skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well. I have some experience with O2 too, from a customers point of view. Let me tell you a story:

Once upon a time i've been a happy customer of a regional ISP called Hansenet, started by the local public electric utility. It was (at least for me) lightyears ahead of the crappy experience (speed/latency/price/(competence of)service(if needed)) the former state monopolist had. Everything was golden, also excellent peering. They grew slowly, cooperated with some other regional upstarts, stayed golden, speed even got faster without raising of monthly fees, furthermore no long contracts necessary, could be canceled within a month.

Then Telecom Italia came and bought them, now it was Alice, as advertised by some mouthbreathing twen all over the public space, larger than life.

Quality of service went down, very unsexy of you, Alice!
But still was better than the former state monopolist, and still got faster without raising prices or contract conditions.

They even retained a local service center where you could walk into and talk to people who knew their stuff and could change settings in realtime! Imagine that! Not some outsourced call-center agent mouthpiecing some useless uml-diagram.

Anyways, too good to be true? Right! Telefonica came to rescue (of BlackRock), to milk the cash cow as long as possible, and it was noticable.

Fortunately another neighboring public utility, pioniering fiber roll out since the nineties expanded and became a choice for me then. All is golden again! Yay!

Why am i ranting? Because everybody i know is mostly unhappy with O2 in any form, except for the price.

O2 can't do!

I wish i could add some internal, even worse insights from another ISP growing larger at the time, but am not allowed to. Also they managed, got better, and meanwhile can do again.

Lesson? There is no lesson here, with the exception of economies of scale are bad for humans above certain amounts of 'scale'.
Hmm it is limited though for technical reasons to a few mins of audio. Will have that limitation taken care of in a day or two.
I don't see any reason for courts to affirm either of those things since limiting occupancy and requiring masks are clearly within the rights of private companies and always have been.

Perhaps courts might need to affirm them for use on public property and public lands like parks.
I don’t want “in depth analytics” from anything really especially a DNS provider. How about a truly non-logging, ad-blocking, DNS provider that does DNSSec?
Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis...

More to the point, you're engaging in whataboutism, and the fact that one group acted poorly a few generations ago does not excuse current behaviour by another group.
I haven't done the math but the problem with that approach is that computer chips just aren't hot enough to regenerate much power from the waste heat. Any power efficiency gains would be lost from increased payload weight and the higher risk of mechanical failure.
Well, it’s my opinion that technology can’t solve the discovery problem. I know we want it to. But at some point the technology has to evaluate the content. It can’t - so technology gives the content to humans to evaluate. However, it can’t evaluate the humans’ capabilities. :/

You discover a directory like mine just as you would discover any other link, johntash - by coming across it as you read, perhaps on Hacker News. If there were more directories, they would be easier to discover. They happen to be richer discovery points than a normal blog or profile page.
> no way to legally perform mail-in voting without committing fraud

That's not at all what he is saying. He said mail-in ballots will be 'substantially fraudulent'. The obvious interpretation is that the president believes that a substantial portion of ballots in a mail-in election are fraudulent, not that any one who votes for him via mail is committing fraud. I don't understand the need to read between the lines here.
YouTube deletes comments critical of China's communist party
Extortion is a worse crime than blackmail generally, in my opinion, ethically speaking. Extortion is using one's power and force to threaten harm to someone in some way if not paid, while blackmail is using knowledge of information to do the same. Extortion is the more "violent" and violating act. Either way, they're pretty similar, though

Your post is extremely confusing and bizarre to me.
I prefer the Sherlock Holmes approach - my mind is an attic, it only has so much space, so I’m okay emptying it of extraneous shit and then refilling it on an as-needed basis :).
And you have the guarantee that the dev will actually keep working and refining instead of all the drama mastodon finds themselves in

Pleroma does what Mastodon’t
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Maybe it's more common on the frontend? Complex UIs are a hotbed for leaks, where it can be a nightmare to figure out they're happening and the cause e.g. a previous screen or UI component not being destroyed properly so a table of data you generated to be displayed doesn't get collected.

Just search the React and Angular GitHub issues for "memory leak".
Lesson: know your customers and their needs.
How do all the mail-in ballots we already use work? They’re not exactly uncommon or new. For one thing, it’s how a decent chunk of the armed forces vote—and not just the ones overseas, those stateside vote in their “home” state, not where they’re stationed. That’d be a good place to start.
You’d have to be pretty quick off the mark to respond with:

Shibboleth? Isn’t that still in private beta?
Modern C++ is actually pretty safe. Pascal is reasonably safe as well if you know what you're doing. And all this safety talk is over-hyped anyways. Just learn hot to program properly. I do not really remember when was the last time I had problem with "safety" in either Delphi or C++. My commercial apps (C++, Delphi and C for firmware run for years without a single crash report).
Internet Archive suggests the original discussion was a Usenet thread; here is the link to Google Groups' version of it:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/geometry.research/7pyFhAAy...
Not an expert so take this with a pinch of salt but knee injuries seem more common with highly padded footware. With the barefoot type running we evolved for you have to adopt a low impact style. With spongy running shoes you can land anyhow without foot pain but then the shock gets your knees. I wouldn't personally go as far as bare foot or those five finger things but using less padded shoes may reduce the risk of knee issues.
In Switzerland we have mail-in voting since many years and it is the most used voting option.
The way it works to ensure that votes aren't fraudulent / duplicate votes while providing voter privacy is as follows:
Inside the main envelope there is your transmission card ("Stimmrechtsausweis") which is signed by you and a separate anonymous return envelope with your actual votes.
When it arrives in the municipality the transmission card will be verrified and (if valid) the still closed return envelope will be put into the ballot for later counting.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_in_Switzerland for more information.
They actually have the ability to turn off all logging and analysis, pretty easy and front-and-center, not buried deep in a hidden settings page like some companies. Or you can limit it to a timeframe that makes sense for you. I have mine set to delete everything after one hour. That way if I ever have issues I can pretty easily debug the problem by going to my account details within the hour.
More than anything it’s a perverse side effect of catastrophe. ;).
Web apps are still client-side apps. OP likely meant "native apps" and mistyped it, but GP was justifiably confused.
The internment camps are still in living memory fwiw.

I don’t know if it’s whataboutism so much as recognizing that China is back to business and the US really isn’t, China published the genetic sequence and made substantial contributions to fighting the disease while the CDC was busy producing faulty test kits, and the US has been systematically undermining the global health system while trying to put blame on the WHO (actively forfeiting our influence there).

I don’t think it makes sense to shit on China for doing a better job than the US at taking care of it’s people (except minorities, but the US isn’t exactly a model there either).

Just to clarify, I’m not about excuses, but I can’t support hysterically pointing fingers when we aren’t even attempting to get our own house in order.
"no narrative, no meaning"

7 months ago I would had agreed with you, but after watching (and enjoying!) this 4:30hs pretty plausible imo explanation of what Twin Peaks is about [1], I'm open to believe that other works of Lynch may actually have some idea or meaning behind :-)

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AYnF5hOhuM
There's a monopoly angle here too [1].

I remember doing a face-palm when I watched "Gravity." The whole conflict centers around a cascade of space-junk caused by Russia shooting it's own spy satellite. In the movie, the Chinese space station saves the day. In reality, China actually shot down it's own satellite, rendering it's orbit and adjacent orbits unusable for the foreseeable future. [3]

I'm all for international cooperation, but we have to engage with reality.

[1] https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/its-time-to-break-up-disn...

[2] https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/how-bill-clinton-and-amer...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_mi...
As someone that also used languages designed by Anders I'm also a huge fan of his work.

Too bad there are just a few quality interviews with him: https://www.artima.com/intv/anders.html
> Just seems normal to me, the only difference is that the other 95% of the world population now have enough cash to vote with their wallets and American companies learn what it's like to operate in a world where different cultures have different values.

This is not Chinese citizens "voting with their wallets", it's the Chinese dictatorship dictating what is allowed to be shown in the country. One unilateral vote.

The equivalent is the US government outright censoring and banning movies. It's hard to even imagine how such a thing would play out because it is so far fetched, yet we (well, at least you) accept it from China. Why?
Discord is the only successful US startup in last 5 years?
It’s close to being conveniently self-hostable:

https://github.com/davidmerfield/Blot
Delphi made it easy as a developer to add those icons, and they had a nice standard set named for most actions you would want a user to do in a line-of-business application UI.

Also the hello world apps for Delphi had these icons everywhere so it was "just the way" you built applications using it.
The capital markets in India (and elsewhere in the world) is highly regulated. It will take you at least a year to get a brokerage licence.

How do I know? I work in the space. It is dominated by traditional brokerages who are now facing the heat from discount brokerages, the largest of which is Zerodha.

In order to make any real money, you'll need to operate at scale. The cost of customer acquisition is very high and the average revenue per user very low which makes it impossible to get far without raising significant money. There are enough quality brokerages in the market and I don't see VCs backing another one.

I'm only sharing my insights, not discouraging you. But I'd highly recommend you look at building something with lesser regulatory overheads. You could even explore building on top of the brokerage layer - Zerodha has exposed their APIs and a number of startups have been built on this.
You just can't make this stuff up!
IL2CPP is Unity product and designed to work together with their new
B̶l̶a̶z̶o̶r̶ Burst compiler toolchain.

It is quite different than a general purpose AOT compiler for .NET, as it also takes into account HPC# code patterns.
That is a rather rose colored view of traditional societies (of what exactly - treating all traditional cultures as homogeneous as opposed to roughly technologically analogous is itself deeply disrespectful exoticism), are they agrarian? Pastoral? Hunter gatherer?

The claims are ignorant of actual the colonial processes, history, and economic earlier resource extractive/cash crop and early how industrialization actually works including a conflation of market economy with enclosure of the commons or control of the food supply to remove subsistence options.
Others have already said the site is light on regulatory documentation like a privacy policy but I would also expect to see your disclaimers about the claims you are making at the bottom.

Commission free brokerage means to me that you probably make your money on arbitrage with the prices of the equities. Is that your plan?
The 4kW laser cutter I operate at my regular employment is aptly named by the manufacturer:

The Laser
Could you have gotten away with naming him 'Sharp' instead?
The older I get, the more I appreciate these kinds of movies. Lost in Translation and Chugking Express are some of my favorites, but I’d be hard-pressed to sell their plots to anyone elevator-pitch style.
Delphi certainly was supremely productive for the kinds of one-off, bespoke enterprise apps that I was involved with, and it is valid to question why that was the case. I don't think the tooling was necessarily all that superior, the industry trend was simply way towards "slap a grid on top of that SELECT * FROM Orders".

Clearly, there are many things wrong with that, but the fact that one could whip up several screens and essentially ship them in a few hours makes it a worthwhile thought exercise to think about what has been gained, and what lost. Most enterprise apps that I encounter seem to be massively overcomplicated for what they actually do.
Or as other vectors for advertising. Stadia store sells ad space to game companies. Google Home is a speaker capable of playing ads (or more subtly giving paid-for answers to questions) etc.
There are numerous Tier 1s (Bosch, Continental, ZF) working on providing autopilot like tech to auto manufacturers. Additionally companies have there own efforts (GM super Cruise for example which btw has nothing to do with Cruise and is developed separately). Comma has open sourced all there code, so good chance the OEMs have someone looking at it.
I've had a similar idea after looking for something like this to use as a log for interesting stuff that I found on the internet. I ended up building a small ruby app for this (https://github.com/adnanh/mikro) and it powers my (b)log which is still alive at http://blog.hajdarevic.net/

Since then, I've wanted to enhance it with URL unfurling, link preserving in terms of creating a snapshot of the linked URLs, smart bookmarklet etc... but never got around to doing it, as life tends to get busy, and other things take priority over that :-(
I think it's the reverse. They're trying to distance themselves from the notion that Facebook is the primary factor in what's polarizing (certain) people.
there is absolutely no reason that they cant do both at the same time, there is a mental short circuit going on when people think paying for a website means no ads. Its never meant that in pretty much any other media.
You have it backwards - the rural disruption lead to the industtialization enmasse. Given what it took for rural populations be "sustainable" and not urbanize that isn't neccessarily a bad thing either.
It would solve the cost problem, but people would hate it. You'd have to pay even if you won because they have to pay the customer service rep either way.

And it would open up a new trolling vector. Now the troll files complaint after complaint and forces you to pay $100 over and over again.

What could work is to do loser pays. If someone wants to object to your video, they have to post $100, and so do you if you want to get it reinstated. Then whoever wins the dispute gets their money back. And extra points for having a builtin troll deterrent.
They have not changed any licensing. They have changed the way they are releasing their product. The only thing really that is different here is the fact that they are pushing less code as open source for their stable LTS releases.

If you rely on having a stable Qt, why not pay the company that develops the software? You and I, the developers that use Qt without paying for it, still get the latest and greatest Qt, with all it's source code for free, under the same LGPL license that Qt has always been under.
How about the USA's most valuable ally, Saudi Arabia?

Anyway, I think many countries would want to do the same as China but they just don't have the leverage to do so.
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I can't help but feel cynical that a fair bit of modern complexity comes from the sheer amount of features that didn't exist. The variety of screens, interfaces, OSes and the accessibility aren't free. Those are why we use all these cumbersome frameworks after all.
To get endorphin high.
> I can't read the article, because I don't have a Medium account.

I’m getting so sick of this trend of requiring (or at least heavily pushing) an account just to read some content. My latest frustration was the Microsoft community forums taking that turn. No, I don’t want to “engage”—I just need to find the solution to some damn problem. Now I can add Medium to that list.
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The advice to start really slowly is good. It also makes sense to have a kind of plan, on paper, to commit to, and to remind yourself, holding yourself accountable. Blogging about that is not a bad idea, either.

What I did wrong (and sometimes still do) is that you cannot just add new things without removing other things. It helps to be fully aware of what kinds of things you'll have to remove from your life. What is the habit you're replacing(!) with a new habit? Food for thought ... ;).
I'm telling you, the elite of this country in the 90s and the early 2000s sold this whole country up the creek. Both sides of the political spectrum pushed ultra capitalist policies and broke the common fabric of America. All meaningful blue collar work was outsourced, large swaths of intelligent highly competitive workers insourced from other countries, artificial boosting of financial assets, etc. The old America is rotting, the new America we see is bright and shiny. This will take a long time to fully surface, 50 years maybe, but it will eventually.
Sure; there are a lot of distinctions that serve to frustrate casual users. And this is hardly limited to computers - the rant that sticks in my memory is that of a family friend being absolutely infuriated that nuts and bolts can be the same size but have different threads.

The difference does matter, though, and matters a lot when you're working with storage at any scale. So people tend to use the right labels just to avoid ambiguity.
co-founder here, happy to answer any questions. We're currently in alpha - app.supabase.io

We also have a lot more to build, so to reward you for your patience we are completely free right now
Surely it's in the way he's phrased it. "There is no way..." - that's a fact right there.

If the post had said "I don't think there's a way..." Then it might have been a different story
Yes. I'm definitely a tinkerer, and have spent hours configuring my Emacs just the way I want. However, its super addicting and often you'll find yourself doing things with little ROI. A 20 yo me, would have definitely hacked till death, now almost 30 with job and hobbies outside tech I've to more thoughtful about ROI about the things I do (I swear if Emacs LSP doesn't perform well in emacs27, I'm going VSCode path -- and there's my unrelated rant).
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Is a circumvention of technology claim part of the DMCA?
https://www.nber.org/papers/w26669
Arguably the fertility clock is ticking harder for those who in their late thirties just realized perhaps it's ok to stop waiting for full employment stability before starting to consider a family.
> Anyway, I think many countries would want to do the same as China but they just don't have the leverage to do so.

But that's the point. It's the reason Saudi Arabia doesn't count. It only matters if they're doing it and are a large enough market to affect the international market. Nobody's changing their movies to capture the 0.4% of the world population that lives in Saudi Arabia.
Yes because GitHub's business model doesn't directly rely on the violation of user privacy. It's just pay-for-features, afaik.
Concrete proof there is no largest prime number: color the number line starting at zero, blackening every other number, every third, every fifth and so on up to every 'theoretical-biggest-prime'. Calculate PIPrime, the product of all of the prime numbers. All of these blackening sequences land on that number (its a multiple of all of them).

Note that the blackened-integer sequence is symmetrical from zero to PIPrime - same forward and backward. In fact it starts to repeat itself from there.

Now note that '1' was not blackened. So of course, the number to the right or left of PIPrime is not blackened. So that number must also be prime (not a multiple of any known prime) or there is some other prime number, larger than the known largest, that would have landed there. In either case, there is a larger prime than you knew.
> Someone else doing the same idea is validation of your idea.

I’ll definitely take that as a motivator, especially if I feel like I can build a better solution.
> Some browsers, including Chrome but not Firefox, have the ability to check the amount of Javascript memory used. So the solution to test if an object is there, is to make it sufficiently large so that it has a noticeable impact on memory.

It's not observable from content, but the Firefox profiler is awesome. Check out https://profiler.firefox.com/docs/#/./memory-allocations
I feel like I'm in the Twilight zone seeing these kinds of equivalencies made online. "China does organ harvesting and brutally supresses the entire populace's rights and did Tiananman Square and arrests and interrogates you for criticizing the police but we had internment camps in WW2 so look in a mirror and stop talking about China" ..no, I'm not going to "stop roasting" China just because my country, like every country, has an imperfect past. At best that's a defense mechanism to feel smug about being silent on crimes against humanity.

Criticize the American covid response all you want but spreading this false equivalence that sounds deep unless you think about it is outright dangerous and a shameful disservice to the citizens of Hong Kong and everyone else impacted by the Chinese government.
You have an interest in the outcome of the research, why should we trust you to conduct or fund it properly? Your track record is terrible. The fact you are throwing around dubious research as facts is crazy.

I'm sorry, but really, there's no reason to believe a word a you say.

You get paid from Facebook, Facebook lied again and again, how on earth do you expect people to take you seriously?

Your job and title is to give FB the optics of caring about integrity, and was invented as part of FB PR in the aftermath of the Christchurch massacre.

The amount of cynicism is just mind boggling.
Except now the people that use Facebook the most are grandparents (i.e. the demographic you mentioned that is most polarized). Facebook is no longer cool as it was 15 years ago.