skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have this principle here in the UK as well. No parliament can ever be constrained in it's actions by any previous parliament.

This came up in the Brexit controversies when the government tried to mandate an exit date as being immutable by future legislation, but the Speaker wouldn't have it. In that case some Brexiteers cried foul that it was overreach by the Speaker, but of course such a weapon could equally be used to make our membership of the EU irrevocable. It's a sound principle.
My grandmother always said “if you want to have an unhappy life: just do whatever you want all the time”, and I think about it a lot when finishing a project. The first 50% of any project is so fun - the rest is hard work!
Most of the problems defined in the article tend to go away with an interpreted language such as JS. In JS unit testing is super cheap and super easy, with very common patterns.
Russell's Conjugation
YC uses font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; and it works fine.
Even uniforms aren't perfect at hiding economic differences. Those who buy one that fits now with the expectation they'll buy a new one when they outgrow it vs those that need it to last all year and buy one for their kid to grow into. Those that have multiples to rotate between vs those that have just the one which ends up with holes in by year's end. The official uniform of my school had the school crest on and cost €50, which resulted in some of the poorer students getting jumpers with approximately the right colour for €20 and €5 iron on crests which would look obvious and start to peel in short order.
> from a company called FinFisher.

Why on earth would somebody think this is an appropriate name for a company involved with assisting government surveillance.
But it is something like a person selling both weed and meth next to each other, without any communication or acknowledgement that one is significantly more likely to cause harm.
On Linux you can do the same with ddccontrol. I wrote an article last year explaining how I have my monitor automatically dim at night, in combination with Redshift:

https://www.stackednotion.com/blog/2019/05/07/automatically-...
AFAIK they used different certificate for MITM. Currently they are using certificate mentioned in that bug to issue certificates for government websites (like https://elicense.kz/ ), so actually a lot of citizens who need to use government services have to install that certificate as a root anyway.

I don't think that they would use that certificate for MITM. They're not fools and they understand that it would lead to blacklisting it which would halt a lot of operations in the country.
That is honestly my experience. I hardly ever find players in my games that are appearing to cheat. Maybe it's location dependent?
> They also were exposed and survived just fine

A lot didn't though. Exposure (regular or casual) to porn at a young age has some long lasting consequences. Survivorship bias. These things don't exist in a vacuum, they shape our culture.

> Their kids are probably going to be better with tech at some point.

Hmmm. I know it's from personal experience but I think the vast majority of kids don't care about tech. It's 2020. I already heard that as a kid in the 90's (you are all tech genius ! born with it !) and plenty of 20-30 are still as dumb with computers as my peers were back then.

Now, indeed, it's way easier to access porn these days than back then or even 15 years ago.

> Wasn't the Australia block circumvented within 24h by a ~14-year old kid?

That kid is an exception, not the norm.

Most will use some kind of solution recommended by their peers and that's how we end up with "streaming website" installing malwares all over the place. It's easier for people to click on a website to watch their shows than going to a torrent site (or whatever tech is used these days to share movies and tv shows).
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Honestly I've just picked up a cheap(ish) audio interface (mine is an M-Audio 192|4) and now I have a giant knob that I can use to get the perfect volume, and as a bonus, it disables the volume keys on the touchbar so I don't keep bashing them when typing.
Adults have the possibility of fulfilling their sex drives in ways that are considered healthy and responsible.

Obviously it would be our preference to delay puberty until after graduate school, but given that we can't, what is it that we'd prefer teenagers do instead?
I had thought the same, until I actually played it, and then it made complete sense. It's hard to express how difficult it would have been to have designed a non-VR counterpart with it until you're in the game experiencing it -- the pacing, the environments, the Combine, etc. I feel it's completely different than any Half-Life game, or FPS game that I've played, but familiar at the same time.

As far why they did a VR game at all: I suppose they like to test the waters.
You can probably find more information than I did with a Google Scholar search for the effects of porn on adolescents and children - though this is a very hard thing to "prove beyond dispute" for several reasons - people react to media in very different ways, effects may only be activated by pre-existing patterns of behaviour and attitudes, there is a large influence from religiosity, among other things; and of course, it'd be unethical to expose children to porn in a lab setting. The best you're going to get is controlled suveys and questionnaires, from researchers working at a school, for example. Consider that we know cannabis and alcohol can have a detrimental effect on young people, but we're obviously not able to watch them smoke or drink it in a controlled environment. All that said (and note that the authors of the first paper are probably the foremost scholars of porn effects research in psychology):

"Additionally, there is meta-analytic evidence to indicate that viewing more pornography and viewing extreme pornography is associated with the sexual objectification of women and more aggressive attitudes (Hald et al., 2010)[0]. Some longitudinal findings link sexual aggression and use of violent pornography, for example, one study of 10-15 year olds in the US found that those who intentionally viewed violent X-rated materials were nearly six times more likely than others to report sexually aggressive behaviour (Ybarra et al. 2011)[1]."[2]

The research on effects of porn is chequered and often has methodological problems, replication problems, and unfortunately assumes one kind of mainstream porn (leaving out, say, erotica, fanfiction overwhelmingly written and read by teens, online erotic roleplaying, etc.) - that said, from my own amateur reading around the topic, there is a strong pointer to substantial negative effects which are usually (though not always) mediated, much in the same way alcohol consumption effects are.

[0] Hald, G.M., Malamuth, N.M., & Yuen, C. (2010). Pornography and attitudes supporting violence against women: Revisiting the relationship in non-experimental studies. Aggressive Behavior.36, 14-20. doi: 10.1002/ab.20328

[1] Ybarra, M.L., Mitchell, K.J., Hamburger, M., Diener-West, M. & Leaf, P.J. (2011). X-rated material and perpetration of sexually aggressive behavior among children and adolescents: Is there a link? Aggressive Behavior, 37, 1–18.

[2] Victoria et al. (2016). Identifying the routes by which children view pornography online: implications for future policy-makers seeking to limit viewing report of expert panel for DCMS. Technical Report. Department of Culture, Media and Sport.
Cutlet: A Japanese to Romaji Converter in Python
The Importance of Scraped Data – Web Scraping Services
Huh. I just tried Calc (6.0.7.3, Ubuntu 18.04) again this morning for the first time in a while and it crashed in seconds after right-clicking a few column headers. It's repeatable.

When trying to navigate the very confusing document recovery dialogs to restart it, it then launched as Writer not Calc.

I really wish it was an option but JFC. My experience with has always been so bad it doesn't even feel worth raising a bug report.
>need to support external fonts because fonts are a tool for creative expression

Maybe, but using google fonts is as uncreative as you can get.
Finland did UBI experiment. Information and results can be found in primary source: https://www.kela.fi/web/en/basic-income-experiment

Of course, healthcare and education are paid by taxes already so take that into account.

But it will be interesting to see how this works in American context.
> Their lives are all about optimization of time resources / time management, and everyone should bow to their needs

You make it seem like they have a gun to the heads of the landscaper they hired to do a job, in which the landscaper now has money to do whatever want to do it with it.

To your other claim about not “working” during those 30 minutes. You are working every single minute of the day. It might not be for a paycheck, it is probably for your mental sanity by chilling out with a drink waiting for some food to arrive.

That was purely an economic decision that they value doing X over doing Y. That’s done with every transaction done throughout life.
A large SQL database running queries from many users, say a data warehouse or a backend DB for web app like internet banking or something.

You can run on multiple nodes, but that brings its challenges, see Jepsen.
Part of the problem is that the education is left to less reputable corners of the web.

There is quite a lot of anecdotal evidence of the damage that can be done by abuse of internet porn. I could add to that.

But we have those with credentials who have made a good career out of attacking the very notion that porn can be harmful or can be abused. I'm not saying it's shilling, it could just be success by contrarianism, but it's still rather invalidating.

If you are in a position where you think porn is doing you harm, it probably is. But one of the first things you find if you go down that path is that information tends to be on the extremes.
Canada, US, UK, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Japan, etc... Salaries don't have to be 2-3x as high (past a certain level it doesn't matter all that much), salary isn't the main reason why french people emigrate.
Why would it change? It's not like officially not being able buy alcohol stops anyone who wants to drink from drinking.
We can pretend that this is the biggest danger that people under 18 face, but let's be real, much worse things can happen to them, than watching porn.

This shouldn't be solved at the government level, but at the family level. By parents talking to kids.

Also, unless they implement something like the PRC's firewall, it will a 100% be an inept solution that's easy to get around.
Winden Cave Location in Dark Netflix; Is It Real or VFX?
Children should be deterred from looking at pornography. Watching pornography of normal acts with male or female anatomy I doubt will cause issues. But what about other nasty content? It's easy to fall down a rabbit hole and such content is available with just three words in google.

The internet is not a safe place and when a child watches obscene content that very well starts to warp their mind and perception. They hunt for further gratification and this can lead in to more murky content. Pornography can be malicious and internet pornography addiction is real too.

I am in favor of restricting content however for the reason that there really is nasty content which young children are discovering and it's leading them to grow up corrupt. If there was a way to divide the two but you can't, however the way it is it's either all or nothing.

Filter it, let a child hack around the filter expanding their computer skills and reward it. That it self is far more positive then being able to view all the content that is available. Innocence can be lost prematurely and that's disastrous for the child if it is lost.

Pornography nowadays isn't like it was during the MTV years which many will compare from.
quadcopter aircraft scale up fine, for example the bell x-22 [0] research vehicle.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_X-22
I broke it down into:

> a.k.a. getting language illiterate people up to speed, and compile times.

With equally skilled people I dont think these languages yield different dev speed, apart from the damage done by compile times.
The underlying reason is that at around 32GB the JVM internally shifts from 32bit pointers for HEAP management to 64bit. The feature is called compressed object pointers (compressed oops) The increased pointer size uses substantial amounts of RAM, a reasonable estimate is that you need at least ~45GB to not have a loss in total available HEAP. Also, GC cycles get longer the more HEAP you have.
However, some workloads may require more heap to even be possible and there’s pauseless garbage collector implementations able to handle substantial amounts of memory, so it is possible. It’s just not something you should be doing unless you know exactly what you are doing.

See https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/HotSpot/CompressedOops
I would wager that.
Graphic design is a bit different in that it take a lot less time to evaluate than code, and you can probably use IP protected work in your portfolio, since it is protected as a trademark not as a trade secret.

Yes you have, prima facie, written good code. I don't have 2 hours now to fully critique it though. If I were interviewing you and using this code to see whether to hire you, I need to do a lot of work to see if (a) you really wrote it and (b) it is well engineered given the problem space. I'd mark you up for the great documentation though - I can see at a glance that there are lots of code comments, and a good README.md - so that is positive. But it's not a deciding factor, I still need to see if you can code.

If I am looking at Githubs, well I have 20 candidates. 20 different code bases, trying to achieve 20 different things. That's a lot of work to weed out. I don't mind that at a late stage, but not an early one. Some companies say - 2 hour coding test or BYO open source project - BUT that should be a small volume and you need screening rounds before that.

However if I were interviewing you and gave you a leetcode or similar test, I know the answer, and I can probably run some auto tests on it. Much easier and practical for early rounds.

Also switching it around a lot of good devs don't do side projects at all. Doctors who do doctors without borders are probably better on average (?) but would it be a hiring criteria?

Or builders who help their local church rebuild a wall.

Builders can have portfolios. Luckily that can be based on the work they were paid for, due to IP not being an issue. When a new architectural techniques comes out, say a new kind of render, they can add this to their portfolio. If a new tech comes out, say "Rust", I need to make a mirror project for my portfolio as the work project is IP protected. I need to build that church wall to get a job if a FOSS project is expected.
The Concorde interior was pretty similar to the first class seating of the era (maybe a bit tighter), i.e. more like today's conventional domestic business/first than Polaris lie-flat seats (much less the mini-cabins airlines like Emirates have available).
Just look at the pictures: I thought the tower-style fortification has stayed recognisably the same from the mid-first century to the mid-twentieth century.

The major differences: scale (13m vs. 54m), materials (wood vs. concrete), and intended use (terrestrial vs. aerial defence)

(that the need for fortification has remained current measures our moral progress over these thousands of years X-P)
I find that calc is very good for migrating data from files that other programs, cannnot open. Import from some random file type, export as csv for example.
Yeah was just gonna suggest either any one of AWS's queue services (SQS / Kinesis or MSK), or GCP (Cloud Pub/Sub / Managed Kafka). A quick search yields Azure Queue Storage(?) as a potential hosted option
This is my first project using Elixir with Phoenix [1]. I found the development experience very pleasant and I will definitely use the setup for future projects as well. I also got to try out LiveView for search [2], which in my opinion after trying it out makes interactive elements very simple to create. You can find the source code here: https://github.com/ArneVogel/listudy

[1] https://www.phoenixframework.org/
[2] https://listudy.org/en/studies/search
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This goes into the how, but to me the more interesting question is the 'why'.

Why should someone interact with something that the author doesn't throw his/her/their name into?

I only have one example of why; I'm a genuinely curious and open person and I like having my beliefs tested, some of my beliefs are nuanced enough that I sometimes break down my current beliefs and my reasons into blog posts.

Things that I think are dangerous or damaging especially so, and those are usually the most controversial things so it's more difficult for people to engage with a nuanced opinion.

In one case in a job interview I had a person bring up a blog post (I believe it was "On the Merits of Meritocracy" where I actually gave good arguments pro and against) and he spent the entire time telling me why I was wrong and that meritocracy was bad, citing Caroline Ada Ehmke's piece(s).[0]

Which, ironically I had cited extensively and was the impetus for the discussion. Nonetheless the experience left me feeling icky, the interviewer had ascribed a set of beliefs to me which I did not hold because he disengaged completely with the article and read only the headline.

This is a good reason to blog anonymously in my limited opinion; you're free to engage openly.

[0]: https://postmeritocracy.org/
If you click on the apple logo top-left, you'll see "Force quit apps" with the relevant shortcut next to it.
When the author started with "this is not fool-proof by any means" the first thing that came to my mind was linguistic fingerprinting.
Probably a large loss for epic too with how much they give away to con people into their terrible service.
> So I rather do lots of testing, for all known test cases.

How is this any different? You can still make mistakes in your test code, test data, omit cases that would fail, etc. I think I'd be less confident in a set of unit tests than I would with an automated proof checker.
Hypocrites (after the high up officials in charge of Guatanamo Bay are still walking unsanctioned).
If you think the interface is unreadable on a 13" MBP, try viewing HN on a 7" tablet! [AKA 'The device Configuration That Time Forgot'] I'd estimate the pre-zoomed fontsize to be about 3px on that.

Mind you, HN isn't alone here. Without Yandex Browser's built-in text-reflow, allowing me to zoom in and still keep everything framed in the window, I'd need a microscope to read most websites on my 7" tablet.
Sketch2Code – Transform sketches into HTML using AI
That just proves my point, uni-time is a dead end.
that faded away from memory mostly because of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Paris_Air_Show_Tu-144_cra...

"During the show, there was a "fierce competition between the Anglo-French Concorde and the Russian Tu-144".[6] The Soviet pilot, Mikhail Kozlov, had bragged that he would outperform the Concorde.[6] "Just wait until you see us fly," he was quoted as saying. "Then you'll see something."[12] On the final day of the show, the Concorde, which was not yet in production, performed its demonstration flight first.[6] Its performance was later described as being unexciting, and it has been theorized that Kozlov was determined to show how much better his aircraft was.[12]

Once in flight, the aircraft made what appeared to be a landing approach, with the landing gear out and the "moustache" canards extended, but then with all four engines full power, climbed rapidly. Possibly stalling below 2,000 ft (610 m), the aircraft pitched over and went into a steep dive.[6] Trying to pull out of the subsequent dive with the engines again at full power, the Tu-144 broke up in mid-air, possibly due to overstressing the airframe. The left wing came away first, and then the aircraft disintegrated and crashed,[6][8][10] destroying 15 houses,[13] and killing all six people on board the Tu-144 and eight more on the ground.[8] Three children were among those killed, and 60 people received severe injuries.[14]"

i mean bragging about how good it was and then crashing is a trademark of the USSR.
> two of the most favored messaging systems on the market

Give me a break, I'd literally never even heard of Pulsar until this article popped up.

Of all messaging systems I would have thought Kafka vs SQS, or even RabbitMQ at the very least
Testing at StorageOS – Kubernetes-centric persistent storage
Great idea, I like it.
If you press fn, the whole touchbar switches to the F1-F12 keys, or I didn't read your comment too well and you already know that.
Germany is pretty pedantic regarding age verification. For porn only closed user groups are legal. I guess providing the ID card would be not enough for the KJM, but I didn't read through all accepted systems. (edit: There is the AUTHADA ID system where you have to enter your eID PIN each time you login). There are very few third-party age verification providers that are deemed OK by the KJM. This describes a typical process they like:

> The Age Verification System is easy to use: the customer simply needs to take a photo of the front and back of their ID card as well as of their face. Then the system makes sure that the ID card is authentic and matches the photo of the customers face to the one on the card using biometric data. If successful, the age is verified – in under a minute. Companies can incorporate this fast and easy process directly into their procedures and identification systems.

After first registration, the user has to use SMS TANs to authenticate each time.

See also https://www.kjm-online.de/aufsicht/technischer-jugendmediens...

Other systems include stuff like logging in with your online banking account so the risk of giving this data to your children is low.

This is all pretty useless since foreign adult sites are not blocked. It just really restricts German companies. This all seems hypocritical to me, especially when you consider how Germany deals with prostitution. I hope we adopt the Nordic model in this regard. Anyway I don't get why the UN don't try to push a viable solution that works international. Everything else is pointless.
Part of me is fine with convincing art forgeries. It's like calling a PDF copy of a book a "forgery". Well, you got the same information out of it, didn't you? If the forgery imparted the same emotion and it's gonna last longer than the original, isn't that a bonus? :)
I got the impression, not that Serbia was terrible, but that the advantage Serbia has over Bulgaria is much less marked than it was earlier.

I don't know your region at all, but for instance mid 80's Računari was a regular magazine, while all I can find for the same period in Bulgaria is an Isotimpex calendar:

https://i.etsystatic.com/6486428/r/il/2fbacd/2104028442/il_1...

(of course, ghits are a lousy way of judging, but since we have many EE voices in this thread I figure being wrong on the internet is a good way to get better information.)
ISO-8601 allows replacing the T with a space, which transforms it from a strange format to a great one.

The T-form is still useful for filenames and the like
Team Fortress 2 and CS:GO were early pioneers of current micro transaction models. Arguably the “loot box” was popularized by crates and boxes from TF2. Players would receive crates through casual play on any server. The crates could be unlocked with keys bought for 1.50 each.

This model was brought to Valves free to play release DOTA2, where it further cemented the concept in the public awareness.
Something interesting about being forced to use the "FranceConnect" OpenID service for adult websites is it's what we use in France to connect official taxes, health insurance, retirement and car registration website. It also use social security number as login depending on which website you bounce from.