skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spanish opponents of Catalan independence repeatedly use the argument "Our constitution doesn't allow a part of our country to become independent; but in that regard our constitution is no different from those of many other countries".

So the question of what other countries' constitutions allow is relevant to the debate.

And the comment I was initially responding to was suggesting that the UK could only allow Scotland the choice of independence because it has an unwritten constitution. Explaining how other country's written constitutions could allow grants of independence to parts of the country is a relevant response.
As someone who's been following the Epstein case for some time and having seen different communities deal with it, I think in the case of Gates a lot of people really looked up to him and refuse to believe that he would do this. There are even comments in this thread about it not being Gates' style.

When you look at the whole Epstein story, the people and the patterns, it's pretty clear that Gates was in a very questionable relationship with Epstein. The MIT donations, the senior Gates employee being the executor of Epstein's will, Gates' denials of knowing Epstein before the NYT article hit and his failure to address his flights with Epstein and meetings at his houses, Gates' email to staff about meeting with Epstein and a "beautiful Swedish woman and her 15 year old daughter, late into the night"...

With Gates in particular a lot of people seem willfully ignorant or have a strong desire not to dig deeper. It was a the same with Matt Gronenig. Prince Andrew, Dershkowitz, Wexner... I think every assumes the worst there but a lot of people are struggling to digest their actual heroes turning out to be much less than they thought.
Arguably the problem is that the limits on contributions to candidates and parties puts them at a specific disadvantage. PACs and advocacy-as-journalism partly exists because political parties are restricted while relatively unaccountable organizations are not.
>> "Prior to the junction, you move into the center of the lane corresponding to your intended direction

> You assumed that there are multiple lanes.

No, I didn't. If there's a single lane, then you ride in the center of it. If there are multiple lanes, then you use the leftmost lane for a left turn, the rightmost lane for a right turn, and the lane in the middle for going straight.

> I read that as "ride in the same lane as the cars, but pass them on their left".

By ride in the same lane, I mean in serial (one after the other), not parallel (two vehicles besides each other). So, if the car ahead of you is turning right, you would end up passing them on their left as they leave the lane to proceed onto the intersecting road. If the car is behind you, they would simply make the right turn behind you while you're traversing the junction. Under no circumstance would a car be parallel to you on your left and take a right turn while crossing your path straight through the junction.

> I still think that's way scarier than the Dutch approach where nobody needs eyes in their back to detect each other,

No one needs that. That's why vehicles are equipped with mirrors and why it's illegal to turn from a lane that's not the left or right most lane (other than dual turn lanes).

> Having separate cycle lanes, as this will, also solves the "driver education states that drivers must make their turns as close to the edge of the road/curb as practicable" problem.

Drivers already do that. Normally the right most lane is considered as far right as practicable for the purpose of making a right turn, but putting cycle lanes to the right of right turning traffic actually causes the turning conflict problem.

> It won't solve the problem of "cyclist is traveling at about 16 feet per second", but those cyclists, IMO, are suicidal,

16 feet per second is about 10 mph which is about 16 km/h. I don't think that's a suicidal speed and is actually relatively slow from a transportation point of view. My own bicycle commute is about 15 miles (24 km) long and I average about 11 mph (18 km/h). If I only rode at a speed less than 16 km/h, I would not be able to complete the commute in a reasonable period of time.

On the road itself, it's quite safe to traverse junctions at 25 mph (40 km/h).
Does scripts count?

I have a Google Script, which adds a new row everday at 2am with blank fields for me to put time in & out in timesheet. Same script generates a pdf every month & puts it in my gmail draft.

Another one auto downloads all the changed repos from my gitlab & guthub.
Already against the TOS, and they already do that.
The people he had dirt on may not be the same people that would assassinate him. If the honeypot theory is true, then exposing those people doesn't serve the purpose, but it also wouldn't be much of a problem. What's more problematic is the information that only Epstein had and could testify to.

Also, from Epsteins perspective, actually having a dead man switch versus just letting people assume he has one has exactly the same impact.

So why bother setting one up? If the switch goes off, he will be dead, perhaps there will be retaliation against relatives. How would he benefit?
Native portuguese here. the confusion may arise from uncommon usage of the word. the word "reter" (portuguese for retain) can also mean "preservar" (preserve), but is more commonly used in a judicial setting. ex: An ISP is ordered to keep logs that would otherwise could be deleted at some point in time

The contents seem pretty clear to me. An investigation is undergoing, the spanish law that makes mandatory keeping logs (also exist in Portugal, 6 months min.) is referred and github.com was asked to keep this data.
I only do this as so far as to run kubernetes on them - I use kubeadm and kubectl. I even made a github project for the most repetitive usecases: https://sanic.io

If I had to start a few thousand servers I'd just use terraform or fabric (https://www.fabfile.org/index.html)
Thank you man!

Yes, it's crazy how fast things change in this space. I still use a Nexus 5X (running Maru of course) as my daily driver, but by today's standards it is ancient. It is a challenge to keep up with the new hardware when you are not a fan of the "let's just buy a new phone every 2 years" mentality. But that's just the way the market rolls right now and we've got to cope with it.

I must say that being at the mercy of so many moving targets makes me nervous sometimes because you never know when Google or some phone manufacturer is going to pull the rug under you. It is already a challenge to keep porting Maru to the latest Android version since the internal APIs can change a lot. To combat this, we are stringent about keeping our modifications to the bare minimum; of course we want to provide a good experience though, and we have to think hard about whether the maintenance burden of a feature is worth it. If we owned more of the stack, we could likely do a lot more without fear of future breakage nightmares. But the truth is, it was only because we could piggyback off of Android and commodity phones that we were able to get Maru built with minimal investment.

That being said, we are continuing to improve our process so we can support the latest and greatest phones since our current velocity is frankly way too slow. We've been investing in automation a lot (continuous builds, documentation, etc.) to free up cycles. Another thing is, we are open-source, and I think the critical factor to boost Maru's velocity is making sure our developer community has the knowledge, support, and tooling to pitch in without fear. Crowdsourcing the development effort is the only way we can keep up in the long run!
No, they still have to provide it on request.
Ditto. I just did a project upgrading hosted websites to the latest PHP from PHP 5.6. These are already sites that vetted past the obvious issues of the mysql and mcrypt APIs going away, and these sites were all maintained in at least the last 4 years (I host sites that haven't been touched for over a decade, they aren't getting upgrades).

Even with these "cherry picked sites", we had about a 30% failure rate dealing with the new PHP. Ranging from total non-function of some random CMS, to mostly errors printing all over every page due to some deprecated or change of code behavior in the site templates.
Just for the sake of redundancy:

Python 2.7 is not getting any kind of updates including security and bugfixes.
Also see: Eternal September[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Agree, but at least now the “game” has viewpoint-neutral rules.
> The same technology that we first developed for those expensive colliders is now used in MRI and others diagnosis tools that we have for granted today.

The question is, how much better would "MRI and other diagnosis tools" if that money had been spent actively trying to improve them instead of mostly going to detecting gravity waves? That's the question you need to answer to justify spending billions chasing physicists latest "fetish".

"Big physics" proponents always justify wasting (in my opinion) billions in colliders and observers by the unintended benefits that accidentally derive from them but they never mention how much more progress those other ares could make by directly using that money.Instead of spending $40B in the next big collider, what if we were spent developing CRISPR and related technologies? Or on a "moon-shot" for AGI? On developing new tools and techniques to study and understand large scale social systems?

P.S.: I have a BS/MS/PhD in Theoretical Physics
unless you live in a country where speeding isnt common place ;) in Aus, atleast where i am, most people stick absolutely on the speedlimit.
Arguments about whether Twitter is subject to FoS aside; censorship would entail deleting tweets, not rejecting adverts.

Speech is not reach. Freedom of Speech is not the right to be heard, it is the right to speak your mind. If people decide to not listen to what you say (followers), you have no right to force them to (adverts).
Anyone that checks out historical records will discover that there was no Inquisition in most of Europe. Also, they will discover that, after generations of increasingly vicious oppression — including conversion to Christianity at the point of a sword, kidnapping of the Moors' children, (the same genocidal practice used in the Indian School system in the US) — hundreds of thousands of Moors and Jews fled or were expelled, and that only tens of thousands returned.

Anyone that checks out historical records will also discover that the Moors and Jews represented a significant percentage of the population of Iberia before the expulsions, around half a million people out of a total of less than 9 million.

Furthermore, anyone that checks out historical records will discover that the Jewish ghettos were in fact established by Isabel and Ferdinand, the monarchs who also established the Inquisition and, a few years later, expelled the hundreds of thousands of Jewish people and Moors from their lands.

One of the few true statements in your comment is that many empires, not only the Spanish Empire, have been founded on genocide. Among the other abuses of human rights the Spanish Empire also practiced, an abuse which facilitated that genocide, was state censorship.

We should practice neither of these abuses. Do you disagree?
If you promise to chop down all forests but are fine with trees, yes.
I think this was the most effective strategy in the board game pandemic (or video game Plague Inc)
You're right. They are used to it.

They're also used to preventing suicides.

There has only been one other successful suicide in that facility in the four decades it has existed.

Why now? Coincidence?
Very good point. I'm so annoyed by the tech world's tendency to fall into the "winner take all" phenomenon that happens, and how this gradually chips away at the rights of users in very subtle ways. Case in point is Chrome, and how much power it has over the direction of the web now - leading towards a walled garden web.
> The moment we added JSON schema

There is an amazing JSON schema syntax out there, 100% better than the official one. It is called TypeScript, and I am sad that the TS compiler can't be made to pop out JSON validators (their philosophy being nothing at all runtime).

There is a project (I forget its name) that will insert itself into your build steps and use TS type definitions to validate JSON.

Seriously the TS syntax is great, why is anything else being used to write a schema?

The only thing I'd add to the TS syntax is the proposals to add field validation using regexs, or some type of field name validation format. There are times when TS can't model my JS objects, e.g. I have a bunch of GUID field names that map to objects of a certain type, and I have some other field names that are 100% not GUIDs, I promise, mapping to some other stuff.
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"Political advertising" may be limited to advertising that is bought for by political campaigns and PACs, which they have a previously defined policy for:

https://business.twitter.com/en/help/ads-policies/restricted...

> The policy varies across markets but generally applies to ads that advocate for or against a candidate or political party, or ads by candidates and/or entities registered with their respective electoral commission.

edit: as u/ben509 pointed out, the above link only refers to political campaigns. Here's the link that defines "political content" as both campaigns and issue advocacy (at least in the U.S.)

https://business.twitter.com/en/help/ads-policies/restricted...
I love it when people make the point you're responding to.

> Everyone knows the first amendment applies to governments only.

You say that, and yet …

"@jack .Something smell really"fishy here".I don't agree with. I don't get it.Hidden socialism in plain sight.Chaos & Anarchy .Blasting the first amendment .This declaration remind me of the Russia ,Cuban revolution .A cruel dictatorship Socialism/Communism . Extremely dangerous !" https://twitter.com/albertobmas/status/1189659185258147841

"It's a sad day for the First Amendment, but a long awaited confirmation of the stupidity of the masses!" https://twitter.com/DoogieFrasier/status/1189644420121055232

"Right. Sure. We all believe this one. Aside from being against the First Amendment, no one can possibly be stupid enough to believe Twitter will stop pushing the leftist agenda. Only those with an R or conservative leaning will be stopped. Yawn" https://twitter.com/SharonRaeL/status/1189641756947746819

"'We need more regulation of advertising.' @jack can I introduce you to the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States?" https://twitter.com/brianfrobbins/status/1189641373055668226

"And who decides that the political advertising is earned? and isn’t this a violation of the first amendment rights? And what is the process for earning said right which is enshrined in the Constitution to advertise their beliefs or interpretation of fact? @tedcruz @realDonaldTrump" https://twitter.com/TheMightyMacky/status/118963820772345446...

"@jack just took away our 1st amendment rights!" https://twitter.com/AbrahamHershfie/status/11896409454127841...

"Oh wow mr hi horse. Such a great platform. Ok for some ppl to call others pieces of shit but some get banned! 1st amendment jack" https://twitter.com/surfdadRED/status/1189656480062099457

If you mention the first amendment in the context of a private organization and you don't explicitly note that you understand that it doesn't technically apply in this situation, I'm going to associate your argument with the arguments of the people quoted above.
It's been defined here:

https://business.twitter.com/en/help/ads-policies/restricted...

edit: This is a better link, as it defines the more general term of "political content", which covers both campaigns and issue advocacy:

https://business.twitter.com/en/help/ads-policies/restricted...
I think Access is more like Paradox, with code and data bundled together (for better or worse), rather than numerous PRG, DBF and index files that have to be “deployed” together.

Yeah, I did a lot of dBase / Clipper back in the mid 80s for rent money while I was in college. Liked the ease of use, but index corruption on a multi user network killed it off. And you have to write code, vs allowing users to accrete stuff on the screen with a GUI.
Read "Catch and Kill" by Ronan Farrow, regarding his experience with Weinstein's campaign against the publication of his crimes. It's exactly what you're asking for (the title is the technique's name), It's also a rather entertaining read.
> so you end up weaving among cars that do not give one crap about your safety

Well it's not really possible for cars to give a crap. It's the drivers we need to point out here. And drivers are people. People who are literally okay with other humans dying from the one tonne machines they drive around at high momentum and with recklessly little attention (texting, etc.)

This behaviour should be rightfully vilified as psychotic, rather than normalised through statements about "cars". The media almost always uses language that absolves humans of their chosen actions that lead to tragic incidents.
Are you literally arguing that both the Spanish native speaker who made the translation as well as the Spanish native speaker who wrote the "explanatory letter" got the meaning of a Spanish word wrong? :/
Pretty blog, but though the title suggests some "insight"
into binary search, there is not more than what would be taught in the first two weeks of an undergrad CS curriculum.
I'm familiar with NVC and I think it's an excellent framework for communicating about performance related matters in the workplace. Glad you brought it up!
I don't miss the days when you had to physically send a paper form with a cheque or postal order, go to a bank, wait 28 days for things to be delivered, stand in line at a post office, or phone someone up to get mundane stuff done. Can you imagine sorting out car insurance quotes or booking flights/hotels or doing your tax return without the internet? What a ballache!

The modern internet has been utterly transformative and has made modern life so much easier and simpler. Don't forget about all the useful things you take for granted now that weren't possible then because the internet wasn't commercialised at the time.

The old internet is still there, some if it actually physically still there - i.e. still on the server/URL it was on back in the day (I find this kinda cool in a way - these sort of mary-celeste servers ticking away somewhere, untouched for 20 years but someone still cares enough to pay to keep it running).

Perhaps less people make their own websites these days, but there is still a thriving and still-as-useless ("not much yet - check back soon!") collection of random personal websites on dat, gopher and ipfs. Stumbling onto these things or hearing about them via word of mouth/keyboard was always part of the joy of 90s internet.
You might be interested in the investigation into the death of Sandra Bland, which also found a disturbing number of things going wrong in the Texas jail system. Or probably any other investigation into any jail/prison in the US. A guy died of dehydration in a county jail in Washington. How ridiculous does that sound? (Keaton Farris, if you want to read more about it).
This level of pedantry drives me up the wall. Not everything needs to be invented from first principles.

Profile ads are banned, yes, because they involve teh candidates. Policy ads are banned because they again involve politics.

We can start anywhere! Let's say 'nothing from any entity that receives money from a political party'. Or 'anything mentioning election candidates'. Or 'anything with certain keywords in it'.

What you're not stopping to ask yourself is 'who are the kinds of people that need to advertise about politics'? Yep, exactly the kinds of dickheads you don't want polluting our information streams with their bullshit. Out with all of them!
Love the idea. Totally understand the business use case. Not in love with the pricing.

Feels like paying $49/mo is too high for a marketer to try out, but too low for the fact you can run an effective DDoS of some sites with it

I'd suggest changing the buckets - up to 10 monitored pages on free, a Silver Tier of maybe $29/mo of up to 100 pages + frequency of as low as hourly, a Gold Tier of maybe $99/mo of up to 1000 pages w/ minute frequency, Zapier integration, better support, etc, and then a call-for-quote tier like you already have
It's possible to argue about this endlessly from a theoretical perspective, but Nim is not a new language, there are substantial code bases (not as substantial as C, Java or Python, of course, but still substantial), and these rules have been worked out through real world cases, and are very effective in practice.

From a theoretical perspective, your argument can equally be applied to C's case sensitivity or Pascal's case insensitivity when someone "doesn't know" or "forgets" about the equivalece - isn't it absurd that FOO and foo are different (C) / equivalent (Pascal) when you are coming from the other one? Similarly, Lisp-1 vs. Lisp-2 . In practice, it's just one more convention -- among several others.

The motivation is not to get rid of __unwanted___crap___ (nim bans multiple sequential underscores and leading underscores, so they are rid of), but rather: Nim arguably has the best built-in FFI of any modern language with nontrivial use, and this FFI has been a factor in the language design. Nim's rules allow you to keep a mostly uniform coding style in _your_ parts, yet integrate it naturally into projects using snake_case, CamelCase, javaCase and ALLCAPSCASE and SHOUTING_MATCH_CASE, or all of the above in the same project.

Nim started out case-insensitive (which is less popular, but definitely common choice made e.g. by Pascal, Excel and others). IIRC, the "first letter's case does matter" is a relatively recent addition (as in, 2 years out of the project's 9) to simplify FFI to conventions like OpenGL, which have the same identifier in both lower or upper case.

In theory, everything could go wrong. In practice, Nim gets it exceptionally right.
TV and print outlets already exercise discretion on what they allow. Are you under the impression that they do not?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/business/media/cnn-trump-...
That’s fascinating, thanks for the google prompts.
What does that say about heavy Internet users and how they're going to age?
The Vexed Meaning of Equality in Gilded Age America
I don't want to suggest I'm diagnosing anything, but my Mum taught some computer use as a high school teacher. She ran a computerisation project as school librarian. In retirement she did computer courses and helped w charity at which she used computers often. Then she started having to write down sequences of instructions for relatively basic things (like 'cut&paste an image into an email') to the point of not being able to do basics. By this stage, frustratingly, one could try and teach here very basic things and it was like she had no short term memory at all. She'd go along with things, make the right noises as if she were taking things in, do things as you talked her through it. Then you'd say "right, now try by yourself" and she'd just be lost and not know where to start. The year after (about 4 years ago) she had a mental health crisis, and was diagnosed with vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease (I realise now, her dad had Alzheimer's too).

This progression took about 12 years.
For an example screenshot of the Lilith debugger, have a look at this: http://www.ethistory.ethz.ch/rueckblicke/departemente/dinfk/...
Based on what he said, I don't think any of those will be blocked. It sounds like it's talking about campaign ads specifically, whether that's for people or issues.

I'm sure it will be better defined in the final policy.
In California, and probably the rest of the Nation, just carrying a gun during a robbery makes it an "armed robbery." (And for good reason, too.)