skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Dutch system to this is pretty nice. Your BSN gets attached to a digital id (DigiD).

You might give your BSN out to a company (healthcare, doctor, etc) but that is used to create the link to your DigiD. From there if you want to login to something like your healthcare company it will then bring up a form where you copy four characters from your DigiD app on your phone. This makes sure the requests match, then you just scan a QR code and type in a pin.

So if you want to login to do something related to your taxes, or healthcare online you have very strong two factor auth.

Additionally banks work similarly for making payments or purchases online. I want to order a pizza for delivery online it redirects me to a payment page on my banks website. I then take out my bank app on my phone, type in a pin, scan a QR, and approve the payment.
Do you think it's unjustified? Other countries have acted much more quickly and saved lots of lives.
What do you mean by reporting this instead of criticizing such measures? They can't criticize without reporting what it is they criticize, and they do criticize it:

"India has to follow better standards. These are white board ideas drafted on Powerpoint by bureaucrats who are completely divorced from the reality of global trade."
Right, I have no idea how it works(and I guess like was said, 99% of people don't), but as a user I'd reasonably expect that if I have my browser in English, my operating system in English, then I want to see websites in English.
> That the US government can see your metadata?

Not only metadata but the whole data transmissions.

Whatsapp may claim that transmissions are encrypted end-to-end but they control the app itself so can do whatever they want.
The app distribution channels are also controlled by American companies.

So any government conducting communications through Whatsapp has in effect outsourced its communications to the US.

For important communications governments do not even trust off-the-self smartphones.
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I find it disappointing that your claims are not based on true facts.

You can make any claim, but be aware that claims not based on true facts are illogical and not constructive. There have been changes from the status quo to adhere to strict hygienic levels across large portion of the world. Find changes already applied across EU, USA, Asia, Africa, South Africa, etc.

In a circumstance where a person focuses on one area and disregards other areas fully, is a setup for failure. Focusing exclusively on this virus and disregarding everything else is not a recipe for a fulfilment.
Most cultures share some general social norms, such as courtesy to others. I would say it’s actually more unhelpful to dismiss norms entirely just because they have variance.
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>One of the least sexy, yet most critical, challenges was integrating bits of data from hospitals, laboratories and factories so that the Cabinet could get a better grasp of how the virus was spreading – and make better decisions.

>For just over a month, the NHS has been using Palantir’s Foundry software to bring together lab test results, hospital and supply chain data to see which hospitals need beds, gear or ventilators.

Is this really true? We've been absolutely shambolic in the UK, and seem to be heading to have the worst performance against the virus in the world - we still seem to have a lot of cases each day, whereas Spain and Italy have tailed off greatly. Either Palantir's help hasn't been much use, or we would have been even worse off (and I'd be genuinely interested to know which, although I know we'll never know what pies Palantir now has fingers into).

I'm afraid that our leaders have been shown up to mostly be completely out of their depth, and we're going to pay a massive price as a result - as if the looming of Brexit wasn't bad enough.
You're right, I misread. I apologise.
It frustrates me that companies like Microsoft claim to love and embrace open source these days, but what smaller up and coming projects with independent developers are they financially supporting? That's the kind of support of open source I'd like to see from large companies/corporations/enterprises!
You’re aware, I assume, that you’re describing David Chalmers’ “philosophical zombie” thought experiment.

The “Hard Problem of Consciousness”— a term coined by Chalmers— is not universally agreed to actually be such a hard problem.

For anyone who wants to dig deeper into this philosophical discussion, Sean Carroll (who does not himself believe the problem to be so “hard”) has a very thorough and civil discussion with Chalmers about this on an episode of his fantastic podcast, Mindscape:

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2018/12/03/epis...
I think you are underestimating the degree to which requires only a phone number is a killer feature:

-you download the app and can immediately get started after verifying your phone number (no ID or password required)
-you don't need to share any ID or connection details other than just your phone number

I spend a lot of time in India, and I think this lack of complexity has contributed significantly to its virality (I'd estimate that a pretty significant percentage of the user base does not have or regularly use an email account, which is usually a prerequisite to setting up many accounts).
I understand the need for monetization since it's a large community and running it will have some costs but it's weird they couldn't partner with some travel equipment goods firms and be done with it.
Site language while I'm there is one thing but Czech language adverts followed me around for quite a while after I came back home after a few day trip to Czech Republic.
> there are frankly so many people (many quite talented) that it's hard to get something interesting or useful to work on.

I always say it's like picking stocks. The chances that you've found a truly great opportunity on a project at Google that hasn't been found by 5 more qualified people aren't nothing, but they're pretty small.
Except in this case it's not the government, but private corporations taking some kind of political stance.

Google in particular has been very "active," not to forget also: https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-will-ban-anything-ag... ("video that 'goes against' WHO guidance on the pandemic will be blocked")
It's always a bit sad to see people rely on the chance charity of others, even if, in most cases, these others come through. The Navajo people have been let down by the people ruling over their land (no, I don't mean the Navajo leaders.)

But the Irish/Choctaw friendship is one of my favorite uplifting stories if only because it's about those who have little giving it away to people in a similar predicament. It's still sad but there's so much kindness in that gesture.

I think I remember a similar story where an Indian or Shri Lankan city sent some livestock to a starving European city, but can't find anything at the moment.
is SVG more than a markup language? Ronin has trig operators, lamda functions, conditionals etc
Yes, I am aware that I am describing what is sometimes called a philosophical zombie.

The "hard problem" is certainly not universally agreed to be hard, but so far I have not encountered any rejections of it that struck me as valid in the least bit. I'll check out your link, though.
Google should be more careful about banning high ranking/rated apps. It looks anti-competitive considering they want more people using Google podcasting app.

I'd like to think this was an accident somewhere down the chain and will be remedied in the morning. I love the app and hope it gets sorted out.
I don't understand how this works.

If your order to doordash cost $5000, why did they pay the restaurant $20,000? That would suggest their prices are 4 times cheaper to the customer. But I thought everyone complained they were more expensive.

Surely DD are still keeping their commission from your order?

What have I misunderstood?
I knew about Couchsurfing because my previous startup was in the rental marketplace.

Although, I never tried it..I heard many good things about it.

I also noticed Travis Kalanick used it as a title “couchsurfing” in one of his blogs before he launched Uber.

https://swooshing.wordpress.com/?s=Jam+pad+&submit=Search
> ... the strongest copyleft license ...

So what? That simply means rights are passed down. The problem with the SSPL was never that; it's that the rights that _were_ passed down are _legally impossible_ to fulfill, rendering the whole point of copyleft moot.

> The GPL was viewed much the same way the SSPL is now.

The criticisms against the GPL-ed works were about collaboration, not use. The problem with the SSPL is that I cannot legally use SSPL-ed works, in any way.

In simpler, analogical, terms: the GPL was designed to be "viral", but the SSPL was designed to be a minefield. Viruses can be harmless; minefields deny combatants, civilians, and peaceful inhabitants alike, forever.

Any GPL-ed software could be used without any restrictions on _how_ you use it. Whereas the only legally safe way to use MongoDB is to pay MongoDB Inc. to host it. So much for copyleft.

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http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.o...

https://www.processmechanics.com/2018/10/18/the-server-side-...

https://www.processmechanics.com/2018/10/25/further-comments...
An argument there could be that the user still gets to choose which search engine the omnibar gets sent to.

I don't agree with Googles decision (I strongly disagree with it). Just stating that under the letter of the law (of the app stores policies) I can see why app stores feel they have the power to govern the search results in such apps (iirc web browsers have a exception to the clause - /me goes to double check Googles policy on web browsers - brb)

EDIT: With a quick 5 min glance at the policy it looks like Google have been extremely heavy handed because "Any apps referencing COVID-19, or related terms, in any form in their metadata will only be approved for distribution in the Play Store if they are published, commissioned or authorised by one of these entities." But podcasts in their search couldn't be in their play store meta data. (Still digging)
Wow, what a shitty move... Even if this is an automated process, this is still shitty. This app is one of a select few I think work perfectly, as it does exactly what I want it to do. It was also the first app I paid for since it was so good.
> Then we should have browser settings for regional dialect

We do, and that's what I'm using. Sorry if my example was confusing, I should have worded it better. I am using the regional setting from the browser to determine the correct region for your language, I'm not using your physical location in any way.

My comment was an outline for the right way to do it and I blew it when my example had the person with their region set to mexico actually in mexico (which is true most of the time, and true in my example, but is not how the app logic works because it's not true for everyone all the time). Either way, I think the actual logic agrees with what you would expect -- you get the language your browser is set to regardless of where you're connecting from. Additionally, if you have your region selected, we'll also tune your desired language for the right region of that language too regardless of where you are physically.
The oldest photographic archive of France, started in 1851, is hosted in a fort built after the 1870 war to protect Paris.
This photographic archive was built to picture the monuments of France to protect them.

27 pictures of the site (including plans) to see here:
https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Pho...
Those pictures are themselves stored on that site.

One can visit the site when it opens for the Journées Européennes du Patrimoine when such places with historical values are open to the public. Well, probably not this year :(

Some of the photographs of this database are available online: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Pho...
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> or am I checking too frequently?

Your unit tests are running too slowly, otherwise you wouldn't be checking so frequently.

Oh, wait. That's me.
I used to have 24 core Proliant server 7 years ago. This CPU did not had any powersaving features whatsoever (frequency scaling, turbo, core switching off etc). It was great for testing code performance for its predictable performance.
If certain tags are being stripped, then you're probably in a position where arbitrary input isn't desirable.

If this is an input to a website, for example, the webmaster really doesn't desire everyone to be able to reinvent the blink tag, or be able to express everything in rainbow fonts.

In which case Markdown shines, for it's ability to express simple markup, that can be safely expressed.
Also, try `screen`

screen /dev/ttyS0
screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200

You can specify baud rate (defaults to 9600), and a number of other parameters. Some of these are nicely documented at https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-linux-apple-osx-bsd-scree... if you dislike reading the entire man page for screen(1).
Time traveling in tests with Cats Effect
In the UK before Deliveroo you could only order food from traditional take-away restaurants (Chinese, Indian, Pizza, etc). Delivery time could easily take north of 1.5 hours. Deliveroo takes 20-30 minutes. And you can order from really good restaurants.
This is obviously overreach in my opinion, and (tangentially) might explain the bump in installs for my podcast player. I had a feature on COVID, guess I’m going to remove that... (I know that doesn’t protect the app from removal, but could delay it, I don’t know)
I doubt any reasonably productive thread will happen with any China-related thread, as they simply seems to be hijacked by people with a very US centric hawkish mentality.
> Hacker News manages to stay so pure

we're still the product https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs

it's mutually beneficial, compared to say straight up advertising, but still.
Yesterday I was trying to find code examples using the d3 join() and each() functions. I tried searching "join(" "each(", but apparently Google completely removes parenthesis, even when inside quotes. Github's code search does the same thing :-(
If you’re curious, here’s Carroll’s case against the zombie argument:

https://nautil.us/issue/53/monsters/zombies-must-be-dualists...
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When I started programming, 5-6 months into it, I was introduced to a very interesting trick/pattern by one of my mentors.

func(){

if() {

} else {

}

}

can be beautifully converted to

func(){

if() {

return;
}

// Write the else code here.

}

The reduced indentation gave a weird sense of relaxation. It was such a neat little trick.

What about you guys. Any common tricks which everyone can use.
I have no problem with wifi connection and whatsapp, neither does anyone in my circle

There is option in Chats\media visibility to not trash your photo folder

not sure what are you using what is safer and/or does not require phone number
It's a simple calling and messaging app without the baggage of Facebook integration. That is all people wanted.

It is now redundant but that was not the case 10 years ago. People just stick with it since there is little incentive to adapt anything else. WhatsApp just works.
For the date you can customize it in Windows as well. I've been using YYYY-MM-DD as my default for years.
Yes, kustomize is not supported natively, but you can achieve effect by piping the kustomize output to kube-score.

kustomize build | kube-score score -
But there's also a difference between $2T dollars invested over a long time horizon, dripping out of the collective budget of (hopefully) more than one country and spending it in one chunk across the whole of society.

Again, a lot of it is forward planning - extra resources, hedging against future threats etc. I'd rather they start active planning in case we have to, rather than waiting until it's almost too late (like we have with some issues on Earth as it stands).

Balancing investment at the expense of present day spending is a standard knife-edge for governments around the world. It's a sucky balance to have to strike though.
I'm kinda wondering why he wants to reopen the factory.

Car demand is sure to plummet with a long economic depression coming, and electric cars moreso since the price of fuel is the lowest it's been for decades.

Considering that, if I were in Elons position, I'd prefer the state to be paying my employees salaries, and leave most of my factories closed. Keep the R&D department going so I have some awesome new products in a year's time when the economy starts recovering.
Ow, yes, the translated titles are so confusing. You think you're getting a video in your language, but no, you don't.
It's just a badly translated title and captions.

And don't get me started on those captions! Youtube, please stahp! Why do you keep forcing these? I don't want them, stop pushing them.

Whenever we use Chromecast with multiple people, Youtube enables the auto-translated captions. So, we turn it off, next video youtube turns it on again, we turn it off again, next vid, it's there again. arrgghhhhhh
I fully agree. I just meant it shd be easy to change language.
Is this a desperate attempt to fix fake news? Or are they obeying some government order?
Will those new metaphors be "some mechanistic way" or not?

Proposing new mechanisms is all fine and well, But mixing in mysticism, and you lose respect from all of science.
I don't think the problem is who they polled. The problem is that they're fishing out two-sentence platitudes that are not useful.
Just a few years ago, paramedics in Germany were routinely (and probably not entirely legally) using WhatsApp for communicating with the hospital while en route because there wasn't (and still isn't) a reliable, secure and interoperable system allowing healthcare providers to communicate with each other.

It's not like people in Germany are using tools such as WhatsApp in a professional context because they're negligent or careless (at least not entirely). Often, the digital infrastructure available to them is so woefully inadequate they have to resort to non-official tools.
Wouldn't be too hard to do, use a PNG for your human menu and embed a "door dash" priced menu below.
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The idea seems really sweet, but I can't help but wonder why this is a standalone application, not a browser extension. You're targeting developers, but making it a standalone Electron application means I won't be able to use all my regular extensions, only the standard browser devtools. The concept is really neat, but at the moment it would take away more tools than it offers.
For vast majority of things amazon sells, a system checking if the weight is within a pound or 25%, whichever is greater, would almost never have a false positive.
Native desktop apps are simply better. Cross-platform solutions promote mediocrity. Someone has to make good software otherwise our civilisation will fall.
How would the developers still be independent if they are supported by a big company? If they use the money in lieu of a day job they become de facto employed by the company, only with even less job security. If they don't use the money, why do they need it in the first place?

In fact, from the perspective of the bigco, there seems to be a thriving ecosystems for leftpad-style packages already even without additional money pouring in. Why subsidize it to become even bigger?
Argentina did not have air refueling nor night vision equipment. They sent conscripts to fight gurkhas. Their exocet missiles where sabotaged by the military contractors servicing them. Their neighbors monitored them via radar and notified movements the British.

Many countries were helping with intelligence. Norway helped by stealing Soviet satellite imagery.

And by attacking first they could not invoke the Rio Pact.
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I think we're just using different definitions of “closer” or “similar” to “people would have spoken like this poem in daily life”. :-) To me, “grammatically, lexically, phonetically” is the trivial part. Learning English is achievable, and many do it. But no one in the course of their daily speech accidentally starts speaking in palindromes, or single-consonant verses — the distance to it seems much greater. I do see it's just a matter of definitions though, something like measuring lexicographic distance of strings versus measuring K-L divergence of the probability distributions on strings. My point is that it would be staggering if at any point in history people spoke such a verse in daily life, and your point is that they were speaking the same language, so it's “closer” in some sense. Both are valid perspectives, I guess.

Anyway, about the tangent: both modern speakers and the dead author of this old written work are from centuries after something like Sanskrit was the spoken language of the street, and both learned Sanskrit by reading many of the same authors and aspiring to adhere to the same (very comprehensive) grammar, so the difference is not as much as one may think: I cannot enumerate any point of difference as far as the language goes (grammatically, phonetically, etc), except for things like quotations from later centuries being more familiar to later authors. This is like: Gauss was writing in Latin about three centuries after Copernicus (say), but both of them understood Latin in pretty much the same way AFAIK. (In the case of Latin the phonology was questionable maybe, but with Sanskrit such things were better documented.) No two people ever understand a language in exactly the same way of course, but when learning a fixed version of a classical language, the differences are relatively minor.
If anybody here knows Hiroshi Lockheimer (SVP platforms), please ping him about this.
> many browsers would send "en-US" by default

Which browsers? I'm using Chrome and it definitely does not do that. Should be easy to find out that with user agent.
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So Reddit has /r/conspiracy that can be accessed through the app, should that be removed?
How would you value the asset and not come up with (almost) arbitrary numbers? Especially since biggest value of google are non material assets (brand name, domain name and customers)
I'm an American with Hungarian roots. I spend a lot of time in Hungary and I'm currently trying to learn Hungarian. I hate that Google Maps translates all of the local names into my device language, making it impossible to navigate by local names. I've tried setting my phone's default language to Hungarian. That worked well a decade ago when I was learning Spanish. But since my phone is associated with my Google account, as soon as I set my phone to Hungarian, a bunch of other apps suddenly assume I want Hungarian, even when I'm on my desktop. Once while traveling in Thailand, I set my phone to Hungarian for practice, and suddenly Jira on my desktop was in Hungarian. I switched the language back to English on my phone, and Jira still assumed I wanted Hungarian. If you don't know anything about Hungarian, it's a very difficult language to navigate in if you don't speak it because it shares almost no roots with Latin or Germanic languages. It took me weeks to figure out how to get my Jira back into English.