skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. This scenario was, in some ways, inevitable. It took nations a little while to catch up to the power that separation of data from a person's physical location via the cloud put in the hands of people and corporations, but they're catching up.

At the end of the day, most users in a few years won't have a choice of no country's government being able to access their cloud state; they may have a choice over which country.
ok boomer

This may seem fine on the micro level -- an individual working into their 70s, but is a disaster at the macro level -- a significant part of a workforce suddenly in their 80s.

Senior workers tend to hold senior positions. A 65-er retiring frees a slot for someone in their 40s to move up, which frees a slot for someone in their 20s to take their prior role. Fewer retirements slow advancement for the rest of the workforce and drives out younger workers with skill to seek their fortunes elsewhere.

When that cadre of octogenarians finally starts dropping, the organization will be rushing to fill senior roles with mid-level employees, leaving a big gap to fill for the middle and entry levels.
I agree. I have reasonable familiarity with git but I find that traditional SVN-type systems often (not always) have a lower cognitive overhead.

If I ever need to manage the codebase for a huge, multi-level project involving large numbers of geographically dispersed developers then I'm sure I'd use git. For simpler projects, not so likely.
The proof that rust is a meme language is evidenced by the need to include "written in rust" every time a rust project is mentioned.
It's aphorisms all the way down!

The usual algorithm is to follow the attributions until you reach Samuel Clemons, Benjamin Franklin, Confucius, or Laozi. They are said to have said everything.
Or just get a $1 pedometer and a sleep app.
I don't even know what `git checkout HEAD * ` does lol. Does it just checkout the current branch to the HEAD of that branch?

I can never seem to guess what things do in Git, and I consider myself fairly comfortable with the core concepts of Git. Having written many types of append-only / immutable / content address data systems (they interest me), you'd think Git would be natural to me. While the core concepts are natural, Git's presentation of them is not.. at least, to me.

edit: formatting with the * .
I don't think having a big internet company backing it is a sure success. Google also backed Dart and as far as I'm aware it's still a niche language.

Facebook created Hack, which I have yet to see in the wild (mind you I'm not really in the PHP bubble at the moment).

Apple used Objective-C and created Swift, but you don't see either of those outside of the Apple bubble and as far as I know Swift is just not used for back-end.

So I mean I hear what you're saying, but there's plenty of counterexamples.
My feeling is that Fitbit really wanted to sell, especially before the holiday seasons and risk showing unfavorable numbers.
Well, there is iTunes for Windows, Apple Music for Android and the Apple TV app for various TVs and streaming sticks.
What, specifically, is the feature you think Firefox is removing the option to have, that you think people want?

I suspect that if we drill down to this point, you'll find the feature is still available with a trivial amount of work, or on the outside case it's the more specific thing they actually talked about, it's not a trivial amount of work, but it's just not automated for enterprise installs anymore.

So, what's this feature you're referring to?
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I think it's the opposite: Apple is growing its accessories line quite dramatically - this and 'services' are where all the new bottom line growth is.

Extending their brand into consumer products + their 'home portfolio' is actually a strong 'vision' not lack thereof.

I suggest however, that their phone, home etc. might well be done under a separate brand, while still under the Google umbrella.
That's absolutely daft. You can pick your lord, but they'll all demand unnecessary permissions. The road to serfdom looks like capitalism working according to spec - right up until you can't meaningfully vote.
Yeah, that certainly tempers my views. I'm sympathetic to breaking U.S. immigration law because it's the only option for keeping one's family safe from a war zone.

I'm much less sympathetic to people breaking U.S. immigration law because they want greater economic opportunity for themselves or their children.

That said, I can't argue back to first principles why my preferred balance of virtue maximization / vice minimization is objectively better than anyone else's. So if we're being completely honest, I can't advocate even my own position in good conscience.
To prove NSO used WhatsApp servers, I suppose WA will have to present inferences from metadata it recorded and saved. So WA will be required to demonstrate how much can yet be learned about its users by passing communications through its servers.
But do they have free will if their startup is majority owned by VC funds?
"You are correct, now spell YACHT"

How I miss the 80's.
And in an interesting twist, it seems that BitKeeper is now Open Source anyway (or at least I see "Now available as Open Source under the Apache 2.0 License" on their webpage) meaning that this could all have been avoided
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The Apple Watch is the best smart watch on the market and I'd trust Apple a lot more with my data than any alternative.
What's more, EU law says that personal data can't just be shared with companies or governments. No easy backdoors to your data. I'm no lawyer, but I'd expect that any government, US, EU or otherwise, will have to provide a warrant. Final decision will be with a European judge, not an American one. That means quite a bit.
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I mostly enjoy my day at work. There are people to talk to and somewhat interesting projects to work on. However, when I go back home, all I see is the home computer and the television. Yes.. I could go on with those, but I feel there's more. What is that? Please help!
And they almost hit $52 once, but that is irrelevant now. They are in serious trouble and needed this buyout- that's why they put themselves up for sale.
Mi band 4 has best battery life and together with mi band tools app (search on play store) is great. To be honest, if there were custom opensource ROMs for mi band, they would destroy all alternatives.
I came across this with my fitbit this week. I immediately had such a clear realization I was done with this company.
I recently purchased the Samsung Galaxy Active 2 and am loving it so far. Fitness tracking seems to be accurate too.

Would be interesting to see the market share of Apple, Samsung and Garmin for smart watches.
Governments can be ultra-controlling with slightly unprofessional police. It happens all the time across the globe. But without exception, wherever those police have been removed, poor though those police may have been, it has resulted in untold misery on the populace.

Giving everyone the power to know exactly what everyone else is saying and doing is tantamount to taking data and removing all its police, and removing all its locks.

It will not end well.
so it's ok for the parent? and what about responding to the rest of my comment/points rather than nit picking
If its not profitable. Revenue without profit is meaningless without it being part of some larger platform play. Besides that, how much is YouTube benefiting from getting to take advantage of below market access to Google’s infrastructure?
Probably quite a bit higher: POTS was band-limited to something like 300-3000 Hz, which covers speech pretty well but not much else (hence the tinny hold music).
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Thanks a lot. I needed exactly this tool for another project, so I built it.

Custom domains is what we'll be working on soon.
Send me a message here: https://tillypay.com/contact/ and I'll add you to the beta group.

One person could collect the recurring payment or distribute it among those apart of the project?
I'd love to hear more about the use case, send me a message.
.NET is a nice runtime... But I wonder if NodeJS might get more uptake since there is a larger community of javascript/typescript developers out there.

I know hardcore embedded people will hate this idea, but sometimes you have to take the massive performance and memory hit to tempt developers in who prefer to get stuff done with powerful libraries than learn a new language and start worrying about memory management...
There is toshi-search https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi who is trying to be a drop-in replacement for Elasticsearch. My understanding is that Bayard is trying to achieve the same use cases as Elasticsearch but with a different API
I can't be the only one who gets depressed reading the news on here.

Everyday it's another article about your private information being sucked up and sold for advertising or hacked and sold to be used for stealing your identity or other nefarious shit.

Then there's the public side of gov't agencies monitoring everything in your life. At any point they can send an email to any tech company and get a full dump of your information. They're tracking everything you do online, they have cameras on every intersection recording your face.

Every cop car and repo truck is driving around collecting your license plate information tracking all your 'off-line' movements.

You can't walk around your neighborhood without your face being recorded by every paranoid household with a doorbell camera and feeding the government databases of your whereabouts.

You book a vacation and the next day every device you use connected to the internet is sending you ads about your vacation destination even though all you did was book a flight and get an email confirmation.

This sounds like some conspiracy tinfoil hat old man rant (I swear I'm non of those), but I hear regular "non-tech" people airing the same complaints more and more. It's just disappointing that there isn't an option to not participate I guess. Sorry for the long (mostly off topic) rant
Sublime-merge (the Gui git client from the sublime text people) is available in a portable version, and so can be run as a .exe from the filesystem, or a mountable drive. Comes with its own git binary.

The GUI is stunningly beautiful and functional, and there are more than enough keyboard shortcuts to keep things snappy once you're in the flow. I used to live and die by the terminal, now I am in love with sublime merge.

I used the portable version for a job where I didn't have install rights to the corporate laptop, and it preserved my workflow and kept me sane during my dev work. The portable version can run a little slow, but it's a pretty good solution.
Obviously I should have given a bit more information about the actions I am taking, as many wrong assumptions have been made. First off, I used to be an electronic repair tech, I hold several diplomas, an amature radio licence and have been using computers since the TI-99 4a came out. I consider myself an environmentalist, and now im trying to be a farmer who follows the pricipals laid out in the permaculture movement. My dream is to create enough abundance that I can feed myself, my family and my community, profit is not my ultimate goal. That being said, Im sick of virtue signaling people that arrogantly think that they can unite the world under them to change the climate back to the way it was. I'm talking to all you 'Gretas" out there!! Will you wear a "Make the Climate Great Again hat"? Are you really that naive? I dont cut down a tree needlessly but I do have and use a wood stove, I also have solar panels. I eat meat, and it hurts me everytime I slaughter one of the animals I raised, but I do it for my own sustenance and to conform to my regenerative farming beliefs. Putting oil back in the ground is a thousand times harder than toothpaste back in the tube. Finally, I am pro migration, and just because I am preparing for the future instead of trying to prevent it doesnt make me greedy, selfish or racist.
An interesting comparison would be with Srinivasa Ramanujan. Male but non-white, and from a poor background. Also Emmy Noether, also Jewish, German and female, whose contributions to both mathematics and physics are much more significant, fundamental even.

Also, I doubt her being Jewish was a factor of academic discrimination, as opposed to the more general Nazi persecution she endured. We're not talking about Moses Mendelssohn breaking through glass ceilings in the 18th Century but the 20th by when Jewish intellectuals like Hilbert or Einstein (or more controversially, Fritz Haber) held a commanding place in science and academia.
Came here to say just that.
Hetzner is very much competitive with AWS, and GCP for IAAS - both technology and pricing wise. There are other European companies vying for a slice of the DigitalOcean like market here - I personally use upcloud fpr my personal hosting needs, and it’s been solid.

Those complaining here that it is biased against USA and tariff free trade needs to comprehend the presence of US Cloud Act. If USA truly wants to compete fairly, it needs to obey the local laws and get that shit law out first.
> have yet to find a manufacturer that takes privacy seriously

What's wrong with Apple then?
I once got a partial refund from Airbnb, but under the condition that I couldn't post a review.

For that reason alone I will never use Airbnb again, and would advise against it.
There is no number of specific stories that should convince anyone, unless there is also some indication that they are being evenly sampled! You would have to compare all of the stories of men who were denied appointments to make a conclusion. To get a probability from a count, you have to divide by something.
And it's cheap.

The irreplaceable band on my wife's fitbit charge broke once, then the 3rd party replacement that shouldn't exist broke too. She then decided to get the cheapest option and seems pretty happy with it still. And if it breaks she'll just get a new one.
> This decision seems to imply that either Nintendo or Amazon would rather limit all used sales of Nintendo products than build a more focused list of scrutinized software and products.

Seems like probably both, no?

> Users on the used-Nintendo forum thread have postulated that counterfeit retro Nintendo cartridges have been an open secret among Amazon sellers for some time.

I'm guessing Nintendo isn't too happy about this (in general they seem very concerned about their brand) and Amazon is likely happy to stem some of the negative backlash about counterfeit goods on their platform.

I'm not surprised to see that Apple products are likely to fall under this umbrella - another company very concerned about their brand.
I'm a fan of iotop for monitoring various IO stats in a top-like interface.
Top brands, a safe bet especially for technos (2019)
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And what judicial ruling from the day in court of the people you claim are breaking that law justifies their internment in mass camps in conditions substandard to people who have been found guilty of breaking a law? You're forgetting that law enforcement officers aren't judge and jury; they may arrest, but a person has presumption of innocence until their day in court (even if border patrol physically observed them clambering through a hole in a fence).

You may also note that the penalties for breaking the law you've cited include limits on the term of incarceration. So while we hold these people on suspicion of breaking these laws, are we letting them out after 6 months or 2 years? The answer is no.

They have not had their day in court; the US is holding people indefinitely under suspicion of having committed crimes, on purpose, in probable violation of habeas corpus, to maximize people's fear of crossing the US border. It's industrial-scale terror and the US can and should do better.
well firstly, as you said, you've done this without the aid of psychedelics, so I'm not sure it's exactly an answer to my question!

And secondly, well that's not exactly a societal change. Has it made you ready to ditch capitalism?

(edit -- I'm sure your change in mindset is a positive thing, I'm not disputing that. I'm also not disputing that psychedelics can have a profound effect on individuals. But as someone who has used a fairly wide variety of psychedelics over a number of years, I've also experienced and observed that they can induce a false sense of the deeply profound. They do also seem to leave people with this idea they could change the world, but they never really seem to know how)
May I ask the theme out of curiosity? Geography? History?
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This made me contemplate the context of a privacy policy.

Take a look at https://www.fitbit.com/legal/privacy-policy#how-we-use-info (the section on how they use information). Sections in here having a context to Fitbit is very different from those same sections as they relate to Google.
I'm not sure Twitter and Reddit are equivalent here. There are plenty of really great subreddits. It's pretty easy to avoid the ones you don't like. You can stick to a political silo for sure, but also (and more ideally) you can just stick to an interest group that stays on topic but doesn't talk about politics. (if you take this approach, there will be many subreddits that are off limits, but you'll also avoid much outrage and addiction.)

Twitter is much more of a free-for-all. There's a much greater chance of politics and general public reaching you on Twitter.
Probably not. The ban in Turkey dates to 1980, and in Europe to the early 2000s. This technology didn’t really exist back then. Several states that have enacted the ban (Kosovo, Tunisia) don’t have the technology to do this kind of surveillance.
How do you define a "meme language" and why does that follow for rust?
Taking date from 1950 till today for Formula 1 seems to bit a bit biased towards earlier, less safe times.
The post I was replying to was attempting to make a much more general point - I understand the default as applied to Scikit Learn.
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> I decided to look everything up and document it here.

You can be a hero, too! I find this inspiring. It's nice to see such an accessible and pragmatic way of making a contribution to the community. My very first thought on seeing that was "I could do that!"

Thank you.
The climbing is all bunched together! I want to know if it’s mountaineering, alpine Trad climbing, or all climbing that is causing that Tetons figure.

EDIT: I read the source. Looks like mostly mountaineering/unroped accidents. Now I can delude myself again! Use protection!

“TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES OF THE ROUTES
Most climbers were hurt during climbs of lesser difficulty. (Table 3). The category of 5.1 to 5.3 yielded the highest number of accidents, injuries, and fatalities.

CLIMBING EXPERIENCE OF INJURED CLIMBERS
Climbers with less experience appeared to be more frequently involved in accidents than were those with more experience. (It was possible to precisely determine the experience of the climbers in only about 50% of the accidents.) Of those climbers whose experience levels were known, 50% either had no previous climbing experience or less than one year of experience.

...

The errors observed in the rock climbing accidents fell into two categories: seven cases of obvious lack of needed protection, and four cases where a rope should have been used but was not available. In contrast to other climbing areas, little intentional free solo (unroped) climbing was attempted in the Tetons during this study”
It's very much different. Just like Chrome and Chromium are very much different.

Just because it's built on Chromium which means Blink, V8, etc. Doesn't mean that it brings all the baggage that Chrome does with Google's intrusive nature.
As against the populations which are completely rational as determined by whom?
Yes, I gave one to my son when he was 5 years old. He's still playing with it even now he's 10. I bought it used from an eBay seller. They're remarkably physically robust, even after all these years, it's taken plenty of knocks and tumbles. Unlike a tablet or computer, it's also very much offline so we felt completely comfortable letting him use it unattended.
What exactly does DeepMind even do that provides investor ROI? I can't call it a good acquisition.
I disagree. I think the commands are intuitive and work perfectly for the system. It's very expressive, but it all makes sense once you've learned it.

git is a tool. Different tools take different amounts of time to master. People should probably spend some time formally learning git just as one would formally learn a programming language.
If the first man on the moon can feel it[1], anyone can.

1. https://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/160603396711/hi-i-read-t...
How do you know that last part? What was the state of education in Germany at that time? What was considered the qualifications for professorship at that time? How many people of any gender had those qualifications? Do you have any specific knowledge about any of this?
Weird that we're having the same discussion on two different threads, I suppose I started it.

> If by democratic you mean freedom to form outrage mobs then I'd agree, but I don't think that would be a good thing.

I don't think it would be an objectively good thing either. I only think it may be better than the alternative. Given a choice between an authoritarian dictatorship and an authoritarian democracy, I lean toward the latter.

Additionally, I think you may not be giving people enough credit. Devolution of democracy to mob rule is certainly a danger, but I don't know that it's a foregone conclusion. I don't how to go about preserving individual liberty without privacy, but as long as the common man has power it should be possible in theory.
The real genius of git is the clear, concise user interface for that data structure.

(for those with a severe sugar hangover, I'm being a little bit sarcastic)
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Autoland will squawk the emergency code 7700 on the transponder, and announce itself on the emergency frequency 121.5 and the local CTAF (common traffic advisory frequency, IIRC, which coincides with tower frequency if the airport is towered).
It is easy -- tax the pollutants and ban greenwashing marketing/lobbying. I am not the first to propose this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/bxgd5p/single_mo...

The real obstacle is the confusion in the public opinion spurred by big oil marketing and lobbying. It's really hard to find quality information online, but it exists since many years and it's pushed down on purpose by interest groups. Here is an example:

Exxon, a big oil corporation, had accurate predictive models of climate change, agreeing with scientific consensus, already in 1982 and confirmed "it will cause dramatic environmental effects before the year 2050".
https://twitter.com/i/status/1187719206562910209

Shortly after Exxon began to deny global warming and started "greenwashing" marketing campaigns, which today show up directly in the news articles on global warming, e.g., in The New York Times:
https://twitter.com/status/1187435336185581570
Privacy as current corporate strategy is better than nothing, but it's not really good enough when you're talking about health data or other personal data that will still be highly sensitive for many 30-40 years on from now, when the entire board and leadership of the company and market will have changed in unpredictable ways. There's no true solution to long term uncertainty other than confirmed zero knowledge software and/or regulation.