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>excessively critical of Modi outside of Oliver's usual needling shtick.

I don't know why you left that particular key context in the sentence out of the quote, because Oliver wasn't excessively critical of Modi. I think you are mistaking my comment for defending the BJP, which it's not.

I did mention that Oliver was ripping into the BJP, which is the nationalist party you mention.
It’s just bitmask and slicing basically, that would work just fine even on hosts with obscene amounts of traffic.
I mean, the parent's argument is weird, but yeah, you've missed something: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanians
I'd be willing to accept a lien on the homes of the senior cloudflare and mozilla executives with a contract that will forfeit the value of their homes and allow me to sell them and donate the funds to charity, should it be demonstrated that Firefox-Cloudflare DoH is being used to surveil users.

There are many things that could be done. The problem is that the promises they make sound grand but aren't real, they wouldn't put the value of their homes at risk (nor would I encourage them to, I'd encourage them to not put themselves in a position where they could be forced to compromise the privacy of the public like this) ---- yet some user's lives can be put at risk by privacy-failures of their service.
No, not everyone is a QWERTY user.
French are AZERTY[1], we are 70 millions. There is a really small fraction of the population able to type on QWERTY.
Germans are QWERTZ, they are 86 millions.
Scandinavians have their own QWERTY variation, where a lot of symbols are mapped differently.

There is a whole world outside there, you know ? :)

I agree with you on the point that those are not the most efficient layout nowadays though.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZERTY
Thank you very much! That's what I was curious about.

But you are absolutely right, it's just better to stick with the English version.
Thank God for that, it would be absurd and harmful to mix tax evaders and murderers. And more expensive since the entire prison needs to be safe enough for its most violent inmate.
We inherited a mostly-complete AngularJS (Angular 1.x) project for a business jet cabin control interface. Meant to run on both user's personal phones/tablets and on devices attached to the interior of the plane, we found that the AngularJS system had very sluggish performance on some of the built-in on-board devices. And those are hard to get replaced, largely for avionics certification reasons.

We traced the sluggish behavior to the combination of AngularJS running on those particular devices, and prepared several prototypes with different frameworks. Ultimately VueJS gave us the best performance (just slightly better than React), so we went with that, rewriting the existing software and adding more promised features.

Our decision for VueJS was entirely grounded in performance within our overall system, but I have subsequently become a big fan of Vue. It's very enjoyable to work with. Glad to see them doing so well!
It definitely will and more people will definitely watch. How can these companies be so out of touch? It's mind-baffling.
Firefox Enables DNS over HTTPS
You are not developing for any Apple platform. And then later you state that the framework is more like an early alpha, not to be used in production.

On what basis do you make that rather bold statement?
It’s not just about enforcing but also about convincing the public to abandon harmful practices.

Yao Ming, already known as a basketball star, helped a lot with spreading awareness about shark fin soup in China and compelling people to no longer eat it.

That’s not to say it will 100% stop a practice from happening, though using the right people as figureheads for a message is still effective at changing behaviors.
Sure. Which was mostly way better than what Europe was doing at the time. And which, more importantly, led us to keep seeking that "more perfect union". Where each generation has said, "Maybe we could do yet better. And here's how." And where quite often we have done better.
What games do Toyota play?

Here in New Zealand, Toyota dealers no longer negotiate price with consumers, which have gotten a good reception from the public who hate negotiating with car salesmen.
At what point is “lane control that might allow distraction” more harmful than “no assistance at all”? I’ve certainly felt the tesla jerk off to the right (toward the shoulder) when it got confused by lines on the road. Had I not been paying attention chance of an accident would have been high, I think.
How to Make RC Remote Car at Home
I'm just saying that the same could be said for cities and rural areas, just different (and some same) harmful effects, which makes suburbanization a bad example. One is not worse than the other - it's just a different set of trade-offs. It's nice that we all don't have to cram into uncomfortable cities or suffer through the banalities of rural areas, if we don't want to.
>just want entertainment to relax, not fight existing power structures

That's also what existing authoritarian power structures want, to keep people docile with bread and circuses.
They are not hacking the law. They are pointing out its absurdity.
Treat Your Services Like a Product
Or Tangled
There are jobs in I.T., like emergency Server Admins for hospitals who get paid extra to work the "night shift". That might be worth looking into.

Or if you live on the East Coast working Remote with a company in Pacific Time Zone.

The thing that finally worked for me was finding out the amount of sleep I ABSOLUTELY needed to function. Which was about 4-5 hours. My body wants 8, but I can make it through the day with 4 hours.

Try to only sleep this minimum about for several weeks, and eventually you will be tired enough to go to bed exactly when you want. For me that was a midnight to 4:00am schedule, and I was gradually able to add a couple hours sleep to that over the course of a year. Now I'm sleeping 11:30pm to 5:30am.
An update on India: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/09/blood-and-soil...

(I have no independent knowledge, but it seems things are pretty bad?)
With Intel making absolute trash CPUs recently I'm really not surprised.
We Analyzed Allstate’s Car Insurance Algorithm
No one ever mentions what I actually love org-mode for, which is being a super-easy brainless markup language that can compile to reasonable LaTeX documents, freeing me from LaTeX boilerplate.
Ask HN: Power systems engineer jobs in bay area
Hi, My partner is looking for jobs in bay area with specialization in power systems.

- Holds PE license in state of california

- Work experience in solar field as PV design engineer for 3 years

- Masters in power systems

We find very difficult to find jobs in the area. I'm wondering if any one in the community is hiring or can help refer or help get resume infront of right people.

Many thanks!
ISA sounds intriguing, but in practice (e.g, Purdue) it is only used after the typical student loan options have been exhausted. I don't know why articles about ISA don't mention this.
I worked in graphic design in the 1990s--and we used a lot of those things. But the article doesn't mention that before the Zip drive, the standard media for transferring large files wasn't floppy drives, but Syquest removable hard drives. (and the Zip itself was a cheaper, smaller version of the Bernoulli drive) The zip drives were cheaper and easier to use, though in the long run, proved not as reliable, so when CDs got cheap enough, Zip was out.
Walmart Gets Into Health Care
The tens of millions of people in the US who are underinsured, lack sick leave, or can’t afford to miss work would seem to almost guarantee a disaster if this hits with force, no?

27% of people in the US can’t even afford a $400 emergency expense, which is (generously) the cost of maybe one visit to verify illness or moderate symptoms.
I agree, which was I was only criticizing the point against "there should not be a limit at all" -- I don't know what you're disagreeing with that I said.
Before it can become as ubiquitous as the filesystem, people need to be using it somewhere. And also talking about it.

It's reasonable to say that "google implements some of those ideas" counts as evidence for "those ideas are right", which is mostly what I wanted to say.
Ah. Thanks! Makes sense.
I was in my front yard performing an oil change when one of these window chip sales people started bothering me. I literally had to threaten violence to get her to leave my property.
Ask HN: Percentage of companies NOT getting funding after YC
I used to think that most companies get VC funding after completing YC. However, recently I am finding that there are many that don't. They get the 150000 from YC and that's it. Anyone know what the percentage of such companies are? Also is this percentage increasing with the recent larger batches?
Why would you need or want to surveil your postman? Do they not deserve the dignity of doing their job without pervasive surveillance scrutiny?
I suspect it is a result of internally misaligned incentives resulting in them valuing new customer money more than existing ones. It is one thing to alienate a loyal smaller base to gain a larger one, it sucks to be on the wrong end of but makes sense. In spite of the obvious that they have equal impact. I suspect it is because of who gets bonuses from it vs blame from losses. If sales and retention are separate departments then sales wins politically because they can generate new customers instead of just stemming losses.

Anyway the reason I think those dynamics instead is because I have seen it in cable, garbage collection, ISPs, and banks. They could be attempting old school dark patterns to exploit inertia and cognitive load in customers but that is a pennywise pound foolish move - the new customers have sales overhead expenses in addition to "maintenance" recurring costs.
So how to draw the distinction between this sort of self-censorship and the self-censorship that has often been seen as a positive outcome by those who defend it with the rational that the company is a private organization and isn't beholden to offer any concepts such as freedom of speech?
I've implemented text editing on top of contenteditable, and directly via key events etc. The latter is far less work. contenteditable gets you 60% of the way there but is so buggy and inconsistent that you have to override all its behavior anyway.
Show HN: A modern “what you see is what you MEAN writing” app
Good freakin' riddance.
You are right. These are the default settings from Capacitor[0].

Thanks for the hint, I will look through them and remove some of them.

[0] - https://capacitor.ionicframework.com/docs/android/configurat...
Bring back the classic start menu and UI and call it a day. The Windows UI is so inconsistent, tedious and un-metaphorical today.
We need an alternative to Web(& Electron) apps
I don’t see this as much an effect of haskell so much as a younger culture of coding standards. I’ve certainly found trivially readable complex haskell problems before, but naming and library operators are a massive issue in the community.
Regarding RSI, have you tried a vertical mouse?
Wingspan review: A gorgeous birding board game takes flight (2019)
FWIW, I've found that running a local unbound server with moderately aggressive caching makes a visible improvement in browsing speed. For us technical folks, it worth doing for the speed up even without getting into the configurability/privacy implications.
I'm a programmer and I have no idea what OPs comment means. I keep meaning to learn about networking stuff, but there is always so many other things to learn and since I don't work with devops or networking stuff it hasn't really been a priority.
Once I stopped eating snacks after 7pm, no coffee after 11am, no booze after 8pm had a significant impact on my sleeping patterns. Anyone can stay up until 3am if you feed them soda every 45 minutes after dark.
It kinda does, the "lower class" here is violent and mentally unstable, the "white-collar club" is non-violent and functional in the prison environment, in spite of their best attempts to try and to throw in a racial aspect no evidence is brought that it plays a role, no hints or accusations that money is used to bribe guards or prison authorities.

Anyone with basic penology background will consider it a textbook success on progressive grounds - the default in most places is that the prison "upper class" are the violent career criminals who keep the population in check for the prison guards as the white-collar prisoners pay them protection money.
File a complaint: https://edps.europa.eu/node/75_en
> I'm an Italian citizen, living in Italy [...] and I'm fully entitled to GDPR protection and to have my data owned by a European data controller.

I don't think the latter part is true. AFAIK GDPR does not give you the right do have your data owned or processed by an EU entity. GDPR does not say that.

It doesn't matter where your data is stored or processed, Google must still follow GDPR rules for data about EU residents. The first part of the comment is correct.

I'm not actually completely sure why some companies do this whole EU data controller seperate company thing. I guess for organisational or legal simplicity?

(Edit: I reworded to hopefully remove ambiguity)
Natural gas is crushing wind and solar power -Why isn't anyone talking about it?
It's difficult. You are pretending they are deliberately doing it. No one at Google wants to move your data to the US.
Extensive discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22412409
toast0: Doesn't look like your Erlang code implements the required signature for a Controller?

Also, I don't see where it updates the version number and whether the code is running?

Furthermore, where does it perform code.run?
And the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) is just bunch of misunderstood non facist folks who love khaki uniforms and absolutely have no agenda against the Muslim citizens of India.

Is the OP for real ???.
Isn't it still a derived work though? (Serious question, not rhetorical.)
I feel like people don't accept that Google needs the EU less than the EU needs Google. If Google were to pull out of the EU overnight, there'd be death as a result. If the EU were to kick Google out, there might still be deaths, but none of them Google employees, and in the end it wouldn't substantially impact Google.

There's no real incentive for Google to be a good actor: they have all of the leverage, and if the EU's fines get excessive, Google can always pull out.
If you’re claiming that it is unscientific to say that vegetables are healthier than sausage then I don’t know what to tell you, but to everyone else, vegetables are much healthier than meat, this is scientifically uncontroversial, eat lots of vegetables and a little meat.
first thing i did every times when I setup windows 10 is to unpin every tiles in start menu
This is the most convoluted conspiracy theory I've read so far this decade.

You profess not to believe these theories, or at least not the first one. So why then repeat? It's just more untruths poisoning this debate, like any other going on these days.

And how does Cloudflare get the blame in your telling of this story, when it's your unnamed sources "you've heard" believing paranoid stories? DDOS were a thing before Cloudflare, and the incident numbers haven't much changed. So if it's Cloudflare doing it all now, they must have simultaneously convinced everyone else to stop.

The idea that their salespeople showing up when you're under attack is similarly strange: While I might agree that it feels somewhat creepy, is there any doubt that these things are easy to notice with some saved twitter searches and a google alert? It also strikes me as a potentially quite useful sales tactic. And yet, even though it's feasible and effective, they are supposed to forgo that channel to stop others from engaging in obviously flawed reasoning?
Frustrating moment #3. Google doesn't respect your time.

about sums up every interaction I've had with them.....

looking at you GCP
> I'm not try to disparage clojure, BTW

Even if you were, who am I to judge you? I myself had a chance to learn Clojure back in 2013, and then a few months later, and then once again next year, but I kept saying: "no, thanks". My thoughts were:

- JVM, yikes. JVM means Java, everyone hates Java, am I smarter than everyone else? I hate it too;

- Dynamic typing is so stupid. I've had enough with Javascript, Python and Ruby, I'm not doing that shit again;

- Parentheses. Lots of them. Too many of them. I can't see anything else. I'm drowning in the sea of parentheses.

If only I knew that:

- JVM is actually really robust and extremely good piece of tech; Try managing Nodejs clusters or deal with dependency conflicts in Python's pip. Honestly, JVM is so much nicer.

- That dynamic typing in certain context can be your friend and not the enemy. And REPL driven is much better than "save&recompile" workflow. Besides, there's Spec and it's absolutely dope;

- Parentheses bring structure, simplicity and consistency, and there are not too many of them. Javascript for example has more, and also semicolons and other shit.

Clojure like any Lisp, sadly doesn't do a well job of "introducing itself" to complete newbies. It doesn't look sexy when you're trying it out for the first time. It requires a bit of patience and the leap of faith. And those who are ready to pay that small price, soon may discover an amazing world of possibilities.
Maybe they're smarter and more moral than anybody ever suspected, and are hoping for the Streisand Effect to come into play?
The Art of Powerful Questions
I think there is a difference in creating an algo that generates all possible solutions vs one that generates one specific solution.
> It's difficult.

Please elaborate. What is difficult? And why is it difficult?
the world will be better for it
That is incredible - I didn't know that. I remember watching him get absolutely lit up that series and thinking it was a little odd. But not that odd.

Somewhat related, but Bolsinger is now suing the Astros over this, arguing that that really nasty outing he had against them blew up his career. No idea how solid of a case this is, and I know less than nothing about "sports law", but it's an interesting inflection point in the fallout from all this.

https://www.si.com/mlb/2020/02/10/mike-bolsinger-lawsuit-ast...
While I may or may not trust cloudflare more than my isp, the fact is that my isp has my billing information and address on file. I do not pay anything or provide any personal information to cloudflare. So to me, there is an advantage to not having all my eggs in one basket. While I'm sure cloudflare could tie your DNS lookups to your identity, it would be much less trivial for them than your isp.
I don't understand single thing in that code. Should it be so difficult for person from OOPs background?

Disclaimer: Never coded in FP. But this looks hard to understand what it does first place.

Anyway Nevermind.
This sounds like a great way to get everybody in India to watch it.
I haven't seen any good guides for individual and household preparedness, but I think that this guide "Interim Guidance for Preventing the Spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Homes and Residential Communities" (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/guidance-preve...), especially the precautions section, can be a useful place to see what would be needed to prepare.

Some things to have besides food storage and a normal supply of medicine would be to have cleaning supplies, maybe gloves and rubbing alcohol, and perhaps face masks. One issue is that face masks may be good to keep available for those who need it most. I'm not sure what is best practice to ensure you aren't taking face masks from healthcare providers or someone more in need.
But confidence is its own downward spiral.
I think OP's question is why it is US only.

The only reason I can think of (or I can understand) is regulation and laws, but it doesn't seem to be the case.
I don't see any indication that the Indian government censored this. It appears to be Disney curating it's own platform and making marketing decisions about content.
I was quite the night owl before my first child came. I think the change is part biology, and part the emotional connection to my children.

There is no job, hobby, or other calling that could turn me into an early riser like raising children.
Go 1.14 release notes
-> everything should be immediately obvious to everyone

that....is not what I said. At all.
Let's consider an algorithm that shares state among multiple concurrent threads of execution without coordinating work through a lock.

What is the probability that an expert software engineer could write a correct implementation of this algorithm, I wonder? As their colleague will we be able to review that code and notice if it contains an error? What are the sufficient parameters for an acceptable solution: should it run with 8 threads and 2 state variables?

I don't think we'll see these tools and practices become wide spread but I do see the cost of using them is coming down. I also see the number of cases where systems that aren't safety critical are never the less causing harm to property and people. It's possible that at this intersection we'll see the adoption grow: bringing down the cost of writing software that handles higher degrees of liability could be a useful tool to have.
I've found this problem to shift later on in a relationship, where sleep quality actually _goes down_ when sleeping apart. Doesn't matter if it's a hotel room while traveling for work, or having my own bed to myself while my partner is out of town: my mind just can't stop obsessing that I _should_ be getting better rest because I have the bed all to myself, and as a result get hardly any rest at all! Thanks, brain!
Amazon Common Software for Devices
Having it verified only solves half the issue(people lying). The bigger half is that people use this as a tool for 'bragging'. Joe Schmo making 90k in OKC isn't going to submit. Nor is the lady who feels severely underpaid even working for FAANG.
kinda clickbait
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Please cite where [your] data is now stored and how you found that information. Cause I'm US based and I got the same email! WTF Google?
Yes, even if he lives outside the EU

https://gdpr.eu/companies-outside-of-europe/

It applies even to non EU citizens resident in the EU.
I work in electronics and laser stuff, where we use german-style compound names like "multi-pixel photon counting" and "erbium-doped fiber amplifier." Even in low-level compute, packages are named descriptively e.g. FreeRTOS. Lots of acronyms, but very few cute single-word nouns to name things. I've only observed that trend in relatively high-level software.
Which still doesn't refute the need for a limit, and a large part of why I didn't defend a 24-character limit.
> They e.g. also do nothing against data exfiltration by popular extensions although they have known that issue for years.

This kind of sentiment compels mozilla into becoming an apple-like gatekeeper to a walled garden because people conflate the trustworthiness of extension authors with mozilla's trustworthiness, which leads to less software freedom, a single point of failure and a less diverse ecosystem.
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How exactly is this illegal?

AFAIK, it's not illegal (per GDPR) to process EU citizen data in data controllers if the individual is no longer in the EU.

_Edit_: Yes, I read the article. It looks like this person got this email notification because they had activity in London (per their resume on their website). That doesn't make the email illegal nor does it mean their activity in Italy is going to be on a non-EU controller.

The email implicitly states that it's for the UK only.
Europe is a huge advertising and services market. Excluding it would put a huge dent in Google's profitability.
Not sure I follow. You don't think the EU is a big market for Google?