skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that it’s likely impossible to completely sensor information. What is much more feasible is to add so much friction/risk to spreading it, that it defacto is unavailable to 99% of people.

I would argue that legalizing marijuana massively increased consumption (because so much friction and risk went away), legalizing encryption massively increased adoption on the internet (compared to a world where it was formally illegal and ISPs were used to enforce mandatory cleartext), bans on medical drugs without prescription have reduced how much people develop experimental drugs, bans on child porn have massively reduced number of people ever exposed to it, etc.

I think most information bans can be enforced with such high effectiveness that it becomes difficult to consider a society in which that weren’t the case. Much of “regulatory reform” is actually about legalizing and normalizing behavior/information that was always doable but banned. Rarely does the government invent a new type of behavior (patent law is a good example of that).
Does an org document in VScode have any advantage over Markdown? Or does VScode have an org-mode extension?
Certain European wines under 14% ABV, whiskies, cheeses and other agriculture products have been levied a 25% import tax by the USTR since October 18, 2019.[1][2]

[1] https://time.com/5704663/trump-tariffs-whiskey-wine-cheese-e...

[2] https://www.decanter.com/wine-news/us-eu-wine-tariffs-100-pe...
You can use the projector [0] to run a SWF file outside of the browser.

Edit: Apologies, I misread the bit about the Flash requirement only being a part of the application. The above may still provide some use though?

[0] https://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/debug_downloads.ht...
They definitely need to work on accessibility.
Yes! The move to low cost countries is confusing because the company has more than enough profits to pay high wages. I think the company wanted offices in cheaper countries because it was easier to convince the employees to accept the abuse because they had fewer options for employers who could pay well.

In the US, good engineers don't have to tolerate abusive companies in exchange for good wages. Not all countries are so fortunate.
The tweet author? Nah.
The 1910 Manchurian plague outbreak was spread pneumonically, with a nearly 100% mortality rate.

It spread pretty well. It doesn't kill you instantly, so you can walk around and spread it before you inevitably die.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchurian_plague
I think the more charitable explanation is that mainstream reporting often contains many misquotes, factual errors and omissions that you will only notice when you are knowledgeable about the subject at hand.

To be forgetful or ignore this when turning the page regarding another subject on which you are less knowledgeable is known as the Gell-Mann amnesia effect [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes...
No they used state intelligence services to spy on opposition politicians and brainstormed criminal charges to bring against them.

Oh wait...
Can you sandbox the app/block access to Adobe's servers, so that it doesn't get their deprecation command?
Anti-fascism is a coherent principle.
I'm not saying it's ineffective, I'm worried about unintended consequences that deplatforming could bring if they constantly feel silenced and how the violence could escalate from the resentment it can foster in these individuals.
On iOS this is trivial and you have to go out of your way to not do it.
AlmaLinux an open-source RHEL fork
FBI Most wanted – US Capitol violence
According to the Wikipedia page, he did not join Reddit until 6 months after Reddit launched. He was fired a year later. There is also a tweet from 2011 saying he was not a co-founder: https://twitter.com/alexisohanian/status/93374221685755904
I don't think the 100 million figure is exact, its more of ambitious target that we'll try to get to, but ultimately won't affect much if we're ~20 million short or something.

or sure wages are lower because of it. But I don't think there'll be much discontent just because immigration is not as heated an issue in the US, and we have more room to grow (especially on the infrastructure side).

However, we do have to consider that immigration does allow for businesses to grow faster, because our main bottleneck -- population, becomes less of a concern. Automation is a big concern in this regard, but we can just kick that can down the road.
Ah, that explains the minor hiccup I just saw on my Github Pages. I thought it was odd that Github status was all green.
People keep leaving it in the rain
Higher minimum wage, workplace protections, sane health care options, child care assistance to name a few.
it's related. ISPs and telecom in the US do not invest adequately in infrastructure, and the existing infrastructure is overloaded. net neutrality was all about how that infrastructure can be utilized; ISPs want to profit off the scarcity by allowing big companies to pay for priority so that their website would load faster at the expense of everyone else (big companies want this too, and they want it to be expensive, because that increases barrier for entry in a competitive space where they already have an upper hand), but the net neutrality laws used to prevent this sort of bidding for priority.

some ISPs also wanted to sell "internet lite" packages that are cheaper and only allow you to connect to a fixed set of websites. presumably they would also take money off the back end from those websites that want to be in the list.
I thought maybe that was the major incident. All their design people have left and messed up their CSS on the way out.
> I mean, if you count all the content they own and you already saw before on cinema or other medias then you're right.

If you don't count that then Disney+ probably isn't for you. It's ideal for parents who want a bunch of good kids movies and shows. Mandalorian, although it was the "killer app" is an outlier. The rest of the original content I've watched on there is almost literally advertisements for Disneyland. Just buy a membership for a month and watch Mando.
It's intermittent but I'm seeing it on sites that are using fastly (EG: terraform runs).
Sarah Mei did an interesting thread [1] on one aspect. A few months back, they had an unexpected outage that turned out to be caused by hitting 2,147,483,648 notifications. That number should look instantly familiar to most programmers.

[1] https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/1348474269064339456
Samsung Announces Flagship Mobile Processors, Exynos 2100
Maybe because it has nothing to do with being vegan ? Some people are grossed out by carcasses while eating meat. And I used to cut animals open for work, during a time where I was strictly vegetarian.
Maintainers can't. Only the PR owner can.

For that to work the PR owner has to know which branch to target (assuming it's public).

Unless the PR creator somehow knows which release their PR is going to be included in, with a guarantee it'll be merged in said release, then it's just not possible for the PR creator to target the correct branch.
Of course they are talking about the fiduciary duty of directors to act in the best interest of the company (which is not a myth).

And who says that profit maximization necessarily has to be "short-term"? Clearly, marketing themselves on strong privacy guarantees is a long-term strategy.
Trump dropped by biggest lender Deutsche Bank for future business – NYT
Thanks for this, from a friend on the other side of the political spectrum.
Why is the auto incrementing ID bad? Easier to scrape, I suppose, if the db ID was in the URL
It's a status page, so do they need to fix the font color or the actual problem first?
Freemarkets exist in fairytales.
I don't know if you can read the article apart from the abstract, so just in case:

It proposes the idea for the mechanism of vitamin D supplementation to better certain conditions in the short term, but worsen health long term, by acting as a immune suppressant similar to other steroids.

Here are some excerpts:

> "Consequently, if patients with autoimmune disease succeed in killing bacteria associated with their disease state, their symptoms should be expected to escalate, at least in the short-term, as cytokines and endotoxins are generated[28]. Conversely, in cases in which the immune response has been suppressed by supplementation with an immunosuppressant such as the secosteroid 25-D, one would expect to see fewer clinical manifestations of disease in the short-term, yet more advanced disease in the long-term. At a certain point, depending on the clinical symptom or physiological markers of disease, patients supplementing with vitamin D would be expected to approach a "crossover point" when additional reduction of the immune response is eclipsed by the advancing disease (Figure 2). This outcome has been demonstrated in longitudinal studies, with studies on sicker or older patients taking less time to realize the effect."

> "The Iowa Women's Health study showed vitamin D intake seemed to protect against breast cancer in the first five years after it was taken. However, the effect began to reverse between years five and ten and was completely lost after year ten, trending towards an opposing effect[29]. Lappe et al published work, conducted over four years, that seemingly showed vitamin D might lower the incidence of colorectal cancer[30]. In a similar study looking at a larger cohort and over a longer period of time, Rossouw et al found no such effect[31]."

Why can't we have nice things, eh?!

Since, vitamin D is frequently advertised as the cure all supplement, I also want to mention "antagonistic pleiotropy" as something to keep in mind, as conceptual "immunization":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antagonistic_pleiotropy_hypoth...

Edit: OMG. I just realized, it may very well be possible that winter's VD deficiency may be needed for good health to some extent, if the body is indeed more active against lingering pathogens. This may also explain the COVID19 and VD connection, as steroids have been shown beneficial as well, maybe it's the immune suppressant quality of VD, which turns out beneficial!
There is ISP provided 'free roaming' wireless internet access nearly everywhere here. Very hard to block devices that really want and have deals with ISP's from accessing the internet even if your own network is secured.
This is a good article, and I like how he quotes Tom Eastman, a technologists out of NZ (who is interestingly is not strongly in favor of free speech, preferring the slightly more restrictive NZ policies).

There seems to be an appeal to both legislation and technological solutions: laws to break up and stop monopolies as well as people embracing and creating newer technologies to improve our ability to speak.
Affected live streaming on both Mux.com and Vimeo.com (the two streaming companies I use for my training classes, hahaha - so much for redundancy with paid companies. Had to switch to YouTube.)
Members have to pay 1% of their salary to be in it, which is very union-like. I imagine if they dropped the pretense of a union and it was just a non-profit group, they would have a hard time getting that big of a donation from each member.

Maybe I'm just being too cynical, but I can't help think this group is playing into the current trendiness of progressive issues, and some number of well-off Googlers are joining because ~$2000 a year is insignificant to them and they support the cause of unions in general even though they don't personally need any of the protections a typical union offers. Not to say this is necessarily a bad thing, non-profits need to market themselves somehow and if they accomplish positive change in Google's policies this way then great.
I was a lead developer on an agile team at a $10B+ 50,000 employee pet store chain for 9 months, and never met the product owner.

All backlog was generated by having two analysts or their boss meet with the product owner, a direct marketing exec, writing down what she wanted, then meet with team to give marching orders.

Being a direct marketing exec, all she cared about was “engagement”, so our product was mainly just feeds of pet advice, tips and tricks along with a game (that the bored analysts played all day).

The app also allowed booking store services such as grooming, vet visits, and boarding. But the implementation of the service bookings was so poor it took over a dozen steps with lengthy spinners for network requests. Our metrics showed less than one third of service booking attempts completed.

I pointed out that since the company was terrified of Amazon, that store services were a key differentiator and margin producer and we could make booking services far faster and easier with some design changes.

The response was, that’s not in our backlog. So next build after completing my work, and helping other devs complete theirs, I worked over a weekend and cached some booking data in the app to eliminate spinners on entry into the booking system.

I proudly showed it to the analysts that Monday and they nearly had heart attacks. That wasn’t in the backlog!

All they cared about was making the product owner happy (she was a teller, apparently) and all my efforts did was make me unpopular with them and their boss.
One of the up and coming React DnD projects is https://github.com/clauderic/dnd-kit. It's still in beta, and the drag/drop animations are rough around the edges, but it appears to be targeting an enterprise-grade set of features, including accessibility support.

Its core + plugin model will likely be the closest you can get to bundle size minimization.

Until the situation improves, for production, I use react-beautiful-dnd.

Long term, I think this might actually be a good problem to be solved in web components (e.g., using something like Stencil), then output targets for React, Svelte, Angular, etc can be generated.
That and get religious about creating tasks/bugs for stuff you are not going to fix right now for team-level accountability.
> You index (understand?) it as a "Golden ratio".

> I index (understand?) it as a "snail shell".

> Your understanding it Mathematically, I do not. Which is why I said that you assign Mathematical meaning to the pattern.

Huh? I spoke of snail shells. If your characterization were accurate we probably wouldn’t even know we’re talking about the same thing.
Yeah I can imagine it's part of Rutte's brand indeed. And, true, I do feel some pride. Well, I guess it's nice that in incites pride and not a "Damn Cyclists" reaction. It is indeed part of our national identity.
Apologies, should have said I use an extension for org-mode:

https://github.com/vscode-org-mode/vscode-org-mode
Streaming Merkle Proofs in Binary Numeral Trees
>they

*a handful or users. More numerous than hate groups on twitter.
It probably depends on the environment one is in.

I replaced my ISP-provided all-in-one box (Orange in France) with an EdgeRouter 4 and it is many, many times more stable. The crap you get from the ISP does not compare.

The management is horrible and how they designed it is horrible as well (from the OS perspective) but once it works, it works.
Lab 4.0
Article about the origin of the term Lab 4.0
The limitation doesnt seem to involve communication with Adobe servers; its appears to be based solely on the machine time. I suspect that the Flash player on OPs machine has been connected to the internet and updated Flash Player at least once in the last 3 years.
> Don't get to that point.

It should be added that just because you're "done" at 3:30, there's probably plenty to do. I spend the last bit of my day doing other things that are important such as checking email, responding to pings, writing documentation, updating tests, catching up with coworkers, etc.
I recall that when Trump started taxing European steel, the EU looked for companies in Republican states that were seen positively by Trump supporters and sniped them with extremely specific tariffs.

Harley Davidson was one of these companies. They weren't doing well before they got caught in the middle of this trade war, since the "biker" culture it aimed at was shrinking globally, so in a move to survive they decided to move production to South America. Turns out their audience didn't like this move, and its death accelerated.

TL;DR: Trump put a tax on European steel, and the EU snipped Harley Davidson in retaliation.
I actually find it kind of helpful to not try to finish at the end of the day. When you're sort of in "implementation" mode, it's easy to get back to where you were.

After an hour of cleaning up loose ends, it can be nice to take stock and replan the day. While it can feel nice to finish a commit or model at the end of one day, it can actually lead the next morning to be unproductive.
There is a fork that has the ability to export to encrypted zip, plain text, and the full database [1]. There seems to be a general theme of the dev's not supporting export/import functionality [2].

[1] https://github.com/johanw666/Signal-Android

[2] https://community.signalusers.org/t/lets-talk-about-backups/...
The directors and VPs quit, also.
Won’t this just mean Airbus planes are serviced in Canada and Mexico instead, costing American jobs? I mean with Boeing having issues are Airbus really going to lose business over this type of short term stupidity (from both sides).
That's fair. I guess I'm technically off topic. I shouldn't assume the systems we've built in USA apply to every other country.

It's a rant that's been building up in my head for a while, so I had to get it out :) You see these "Bees are dying" stories all the time now, and they use the same sketchy logic, and like to present the topic in a very self serving way.

In regards to this specific story, the article admits that sugar beets are not a flowering crop. There would be no reason for wild honey bees to travel in these fields.

But collateral damage from chemicals washing into waterways, or some bees flying onto the property I'm sure is a big problem. But enough to endanger the entire wild population?
She was "resignated"

In normal situations, they would've discussed her conditions with her, and told her that they couldn't accommodate it. When people resign, they normally give two weeks+ notice. She was on vacation, and wasn't even aware that they'd "accepted" her resignation, effective immediately.

A rose by any other name...
I really hope Shopify succeeds and there are more successful companies like it that emerge from here. Ecobee is another Canadian startup that seems to be doing good

I read somewhere that the sale price of Canadian companies to US companies notoriously low.
I appreciate the eli5, but Amazon said:

"We have a clause in your contract that says you shouldnt print 'kill all the x' and you're letting just about anyone print those. We can still rent you servers if you put a content-filtering team into effect"

But Parler didn't.
I spent quite a bit of time in FX and some in fixed income as well, good pickup!
Actually, most EU tariffs are rather poorly targeted. China is much better at making sure the pain is felt in very specific states and congressional districts to ensure that the message is delivered. Harleys, like wine, is generally considered a luxury good and so makes an easy target.
Can any big tech companies condemn Uighurs concentration camps or this fine because there's a lot of $$ in China and it is xenophobic to even mention it.
Ugh, on pins and needles over here. We have a handful of Vimeo livestreams going on right now.
Precisely. It's unbearable to think that the USA has been building a corporatist empire over the past century and change, built upon the backs of abused laborers and assassinated politicians. By constantly propping up banana republics and dictators, and funding neocolonial industrialization projects in developing nations, the USA crushes citizen-driven attempts at socialism and humanism. Horrific!
Finding out whether an 'assistant' is present is not always straightforward form the product information before you buy.
Looking at the list https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exports_of_the_Unite... there is nothing the US had that Europe can't get somewhere else.

And no Wonder USA imposes tax on Europe since the country is absolutely economically fucked.
Trade wars are fun like that.

Hopefully cooler heads prevail after the wine industry in France gets their politicians to back down.
Dns is like contact app that's managed by a central authority.
This comments seems so strange to me. I don't see the connection here, or why the population in general would follow this.

Tech people, sure. Silicon Valley, sure. But...I mean. Connection here?
> I think you're missing the central point, which is that computation is observer relative. Anything can be interpreted as a computational process.

I see what you're saying, and maybe I am misunderstanding your point, but to me it seems like you've gotten yourself bogged down in wordplay when there is something much simpler going on: say I have a human named Bob from Des Moines, and next to him is a machine constructed to approximate Bob to arbitrary accuracy (this is possible because Bob is a made up of a finite number of particles/wavefunctions). Are you arguing that there's something special about Human Bob? If so, what is your argument for that? The two are "indistinguishable" and by that I mean whatever threshold you have for two things to be "indistinguishable" (practically speaking), you can technically make a reproduction of Bob that satisfies that threshold.

> That's circular reasoning. The point is that qualia are not something which, in principle, can be the subject of computation. There is no way to represent the fullness of sensation itself, like the redness of red or the softness of silk, as information. So how can our brains be "computing" it?

I would argue this is circular reasoning. "There is no way to represent the fullness of sensation itself" -- yes I would argue there is: whatever time-dependent set of physical states make up this "realization" in your brain.
Check out Vivaldi - it's basically a better, modern (non-China) Opera (run by the people from the original Opera IIRC).
Bunch of reasons. The biggest (IMO) is that HIV is an STD. The next is that it is associated with the gay community.

Those two factors mean that it is nearly guaranteed to upset a bunch of religious nutjobs.
Newsletter quotes are guaranteed to not be what you said.
Please point to an example from last Summer of large-scale left-wing coordination on Twitter to subvert and/or overthrow our system of government! Bonus points if it resulted in a putsch....
Same where I live in the midwest, it's better than even money that a tax or bond for schools or infrastructure will be approved.
I guess the litmus test is that it doesn't become inaccessible when infrastructure goes down.
All the Qt Company has accomplished here is to put another nail in the fast, native cross-platform and desktop software coffin, hinder Qt 6 adoption, and push more developers to Electron.

The FOSS world will take Qt 5.15.2 as the last official version and maintain distro compatibility patches. The last Qt 4 release, Qt 4.8.7 released in May 2015, is still available in Arch AUR with 32 distro revisions and a dozen community patches.

They're playing with fire gambling that the FOSS community ultimately won't fix bugs in Qt 5 faster than they do (once they switch all their energies to Qt 6)
I'd be interested to understand the rough details of your system. I have played around with ledger and beancount, but like you I find myself wanting a more programmatic access to the data. Maybe what we need is a sqliteaccounting.org site to explain the pros/cons!