skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's room for some nuance here. A bunch of fairly confused people with fairly confused goals, and no clear plan to achieve them, wouldn't normally count as a coup. There may have been actors who had more of a plan. It's not a 0-1 binary thing.
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> might be afraid of the US, China, Russia, or other countries bringing their political influence

Incidentally Uganda was previous battleground of US campaign against Huawei with reference to Wine.

>Huawei technicians have been helping governments in Uganda and Zambia spy on their political opponents, a new report says
https://www.businessinsider.com/huawei-workers-helped-africa...

Snarky, but interest reading dissecting the agenda behind WSJ article. Choice quote:

>The WSJ doesn't say how it obtained the documents, though it does reveal that Wine was recently in Washington DC where he had briefed the US government on events in Uganda and had received offers of assistance.

https://www.theregister.com/2019/08/15/huawei_uganda_report/

TLDR; Washington upset Huawei prevented them from meddling in domestic Uganda affairs. Huawei lawful interception implementation erodes US influence operations abroad. No surprise tech sovereignty is gaining momentum in any place that is able.
no point in using it if you block ads?
I don't think Wikipedia ever seriously considered running ads, but Wikitravel did fork over this, and the ad-free fork (Wikivoyage) eventually joined Wikipedia's parent Wikimedia.
One police officer was murdered and congress had to stop their work. Why don't you tell us where the line should be drawn. If they had murdered 100 cops would that be enough? 5 senators? The vice president?
It currently says that "three men's lacrosse team members were falsely accused of rape", and that the prosecutor of the case was "disbarred for "dishonesty, fraud, deceit and misrepresentation".

So either there is a massive conspiracy, or those editors were perhaps not as unreasonable as the previous poster makes them out to be.
Nina Kollars – Confessions of an Nespresso Money Mule – DEF Con 27 Conference
This makes me wonder, considering the cost of acquisition of talented staff why I don't hear about more large companies with lots of capital on hand requiring that people instead of being fired, just asking them to take a period of paid leave.

It would have to be for a while to shake out issues, but if you suddenly discover you need the person, then they're not gone. You also get to experiment with different team combinations to see if the problem was a management issue, or if they would be better suited in a different role?

Obviously you still need to fire people now and again, but this large scale firing followed by huge hiring cycles always seemed a bit odd.
The "squirrel" point in your comment was really confusing, it didn't sound like SQL to me at all.

Until I realised that you probably mean the American pronunciation of "squirrel" that sounds something like "skwerl"? I grew up calling the animal a "skwi-rull" :)
Yeah that's how you run a successful government. Focus on eliminating enemies and threats. Stay in power at all costs.

If more people were willing to do the right thing and sacrifice their political career the world would be a better planet.
This is an eternal problem for radical crypto enthusiasts.
Alright, tolerance without limits is off the table. That is the easy part done with.

What proactive tolerances are we working with? Because the standard on A-A-G seems to be "we're only going to tolerate things we mostly agree with" - which is a faux tolerance. If they can't tolerate the speech of a sitting president then we haven't really reached the point where the paradox of tolerance is at play. That is routine intolerance. To be tolerant there has to be an element of putting up with things they genuinely disagree with.
A really long article with a lot of speculation...
I pronounce it as "car". Don't know where that came from.
nowhere does this comment justify cheating. putting students with an impossible question in an already stressful situation under pressure is the equvialent of academic dishonesty but on the lecturer side.
Things break down and things eventually need to be replaced. This has been a fact of life since time immemorial. I do tire of programmers acting as if the necessity of maintenance is some novel and unexpected problem, unique to software development, presented with hyperbolic titles like "software is drowning the world". Is physical infrastructure "drowning the world" because it needs to be maintained?
You can't put cameras to toilets, you can't prevent semeone from using a toilet, and you can't search someone's pants.
Suppose Trump had said "the gloves are off" and "destroy them" in his speech? Would that count as inciting violence or not?
You've got it backwards; they didn't "kill it" on SEO by making good content, good content was rewarded with high ranking search results. Even this is questionable now that google et al purposely present just enough of wikipedia's content directly in the search results to discourage you from leaving google. So in the end they (a) display ads and (b) don't get the revenue. THis is a win?
I don’t think anyone uses Twitter as a chat client nor does it try to be one primarily.
This is a very good idea, and the measurement of success in these important educational efforts must be: "after this mandatory education that teaches you critical thinking and how to not just be obedient, do you now finally have the correct opionions?"

If the student doesn't, he/she/xir should be deplatformed for life.
It's the opposite, actually.
I used to pronounce "warez" as "juarez" instead of "wares".
If you just moved to a northern climate and have been saying this isn't that bad, then this is a bit of a wake-up call to make sure you are ready for winter. I still do recommend that you keep one of those shiny silver mylar survival blankets in your car. It works not only for warmth but also to put outside the car if you are off road and need to be spotted. Keep a week's worth of good at home that doesn't need electricity to prepare. Power outages in extreme cold are a pain.
In my head it goes like "It keeps tab of your filesystems"
I dont think general engineering exam should contain traps to test your ability to "not get hung up on little details" in the form of unsolvable exercise needed for full credit.

A bit offtopic to article, engineering exams tend to be about noticing little details and not ignoring them.
Discovered this very early in life when I found out that the more adults tell kids that something is "fun", the less it's true. If it really was fun, it would be obvious and wouldn't need to be said ;)
This isn’t an election or popularity contest; 18% of Republicans in favor of armed insurrection and coup is quite significant, ranging into the millions of people.
Jason Calcanis, such a that guy.

Wikipedia is a fascinating story of well earned success and growth without the reigns of vc dominating its trajectory. I imagine they have had a lot of tricky decision making. I’m curious what their process has been (as someone who uses Wikipedia but really doesn’t know things are running behind the scenes).
Russia can seize income from Youtube ads.
"Tending and pruning are not a stranger’s duty, it is through near moderation and free listening that we improve our surroundings" https://scuttlebutt.nz/docs/principles/

What does "near moderation" mean?
Might you only be thinking this isn't a censorsous because your thoughts aren't the ones being censored?
My state exams have questions with 3 parts: a, b, c.

a is a question about fundamentals. Everyone pretty much needs to get this one correct. If you don't it means you don't know the subject matter.

b is a question to test what you have been taught. If you were paying attention and studying you should get most of the marks. It will still be difficult though and there's potential to lose marks.

c is a harder question. The students that are advanced in the subject will be able to tackle it. You might be able to get full marks in some of the c questions but probably not them all. In most you will be able to get some marks for effort shown.
Right, but in russian elections you can look for indicators of election fraud and find them by the dozen, and in the US you cannot. In russia, all of the party's officials are complicit stooges going along with the narrative that threy totally won by 92%, where as im the US even the VP is acknowledging his loss.

There are no markers or evidence of any kind. Nobody can even come up with plausible stories nevermind facts.

So should we really be making the comparison to two of the most obviously corrupt states on earth? Does that help the conversation or just muddy the waters?
IANAL but in South Africa the Constitution and Bill of Rights specifically outline limitations and how rights interact.

So for example, it is explicit that freedom of expression cannot limit another’s freedom to practice their religion [2].

Furthermore it has been determined that freedom of religion is not absolute [3], for example that religious objections cannot prevent a women from seeking an abortion, or for a same-sex couple to marry. And indeed these two examples are protected by law.

So yes you can say that “your right to religion should not limit my right to free speech”, but there is no conflict of interest or ambiguity in terms of how these two rights interact. In South Africa the line is drawn in the sand already. While this may seem like a hardline (pun not intended), it’s important to understand South Africa’s dark history with selective rights and freedoms, and that the one of the lessons learnt is the explicit outline of rights and their limitations in the Constitution. South Africa is a young democracy and these limitations are a feature of fairly recent history.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_South_Africa

[2] https://www.gov.za/documents/constitution/chapter-2-bill-rig...

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_South...
It is a trace of how people saw elephants and their trunks throughout history, this isn't fluff: that is the 'meat' of the article. After all the magazine is about history.
I thought finding a source with pronunciation would be easy, but it was surprisingly difficult, and I kinda gave up finding a source appropriate for English speakers.

The name “My” is not unheard of in danish and we also have a word “my”, for very small measures, with the same pronunciation. It should be close enough the the Swedish pronunciation for your purpose.

Here is an entry in a danish dictionary. Click the yellow speaker for pronunciation:

https://ordnet.dk/ddo/ordbog?query=My&tab=for
> If your only goal is to accumulate as much wealth as possible, at all costs, and as quickly as possible - Nordic countries is not the right place, IMO.

If that was the only drawback then that would be great. But there are many other problems. One is that it’s very hard to save up money and start a business or retire early. Another is that you see very little “high risk / high reward” economic activity, like really innovative companies. It’s a system that definitely has strong benefits if you live in “the mainstream of society”, but at the same time can feel like “halfway on the road to serfdom”, especially if live a bit differently and don’t really value the benefits.

Source: I’m a Swede living in Sweden since forty+ years.
Fear becomes a greater motivator to action the more proximate the source of the fear is. Thus as the effects of climate change become more extreme and apparent the efficacy of fear to spur action increases.
Nationwide Power Blackout in Pakistan
Ages ago I installed a shareware product. And it also had a scrollable "terms and condition" screen (about 2 pages long) when starting it for the first time. When you clicked the "I Agree" button too quickly it would ask you "Do you really agree to the terms you read in only 0.76 seconds?"
There is no African union that is big enough to justify an African only app store. The primary goal behind the store ban is to ban installation of VPNs.
I would de-emphasise pop psychology, and more emphasise:

- clarity: while not everything has a right or wrong answer, but lots of things do

- robustness: it's okay for people to disagree with you, and also for you to be wrong and learn from it

- reason: avoiding the standard fallacies

- agreeing to disagree: individuals you know/interact with and your relationships with them are more important than abstract tribes you may or may not belong to
So who do you use for search? The most mentioned around here is Duck Duck Go but they derive their income from ads also.
I am coming to the same conclusion. What looks intriguing are the Hetzner server auctions. Didn't know ScaleWay yet. Will check them out too. Thanks
They're pretty sure they'll always be on the right side of history.
> Prosody does not “phone home” in any way, which means we do not have a lot of insight into how many people are using Prosody. But there are some indicators that we can use to see at least the growth of the project.

Great kudos for the authors for writing their software this way; this is analytics done right.
I strongly disagree with the 6-8 times, my strategy is one meal a day and it seems to work much better for me.

I strongly agree with the avoiding carbs and sticking to healthy fats and that it reduces the obesity problem to none.

I definitely agree that obesity comes from consuming more calories that exerting.

I strongly disagree that fat gets stored when you don't eat for a longer time. The exact opposite is the case, nothing can be stored when you don't eat. When you rise blood sugar the body releases insulin which is the fat storage hormone. So the less often you do it the less fat gets stored.
Racknerd with a discount code from lowendbox. They let you buy storage separately as well.
They dont, and neither do Mozilla if they decide to use the OS media playing framework.

But most Browsers tends to implement their own for all sort of reasons.
I don't understand the title. Does the OP not understand the difference between Europe and the EU?
You should check r/ParlerWatch, plenty of screenshots without account names blurred so you can go verify yourself that the DC Capitol raid was planned months in advance and violence was in the plan. They're currently planning a round 2 and 3 for the 17th and the inauguration. From what I've seen it's not being removed. Most posts are not from unknown low follower accounts.
Well, Oil is 18% of Norwegian GDP, Nokia topped out at 4%.

Of course I'm comparing a sector vs a company but, in a way, Nokia was a sector of itself, and the Oil industry in Norway is dominated by a few companies like Equinor.

So, not sure if its that much more heterogenous than Finland, but yes no such earthquake has happened yet.
At long last, winter is coming.
> In India, all students are supposed to turn off their phones ..

There is no rule like that. I'm an Indian student. All exams have different rules. They sometimes ask you to keep phones outside, sometimes near the invigilator, and maybe even in your pockets. Some also refuse to let you use the bathroom throughout the exam (usually 3 hours)

But students always find a way to cheat. Nothing will stop cheating.
Do you say the same when someone says all white people are racists on Twitter? Should we starve them of Oxygen too? Are you reporting those tweets?
As a side note: you can use Nitter, an alternative Twitter client, which provides RSS support out of the box:

https://nitter.net/search/rss?f=tweets&q=from%3Adarek_kay&e-...
Mashapedia: Technologies of Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow
Ulysses is really beautiful, no distractions and just a natural flow. As a name, maybe Ensō?
This is great. People who don't trust experts and cynically think that everything is political can readily say "It's really cold! See, global warming and climate change are fake!" Here we see that the polar vortex isn't extra-strong this year, it's extra-week, and the breakdown may send chunks of it southward.

This armchair level of understanding (even if my summary is not right on the nose) is what we need when we encounter people who actually want to politicize the weather. Will we defeat ignorance, or will ignorance defeat us?
I still pronounce it that way!
If you want lots of baremetal storage space for a test project put an old laptop on the Internet and use tinc to create a vpn that the laptop reconnects to if the network drops or changes IP. A cheapo virtual server $5/month with Linux can have terabytes of storage while the Internet is on at home. If you put the laptop behind a router security is not an issue. Cant beat this price. With second hand pc hardware this is essentially free storage.
I live in bcn where domestic Internet is gigabit/fiber to the premises and never drops. yumv.
The internet from the 2000s is not what the internet is now, and I cannot see any "fearmongering" (a loaded word these days) in the previous comment.

Your reply is not addressing the main point: that P believes there ought to be limits to free speech (imo also a completely obvious conclusion). P provides simple "Ad absurdum" examples for why that is. In you stating that kids are "brainwashed" elsewhere too is just engaging in whataboutism.

Can you explain why you think there is sufficient additional value in completely---absurdly so---free speech (as per P's scenarios, for example) over limiting obviously dangerous and detrimental speech? Obviously the crux lies in drawing the required boundary, which is the job of an educated society as a whole and might be in flux with the times.
I can also recommend contabo for exceptional pricing and service. They are very quick and friendly to respond. Maybe you can work out a custom plan with them if you contact them.
Yes, all contracts in last 10 and something years I had were denominated in USD.

Now what you get -- that depends. It's either USD or EUR wired from abroad directly or equivalent sum in UAH if you have contract with Ukrainian entity (we simply can't have transactions inside the country in currencies other then hryvnia). You can't get your hands on hard cash in USD or EUR either way, but in the first scenario you can at least keep it and choose when to sell.
JavaScript is not often recommended as a first language but for kids the feedback loop of web development might keep them more interested!
So whats your point? Culture changes and what was once permissible is now taboo? This is decidedly not a new phenomenon.

I just can't find any sort of argument being made here.

No one can predict the future but do you believe culture is static and that the cultural landscape of 2050 will the same as 2020?

Close to 30 years ago everyone was up in arms that Murphy Brown was a having a child out of wedlock and without a man! Shock! Horror!
There are some companies doing this. It is a way to uncover hidden dependencies and reduce the bus factor but also to uncover fraud.
We can argue about the patents system all day. But we can call it a fact this it is not just "23" patents. I am not even sure how they arrive at the 23 numbers. I was thinking if it was some kind of joke that doesn't work with my /s detector.
How is this so different to a question being included that wasn't covered in the course material? I've sat several exams where this has happened and the grading took that into account when it was pointed out. In this particular case the question was only worth five points too - not something to tear one's hair out over. Move on to the next and circle back if you have time at the end.
Which country are you speaking about?
Didn't download for me either
This kind of article has caused my father, who hasnt seen any snow this winter so far, to buy two new snow shovels for my grandmother (who has not seen any ground snow either and already has a dedicated snow shovel and a plower). When I asked 'why', he told me he read of a 'professional' snow shoveler who has multiple shovels for different types of snow. Meanwhile, in my area we are snow coverred for two weeks now (pretty standard around here) and pretty much everyone in the neighboorhood has a single shovel and a vanilla broom for the task.

Yeah, we have seen the pictures from Madrid but come-on, you dont have to prepare like its gonna be 6 feet of snow tomorrow.
That sounds like the code needs some refactoring. If only to clearly encapsulate individual steps.
I don't think that actually is a mitigation. I had professors that asked questions on a take home that were related but had not been discussed during any class. I still find some of the views on this strategy to be odd.
Most probably yes. And if it's Aleksander (male name), he'd be called Olek.
The inability to fully understand how a system works due to the interconnecting pieces is not a problem unique to software either! That ship sailed a long time ago. E.g. with cars can the average person now repair it at home and maintain the entire car themselves? It would be foolish to recommend that we "fix" cars because of our inability to personally understand the entire thing from inception to finish, yet some feel we can apply the same to software.

Just look at the Windows Internals books to understand the complexity of just the systems in the operating system. It isn't something that needs to be "fixed" just because something is complex.

Everything is more complex than we think it is, and that's not really a problem.
It's from the Mirror so you can't really expect more.
They're not part of Scandinavia, no, but geographically and economically Netherlands and Germany (at least the northern part close to Denmark) are also considered northern european (not to be confuse with The Nordics).
Orange juice has about the same amount of sugars as cola
http://tinc-vpn.org/
works like a charm and I found easier than openvpn.
Easy to run in a lxc container.
It's not black and white, progress for one may seem like regress for another.
> in germany this wouldn't be legal

Is the relevant law available on https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ ?
Thought experiment: can we have a standard TOS for centralized services?

Building the next Facebook? Legally bind yourself that you'll always provide API access and this right cannot ever be taken away to the extent permitted by the law.

Maybe we need a standardization for centralized service TOS like MIT/GPL etc are for OSS. So people can decide more easily which centralized services to use.
> In some countries, you're almost applauded if you manage to screw over your boss / company, by simply getting paid without doing much at all. For many, it's the dream situation - to just clock in at work, do nothing, get paid, and go home.

I think that this is direct result of exploitation of workers - devaluated work and very low wages regarding to the amount of work you are expected to do. People are normally trying to improve their life situation and if there is no perspective, they try to make the improvement by minimizing the work done.

If they are miserably paid they will "raise the wage" by doing less for that money and I think that this correlates with all the places where I have observed this behavior.
But Quibi doesnt own any content, and the terms under which they flushed $1B down the toiled to fund artists stipulate their rights to broadcast are non transferable. What is going on here?