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In the French section, in the picture, the Greek and French in the two signs
on the left that are the easiest to read say:

ΜΕΓΑΛΗ ΑΠΟΘΗΚΗ ΕΠΙΠΛΩΝ Κ. ΦΙΛΙΠΠΑΚΗΣ

GRAND DEPOT DE MEUBLES C. PHILIPPAKIS

Which translates in English as: Big furniture warehouse C. Filippakis (judging
from the abbreviation's translation in French, C may stand for Constantinos).

ΞΕΝΟΔΟΧΕΙΟΝ ΕΣΚΗ ΣΕΙΡ ΓΚΤΑΒΤΖΙΑΝ

Which is: Eskişehir Hotel G. K. Tabtzian (it's unlikely the owner of the hotel
was called Gktabtzian so the first two letters are probably his and his father's
names' initials). It's interesting that the way the name of the hotel is
written sounds as "Se-eer" in Greek, whereas in modern Greek Eskişehir is
pronounced as "Eskee Seh-eer" with a strong "h". I'm guessing the correct
Turkish pronounciation is the one on the 1901 sign.

Another sign on the right has the name "ΚΥΡ. ΒΟΣΝΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ" (Kyr. Vosnopoulos,
Kyr. being probably short for Kyriakos, a common Greek name) and some other
text that I can't read and that also seems to be in two languages.

There's a third sign on the same side I can't read and that also seems to be
in Greek and another language.

Btw the street is Youksek-Kaldirim. You can find it on Google maps. I had a
look on street view and there is something that looks a lot like the ironwork
supports of the mashrabiya behind the Philippakis sign:

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.024158,28.9750783,3a,75y,344...

(The mashrabyia is that thing that looks like a protruding window).

Perhaps all that's left now from the Tabtzian hotel.
I think it would be wonderful if people abandon Windows for alternatives but that won't happen. People are somehow utterly enthralled by that crapware.
The first an article about this article appeared, they had changed the button name.
I've recently setuped another Windows, Pro edition, and they did revert the button name to "Or make an offline account".
This button is available when they ask you to connect or create a microsoft account in the setup.
You pay for those building regulations in the form of the tax revenue required to pay that official, along with the system that enforces it. I agree with you that it's money well spent.
You should check out the facebook groups, they are quite real and it's fascinating to observe. They basically never use any privacy settings so you can check out their personal pages and see them vehemently arguing with family and friends claiming all kinds of conspiracy stuff (Venn diagram overlapping with chemtrails and Illuminati blah blah). At the far end of that insanity you have groups like https://reddit.com/r/LEVELMANIA/

I've seen one guy argue that the sun is created and operated by NASA, and then there are the people who insist you can live from staring at the sun. Even a (quite nutty) friend of a friend claims to do this, someone I've personally spoken to and must unfortunately confirm is that dumb. He has 3 kids and is highly political, votes every time.
I have an entire apartment floor but with small balconies so not much sunlight. Did you catalog your journey somewhere? I'd like to grow beets carrot and tomato (cabbage bonus)
Great to see someone with experience with Solid. I have few questions, maybe you can answer.

I saw on your blog about wiki data model example. Let's say you built a Solid app around that one. Put on a website like superwiki.com, allowing users to create their wiki pages.

Now then later, wikipedia came to scene, published another data model, and made another Solid app, put on wikipedia.org.

- How will I move let's say my data from superwiki to wikipedia?
- Does wikipedia then have to somehow implement some import functionality?
- Or Solid has to have a protocol (standard) for wiki entries?
Hu? This is completely unrelated.

The overall idea of a spherical earth is a consensus since ancient Greece, and has been considered a fact since then.

Copernicus more or less established that the earth revolves around the sun, and not the other way around.

I use "more or less" here because

1) The idea of the earth revolving around the sun was not _new_, it was already discussed and debated in ancient Greek texts. Part of the renaissance movement is based on the re-study of ancient Greek texts, which was influential to Copernicus and his ideas.

2) There is no universal truth behind what revolves around what. It's just a matter of perspective, and having the earth rotate around the sun did had the advantage of making calendar computations much simpler, since you don't have to deal with intricate planet retro-cessions. That was the reason that led Copernicus to choose this perspective.
A Spanish shipyard also botched up bulkhead design on Helge Ingstad frigate. It sunk after collision in 2018 and was a total loss.

The collision itself was all on inept Norwegian crew, but the water sealing have not held. There are 4 others of her class still in service.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNoMS_Helge_Ingstad_(F313)#Col...
Now the conspiracies will begin to grow.
Actually people don't want to self-host anything. They want their data to live "somewhere in the cloud", accessible on demand. At most they wish this cloud to be "trusted" or "secure" or "privacy-respecting".

Until we find a viable business model for trusted and privacy-respecting cloud, we can't move on.
> You're claiming that when mostly people say "electric heating" they are specifically excluding heat pumps?

No, just pointing out the usual definition of electric heating. A heat pump doesn't necessarily even use electricity. The mechanical power for the compressor (assuming a refrigerant based heat pump) could come from anywhere.
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From the post:
“That leads nicely into the privacy implications of using third-party CDNs. You have no idea what sort of tracking they are doing to your users by using them, rather than self-hosting. And recent legislation means a lot of sites have to explicitly list all the cookies used on the site, which gets more complicated when using a third-party.“
Not saying this is not hard, but I assumed (without having read into it) that the protocol solid itself is much more low-level than that.

What you're describing sounds more like owncloud's level of operation: we host email / we host pictures

I'd expect Solid (or any competing protocol) to provide very low-level access to "data" in some form. A third party (let's call them smail) would then provide the service "send and receive email" (to stay with your example, although I'm unsure email is a good fit). Crucially, the value that service adds would not be hosting and backing-up of your email, but rather just the interface and functionality. Ideally, all the data would still be hosted on your pod. When smail does indexing of your email, they load them from your pod (after you granted them access to that data) and do their thing. The difference to now being that at any time, you could choose a different provider that provides a different interface to the same underlying data.

As I said, I didn't read into it, but that's what I would expect.
Git commit hash will be randomly generated, so it's not beautiful.
I developed the CLI tool to intendedly generate sophisticated commit hash (for example, 000000.... abcdef....).
check it: https://github.com/rnitta/commit_artist
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Well, we are taking about an empire that gave birth to 60 countries. Euro is 44 countries. USA is 50 states. I am afraid many other languages were also lost in that amount of time ottomans were in power.
Last week I switched to Firefox nightly on desktop and Firefox preview on mobile.

It took some configuration, but I'm not regretting it at all.
I recently got introduced to a company called Polypoly. They are working on exactly the same, in the EU.

They have an interesting setup as a collective. Users of the software automatically become members of the collective. The website talks of automatic partake in economic success.

Curiously they also use the idea of self-hosted pods to hold the users private data and they even use the term 'pod' for this.

When the founder, Thorsten Dittmer, gave me his elevator pitch he almost use the same line of reasoning as Schneier.

Basically: 25 years ago, we technologists (while reading Gibson, mind you) thought that the web will bring freedom, understanding and equality to the world.
We were wrong.
Now we have to fix our mistake because we're the only ones who have a chance at doing this.

It is probably not exaggerated to call these sorts of companies the biggest threats to the business models of the Googles and FBs of today.

[1] https://www.polypoly.eu/en/home-en
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It seems standard on car adverts and specifications in the EU, in addition to whatever local unit is preferred.

I'm not really interested in cars, so I don't know if there's a European country where power is casually discussed in kilowatts.
Just to point out that there is inverted index implementation of graphite data working on clickhouse.

Regarding the auto-rebalance feature, I cannot much more agree with you. It's something that clickhouse definitely need to handle internally.
If you can't see something, that doesn't mean it isn't there. It just means you don't see it.

What I see is definitely not behavior I'd want in instructors.
> Sorry, but what you've outlined above doesn't show that you value the candidates' time. You require two rounds of technical interviews before any human contact. It's asymmetrical. By automating the first two steps, you've made it so that you can waste as much of the applicants' time as you want without expending any further time or resources on your part.

I understand this was the goal. You can either waste your company's time or the candidates' time. I don't think there's a way to preserve both. Given that your goal is helping your employer, this seems like the sensible thing to do.
As much as I use Linux for everyday use and dislike windows lately, Linux is still too high-tech for normal people to use. Without terminal command it's hard to manage services, etc. Moreover many drivers and games only available and optimized for windows only.
Besides performance and other completely technical reasons, in my view it is mostly a question how dependent an individual or a company wants to be.

Of course it can be technically and operationally convenient but it also means that now you are even more dependent on the fickle choices that Google makes that is per definition in their own interests.
Titanium has a relatively low thermal conductivity for a metal.
I like it when they just lock the door to meeting room when to meeting starts.
Most programming is just plumbing with data, so I'd say the term data engineer would fit most programmers, most of the time.
I've worked as a SE for 8y, in 4 different countries and in both product development and consultancies.

As it had been pointed out here by most people interviewing sucks. It sucked in every country for me (some more than others). The process was superficial and usually didn't give the employer a decent picture about my skillsets nor did I get a decent picture of the company's environment/tech/culture, meaning a "we want to implement a new data analysis platform and ML on top of our web app" was only a nice attraction statement.

Both parties tend to tell some fairy tales what they think the opposite would like to hear just not to miss out on a possible opportunity. It's a bad habbit that I've done myself in the past because I don't have employees knocking on my door every day with a contract in their hands.

One of the issues is probably that a company doesn't know the person who is being interviewed. Just because someone got hired by 5 companies before and has 10y experience doesn't mean they know their stuff and therefore everyone has to go through the same tidious process again and again.

Couldn't there be an evaluation of someones problem solving skills and ability to built systems, that has a value for all (or certain years) of upcoming interviews? Lets say I take a test, that evalutates my "can solve problems" and "can built awesome cloud tech" skills and provides a certificate for it which is valid for 5y. Of course you'd also able to update your skills whenever you've learned something new!

So every company looking for a new employee searches in that pool of professionals with pre-evaluated soft and hard skills for a suitable match. Not like LinkedIn where you can claim whatever you like but rather evaluated by other professionals who will vouch for you.
A while ago I routed Google Fonts to ::/0.0.0.0 in my /etc/hosts file. It makes pages load a little faster, and shows me which websites thought to provide a sensible fallback and which did not.
Just about the point that it was a consensus since ancient Greece: it certainly wasn't a consensus around the world until somewhat recently

According to Wikipedia:
"Many ancient cultures subscribed to a flat Earth cosmography, including Greece until the classical period, the Bronze Age and Iron Age civilizations of the Near East until the Hellenistic period, India until the Gupta period (early centuries AD), and China until the 17th century.

The idea of a spherical Earth appeared in Greek philosophy with Pythagoras (6th century BC), although most pre-Socratics (6th–5th century BC) retained the flat Earth model."

Interestingly, it seems nobody but the Greeks independently discovered the spherical earth model
Careful. You're gunning for someone linuxsplaining how their grandpa has used Arch for years without difficulty, so you must be just wrong about all the normal people you know who find linux too hard.

(I'm exclusively a linux user for now, but really .. linux people can be such a pain).
LADISH is old, NSM is the newer session management hotness.

http://non.tuxfamily.org/nsm/API.html
After failing several of these "let's see how you think" technical interviews, I've come to the conclusion that the way I think is deeply and fundamentally flawed.
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A planet could have been stolen from the solar system as it formed
Seconding: mitmproxy (including its `mitmdump` util) is an outstanding tool; should be in every software developer's kit.
To clarify, I use "programmer" when speaking to very non-technical people, usually elderly. Many other languages have a similar word but it might have different connotations, for example, be less negative (pejorative).
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I wonder if this would be illegal in the EEA under GDPR? Tricking the user into “consenting” is not really obtaining consent.
"Crucially, the value that service adds would not be hosting and backing-up of your email, but rather just the interface and functionality"

Yeah but doesn't that create a problem, vendor lock-in.

Let's imagine we managed to separate data into 2 parts (which I suppose pretty hard), content and meta-data ( by meta i mean service specific information )

Let's say, if I label an email in gmail, it is meta (service specific data), should gmail store this in my pod?

- if gmail will store this on their data center, it would lead to vendor lock in.
- if gmail will store this in my pod, in a service specific container. Can they use their own spec? Or will they store this with data with extensions ( XMPP all over again )

Now imagine they chose the second one, I migrated to smail (imagine they decided to go for folders instead of labels), do they have to do some migration on my data? What if I go back to gmail again? Or I decide to use gmail one day, smail another?

Tbh email is the most easiest situation here, as it has some kind of global standard, Twitch vs Youtube case would be more complicated.
He means things that make a better world, not facebookey reinforcement loops and consumerism where the "mattering" is of the manufactured sort.
Thanks for the explanation!

> I actually hope they won't start letting people charge for their stuff in Dreams.

I tend to agree, but I also really like what YouTube has created with the ability to monetise videos: Many thousands of people who are now full-time independent publishers. From the demos that I've seen of this game, it could give aspiring game makers a pathway in the game industry which doesn't require joining a big studio, or learning (relatively speaking) complex tools. But that only works if they're able to sell their creations.

Perhaps if they have strong content moderation (to prevent spammy stuff which tends to occur when money starts getting involved), then they might be able to maintain a great community while creating more independent developers.

After all, Roblox has shown that monetisation in the game-creation space isn't necessarily a disaster.
Your comment is indeed not helping, anyone in any way. It just bashes someone making a point, without adding anything of substance.
Agreed, what they say Microsoft is "starting to export outside NA" is already the norm here in France since at least this summer.

If the computer is connected to the network in anyway, there is absolutely no way to install with an offline account. Removing all rj45 and not connecting to the wifi until that step is passed allows to use a local account like before.

Still not a path I like to see them take
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Jio did not have to pay any - probably because they started 5 years ago? This issue is from 2005 - Jio started in 2015 December.
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Not sure if you know, but at least life in Sweden is pretty close to this. Contactless payments are everywhere (Apple/Samsung/Android pay) and the app “swish” works great for sending payments to people. Even some businesses have a swish QR code displayed in lieu of taking cash payments.
I wish them well.

Problem with their approach is that their marketing pitch is all wrong.

There is no demand for what they are selling because there is no value in what they are selling. The value comes from network effect and at the beginning there is no value, just cost. Mainstream users don't care and companies either don't care or don't like of that kind of talk.

Inrupt should start with completely different sales pitch and product idea. They should delay the privacy talk and user owned data until they are bigger.

Start with smaller IoT companies. Provide and market actual services they want. Mostly they want automatic data management, cloud services on cheap. They want to avoid any EU privacy hassles. Handle all that, I18n and internet user interfaces for them. Provide mobile and desktop clients. Just provide simple apis and ready made interfaces for companies to use.

Once the protocol and pods become normal users start to discover that they own the data and third party uses and products for that data may emerge.
An AI model is another word for a statistical model of reality, a small scientific theory, which actually works.

It is the most unbiased thing you can have. It's pure applied science/maths. You are only interested in the input that tell you something, and figure out which one to which degree.

You don't trust intuition or common knowledge. You don't trust anything that might introduce bias. You just look at the data and build the best decision mechanism that can be derived from it.

The degree to which you feel you need to "adjust" that is the degree to which you denounce science. You prefer your bias over science.

Today it's probably the cultural marxism / structural oppression narrative that inspires such manipulation. At other times it would have been infallibility of the papacy, or some other brain construct.

If you feel the need to adjust an ML model, be aware how strongly you feel that way. That's the degree to which you reject science.

Then proceed. Or reverse course. But be honest with yourself about what you're doing.
This is exactly why I would learn it. It's exactly how I've learned (in depth) ALL of the 10-15 various languages I know. Start with something that's familiar and work backwards.

I hate the bullshit elitist crap like "oh don't learn that, you can't code in Go until you've learned x,y,z". Everybody learns differently. I learned jQuery before learning JavaScript.

I wish the people on this thread would stop assuming everyone is clones of them.
When Ubuntu does it you will see a ton of complaining, like if it shows you some text and a link that you can disable easily and still people complain, I think people are consistent and you should consider that say Ubuntu is free and Canonical is not profitable where Microsoft is extremely rich and after you paid for the OS they still want to suck more money from you.
Italy, but also in UK they are measured in KW.
Exactly. He has decided to take on what he has decided on his own is better for society. Which is fine. As long as you are aware that much of society has different priorities and might ignore your improvement. Altruistic is something I deeply align with. It doesn't guarantee you're getting it right.
Not really - the vast majority of Windows installs are just as OEM as Android.
Already discussed yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22382710

(132 points/129 comments)
none of our file-systems support semantic access, e.g. you can't give handles to your apps, no!, they have to use archaic paths .. or constructions jails/vms/docker/etc to isolate them. that is a backwards stone-age hierarchical foundation.

and 'protocol' is somehow going to make that better? I don't think that's possible. users have never had to think about more than paths.

lets give them semantics to map file-systems to applications, [perhaps] in the same way a functional package manager would 'give' you/the os access to the right versions of those applications.
> if we were to try and fuck people over through opaque moves hidden in our terms

Then why have them in your terms at all, if you never intend to use them? Just take them out right now.
In Australia, car engine power is specified in kilowatts (kW), and torque in Newton-metres (Nm)
Same in Finland, although most people still use contactless cards instead of Apple/Samsung/Android payment apps. But since they work on the same terminals, it's really easy for people to switch when they want to.

I'd go all in on Apple Pay if not for the fact that the grocery store I go to has a loyalty card program and I can't use that with Apple Pay. Luckily the loyalty card is tied to my bank card, so I can get the loyalty card benefits and pay with the same tap.
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The thread is a case study in why not to open source your code: belittling feedback that serves little purpose other than to make the commenter feel good about themselves.
Tell HN: Hack Gmail for 100% Deliverability for Email Blasts
Today I discovered how to get near 100% deliverability rates (on valid emails) and ensure that they do not end up in the spam folder or worse Gmail's "promotions" box.

This single problem costs companies millions of dollars per year and leaves an incredible amount of money on the table for businesses of all sizes.

The solution I am about to tell you could single handedly double (if not triple) your open rates and likely your company's annual revenue, especially those of you who rely on emails to correspond with your customers or potential prospects.

...but before I blow your mind and you go running down the hallways to your marketing department or tagging your marketing director a million times in the comments, let me explain both the HOW and WHY it works.

...because after all aren't CEOs supposed to be the "strategic" head of their company?

You can't strategize the best use of the tools at your disposal if you don't understand them, so here's a free strategy session from me to you as a gift of goodwill.

Problem : Emails end up in spam or "promotions"

See first comment !