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> The judges said indiscriminate spying could not be allowed and highlighted the “chilling” effect it could have on freedom of speech and freedom of the press.

I don't know if this is what the judges said or if it is the Guardian's spin on what they said. Either way, the Indian constitution has no separate guarantee for "freedom of the press."[1] Theoretically, the press has as much (or as little) freedom as the common man. Practically, the ability to openly blackmail all and sundry means they can say what they want without repercussions.

Further, Article 19(2) severely restricts any such right to "freedom of expression" for a variety of reasons, including national security:

> Nothing in sub clause (a) of clause (1) shall affect the operation of any existing law, or prevent the State from making any law, in so far as such law imposes reasonable restrictions on the exercise of the right conferred by the said sub clause in the interests of the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security of the State, friendly relations with foreign States, public order, decency or morality or in relation to contempt of court, defamation or incitement to an offence

In a twist of irony, Jawaharlal Nehru, former prime minister and the great-grandfather of the Rahul Gandhi mentioned in the Guardian article is responsible for this curtailment of rights. He could not run his socialist regime in peace if there was absolute freedom of speech and expression.

I am sure there is some law somewhere which allows the Indian government to spy on its citizens. After all, there are hundreds of British-era laws still on the books. The only question is whether such spying is "reasonable."

There, I would prefer to give the benefit of the doubt to elected representatives. I am not in favor of handing over veto power over executive decisions to judges who are not only unelected, but probably unique in any democratic country to have reserved the power to select their own replacements. Imagine the US Senate twiddling its thumbs while US Supreme Court judges selected not only their own successors, but also every single judge in the federal judiciary.

[1] Article 19(1) (https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1218090/)
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Tcl is quite nice, having been part of a product similar to AOL Server, I never got the hype around Rails.
I assume Parquet has a close relationship with Arrow (project wise) and the parquet libraries I’ve used all supported reading the Arrow representation straight from the Parquet file.

I imagine they’re all getting compared because 2 of them are “embedded” relational DB (even though their data structure layout is optimised for different things) and the remaining option appears to present similar benefits and functionality in a different style.
> I found Jessica from the movie overly unsure and emotional

That’s how I felt until she was slitting throats in the back of a thopter without a second thought lol
For me it was actually a relief to see that not everything is being over-explained, a sickness many modern movies suffer from. Where is the fun if after the movie you don't talk about it, look things up, maybe even read the book?
Rackspace are US-based but have a large UK office in West London that could offer these services. They have their own data centres there and UK data privacy laws restrict what can be sent abroad. No idea if there are any UK-incorporated cloud companies of a similar size though.
Simply a matter of preference...

It's not simply a matter of preference. While front matter isn't a part of the Commonmark spec, it is very well adopted to the point where it's effectively universal across blogging apps and static site generators. You can move a markdown file from Hugo to 11ty to Gatsby to Hexo to Jekyll without changing or losing any of the content and they'll all understand your title, slug, posting date, labels, etc without any configuration or code changes necessary.

You lose that by doing something different even if you prefer an alternative approach. That's something to consider if you choose to go against the grain. It affects more than just preference.

Personally the biggest advantage I see of front matter is that it encapsulates everything about a post in one place. I don't need to update an index if I delete a post, or add one, or something.

That said, writing a script to take the index content and insert it in to the post markdown files as front matter wouldn't be very hard, just as it'd be very simple to extract front matter to your own index file, so it's not really a big deal however you choose to do things.
> The problems with electric motorcycles are well-summarised here...

They're also not obnoxiously loud at 2am, either. Apparently, being very obnoxious is a huge selling point for some people. It's an attention seeking machine.
The UK, by doing things such as banning fracking in 2019, has made itself hostage to the energy policies of other countries.
>Not least because, despite HN now swung hard against microservices, they exist often for a reason, and it's difficult for one service to emit hypermedia for another.

Why would microservices even need HTTP to talk with each other?
Do you have experience with that one? Does it work with A4? The reMarkable works but could be slightly bigger for two-column A4 scientific papers.
I just thought exposition wise it might have been good. They talk about this Emperor a lot and he just never appears on screen.
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We cannot promote that laziness, can we? For Hackers, "laziness" is finding and creating solutions that boost that life.

If you mainly shopped online, how easy are you making it for the preservation of the option of accessing the real thing?

If you mainly shopped through a monopoly, how easy are you making it to ensure that prices remain contained?
So basically: it doesn't work well if you want to reach every IP on the whole internet. Yeah I suppose that's correct, but we are talking about internal service-to-service communication so why would you have those requirements in the first place?

It's only call/response because that's all you ever need if you can call any arbitrary function by it's name. That's infinitely more powerful than any other protocol that restricts you to a limited grammar.
The largest driver of chronic health conditions is people being fat, because they are poor and their diet is terrible.
The main problem for me (who am interested in cooking, as well as somewhat au fait with version control) is that at this point in my life, I could not for the life of me write down a recipe for almost anything that I cook, because it is all based on "enough" and "to taste", with cooking times being in the "well, you look at the ingredients and a cooking schedule effortlessly forms in your mind" (none, by the way, based on actual time), allowing me to do things like cooking things in the oven and three or four pots on the stove, and have everything ready at the same time, by staggering the start times.

And I literally cannot tell you how I do it, because at this point, I don't know. I do know how I got there, though. Cooking, lots of it, at various scales and in variously equipped kitchens.

Scale-wise, I have cooked for 1. And on the upper end, I have cooked for about 50.
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> As somebody living in Argentina, a country with usual double digit inflation, your argument is complete bullshit.

The only bullshit I spot is this idea to use Argentina, or Zimbabwe or Venezuela, as the posterchild of responsible monetary and economic policies, when they are actually the result of gross and perpetual mismanagement.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-argentina-faces-an-economic...

Meanwhile most of the world reaps the benefits of sane and responsible monetary policies, and thus is free from hyperinflation, and somehow that's supposed to mean nothing? Only your cherry-picked appeals to emotion matter?

Even the European Union, which has been subjected to quantitative easing policies from around a whole decade and thus has been seeing their central banks print money like crazy, at most only complains about low inflation and mild economic stagnation.
You replied to a post that was not originally about what is going on right now in your town to talk about what is going on right now in your town. I understand that you really want to talk about it, but the proper way to do that would be to make a top-level submission about what is going on in your town right now.
> but I know that even finding a carpet like that on the 1983 catalog would be hard today

That carpet is literally in the first room of the 2013 catalogue. Or maybe it is a different carpet, but I can't tell the difference.
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> we must societally worship the creators and their progeny,

It's really hard to have a useful conversation when nonsense like this creeps in. There's no society that behaves as a group. Talk mechanisms, not anthropomorphised outcomes.
I can think of no better word to describe the notion of otherwise healthy, not extremely elderly people being asked to go back to masks even inside DESPITE being vaccinated because of a new variant of the virus emerging despite it's having been shown to not be notably worse in terms of symptoms. Such things beg the obvious question: If the vaccines work, then why be asked to wear a mask again if nearly everyone's vaccinated? Or why mandate them even in preference to previous, recent infection if they work so weakly that the masks are requested again?
There is tiktok for young people, probably even more relevant for the next generation because sharing social media with your parents might not be too desirable.
Given IKEA essentially produce throwaway furniture by design, I don't think they've got much of a leg to stand on when it comes to environmental responsibility.

Just buying more stuff is literally how they have historically marketed themselves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBqhIVyfsRg
It’s called a deflationary spiral.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/deflationary-spiral.asp
Well, we used to teach it to first year university students back in the 1990's pre-standard.

C was already taken out of curriculum (students were expected to learn it from the C++ learnings), and we made use of our own collection classes with bounds checking.

The secret was teaching the language on its own, and not as C with extras.
I've never seen these two approaches as necessarily in opposition. Yes, search engines can and probably should use proprietary algorithms to derive semantic meaning, relationships, and credibility, but we can also have a more expressive semantic medium to create that content, and give authors more agency when being evaluated by those algorithms. It does not have to be a binary choice between Google black-box and endless viagra spam.

Today Google does consume all sorts of structured data. With low/no code web publishing tools, incompetence is not really a blocker.
The keys are revocable and replaceable (and it was probably a member state set of keys), so it shouldn't be too big of a deal
Haha, I was only expecting a little Greg —on the lines of "may contain nuts"— but that was 110%, take-my-shirt-off-and-dive-in buttery, biscuit base.
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I tried the book (not a native English speaker) and couldn't go further than first 2 pages.
It's just filled with random words with no explanations (yet?)

On the other side of spectrum I remember reading reading Zelazny Chronicles of Amber, as a kid (translated to my language) and absolutely loved it
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It was driving clicks/viewership.

If it bleeds, it leads was 20th century. Now what we have is fearmongering and outrage soundbite peddlers.
When will Branson, Bezos, and Musk be tweeting their plans for a Utopian Society?
Very anecdotally I spent three weeks in Italy this summer and my (UK) covid pass wasn't checked even once (In fact I also had to spend 5 days or something in isolation and nobody ever bothered to check or followup). I understand that compliance is very location specific.
Exactly. That is something this theoretical utopian system should address. Our planet has an abundance of resources that can be fully automated and self sustaining if done correctly.
>Probably not clear but I was talking about a situation where an API client (e.g a web application server) needs to manipulate customers (managed in one microservice) and also their orders (managed in another).

I would use a microservice gateway with the client only talking to the gateway. It seems weird to me that the client can call any microservice.
Like where it was going; left after the third random, unrelated political comment.
Those are not the options though since personal electronics aren't going anywhere. It's either computers and papers or a similar amount of computers but at least less paper.
Technical issues aside, the EU Green pass is a gigantic success. Super easy travel across Europe and all other participating countries.
The oversimplification for me is not talking about PWM. Pulsing to control brightness is extremely common, and typically sends more current (smaller resistors).
Honestly if I can’t trust that a company is delivering a real product or not I’m OUT. That’s a violation of trust. And it’s happened to me multiple times on Amazon—nowhere else.
Yeah I had the same feeling. I watched the new movie, and was left feeling underwhelmed. Striking aesthetics, and a true visual and audio experience. But the first half of the film felt like all exposition with no plot, and the film didn't give me much reason to care about the characters so I didn't. But the movie left me with a feeling of wanting more, so I did some research about the world Frank Herbert created, and I actually watched the film again and enjoyed it a lot more with a better understanding of the relevance of what I was seeing.

To be honest, I think that's a bit of a failure of the film that it doesn't stand truly on its own. It seems that they tried to be very faithful to the text in terms of what they depicted - which I'm sure was appreciated by Dune fans - but I understand the source material was quite dense, so they would have had to leave quite a lot of important details out.

And I think one of the mistakes of the film was to focus so much about Arakkis. The film opens with the struggle and exploitation of the fremen over spice extraction. But I think it's the wrong focus. The thing that makes Arakkis interesting is the fact that the entire empire hinges on the spice production there. The planet itself is just sort of a back-water. I think it would have been better to start with a vignette explaining the importance of spice, to properly set the stakes for the rest of the film.
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I agree. Having read the books of both series though and coming in with the expectation that I just wanted interesting science fiction I’ve been pleased with both the Dune movie and the Foundation series.
That's a good point and not something I considered. I wish I had made the trip 15 years ago when I had the chance. "I'll be able to do a proper trip soon" I said to myself.
> It was a $400 sofa that rivaled $3000 sofas

Sure, in much the same way a £10 tshirt from Uniqlo matches a £90 tshirt from Sunspel. They're not really the same thing.
You are wrongly assuming that the core developers are a club that is putting up barriers in order to stay exclusive.

Much to the opposite, just like many other big and important open source projects, they are actively trying to recruit, mentor and urge people to come as far "in" as possible. It takes a lot of work and dedication to get acquainted with a code base.
I think infrastructure will be hugely expensive. When you want to build a city that is sustainable, you'll need to build subways, infrastructure for cars, bikes and walking, sewer systems, garbage collection, energy, communication and something for distribution of food and goods. All these things will be better when doing them collaboratively, instead of individualized. You'll need taxation to pay for them collaboratively. But they should be designed and built up-front, before anyone starts living there - because otherwise people will start doing things the wrong way (i.e. traveling by car instead of public transport) and after that it is very hard to change.

Also: paying for utilities and infrastructure from rising value of land seems not very sustainable at all. It can't cover maintenance in the long run. Many US cities already suffer from that.

Utopian dreams like these usually do not end well. It took many decades for visionary developments that were planned in the Dutch polders (Almere) to become something approaching a good city, and the results are quite different then the original vision.
I don't see why I should try mastodon when twitter has way more users and the same moderation policies.
Me too actually when I saw the runtime. I guess when you take out the commercials it adds up!
It very much points to incompetence. I just don't think governments are specifically more incompetent than private entities in this case.
They are not pursuing individual papers or archives like this
You are missing "in", "ref structs", "readonly ref structs" and the Span variants.
I think it's a bit more than that.

There's the gender gap, which you mentioned, as well as the economic aspect, but I wouldn't discount the fact (or at least perception?) that people who choose to work with children are more likely to act in a caring and maternal way towards your typical aspie engineer (as opposed to the more common judgemental and standoffish approach).

At least that's my mum's theory.
Every time I go to the cinema in the past few years I feel assaulted by how loud the explosions and screaming are - Dune was no exception. I don't know if I'm getting old or other people just enjoy unhealthy noise levels.
In such a case any pharmacist can generate a factious certificate. I don't expect them to risk their licence with false data entry but given a big country and a sufficient number of disgruntled, nearly retired professionals...
I agree. Part of the problem is how they measure success. Most people apply to a lot of universities, so it's possible that each university accept only a tiny part of the application, but most people is accepted at least by one of them.
The best bookshops do not necessarily sell used books (with reference to the «ageing population»). Although it is nice that that used books find new "life" with new loving owners.

Now "spill some beans", since you hint you know some places ;)
Not sure if we really need that either, I'd prefer to remain anonymous.
I hadn't read the books, and I was seriously underwhelmed. It looked decent, but that was about it. It was very slow, there was no way to empathize with any of the characters, as they were unlikable, and often disposed of after a short screen time, and the story was cheesy mysticism in a Game of Thrones sauce. Even the sandworms were not that impressive. On the plus side, I don't like Hans Zimmer's underscores, but I thought this soundtrack was almost completely excellent (except for the use of choir).

I got completely downvoted for my opinion on Seveneves. This one won't fare better, I'm afraid.
My use case is that since Arrow keeps all data types and dumps the in memory table to disk, this allows me to backup my work and later reload the data and keep going. Loading and writing the data to disk is very fast It’s much better than using hdf5 for me in that regard.
Maybe some unprotected API gateway?
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She was like a mix of Wendy from the Shining and Ripley from Alien.
I did try to find a metric for what I was referring to here. It seems to be a number not easily found out about bitcoin. The size of the daily forex trading was around $6.6 trillion in 2019 - see my original comment for comparison.

Realistically, I was thinking of trading cash for cash of one nationality- which absolutely wouldn't change the face denominated. Kind of tautological and not as helpful. Probably testing whether bitcoin to usd acts similarly to another foreign currency to usd may be a useful metric.

But why do people exchange international currencies? So some are just forex traders performing intraday arbitrage. But the real/biggest use of it is to exchange goods across national borders. That's a use which cannot exist with the cryptos in quite the same way. Even if a nation adopts a crypto like bitcoin as its currency it does not have the same function as a currency backed by that government since bitcoin is controlled by other people - see the nber article referenced here.

Edit - my main point remains about the exchange elasticity of crypto to usd/a national currency. If the exchange rate changes rapidly with the number of crypto exchanged then it's not very liquid, by definition, and not storing value nor acting like a currency.
I live in a country where the SMS can take one day to be delivered. An it is in a first world country.
The cerebellum is a feature of other vertebrates. Anyone knows why the article paints this as uniquely mammalian?
When they lie, do they say they are a non-white model minority ?
But do we have a modern, efficient, simple RPC framework not using HTTP as transport?
to be fair, yes, you are right, it is going to be a pain for a lot of people.
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As someone who loves Denis Villeneuve I did all that, although I felt "left behind" throughout the movie, because I didn't read the books. Visually amazing, but I was sad I couldn't appreciate it the way it could have been.
> a fork that nobody would use

Except the "small group controlling 90%" of mining power that introduced that change (in the hypothetical example) would use it. And their chain would grow longer and be the canonical one (though that, of course, is also just a convention encoded in the code). And they could still spend some 20% or so of their hash power to entirely mess up the one true chain, if they so desired.
You probably didn't intend this but the context you have highlighted almost reads like a recommendation except I misunderstand what a 'canon' means.
The Parquet libs I’ve used let you read the Arrow representation straight out of a Parquet file.

There’s also an Arrow “blob” format that can be used, but that’s not meant to be used as a full persistence format (as I understand)

The value proposition is that increasing numbers of query/analysis “engines” support the Arrow in memory format which is fantastic for interoperability.
“I need a data frame library like Pandas but I’m not in Python” is no longer an issue.
The irony... I guess this proves that inter-team-communication is more difficult than rocket science...
I agree, the inflation here is the effect of the perpetual and gross mismanagement.

What about your idea regarding inflation as a way to avoid concentrations of wealth? (the idea I quoted and I replied to). That one is unsustainable.
> She thought it was boring. It’s missing a lot of smaller context and seems dull without it.

Not just dull, but even confusing at times because it was too minimal at parts. The actual importance of spice and its qualities is only briefly touched upon, and I think the Bene Gesserit's political importance and their long-term planning and meddling was a little too underplayed. Those are pretty important elements driving the story.
That's assuming that BTC's aren't infinitely divisible.

Currently, you can only chop them up into atoms worth 1e-8 BTC (satoshis), but there isn't much that needs be changed in the code and the protocol to get that to much finer grained.

Therefore, it's unlikely that there will ever be zero bitcoins.
The price point might make people buy more that's true but calling it throwaway is hardly fair, still have a fair amount of 20 year old ikea stuff around the house and they're pretty extreme about quality assurance.