skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem here is that the backroom deal of two countries (Germany and France) now has influence over countries that are totally unrelated like e.g. Finland. This turns the EU into a tyranny where might is right. Why should Germans have a say about how the internet should work in Finland?

The EU is also already dying. Brexit will come soon and Italy is on it's way out. What the remnants will be is unclear but the EU as a whole has already failed. The settlement process to unwind it will be lengthy and painful.
>I will now start my move out of the EU

While good for you, EU will have one less citizen opposing internet restriction. We need a better way to deal with this but I cannot think of one.

>Politicians felt like your regular corrupt banana republic representatives this time.

That's what it converges to. Good ones don't survive.
Post a bond? I like this idea a lot.

I think it would be great for Twitter if they could get away from the advertising model. If holding a Twitter account required holding a share of Twitter stock, I wonder if users could end up owning the platform?
Monopolizing available office space in a large city is a tall order though. But they might be able to be the coworking Walmart and drive the Mum and Pop stores out of business, through sheer economies of scale.
I would really like to see now all of the major companies block Europe. Youtube, twitter, facebook, google. Just a total immediate blackout. I'm an European with self defeating tendencies.
Article 13: Europe approves controversial copyright law despite protests
And then someone could explain why should I, a citizen of another country that's very far away from France, need to care about that
EU backs controversial copyright law
Rust is safe from race conditions, because race conditions are memory errors.

You should read [1] to understand how Rust achieves this.

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/send-and-sync.html
> I don't like Orban, and his propaganda is shameful, but what he does is exactly what people want (and corruption on the side).

Propaganda is the key, because he uses relentless propaganda to hammer the message that migrants want to go to Hungary and take people's jobs, etc., and he uses migration as an answer for everything (those who ciriticize government corruption, do so, because they want to let in migrants, etc)

Many people believe him, because the opposition has much less opportunity to convey its message (less money for billboards, Fidesz took over the major radio stations, shut down opposition newspapers using economic means, etc.), so people have to actively seek out alternative news sources, and those who don't are mainly reached by government propaganda.
The thing with Appengine is that even if you run the standard env(which is more expensive and has some limitations) you are highly likely to use Datastore and other proprietary services that are tightly integrated in the appengine environment. The whole thing feels like a bait to lock-in, just like the initial pricing which went off-rails.
Sad, sad day. I remember having discussions with my 14 year old son regarding articles 11 and 13. He said it would be impossible for these articles to come through, as people are clearly against it. He then called me a pessimist and naysayer. I wish he was right.
>the Brexit vote should never have been legally binding

It wasn't.
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Parliamentary democracy is a type of fake democracy that legitimizes tyranny. If people were able to vote directly Art. 17 would have never passed.
Sounds quite sad in the context of this being passed by EU bodies, and really by those for whom no one ever even voted.
European Commissioners are selected by natioanl governments.

The president of the commission is voted for by the people (Juncker received the most votes in 2014)

Does America vote for the secretary of transportation?

In theory under say a westminster system MPs can take control. This is almost unprecedented until last night. Even when they do push non-controversial laws (Private Member bills, like the upskirting one recently), they're usually stopped.

So the difference seems to be

1) The president of the EU commission is effectively elected by the people. Same as the prime minister (except for May, Brown, Major and I think Callahagn who were simply appointed on their first attempts. So 3 of the last 7 were elected)
2) The UK prime minister has a selection of about 1400 people to select from when appointing the executive (members of commons and lords). There's no comfirmation from parliament. The US President can appoint anyone, with confirmation from the senate. The EU commission president gets to appoint from candidates pre-selected by the EU heads of government, and those appointments have to be confirmed by the MEPs.
3) The UK parliament can in theory (but rarely in practice) pass laws. The EU parliament can't, however through the committees they seem to have more power to make changes than in the UK.

The UK, US and EU are all different, but they are all democracies.
I hope you aren't right ...
13 hrs is a f*ton of sitting even for an office job. Anyway I was just given a standing desk and I feel way better at 5PM.
Good things the brits found the ejection seat lever for this before it was too late. Will vote for any party thats want to get out of this next vote.
Following the footsteps of system languages like PL/S or Mesa/Cedar, just to cite two quite old examples.

The good part is that the unsafe bits can be easily constrained, instead of hidding away in every single line of code.
I did find this today:

https://weasyprint.org/

Seems like the closest open source alternative to PrinceXML.
Oh yes someone is asking the real questions here!

Wait
Just keep in mind that EU bodies which have the legislative power don't really have constituents, not really been elected by anyone.
But the parliament and (more indirectly) the council were chosen by the people to exercise power on their behalf in democratic elections.
So are the lies of the remain campaign ?
And for an even more "authentic" old school experience in bash:

while true; do printf "\u$((2571 + ($RANDOM & 1)))"; sleep 0.02; done
Whilst I certainly understand ( and mainly side with ) your point - to plays devils advocate would they?

Reading `samuelcolvin` comment on that thread made me think - mainly on point #4

" One definition of anti-social is "something that would break society if everyone did it". Take a minute to image a world where every successful software project made this move: node, webpack, react, angular, vue, bootstrap, python, rails, django, etc. etc. etc. - we've all decided to charge $2000/year - what would handsontable inc.'s toolchain or website cost? Would you have even learn to code? The software industry would look like the airline industry, the world would be a less fun place. "

I think they pose a good point - How is any hobbyist meant to get setup with a solid JS stack which involves 10's / hundreds of dependencies if you have to pay 10k/y+ licence fees before you have any paying customers? It actually feels like the opposite of progress as now only the big bugs can afford to set up shop with the best tech for their product.

Ultimately I think there's space for commercially available open source projects - the issue is the lack of companies / individuals giving back to sustain this movement.
I highly recommend Celeste Headlee’s We Need To Talk. A good audiobook as well.
I think this is the analogy folks who really want to hang their hat on K8s would like to force. It feels familiar, and it helps justify the tremendous personal investment of time it takes for running your own K8s cluster with high uptime. The usual adage that "free software is only free if your time is of no value" really does apply here.

Assuming you're writing code that lives happily inside of a container, and assuming that you're not taking advantage of anything else AWS has to offer (which is increasingly improbable), moving from ECS to EKS or GKE isn't a big deal if you need the additional configurability that real Kubernetes offers.

Personally, I like running things on Fargate-style containers so I can keep things as serverless as possible.
https://saveyourinternet.eu/act/

Click on your country and you'll get a list. Those are from a previous vote so won't be entirely accurate, but it'll be close enough.
I really like kubecfg--it's an unopinionated powerful tool that uses jsonnet to describe k8s resources. I really tried to make kustomize work but I found it really, really rigid.

I am, however, not sure what kubecfg's future is: ksonnet (its way more complicated cousin) is being deprecated.
I don't understand this view at all. Why would a company that benefits this law spend so much money trying to prevent it from passing? Surely by now we recognize that big tech will always move in the direction of its own profits, so shouldn't we look at what they're aiming for, and recognize that is their best case scenario?

I would argue that the people who make policy decisions at Google are incredibly smart. If this was going to cement their monopoly, wouldn't their resistance to it be... Muted at best?
To be clear, the Confucius Institute is aimed at teaching students in its hosted nation certain propaganda. Products of the domestic China censored education system also use a lot of whataboutism.

The bigger problem is the fact this submission was censored from the front page as soon as it started to gain traction. Sam Altman's China strategy would appear to include censorship of Hacker News.
The problem here is that the backroom deal of two states (California and New York) now has influence over states that are totally unrelated like e.g. Wyoming. This turns the US into a tyranny where might is right. Why should Californians have a say about how the internet should work in Wyoming?

(The reality of course is that the US has had not only a say, but often the only say in how the internet should work in the rest of the world for decades, and when it comes to copyright law we have an undemocratic international treaty dating back generations that keeps pushing expiry dates back and back globally)
What was the referendum beyond a large-scale poll? It wasn't binding in nature.
> and make bots less cost effective.

You can rent really mobile phones in China for 5cents or so, up to 20cents for EU and other countries which will probably have a better success rate.

It is not going to stop bots
>Again, who's doing that? You use the people who do that as fig leaf to ignore the people who don't. You dodge the strongest interpretation in favor of a weaker position that is conjured before anyone even shows up who is actually holding it.

You can read a forum or a media outlet for days, and you'll see single one-sided mentions 90% of the time, with no context, and with hypocritical framing as if it's only one side doing it.

And I remember times when they weren't doing so, where coverage was not so one sided, and where people (e.g. 60s and 70s media, influenced by people looking for wider truths, and looking into alternative media and counter-culture) would be critical of all sides, and offer more perspective.

>Same here, just because some people are doing that, doesn't mean all do.

I don't care for all, I care for what most do. Especially most media.

It's of little comfort if most of the people do X and some conscientious minority doesn't. The noise of what most do still prevails and informs public opinion and policy.
Along with all agriculture, medicine, transport, etc.

"Shut it down!" doesn't apply so well to the food supply right?
> Just because you don't have experience operating or directing a corporation, doesn't mean they are all evil entities which ruin everything.

This is HN, can we be above personal attacks please? You don't know me.
Frogger, TRS-80 Model 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh7gRoYgUpc
To make my point a bit clearer: I am almost convinced now that "representative democracy" shouldn't count as a "democracy" just because the population can vote who they get ####ed by.

It only works as long as the representatives see it as their duty to represent the will of the voters accurately, which I'm starting to believe is an antithesis to human behavior, and thus will never be the norm.

I'm not saying that European society (if such a thing even exists) is inherently undemocratic; just that it's not democratic enough to be called a proper Democracy.

And I'm not even asking for direct democracy on everything, but there should be laws in place that force politicians to put decisions up for vote to the public if there's a certain level of resistance from the population.

Take for an example the UK referendum to leave the EU. Even though it's overall a complete shitshow, and all sides usually agree on that, nobody can really claim that it wasn't a democratic decision. Was it a smart one? Who knows, I doubt it. But it was democratic, and that's more than I can say about this mess.
> It seems like a business where you make everyone mad no matter what you do.

Maybe you can spent some of your gazillion dollars to hire humans instead of relying on automated half-measures
Memes or GIFs, now specifically excluded from EU copyright directive
It won't happen, that market is too big. They'll just negotiate what they believe is a fair cut and move on with business.
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ObjectBox Release for Azure Sphere: Efficient IoT Edge Computing
Tales of American slaves in their own words, spoken with their own voices
Apple News Plus is a disappointment for the news business
AWS will be around in 5 years. It has an established business model making billions of dollars per year.

K8s won’t be around in 5 years. It’s peaking towards the top of the hype cycle. If you’re wondering about cloud lock-in, then you don’t get the power of the cloud.
React hooks implementation with a few lines of code
I used both ODM and Drone deploy and was amazed at the results that Drone deploy gave me. ODM results were unfortunately poorer (the generated models were far less detailed) plus it took a loong time to analyze few hundred pictures on my laptop, while Drone deploy model was ready pretty quickly. So while I love good open source software, it feels that ODM has still long way to go.
> Which "millions of lines of code" are compatible with POSIX without having any Linux or macOS specific code?

Those layers would have to be reimplemented to retain compatibility.

> I think you're hugely overstating the importance of POSIX.

People generally understate importance of POSIX, just because it's old. It's impossible to get APIs perfect and you are throwing away decades of work in the name of getting APIs "right". No one is going to rewrite everything from scratch, just because the new APIs look shiny. For reference read about Unix wars[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_wars
well said, terrifying is no exaggeration
Caddy is still open source.
While I understand what you mean, I don't see myself as having to suffer from stupid legislation. I am no politician and do not plan to be one at this point.
But it does. "Persona", etymologically, means 'mask' (Per = through, Sonare = Speak. As in, 'the thing you speak through', context: Plays and such, where you'd wear a mask). But I doubt you'd have any luck telling Merriam and Webster to update the definition of 'Persona' and mention only the mask thing.

Words mean what the majority thinks they mean.

Democracy as a word has been used as a word that means, mostly, that there are elections. The specific notion that the people decide directly is usually referred to us 'direct democracy'. A very wide ranging set of systems which all have in common that, primarily, some chunk of the populace gets to vote politicians out of office, has been called 'representative democracy'.

In the case of 'representative democracy', the 'democracy' bit still means 'power' for 'the people'. It's just that the 'power' that 'the people' have is specifically the ability to vote in (and out) a bunch of representatives who then decide.

Perhaps it is disappointing that this model didn't do what you wanted it to do here (which is: Presumably said representatives should decide to do what the people want them to do), but to lean on etymology to claim that this isn't 'democracy', that's just fallacious reasoning.
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Because one of the hidden games played in the EU is 'keep the Germans in check'. Some might even say this was one of the original intentions behind the foundation of the EU as a 'peace upholding structure' across Europe.
You can start by reading these ones,

"Let's Build a Compiler", by Jack Crenshaw

https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/

"Compiler Construction" by Niklaus Wirth

http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/WirthPubl/CBEAll.pdf

Then you can follow up with "Project Oberon (New Edition 2013)" by Niklaus Wirth, for the whole stack experience

https://inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/index.html
Moderators: Why was this submission removed from the front page as soon as it started to gain traction?

The risk of nationalistic flame wars needs to be weighed against important discussion potential. But the submission is interesting enough even if the comments are disabled.

Is there any statistics on changes to Hacker News censorship since Sam Altman's China strategy was announced?
Nothing is particularly “bad”. I’ve used them in python a number of times.

I’m more just commenting that it’s a strange / interesting code based worth sight seeing. It was written in a style that seemed like from another language.
Comparing PostgreSQL Clients – SQLPro vs. Table Plus vs. Postico
Maple - https://3d.bk.tudelft.nl/liangliang/software.html

PolyFit - https://3d.bk.tudelft.nl/liangliang/publications/2017/polyfi...
There is a whole movement, called "Democracy in Europe Movement 2025" aimed at restoring democracy in Europe. European Parliament is definitely NOT a democratic institution. It became a sad lobbying haven. https://diem25.org/
That argument also applies to any democracy (or indeed any polity larger than a household): why should the people in my town have a say over the laws in the adjacent town?
Well it depends on which is your view about "what is the most democratic vote system".

For example I am for a "democracy of experts" system, in which any decision must be voted exclusively by those who have expertise on the matter the vote is about.

From my point of view the Brexit vote is totally not-democratic because it put an absurdly complex decision on a big part of the population which has not even remotely the competence to decide on the matter.

As you see it is not all white or black.
Always. Own. Your Platform
Don't forget WhatsApp uploads your entire phonebook by default.
> Does America vote for the secretary of transportation?

Does the secretary of transportation have the power to create laws?

Do you honestly believe that a functioning democracy doesn't require a) separation of power (not present in EU, where legislative and executive power is merged, and the parliament has only the power to (dis)approve) and b) direct accountability to the people of the most impactful, legislative, branch (not present in EU, where legislative branch is appointed by executive)?
I totally did not see this. Thank you for the warning. As I am not totally into politics, I thought that the stupidity of the EU would not be repeated by Switzerland. Honestly, if they do this, I can stay where I am and take some time to investigate the situation in the US or Canada again. Of course, only it Switzerland, there can be referendums, while in the EU we totally do not have them.
The whole eu-institutions look like a benevolent dictator would like to have a democratic fassade.
Lots of talk, and big halls to have a speakers corner in. And at the end of day, the important decisions are mady by people who are not actually part of the process.

Écrasez l’infâme
Interesting project. I've been thinking about a turn-based game protocol to be used over xmpp. You could even have incomplete information through hashing. Does Saito have this?
They are also using millions worth of open source software.

Why would they open source it? To provide a way out to customers. They don't even provide a mongo-like license.

I can't forget a session at Google I/O how they were insisting that appengine is not open source because we are too dumb to understand it....yeah sure what about k8, now? I can run it on my Mac, I even contributed few commits.
The documentation seems to have a lot of off-putting mathy category theory stuff, and it didn't look like there are a lot of practical examples, but it would be cool to have an alternative to protobufs/thrift that can represent ADTs directly.
> Does America vote for the secretary of transportation?

The secretary of transportation has no legislative power as opposed to the EU Commission. This comparison is flawed.

> The president of the EU commission is effectively elected

It is the most intransparent and indirect way of determining a political position. As voter you have zero control over who is part of the Commission.

Also the EU constitution was put in place without the consent of the people of the member states. It was completely instigated by some elites hence inherently undemocratic.
Nor the realities of various languages. I've seen hashes break down exponentially with "big data". (inb4 "then it wasn't a 'true' hash). There are countless variables beyond "+ x"

If it is important, then you test/profile it. Otherwise it isn't important, and this is mostly theory crafting.
This is excellent. Thank you so much for sharing (and it's certainly a track that I've also wished was longer!) I'd be interested to see if this approach can be implemented within a DAW? This would allow the notes to be played and then treated with FX, EQ and mastering (or maybe just some sound design to get it sounding even closer to the original)? At a push, one could run the output of the browser through the DAW I suppose :)
The automated response systems will eventually end up like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers_Don%27t_Argue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream

See #Controvery
Humanity did not change since WW2. The one big difference is/was the Internet. Without a free Internet, who knows what happens. It is unbelievable.
Alternate format:

http://www.slaverystories.org/frederick-douglass/0
DDG isn't a competitor, it's a meta search engine, that just uses Google and Bing under the hood.
That suggests further splitting up the UK would also improve the political situation; do you support such a proposal?
You mean like this? [0] What does it matter. Too many people seem to be too dumb to even understand how silly those politicians are and how uninformed this decision was. And honestly, they don't look like they care either way. As long as netflix works and someone will sell them beer, why would they care about silly concepts like "democracy" or "freedom"?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC6EQooiAjo
From what I've seen is all the survey shops are just bleeding money because A. Surves equipment has a huge and expensive monthly cost. B. Most supermajors aren't ordering new surveys like they used to, instead they're choosing to have old data re-proccessed.