for. In other words, recognize how you are spending your time, give yourself credit for the good things you do, don't take them for granted; not everyone does those things.
The same way any highly regulated company does when ID needs to be 100% confirmed

Put on today's news/put up today's newspaper/generate a unique, time sensitive code the person needs to write down and display, have them take a picture while holding up ID and the date proof using a live webcam.

But when authoritarian people want other people to do things, they generally don't think about how much effort it takes, or if it does take effort it is brushed off as if nothing with no concept of cost benefit. It's easy when you just shift the burden of proof by making vague insinuating statements to appeal to the majority of the population which is highly emotive.
Damn, that's one bold statement with pretty much no proof that is the case.

Activision / Blizzard obviously realizes that fortnite is doing well, and could ramp up development on some new future competitor, why would fortnite be a reason to cause layoffs? They could react in a slew of ways to combat the issue, layoffs simply put them in a position where they can't attack.

There are layoffs in the game industry because there are always layoffs in the game industry. Ramp up when starting a game, hiring through building it, firing after it's out and stable and at a cadence when you don't need all those silly game makers to just keep the ball rolling.
Christ no. Not only is this the end of certain kinds of dissidence and protest, how does it apply to business communications and automated systems? The options are ludicrous - either you have the CEO personally criminally liable for a gazillion hacked routers, or you have an environment where dissidents can be hunted but all sorts of malicious foreign actors hide behind business fronts.
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They could have a bit different telltales of pneumonia, because of differences in their environment, different viral strains, etc. If you want to build trust in ai-powered medical devices, you should be very thorough in testing them.
Gassée is shorthanding a bit. VC is more specialized now than it was in 1990 when Be was getting funded. So now, there may be structural reasons. A seed fund isn't going to carry you through A, B, .... Still, his central point about clarity remains. But clarity will be different for different VCs with different investment hypotheses.
Microservices are in the same camp. I use them, I love them, I advocate for them. But microservices don't make any sense if your application doesn't call for it or if you don't have the orchestration infrastructure to roll them out and test them easily.

I've worked at places in all four quadrants of should/shouldn't and do/don't use microservices.
Why is arbitrary code execution worth so little? Isn't that usually considered the worst bug somebody could find?
I've done that too and its been great until now.

I would say that while I am looking for an alternative that works for "me", I'm also thinking of approaches (like this - or apps) that would work for my kids.
“Turn data into images” is a much better phrase than “rendering.” Anyone who is not intentionally being pedantic for dramatic effect would understand the purpose of the product based on reading that phrase, whereas “Datashader: a renderer” is less clear and could refer to products with an entirely different scope/purpose.

Their product page is well-written and accurate. It sounds like you want them to purposely describe their product as something that is inferior to what it actually is.
YouTube ? Audio Quality ?

Anyway, I also dislike that my premium subscription is only 320kbit vorbis. I can hear a difference between that and a lossless flac on my 2016 OnePlus 3 and 15$ KZ ZSN Headphones. Obviously even bigger difference on my desktop DAC and over ear monitors. I guess I have to build an offline lib and sync it with syncthing and use Spotify like soundlcoud only to discover new stuff
I feel good that my first thought of fixing it would have created the solution.

There were obvious errors in my mind that I would fix without knowing the whole dissertation on why it happened.

So maybe if the question was, "Can you repair this code", I would excel.
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