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> Ursula von der Leyen did not receive any votes

She was nominated by the Council of Europe (comprised of the heads of state for each of the EU nations), and confirmed by the European Parliament (which represents the European electorate).
"YoY" is "year over year" in finance terms, it just some comparison of data from one year to data from the previous year.

"Stonks" is an intentional misspelling of "stocks" which is a meme word used humorously (like "pwn") and it implies that the speaker doesn't understand financial markets
I meant validate the code changes, either by the party that owns the system the software is being installed on, or some neutral third party.
If you take a picture of something happening on your street and write a blog post about it, you are not a journalist. If you wouldn't be granted press credentials for something, you're probably not a journalist. If it's a side gig you don't intend to make a living doing, you're very likely not a journalist.

There are plenty of instances where someone can fit into the article's definition of "journalist" where they probably shouldn't.
At the end of the day it's just an option that users can easily choose to opt out of.

As much as I would like them to default to and support DuckDuckGo instead (hell, it would be a match made in heaven if Apple were to buy DDG and make it their privacy centrepiece), a lot of people would be confused if they got DDG instead of Google, so I don't really think it's fair to make it out as some "chink in the armour". It's a business win-win in my eyes and doesn't affect me at all.
> Police told the crew they were being detained because they were told to move and didn't, one member of the CNN crew relayed to the network.

Right, they were violating an order to disperse or a curfew. Again, being a journalist doesn't bestow some special rights that lets you ignore the police when they issue an order to disperse or set a curfew. When people are looting and burning stuff down, the law has provisions to let the police say "this is out of hand, the only way we have to restore peace is to tell everyone to get out of the area". And when people ignore those orders they're violating the law and subject to arrest. And so are CNN's journalists. Being a journalist doesn't bestow any special rights.

You can disagree with whether it was appropriate to order people disperse in this situation. But what is certain is that your previous comment was spreading falsehood: they weren't arrested for filming police, they were arrested for ignoring an order to disperse or a curfew. I'd come off as a lot less deceptive if you were transparent about the real reason for the arrest in your previous comment. It's 40 minutes old at the time of my writing this so you have at least an hour to edit it.
Take it up with the grandparent comment!!! I replied to the part about hiring PhDs to build web servers, with the strong implications that they were overqualified (or—misqualified) for the task!!!
This is more or less what dataloader accomplishes. Generally speaking when creating a gql service, graph traversal is not app code but library code.
AFAIK a good chunk of digital camera processing is still done in ASIC/hardware and mindshift to GPU/CPU SIMD/software will take time, so it will probably be a while until camera manufacturers even begin to catch up.

That said, Olympus does a couple computational photography approaches (handheld multishot high res) and Fuji recently introduced in-camera HDR - but I tried neither.
I would expect the sensors are manufactured flat, back thinned down to where Si is flexible and then mounted onto a curved support structure.

It looks like their US patent is here:
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/10/b3/ee/69d396b...
There's a difference between not getting prosecuted due to a lack of political will (i.e. in Seattle or Portland), and being innocent.
If you thin a silicon die enough it becomes flexible. I suspect they're using a standard planar fab then thinning the die and mounting it on some curved substrate.
ah, of course, i mean after all, their mission is something like .. - im not sure if i have this right - "be evil" right?
This is super awesome. Flurly is built on nextjs and uses firebase but I haven't been the happiest of customers. Will look into switching to Cotter!
Maybe they're referring to DocumentDB versus Mongodb? My understanding was documentdb was wire compatible but a clean room reimplementation of it?
And swings back and forth. In 10 or 20 or 40 years there will be something about liberating computing from the cloud overlords. The last major swing in that direction: the home/personal computers of the 70/80s. An higher harmonic: owncloud and all the current self hosted services, but we're still swinging towards centralization.
I grew up in Salt Lake. It's not a very "mob" town. But my parents put me in a private elementary school, and there was this one kid who went there who arrived every day in a chauffered limo. Rumor was that his dad was the mob boss of Salt Lake. To us, though, he was just another kid - never beat up anybody, never threatened anybody, not treated any different from anyone else. Come to think of it, he may have kept to himself more than most, but I wasn't very socially cued in, so I can't be sure.

Eventually his dad went on the run. There were occasional reports that he'd been seen in a casino in Vegas for a few years, then nothing.

So even places that aren't mob territory still had some mob presence.
Right-wing ones too. Both factions of politics are likely to step in here.
I've realized that the inner monologue does get in the way of me actually following through on intentions, and socializing does cure it, but also, social contact doesn't naturally lead to the conversations I want to have, which causes that buildup of rumination you speak of.

The thing that has helped me most with this kind of persistent rumination is to vocalise it out loud. I just use the recorder app on my phone as a "rubber duck". I say something out loud, and it's like it's been cleared out. I didn't need to address another person. Then when I do have the conversation, I'm in control of myself: the topics I bring up are more deliberate and purposeful, because I don't have a backlog to clear, and I often have my ideas prepared in articulated form, so I am a more engaging conversation partner.
This is unrelated, but currently, I'm doing my own basic web development projects and pushing them to the cloud using netlify. What should be my next step to learn about AWS, devops, and these things in general?
SolarWinds update server had the password SolarWinds123 for a ~a year
Thanks for explaining the FISA part. I deliberately didn’t claim certainty on whether these legally compelled requests counted as warrants because I didn’t know for sure.

> It doesn't matter whether they run geolocation on the IP logs; logging the IPs is collecting a tracklog regardless of whether they store it as such or not.

The weasel words here are ‘as such’.

If they substitute the IP address with an anonymous identifier after ingestion, without having first performed geolocation then they have not recorded the location data, and they do not have a record of the location data.

I realize you don’t want to be critiqued, but it’s clear that you don’t have any evidence that Apple is actually storing location data on people.

You only have an explanation as to how they could potentially be storing it.

On almost every post regarding Apple, you insert alarming sounding statements like “Apple is recording your travel history”.

You must know that you don’t actually know this for sure, and yet you persist in inserting this falsehood over and over again.

Liar is a strong term, but if you had actual evidence for the claim you are making, you’d have presented it by now.

When you make the claim as if it was a truth, when you know you really don’t know for sure, I think it’s fair to say you are lying.

Perhaps the first time it could have been that you were just mistaken or making incorrect assumptions, but at this point it seems deliberate.

It’s true that I’ve challenged you on this a couple of times. It’s simply not true that I have replied to every one of your comments on this topic.

As I pointed out earlier, elsewhere on this thread you pointed out that IP addresses can leak coarse location data. I didn’t respond to that.

As for ‘cross-examining’ you, I agree that is against the site guidelines, however I don’t see myself as doing that to you in general. The site needs to have some way of distinguishing between cross-examination and challenging outright lies.

It would seem weird to tolerate polemics which veer into misinformation as comments, and yet not allow this to be challenged.

I’m curious why it’s so important to insert this particular idea about Apple into the conversation?

It seems especially weird when we’re taking about cellphones, whose location is of course logged by cell companies and is definitely accessible to both law enforcement and other government agencies.
I like AP and Reuters for my news internationally, almost everyone sources them. For more local, I try to find news aggregators, an example for Canada is nationalnewswatch.ca , takes articles from across the spectrum. This is really just for events though, when it comes to issues in tech, climate, etc that aren't necessarily an event, I tend to look to individuals in the field who don't go into politics for their analysis
Many use those flimsy cheap ones that are only good for a day or two. Because they are lazy to remember where they put it,they just take a new one. Like plastic plates.
whenever this comes up, this is inevitably the response, which sometimes betrays confirmation bias. these statistics are not hard to find.
The paper cites a study that estimates 3% of global annual plastic waste ends up in the ocean and goes with that figure. This seems to be much better researched than your reasoning it was simply made up.
Have you tried this one - I really enjoy it, but maybe I've been vegan for too long to remember what regular cream cheese tastes like...

https://violifefoods.com/product/original-flavour-creamy/
As a theory, Y Combinator, thus HN, is strongly aligned with startups which, in less hip circles, are "small businesses". Small business tends conservative because regulation disproportionately impacts them (eg. regulatory capture). It would certainly be nicer if more regulation created a level playing field and actually prevented anti-competitive practices.

To counter balance the above blatant and unfair stereotyping above, I'll add some devil's advocate too: "change the world" type leaders might also be more idealistic and would vote progressive anyway, even if it's not good business sense.
Yes, exactly. Nations gave away sovereign, constitutional powers literally after their populations boldly rejected the terms, in a fair and open democratic processes.

Other European nations, verging on 'voting no' were denied the chance precisely because the EU apparatus knew what the outcome would be.

There's basically no defence of that issue, and the patronizing arguments defending 'indirect' nature of democracy of the EU wear thin - voters have no material impact on the EU, which is how it was designed, very much on purpose.

The limitation that MEPs have no ability to introduce legislation or frankly drive any of the real legislative process is by design.

It's mesmerizing to watch legions of young people defend an undemocratic system that their ancestors literally fought for 2000 years to overcome, with literally millions dead. 'Reason' lasted only one generation, before ostensibly well meaning actors took away the rights of the plebes before their eyes, and convinced them that it was in their best interest.

There is obvious need for reform, and if there was, I'll bet Norway and UK would be part of it, and possibly even Switzerland.
How to Create Wrapper Components in React with Props
The Super-est SuperFX: An unmodified SNES, revved up with ray tracing
Imposing a proof burden on someone to view content is a restriction of their freedom even if they meet the requirement and have access to the required proof.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/503737-it-was-sam-s-first-v...

Aravis is a Calormen, but a heroine and joins Shasta in an interracial marriage. And while it's true that Narnia is an idealized culture (like Gondor under its good kings) and therefore portrayed as superior to Calormene culture, Lewis is willing to elevate an aspect of the latter above English culture when he writes "In Calormen story-telling is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays."

I don't think Tolkien or Lewis wholly escape the charge of racism; I think few people do, in their time or ours. I think they consciously resisted the idea that the English were some kind of master race.
Pointing out the obvious, if you have more violent protests and riots getting news coverage, of course there will be more journalists arrested just because there are more journalists in the middle of situations where they might be arrested.
The Master, Douglas Adams, already covered this: https://sites.google.com/site/h2g2theguide/Index/s/840887
Olympus is dead now, though
Not so cookie-less when you visit the demo, it uses Google Analytics? https://imgur.com/a/HFpk8yY
Lenovo has offered WWAN options for ages, continuing what was already an established IBM ThinkPad option.
Teaching people things like logic, critical thinking, psychological biases, etc so they understand it when in abstract thinking mode when the topic is just that is one thing - teaching people to be able to practice it during realtime conversations of unrelated object level discussions (say, politics) is something else entirely.

> I cant think of any downside here.

I can imagine many people who may see a downside of a population who is broadly capable of skilful critical thinking. I don't think it's an accident that we only talk about the crucial need for it, but never talk about actually doing something about it.
This is of interest because of discussions regarding Russia and China using social media covertly.
Another EU citizen here, resonating with your words. It seems that Europe has decided to stop evolving and just do anything to protect the status quo.

All these regulations just trying to keep those damn disruptors at bay. Innovation is forbidden here. But hey! It’s for our own good.
It would be interesting to see if it was a recent shift, my feeling is that is not that recent, but I could easily be wrong.

A sibling comment mentions that tech is not immune to the divisiveness that is happening to at the moment, and I think that's right.

I also think that tech, or just humans in general, are not immune to being self-interested. Once you have a 100k+ salary and potential for more in the future in the USA, it's not in your interest to support social unrest or anything that upsets the status quo. I imagine this does subside a bit once you get real security in your life ( some significant property, savings, strong network, etc ) but there is a large gap between being secure enough to be comfortable in your own life and being comfortable enough that your own interests are secondary.

This _definitely_ does not apply to all people and all situations, but I think it is an effect, it's typically framed as "as you get older you get more right-wing" but I don't think it's anything related to age particularly and more to do with where you are on the ladder.
Ouch. That's a tall order.

There's a lot of stuff that needs to happen for that, and error-handling would be quite tricky.

This would require either having a logic to "converge" the infrastructure – meaning implementing a big chunk of Terraform and adding some features that would make this thing look like a Kubernetes cousin – or having the insert statements blocking for minutes at a time.
I totally agree with you all your points.

Just to be clear: I never said we missed the bus because of regulation. But the fact that we react like that now shows we don’t have other ideas or means to respond.
Only if you consider "bulk" consumption of dairy. Make it a luxury good, raise prices by few orders of magnitude and reduce the production accordingly and I'm sure you start finding ways to make it sustainable enough.
You are spreading false information. Reusable masks do "work." Masks lose effectiveness over time and should be changed regularly, but it is not true that "correct" usage involves changing them "numerous times a day."

There are two major factors that, as I understand it, drive the use of disposable masks in clinical settings. First is that healthcare workers see many sick people a day and they are worried about surface transmission. This is the main reason why they need to change their masks so often. The rest of us, who are moving through the world without looking directly into the mouths of sick people, have fewer foreign moisture on our masks. The second is that masks do become less effective over time, but the relative import of mask effectiveness should be judged proportionally to risk of the situation. Again, clinical workers are in a higher risk situation, so they change masks more often. The utility for the general public is lower.

Cloth masks were called into question early in the pandemic due to a 2015 study indicating they spread disease[1]. This was in a medical setting and, as I understand it (I am a layman) it was because of poor mask sanitation (i.e. using masks for many days without cleaning). My understanding is that using a cloth mask for a day is better than no mask. Of course it would be better to change it more often, but the relative risk is low.

Since then we have done a number of studies on cloth masks in the population and those studies have shown that cloth masks are effective[2]. It is true that "better" masks protect better, but that protection is almost always trumped by compliance. The mask you will wear is 100% better than the mask you won't wear. So health experts have focused on that.

The medical community has done a shit job of communicating this, but that's no reason to say things that don't seem to be true.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420971/

[2] https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417906/still-confused-abou...
What exactly do cognitect and nubank do? Never heard of these companies.
"This article has a Correction, but has also been retracted and Letters."

From that retraction:

> Despite this correction, our work has continued to be cited as providing support for the idea that there are no racial biases in fatal shootings, or policing in general. To be clear, our work does not speak to these issues and should not be used to support such statements. We take full responsibility for not being careful enough with the inferences made in our original report, as this directly led to the misunderstanding of our research.

edit: It's also, IMO, misleading to claim "PNAS has also looked at the statistics" based on their publication of a submitted article. It passed peer-review and they saw fit to publish it; it doesn't mean the National Academy of Sciences feels it's the last or only word on the subject.
That seems far worse than just deleting the function IMO. The dev teams that most need to refactor are the ones least likely to notice perf slipping.
seems like only a C-level could win a lawsuit like this
https://theoceancleanup.com/about/
I mean...yes. The US police department has stacked the cards in their favor, and as with every organization that believes they can act with impunity, abuse all of their power to the maximum extent they can. When they want to rob you, they call it a fancy police word to make it seem legitimate. When they wrongfully kill you, they call it Qualified Immunity, which makes them exempt from punishment.

It's organized crime at the absolute highest level. Police behave similarly to mobsters in Scorsese films.
Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
Back in 2010 I had an idea for a service that would allow people to easily create semi-permanent email aliases so that they could give an email address to people and websites without revealing their real email address. These aliases will continue to work indefinitely unless you choose to block them.

My brother and I spent a few months building the initial version and launched the website in July 2010. For the first year we had about 50 signups per month, by 2013 this had increased to 1500 and it's currently around 3500 per month.

Similarly, our revenue grew consistently but slowly - doubling about every 18 months, reaching its current level of around $8k/mo.

Over this time we redesigned the website, and found a company to create an explainer video for the service (both through 99Designs).

We have not spent much on paid user acquisition, we experimented with it a bit a few years ago without positive results. I think the difficulty is that some user education is required for them to understand what the service does and the value of it.

The website is called 33Mail (https://33mail.com/).

My plan is to spend the next few weeks focussed on trying to accelerate 33Mail's growth, in particular I want to try Google and FB advertising, and we've also been thinking about setting up an affiliate program through something like Commission Junction.

But before diving into that it would be really helpful to get some feedback and suggestions, it can sometimes feel like we're too close to it to see it objectively.

I would be super grateful if you guys could take a look at it and see if any suggestions come to mind.
I don't consider myself conservative or an authoritarian yet here on this thread I'm being branded as such.

I think its more likely that some HN users have gone so far to the left that any comment they don't support can only be from the right.
> After spending a lot of time alone (mostly during quarantine

Yeah... You're not the subject of that article.
If someone would like to arrange a back-alley cash deal, I'm happy to provide a binary on a CD-ROM. But if I'm accepting money over the internet, a third party is necessarily going to be involved, because I'm not a bank and I can't process payments myself.

It's kind of a bizarre criticism to say that Mac software is sold via the Mac App Store...
>To play Devil's advocate, how many of those would exist if they had been separate.

Hopefully much fewer.

>How much innovation is restricted by splitting entities.

None. It's actually increased. What you listed is products, not innovations.
> it's about making sure that mega-corporations like Facebook can't amase more power than democratically elected governments

It's about the resentment of not having European GAFA and wanting to "milk the cash cow" with bs. regulations.
Why are you ready to take police's words at face value, while completely dismissing the hard video evidence that directly contradicts it? This is giving me serious 1984 vibes.
Mindgames. Social hierarchy battles.
I believe your phrase "for doing journalism" is what the debate is truly about here. We would have to have information about the full context of each of the journalist's and police's actions to make a justifiable judgement. As others have mentioned, the majority of arrests may have occurred as a result of strong misunderstandings of "freedom of the press"
Well, if you're familiar with SNES stuff, you'll recognize "SuperRT" as a reference to the SuperFX chip, which pretty much did a similar thing for 3D rendering on the SNES in its day. That gave it away to me from the start.
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> it's pretty rare for a news organization of whatever political persuasion to report outright falsehoods

Have you been not consuming news for the last 5 years?