skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "College students are increasingly anxious," they write. "Widespread adoption of trigger warnings in syllabi may promote this trend, tacitly encouraging
students to turn to avoidance

Sounds like they're working exactly as intended.
> Parliament can petition the Commission to legislate on something

Has this ever happened in practice?
Even hacker news could decide to block EU IPs, so they don't get slapped with some lawsuits, should one commenter ever put some copyrighted content into the comments.
Side note - Erik Winfree is the son of Art Winfree, a super fascinating character whose work is detailed beautifully in the book Sync by Steven Strogatz. Highly recommend for anyone interested in how spontaneous order emerges from chaos. Looks like the son is kicking ass too.
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Presenting this communication pattern as an effective "one size fits all" method is a pretty bad idea.

You have to "know your audience." This means you need to know your employees, bosses, or colleagues as people and work to understand what motivates them. This is challenging, risky, and requires an opening of the mind to not just understand different psychologies but to accept them as viable alternatives to your own.

NVC communication will be very effective for some and thoroughly ineffective for others, and if you know your audience you'll know which is which.

I'm an example of the latter: I absolutely despise the NVC communication pattern because very few people actually speak like this and when they do so it's an obvious deviation from their status quo. It feels fake because it is, and it feels fake because I know the pattern. It's like when I get "feel/felt/found"[1] from a salesperson...I know what they're doing and it's not going to work.

[1] http://www.tomhopkins.com/blog/presentation/the-feel-felt-fo...
That's not true at all; they are:

A) Elected (though, indirectly, through the elected officials that you elect to be MEPs)

and

B) A body of law drafters and implementors with no powers to ascend anything to law by themselves.

The EC requires the EU parliament to vote on laws that it drafts, the EU parliament can require that laws be redrafted or amended. But the EU parliament is the only place a proposal can become law and those are our elected representatives voting.
It might be illuminating to talk about what it meant for Juncker to receive the most votes in 2014. First up, there are no EU-wide political parties, just shifting alliances of local national parties, none of which have more than 30% of the MEPs. For the 2014 elections, they came to a deal where the alliance with the most MEPs got their choice as President of the European Commission. (Which is not how it's supposed to work, but let's put that aside for a moment.)

Now, pretty much no-one voted for MEPs based on which alliance they were part of - they voted based on party, because it's the parties that decide what platform their MEPs are running on and that are the ballot. Not only that, which alliance was bigger was pretty arbitrary and depended almost entirely on how the backroom deals between the various parties had gone. Oh, and there's some justified suspicion that this was all specifically set up to get Juncker in: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/27/eu-democratic-... (He then rewarded one of the guys who helped him manage this with an extremely shady permanent appointment as the head of the EU civil service.)

This is very different from the UK system, where each party and its leader agrees on their platform for the next election, publishes it as a manifesto, and runs collectively on the promise of enacting those policies if they win. Partly because, unlike the UK Prime Minister, the European Commission isn't meant to represent the people at all - it's meant to represent the EU's interests as an institution.
Have you never had your phone slip in your hand and hit something you didn't mean to?
I see. RND returns a float.
> They have been doing this for any account registered from a VPN

I made my own VPN with Algo[0] and host it on Digital Ocean. The IP is a Digital Ocean IP and therefore really hard to blacklist as a VPN. There is no way to tell if I am using a VPN and I regularly setup new accounts on Twitter (mostly shitpost accounts used for venting at products/companies that have wronged me), or novelty accounts that have a particular theme to them, etc

[0] https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
So, you would prioritise comments from those who on average made upvoted comments?
Yeah, it's great stuff so far. I wish I'd known that years ago. Only thing that ever got air play was the other side.
Yes, if you're listening to it just as background music, early Warp catalog would work.
A big part of the problem is that there is no single entity that defends the citizens interest in this instance. You have the Disney's of the world heavily lobbying to pass reforms like these, but who protests against it?

- Online signatures? Gets laughed out of the room. They could be fake, they don't mean anything, they are paid, etc..

- Voting? Voting cycles are too long and voting decisions cannot be made on a single issue, so this is ineffective at best.

- Street Protests? It seems this is the only option. But as said in the article, even the credibility of these can be put into question.

So what do we do?
So anybody can now shut down any website in the EU that allows uploading of images or text or video or audio?
The stunning bit of this for me has been the attitude of my MEPs when I emailed them.

One Labour MEP, both Conservatives - no response. Not even a form letter.

Other Labour MEP - "You are being brainwashed by Google. This is the best thing for the Internet ever! You'll see!" (paraphrased as I don't have the email to hand, but she did use the word "brainwashed"). Frankly the whole exchange struck me as extremely immature on her part!

Two UKIP MEPs - reply a few hours after I emailed them. "We'll be fighting this as much as we possibly can. It's a disaster. The Articles say one thing and say something contradictory a few sections later!"

Much of the fightback seems to have been from the populist far-right parties (with the obvious exception of the various Pirate parties). I wonder if the EU has realised it's just handed a massive win to them -- all they have to say now is "look, we tried to protect your Youtube but the EU stopped us!".
I can't believe Hollywood has been misleading me all these years...
Doubt it.

It's very easy to implement GDPR compliance, and A LOT of websites opted for blocking their content in Europe instead of working to make their services compliant.

The requirements for being compliant with these directives are so difficult, than only major companies will have the resource to do it, and many will definitely not think it's worth the effort.
The comment you replied to is correct based on what you said - if you start in a state in permanent summer time, travel south to a state in permanent winter time, keep travelling south to a state in permanent summer time, and so on, you will be going back and forth by an hour repeatedly.

Hypothetically, if you start just north of Sittard and east of the German/Netherlands border (in Germany), and travel in a straight line, almost due south to Geneva in Switzerland, you could, depending on what time member states choose to permanently adopt, potentially go from German summertime, to Dutch wintertime, to Belgian summertime, to Luxembourgish wintertime, to French summertime, to Swiss wintertime, all in under 350 miles and with not much deviation in longitude.
absolutely, but Orban got 49% of the popular vote. Fidesz is what people actually want.
The author has done a really nice job on the language, IDE, syntax and documentation. It looks like a great beginner's programming language and this new site helps empower the ongoing work further.

The IDE (and intro) was on the front page about three weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19299760
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Who will be able to afford the better lawyers in that fight to argue if they're for profit? MediaCorp(tm) or the small community that got a little too popular/spotlighted?
Does it?

The equivalence between those two statements seems to fall apart in the case of a remote “you”, because we can meaningfully distinguish between your abstract intent and various physical impulses I’m not sure we can in the locally physical model — eg, mixing of your “true” signal with a secondary one because the addiction structure adjusts your tuning; addiction would then be your body no longer accurately carrying out your will, which is distinct from you wanting them.
Thanks for that great example of social dynamics.

A related example is where a town is a great place to live because of lots of walkable attractions (grocery stores, YMCA, parks, a variety of little shops, cheap rent for other small businesses, theaters, music halls, etc.). Then lots of people want to live there, driving up prices. The stores, non-profits, small businesses, etc. all get bought out and replaced by expensive housing. And then one day people who have lived there for decades realize that the town is not that great place to live anymore because there is nothing interesting to walk to there, no jobs, rents and taxes are high, and grocery shopping involves a long drive...

It can take some active planning and foresight to avoid that. Related:

http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html " I want to talk this morning about social software ...there's a surprise. I want to talk about a pattern I've seen over and over again in social software that supports large and long-lived groups. And that pattern is the pattern described in the title of this talk: "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy." ... So these are human patterns that have shown up on the Internet, not because of the software, but because it's being used by humans. Bion has identified this possibility of groups sandbagging their sophisticated goals with these basic urges. And what he finally came to, in analyzing this tension, is that group structure is necessary. Robert's Rules of Order are necessary. Constitutions are necessary. Norms, rituals, laws, the whole list of ways that we say, out of the universe of possible behaviors, we're going to draw a relatively small circle around the acceptable ones. He said the group structure is necessary to defend the group from itself. Group structure exists to keep a group on target, on track, on message, on charter, whatever. To keep a group focused on its own sophisticated goals and to keep a group from sliding into these basic patterns. Group structure defends the group from the action of its own members."

http://www.t0.or.at/delanda/meshwork.htm
"But even if we managed to promote not only heterogeneity, but diversity articulated into a meshwork, that still would not be a perfect solution. After all, meshworks grow by drift and they may drift to places where we do not want to go. The goal-directedness of hierarchies is the kind of property that we may desire to keep at least for certain institutions. Hence, demonizing centralization and glorifying decentralization as the solution to all our problems would be wrong. An open and experimental attitude towards the question of different hybrids and mixtures is what the complexity of reality itself seems to call for."

Part of the challenge is that human mentality evolved in the context of hunter-gatherer tribal relationships -- growing up in a tribe of mostly related kinfolk you knew from birth. It's a huge stretch to expect the human mind (and its ability to manage social relationships) to functional well in other contexts... Frankly, it's amazing the human mind works in other settings as well as it does.
Nice! Simple, but works out super nicely :) Even the occasional odd note doesn't seem too out of place, since the phrases are short and "self-contained".

I also enjoyed the rest of the pieces on generative.fm, they all have a specific "character" which is quite rare. Nice work!
> Germany did more than any other country to realize the modern renewable-energy industry and it's failed its climate goals.

Didn't California try equally hard with renewables as Germany? And failed equally hard.
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What are you using to orchestrate the VMs? (provisioning new VMs, taking down VMs and so on)
Yeah same for me. Forced to open in incognito mode. I wouldn't be surprised that the writer has no clue his content is being paywalled.
I checked with a French friend, in France (like in Germany) it is illegal to send military forces to do any kind of police like duties. However, under the "terror fighting" emergencies still active, military forces are on French streets.
Democracy is rule of the people. If the democratic process leads to the rule of a minority of powerful people, isnt it valid to say its actually undemocratic, or at least insufficiently democratic?
https://www.european-elections.eu/ is linked on europa.eu
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Depends upon what bee specific species and where. "Honey bees" (genus Apis) alone comprise several species which may or may not be considered invasive. In the particular case of the linked UMich paper, Apis mellifera (note: species mellifera, the Western/European Honey Bee) is definitely an invasive species to North America.

This says nothing of the, arguably more important, wild bee population, e.g. bumble bees (genus Bombus) ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_honey_bee#Claims_of_hu...
And Portugal is on GMT, so you have a bit of Spain (GMT+1) that's due north of Portugal (GMT) and borders it by land.

(and most of Portugal is west of 7.5 degrees west so "should" be GMT-1... but really in any sane time zone scheme Portugal and Spain would have the same time.)
>Another commentor pointed out that even small services running ads to pay for hosting could be considered "for-profit"

If those small services' main purpose is "enabling users to upload and share a large amount of copyright-protected content with the purpose of obtaining profit from that activity", then they are turning a profit from copyright infringement, whether it is to pay for their hosting or not, so they will be targeted, as the document establishes. That's my take on it, at least, but I think it is quite clear.
If you want to move out of the sphere of influence of the copyright cartels you're going to have to achieve escape velocity at some point. Those places where copyright infringement is not going to result in repercussions are generally not worth living in.
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Southern Britain gets just over 8 hours of sunlight in the middle of winter.

Meaning you can choose between people driving to work with the sun up, or driving home from work with the sun up, but you can't have both. So I guess we'll just have to decide whether people would rather get hit by cars just after breakfast or just before dinner.
I'm listening at 7AM and can confirm it mixes well with the real-life birds outside.
The vendor lock is is not the data in RDS, it's the ops code that sets up and integrates RDS with everything else you do. K8S allows you to use the same code to setup a database, or most anything else, in any cloud host.
I guess for me that is not clear-cut. Rapes still occur pretty often, and many/most sadly aren't reported. (Legalizing prostitution could reduce them?)

For every traffic violation that is caught, a high multiple more fly by. (Speeding, for example).

The demand for murder is so low that it's hard for me to conceptualize as a market.
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> They did not do that this time

Because you decided they didn't?

Elections are coming up pretty soon, if they really didn't then the vast majority of them are getting voted out in what will surely be the greatest upheaval in the history of the EU; which of course won't happen because hundreds of millions of us do feel that we're being correctly represented.

protip: just because you got outvoted, it doesn't mean that democracy isn't working correctly.
European honey bees are an "introduced species"[1], but this doesn't in itself make them an "invasive species"[2]. To be labeled invasive, they also have to be causing harm to their new ecosystem. While there might be some ways that honey bees are harmful[3], they aren't usually considered invasive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduced_species

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_species

[3] https://www.xerces.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/16-067_02_...
Unless you're a registered charity donations are income.
Summons the phrase good links never die. I like how this is not one of those frightful Single Page Apps that weigh 3MB and require the latest Chrome to work.
The built-in error with democracy is that the politicians have the incentive to be re-elected. Therefore, they will use all available resources to try to satisfy enough before the next election. This makes the decisions they make become extremely short-term, often a time horizon of less than 4 years. A pretty good indication of this is to check on the sovereign debt in all democratic countries. You borrow money to finance reforms, the purpose of which is to get yourself re-elected. Likewise, the political class has strong incentives for the public part of society to grow. Then they secure their own and the sin's survival. A good indication that it is to look at the development of taxes and regulations that over time only increases. There is no currently relevant opposition to this. Every problem discussed has basically all the same solution; some type of public effort.

If you allow yourself to think about this logically, you realize that it is not a viable way, a country needs a long-term perspective. Every decision made in one country must be beneficial for that country in the long term. You have to manage something that your children and grandchildren should live in and it should be in better condition than when you took over it yourself. This is actually obvious. Making decisions at the expense of one's children and grandchildren is unreasonable.

Right now, the whole Western world is actually living on what our ancestors have created, and they lived in times where it was obvious that they did better for future generations. Today we burn it at both ends. Of course, a system that prizes laziness and short-sightedness and punishes fitness and diligence cannot be long-lived. The future will look at the present as a very strange parenthesis in the history of the West. That is, f we do not go under.
I see your simdjson code appears to be C but has a dependency for jsoncpp. There's also a graph which compares several different json libraries except jsoncpp. I've used jsoncpp for some other projects and I'd be curious about your opinion and any comparisons you might have.
And now they are shutting down G+, so all those posts and pieces of missing documentation will simply disappear! (Unless Archive.org ot somebody else saved a copy.)

Oh, the irony!
Copyright enforcement has always been about going after big abuses. With some incredibly rare exceptions, generally speaking, nobody has ever been at serious risk for sending one copy of a movie or music CD to a friend. There is too much sharing and too many individual parties to chase after every way people technically violate copyright law.

Many of the cases out there involved people sharing on a large scale. Examples like The Pirate Bay or Sci-Hub or Aaron Swartz, which involve distribution of large amounts of content to large numbers of people.

The smaller the platform, the less anyone will care about it, even if it is distributing a little bit of copyrighted content. Small scale copyright violation is so widespread, and the benefits of fighting individual cases of it so small, that there's simply no value to taking it on and they aren't bothering.
> >To a teammate: ‘You arrived 10 minutes late to the last three team meetings. I am frustrated because, as a team, we have a need for efficiency. Please, could you help me understand what’s happening?’

> This one is super passive aggressive. Your intention is to communicate a problem but instead of just doing that this is asking a question. I think this example shows the problem most clearly. These should be statements and not questions. I mean, do you really want or expect an honest answer to the question? Because it's probably something along the lines of "I think these meetings are a waste of my time".

+1 to this. I get the point that the OP was trying to make and think it's valid, but the specific phrasing provided would likely cause more harm than good in many cases. Specifically, it comes across more as "you better come up with a good excuse or you're in trouble" than "I care about you and hope everything is OK, and am here to help if there's a fixable problem at the root of your lateness".
For years, a lot of pain was caused by F# using classes for critical types such as Option, Tuple and Choice. Additionally most records should have been structs by default.

They have started fixing this by introducing value tuple, value option and supporting C# performance primitives like Span. But they have a way to go still.
Maybe I did not explain myself enough. What I'm saying is that if a free Internet existed during WW2, resistance would have been able to communicate and collaborate. Moreover, people would have had access to both, propaganda news and real news.
yes, yes, the classical economists reaction to AI is to simply consider it equivalent to the machines of the past that replaced human labor.... in the past workers may have had to find new work but since machines need operators eventually everyone found a place... the problem is that AI doesn't replace labor, it replaces operators.
What does his personal life have to do with the point you’re making? Why is it that right wingers want it both ways - Tucker Carlson thinks it’s not a big deal and presumably you don’t too until the male involved grows up and actually holds power.
No, we just shouldn't let companies capture entire markets, we should break them up.

See: AT&T after "we" did, Microsoft after "we" didn't.
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After todays update Version 73.0.3683.86 Chrome browser colors changed like it's in incognito mode. Any options to use a theme that feels like previous versions?
People using Debian repo probably check the check sum as advised unlike Google Playstore users :)
Exactly let's not forget it's the UK who is part of five eyes and is generaly on the antiprivacy opinion side in europe.
Not all for-profit websites are run by big corporations. The companies you're describing here are also the ones that will find it easiest to comply with these new regulations. YouTube for example was already pressured to create a filtering system, ContentID. Behemoths like Facebook will have a far easier time adapting than your typical startup.

Article 13 dooms smaller companies and startups, thus further entrenching these big corporations. There was a provision added to Article 13 to protect "small and medium-sized enterprises", but according to the EFF [0] this "protection" is fatally flawed. It only protects them for 3 years, or until they attain 5 million unique visitors, or until they attain annual revenues (not profits) of €10 million.

That's not to mention that the exceptions for not-for-profit services also has been regarded as vague, which could be problematic.

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/european-copyright-dir...
No commercially viable alternative when the externalities aren't priced correctly. But hydrocarbons are already made from coal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_proces...

The same process can be used with biochar, or potentially carbon from some future carbon capture method.
This is true and exactly why we shouldn't burn these valuable resources.