skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about from a different angle, without this law if someone wants to keep me alive at all costs against my will and force me to live in agony they an "apply all sorts of trickeries" to do so. For me, extreme prolonged agony is a fate worse than death. Death does not scare me, profound suffering does.

Again, the law you're after here is preventing elder abuse. This is indeed something we should pay great attention to and try as best we can to carry out the wishes of the elderly. This abuse is no uncommon, even if it's comparatively benign by changing estate inheritance at the end of life for instance.

It really has nothing to do with assisted suicide.
DC - Maryland - Virginia. Basically Northern Virginia to Baltimore as one larger metro area.
In theory - I’m still waiting for my copy and Amazon now says it’s unavailable.
I would question the sanity of this refactoring team after 1 month of reading code written by so many people ^^

Joke aside, they would not even need to code IMHO, just be able to ask questions like:

- why is it done this way?
- we found common code in those subsystems, do you think we could generalize or do you have other concerns?
> But the betrayal at the end just makes zero sense

It's more surprising than we expect from Disney: there's no 'villain song' explaining the villain's private intent.

I liked it that way. It felt real to me. I felt that I had been tricked, even after the naivety of the love/relationship was heavily foreshadowed. (I felt that) we experience the scene more exactly as Anna does.
D.C. Maryland Virginia
I can't tell whether or not your response was meant to be in jest, but "whataboutism" is a variety of tu quoque involving a third party.
In order to appreciate it, it is necessary to understand the difficulty of implementing something like that on an 8-bit computer from the 80s with 256 bytes of code, which is really impressive by itself. It doesn't hurt its ability to impress that the creation shows a great, coherent artistic vision, which results in an enticing, enjoyable, meaningful viewing experience - which of course is only accessible to people with the required type and amount of sensitivity.
30 years without having to use tech is a privilege
Thanks so much for the info.

I was just wondering about Israel -- they vaccinated sooo many people, if this was an issue with the body's reaction to the S protein, it should pop up in Israel too.
This project literally is the foreign invasion.

> Some international financing has been secured for rail links, and a $3 billion Chinese loan has helped fund the business district, built by China State Construction Engineering Corp (CSCEC).
To that point, I was thinking that.. in some countries, even if you are jailed for murder, after some time served, you may request and can be allowed to take some 'leave' (24/48h). Didn't he get the chance to take any such 'leaves' in the US? I honestly don't know US Justice system. Would there be the chance that his crime was so severe to not be allowed to get a leave at all for 30 years?
DC, Maryland, Virginia. The 3 share common borders and most of the DC politicians and workers actually live in the 2 states. It's only fairly recent that having a residence in DC became fashionable.
DC, Maryland, Virginia. Really as far as I know it just means like DC and its various exurbs. Not sure if even Baltimore is considered in the DMV.
The Art of Warez Documents the Lost ANSI Art Scene (2019)
My opinion (programming with Rust since May 2015): Rust is complex but 2020 I discovered that in «This week in Rust» [0] many weeks pass with the section

New RFCs

No new RFCs were proposed this week

This shows that the rapid pace of change already started to slow.

[0]: https://this-week-in-rust.org/
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My brother in-law works for the NHS. In every hospital and in every year, he's seen countless cases of families dropping their elderly relatives off for no reason other than to go off on holiday. The chance this law wont be used maliciously is zero.
In contrast, I am sure we all know some older people who were not in prisson for the past 30 years and still don't know how to write an email, what a zoom call is or when it's appropriate to double-click vs single click items on a computer.

I know people in their 50s who pretend that "they don't need this technology" or "I can just go to the bank if I need something". Sure, if you're in your 80s you might want to dodge most of the digital stuff. But in your 50s? You're gonna have to live with an increasing digitalization for multiple decades.

Rant: If you are not an IT person and need to work with Excel and PowerPoint for the next 20 years then ffs sit down and learn the in-depth tools and tricks in the tools over the span of two weekends.
Can please you share the imdb link/name of the documentary?
I think that the main point of the article is that a company’s data strategy should result in discrete data products aligned with business domains. A domain-oriented team should be responsible for each data product. Data infrastructure should cover universal data-processing concerns, but should not include business logic. These characteristics contrast with a centralized data lake, where a single organization is responsible for both the infrastructure and content of the data resource.
Are those supermarkets really all that French or Belgian anymore?

In practice, many large companies are owned by investors from all over the world looking for diversification.
I had a similar "variables" problem when designing a choose-your-own-adventure book with my kids. I wanted your character to be able to reach the same pages but have state -- e.g. have a key or not have a key. I didn't want to have to duplicate pages with different state (which I kind of remember from old CYOA books -- there's be pages with almost the same thing, but now slightly different because you entered the room with a sword or whatever).

In the end, because it's a book and not a computer game, we could just ask the user: "If you have a key, turn to page 43..." and it just depends on the user being honest (or as honest as any reader of a CYOA book is, with nine fingers stuck between pages).

I assume there were similar books in the past that used the same mechanic -- maybe the Fighting Fantasy books? I forget.
People frequently show more affection in movies to animals than to humans. The Walking Dead spent years graphically and brutally killing humans both dead and undead and no one flinched. Then one episode the starving protagonists killed a pack of feral dogs for food and suddenly there were tears shed.
The first question is: where are the main markets for chocolate? If Ghana loses access to a large percentage of the global chocolate market, controlling half the supply is as much a liability.

The second question is: Is there any reason cocoa can't be grown elsewhere, or the second biggest producer can't increase production?
And this is why the consent information/opt-in/out boxes ought to be able to run with JS disabled, too. It's easy enough to do that... but that easy if it's something that gets put on the site via JS.
I think Syncthing could be better for those purposes. I use that for synching my homes (config files and essential work files, keys and so on) between my desktop and laptop.

I have a copy running in my NAS to always have a copy available, one in my laptop, one in my desktop, and I was thinking about having one in my phone to run only when I'm charging (so I don't kill my battery).
I can't imagine that prison life is so disconnected from the rest of society; it certainly isn't in Europe.
This is a wonderful article! This is exactly what I need, I can’t wait to implement this! Thank you both author and person that posted this ^^
It depends on requirements. It could be a simple log file, or it could be a complete rewrite of the internal tool and database. I would not recommend use an external tool because then the user has double work to do (change entries + add action trail).
To be fair its not like they are moving the capitol hundreds of miles away inland. The new location is almost a suburb. Also Cairo gotta be one of the biggest craziest urban jungles in existence. Having grown organically since the beginning of time basically. Not to say this isn't political motivated, but sometimes is better to build up from scratch.
Frozen makes a lot more sense if you consider the hero AND the villain to both be Elsa.

The apparent “villains” in the movie are just plot advancement tools and don’t bear looking too deep at.
The list of purpose built national capitals is actually pretty interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_purpose-built_national...

Constantinople lasted over 1100 years.... and Washington seems to be the capital of a reasonably prosperous and stable country?
He does not say anywhere he is British. He only says he works in central London.
To the point that when I traveled around a couple of years ago along the coast, most people I met along the way seemed to be more confortable speaking German than English.
That's where China was smart I guess. They didn't sign any treaty which forced them into free trade or IP protection, but instead slowly allowed their industries to build up via IP theft and strong protectionism. Now they have giant companies on par with the West's. Whereas everyone who joined the EU in the decade of 2000 (and the Washington Consensus before that in the nineties) is now a pawn of the Western capital with no clear path of escaping the trap of mediocrity.

So far, the standard of living in post-Soviet EU countries is still higher than in China, but that's because of the much better starting point and also because it's just hard to provide wealth for over a billion people in a modern, heavily automated economy. However, even with their gargantuan population size, I see China potentially overtaking Poland or Czech Republic in terms of quality of living in the next 50-100 years.
"Didn't he get the chance to take any such 'leaves' in the US?"

Probably not. I'm sure some programs exist like that, but it's complicated. In the US, most prisoners are in State, not Federal prisons. Every state, and even every prison, has different programs and rules. Also, in general, US culture views prison as pure punishment and not rehabilitation.
The law that has been passed requires that the person who is going to die gives consent twice, with a 15 days difference, and that a medical comission approves the decision. It has nothing to do with someone else deciding for you.
Thanks for clarification withoutboats2!
It's really confusing as Nim's move semantics "feel" very similar to Rust's (except that Nim is more relaxed regarding "use after move" - it simply performs a copy). I'll need to learn a lot more about the different concepts.
They can't possibly believe their argument right, it's just a joke? Arendelle isn't a real kingdom. You can't cite the real world except as a joke.
UC Berkeley, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, MIT.
This is a curious take I’ve noticed in various conversations. Instead of talking about the merits of the discussion, the discussion shifts to why someone is so interested in it. As if it’s not right or appropriate to be interested and discuss.

I think this is a characteristics of the “conflict v. mistake theory” [0] where I’m already on a side, try to find an argument for or against and then make it even if it’s not reasonable.

Greenwald writes a lot. He’s written a few articles on the HunterBiden laptop story, but not like he writes every day.

I don’t think it’s unusual to write about this topic given everything else he writes on. Framing this as a “hill to die on” seems disingenuous and not really relevant to the article under discussion, or Greenwald in general.

I can understand arguing on the merits of the topic on whether it is or is not Russian propaganda, but bringing up how Greenwald shows a normal amount of interest seems odd. It seems the summary of OP’s comment is “Greenwald sucks and chooses bad topics.”

My reasoning on how to interpret this, and I may be wrong, is that the belief that Greenwald sucks existed before this article and this thread. And trying to find some reason to discuss the suckers, OP came up with the rhetorical doozy that he reports on this topic too frequently.

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/24/conflict-vs-mistake/
And that itself is a great way to kill innovation and advancement. The core reason cities are good at economic growth is the mixture of dissimilar ideas.
Its development was originally sponsored by Mozilla. But they recently laid off most the Rust team. However, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon now all have Rust teams employing core developers.
I wish apple would support a couple extra kernel features (like bind mounts) so we can have native macOS 'containers' instead of this nonsense. Running MySQL by running qemu inside a Linux VM is just insane. Nix can fill some of the same roles, but it doesn't work on M1 yet
This will come in handy when bitcoin finally... you know.
As I said, there are hundreds of other ways to fingerprint you. If the number of users who block tracking cookies reaches a critical mass, advertisers would switch to those.
Probably SPARK (programming language derived from Ada with advanced proof capabilities). The next release of SPARK will support pointer ownership similar to the Rust borrow checker:

https://blog.adacore.com/using-pointers-in-spark

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.07047.pdf

Concurrency in Ada is very easy. I haven't used SPARK enough to be familiar with its concurrency, but it looks very similar to Ada, but with added restrictions to allow for proofs:

https://docs.adacore.com/spark2014-docs/html/ug/en/source/co...
I remember that one of Spider Robinson's Callahan's crosstime saloon stories (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callahan%27s_Crosstime_Saloon) had a similar situation with a guy getting back from being a prisoner of war or in prison in solitary for a couple of decades and being in effect a stranded time traveler (somewhat fuzzy on the details as I read it probably about 40 years ago - ironically enough)

I also recall that there was a little fandom controversy at the time where people complained that it wasn't really a time travel story and what was this jerk Spider Robinson trying to pull anyway!
Until someone shows me actual evidence of a ban being applied or at least some concrete plan with penalities for violations, what I have just read are nothing more than rhetoric and posturing.

Banning the export of a commodity is very hard. It works when the supply could be drastically reduced in the short term (1973 Arab oil embargo), or when the product has already failed in the market and they need government intervention to save face (recent Russian ban on raw timber export). In any other case, the goods will always find a way through the controls to meet the demand.
not everyone who gets ignored, laughed at, or attacked ends up winning

sometimes they just end up ignored and/or laughed at
According to Finnish data protection ombudsman, data subject has right to object in case of legitimate or public interest. Data subject does not have right to object when it's based on contract or legal obligations.

https://tietosuoja.fi/en/what-rights-do-data-subjects-have-i...

Objection itself may or may not stop the processing of data. Usually it should, but there are some situations where it would still be allowed (e.g. "a task in the public interest that requires scientific or historical research or the compilation of statistics")

https://tietosuoja.fi/en/controller-s-legitimate-interests

Now I don't know if there has been any decisions or not based on what kind of tracking would actually be legitimate interest (the text on the website is very ambiguous)
It seems to be ramping up now. It was only 4 years ago that my bank drastically cut the number of "real people" you can talk to at the bank, for example.
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I'm curious to see how this compares to Teleforking, but don't have the chops to make the comparison myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22987747
Adobe only really cared about Flash as a video player the rest of it got more and more neglected as time went on.

I feel maybe when they were given the ultimatums to optimize it for mobile the talent just wasn’t left on the team to pull it off.

A lot of people forget but a few years before the iPhone they did have a similar problem it used to run atrocious on Macs vs PCs even at similar specs but Apple managed to strong arm them into finally optimizing it properly to work the same.
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Here you go: https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/

I'd rather something that auto-rejected, so I don't use it, but it exists.
It's more like "we can't trust lenders not to hide language in their loans that ruins your entire life."
The new C++ is unquestionably preferred to the old C++ (when nothing was standard or built in, everybody spent ages trying to build Boost, and so on).

Software development / computer programming is complex. Hiding complexity is bad. News at 11. /s

So, that said newcomers are free to pick their poison regarding tech stack, language, etc. They can use something simple, easy, friendly, and sort of self-contained. Let's say Ruby on Rails, Django, or C# stuff. Inevitably they'll very soon run into the problem of managing dependencies, platforms, native code, security considerations, performance issues, etc.

Everything is a trade-off after all.
Still around - Last FB post was March 14 looks like...

https://www.lolo-sc.com/
Exactly - it’s an Elsa story and the villains are just “triggers” in Elsa’s story. She’s a classic “redeemed villain” arc - just with the story focusing on her.
> I’m of the believe that people who are against assisted suicide have never had to provide end of life care to a person who died a painful death, riddled with disease and indescribable pain on the way out.

Then your belief is wrong, and your claim utterly insulting and presumptuous. Having been in that situation, I will flatly reject the idea that somehow suffering robs a person of dignity. If anything, euthanasia is a perfidious assault on the dignity of a human being. The problem is with us and our attitude toward human beings and their suffering. We should do some soul-searching and take a good hard look at what really motivates us to think this way. We might be horrified at what we discover, as we should, and this horror might wake us from our moral slumber.

Be glad you didn't have the opportunity to be complicit in your grandfather's suicide and in his murder.
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FTA: That sort of works, but it also creates a weird dynamic because the tech teams don’t have the training nor the explicit mandate to mess around with other people’s jobs.

Here in Belgium, I did that kind of work for 14 years. The fact is that you have to have in your IT team people knowledgeable with business. When I say knowledgeable, I mean, they understand the business at least as well as the business people themselves. When you talk to business with that kind of team, it's much easier.

Now, the problem I had is not the form, it's the business process behind. Changing these is super hard because inertia is there. Also you have to take into account years and years of little shortcuts, exceptions, etc. that somehow now are part of the process. It's really tough to bring everything together.
Considering Switzerland is less than 9 millions people, their total consumption is a drop in the ocean of the global market so I'm don't think protectionist measures would change much.

And I don't see why the big markets (EU, US) would want to protect Swiss companies.
This seems to be mostly hand wringing with a pitch for a book at the end. I've been using Rust for six years now and it's been rock solid for the projects I've used it for.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt14173880/

i believe that one
> the USA is not-allowing Germany the right to build a pipeline with Russia!

The USA is threatening trade sanctions if Germany builds the pipeline. I would not call that "not-allowing".

That seems to be OP's whole point. The US is responding as a sovereign nation to actions of other sovereign nations. Phraseology like "allow" and "disallow" are not accurate. If Germany does the cost-benefit analysis and decides to cancel the pipeline because they don't want trade sanctions, that was their decision as an independent nation. It is not as if we are threatening war.
> I mean you could just get your family and friends to switch to Android too, right?

A completely socially clueless person might try that, sure.

> Presumably they're using an iPhone because they find the experience to be superior. [Because they're more expensive...]

They're not more expensive. I actually can't find a $299 Android which has the same specs as an iPhone 8 that I got for that price. Also, where's the $2000 iPhone that competes with the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2??

So they're cheaper in many cases but even more importantly, Apple has done some excellent marketing to position themselves as a premium brand and most people in my upward/upper-ish middle class circles are extremely susceptible to that kind of signaling.

Personally, I can take or leave either one of them. I have to use both for testing and I do support for people in my life all the time and they both definitely have their drawbacks.
It's not just the fixed pricing, but everything is more expensive there. Much more. The poor part of the population couldn't even dream to live in the new capital.

There's a theory that the recent minimum wage increase for the government sector was actually because some government workers now have to live there, but they financially can't.
This is somewhat similar to the idea of linear futures where a type system is used to ensure that each future is used exactly once. This still allows the kind of structure suggested in this article but with slightly different constraints. One issue is that linear futures don’t really allow for a select-like operation which takes some futures for a value of type T and returns a single future for a clue of type T that becomes determined to the same value as on of the input futures (roughly the one that finishes first but slightly undefined).

A question for this proposal (or linear futures): how do you implement a time out? That is, a future that either becomes determined to some input future, or some error value if the input takes too long.

The other big issue with joining control flow in async systems is error handling: when you join two threads, you can get two successes, one error, or two errors. When you select between two threads, you can get a success and, later, an error. Typically you want to pass the first error on eagerly. But where to? Do you pass it to something depending on the result of the future, or something from the dynamic scope when the future was created, or something else? And what happens with the second error? It might be bad to ignore it but it might be too late to care also. And the place where you might want to pass the error could be long gone by now.
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You can pin versions in brew (brew pin <package>) to prevent upgrades.

You can install specific versions, but it requires some gitfu - you need to uninstall, find the brew commit where the package is at the version you want, then install from that specific git blob.