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That's what you'd think, but not what's happening at the moment. Rents and house prices have skyrocketed across the vast majority of the country, and nothing is sitting empty. People are paying the higher prices.

What's it take to change? A rise in foreclosures and evictions. Usually caused by economic turbulence, but in this case, just as likely caused by people buying more than they could afford. I'm seeing a -ton- of this in my home city. Houses that should be about 200k selling for 300k, and some beatup Ford Aerostar in the driveway. Feels very 2008ish.
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No. I consider ads theft as they steal my bandwidth and computer resources. Ad blockers are theft deterrents imho.
The video is not available in my country. I'm in America, but not the correct part of America it seems.
Stopping jerrymandering and voting purges, stopping oil subsidies, full supply carbon and recycling tax, political campaign spending caps, ending the two party system, ranked choice, raising the minimum wage, VAT tax, universal healthcare, using popular vote instead of electoral vote, privacy rights online and in person, etc....

The list can go on and on.
And 200,000 Hatians.

Kinda odd you left that part out...
Walmart is the original modern big company to do exactly this. And now they're now seen as the "good guy" when compared to Amazon. Ain't life funny?
No more unfair than the original positive generalization.
Look, the EU now has decided to track ALL private communications by everyone talking to any European. "Because children"!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27753727

How does this compare to that? Note that this is after they've chosen that using medical information is fair game for debt recovery, so it's a matter of time before this information, too, is used for that. Sadly our societies have chosen that surveillance is the future, and a lot will be needed to fight it at this point.

Is the fight to focus on really that some banks might use this info to market loans? I mean, sure, it can damage people, but ... not nearly as much as government surveillance will.
Another benifit of right to repair is increasing the lifespan of electronic devices by making sure that people can buy the necessary parts and blueprints to fix their device. While something like this is much better to reduce our e waste, it's not of any benifit to the customer or company in the short term. This is why I think any mom regulatory solutions will not work
This makes no sense and in no way prepares them for the real world. Having a savings account where they can only put money in and can't easily withdraw from doesn't prepare them for the first job where they get paid in cash or cash equivalents. You think they'll still magically go put it into their savings account when they know they suddenly have the power to make an impulse buy?
This is really interesting. Will it be an entire platform or more integration focused? Anyway one can sign up for updates?
The problem is that unlike poverty and equality, fairness is a vague philosophical category.
Totally agree with your point here. Would love to see a TB implementation depending on hardware keys. But yeah it is gone.

If the UX for mTLS (client certs) just was not so terrible it might be a great alternative with even better Security, but that is a dream as well ;-)
Well, Amazon could have taken profits earlier but was investing back into the business instead, so I'd argue its quite different. Tesla makes cars with relatively new tech, which has super high fixed costs in an industry littered with high profile failures.

Uber is maybe the canonical example of what's being discussed.
Another way I've heard it framed is that statistics cares about the parameters, and ML cares about the answers.
Out of the 10 papers I am able to download 3 of them freely.

- For the papers I am quoted 26EUR - 39EUR

- For the books I am quoted 129EUR - 133EUR

This is audacious. Some of these papers are form the 70ies. And I highly doubt that the authors get any royalties from those sales.
The tape system was really interesting to me during the short time that it was there (upgraded shortly after I started); I didn't expect to be able to find any useful information on it but surprisingly, an old IBM Promo video exists on YouTube.

If you're interested in seeing what it looks like, I put it at 1:04, since that's where the 3D rendered exterior view starts. They can be extended and ours was much longer than that one in the video if memory serves (one end to the other of a complete DC floor diagonally; it forced a really odd layout for the original mainframe, cabinets, and then ultimately the tape library that replaced it).

Link: https://youtu.be/GwMn7YpF8r8?t=64

Without the playback position: https://youtu.be/GwMn7YpF8r8
Not wanting to defend MS employees here, but maybe they are paid based on the new shiny things they produce, not based on fixing old stuff. KPI forever
> If the image being optimized for UX resulted in the wacky scoring situation that lowered their ranking in search, would that also not be considered a bad UX if it's harder for users to find you?

If you insist, but even then that is fixing the symptom instead of the cause.
"rare" doesn't mean "never". Caster Semenya is an Olympic candidate who is getting disqualified from some women's racing events because she is intersex and has just a little bit too much biological masculinity to compete as a woman.
Sure, but better laws to prevent it prevent everyone from doing it.

Debt financing to expand is one thing; debt financing to expand when you currently aren't making a profit, and you don't have a business model to make a profit after expansion except "choke out competitors so you have a monopoly and can raise prices to profitable levels" is anti-consumer.
I find this to be completely untrue. Anecdotally, my friends from South Sudan, who aren't white, tell me that the unsafest neighborhoods in my country are better than the safest in theirs.

This is the same sentiment that I get from most non-white foreigners.
Exactly Germany has to pay for its crimes…not the liberated Jewish people.

Could you imagine Germany sending a bill for the total cost of WW2 to the newly created Country of Israel?
Better never buy a domain name, apply for a HAM radio license or register to vote then.

(In the US the voter file of the name and address of everyone who registered to vote is public information. It's mostly not free online but you can usually buy a copy of it from the state, with minimal protection against that data being abused)
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> This is the demarcation problem rearing its ugly head again....

> If you decide that all people are either male or female, you are going to end up arguing about where to draw the line. This is not particle physics, gender does not take “integer values” like the spin of a boson. So we add “X” to the passport to acknowledge the fact that, as much as some people may wish for gender to be a simple binary, reality sometimes defies simple categorization.

But "X" doesn't really solve that problem, especially because this is an area where some people want near-infinite gradations, and because there can be differing opinions about how "X" should be used.

The demarcation problem is unavoidable. The real criteria here should be practicality and the suitability of the passport for its intended purpose. I can see "X" as solving some clear practical problems, but on the other hand, using self-identification for any field including sex creates them [1].

[1] And I can see arguments for self identification for almost all passport fields. Name? I might feel more affinity to a non-official name, but lack the resources to change it (or change it as frequently as I would like, or have as many as I'd like). Birth date? Maybe I don't identify more strongly with the Islamic, Chinese, or Julian calendar than the Gregorian one; and want my birth date in my calendar of choice. Place of birth? I may have grown up elsewhere or "adopted" another place, and want that listed because that better reflects my identity.
> "Because I don't want to waste the time of people who aren't interested in my ad in seeing my ad."

And that there is why sites like https://readthedocs.org/ do this strange thing called ethical advertising. Instead of spying on me, they advertise things at me I am genuinely interested in, intuited by the fact that I'm reading technical documentation, and they do it in an unobtrusive way, rather than splat themselves in front of the content I'm trying to read such that I can't even read it at all.

You wanna advertise at me? Come find me on sites where your product is a good fit for my interests and advertise at me respectfully rather than supporting a corporate surveillance state that I want no part of. I for one will continue to block ads everywhere I browse except those that manage to respect me as a fellow human.
Seems to me that anybody looking for a job would do a cost of living evaluation in addition to what their potential salary is and decide accordingly. This isn't rocket science folks.

In regards to employers, raise pay if can't get workers. Employees will come when they can live on the pay.
You misunderstand. Uber plans to be profitable within a year... but didn't say which year they'll be profitable within.
Yes, perhaps "key" is the wrong term. I intended to refer to the column that is used in the join condition in not so many words.

> It's almost always incorrect not to have at least one JOIN condition involve a key.

Eh, almost always seems a little strong. Sometimes you can reduce the number of joins you need to do by "skipping" a table that would serve as the unique key on both sides of the join.

ie. instead of joining:

`A --[many-to-one]--> B <--[one-to-many]-- C`

You can directly join on `A.b_id = C.b_id`, and that's perfectly valid.
Surprised China has not stepped in here and offered to provide the Haitian government with funding and security. Seems the perfect situation for them to establish a foothold similar to how they have done in Africa.
How are these mitigated by pervasive end user tracking and surveillance?
Could be in a service on a server, which in this case a RegEx DOS could lock the server for all users.
The sum was intentionally impossible (equivalent to about 18 billion dollars),

Assuming this figure in today's money - we have a country of more than 10 million people who can't afford to pay 18 Billion, and we have at least two individuals who are worth at least 10 times that amount (at least on paper)!!

Yes, I am aware it is a weird and useless comparison. Still, it is kinda astonishing.
>It's not hard to imagine a world where we can live without pain but still live meaningful lives.

Actually it's pretty hard to imagine it.

Tons of people conditions without adversity dwindle and end up shooting heroin, killing themselves, or worse, living long lives as accountants.
> the implication seems to be that the group is not native to Haiti.

Pure and wild speculation - but Spanish and English is what one would expect from graduates of the school of Americas/Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) or CIA/DEA training programs. Although I suppose at this point former graduates are running their own training under various cartels etc.
How many of those are from South America? My understanding was that most of that migration was from Central America, largely Guatemala and Mexico itself.

Among other things walking (or traveling in any way, really) through the border area between Colombia and Panama, including southern Panama, is tough-bordering-on-impassable, even relative to crossing the US border in the desert.
It's a unique place to visit. When you come from Spain, you park near the border, and you walk across the runway of the airport, which is situated astride the isthmus that connects the rock to the mainland. And as mentioned in the article, the view from the southern tip is special. I've never been disappointed by making the effort to visit the funny little enclaves that captured my interest as a map-loving kid. If we had had time, we would have crossed the straits to visit Ceuta and Melila, Spains exclaves on the Moroccan coast. I've always found it ironic that Spain has demanded Morocco back from Britain, while fiercely defending their own similar territories a couple dozen miles away.
You just need a way for a package maintainer to flag a vulnerability in a dependency as a non-issue that does not affect that package's use of the dependency.

In Dan's twitter thread, he calls this out as a viable solution.
I doubt a response team in Haiti speak English with that accent - let alone would use English over a megaphone.

Could the megaphone be a pre-recorded recording designed to delay identification of the perpetrators?
Authors never get _any_ royalties from paper sales as far as I know :) (for books maybe).
A restrictive monolith kernel?
I’m sorely missing Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE). It’s a statistical technique that goes back to Gauss and Laplace but was popularized by Fisher. In AI/ML it’s often referred to as “minimizing cross-entropy loss”, but this is just a misappropriation / reinvention of the wheel. The math is the same and MLE is a much more sane theoretical framework.
There’s a strong bias toward things that are model-able in neuroscience.

The role of microtubules, for example, are mostly ignored even though they may explain the complexity of cognition displayed by relatively “simple” brains.
I question if that actually happens. Most companies don't actually have that large a moat.
Does it only work from one particular angle? Or how does it work?
Important to distinguish two types of loss-leader; this is a strategy that non-dominant companies in competitive markets use too, and all startups are in a sense running a loss leader until they get to break-even.

A loss-leader is not necessarily anticompetitive. It’s when you combine it with a dominant market position that the problems emerge.

My understanding is that EU antitrust law is more concerned with preserving competition as a benefit in itself for the consumer, whereas the US doesn’t think lack of competition in itself harms consumers, and requires you to show evidence of other harms before enforcing antitrust laws. The case of predatory pricing is a good example of where the US model tends to fail, and it seems like we are currently re-examining this regulatory philosophy.
How many French died on behalf of the US during the revolution ? In Haiti it was about 20 percent of the overall casualties.
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> lack the political will

In other words, countries outside the USA and many in Europe lack a culture of freedom.
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Interesting. Well I'll just assume it's based on number of degrees and that it's probably not an accurate assessment of how educated a country really is, since degree != education.
Translating instagram posts (including the image content) and (re)posting them
I wish to replicate existing instagram posts in a different language including translating the content of the image as well.
The main purpose would be to spread knowledge for those who don’t speak English.

Does anyone have any experience doing this or any suggestions?

Is there any or would you be interested in using such an application that supports my crazy workflow wishes?
- The app can list and filter (draft, ready, reposted) the posts of the target channels
- The app can keep track of what posts have been translated and reposted
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On the flip side, I consider ADs to be theft - especially when there is anything other than truly unlimited data as the only available option:

Imagine you are paying for a plan you can afford, but its rate limitied/set to a certain amount of data - what portion of that data allotment is consumed by ads and ad overhead on every single site you visit.

So the data bucket gets consumed, but say ~40% of that data consumption is actually content you are seeking to enjoy/read/consume

so 60% of your bill is also effectively going to pay advertisers to see their ads on your devices.

So its either a tax on the viewer, or it theft, or its both...
Yeah, this! See? You get it! Why's it so hard for others to understand?
do you mean the people at the store remember you? kinda different than collecting data and deploying it across the whole internet wouldn't you say?
No need to be so extreme, you need only make them be near the riffraff to get similar results.

If anything can be learned from Seattle (my home), a politician's proximity to a problem is the key indicator for how much that problem will need to be actually solved versus just used as a tool for virtue signalling about how others should live.
If metadata is good enough to kill people it's dangerous enough to stop collecting en masse.
I've seen people delude themselves with "my kid might be the one to solve the problem!" Mostly though, it seems people are just selfish.
Please don't use all-caps here. People will flag your post.

Also, it doesn't look like a project for the university...

Anyway, after touching the button, I get

> Application error

> An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served.
No, you can't. If you don't cook you will not understand the differences of the various types of knifes, forks, spoons...
Well, I was going to put up a counter argument, but clearly you dont know how to listen.
Alternative currencies to the Bolivar have been the only way for Venezuelan citizens to protect themselves from losing their entire life savings because of the actions of their governments cental bank.

Digital forms of currency which aren't regulated by the state control of the banking system are the only safe way to get an alternative currency, since the Venezuelan government made exchanging Bolivars for stabler currencies like the USD illegal.

Im talking about solving the problems of individual Venezuelans, not the government or state. And if people with savings can't rely on them, then a country has no hope of attracting or retaining high talent professionals. Hence why it's so hard to find people left in Venezuela with highly sought after talents anymore.
Congratulate to the author. At this day, it takes quite a bit of self-awareness to be able to look at some previously (openly published) opinions, reconsider them, and admit that the opinion changed.
Except on web, some madness are still using android 4.x or even ie 11. Who on the earth have to support something published 8 years ago...
In the UK, my provider (O2) offer unlimited data but will "move you to a more suitable plan" if you tether more than 12 devices and/or use more than 650GB in a month.
Those foreclosures you speak of are forthcoming over remaining part of this year and next year. The foreclosure moratorium and government mandated "you don't have to pay your mortgage payment during COVID" is ending and stupid people are in for a rude awakening when they realize that a year of mortgage payments are now due (in addition to their ongoing monthly payment). It is going to be interesting, few are talking about it.

Same goes for rent moratorium. Do people think that their landlord is just going to forget the 1 year of rent they didn't pay because "they didn't have to"?? Evictions are going to sky rocket and rentors are going to be sued in numbers we may have never seen before.
> Our teams are continuing to work on a resolution for this incident. In an effort to resolve this incident, our UI may become unavailable. Additionally, any Insights for workflows may show stale data for the duration of this incident.

Sounds pretty serious if the UIs go down too
Not to mention the time one of their scripts got stuck in a loop and caused my 2 Gigabyte plan to explode in 20 minutes.
The global elimination of slavery, to whatever incomplete extent that happened, was primarily a British and Christian moral crusade. Christian morality plus the feasibility of replacing slavery with industrialization is what made the global reduction of slavery possible. I say this as a non-Christian. I don’t think it’s reasonable to say the West “doesn’t really care” about slavery.
No one is claiming they are selling you a stock in a company. That's the whole point. They are very clear that they aren't selling you a stock in a company.
I get your point, and it is valid, but also observe that there have been numerous successful social movements in the near and longer past! They had to fight against vastly more powerful systems and still succeeded in the end.

As activists, we can obtain substantial press coverage even without an advertising budget, by carrying out well-thought-out direct actions and acts of civil disobedience, and we can offer direct resistance (for instance, when we build tree houses to occupy forests which are on the clearing list of governments or the fossil fuel industry, like we successfully did with the Hambach Forest in Germany).
Virologists have a bias against the lab leak theory because if true it would threaten their careers. If it's natural on the other hand they get a boost in funding.

It makes sense they are so against the idea, no one wants to be associated with/partially responsible for the death of 4 million + people worldwide, nor do they want to have their careers ruined.
But why would the DEA outwardly announce itself while assassinating someone?
People includes people who are gay, trans, muslims, etc. But i think the broader "whole range of issuse" claim was more to the point, as someone who has spent most of their life amongst deep red friends, family, and locations, those issues come up quite a bit. And more pointedly, for example i am pretty interested (and fearful) of climate change but can't even talk about it with half my friends/ family because they don't think its real or may be offended by some of the points. It takes a toll on you.
I basically do no frontend development, partly due to tools npm and the current frameworks, I simply cannot wrap my head around it. I do help run a few modern javascript application however. Even a minimal app will pull in 1000+ dependecies, and I think that’s the problem.

It simply don’t happen in Python, Go or Rust (or even Java) because the languages comes with a rich standard library. Javascript comes with just the basics, everything else is a dependency. It’s not uncommon for people to audit their dependencies in Python or Go, but you pull in maybe 10 or 20. A basic Javascript app easily pull in 100 times that, how are you suppose to deal with that?
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Exactly the point I was making.

Do you recall when "cable TV" came out - and they touted it as "ad free, because you're already paying for the service"

This is what CNN built their entire premise on... now look at them. ads and commercials is the ONLY thing they do.
> Why does it matter if it's absurd in this context?

If I wanted shitty false alarms about bogus security issues, I'd get a PCI-DSS audit.