skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Grit: A Protocol for Distributed Transactions Across Microservices
Eh? Twitter for Mac is a Catalyst application that only works on Catalina and newer. It's most likely a bug in Catalyst that's causing it.
That's not sufficient.

Twitter surfaces tweets from people you're not following in their UI. You may get notified, for example, if one of the people you follow interacts with the bot's tweet.
I had No Idea it was installed on my machine! We pay for an Office licence per-seat here and, sure enough, I looked at installed programs and there it was.
My suspicion is that he offered the guards a large financial sum (to be paid off by whoever is handling his money) to 'look the other way' for a few hours.

Or maybe some very important sources paid the guards to do the same.

This way 'thing handled themselves' while nobody had to do anything dire and the guards could simply claim incompetence.
What Ban Ki-Moon is quoted as saying in that article just amounts to Catalonia not being on the UN's list of Non-Self-Governing Territories ( https://www.un.org/dppa/decolonization/en/nsgt ) That does not mean the right to self-determination does not apply, just that the UN doesn't literally consider Catalonia to be a Spanish colony.
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Better headline: Cognitive Decline Prompts Earlier Retirement
Putting it on a blockchain doesn't magically remove responsibility. Twitter would still likely end up hosting that blockchain, since nobody else is going to foot that cost, and then they would still have fully responsibility over it.

If they just want to decentralize & use peer-to-peer instead they could also do that, and a blockchain still wouldn't be a useful aspect there. That's just a mailing list.
Probably. But likely a smaller can of worms than allowing political ads.
No. That's a false wrapper around "lack of freedom" trying to make it look like freedom.

The politicians are free to have independentist ideology, and they can put it into their political program. But if they try to execute some pro-independence laws, they are blocked by the overuse of judiciary system in Spain and threatened (or punished).

So yes, the Catalan independentists are there for their ideas. Carme Forcadell is going to spend 10 years in jail while the rest of the table members of the parliament are being accused of disobedience [1]. Other Catalan politicians have seen reduced the accusations because they abandoned politics (Mundo or Santi Vila[2]).

> This takedown was to an app that was used to organize a blockage of a major airport. I do not agree with the takedown, but I do not think it's such a clear cut that it's 'freedom of expression'.

It's the right to protest.

[1] https://www.ccma.cat/324/el-suprem-jutjara-el-govern-puigdem...
[2] https://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20191014/47901534881/c...
It's sad to see people you love doing this. You cannot equate retirement with not working. Work in things that you do enjoy and always wanted but didn't have the time, or get a hobby.
It wouldn't be hard to destroy a modern ICE vehicle with incorrect software mods. ABS, fuel injection, ignition, transmission shifting, etc. are all computer-controlled...

It is interesting how Tesla is apparently issuing updates over the air, where the important firmware in ICE cars is more-or-less left unchanged after manufacturing.
Very many constitutions are actually silent on secession.

I am from Australia. To my best recollection, Australia's constitution never mentions the topic of secession, neither positively or negatively. But, territories of Australia have become independent before. Same is true of United States.

But, some will say a territory is not fully integrated, unlike a state or province, and a state or province would be different.

People say the US constitution doesn't allow secession of a state (as opposed to a territory) without a constitutional amendment. Not directly, but indirectly it does:

1. It is accepted that a territory (as opposed to a state) can secede and become a new country with consent of Congress

2. The US constitution allows a state to surrender some of its territory to the federal government (most obvious case is District of Columbia, but actually a lot of the Midwestern states were formed out of territory originally surrendered by the Eastern states which used to be a lot bigger than they are now)

3. So, a state wishes to secede could surrender all its territory to the federal government, and then Congress allows that territory to become independent.

Objection: States can only surrender some of their territory, not all of it.

Reply: Even if that is true, there is a workaround. Two states are allowed to merge with consent of Congress and their state legislatures. So, seceding state could merge into a neighbouring state, and then the new state would surrender the former territory of the seceding state to the federal government, and then Congress would grant that federal territory independence. (This would of course require the cooperation of a neighbouring state, which might be thought unlikely, but maybe not impossible – the neighbouring state might be pleased to see the seceding state go; the seceding state might sweeten the deal somehow by letting the neighbouring state keep part of its territory.)

Of course, the US Supreme Court might decide this is against the "spirit" of the US constitution. But they aren't compelled to conclude that it is against the letter. Strict constructionism would suggest this would be constitutional.
I worked many years in particle physics. It is coordinated within each experiment. You can’t just publish as a lot of people stand behind the work there must be consensus. There are abundances of physics sub groups, article review boards, research strategies, etc.q
That was my impression as well. It was interesting to see Jack answer and then have the legal council (?) amend Jack's answers or push them in a specific direction. It's very clear that there is a mismatch between what Jack wants, what Twitter shareholders want, and what Twitter's activist pseudo-employee contingent wants.
Hard working banker?
Uh, not so fast. My state as well as others do not permit any drone within state parks and some exclude most public areas. So while you might slip under a Federal Law don't assume the state just doesn't have a blanket restriction.
artificially setting limits like that is a poor solution, especially when you're depending on police enforcement to ensure compliance.

a better solution is narrowing lanes (to 9-10 ft), and possibly installing bollards everywhere, because that internalizes the costs of collision (car gets wrecked and you get hurt in addition to pedestrians), so drivers naturally self-regulate driving behavior for safety (rather than the secondary measure, speed). you also don't need an external police force and it's attendant costs, both financially and societally, for enforcement.
While I don't really use Access, I think there's a LOT of power there, even as a basic front end to any other ODBC capable database. And while I'd probably reach for SQLite over Access, there's a lot there to really like.

In the end, it's relatively easy to get started with. As TFA mentions, it's really a great option for Power users. A relatively skilled business person can get up to speed with it quickly enough extending from Excel knowledge.
Most social networks already have to decide what counts as "adult" content, which has just as much gray area as what counts as "political".
Twitter Is Banning Political Ads
> among adults over the age of 60

This study has a different definition of "early retirement" than I do. I don't think the conclusions are applicable to FIRE people planning to retire in their thirties.
How do you separate this from the surely non zero "cognitive decline causes early retirement" effect?
What exactly is the advantage of reaching a cash neutral position? If you are a company that can reliably do that does that mean you no longer have to grow — since your investors are primarily attracted to a reliably stable ability to generate dividends?
Yeah but faking footage of nobody entering the cell is waaaay easier than faking footage of a suicide.
A lot of social networks will crawl pages for content.

For example, Facebook crawls links sent in messenger. [0]

No source, but I believe the major advertising platforms, e.g. Google Ads are doing this today to check for banned content.

Facebook could build a heuristic of banned pages & not allow ads to be published. Humans could manually verify things at the edges.

There is a whole industry called link cloaking, that shows the crawlers a sanitized page, and the human targets the actual landing page.

It's a cat & mouse game between ad publishers & blackhats, often times foreign nationals outside of US jurisdiction.

I'm trying to think through the scenarios where a political campaign might use blackhat techniques to subvert verification crawls, and it's not clear that it would stop all cases, but I believe it would stop most.

Political campaigns could use the Facebook accounts & payment information of foreign nationals to temporarily push ads until they were reported - would the liability of blowback be enough to prevent it?

[0] https://twitter.com/vah_13/status/1187755829371555840
Many (maybe most) of us in the West thought that about China. And Russia for that matter. The fact that that's not coming to fruition has been one of the biggest mental shifts in my understanding of the world in the past few years.
There are a lot of baltantly false ads on TV, and have been for decades.

Remember "this is your brain on drugs"? Or how about the "drugs fund terrorism" super bowl ads? That was a blatantly false campaign designed primarily not to discourage drug use, but to make it difficult for mainstream organizations and their people from supporting drug policy reform.

Isn't every Volkswagen ad which touted fuel economy in their diesel vehicles essentially a blatantly false ad on the issue of climate change and carbon use?

Many pharmaceutical ads have some blatantly false messaging, whether overt or not, and all of them carry the same political message: that the current system of regulation and intellectual property around drugs is healthy for people.

TV is overrun by blatantly false ads that, once you think about it, have an unambiguously political component.
Twitter has been famously hugely toxic to humanity and democracy for years, and that was strictly on the non-ads side of content, and Dorsey has refused to do anything about it because he craves those engagement numbers. Paid ads are a sideshow distraction.
Those are a civil rights group and a health care provider. If your politics are opposed to civil rights or health care then you may consider them "political" but they aren't. Not by any reasonable definition.
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> That's gotta be a lot of money they're leaving on the table, no?

OTOH, it means political messaging on the platform will be entirely controlled by how the firm manages the organic newsfeed, which even if in theory it is subject to election and campaign finance laws, there is very little regulatory experience or direct case law on. Shutting out official ads actually magnifies managements freedom to shape the political narrative and the relative power of illegal influence operations.

And non-obvious astroturf probably is better for engagement on the platform than overt political ads.
If AirTable worked offline it could stage a little incursion into this space.
> Thanks for your reply, as well.

I'm glad we're still going deep down in this comment thread
after everyone else has gone home.

> > If you know that a field of a data type is going to be unused you can fill it in with an `error`

> I don’t want to fill anything in.

You don't have to! I said as much a couple of comments back
"You can even omit the field entirely!". I gave a code
example demonstrating that.

Anyway, (what I assume to be) your larger point still
stands, i.e. that you don't even want to have to define the
data type upfront.

I'm a huge fan of Rich Hickey's talks "Simple Made Easy",
"Are We There Yet?", etc.. Haskell is such a good
implementation of his philosphy yet he doesn't seem to
realise it. Clojure fans are some of the most vociferously
opposed to Haskell.
Even in Unicode-aware applications, it is generally not that useful to segment just by codepoint, you more often really want to segment by extended grapheme cluster.
I suppose recommendation algorithms may keep people glued to entertainment more vigilantly than before, and filter bubbles can create big gaps between two people’s viewpoints who might have had more in common pre-news feed. That’s my guess...
This is exactly what she’s doing. I don’t understand why, but she seems to love controversy and has a very high opinion of herself. She’s clearly not stupid, but it is so tiresome.
It s certainly not worth the risk of being regulated post-election. It's a good decision and FB should do the same.
Nah, Corinth was considered important too, but Sparta is much better known in the modern world.

And Plato is pretty important here. Sparta gets relatively high praise in the Republic which is probably one of the more influential books from its era. Platonism's enormous influence on Christianity ensured that this praise would remain relevant even into the modern era.
And where HN has paid, full-time mods. dang and sctb. Even just for the brand recognition!
Access also makes for a decent CRUD admin interface for any ODBC database, SQL or otherwise.
Which makes things dicey for retirees with post-polio syndrome. Moving keeps them mentally sharp, but also speeds post-polio progression (as I understand it).
If you have that large of a stock, you could corner the market. Undercut the competition slowly, until they all go bust. Once the mining infrastructure is left in ruin, raise prices to whatever you want. It will take a while for the competition to re-mobilize the infrastructure to compete.

Not the most ethical business plan, mind you....
The article even lists them and their corporate pedigrees.
I don't mean to be rude, but your living grandfather is very fortunate. Your deceased grandfather lived an average lifespan for someone in most of the developed world. I don't know ... a great deal about the background of your anecdote, but I would hesitate to overextrapolate, though. Sometimes the lack of activity is the manifestation of the underlying health issue that contributes to mortality.
Forms over linked tables from MySQL or Oracle are a perfect use case for Access even in 2019. Initial setup is messy but it can be automated for end users.
They also say that they don't want money to be giving uneven power to politicians, but that's totally happening without ads.
> whoever controls the money flow, ultimately controls the people, and can shut down any activity they desire

I never said this...
"I'd be interested in learning about what techniques they use"

I suppose it is mostly about connections with people in newspapers etc. and collecting favors from them.
My experience with both my parents was "I retired and I don't want to use my brain anymore," and they have both definitely experienced decline since retirement. Some of my friends' parents, however, have adopted more of a "I'm retired and now I can dedicate all my brainpower to these special projects I've always wanted to focus my energy on." These people have mostly declined not at all or very little. I think the answer is not to retire and go rot in a chair while taking 5 naps a day.
> You say that like bazel hasn't already been proven out on a few billion LoC

Gradle is in use on a couple billion LoC and still sucks.

Bazel is like so many other tools--it works great if it owns everything, but when it has to cooperate, it falls down hard.
Their heart's in the right place, but mechanically, doesn't this shift the money from "pay for an ad on Twitter" to "pay for a bot farm / human clickfarm to like and reshare the tweet?"

Twitter's engagement model (popularity ∝ importance) is still flawed in gameable ways, and political operations have the money to pay to play those games.
It will be very hard to draw the line between political messages and everything else. Many areas of the market are almost impossible to make non-political ads in (fossil fuels, health insurance, ...)
The title is kind of misleading, in fact the article's second last paragraph ends with: "Or alternatively, the kinds of things that matter and determine better health might simply be very different than the kinds of things that matter for better cognition among the elderly. Social engagement and connectedness may simply be the single most powerful factors for cognitive performance in old age."

Point being: if you're wealthy enough you should care more about spending time with the people you love than how long it takes you to solve a Sudoku.
In the US there's no prohibition on modifying car software that all by itself. In the US you can do so without copyright risks.

IMO (not a lawyer) the result is what the legal question would be. If you modified your car and it started pumping out emissions that would be otherwise illegal I'd be a bit concerned about that.
I wasn't claiming that UGB were a solution, only that they are an indication that the tide is beginning to change. For the record, over half of the other issues you've raised have been, or are in the process of being, addressed in my current city.
Why indeed ...
Neither is living in a crowded urban area or riding bikes.

But OK let's not nitpick, I'm not talking about only regarding CO2, it was just an example of something that is relevant these days for a lot of people.

My point is that would be interesting to study this as matter of what kind of life would be better, given different metrics.
I think that Open/Libre-Office have options for this. You can also use Access as a front end for another db (odbc) backend pretty easily.

I'd probably do a web app myself, but that's just me. I know a lot of people that cut their programming teeth on Access apps, including distributed ones.
Show HN: Mediakito – Resume for Your Website
Bingo. It shines as a UI over linked tables.
Hey,

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There are no similar tools on the market, people are building Media Kits from scratch or buy templates which are difficult to edit.

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Pierre Bourdieu would put into perspective notions of work/activity and retirement.

So he was interviewing if I recall people from North Africa, some were used to western industrial work and others not. (He wasn’t aware of that yet)

He asked them if they worked lately. Those who knew industrial work said no or partly and the others yes.

He asked both groups what they did during their typical working days.
The « no/partly group » described some kind of chain/industrial work and unemployment traps.

The « yes/busy group » said their typical work day was to discuss with their wives during 2 or 3 hours, attend and assist in solving the disagreements between neighbours in the public place of the village... etc.

Taking care of their animals and fields was not that time consuming or exhausting (subsistence agriculture).

In western societies, most of the socialisation and interactions happen in the work and professional environment.
So what would one expect from « retirement »?
i understood every word
Wait, both referendums (November 9th and October 1st) had +80% independence support. I am not sure why you would use them to make the opposite point?
Do you exercise? Lifting weights regularly (3 x week) and getting some light cardio every day will help keep your body strong into your retirement. It dramatically reduces the chance of getting injured by a fall and will keep you healthly and happy longer.

I'm approaching 40 and have built it into my schedule after several years of doing little and I'm feeling great for it. Next year we're moving to a large house and I'm going to have a small gym in the garage so I can keep to a tight schedule (I miss too much training because of having young kids).
> I feel like "bad faith" is now a thought-terminating cliche. As long as people can suggest someone is acting in "bad faith" (maybe doing a "Gish Gallop", a "false equivalence" or even just "motivated reasoning") then they can instantly ignore everything they've said.

The problem is that many people do argue in bad faith. Sure, in some cases it can be difficult to prove—although not in this particular case—and recognizing that fact prevents you from wasting your time in pointless discussions. Even if you have unlimited time to spend arguing with people on the internet, surely you'd want to spend that time having an honest conversation, right?
> one could imagine a hack of defining political ads as "anything that would need to be reported to the FEC as an expenditure."

That misses a whole bunch of political advertising. Most of it, I'd wager.
Thanks for the response. I suppose my biggest question is not how I can store private data (I can just make it inaccessible via the right rules). But, it seems like I am then layering my own ACL system onto those rules. And, I never got a sense there was an easy way to write a test that simulated my rules against my data and made sure I was not accidentally creating a leaky rule.

In so many ways it is SO much easier to use Firebase because all the pieces are right there as compared to a DB + Server + Front End + Tooling. But, I still always worried that I would somehow leave a gaping hole in my data and not know about it.

And, I was never really sure how I can easily do joins across data without writing my own bespoke metalanguage inside Firebase. A link posted today on HN talked about XML does turn out to be good for nested data (hence the reason it is used for UIs), and it feels like Firebase being more or less JSON loses in this respect.

That's just my experiences, and I say that loving Firebase.

Those two examples made me think: Firebase removes a lot of complexity for me, but it forces me to write my own layer of complex access and DB logic which I never felt fully qualified to do, and as such, just went back to using databases with an ORM and a backend server.
Warehousing/Distribution industry without budgets for proper ERPs or inventory management.