skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. "It should be a national issue!" presumes a particular set of policies are enacted, enacted effectively, and enacted fairly.

One could certainly be overly optimistic about that happening. Best case, it makes "a federal issue" out of something at a time when political divisiveness is already at intolerable levels. At least now Alabama and California can disappointedly shake their damn heads at one another instead of being engaged in active opposition.
>I won't even entertain this bigotry.

I'm not sure using a word that has historically been used for people who are racist is the right word when talking about programming languages.
> How many private rail freight companies are there in Europe? The railfreight firms I know are all semi or fully state backed.

Germany has enough of them to fill a couple pages: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_deutscher_Eisenbahngesel...

The vast majority is handled by state-owned DB Cargo though: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/568662/umfrag...

> It doesn't say there are no new ideas in railways ever, but, who in SBB or DB is really going to go the extra mile to fight for some cool new idea?

And... what should these be, ETCS and automated couplers aside? The vast majority of truck innovation are related to electrification (which most major European rail corridors are already, and the last mile can be handled by the new dual power locomotives) and driver assistance (autonomous driving, dead spot detectors, emergency automated brakes, driver cab comfort).

> Truck firms are far smaller and there are way more of them, so people can conceivably get ahead by doing things differently

Yeah, they cheat on the safety rules, and enjoy that every business has a road connection while very few businesses have a rail connection so it's easier to do computer assisted magic in scheduling.
You can't really make that calculation with truly open ended, fundamental research. Both the potential benefits, and the complexity/cost of obtaining these benefits (or finding out they can't be obtained) can be enormous. At best, you can improve the odds of getting something rather than nothing, by e.g. hiring the smartest people and letting them do their thing with ample funding, a-la the Space Race or Manhattan Project.

It just pisses me off that we spend trillions on bombing random people in the desert, yet a few billion for e.g. fusion research is an insurmountable obstacle.
It's implied in the article that the DMCA behaviour began after WhiteHat Jr was acquired by Byju, described as an ed-tech giant.
Spring Boot Initializr on Steroids
FYI Slovenia is in the Schengen are, Croatia is not (yet). Meaning there's a border between them, but not between Slovenia and everyone else.
Why single out JS? Everything developers do nowadays is overcomplicated. See all the posts from large companies saying they switched to this and that for tenuous at best reasons. Then we get a post later saying they're switching back.
Always amusing to watch corporations utterly ignore the significance of the Streisand effect.
Even with my relatively restricted [0] views on free speech, I don’t see why a company CEO should be banned from expressing political views through their company.

[0] Despite me being very pro free-speech by U.K. standards, the responses I get here demonstrate that I’m still a long way from the degree of free speech that American culture embodies.
> It otherwise seems unreasonable to require data-holders (/"controllers") to pay the costs of this "direct transfer", esp. re building and maintaining an API.

Consider it a cost of collecting the data in the first place.
> highly likely the anecdote is supposed to be illustrative rather than literal

If it is a made up anecdote, that would be rather misleading under a headline that says "science-backed".

The article argues that it's supported by data that focus on quantity leads to better quality than focus on quantity.

It doesn't argue that it's merely a compelling idea that we should try for ourselves.
A nomad friend of mine from Argentina moved in with me here in Turkey and she had a appointment from the immigration office on 10th November, applying for 1 year visa extension. Any tips that might be useful on the process?
Interesting. Thanks for the recommendation! Do you know of any books that also account for drawing or diagramming alongside writing? I wonder if those can particularly help for programming or general problem solving.
It's been while since I laughed so hard along a person in a video.
Yet again with the DMCA, this comes down to the problem that there is basically no disincentive from abusing it to remove content you don't want out there. In 20+ years of its existence, there have been I think one (maybe two now?) cases where someone actually had to pay up damages after a false takedown. Meanwhile, it's an effective way to censor anyone as long as you're willing to bet they won't be able/inclined to put up an expensive legal defense.
> She enumerates quite a few incorrect predictions

You make a good point - without the expensive accelerator data, we’d have no idea that these omg ridiculous stupid waaaa predictions are true or false!!!
I doesn't need to end up in the ether. The value/attractiveness of such course is not only the result of author's knowledge but also his/her personality, sense of humour, even voice timbre as well examples and excresises used and so long. And as these aspects are subjective there is one-size-fits-all-style so there is always a niche you can cater to with your own style.
What I love about the Bitcoin enthusiasts is how they picture it to be the be all/end all magical money that will solve everything

Meanwhile the real big money-movers (legal or illegal) are still using bank accounts and paper companies in "business-friendly" jurisdictions.
They could easily decline a single card payment instead of suspending the whole account.
I use the WinKey extensively. My top two contenders are:

s-c sp-copy-sexp
s-b sp-backward-copy-sexp

followed closely by:

s-p helm-projectile-find-file
s-f helm-find-files
s-r helm-recentf
s-R spacemacs/rename-current-buffer-file
s-0 delete-window
s-2 split-window-below
s-3 split-window-right-and-focus
s-D dired-jump

:) The rest can be enjoyed here https://github.com/Bost/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs/.spacemac...
or in this case, just Fur Elise.
> All the locals on Bali are richer and better educated than they otherwise would be.

Not necessarily. In the early days, perhaps, when businesses were run by locals and the type of tourist who would go, would use local services.

Now as a place develops, outside money / developers / owners move in, providing higher quality accommodation, fine dining and the once local business owners are employed as cleaners for a pittance.

It is a pattern repeated since the 60s and 70s with the hippy trail when large amounts of people started to visit these places. Once pristine paradise locations are now over developed concrete monstrosities catering to the higher end - out pricing the travellers who first went to the place and the profits all exported to other places
> so many of the top people I've met were uniquely

Yes! We are all individuals!
As I said, I prefer keeping many things at the state level, not necessarily all things. What you're describing here might be a good example of something that should be or continue to be regulated at the federal level, but keep in mind that we do have "tax dodging" scenarios to this day if you move to different states with different rules. (you can also apply this globally as well, tax havens, etc.)

Over time I've become more interested in the loose confederation of states and decentralization of power over consolidation of power at the hands of the federal government. I think the US has too large of a population with an increasing amount of differences to really effectively govern. If parents want to teach kids that the earth was created 6,000 years ago in their state, who am I to say otherwise? Vote with your feet and $$. If I don't like how California handles businesses like Uber and Lyft, same thing. At least at the state level though you right now have some reasonable measure of involvement. I can email my state representative and actually get a response. My federal one? Not a chance.
I think observing the Higgs was worth the money. We're sort of rebounding from our overconfidence in string theory, so I think this kind of criticism is expected and appropriate, but in the long run this citizen wants to pay for more big physics.
I started off with keepass, then moved to lastpass for better sync, then moved to 1password because I didn't like how lastpass works. Each of them support various forms of exporting/importing logins, so there's not much risk of vendor lockin with those. I'd assume it's the same for other managers, but you'd have to check.

My biggest issue has been that I only saved passwords when I started with keepass instead of username+passwords, which lastpass all imported as secure notes instead of logins.
Open Roadmap for Docly
I've been living in Malaysia since the 12th of March. My wife is studying here, so she has a 1 year student visa. I'm on a 90 day tourist visa, and the Malaysian government has kindly extended this until the 31st of December due to lockdowns and border closures. (It might be more accurate to say that there will be no penalties for overstaying.) I'm also working on an entrepreneurship visa that will hopefully allow me to stay in Malaysia a bit longer.

We're thinking about a trip to my home country of New Zealand, but it's a big decision. Our quality of life is very good in Malaysia, even though we spend most of our time in an apartment, and even though there's recently been a spike in coronavirus cases. It's nice to go back to New Zealand for a visit and a short holiday, but I don't really want to get stuck there until the end of 2021 (or even the middle of 2021.)
> new cold-war weapon intended to give the upper hand in a full-scale invasion of the U.S.

This is not true. For one, the Soviet Union never had any plans for the invasion of the U.S.

One thing they did better in the cold war was understanding the political results of potential military actions.

Because of this, they never had any misconceptions of a major conventional war directly between superpowers that lasts more than two weeks before either being resolved or going nuclear. This informed everything about how they built up their military, from the tiniest piece of equipment to overall doctrine. Once you understand this, a lot of their equipment and thinking is a lot more sensible. (For example, the way their logistical organization is set up. A tank division, and the tanks in it, are supposed to give maximum possible effort for about two weeks after which it doesn't matter what shape they are in.)

Any concept of a Soviet invasion of the US is fanciful to the point of being stupid. Just because if the Soviets somehow attain the necessary conventional superiority to attempt it, and then push it, why exactly wouldn't the Americans just nuke them?
Technically, you could enumerate all four billion IP addresses (multiplied by all common user agents) to reverse it. This is, however, prohibitively expensive for tracking, so I think it does the job.
It depends on whether they retain or can reproduce the salt for a given date.

The rule in effect is- a person knows the IP their ISP granted them on the dates they were granted. They ask- do you have any records of me from these IPs on these dates.

Assuming Plausible keeps the record of salt by date, the answer is yes, we have records of you, because they can retrieve the salt, recreate the ID, and locate the records.

If they do not retain the salt, in contrast, they cannot respond to individual requests for their records and that would also imply they are not able to do day over day returning visitor calculations.
It's probably necessary but not sufficient. If you can't deal with being low status you won't get through the grind and the suck. But there are a million grinds that don't go anywhere. Look at what it takes to level up a character.
If the team people dedicated to studying the problem think that the judge thrown at the case will single-handedly decide better relief than they could even brainstorm, they mustn't be very good at studying the case at all.

What happens when the plaintiffs have 5 secret ideas in mind and the judge comes up with the worst one in his independent process?

How often has a judge given a longer sentence or larger layout than a plaintiff asked for?
it flies in under the radar and hits you at a distance with hypersonic cruise missiles. I think it would be a fearsome weapon even today.
This email reached Europe, and likely in breach of EU GDPR laws.
You're assuming that they are deriving additional value from it. That isn't universal, but the law is.

Eg., consider me uploading some image files for processing and then downloading them. The website keeps those images only insofar as I wish, and never analyses them or derives value from them beyond what I permit -- and suppose the default is to permit nothing.

Then it seems odd. Since this is more like taking my shoes to be repaired. It would be onerous to require repair shops to send them elsehwere.
Which service/software works well for moving playlists between Music Services?

I'm trying to move from Google Music to Spotify. Moving my playlists has been my greatest pain. They usually don't find a lot of my musics, or worse, choose a different version of the music. Usually a live version of the music is chosen, full with annoying cheers of the audience.
We never store IP addresses in our database or logs. See the full details of our data policy: https://plausible.io/data-policy
Difficult to be sure this is authentic but if so this is just the icing on the cake ...

https://old.reddit.com/r/whiteHatSr/comments/jghwoc/okay_so_...
Do you have actual evidence to back up your “guarantee” or are you just speculating? I don’t understand why so many folks come to the internet to pontificate like experts about things they know so little about.

Speaking of, what managerial caste are you talking about? Your use of that term insults people living under an actual caste system.
Old salts are deleted to avoid the possibility of linking visitor information from one day to the next. See https://plausible.io/data-policy
The IP address, on its own, should not considered PII.

There was a ruling in Breyer vs. Germany that IP addresses can be considered PII – in certain circumstances.

The case was brought against an ISP, and the court ruled that the company had enough correlating data at its disposal to make an IP address de facto PII for any of its customers. The court limited its ruling, saying that with just an IP address alone, the protections associated with the directive wouldn’t apply.
Well, it does have actual real world impact: it trains a lot of people in data analysis and drives a lot of R&D in very technical fields among other things. In fact, the economic benefit[1] of CERN due to all these other things has been estimated as a net positive while excluding the value of science, which is either good or bad news depending on how you view it.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf82KOPvTOk
Really disappointed to see technical discussion is buried under personal matters and complains.
I wouldn't be surprised if this email breaches EU GDPR laws in some form.
Don't pan for gold, sell shovels.
It's been good so far but luckily my partner is Finnish so that helps quite a bit. I'm also taking classes and trying to use the language when I can. I've learned French and Dutch to conversational level in the past, but I've found Finnish to be much much harder.

In terms of life, generally in Helsinki or maybe the other big cities you could get by just fine with english only. I know a few folks at work who've been here a long time and have survived ok! In terms of written information everything is in Finnish or Swedish but occasionally (and from what I gather, increasingly) in English. I've found pretty much everyone in a customer/client facing position speaks very good English too.

The one situation that comes to mind where it's genuinely quite difficult is grocery shopping and following cooking instructions. Since I like to cook I enjoy trying new things but Google translate is totally hopeless. Thankfully I've found translating the Swedish to English seems to work OK.
No he did not acknowledge that, please quote him if I missed it somehow. He presented a long list, as fact, and when questioned for a source he dodged the question, then when asked again he claimed he drove a lot one year. But the claims he's making are about other drivers and factors he simply could not determine as a single driver in a limited region. The original post, as it was written is absolute useless ignorance at best and active disinformation at worst.
> am I correct in saying that it would imply determinism?

I don't know, because neither "reversibility" nor "determinism" are precisely defined (this is not criticism of your comment in any way).

Here's one semi-reasonable interpretation of the two words for which reversibility would not imply determinism: Imagine a "process" (I, too, am being imprecise and calling this a "process" instead of a function) that takes as input an integer between 1 and 6 inclusive. Its output for the input n is a dice roll with a dice that is biased in favor of n, but is otherwise fair. Now, this is not a deterministic process, but if you are allowed to feed it the same input multiple times, you can probablistically reverse it.

Anyway, sorry for the tangent – your original point was the important one.
I had applied to a school for a faculty position when I was a postdoctoral fellow. The application was not successful. The following summer I met the dean at a conference, asked about the position and complained.
Actually with CGNAT IP (and arguably before then) IP addresses aren't personally identifiable information.

That said, the GDPR is deranged and might define things differently. Blocking the EU is safer.

Of course there are research exceptions that you could drive a truck through, and logging is still valid, so none of this matters.
Would a coronavirus survive in these conditions anyhow? Or, remain transmittable?
Thank you for this. This is the only thing I can play on guitar and now I can play this on Bongo Cat.
Or, as it is called in English: "lying by omission". Indeed such an idiom does not exist in Dutch. Which raises interesting questions that take us into Sapir-Whorf territory..
My wife and I arrived in Vietnam in early March and were supposed to only stay 2 month. We are still here. Had a few thoughts of bouncing to EU in the summer, but decided against it.

Planning to be in VN until the next spring.
Thanks!! Looking fwd to playing w this one for the 1st time tonight! :)

I remember that film; Glen Hansard's absurdly beat-up guitar (with effectively a second, larger soundhole) even featured in Fretboard Journal. "Falling Slowly" is the song that got all the attention (which IMHO it deserved; gorgeous song and harmonies) but I'll go dig up "Gold" and give it a listen... thanks again! :)
I guess I am not following your argument. Are you not saying that since PHP is less verbose than Java, this is better for productivity? After which you then follow up and say that PHP becoming more like Java is not bad? Seems contradictory, no?
Here is my problem with it (and I am generally in support of models of work that depend less on strict employer-employee relationships).

First, tailoring these rules for people like yourself who are retired (and presumably drive some on the side for fun / a bit of extra cash) has a similar effect to treating fast food jobs as being for teenagers working on the side when they go to school. It is both unrealistic, because most people doing those jobs use them as their primary sources of income, and encourages an attitude that they're not "real" jobs so they don't require this kind or protection.

Second and probably more relevant, the entire framework that governs relationships between either contractors and their customers / suppliers vs employees and their employers assumes that you are one or the other. For instance, in California, everyone gets a minimum of three days sick leave. That could have been setup to leave employers out of it and directly pay out something that has been deemed a social good from general taxation. The way it has been setup is that employers have to provide it. Those are basically the same (since society collectively pays for it either way) as long as everyone is an employee either directly or for a subcontractor.

A society decides that they want to assure certain things because they want them for themselves and each other or because they have decided that it is utility maximise to share everyone's downside risks. [I know that's not how most people think but it does provide a strong theoretical argument against self-insurance]. In the system currently operating in California, and indeed in most of those parts of the world where these protections have been agreed, the way we deliver them administratively is through mandates on employers. That's why we think of them as employment rights.

The problem then with the "gig economy" is that our system is not setup to deliver these minimum rights that we've agreed on as anything other than employment rights. So if we want to keep them, we can either:

-Radically transform the system in order to reach a "new settlement" where any rights we collectively want to be assured are handled by the state directly, and let the gig economy do whatever (since all work relationships will be effectively on the same terms regardless of whether they are "jobs" or not). That would mean barely any "employment rights" because if there was something we collectively wanted to safeguard we would collectively pay for it directly.

-Restrict what kind of work task we allow to be delivered without it becoming a "job" in the legal sense.

I would prefer option 1 but I am also a pragmatist and my second preference if we don't do that is to force certain relationships to be classified as employment in order to ensure that what we call "employment rights" are safeguarded.
Adam Smith observed something similar. In his case it was about nail manufacturing or something, but he noted that the boys who made a thousand nails per day were not only more efficient than an unrelated craftsman who might try it, but also their quality was likely higher.
Yikes. No matter what your opinion on his opinion, the CEO of a financial company sending an email like this looks bad. Whatever happened to the concept of trying to keep politics and business separate? Is every company going to have to publicly declare their political affiliation now?

Not to mention that insisting that someone vote for your candidate or else is almost by definition anti-democratic.
Ack, thanks. Corrected.
Complain about JQuery yet this loads in less than 300ms.

Struggle to imagine any React/Redux engineer I know getting this on the screen in even 3 seconds let alone sub 1. Depresses me how even 10 second webpage load times are considered acceptable in that toolchain, I know it's capable of better but it clearly needs more work to get there than people are willing to put in.
What a legend. I love seeing people be so adamant in getting through bullshit corporate talk, and seeing it actually result in something for once is even more incredible.
Everything is isolated. There's no way for us nor for our customers to get visitor history across days, across websites or across devices. See https://plausible.io/privacy-focused-web-analytics
> "memento mori" (Latin: Don't forget to die)

It's slightly different (by your link [1]):
Memento mori (Latin 'remember that you [have to] die')