skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a difference between the parliament, from which elected members come from European list and the executive body where commissioner places are really hard to get.
Off the top of my head I don't know who that someone is but presumably it's not a common name like "John Smith".
Looking through the linked comments & issues, it will be interesting to see how many people blindly adopt (forced into) GPL2 license. I wonder how big the R for spreading is? All from an XML file for mimetype info
John Bogle
Note that a habitable zone does not necessarily mean there's any life actually there.

You are probably thinking of the reports last year of phosphine in the upper atmosphere where the quantity turned out to be overstated by a significant amount.

On the other hand, there is a sweet spot in the Venusian atmosphere where the temperature is low enough and the atmosphere provides enough protection from solar radiation that microbial life could conceivably survive (which is not the same as saying there is any life there); there are certainly plenty of Earth microbes that live in environments just as inhospitable if not more.
Well whenever the governments of the world get their heads out of their collective asses and learn what a computer even is, then we can have competent legislation.
Does Google contact developers before taking down their extensions?
It's interesting how many commenters on the various issues around the license change seem to think that software licensing is an inconvenience, rather than a serious legal question.
Blacklane raises $26M to expand its high-end chauffeur-driven car service
I think the question is: Why is there an ordinance against this? What is morally wrong with having vehicles on one's own property? How does it affect the neighbors? If the only answer is "well it reduces property values," well, there are tons of things that also reduce property values that are not illegal. That is not a good reason to have a city ordinance against something.
Temporary bans were decided by state members, not the EU.
Gentrification is really encouraged by the city. It's a way to replace a low tax revenue generating populace with a higher one. People get mad at the richer people (happens to be mostly white due to population ratio), and assume it's due to racism. Nobody recognizes the city is actually to blame. These people who move into these gentrified area's aren't doing it out of malice.
Couldn't agree more. I really REALLY want to replace my Android smartphone. I want to own it the way I do my laptop running Linux.
It's not mentioned in the article, but I feel like the number of cars with blindingly bright headlights has to factor into this too.
This is probably not a super popular opinion (and it's just that) but monopolies are difficult to sustain without legal support. They tend to either collapse or get worked around.
"Damages".

Surely somebody sued and got awarded compensation in court of law?

Or are you just making stuff up as you go, waiting for handouts, UBI or something?
This is interesting.

https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

In 1913 dollars a 10 cent can of soup is $2.66 USD today.

So at $1.00 in 2021 its a bargain. :)

I think modern manufacturing processes have made common items cheaper to produce and this is how the ordinary citizen has been able to survive 40 years with very little real wage movement. (my opinion)
I haven't given this a lot of thought, these are just my surface-level opinions.

I get the hate for slumlords, but I've never understood how being a landlord is any different than providing any other product or service. You've spent your own capital, taken the risk, leveraged, invested effort, etc., to developing this product/service that offers value. It allows someone without the same risk tolerance or upfront capital to have a place to live and—potentially—enjoy colocation to other amenities.

Would people feel differently if you built the house yourself? What is the threshold of required "value add" that people don't see it as "rent seeking"? Not sure how it is different than buying a failing business and revamping it. Or Microsoft acquiring GitHub and adding features.

Very much open to having someone who holds this view provide their two cents; I'm genuinely interested in developing a more nuanced opinion on this subject.
Over twenty subreddits have gone private
The point I'm making is that large companies benefit on a scale much much larger than others. Facebook isn't just gaining from OSS because they can use other's repos, they are gaining because they can have others fix and build their own repos. The Gameplan is to gain from the community, not contribute. Sure, React is nice and fine for the community, great framework...but the intent is not to help the community in the first place.
It Shouldn’t Cost the Farm to Fix a Tractor
Agreed. Maybe they just got some Lockhead Indago drones:

https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/indago-vtol-ua...
From the article - [The apartment building] promises renters access to a “community that is rich in history and tradition”.

They just assumed that these traditions must be ones that they would like.
> it was claimed that the description of the addon is too detailed and thus violates the Chrome Web Store rules.

This one does make me laugh more than the rest, coming from Google that names their apps in the Play store as follows:
"Android Auto - Google Maps, Media & Messaging"
"Files by Google: Clean up space on your phone"
"Google Chrome: Fast & Secure"
"Google Duo - High quality video calls"
"Phone by Google - Caller ID and spam protection"

If this is a policy, perhaps they'll delist their own apps from the store?
Agree with pretty much all you said, but where were the lawsuits?

Pessimistically, seems to be yet another case of a huge company doing something awful with absolutely no consequence.

What has the last time Google was punished? The biggest threat to its business model was the gdrp and it has achieved next to nothing.
This incident has already been added to opening section for the Suez Canal Wikipedia page.

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

I wonder what makes something significant enough to be added to this section. A quick scan of the page shows some interesting tidbits that aren't present in the opening (to me, more noteworthy - so far - than the ongoing blockage):

> The canal had an immediate and dramatic effect on world trade. Combined with the American transcontinental railroad completed six months earlier, it allowed the world to be circled in record time.

> In 1973, during the Yom Kippur War, the canal was the scene of a major crossing by the Egyptian army into Israeli-occupied Sinai and a counter-crossing by the Israeli army to Egypt. Much wreckage from this conflict remains visible along the canal's edges.
My Subaru's stability control system may not have saved my life, but it saved my sheet metal several times. I still wouldn't let it pilot my car.
I tweaked the title mainly cause the original couldnt fit, and added the context of default subs[0] going private.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/mbq12a/over...

This one mentioned /r/nottheonion but I've seen other comments throughout reddit about other subs too.
Ask HN: Why is pair programming used or not used in top tech companies?
I do multi-terabyte backups to USB3-connected devices and networked devices. I'm in the habit of using a merge tool for the backups, and using it again to verify that the backups are correct. One thing I've found is that the incidence of flipped bits is extremely small relative to the amount of data transferred, but real, with both USB3 storage devices and network shares accessed via ethernet.

Do they use the same error correction algorithm, perhaps? (I honestly haven't looked into it much) An alternate possibility is that the USB3 and ethernet transport error correction is working fine and it's the devices that are not storing data accurately... that seems less likely to me, but somewhere in there is a SATA bus that also has to do error correction.

In any case I don't feel great about a statement like "USB commonly has signal integrity issues" since the way I work wouldn't be possible if it were true. It's not perfect, for sure, but I honestly feel very good about my USB-connected SSD storage relative to so many other things I've used in the past: various optical drives, floppies, SD cards, and some not-great hard drives.
There was a very interesting thinker in the 18th who wrote that eventually the Earth would gain a planetary ring. He talked about how everything changes, even though our lifespan is so short we don't see it. And he was particularly speaking about society: afterall, he was a very progressive member of the generation that indeed abolished slavery, even though a lot of people said before: "Slavery's been going on for 80k years, it will never end". I learned a lot from his writings, and I believe our society could learn a lot from them to this day.

The wikipedia article is very poor compared to the depth of his work/thought but here it goes anyway for reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fourier
Look into this software for device management sclera VDMS - https://youtu.be/0_7V3lECy_s
Does it actually align? Mozilla also polices their extension store for content that disagrees with their politics, breaching the necessary neutrality of a browser: https://reclaimthenet.org/firefox-rejects-free-speech-bans-f...
Well we did evolve big buttocks (bigger than other primates) that are apparently useful for sitting for extended periods of time.
Does Routine have realtime collaboration? Currently using input.com for notes+tasks but still waiting for them to add better sharing model (they have rt collab but you have to send an invite for each doc, not ideal).
I disagree with this stance. Pulling extensions that have a large potential for abuse is absolutely in Google's prerogative, in my opinion.

Suppose our single maintainer decided to finally sell the extension, and the person who bought it made it so that all those links hijacked information or exposed you to malware. This would happen in one day without warning. How many people would be saying that was Google's fault for allowing this to happen?

You say people should determine for themselves based on risk, but most users of Chrome extensions are naive when it comes to understanding risk.
Yes, I made my investment decisions based on that work, though not from the beginning. My first "investments" were of the kind: ah, stock XY dropped by 50% in a day, it must be cheap now.

I made some money, otherwise my savings wouldn't have lasted so long. But I failed to make enough to make it sustainable.
Why would a company hire someone to carry your shoebox of personal possessions to and from storage when it would cost less to just give you a locker or tell you to take that stuff home every day?
Scale perhaps? Imagine if your union were two orders of magnitude larger. Would pathological behaviors emerge?
which course it that?
The roads where I live are quite narrow to begin with, and many houses do not have driveways, so street parking is the only choice for many houses. I don't think there is a possiblity of narrowing them in the first place.
> We all agreed to the rules.

Who came up with the rules? And have you carried out a survey to see if everyone agreed to the rules? If you lived there before the rule is in place can you opt out if you disagree?
The smartphone of the 70s: Space:1999 commlock (replica)
It's not just in Italian. It's Tuscan (swearwords included). But the end result is really impressive, as all other suff made by the same guy, Marco Valleggi.
I wonder for how long..
India proposes alpha-numeric hash to track WhatsApp chat
I believe you can!

https://docs.pi-hole.net/database/gravity/groups/
Nobody owes them anything. This seems much better than nothing.
"Now you have 2 problems."
As a long time Medium author and publisher and occasional business partner I have all kinds of feelings.

But the main one is about the need for urgency.

One basic way to read these changes is that it just looks like Medium getting savvier about what drives and grows their subscription business. There's been no pivot there. The challenge for them still is to get their subscription business over the hump.

And the hump they have been at for awhile is that the subscription has been growing despite being generally meh quality. It's just $5 and a lot of people like supporting authors that way. But what are the ways to go from meh to great?

What I think Medium found is that they were getting better value by spending in other places. For example, I was part of bringing the back catalog of The Pragmatic Programmers books onto Medium. That was a deal that was relatively economical and had a direct hypothesis related to growing the subscription. For programmers now, at least, they have a nice headline for why a programmer would spend $5.

So to see Medium focus more on what's working to actually tip the subscription over puts me at ease because I still see the company has being in a zero to one situation. It could succeed, but it hasn't yet.
I’m sorry but I’m not sure I understand what you’re trying to get from me here.

You said:

> You may have issues with specific things that were said (or how they were said), but that isn't clear from your response. Perhaps you could add that, so the author can learn.

I addressed those specifics, as far as I can tell all of the specifics of substance. I was engaging your suggestion in good faith. I did take and accept it as helpful. I’m open to the possibility there’s some nuance I’m missing?
@dang, in re: this comment, any hopes of editing the title to say "secret-scanning" with a hyphen? Might add some clarity.
To be blunt, European tech companies don't seem to be doing amazing vs. their American competitors. You can see why American companies wouldn't necessarily look to their practices as a model to emulate.
I don't know Sac's demographics for people who work on cars but I've never associated being a car nerd (someone who works on their car(s)) as a more hispanic/black thing. In fact my stereotype is the "white trash" (used as a shortcut for the description, not a judgement) cars parked on the lawn. My brother-in-law, in LA, white, has had 10 cars on their property, all beaters, he works on all of them.

Are you sure home car maintenance isn't more associated with poverty than race?
Is there any precedent to what happens, or could happen, if a project changes licence like this in a patch release? Is there any provision for mistakes like this in the GPL, or is everything that has ever used this package now considered "fair game" for classing as GPL and making source requests?

(although I imagine rails being a web framework probably protects anything using rails and only serving the end results publicly, this sounds like the sort of nightmare scenario that would make legal departments nervous about open source)
> I feel sorry for my beloved home state of Texas.

Don't.

Texas, like many states, never misses an opportunity to trumpet the number of people moving there. Texas, like many states, spends a lot of money in the rest of the US trying to convince people and businesses to move there.

You got what you asked for. You got what you paid for.
Augmented Reality in Education – Benefits and Impact
But my small company isn't. And using ReactNative gets us there easier/faster/cheaper than we ever could without it.
Unfortunately, the risk of retaliation may be too high. While the likelihood may be low, the magnitude of the consequence is great.
Skynet Premium Plans: Faster Speeds and Longer Pinning
Or on the other side, if there was a procedural generator that would generate the required output from some short seed, that would basically win the game for good.

But I guess the possibility of such a generator existing (within the size constraints) for this specific text is pretty much zero.
Cloudflare – Workers Durable Objects Beta
God - if remote code execution exploits are an EU right we are screwed!
Agreed, you can see how I have been an heavy advocate of it, and see it not only as a much better COM, but also what .NET v1.0 should have been (it was the original idea anyway, Ext-VOS).

However nowadays I have become quite sceptical on what it will ever be, and looking forward to what news BUILD 2021 might bring.

C++/WinRT tooling still doesn't match C++/CX, doing UI in .NET or ReactNative (QML style) seems to be the workaround for it, endless list of Github issues on WinUI, Reunion and all WinRT bindings, community talks with lots of previews, and state of current tooling.

Then the various UI teams seem to be competing to which of them will get more developer mindshare.

So it is a mess, that I hope BUILD will get a more clear picture.
TLDR: the mimemagic gem was MIT licensed, but an issue was opened where it was reported that mimemagic is using a GPLv2 source file. Legally (IANAL) this forces mimemagic to become GPLv2. The mimemagic gem was changed to GPLv2.

However rails depends on mimemagic, and that means rails needs to be GPLv2, which is obviously a big problem. The discussion around this is taking place in the github repo for rails because mimemagic was archived for some reason (at least temporarily).
9000) communicating
Wait till they look at vehicle pedestrian statistics from less developed countries and have them figure out a way to blame someone else.
I've just never seen the "this belongs in comments" approach work out in practice. Maybe it's something about human psychology. Perhaps things might seem obvious when you've just written the test, so you don't think to comment them. Perhaps code reviewers feel less comfortable saying, "I don't understand this, could you please comment it?" Perhaps it's the simple fact that optional means optional, which means, "You don't have to do it if you aren't in the mood." Regardless of the reason, though, it's a thing I've seen play out so many times that I've become convinced that asking people to do otherwise is spitting into the wind.
Thats what you want to believe. In reality after 6 months plus of full remote work most people dont want to step in the office again at least nowhere near full time. We see this in every 1:1 conversation.
https://www.aclu.org/legislation-affecting-lgbt-rights-acros...
Removing all of the ports could really be a problem for a ship!
Are most people working on cars at their home doing it because they're wanting to do modifications most shops won't do, or because they're trying to save the few hundred dollars an hour in labor charges to do some things that take a few minutes of reading and an understanding of lefty-loosey righty-tighty?

A few of my friends and myself tend to do most of the maintenance on our cars and motorcycles by ourselves. If I had to pay for the labor in my car it would have been "totaled" a long time ago. But it still keeps running 20 years and nearly 200kmi with a new water pump, new timing belt, new main belt, new suspension, brake rotor and pad replacements, brake fluid flushes, EGR cleanout, oil pan resealing, power steering hose replacement, transmission fluid flushes, stereo replacement, power window motor replacements, and a few other things.

Most of these parts over the years have been relatively cheap, but getting a shop to do the change would have been expensive as hell. I shopped around to get the struts replaced recently. Most shops quoted me over $1k for the replacement. _Good_ replacement strut/coil/spring/mount assemblies were $60/ea from reputable sources online. So for a couple of hours of my own time, knowing how to unscrew and screw in some bolts properly (torqued to spec), and $240 in parts I had a new suspension. So taking the low end of ~$1k in estimates I got, I pretty much paid myself $380/hr to do the work.

And don't even get me started on motorcycle maintenance. If it were illegal for me to work on my own bike at home I probably wouldn't be able to afford the bike. Parts are stupid cheap but labor costs on motorcycles are astronomical considering its usually easier to work on a bike than a car.

Not everyone working on a car in their driveway are doing something shady or illegal.
I mean that the promise of edge computing is that you write some code, deploy it and don't worry about scaling it, regions, availability zones and the like. It's just code that gets run.
Is sociopathy and narcissism the norm in shame societies but not in guilt societies?
I wish I was wrong.
Ctrl f your way through the comments.

There is a comment on hood heights.

There is a comment about cyclists using streets even though there are recreational paths.

There are several comments about distracted walking.

I use the term political as derogatory in a contentious discussion because 1) people come into them unwilling to change their mind 2) their beliefs are largely inherited and they will not acknowledge or state the assumptions and underlying opinions that underly their positions
Wow, I wasn't expecting to run into the "All Lives Matter" rhetoric here, but I suppose I'll take the bait. Imagine you have two shifts of workers, making the same product. One shift consistently produces more output than the other. That on its own is an observation that needs more investigation in order to figure out why. Perhaps the faster shift came up with a better method, and that method should be taught to everybody. Perhaps the faster shift is skipping a step, and needs to be retrained. The first step is figuring out why there is a difference.

In the case of pedestrian fatalities, there is clearly a difference by race. The next questions are why that difference exists, what can be learned from it, and what needs to be changed. Perhaps it is a difference by location, and sidewalks need to be set back further from the road. Perhaps it is increased miles by walking, and the solution is to have wider public transportation that doesn't need as much walking at the endpoints. No matter what the fundamental cause is, the existence of a measurable difference in fatality rates means that we can look for deeper causes to see why those differences exist, and what can be improved.

There's no racism in identifying a difference in death rates. There would absolutely be racism to ignore and allow such a difference to continue.
Interesting take.

Related to that I’m interested how office cliques will work. It’s pretty damn easy to exclude someone if everyone is working from home. Unless they are scouring calendars they may not even know they were left out of an important meeting. Seems like a nightmare for a office with more passive-aggressive types.
>objectionable

Things taken out of context, at worst. At best, personal opinions.

>FSF is going to be stuck defending

From what? Outrage culture? A self-made problem? FSF is about software and software licenses, not blogposting and whataboutism.

>Surely,

No, there is not one person as qualified on free software as RMS and Torvalds, for as long as those two are alive. It's unacceptable that a non-engineer takes the lead in FSF, a software engineering oriented organisation. Maybe it'll be fine for IBM, Oracle or other profit and customer satisfaction oriented businesses to have a PR person.
When we work we dont spend all our time in zoom meetings. Do you?
It’s easy to criticize, but the reality is that making decision with and motivating large groups of people involves tradeoffs that lead to theoretically suboptimal outcomes.