skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody specifically said it. As it says two (short) paragraphs later, it's a government plan. Authorship is by some ad hoc committee writing on behalf of the government as a whole.

Its publication has the endorsement of the chief executive, but they may not have read it or even know about it. It may have been done by a trusted assistant (cabinet member or other high-level functionary) entrusted with the power to speak on behalf of the executive. In this case, that's Climate Minister Dan Joergensen, quoted in the fourth paragraph, though he likely didn't have a hand in writing it.

The important part is that it's a plan that the plan is endorsed by the government as a whole, who will act on it. That's the info that needed to be in the lede. If you have concerns that would be taken up by the specific people, you need to read the whole article first.
> politics of a company

that's not a political stance - that's negotiating your working conditions. It's private and individual, and only affect you (and your colleagues). It doesn't affect society at large whether you have on-call or how sick days are counted _at_ your place of employement.

But to use your position as an employee to push for universal sick leave, or for BLM, which affects society at large, not just yourself, is a political stance.
Still there as of 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_4QrPPPcBw
The image processing community has moved away from Lena. It's a sexist nude crop from Playboy Magazine. It's uncomfortable and gross to use that in a professional setting where we're meant to be welcoming and inclusive.

https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/it-s-time-to-retire-...
It doesn't have to be interesting if it solves a problem.

I write about health insurance and visas. My guides are not page-turners, but they're a welcome introduction to really complex matters.
Check out the book The Absorbent Mind by Maria Montessori.
How to build emulators without code
I guess the gist of it is more that with digital assets you don't really need to wait at the right place. You keep laying "traps" in several places as you "wait". Then just keep on the lookout and when one of the "traps" is triggered go and attack it again taking in mind the current context.
A couple of months ago a big German publisher asked us to provide information on our service (regarding GDPR). I asked them who is our mutual client (advertiser), that is using our services on their network. The answer was: The tracker was added programmatically, so they cannot say who's behind it.

And recently, a couple of days ago, a bunch of German publishers started a concerted action. They are asking every known mar tech company (I guess from the official TCF vendor list) to give detailed information about tracking cookies, tracking urls and so on.

It's pretty clear that publishers don't really have an idea what they are implementing on their sites, when e.g. adding the GA containers or selling their assets. The mar tech universe is huge and complex, consisting of hundreds and hundres of different companies, using tracking technologies, piggy-backing pixels, transfering data between each other.

In the beginning there were three main stake holders: Advertisers, Publishers and Users. When mar tech companies arrived, the amount of participants increased tremendously. Just to improve the delivery of ads.

And GDPR? Either you'are facing dark patterns or you have to select between "ad supported" and "paid content". GDPR will not reduce the complexity of the system. Best two evidences:

The TCF. An industrial standard from the industry for the industry. It's not designed to be understood by end users. The user is facing mar tech buzzwords, dozens of purposes and hundreds of vendors. How does that help?

And plugins that hide / skip consent banners automatically, because people hat them.
Maybe store the code base in a git repository and use git clean -xdf?

Visual Studio's build system is horrible. The compiler and msbuild are actually quite ok if using the command line.
The replacements they had in Austin never filled those shoes unfortunately. During SXSW traffic spiked and all the replacements were crashing and people were getting "stranded" with no rides.
Chicago here, with family from central Michigan. I'm pretty sure no other country wants to take credit for at least some American pizza.
We just have to encourage each other to think and feel differently. More disagreements are good for healthy discussions..?
The decision of how many sick days, etc. is relevant to the business of the company. Social justice movements like “black lives matter” are not relevant to the mission of companies like Coinbase, as determined by their leadership.
They're kinda making fun of that with the next line:

"designed to be played outdoors, in public spaces and at high volume; carried on one shoulder with speaker elements facing the head. note: it is assumed that passers-by share the same musical taste."
100% agree. As someone who is sadly now closer to 50 than 40, I have endured a marked decrease in my ability to focus on things close to my eyes, such as ... my phone. This is especially painful for me because for most of my life I have had better than average vision. I still have great vision at a distance, but at arm's length I struggle. And reading glasses make me ill. It kinda sucks.

So I completely appreciate accessibility options. I've tweaked my iPhone settings to improve contrast wherever possible. What annoys me a lot is how many app designers think some form of gray-on-gray text is perfectly readable. No, no it's not. Black on white, white on black. Something with more contrast, please.
That seems to ignore the fact that there are hundreds of people of equally "honed skills" not having earned $100k over 6 days.

The key to a success of this type is luck. Sure, you can optimize for being on the path of success, but majority will still be missed.
So, you create a DSL for computers (describing the CPU, memory, peripherals) and let the magic tool build all the code (in the language of your choice) in one go.
Anyone know which font that is? Devtools says "space" but for obvious reasons it's hard to find with Google search. Space Mono is made by Colophon but I don't see it on their website.
A simple procedure that's worked ok so far has been to give answers then follow up with, "do you know why?" and get them to try and give a reason for my decision or judgement. I've noticed that eventually they're able to determine the reason for our parenting decisions. We also tend to give our children lots of decisions to make early on so that they're used to determining the costs and benefits of decisions, especially when it's cheap to make mistakes.
True, it's largely laziness that keeps me using it. And there are occasional brain freezes where this dictionary really helps (the one that I remember most clearly was when I was reading a B. Traven story in Spanish and was stumped by alitas (this was back when I still used a paper dictionary while reading). Obviously it's the diminutive of alas, but I just couldn't see it. Fortunately, I was on vacation in Mexico at the time and the tour guide was able to point out my dumb problem. My wife who is fluently bilingual (she's a native Spanish speaker and speaks English without any trace of an accent and has a book credit writing in English) (and actually, she's trilingual, she also speaks French. Makes me feel pretty stupid beside her) uses the same dictionary although much less than I do, for the occasional gaps in her vocabulary (which is often broader than my own, see http://www.dahosek.com/susurrus/ )
Yes. The environment and time is controlled by your employer to maximize productivity for the business. You're free to do whatever you want on personal time, including not working for a company you don't like.

Usually people making your argument also say that private corporations can and should moderate speech. Do you support that? If so, then why do you disagree with workplaces banning topics?
The good-ole be lucky story.
And we have to remember that even the categories here are highly artificial; even people who'd never describe themselves as closet Republicans don't necessarily agree with whatever specific aspect of politics a company might try to target. There are a couple of California ballot propositions I have in mind where polling is very divergent from what you'd expect reading any kind of public discussion about them.
> choose your means of survival as a political statement...[or] find a lower salary someplace else that agrees more with your political beliefs.

or, compare how much you like a higher salary, vs a company that agrees with your political views. And choose appropriately.

What's not appropriate is to choose the company with the highest salary, but whose owner's political views differ from your own, and then try to change that to something more suitable to your own. Or use such a position as leverage to push your own political views to a wider audience than you could on your own.
The only people who are actually in career (and sometimes physical) danger based on their political views in America right now are right-wing Trump supporters.
Screen school forces parents to micromanage their children
Crystal is a great language that has learned a lot from Ruby. I'm excited to see where it goes. I think one area where it doesn't measure up to Ruby, however, is Windows support, which they've decided to forgo for the 1.0 milestone [0].

That said, I'm excited to pick up Crystal someday. What are some good niches you've found for it?

[0]: https://crystal-lang.org/2020/03/03/towards-crystal-1.0.html...
It looks like an amateurishly themed phone to me. But I probably would have thought differently in 2012.
Facebook is melding its mega apps together: Inside 'interop'
I think the answer is, you both use your own intelligence and judgement, and both talk with and listen to other people.
Yeah Iran remains massively homophobic and hostile to LGBT rights - the variety of approaches taken shows that there is scope for the laws to be interpreted as compatible. I'd argue that claiming that LGBT rights are irreconcilable with Islamic law makes things worse overall.
No I don’t think so. Upper management yes. Not rank and file. It’s like if the company vision failed and their next big product fails. That’s on management but not on the rank and file.
> Well, the main news is that Gitter is going to natively join Matrix.

Depends on your point of view. I'd not heard of Matrix before, and don't really care.

To me, it's more interesting that GitLab is selling off Gitter.
Coinbase, and Armstrong, have been a blight on the BItcoin community since about late 2013, one only comparable to MTGOX in overall severity. They really showed that they had their origins in Goldman Sachs from that point onward and that their cronyist playbook would predictably be used as they did in the Legacy fiat system to their advantage.

Their 'social activism' as its presented in that post includes trying to conflate BCash with Bitcoin to noobs who were unaware of the fork in order to bolster the price of a alt coin with no value or usecase just as mainstream attention (read: non-technical users) was being gained, and by extension they promoted Ver/Jihan/Bitmain's agenda and failed coup. If that dishonest behavior of their user's wasn't enough they would later report its users to the IRS and then, as released earlier this year [0] they are DIRECTLY offering Blockchain analytics to the IRS and DEA. And then ban Wikileaks account from their platform.

I regret to say that as a Community we never learned our lesson in the MANY pitfalls of allowing the growth of a cancerous central point of failure after Mt Gox, and that the path of 'least resistance' to on-board people into this tech had many (predictable) dire consequences. I've used centralized exchanges before, but it didn't feel as a enthralling as when I went to a meetup, spoke to like minded people in the Community and bought some in a p2p manner--its really a night and day experience contrast. Or simply got tipped by total strangers online for a project or an idea I wanted to explore as I had in the early days.

What were supposed to be training wheels to gradually create an ecosystem primarily driven to be a p2p currency, as was intended, became a crutch that atrophied and poisoned the general curiosity which denied it's users the rewards that often followed which made this really remarkable.

This neglect has allowed Coinbase as a single entity to now hold a large percentage of the total Bitcoin in existence, not including the large amounts that they hold custody of its user's who simply do not take possession of their funds.

To say Bitcoin can be a-political is grounded in the very ignorance that created the aforementioned consequences; it is by default the reaction to the perpetual failures of the politicizing of State-based currencies and the corruption of Central Banks. It's very Genesis Block states why it was created: as an alternative to the bailouts of 2008.

I honestly don't think I'm exaggerating when I say that Coinbase represents the very worse, and the toxic nature of what YC can bring into existence. That sounds entirely scathing, and perhaps unwarranted to those unaware of the dire nature, but this is really no different than enabling how FAANG has created a business model that has pretty much them an extension of many countries Intelligence Agencies who directly sell their user's data/information to the highest bidder. The difference being that this Trojan horse was only possible because YC funded them in the early stages.

Who's to say they won't, or haven't already, created another?

0: https://decrypt.co/31485/coinbase-license-analytics-irs-dea
It's like Among Us.

Published in 2018, absolutely exploded in 2020 due to a single Twitch streamer. I'm pretty sure the devs of Among Us became millionaires virtually overnight. Influencers with large followings wield awesome power.
Varsity Brands could be Matt Stoller's big break. I saw his substack posts go from 5 comments to 100's comments once he picked up this issue.

I think a lot of people are into cheer and they are mad as hell...
Thanks for the recommendation. Looks like a great book and is on sale now for Kindle:

https://www.amazon.com/Absorbent-Mind-Unabridged-Start-Publi...
Exploring the Abandoned Birthplace of the 6502 and Commodore 64
Yeah I mean it's smart to do everything in your power to annihilate all workers rights, if you could turn them into slaves that would be ideal.
So, if I tell you about the issues of South African droughts in Capetown and now that you know this but haven't done anything about it and any excuse you give me like 'I don't live there' or 'I don't have the time' or 'I don't have the money', don't those all fall under 'we all have to work and survive' and thus you're passively supporting the status quo of bad things?

I think the next step is then I can assail you with facts of every bad thing going on in this world and if you do nothing about it, you're cowardly abdicating your political responsibility, neh?

I might go a step further with your position and say that silence/speaking out are really two sides of the same coin. After all, silence and 'talk' is cheap. If you really want to fight the status quo you ought to commit your life and the majority of your money to the causes you believe in.
The argument that ultimately, politics is what prevents real progress here, rings depressingly true. I heard a journalist explaining that in Berlin, it took 57 administrative steps to put a new traffic light at an intersection (Berliners have a very low opinion of their administration). I guess it's indirectly a political problem because since, as the article says, nobody can agree on how to solve a problem, there isn't the necessary political momentum to reshape the administration to do what needs to be done quickly.
A lot of very productive learners and teachers are advocating for learning through all-talk, all-target language, in-person language exchange sessions, and complimenting that with pleasure reading in the target language. So 0% textbook, and if a course, a course that as closely as possible imitates a group conversation.

So 100% live conversation, with a rising percentage of reading material after achieving some small degree of fluency.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7Xj3rGu1T0

I know it's not a great suggestion during the time of covid. I wonder if the online language exchange apps provide for different forms of interaction? The ability to show a picture or flip through a magazine or picture-book simultaneously with mouse pointer visibility on both sides would be nice.
> a bit of inspiration wrapped around 'try my product!'

Where exactly did you find a “try my product” in the post?
The homepage of the privacy-focused adtech company you run, highlights California's new Privacy law.

Have you considered that this means your workplace has a clear political stance on privacy?
Well, for starters they have loads of energy. And fishing.

Regarding the overall tone of your two post, you should refer to the site guidelines.
I wrote that summary title rather than the original title ("The New Helicopter Parents Are on Zoom") because I think the original title is very unfair to parents. They aren't choosing to "helicopter," they are being forced to by the format of the "school," which is completely age-inappropriate for most elementary children.
I duno. Spanish and French share a lot. I am positive it helped you.
ProtonMail v4 Beta: SSO, Persistent sessions, Subfolders, multi-accounts, etc.
Ultrapotent human antibodies protect against SARS-CoV-2
You don't have closed off bathrooms? Anyway, denying them a bathroom to go to probably breaks some workplace laws. I agree that we need workplace laws, and if a company can refuse to accommodate the basic needs of a worker without breaking any laws then the laws needs to change, which of course is politics.
Some people would argue that -- in some exceptional circumstances -- claiming "apolitical" is the equivalent of Switzerland's "neutrality" in WWII.
Intentional disregard of reality ^ ^
Alchemy Arrives in a Burst of Light
however, he would be still at "$17" of his first icon pack without the exposure trough MKBHD
I think all of the people (in this thread, and at Coinbase, and at Amazon, etc.) could use a reminder that opening the door to politics in the workplace includes open support for, say, Donald Trump, too.
I must congratulate you on having a settings icon not be a gear, or even a less meaningful tool of some sort.
I love what this CEO has done. Basically said fuck off with your political signalling, we wont be part of it, if you dont like it leave and heres some money
I always have the opposite experience! I find the designs attractive but ultimately I find the actual sound effects kinda dull
Amazing how blacklight gives it a perfect score when, in reality, IP addresses, domains, SSL certificates and other traffic metadata are clearly visible to AWS.

Not only the data can be subpoenaed, but it's also being intercepted by the usual 3-letter agencies.

If you care about user privacy find a smaller hosting in a country with good data protection.

Even better, host the site in somebody's home in that country.

And keep in mind that this is still not enough.
Sure, but all of those negatives are also true of the thing you’d use in place of a private-use codepoint: an inline-reflowed image.

Private-use codepoints at least have the advantage over inline images of being “opaquely” copy-and-paste-able into other documents, machine-read, etc. Any system that works in term of Unicode text will pass along the private-use codepoints in the stream, where it might strip higher-level out-of-band features like images.

As such, private-use codepoints are the analogous feature to the .notdef glyph in fonts, but for machine semantics rather than for human comprehension. In both cases, the “reader” (human/machine) gets something that it knows is there but doesn’t recognize, but knows is valid, and can opaquely be preserved and passed along, and potentially “made legible” through the lens of a different eye than theirs.

One place I would see this as being useful is in the display of unique not-yet-formalized emoji in chat systems. Copy-and-pasting such “text” out of the system would just get you opaque PUA codepoints; but if you emailed such “text” to somebody, and then they copy-and-pasted it back into the chat system, they’d see the same emoji you saw originally. It’s like a public URL representing a private document that you have to be logged into the relevant system to “access.”

—————

The real negative of the Private-Use Area codepoints, from a conservationist/archivist perspective, is that unlike HTML images that each have a distinct—if opaque—URL, the Unicode Private-Use Area is quite limited, and so prone to collisions in usage.

If the Consortium had instead come up with a stringing scheme such that any private-use glyph was actually formed from a sequence of private-use combining codepoints [sort of like the flag combiners] to form e.g. a full encoded UUID representing the PUA codepoint, then various organizations could actually generate private non-colliding codepoints without a need for registration using e.g. UUIDv4, and then be able to rely on the assumption that such codepoints will only have semantics under their private system—and any other system that wants to be explicitly compatible with their system; rather than those codepoints potentially having other, incompatible meanings in other systems that just happen to reuse them, as happens today.

Interestingly, such Private-Use UUID codepoint-sequences could then later be “adopted” into Unicode through a formal process. People who had created documents that used such meta-codepoints could register them with the Consortium, where the Consortium would 1. create “official” codepoints for those same semantics; and 2. ship a regularly-updated database file mapping meta-codepoints to later officially-registered codepoints. One pass of Unicode normalization would then involve using that database to replace private-use UUID codepoint-sequences with their registered full codepoint.

Basically, this would take the thing that happened as a series of one-off events with Unicode codepage embeddings, and turn it into a continuous ongoing fine-grained process that anyone can take advantage of.
I wonder how thermal management would work on a 3d cpu. You'd need copper filaments to wick away heat from the center of the cube I imagine.
>Is literally everything in life a stunt if someone has done it before you?

it's a stunt when it's done to trigger the photo-op, rather than the other way around.
And Flappy Bird before that, right?
> If you have to work for an airline to live, but hate what co2 emissions is doing for this world, you are passively supporting the currently political narrative.

no that's just surviving. It's not politically supporting "the status quo".

> abdicating political responsibility.

implying that everyone _has_ to have some political responsibility.

Not everyone cares enough - they believe climate change, but they also don't want to expend energy fighting it - that' snot a political stance. It sucks, but that's the majority of people.
That bug was actually a bit deeper; it merged the functions but would statically fold some comparisons to false while letting others persist to runtime (where they would evaluate to true) in the same build. You could do `x == y` twice and get different results, one of which was a lie.
Awful article. It never even explains what "the mission is." Doesn't even link to the original Coinbase blog post.
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same experiences here. timing and big scale. trends and influencers are powerful.
Also if someone has a recommendation on how to teach adults to think, that would be useful too. Ages 21-90.

(Jokes aside, is it that different? Isn't the larger question: what does it mean to "think", and what does it mean to "teach" someone to do it?)