skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, this library is literally the same as just using context and hooks. Look at the lib's implementation:

https://github.com/diegohaz/constate/blob/master/src/index.t...
A threat of veto makes sure proposals don't get to the table. If Germany had had its way, many countries would have taken on refugees in recent years.

I also don't accept the idea that others don't have a place at the table for discussions during the drafting phases. These are often run by the EC where smaller countries are represented.

However, the asymmetry of EU members is also really extreme. Germany has 160 times as many inhabitants as Malta. Germany, the UK, France and Italy already make up 54% of EU population.[1]

With the UK out, the four biggest, Germany, France, Italy and Spain will be at more than 57%. So obviously there is a really difficult balancing act here.

But really, please point to any development in the last 5 years or so that functioned according to the "Germany and France decide and the EU goes in that direction". Germany and France wanted a Tobin Tax and couldn't get it, Germany wanted refugees to be distributed and couldn't get it, Germany and France wanted stricter Tax rules in the EU and didn't get it. They wanted to end unanimty on Tax rules and it looks like they are not getting that either.

[1] If you think back to the start of the EU, among the 6 founding members Germany and France represented more than 2/3rds of the population. So the top four countries together don't have nearly as much weight as France/Germany had in the beginning. I guess this is the main reason that the France-Germany axis is not as prominent as it once was.
so anyone who contributes to a general-purpose adblocker like ublock origin is in violation of spoitfy's ToS? what if someone has a paid account but is also (for example) the author of pihole? that's over-reaching.
> If your company uses this gear you are exposing everyone on your network to state level hacking.

Why do you automatically assume that equipment made in the US (or any other country) is magically immune to 'state level hacking' by the country that made it?

IMHO, this is more of a power move to encourage folks to use equipment the US government has control over to do with as they please. In other words, trading one 'state level hacking' opportunity for another. But in this case, the other is close enough to pay you a visit.
Capitalism isn't perfect, but it is the best system we have.
What’s really hilarious is that the wall was originally intended to be figurative. His staff came up with the idea as a way of keeping Trump’s scattered brain focused on talking about immigration. Except the moron ran with it.
news flash :

- https://www.nationalenquirer.com is hosted in AWS

- https://www.nationalenquirer.com is down
My wife is an avid Pandora user, recently there's been ads from Adam & Eve on the service. It's been fantastic to sit down and eat dinner as a family, then hear an ad for a sex shop play after a couple of songs.

It's not like I'm offended at there being an ad for an adult store or anything, but it's just really offputting? I guess? to hear about some buy one get one on adult toys or whatever while I'm eating.
Peter Jackson addressed the ethics of colorization in the behind the scenes extra after the credits. He believed that the original camera men wanted to get the most accurate picture of the front lines. However color cameras and steady frame rate capable cameras were not available. He believed the artists would have picked better cameras if they were available so he wasn't violating the vision of the original people making the films
This is actually exactly what they have implemented it to do, it’s just shitty. On a Mac you can comfortably swipe left and right with three fingers.

On windows swiping with three fingers will confuse it. However if you rest your three fingers for a moment, left and right swipes are equivalent to alt tab and alt shift tab. Up swipes is a short hand for windows tab. Down swipe minimizes everything. The design is fine, but the implementation isn’t good enough to be useful.
You think those puppies would just fly if their nearly entirely out of the water and just skimming along.
Twitter's existing spam filter also evidently has a lot of false positives. I created an account many years ago and used it pretty much just to browse around Twitter, follow people, etc., without posting anything. I dropped off for a couple years and when I came back my location had been changed to Russia (???) and the account was suspended. I saw no evidence that the account had been hacked or anything - there was no activity that I wasn't responsible for.

My appeal was denied without explanation. I can only assume I was wrapped up in some anti-spam measure.

EDIT: To address responses to this, I think it's extremely unlikely the account was hacked. To be clear, there was no account activity of any kind other than the location change. The password was long, complex, and one I did not use anywhere else.
We tried using Intercom as a “all in one” tool for support, leads, CRM, and it just wasn’t good enough.

We ended up getting Pipedrive for the CRM. Then we hooked up the new Pipedrive integration which is one click to generate a new user, and deal after they show interest with our bot or with us.

For support, we love it and so do our customers. I know there are a lot of chat solutions but it feels the best to me. The bonus is it is integrated with our Help Center (also Intercom) so it is very easy to send embedded articles right in the chat. Our customers love this :)

We are a small team and we were able to reduce the amount of support phone calls (they wanted a phone call to ask the simplist things) by answering quickly on live chat. This allowed us to be able to serve multiple customers at once in a async fashion.
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>> "Yes, they caused the surrender."

Broadly speaking, this is widely regarded amongst historians as not true at all, though most American schoolchildren are still taught it.

Mostly this is because American conventional airpower was so overwhelming in Japan that its effects were substantially interchangeable with the bomb. Before the atomic bombings, Secretary of War Henry Stimson (who chose Hiroshima and Nagasaki as targets) mentioned that America had literally run out of targets to (conventionally) bomb in Japan [0].

A more detailed summary of the "Bomb didn't cause surrender" argument is given in [1].

[0] http://www.doug-long.com/stimson5.htm , ctrl-F for "I was a little fearful that before we could get ready the Air Force might have Japan so thoroughly bombed out that the new weapon [the atomic bomb] would not have a fair background to show its strength."

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-jap...
That seems rather disingenuous. You don't know why people like to customize their music experience instead of listening to radio which they have no control over which songs play? Really?
> I do remember the days of sending cash through the post but I don't think that's what the author is suggesting.

That may be exactly what he's suggesting. The VPN provider he works for (IVPN) allows payment by mail by cash.
The Deck was one such network. https://digiday.com/media/low-tech-ad-network-deck-ad-blocki...

I tried to get a similar thing started for free software and it ran for a while https://www.fsf.org/news/ad-bard
Because then they tell all their less-technical friends and family that Spotify is shitty and evil and not to use them.
I think you are confusing 'blue collar' with narcissism, arrogance, entitlement, laziness and stupidity.
https://www.pandora.com/upgrade
PDF datasheets are the bane of my existence.

Within my domain of expertise (space engineering), the problem is even worse. Not only do suppliers provide haphazard information about parts through PDF documents, there's very little, if any, real convergence on what to actually provide to the engineer.

I'm confident that these highly unstructured PDF datasheets are going to go the way of the dinosaurs, but it's quite challenging to integrate any smarter solutions into the business chain.

My domain of expertise is the space industry, and it's stunning how much of a mess datasheets are. As an engineer on different missions, I couldn't understand why I was spending so much time trying to "undo" all of the work the suppliers had done to create these documents, to be able to get the data into into the tools that I needed to use and actually start my real work.

In the space industry at least, there's a concerted effort going on to try to replace these PDF documents with electronic, machine-readable equivalents. Through the European Cooperation for Space Standardization (ECSS) [1] and work being done by agencies like ESA [2], and private industry [3], but really it's not yet taking hold for a lot of operational reasons.

We're actually working on trying to digitalize the entire global supply chain by converting PDF datasheets into something that allows more intelligent engineering work. We're currently serving "level-1" through our website: https://satsearch.co.

We've also prototyped a way to cast the datasheets into something more usable with ESA and a number of other partners. We've currently serving this digitalized data through our API: https://api.satsearch.co, which is being integrated into industry tools.

The real dream for me is to get to the point where the engineer can work with this kinda data natively within their tools and skip the entire PDF datasheet fiasco. Ideally, the data can then even be operated on my multi-objective optimization algos to speed up the entire design process.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the co-founders at satsearch and we started our startup precisely because I was just sick of dealing with PDF datasheets.

[1] http://ecss.nl/glossary/eds/

[2] https://indico.esa.int/event/252/contributions/3844/attachme...

[3] https://indico.esa.int/event/22/contributions/1997/attachmen...
> How do we know if GDPR is actually working?

I suspect people in the EU would know more or less immediately if they still receive targeted ads, and didn't opt-in to anything
Not quite as pretty, but here's a bookmarklet that allows you to go back by one commit in the github.com blame view (e.g. https://github.com/babel/babel/blame/master/packages/babel-c...). It basically finds the most recent 'View blame prior to this commit' link and follows it.

javascript:(function(l){l.host.match('github.com') && (l.href = Array.prototype.slice.apply(document.querySelectorAll('.blame-hunk')).map((d) => [new Date(d.querySelector(".blame-commit-date time-ago").getAttribute('datetime')), d.querySelector(".blob-reblame a") && d.querySelector(".blob-reblame a").getAttribute('href')]).sort((a,b) => a[0] < b[0])[0][1])})(window.location);
>> I have found myself flying the black flag again

I'm in the same boat(no pun intended), and also still pay for the subscriptions. I thought that more streaming services and more maturity(time passed) meant this situation would be improving - not degrading.
It says twice that it’s ok to start without a good idea. I’d like an example of how starting a business without an idea works in practice. You log onto Amazon and buy a new desk with your business discount... and then what?
Boeing’s Iconic 747 Turns 50: A History in Pictures
Poison the well - generate noise. By generating false signals you will devalue the harvested data hopefully to a point it is not worth harvesting.
But what if I ain't?
You changed the model when you adapted the xml to lisp. You decided that some tags are unnecessary, dropped some attributes and assumed others are merely different types of child nodes - and now your sample doesn't actually have the same semantic meaning as the XML example. You also removed some comments. Was all this done to emphasis how much cleaner a lisp alternative would be? If we're playing this game, you can actually simplify the XML configuration file as well. If you attempted to capture everything that the XML does, it would make your lisp sample much more ugly.

Anyway, to each his own, but I think XML holds up very well and I do find it more readable and easier to work with that your lisp example.

I also never said XML is the best configuration format. For simple configurations a simple property file is by far the best option. For anything complicated (as in your example) XML does a great job. To contrast, JSON would fall flat on its face with this. Not to mention the fact XML parsing is typically part of the standard library of most programming language and most people are familiar with it.
Ridding the world of non-US viewers too apparently. ("Not available in your country")
The tl;dr on the headline: Penrose tiling -> quasicrystals -> nonstick cookware.
That is the wrong attitude. Yes, I know how to shield myself; nobody else in my family does.

There's nothing wrong pushing links to the article to platforms like HN, Reddit, etc, but the source shouldn't be medium. If you write a piece like this, it deserves to go on a platform without trackers; otherwise it's a bit hard to take it seriously.

I'm aware that medium.com might bring in a broader audience and that it's simple to "publish without starting a blog", but so is doing an HTML export from a text editor these days. It's also similar to adding "why quit Facebook" on Facebook itself - it doesn't work.

The article itself is decent though.
I think he likes pushing the envelope to see how far the crowd will let him go.

He's widely known to have paid for and used dirt on his enemies to influence things to his advantage.

I think like most con men he likes to boast about what he's doing even if it's illegal. Or after getting away with it for so long and seeing others do it too, it just feels normal.

I think he did use back channels with Rodger Stone to execute the crime, but he probably didn't even know it was a crime because he's been getting dirt on people his whole career. The only problem with this time was it was a Presidential election and a foreign power.
similar for me, very long time premium subscriber and it is extremely annoying how seemingly all the "improvements" over the years have been nothing I cared about while features I actually found useful have been removed

I stay a subscriber because of (1) the size of the catalog and (2) the 'discover weekly' constantly delivers me new songs/bands that I thoroughly enjoy and would never have discovered on my own
Free accounts or all accounts? (is this a precursor to adverts for paid accounts?)
Most of the useful inbox featues have been moved into the new Gmail though.

I mean, i get it, I liked inbox too, but gmail is basically inbox 2.0 now.
Are you sure “abolish ICE” is not meant to be taken literally? I’ve seen no indication of that and I sure thought it was literal.

The only confusion I’ve seen is from people who think “abolish ICE” is equivalent to “end all border and immigration enforcement.”
Not surprised the whole mainstream media attacks him recently. This guy doesn't agree with them, so he gets consequences. The left has a vast corrupt media support it. I wonder which one is the next victim of this party. Apple and Walmart have been consistently threatened, and the past year has been Facebook (the left likes FB a lot and even not disclosing some bad things of this company until 2017 ).
AMI defends Bezos negotiations as 'good faith' but will investigate
If Windows is updating without permission in one of your companies, there's an issue with whoever manages IT for that company. Even without an Enterprise license, it's trivial for a domain environment to control update behavior. Group policy handles the majority of these concerns easily.

Even if you could install Windows 7, you would be very mistaken in doing so, as it would put your company at significantly greater risk. Even while security updates are still available, the differences in the platform already lead to scenarios where large malware infections tend to be almost entirely on machines which weren't running Windows 10.
That would be great to get as a measurement and filter by. It still won't solve the problem you want it to.

This is a product with 1 measurement, maybe 1.5 if you count length. Due to flare, waist position, ratio to waist, etc. the length is subjective even with an absolute value assigned. Providing those measurements in this one case will help, but then you have to deal with "skirts" as a whole category with many sub-categories. And your measurements need to apply universally, so you need style, waist, waist position, length, flare, hobble and more. Broad categories for any of them won't help you, so "> 150cm" is not going to help beyond an existing "plus size" filter. Where the skirt sits matters too, so 150cm is fine for https://amazon.com/dp/B01G0YFAWM/ but not for https://amazon.com/dp/B07HB2NXPY/ .

https://amazon.com/dp/B01KXBI2VE/#g2s2SizeChartView_15496401... shows they have the data in some cases. There's a proper HTML chart with all the measurements as "Size Chart" in the pictures section. I would love infinite knobs to filter on every aspect, but most people (as proved per $ spent) prefer fewer simpler options for how to find products.
I don't think pressure sensitivity is the main reason for using a graphics tablet, although it is a valuable feature. Try signing your name, writing the alphabet or drawing a circle with a mouse - even without pressure sensitivity it is much easier and more precise to use a pen. Handwriting input doesn't really need pressure sensitivity but is mostly only useful with a pen rather than a mouse.

Most people prefer being able to write directly on the screen with a Cintiq or Surface but separate graphics tablets are still popular. A few people learn to draw quite well with a mouse but for most people using a pen works better.
I mean, the account stealers can do it, and not Twitter itself? Which one has the most ressources?
But now there isn't anything available?
That's the only way to memorize them, since they constitute essentially new words, with distinct meanings―same as any idioms.
https://SomaFM.com was founded 19 years ago and is still going strong. They have a few dozen streams, most of which are electronic, but they also have quite enjoyable indie, jazz, folk, etc. options. Not to mention refreshingly unique seasonal streams around Christmastime.

I'm also partial to Minnesota Public Radio's offerings (https://www.mpr.org/): https://www.thecurrent.org/ is great for contemporary music, along with their sub-stream Rock the Cradle (https://www.thecurrent.org/rock-the-cradle) which is a solid choice if you have kids in the house.
Unfortunately, they've started blocking it (via DNS) in some countries, and large amounts of people don't know how to access it now
I'm getting 90 million hours of single threaded execution time for 326 million users with 10k passwords each, and 100ms per hash.
I don't want ads while listening to music, and I want all my thousands of weird songs I've added over the years on all my devices wherever I go
I agree, and I think maybe music has different places in different people's lives.

Personally, I pay for Spotify and use it constantly to listen to everything from game and movie soundtracks (and covers), rock and metal bands, EDM, indie, pop, and more obscure instrumental music.

I understand if you mostly listen to a few bands from the era you grew up in, or don't listen to music too often at all, it might make more sense to keep a paid music collection and use Spotify less frequently (and justify using the free version), but if I paid for all of the music I listen to individually, it would easily rack up to something like 10 times (or more) the amount my yearly Spotify does. IMO, if you aren't a "power user," use a different streaming service or buy your music individually.
And then he collects his affiliate commission and doesn't care what you do!
'Everybody In, Nobody Out': What's Known About the Medicare for All Act of 2019
If we're talking about a human-editable configuration file, then yes, it will be quite human-readable.

Machine generated XML can be noisy but the target for those are other machines, and the extra context is there for a reason.

You can certainly make XML as obtuse and complex as you want.
Reading the article about what is inside...

Why not turn the whole thing into a museum? So people in the future, in the age of 3D printers, will know how things were made before them...
I'm not the parent but I wrote a comment about this elsewhere in the thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19115219

and another similar comment previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10485563
As others have noted, the issue isn’t that boats can’t float — it’s that they float too much and can become unstable.

The counter-intuitive title that makes this such juicy clickbait should be changed to “a lake so salty that some boats capsize”. Much less interesting-sounding, and rightly so.
Yes.

Some boats would work find, depending on the geometry. A pontoon boat, for example.
How is having your location set to Russia not evidence of a hack?
because it's been this way for a while and people don't all agree that it should change. for example, I worked at a cheap restaurant in college where, after tips, I would make 25-50% more than minimum wage in a typical pay period. I don't know for sure, but I strongly suspect that if tipping were not the norm and the management were required to pay minimum wage, they would have just paid the minimum or fifty cents more, making me significantly less money. many other servers I have talked to agree. many others think that they would make about the same money the other way. some agree that they would make less money but don't like tipping anyway (weird imo). if you can't even get all the servers on the same page, it's pretty hard to change an entrenched cultural norm.
Are there ad blockers on iOS for Spotify ?
> People who are sick are less attractive to the opposite sex, this is a deeply-rooted evolutionary trait.

My argument is that "evolutionary attraction" isn't actually a phenomena. Our interests have swung wildly from valuing huge to tiny and from pale to tan all due to cultural shifts, not because of an innate inbuilt evolutionary mechanism - there was no filtering of genes due to these features. Heroin chic was a thing, and that's downright sickly.
avn2109 gave some sources in another comment - let me add one more: https://mises.org/wire/atomic-bombing-japan-reconsidered
These are great questions. I suggest two approaches.

First, if you consider the sample size and timeline large enough, you can weigh what the goals were to what has actually happened (be sure to include the societal costs of the legislation in your calculation).

Second, you can look at the success or failure of previous attempts (e.g. data protection directive) and the reasons for success or failure. Are we repeating history, for better or worse, concerning government oversight of the internet and enforcement? Did we improve on the successes by adding more (larger scope, bigger fines, more legislation, etc) or did we exacerbate the failures?

While the questions are subjective and therefore not amenable to an objective large-scale determination, they help me arrive at a conclusion personally.
I have no problem with advertisement if they agree to take full liability if any contains malware or breaks the law.

If that requirement is freeloading then I disagree with that definition of the word. They enjoy the benefit of behavior which if it was offline would be illegal, and out competes those service which operate more ethically. Since society currently expect the users to be responsible if their machine get infected by malware, it is fully ethical if they use software like ad-blocks to protect themselves.