skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's that website's freedom to block EU traffic.

But the point is that a bunch of people don't want to be blocked from using that website, and it is because of the problems with the GDPR.

The OP was talking about "their" freedom to access that website. GDPR claims to support his freedom, but all it has done is resulting in him being unable to access local american news websites.

Which does not seem like it helps his freedom much at all.
I love how these tech companies are under scrutiny, yet the telecoms with US duopolies are being conveniently ignored. imo this is a lesson for those companies to massively increase their investment in lobbying.
> They've thrown away the benefits of a incredible wiki-based platform (where changes were pretty much instantaneous and any of us could easily make a difference to the docs!), the (actually pretty decent) WYSIWYG editor and an overall frictionless editing experience and replaced it with what, some (not even Markdown) document files in a GitHub repository. I honestly believe this will dissuade people from making small, quick fixes and ultimately drive away contributors.

I'm only a sample of 1, but I once tried to edit a page and just couldn't find out how to do it. So I'm not sure their change will be any worse.
I can't comment on the current incident, as I've been gone for more than a decade.

But my recollection is that most SRE teams would have had exactly such things -- either as really crazy borgcfg (sorry, I mean kubectl) code, or as a borgmon (sorry, prometheus) alert.

The former were a real PITA to work with (borgcfg hadn't been designed with that in mind), and the latter were only reactive (and thus unable to warn about things until they were fast becoming a real problem).

So most likely those safeguards were somehow disabled or made ineffective by the exact circumstances of the problem, possibly the speed at which things developed.
And it will be a very usable keyboard with additional power underneath.
Why install Ubuntu when you could install the vastly superior Arch Linux?
Ancient DNA continues to rewrite corn's 9k-year society-shaping history
> not with a NBC news truck

Reminder that a CNN journalist was arrested during a live broadcast this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftLzQefpBvM

I'm not sure riot declarations are supposed to allow the police to arrest journalists this way. (And if they are, we should challenge them on Constitutional grounds.)
What would you say are the hard things about GraphQL?
I have found these qualities to be more about the senior manager one reports to as opposed to company-level. Some senior managers have a great way of trying to set their teams up for success with as little BS as possible. You enjoy work more, and you win. The company gets productive employees focused on real outputs, the company wins.

When interviewing, I always try to have a 30min+ conversation with the group manager and understand their biggest projects and also their most urgent tasks and see what they can provide w/r/t rationale for these items.
> He realized that nurses were telling patients, “Well, the computer did it—it’s not me.” “That’s what tipped us off,” he says.

This seems to be the real crux of the issue. These industrial-scale algorithms should be treated the same as any other industrial equipment. If you run over someone with a bulldozer, you can't say "the bulldozer did it, not me." Using the excuse "I don't even know how to operate a bulldozer" only makes it worse. I think it's perfectly reasonable that if an institution doesn't train people to properly use an algorithm, take reasonable precautions to make sure it doesn't cause severe damage, and/or has no reasonable system in place for fixing problems it creates, they should be liable for negligence the same way any other operator of potentially dangerous equipment would.
True about keeping housing prices down. Also the money you pay goes to schools and infrastructure. Instead of going towards a big mortgage and interests.
Useful to know ... thanks.
Sr.ht has dark mode now
<ddevault> rolling out dark mode now, meta, builds, git, hg are live
I've used FFMPEG for these kind of things with no problem on Windows and *nix systems.

If your willing to spend the money Adobe Media Encoder works perfectly fine on Windows as well.
How convenient. Just as the UK leaves a big gap in their budget, they've just realised that all these mega wealthy companies are actually breaking a bunch of EU laws they've just thought up, and will have to pay the EU lots of money, it's the only way to redress the harm of course.
You mean like using Google GSuite for SSO? In the context of this authentication-related outage, it's a funny suggestion.

https://tailscale.com/kb/1013/sso-providers
How does the number of journalists compare to previous years? How does this compare with other years that featured similar amounts of public protesting and social unrest? How long were journalists kept in custody?

The number of arrests is certainly concerning, but I think there is a lot to consider with 2020 and that statistic alone isn't enough for me to conclude we are sliding into an authoritarian police state. It's definitely something that should be investigated further, though.
I think this might actually put Spotify on the list. Whether or not you agree if it should be, at least Spotify is no small dog.
Would this mean Apple would need to sell M1 chips for non-macOS use?
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>Physics,

How the physics work in this case?

virus particle is much smaller than mask pores, especially with most mask that worn by general public

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RaBLKKXJt4

> New Zealand, Japan, most other countries.

In those countries, What evidence that it is the mask that responsible for it ?

Sweden, Florida, South Dakota doesn't have mask mandate and they are doing very well.

>So what if all businesses require masks?

very unlikely, even if that the case then if I own business I can have competitive advantage by attracting customer that don't like mask.
I've thought that there was nothing special about journalists such that you required a rigorous definition. Journalists shouldn't have more power than citizens, journalists are citizens that choose to exercise their civil rights to bring information to the public.
They are doing great things, looking forward to receiving my pinephone sometime next year!
> What I heard was that at some point of time, Apple had an ambition for own advertising business.

Yes. Let's not forget about iAd and iBeacon, where Apple was traveling down the same road as FB and Google.
Isn't it common knowledge that Gawker was a media company that irreverently covered silicon valley until it was bankrupted through litigation? The law courts are the main way that journalism is attacked in non-autocratic countries. Strong freedom of the press laws are celebrated, because they are constantly under siege by powerful people, who once targeted, would rather not have them.
This is because Black Lives Matter™, and because black lives matter. This isn’t a hyper escalation against freedom of the press, per se, it’s an escalation of police on citizen violence that came about when police felt threatened when folks got a little extra vocal about how the racist cops boys club has little to no accountability when harming citizens they’re supposed to protect.
I think this narrowly focuses on transgressions against journos.
What the YoY stonks increase on Americans shot by rubber bullets?
> Some people like more restrictive languages, because they don’t trust others or themselves to reliably use good discretion in the use of powerful features

For me, it's not even that. It's that I've discovered that, even when used with discretion, the simple presence of powerful features still makes it harder to reason about how things work. Discretion around powerful features isn't a one-and-done thing; it's an ongoing process of double-checking and verifying for yourself whether that feature is being used properly every time you touch or interact with code that uses it.

A common thread in many seminal papers and essays in the history of programming languages ("Can Programming be Liberated from the Von Neumann Style", "GOTO Statement considered harmful", "Lambda: The Ultimate GOTO", to name a few.) is that, ironically enough, when you take a bird's eye look at things, reducing the power of the tools tends to increase the power of the programmer.

I should say, I'm not meaning that to be a statement in favor of static or dynamic typing; I try to stay out of that debate.[1] To me, the real problem with JSON is that, at least under typical usage, it tends to be weakly typed. (Which is a powerful feature; strong typing is a way of restricting what you can do.) JSON's type system is less expressive than that of basically any well-known programming language, including JavaScript itself, and, out of necessity, people tend to deal with that by overloading its types in ways that may force consumers to use out-of-band knowledge to interpret a message properly. This has a tendency to happen even in the presence of OpenAPI specs or JSON schemata.

[1] Though I'll take this chance to link https://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/an-old-article-i-wr...
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It's not that everyone who's not far left is fascist, it's that being a mealy-mouthed "both sides have a point" "well how were they supposed to know they were journalists" centrist when one side is getting more and more brazen about squashing basic freedoms is just legitimizing the fascists.

This has turned the "center" into a compromise between having rights and not having them rather than a compromise between best ways to administer government while respecting an agreed-upon set of rights.

You can be a centrist somewhere between left and right and still come down on the side of rights & freedoms every time.
It also says their own app can't be placed more favorably on the screen, and a default app certainly sounds more favorable than one not on the screen.
In some of the higher case arrests, it was very clear that the person was a journalist. Protestors don't usually carry expensive camera gear and wear "PRESS" vests. Police don't care though, they've beat and maced journalists in front of other press.
How Did Madagascar Become the World’s Biggest Producer of Vanilla?
Can you please elaborate? How does this work? Have never heard of such a thing.

EDIT: I believe Apple's DeviceCheck API is what the parent refers to. Thank you!
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To riff on your hypothesis in a totally speculative way, perhaps when we are younger we have "more" to give and take from communities. It would be evolutionarily adaptive for this to be primary focus, then. But as we age, we have less to give and take, and so it is no longer as adaptive. Just like when we are younger, we explore more, but as we age, we exploit more. Alas, I speculate!
>>The report used a global production estimate of 52 billion masks being manufactured in 2020, a conservative loss rate of 3%, and the average weight of 3 to 4 grams for a single-use polypropylene surgical face mask to arrive at the estimate.

It sounds like and estimate
I'm completely the opposite. Always had firefox installed on my phone, but it was just too slow and buggy before. When the new FF mobile came out as preview it pretty much became my only browser. I've used chrome maybe max 3 times last month. It's way faster in my experience. Ad-block works great (one of the issues I had with previous FF on android, extensions would easily bring it to a crawl), and I like how they reworked the UI, I still can't believe nobody thought about putting the location bar on the bottom before.

I do also see the blank screen rendering from time to time. However, I have encountered similar things on chrome as well, typically a refresh fixes it. There are some webpages that really don't seem to want to render on FF mobile though (not sure if because of UBO or something else), that's the only time I switch to chrome.
Mostly they are just among very few to support generic Chromium OS builds
AWS has Cloud 9 as a separate service, which includes this kind of terminal-in-browser thingy. This is basically lightweight version of that concept
"Journalist Andy Ngo"

That's a good one, you mean the man who constantly steals the work of other journalists and pass it off as his own? The same 'journalist' who passed on kill lists of protesters' names to neo-nazi groups [0]? You need better sources.

[0] https://emilygorcenski.com/post/andy-ngo-and-the-atomwaffen-...
Happy birthday in advance.

As a 24 y/o who struggled with forming meaningful friendships in my teen years, your comment as someone in their 40s was soothing.

I'd like to reach that stage of life where I internalize the fact that other's validation doesn't matter as much as I think it does.

I completely and wholly understand -- intellectually -- that other folks opinion and/or attention toward me shouldn't have an impact on my self-esteem and well-being (and just like many others, I've even read whole books on this very topic), but putting it into practice has been a struggle and I find it super hard to fight against the in-built and well-oiled 'validation seeking' neural circuitry up in my head.
Well, there are some standard ways, just like when you do research:

1. Check out a bunch of their articles on various topics, the more controversial the better. That way you can kind of gauge which way they lean.

2. Find some other source, preferably several, check out their biases they same way.

3. Then compare some articles about the same thing, from all these sources.

Look for stuff like references, sources, lack of weasel words or outrage inducing phrasing, aggrandizing vocabulary, etc. The more boring an article sounds, the more likely it is that the reporting is solid.

Yes, it's a lot of work, but you don't have to do it for every article, you do it maybe once every few years, to re-evaluate the options.
This is amazing work. Thank you for sharing it!
Both of those requests can be sent. CORS just stops the response from being read. It’s up to web servers on localhost to assume they’re at just as much risk as any other non-local service, and they often fail to do so. (See also DNS rebinding that nets an attacker the opposite set of permissions, in a sense.)
Indeed, they are many times ahead any previous take on open source hardware exactly because they are pragmatic, without big nebulous plans to attract the crowd, and money.

The later proves to be too easy, and actually doing something with the money raised is much harder that "go to the first ODM behind the corner"

Too many Kickstarter crowd people chose the "go to the first ODM behind the corner" route, and get burned over, and over, and over again.
Yes, despite how the police treated journalists.

I am not a journalist, so I do not know how they respond to this pressure first-hand. I suspect, though, that there is a silencing effect when it's easier, safer, and less costly to report on celebrity gossip and easily-obtainable police reports than things the police prefer they don't report on.

My point is, I suppose, that the media can appear fully engaged and "busy" without generating any of the "fourth estate" corrective pressure that is so vital for a healthy society. We may never know what was not reported on.
I am often on #esoteric on Freenode
While there is a large catalog of such games that exist historically, I feel like mainstream AAA and nearly AAA developers have largely abandoned this model. Good standalone experiences do come out, but they're the exception at this point and I imagine their marketshare is declining. They're just less profitable (and probably harder to make) than live service games.
I think there is a confusion between shallow social interactions and a group of close friends. Most people like to have a group of friends that is close to them and they can talk to without filters but don't like small talk and shallow interactions. People feel lonely when they don't have this close group of friends, not when they can't do some small talk in social events.
> The hatred so many people have towards sex work is very interesting to me. Yet they consume work of sex work, without shame, and without expecting to pay for it - effectively increasing exploitation.

I don't understand this statement. Are you implying that the people who "hate" sex work are the main consumers of porn/prostitutes? And that they do so without any shame and without paying for it?
> it's not GDPR's fault

It absolutely is the fault of GDPR that now a bunch of websites in the US are blocking him.

There was a new law, and now a bunch of newspapers responded to that law. As predicted.

It was entirely predicted that this was going to be the result of GDPR. It should be obvious that some companies would simply block people from the EU, and those people could be worse off for being blocked.

> The fact you're tired of popups shows that GDPR is working

But the person does not want those popups. They simply don't care that much about data tracking. And instead, they are more annoyed by the popups. This is a negative consequence that you have to recognize.

> Do you think it would be "freedom" to waive all of your waivable rights

Well here is a better solution. The people who want the popups to show up, all the time, with the horrible UI, could have that. But what if, for everyone else, we had a single click button that said "ignore all this GDPR stuff, and go back to how it was before".

That way, people for prefer the frequent popups can have them, and the people who don't want that, can just agree to all of it, at once, and not have to worry about it anymore, if we choose do so.

That would be a choice, right? Thats freedom.
If someone asks you for a definition of 'rabbit' and you tell them it's 'something that is rabbity' then they're going to ask you what is 'rabbity'... and likely you'd reply 'it's like a rabbit'. Goes in a circle, see?

A journalist is someone who does journalistic things. What are journalistic things? Well they're things a journalist does.
“Fraudsters” can already reset the IDFA from the iOS Settings by turning off personalized ads in the Privacy section.
What about firebase hosting ?
Gawker is a bad example... Nick Denton was known for being happy to gossip and libel; he always said his victims loved the attention, and that if they hated it so much, they could always sue him. Eventually, some did.
Exactly. At some point, someone somewhere will have a bad day / sneeze on a keyboard at just the perfectly wrong time -- at Google's scale, that's statistically a daily (hourly?) occurrence.

Quota systems for the win -- if only as a shared agreement on who can do how much damage / take how much resources before they're automatically stopped and more resources must be justified through some review process (likely involving budgetary concerns).
They are good for different use cases. There's no "better" without some very specific context.
> "Would you give me your home address and keys so I can drop off a newspaper on your coffee table each morning?"

... Oh. And BTW. I'll be making some copies of your keys to give to a bunch of others interested in placing adds on your coffee table (or so they claim). I'll also go through all your drawers to see if I can't find any other keys/access cards/... to gain access to your office or your colleages' offices, friends' or family's homes, etc. just so I can provide them with the same adds "service" as I intend to provide you. Of course I don't remind you of any of this. Nor do I tell your colleagues, friends, family, etc. After all. What you don't know will aid me and what they don't know will aid me. ;-)
It's not that their tech is bad, it's that the company is evil. Stuff like this, for instance: https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/950n15/amazon_...
Because not everyone wants to live on the bleeding edge. Because typing ‘pacman -Syu’ 7 times a week gets annoying. Because you want to use the apt/.deb package ecosystem. Because Ubuntu is easier to install, and doesn’t require you to make a huge number of choices about what packages to install. Because you want to use Proton, Lutris and Steam without needing to patch things. Because most $BIGCORP orgs don’t realize that there are ecosystems besides .deb and .rpm. Because Ubuntu is what you already know.

Don’t get me wrong: I am a big fan of Arch, but there are a lot of reasons to not prefer it over Ubuntu.
Really cool.

If I could create resources with INSERT statements, even better.
The not allowing uninstallable apps part is interesting. Looking through their FAQ, they don't really seem to define what a "app" is. Could this not mean the entire OS should be replaceable with one that wasn't made by a "gatekeeper"? Because if say, Apple, allows you to remove Messages.app but keeps the Messages API private or locked behind an Apple-only entitlement, that isn't very useful, and the user should be able to load another OS at their discretion that lets them run whatever SMS client they want. Unless they want to require that all of the system services be able to be accessed by whatever app the user installs, which seems like a bigger kettle of fish.
How dare you talk about my "privilege."
Hey, young fellow. Your chances are probably better than you think, if my experience is any indication, but your approach may be way off.

1) Start lifting weights. Helps boost your confidence and your T levels, making you more attractive.

2) If you do not yet practice the rudiments of grooming, do so. Shower every day, shave, comb your hair. Make sure your clothes are clean and you don't smell.

3) The key to engaging with women is: when you encounter a new one, always be kind to her and treat her with the basic amount of courtesy and respect due another human being but no more. Avoid fawning over her, no matter how cute or hot you find her. Keep it in the back of your brain that she's just a woman, just a human, and may be as messed up as you are if not more so. Hold the door open for her, help her load her groceries, or whatever -- then disengage. If you get a smile or thank you, savor it. A smile or thank you from a pretty girl is a tiny gift, and we accept gifts graciously and appreciatively without hoping for more.

It's kind of this weird tension. You can't give off "looking for a date" vibes. If a girl is to any extent cute she will know it, and she will be able to use that to control the interaction if you seem too desperate. The vibe to cultivate is basically pleasant, but somewhat aloof. Make her feel like she has to work to prove herself to you. If she's at all interested, she will put in the work. You've gotta do this with multiple women, keeping them in your friend circle while not giving off thar you want to get closer -- that is not until they signal they want the same (and they will in unambiguous terms!). And it may take years to get there. Anyone who tells you finding a good partner is quick or easy is selling something.
"The report used a global production estimate of 52 billion masks being manufactured in 2020, a conservative loss rate of 3%"

However I didn't see a link to the report itself which prevents me from speaking on the methodology of the loss rate value.
To be clear, movie and music ratings aren't censorship. Moreover, only broadcast television and radio are censored (perhaps because radio waves are a public platform?). I'm not going to argue that censoring broadcast is ideal or valid, but I'm certainly less sympathetic to the plight of massive media companies than I am to millions of private citizens.
The problems you described can be easily solved: https://wundergraph.com/features/caching
What you gain is the flexibility of GraphQL together with the performance and cacheability of REST.
Fun, thanks for that. I clearly stopped paying attention too early. Awesome they stuck to it.
No I'm implying that essentially everyone consumes porn. Despite the majority (probably majority?) being very against sex work.