skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for expanding on your thoughts. I now understand what you mean, however, I do believe you are wrong. Look at source [3] above. Sea level rise is accelerating globally. The effects are different locally.
As a German, I don't think the issue is with our handling of personal data. The real issue is Kleinstaaterei, a not-quite-translatable word that describes every small administrative entity insisting on doing its own thing and failing to see the bigger picture.

What today is Germany used to be about 100 separate nations until 1871, and a still somewhat loose federation until 1918. I think the mentality from that time is still pervasive today in many areas, particularly in bureaucracy.

Add to that that Germany is large enough to make the other EU countries play by its rules most of the time. That removes incentive to overcome nonsensical idiosyncrasies. Estonia is under a lot more pressure here because they cannot win by weight alone.
Opera 65 beta default of DNS-over-HTTPS to Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 server
Sounds awful. Wouldn't any person be next to useless in their first weeks at any new job? Unless you give them some small well-defined task that doesn't require much domain knowledge, I can't see how one could showcase their abilities in this way.
This is an atrocious, heinous crime being committed in front of all of us, and we should be rioting in the streets. This can happen to any of us now - nobody is safe from torture by the state.

This is the end of civilized society in the West, people.

Where Julian Assange goes, so go we.
I don't fully agree, but the following really resonated

> Apple has more or less always said "Jump!" and users and developers have always been expected to reply, "How high?" That attitude, We know what’s best for you, was tolerable — at times even welcome — when it was crystal clear that Apple really knew what was best.

Aside from the bugs, which I'm sure will get resolved in updates, Catalina takes a lot more than it gives.
They don't get "provided" value simply by hiring you, they derive value generally from hiring you and mixing your labor with their capital.

OP was talking about the value for the worker in taking a wage from an employer in the part you quoted. Clearly the employer wants to make a profit from hiring employees - I don't see how you can think OP would think otherwise based on what they wrote.

An employer who hires people who only cost money will soon be out of capital, and same with an employer who just breaks even(since there is uncertainty in any forecast, and you can't go below $0)
MIT of course

Tsinghua is highly respected and your peers is likely to be better ON AVERAGE than that of MIT. But the faculty and the resources you would be able to access is unmatched from what MIT can offer.
I think it is important to look at this with the lens of objectivity:

Accusations that Assange is actively being not just harassed but outright tortured to the point where he "might not survive the proceedings" in jail...

... to claims that "members of the US Government" were there and "controlling procedures"

and claims that the judge had been instructed what to say:

> possibly she had not properly memorised what Lewis had been instructing her to agree with

Apropos of anything else:

> Baraitser took her cue from Lewis and stated categorically that the date for the extradition hearing, 25 February, could not be changed.

> Lewis received his American instructions and agreed that the defence might have two months to prepare their evidence (they had said they needed an absolute minimum of three) but the February hearing date may not be moved.

As far as I can tell the hearing date is over four months away.

These are all very large claims and should be considered within the spectrum of someone who is as equally friendly towards Assange as he claims the state is against him.
> I think most of the actual puzzle ideas have to come at least semi-intentionally, or the game will not feel very strong.

This right here is a really underrated statement. It's why I think the designers behind WPC-style paper puzzles (Toketa, gmpuzzles, etc.) consistently produce works of higher quality than most levels in most puzzle video games. Working on paper forces you to design with intention rather than design by playing around with objects on a grid.

Intentionality is one of the most important aspects of good puzzle design. Reminds me of a 2001 quote from Nikoli editor Nobuhiko Kanamoto: Computer-generated Sudoku puzzles are lacking a vital ingredient that makes puzzles enjoyable - the sense of communication between solver and author.
I was trying to find a way to do that from my desktop system, and could not.

I ended up following the link via my Android phone to use Google Pay. Welcome to the mobile world!

Insert a joke here about how I'm so old that I remember what it was like to buy things on a desktop system.
The humble rotifers that were the hidden key to open the gates of the multibillionary industry of modern sea farms... who would suspect such huge monetary value from an animal that is like a spinning cartoon?

There is a new world to discover in invertebrate ecology. Sadly there is millions of money invested in wipping it, and just crumbs to research or protect it (by nerds and weird people that often fight alone).

(Has died yet the last californian vaquita?)
Indonesia has incredible mobile penetration rates (133% this year), so odds are they're streaming.

https://www.slideshare.net/DataReportal/digital-2019-indones...
Thing is, we are from Russia. And LHV requires some "proof of our company connection with Estonia economy, like existing contract or utility bills". What proof can there be if the company is just started and not fully operational without bank account (hence, no contracts) and is not physically present in Estonia (hence, no utility bills)?

It sucks being Russian these days because of our warmongering dictator. :-/
I am French living abroad. I had a one person (freelancing) company when I moved to Japan. It was hell interacting remotely with the administration. I am kind of left wing so I believed in not doing tax optimization and paying the taxes I owe at home, I was told this was suspicious.

If I ever do business again within the EU area, I will give Estonia a try. The prospect of an administration set up for working remotely is very attractive to me.
PostGIS 3.0 just released with major speed improvements
This news is from a highly opinionated Taiwan website. They had a narrative to push with anything they write.
I found this podcast about estonia's digital economy very informative

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTyOboVluxA

It's interesting how the East of europe seems to have similar aspirations. Growing, poor or former poor countries (Estonia, latvia, Romania, bulgaria, cyprus, malta) are bullish on using the EU status to attract foreign investors and enable entrepreneurship, including lowering their taxes, while the west of EU seems to be doing the exact opposite, sending their entrepreneurs abroad.
The hiring of Fiorina is a good marker when HP started to go downhill, and the 2008 recession was like the climax of this somewhat tragic story.
"The charge against Julian is very specific; conspiring with Chelsea Manning to publish the Iraq War logs, the Afghanistan war logs and the State Department cables. The charges are nothing to do with Sweden, nothing to do with sex, and nothing to do with the 2016 US election"

I'd like to call out the popular and prolific users of hacker news who previously were all about Sweden, sex and election interference and who are very silent now.
NOKIA Bell-Labs?? Apparently I missed something in the 7 years since I got laid off from the Finnish disaster...
Few people around here won't think that software patents (at least) are a cancer upon society, draining resources and wasting everyone's time.
GitHub has a sponsorship program
> To be fair, true developers were not really negatively affected at least not more so than other professions.

My anecdote is the opposite: My father was an engineer at a company that made machines for semiconductor manufacturing.

They had a physical product, customers liked them, they sold each machine at a profit - none of the obvious-with-hindsight folly of companies like Pets.com.

However, when the dot-com bust happened they went out of business anyway. Turns out the collapse of the likes of Pets.com dropped the demand for semiconductors from the point where every wafer manufacturer wanted to expand capacity to the point where no-one wanted to. Boom, no orders. And of course, some investors when they see 'tech stocks' are falling, will sell your stock even if your business is much less speculative than the likes of Pets.com.

There were three lessons I learned:

1. Your business may be nothing like Pets.com and may seem to have strong fundamentals - but if the bottom falls out of tech stocks, you can end up unemployed anyway.

2. When the going gets tough, satellite offices get hit before head office.

3. If you have car/mortgage/credit card payments, you can get insurance that covers the payments if you lose your job. A lot of the time this isn't a good investment - but once the company started laying people off and everyone could see the writing on the wall, people with debt brought gold-plated insurance and were glad they did.
Otoh spelling out my name and address and phone number and card details over the phone and making sure there's no mistakes takes minutes whereas I can type it all in and make sure it's correct in 30 seconds
Oh I see! That makes sense...
Startups had unbelievable burn rates, sales and marketing teams overpromised technology, and greedy executives, who should never have been in charge of money, sought to invest millions in building the appearance of an empire rather than grow organically. Eyeballs, not earnings, was the focus. Many such companies would go bankrupt overnight. I was out of a job for six months. It was the most humbling part of my career. We almost lost everything. For a short time, we were on food stamps. I knew some scripting languages, Oracle, and systems engineering at the time and was doing mostly web based development, DBA, and server infrastructure buildout work - yet we couldn’t afford to pay for baby formula. During that six months, I taught myself C, discovered machine learning, and picked up other skills that would later open doors I never imagined would be possible for me. Hard times brought perseverance, humility, and an appreciation for the value of a dollar. I learned some of the most foundation skills and life lessons during the dot bomb.
I read this “how was life for a regular div” and I was hoping for a first person fictional account of an element ahead of its time...
GUI for Neovim
An hypersonic railgun could cook the pizza using air friction. Also, it would be faster.
I was employee #4 in a startup in 2000, just before the burst. At that time the situation was crazy. For instance our founders had made an ambitious business plan to raise money in the next investment round. It was sent back by our investors because it was not ambitious enough: basically they asked to blindly multiply all the targets by 10. This was completely unrealistic but the founders did what they were asked and promptly new investment money came rushing in.

And then the bubble burst and the sentiment was 180 degrees opposite. By then our company had already acquired some customers and was making some money, and was ready to expand and grab a significant piece of the market. However it didn't matter what we did or what business plan we made, it was just impossible to raise any kind of money whatsoever.
So our startup continued living its zombie life until it was taken over by a competitor a few years later.
In the end I was lucky because this way I could survive the years after a crash while still having a job. But it left me with mixed feelings about the so called angel investors. It didn't appear to me that they had any idea what they were doing.
I’m guessing it was a bug in the Music app, or remote deletion because of new versions/format/DRM but the Music app didn’t notify.

Or I did indeed delete them myself but can’t recall. I had no reason to.
Bergamot was there for at least months (for example, the JD for the Bergamot-Mozilla collaboration was posted before this May [1]) and only advertised a few days ago. It is most likely a coincidence, given that Google and Microsoft has full rights to complain to Mozilla. Or, in the reverse direction, they may have complained because of public articles about Bergamot.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190520103652/https://careers.m...
>>e.g. for marx profit and surplus value are two very separate categories, and in marx's analysis employers indeed do not attain labor power below its true value

For Marx, the employer's profit was solely expropriated surplus value generated by workers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_value

>>Marx uses the term Mehrwert to describe the yield, profit or return on production capital invested, i.e. the amount of the increase in the value of capital. Hence, Marx's use of Mehrwert has always been translated as "surplus value", distinguishing it from "value-added". According to Marx's theory, surplus value is equal to the new value created by workers in excess of their own labor-cost, which is appropriated by the capitalist as profit when products are sold.

Read his own words:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour...

>>We have said: "Wages are not a share of the worker in the commodities produced by him. Wages are that part of already existing commodities with which the capitalist buys a certain amount of productive labor-power." But the capitalist must replace these wages out of the price for which he sells the product made by the worker; he must so replace it that, as a rule, there remains to him a surplus above the cost of production expended by him, that is, he must get a profit.

The man also believed that automation would reduce the demand for labor, and with it, wages:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour...

>>But even if we assume that all who are directly forced out of employment by machinery, as well as all of the rising generation who were waiting for a chance of employment in the same branch of industry, do actually find some new employment – are we to believe that this new employment will pay as high wages as did the one they have lost? If it did, it would be in contradiction to the laws of political economy. We have seen how modern industry always tends to the substitution of the simpler and more subordinate employments for the higher and more complex ones. How, then, could a mass of workers thrown out of one branch of industry by machinery find refuge in another branch, unless they were to be paid more poorly? and

>>To sum up: the more productive capital grows, the more it extends the division of labour and the application of machinery; the more the division of labour and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

This was proven wrong in his own lifetime as factory worker wages rapidly grew in industrializing Britain.

He was an economically illiterate quack promoting basic fallacies like Ludditism that are popular with laymen.
The hash table nature means any particular piece of information is hosted on a specific node or set of nodes.

An evildo-er can either DoS that node (which is someone's home PC, so very easy to DoS), or become that node by repeatedly joining the network until they end up by chance in that location.

All hashtable based systems have similar weaknesses. With no trusted nodes, and no way to stop an attacker pulling off a 51% type attack (making any voting system useless), it isn't really a solvable issue.
>Signal,whatsapp,ipfs,discord,slack,github,confluence,twitter,twitch,stackoverflow

none of this is a creative tool

they are all just iterations of the same idea: streaming content

the last creative tool was, sadly, flash

sadly because it could have been the beginning of an era of open content creation platforms, but it was its end

> But have you considerer how much more accesible the internet has become?

much less

my mom could have browsed the internet 20 years ago, today she can't

she doesn't know how to signup, she doesn't even know what "login with facebook" means

> You heard of Viber? Super popular in non-western countries on-par with whatsapp. Skype you say? Zoom,webex,logmein

Iterations of the same idea.

Nothing new.

> The past always looks shinyand guess what,the internet is even more mysterious now for those who get curious enough!

It is really not.

There is just more content of lower overall quality.

> pluralsight,udemy,cybrary and MOOCs

NNTP and IRC worked well enough and they were free
Did you try to code from your phone?
"webapps" don't do interesting things that websites cannot do. This person was talking about actual apps, that run on your device, doing app things.
> They don't get "provided" value simply by hiring you

This might be a dialectual/regional difference, but the word, at least to me, means something along the lines of "gain access to." If a value is a perceived benefit of a good or service, then "gaining access to a resource through hiring" is semantically the same as "the value they are provided in hiring you."

This really isn't an ideological argument I'm providing, the guy just isn't using the two words correctly in the context that he's speaking.

> I don't see how you can think OP would think otherwise based on what they wrote.

It's just incredibly confusing when he's mixing terminology that has standard definitions within economics.
But is it possible that actually the judge is prepared to deny the extradition, and cannot say anything just yet because of the secret duty? If she thinks all of that is torture for Assange, maybe she is right to want it to end as soon as possible, especially if she already has taken her decision.
I am in the translation business, and although we do not use MT so far for the verticals we focus on, perhaps what shocks me most is Deepl Alexa 90-day trend [0]. It is so smooth it seems faked.

[0] https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/deepl.com
I hope so but I doubt it.
>objectivity

+

>considered within the spectrum

What is your purpose here? To defend the actions of the UK court, which is clearly being corrupted by following direction from US agents?

Or to open the door for the, very definite Assange-haters, to have a way around the argument that Assange is not getting a fair trial, that this case is a total farce, and that anyone who stands up to the military-industrial-pharmaceutical complex is 'an enemy of the West'?
Google to use fourth-price auction for places on search engine choice screen
This is similar to how many German companies adapt with recessions. They even subsidise in-house trainings to keep their employee's skills up to date during the non-working days.

I wish HP did the same reduce-work-hours scheme during the 2008 recession instead of the pay cuts w/o reducing the working hours. At least the pay cuts were voluntary but still...
Nice. Firefox has been missing this for a while, one of the reasons I often end up switching back to Chrome as it does the translation in-place / in the DOM rather than using a Google Translate proxy frame like Firefox addons do.
If you are looking to spin up your own vpn server with wireguard and pihole there is an excellent guide here https://drexl.me/guides/wireguard-pihole-vpn-setup.html
Your example only talks about the portion of the work devoted to this kind of labor. It also presumes that all other variables remain exactly the same, which isn’t likely. A job that places greater emphasis on social interaction would put you under more emotional stress than one that doesn’t. But so would a job where the customers are shitty and pissed off all the time. Even a job where you never talk to customers, and work with only one other person that you only have to talk to once a week is going to involve ‘emotional labor’. How much labor depends entirely on a huge number of factors, perhaps most importantly your own personality.

The only distinctions I’ve seen in this thread are based on ‘how much’ is involved in a role, or (as per the definition in the parent) how that labor is marketed to others. You could talk about one job involving more ‘emotional labor’ than another, but you’d have to think pretty hard to come up with one that didn’t involve any. Even then, you can really only discuss that on an individual basis. There are some kinds of social interactions that leave me emotionally exhausted, but for other people they may not notice any emotional impact at all. Then there are things I never struggle with at all that I know drive others mad with stress.

The distinction made in the parent comment’s definition is even less sound. Your employer will always have expectations around how you interact socially with the people your work brings you in contact with. Whether your employer chooses to market that as a competitive differentiator has absolutely no bearing on how demanding those expectations are to meet.
When reading articles like this, I always wonder whether it was that different way back when: Did macOS change less disruptively five years ago?

I switched to using macOS just recently (Mojave being the first I really used), so I might not know.

I notice myself being less and less open to radical new change and being more willing (and able) to just stick to something that works for me. I have tinkered a fair lot in my days, mainly on Linux.
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I have a set of the modern-but-cheap NHS hearing aids.

The diagnostic process for getting them involves playing a set of random quiet tones, and you press a button whenever you hear one (and not when you don't). This produces a hearing profile showing how much hearing loss you are experiencing and at which frequencies. Usually the higher ones. If the profile is bad enough and you are given the hearing aids, the profile is downloaded into them and used as a parametric equaliser.

The amplification is not user-controllable, so you can't set it to dangerous levels.

There is also feedback cancellation - there may be a small shriek on power-on (along with the cheerful bootup chime), but it detects this and mutes that frequency.

They aren't magic, but they do make it much easier to understand speech, especially consonants and 's' sounds with high frequency components. Also little things like being able to hear my oven timer's high pitched beep when not in the kitchen.

There is a latency on the amplification and filtering. The ear adapts but I can occasionally notice it.

Battery life is about a week from non-rechargeable zinc-air batteries, £10 for 60 from Amazon or free on the NHS if you can be bothered to go to them.
I wonder if these people are aware of Gvim and Macvim. They offer features such as listed in https://vi.stackexchange.com/a/2458

The screenshots of GNvim look as if it doesn't use the code base of Gvim.
Besides being weather proof it would also need to be theft proof. It would also probably have to pass some sort of certification(s) as it would control traffic lights which could be dangerous in case of malfunctions, regular tests, &c.

I'm all for optimising things but sometimes it's just not worth the hassle. A well timed orange light is good enough.
And yet I still have to deploy my first Kubernetes setup and have used Docker multiple times ...

Is there some kind of "Kubernetes-light" out there? So something like in-between running services like NGinx and Postgres on bare Linux machines and having this (I think complex) Kubernetes setup? It's important to say that I don't need any scaling capabilities (apart from maybe some load-balancing in case of a machine error).
Unionized workers have far more leverage in business negotiations.