skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm confident I won't go deaf by the time I'm 40, but only because I'm 53. I would usually choose to listen to music anyway, but in an open office, it's a requirement. It doesn't help with the visual distraction, but I have a pair of "Howard Leight" headphones by Honeywell. They are passive noise-cancelling (meaning they just block out noise really well, meant for environments that require hearing protection), have decent sound quality and only cost me about $30.

In addition to being completely unable to filter out any distracting noise, I also have misophonia, so an open office is anything between distracting as all get-out and torture, but the headphones and some good loud music mitigate that greatly.
However, the fact that there is a problem, does not legitimize doing something regardless of what the something is.

I haven't seen any support for the articles which actually shows the effects of the policy will be good, rather than arguments saying "it's meant to be good". Which is a fallacy that affects many politics which later end up having adverse effects.

But ultimately bureaucrats are happy whenever there is an excuse to increase bureaucratic power.

Edit: spelling

Further edit:

For the particular point you're putting out, to justify the EU policy you have to at least show that 1) those media outlets would receive all that traffic that those FB posts generated if the FB posts didn't exist in the first place, 2) that this outweighs costs from abusing that policy (claims over fair use, e.g. youtube copyright system) and content that simply will not get reshared, even if fair use and linking to the source material, out of fear of triggering the safeguards mechanism
I've heard a slightly different construction in Spanish and French. Namely, PowerPointista to denote people talking nonsense and handwaving.
> A big part of the problem is that there is no single entity that defends the citizens interest in this instance.

Isn't the European Parliament supposed to be this entity ?

The real problem is that if you have a single entity, then that entity can easily be corrupted by those who have the means to (read: money). This problem is unsolvable because those who have or profit from this power are also the people who get to decide if we want to do something about it.
>Memory suggests NVC has some pretty nasty things to say about people who "suggest" things and they later turn out to be orders.

I believe it is: If you make a request that is denied, and you are upset about it, then it wasn't a request, but a demand disguised as one.
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But it doesn't work fine 99%. I tried to find a short story I read awhile ago, so I DDG'ed for "Berryman Parrot".

DDG helpfully suggests a bunch of unrelated videos - a Coldplay video, a Tyler, The Creator sketch from the Eric Andrew show, and something about a C-line fencing tool. The actual search results are vaguely related, since the first one is a youtube video about birds with someone named Berryman in the description. The next one is a bird rescue, and the third appears to be some sort of etsy shop.

Compare to Google. The first result is the Wikipedia entry for the exact story I was searching for. The second result is the full published story. The third is a related story set in the same universe. Google then shows me some image results, and bam, the second one is actually related to the short story!

Sorry, DDG. You just don't cut it for my needs.
How often does it invert? Had it ever happened without a financial crisis to go with it?
This morning I was watching a "video editing" youtube video where he made a 3D terrain object to load into Davinci Resolve (commercial but free for personal use), and track to the palm of his hand so it looked like the terrain was floating above his palm.

He used http://terrain.party/ to get height information as an image (lighter colors are high, darker are low), then a script scrape together images from Google Maps, which he transformed using the height information.

At that point he was using a GUI to view the resulting 3D object and manipulate the camera and lighting. Blew my mind.

I followed it part of the way, but got stuck with getting the google images. He was doing a valley close to an object recognizable from space close to the coast, I was trying to find the cabin we stayed at last weekend in rural Colorado.

Pretty mindblowing what you can do with free video editing software today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP6wVajeI_M
> Or just creating their own content. Wouldn't that be awesome?

People on YouTube are creating content, lots of it. Will they still create it when some filter keeps blocking them?

If you want pirated stuff, just download torrents. They won't disappear with this new law.

The only thing that will appear are filters.
> how else do you suggest that we make the laws that apply to you and me also apply to big tech companies?

The solution to “some of us might be subject to shitty rules” is “make everyone subject to shitty rules”? Also, why do you think large companies won’t be better positioned to comply with these rules? They can more-easily license what they need and lobby the regulators whose powers are being increased under these rules.
Apparently, France happened to that: https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/article-13-worse/
And lets not forget about lobbying.

That sweet, sweet money flowing into their pockets.
Not defending the Soviets in any way here, but St. Petersburg was founded in 1703, and Finland became an independent country in 1917.
It's undemocratic because it's bought by a lobby and not in the interests of the populace as a whole.
That showed up for me as well but there was an X icon on the top right to close the pop-up and continue to the article.
"Effect" meaning "bring about" ? That generally requires mating behavior.

Can it affect people? Evidently so. That is what you just read about.
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I'm on board with this, just so long as end users get proper training before giving them the keys to an API into their own bodies. I expect lots of StackExchange questions along the lines of, "I sent a POST request to my cerebellum and now I can't walk."
Of the 34 EFDD votes, only 6 voted for. Which other EurSkep parties are you referring to?
> The idea that it was a prank or an art project is hard to reconcile with just how much time and money was clearly spent in producing it.

Why is it hard to imagine someone pouring a lot of work into art?
This is great, I use `about:logins` on Android FF when I need this; I'll gladly use this instead.
Trust and Robotic Systems
Doesn't Firefox "Sync" (a standard feature) already solve this more or less?
I'd much rather school kids had time to play in the light after school.
Yes I have, I made sure it passes shellcheck before posting it here :)

I do sort of wish that Visual Studio Code had the "auto-fixes" already built for shellcheck's error messages. I should probably create those and make them available somewhere.
According to the article, there has only been one false positive, back in 1965. Not sure how many inversions have occurred.
> Climate change concerns.

For Germany, the alternative currently seems to be coal, which is one of the reasons I find this somewhat annoying. If it was a matter of "Nord Stream 2 or wind energy" I'd say "fuck that Russian gas, let's go green!"
But alas, that's not what this is about.
Scientists and inventors routinely have their work appropriated and turned into profit for the ruling class. This is essentially what the pharmaceutical industry is. The answer to this is not "make sure to get yours, too", it is to prevent the possibility of accumulation based on your work by ensuring its value belongs to everyone.
Does anyone have the paywall for the included WSJ op-ed?

source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/will-baltimore-make-off-with-th...
Conveniently this is going to steal a lot of press from the copyright reform
Impossible! Improbable!
So the ~84% is a coincidence. Neat!

I'm not making some claim that the French don't have representation in the EU, but that in this case (for whatever reason) Germans have an outsized direct participation in the EU's own survey, and that might be a more general indicator for how they're more likely to directly deal with EU institutions in other matters, instead of leaving it to their national government.
And Come to Daddy was a joke against the current mainstream, that was The Prodigy in those days. Although most of his stuff has been some kind of a joke always, even though its usually brilliant stuff.
It was a year ago: https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox/issues/1136
https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox/issues/681

And we're talking about a bunch of people randomly clicking / trying things, so imagine what's really inside Redox.
>The idea that legislation is good because it forcefully restricts my choices (indirectly, by harming YouTube), thus preventing me from harming myself seems to be a form of unneeded parenting/hand-holding/babying that I'm not a fan of.

That's the catholic and lutheran authoritarian mindset that is deep ingrained into the minds of EU politicians and large parts of Europe itself, that's what they mean with "democracy". They don't really trust people and their individuality.

Just check the backgrounds of the politicians who voted in favor, you'll find that most have this religious background and distrust in people and are easily manipulated by others "higher up the chain", like those cultural snobs in Paris.
Yes, as with so many hackers in the GNU/Linux universe I have been painfully waiting all my life for someone to come along and develop a really nice trackpad so I can use it with my tiling window manager, Emacs, and CLI tools.
I hope they block the entire EU. And yes, I live in the EU.

That way they need to shamefully roll back this law, and we're sure they don't try to pull off such a farce in the (near) future.
I am not 100% sure; I’m not on the tools team, but it’s undergoing a big re-org at the moment. I’d get in touch with them: https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/dev-tools
Ask HN: How many hours of your job are enjoyable?
I'm thinking of this mainly for developers, since I was looking in the recent developers who became managers thread and people were talking about enjoying coding for 8-9 hours a day. Even if I manage to code for 8-9 hours a day I don't enjoy every one of those hours.

What is your average amount of hours a day you enjoy at a job, jobs you've had with the most enjoyable hours a day and what made them especially enjoyable and so forth.
God Doesn’t Break Bad in the Old Testament
I still see far too many sites which want me to opt out of 100+ trackers individually. I usually just leave. Thanks for hindering my procrastination habits I guess.
Alternatively, permanent winter time would mean that school hours are entirely during daylight if we shift the school hours to match.

Alternatively, some time zones are so wide that there's no argument that assumes a constant school or work start time and can also work with a standard time system. For example, not far east of where I live, it's possible to switch your clock from 8AM to 7AM just by driving to the next town over.

All of this by way of saying, presenting these sorts of observations as if they were compelling is specious. With the sole exception of the rate at which the planet is spinning, literally every variable is easy to vary.
I don't think directors make anywhere near that much. A director is going to max out ~600K all in. Reference:

https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Google,Facebook,Microsoft&tr...

To get to 1M you'll need to be a VP.
The problem is not uploading illegal content. The problem is that this legislation is technically impossible to fulfill, there does not exist foolproof content violation check mechanisms and there will none. This needs strong AI, and a not existing framework to recognize and handle "works". This is impossible without a court order.

Therefore every platform provider visible in the EU (like Wikipedia, Facebook, Youtube, every blog, newspaper comment sections, ...) needs to stop accepting user content, because they cannot guarantee that copyright violations will not occur. They cannot be filtered and not detected. Think e.g. of song texts in images. Will you OCR every image for a work? There does exist a foolproof method to bypass AI, it's called captcha. Even if you install comment or upload submission queues with manual labor ("manual filtering"), you cannot guarantee copyright violations, only courts can do that.

The politicians might have thought of an GEMA-like index to store hashes of protected content in some form or another, which could be distributed to content certain providers, but this doesn't affect the law, which is much broader and not fulfillable. Thus Web 2.0 is dead.

If I would be Facebook I would rather ignore said new laws and go to court over it. The existing framework is good enough, the best way to handle copyright violations.
It shouldn't be; Henry Darger wrote tens of thousands of pages of material he didn't think anyone would ever read.

"In the realms of the Unreal," for the curious.
It's possible to do NVC well, and it's possible to do it poorly. It makes me wonder if this means that NVC is not inherently more useful. (ie, other methods may of communication may also be useful, and so NVC can't be called an inherent good.)

Someone using NVC can still be forceful and rude. I'm struggling with how to describe this. I suppose all it does it remove unrestrained emotion and moral blame from the interaction. Unrestrained emotion and moral blame are not a given. (ie, they may not be injected into a conversation, even if NVC is not implemented) And further, I suppose, it's possible to push somebody around and refuse to listen to their concerns while employing NVC. For example, under the guise of empathy a boss may "feel" your perfectly valid concern, equivocate it to the concern of others in the room, and then simply ignore your recommendations. It's possible that your recommendation was actually best, but instead of understanding the value of your idea, the boss has simply made sure not to trample your emotions.

I can think of plenty of situations where I don't care if someone tramples my emotions, but I'd be pretty distraught if they adopted a flawed idea, or couldn't understand why one idea was superior and another was inferior.

[edit]

Just to clarify, I think I talked myself into a conclusion I feel comfortable with. Empathy is not inherently useful. An approach that focuses on the feelings a person might demean them (since their feelings are not actually so fragile) while also equivocating all the ideas in the room. (all ideas might not be created equal, but it is necessary to treat everyone -- and their feelings -- with the same respect.)
That will change with the new target requirements for Play Store.
And it only wasn't invaded because the entire country was (and is) a standing army, and Germany would have to pay dearly for every mile they tried to take.

IIRC they even shot down german war planes that entered their airspace and suffered no retaliation.

So yeah, they do have a knack for maintaining their neutrality.
Glad you liked it. I think it's a really underrated region, although some people are starting to notice as seen in The Guardian article comments.

If you avoid July 15 - August 15 it should be extremely quiet.
The specific part that just inverted has inverted before every recession since 1957 (9 times) and given one false alarm in 1965
Have a look at the Unicode "Ideographic Description Characters " approach (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideographic_Description_Charac...), or WenLin's Character Description Language (https://wenlin.com/cdl).

They're similar, but I'd argue that IDC is better at capturing the compositionality, and CDL is infinitely better at generating things "that actually look good". Using IDC, 犬 is ⿺大㇔ and 夲 is ⿱大木. However, for typesetting that (just like RRPL) is too crude, so CDL is really where you want to be: a more complex descriptor system that places components based on a grid location paired with scaling information, so that 大 and ㇔ can be positioned in a way that looks right. Especially when you hit things like 器 where the easthetics of the relative placement makes the difference between "looks right" and "were you drunk when you wrote this?" makes CDL a more appealing choice than RRPL or IDC.
That's always been one of my biggest questions about NVC, it seems to assume two parties with equal power. But that's seldom precisely true, and in some cases _very_ not true. It's not clear to me how that effects the method and how to account to for it. I wonder if people writing on NVC have written much on this.
Sonic PI is an excellent programming tool that lets you do this sort of thong with relative ease.
They had similar problems with their football (as in soccer) streams in europe at the beginning. However to be fair they improved a lot since then and it's pretty stable now. One has to consider that it's live and while I'm sure Netflix or other big players would do a better job, being able to buffer makes this much easier.

I think DAZN is an awesome package with lots of relevant content for a football (soccer) enthusiast like me at a very fair price.
I prefer the actual title of the article (How to Deliver Constructive Feedback rather than A guide to difficult conversations); a difficult conversation could be about anything and the object of the article seems very vague, whereas delivering feedback is something most of us would have to do and so is something of interest (and is more precise). I nearly didn't read the article because of this, which would have been a shame since it was an interesting read.
Oh I agree that this law is shit, and a huge overreach. Like shooting a mosquito with a cannon.

I was just trying to put in perspective WHY the politicians feel the need to do this. It's mostly backlash against Facebook for years of content stealing.

Youtube and itś content ID system are actually what this law wants to introduce everywhere. While not perfect, it's still better than Facebook, which seems to be lawless on copyright.
>If one of them just doesn't want to listen, just hear themselves talk, what can I do?

Have not tried it, but the NVC book says to keep empathizing (without agreeing) until they stop. I think it works for most people. But for the pathological folks who just ramble on and on and keep changing topics, the book actually has a phrase along the lines of "I'm having trouble connecting with you in this conversation. Would you please ...?" (I don't remember the phrase, but the request is to explain the purpose of the conversation). I have not tried it.

If your concern is they are not listening to you (i.e. you can talk but they don't process it), that's actually very normal. And the solution in the book is to empathize for a while, and then specifically point it out and request they reflect back what you have said to them. Now I can tell you from experience that this needs practice - most ways of saying it will trigger defenses.
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When reading stuff like this I wonder if maybe a MacBook would be a cure for my hate (ok, distaste?) of touchpads or if it's too late or if it would change anything (so far trying out macs for short amount of time didn't help).

-- someone carrying a mouse or using the red thinkpad button thingy since 2004.
I hope you see this reply, I am sorry for it being so late:

Do you have a link to a good explanation of why you'd set those? The "set -e" seems to indicate that the script would fail immediately if the borg backup job fails, which would prevent the Zabbix "send" command from alerting the monitoring system.

Thank you for your feedback, it's given me more to learn and think about!
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Yep, Android's best practices tend to last one Google IO.
Gradients in UI Design
Germany: https://twitter.com/MartinSonneborn/status/11105411623712727...
I have been kicking this idea of a news subreddit with paid contributors who are vetted. Essentially a news lobsters.rs. My main thought is that changing the news industry seems hard given all the broken incentives, but changing the way we discuss news to be less hive mind-y should be easier. Outside accounts would be unable to upvote/downvote/submit only read. I was initially imagining that grad-students could use the platform to make money while in school. Patreon would be used to collect a donation and money would be distributed equally. Accounts below a certain level of monthly karma would be audited. The accounts on the subreddit would be badged with their specialization (international politics, US domestic politics, economics etc.) similar to quora.

This could even be made off reddit using lobste.rs source code as it’s open source, thoughts?
I see the data is published under the Open Government Licence
Again the poor MTA needs funds to fix the subway? What an easy excuse as always..
given that capabilities were considered by many the future of security in the 1970s, you could say that the community understood full well how to provide a fine-grained policy machine with good enforcement guarantees.

either they or the organizations paying the bills just didnt care yet.
What does "net revenue" stand for? Is that profit?
Here's the last nearly 40 years worth of that curve, with recessions marked for convenience: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10Y3M (use the range selector below the graph to see everything)
> With 33 out of the way, the only one left is 42.

I know this is just a coincidence, but it's a rather poetic one.
^ This is what NVC does. Notice how this person is attempting to sound authentic, genuine, helpful, and hopeful.

But also notice that they are very subtly positioning themselves as someone who has learned some Very Big Life Lessons, whereas who they are talking to has not. And then they close off. With small sentences. For. Dramatic. Effect.

See how wise they are?
That was in 1703. and yes, the intent was to fight the dominance of Swedes in the Baltic. If Peter only knew about IKEA...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg
True it became independent there, but the country had been settled for a long time before that.

Of course Finnish history is complex, when you consider how it was initially Swedish-owned, then became an autonomous (remarkably so) part of the Russian empire between 1809-1917. The brief outline here is presents a good summary:

https://finland.fi/life-society/main-outlines-of-finnish-his...

For more details I enjoyed reading "A Concise history of Finland" :

https://www.amazon.com/Concise-History-Finland-Cambridge-His...

(I moved to Finland a couple of years ago, and have spent a fair bit of time learning of local-history.)
This would be an invalid flag. BMG-EMI-XYZ Music Corp does not own this work, they could only own a certain recording of a certain orchestra playing this piece. And we know that detecting that certain recording via music matching does not work, only checking the strong hash of it would work. Which would be trivial to circumvent by a single bit-flip.
Same with the passive noise-cancelling headphones (Etymotics or Tough Sounds) and misophonia albeit with a side order of rampant tinnitus for added "have to listen to music all day? well, you're going to suffer overnight / tomorrow then!".

(I once worked between someone who tapped their feet and someone who drummed on the desk constantly. Those weeks were not productive, even with headphones.)
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Do all of them actually have to agree or just some majority?