skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides the fact that this is extremely subjective and comes to each person's own ability, I hate when articles try to introduce one of these cute oversimplified and exaggerated stories so that they can prove a point. Literally shifting the perspective so that the author can have the higher ground.
This is nothing compared to the tactics a "buy here, pay here" car lot will use.
It has happened that cars and even homes have been "repoed" as a result due to a mistake by a bank.
Sim swap attacks are the main way, becoming more common every day
"Cookie Management Providers" are Cookie-Management-As-A-Service. Now it suddenly sounds hip and cloud-based and something your can buy and easily integrate instead of having to develop it in-house. Plus you are able to shift the blame to the "Cookie Management Provider" when issues arise.
In general, I think the conversation is sort of warped by the fact that the really problematic statues (all those confederate generals in the american south) are basically explicit attempts by white supremacists to ensure that the street furniture makes black people feel small. That's their history - that's why a lot of them were erected.

As for the more nuanced cases, I think I'd probably go for an explanatory plaque. People are complex. One example that comes to mind is Josiah Wedgewood. On the one hand, he was an prominent slavery abolitionist. On the other hand, he employed child labourers to work with poisonous glazes, many of whom died before reaching adulthood.

The problem is, many statues are more or less obnoxious attempts by dominant groups to impose their ideology on public spaces, then the present-day sympathists tend to try and muddy the water by talking about heritage and history, when it's really nothing to do with the monuments in question.
Windows BFP (before Fisher-Price) ;)
>Around the time when I made the original Space Debris, I listened to a lot of italo disco - artists like Koto and Laserdance were some of my favourites.

I first listened to Koto not long ago, and my first reaction was that it sounded like demoscene music. Interesting to hear that there was a direct influence. I think people who like demoscene music will probably also like Italo Disco, and more specifically the mostly instrumental "Spacesynth" subgenre.
Law of large numbers. The widespread plagues of the past were never 100% lethal, or we wouldn't be here - a sizable fraction of the population survived, and over several rounds of infection/reinfection gained something we'd think of sterilising immunity.

In the meanwhile, the plagues and their knock-on effects may have eliminated approximately HALF of the entire population of their times.[0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death ("is estimated to have killed 30 percent to 60 percent of the European population")
DockerHub Is Experiencing an Outage
Ah yes, it's that simple. Clearly using a webfont and putting an email contact form is "tracking my users".
I have a question.

Would someone please give me some form of enlightenment about the practice of product placement in blog posts?

Is this the new normal?

>I'm Simeon, a in and Solution Engineer @ Sanity.io

> Some major bias at play here but when I came across Sanity I finally found "the CMS I'd always hoped existed".

It is cool, that he acknowledges the "bias", but this is more in "conflict of interest" category in my humble opinion.

What do you think? I am curious.

Edit:
Please, don't just downvote. I don't care about "karma". Give me some explanation.
I've said a few times that modern microservice architectures feel a lot like what traditional object-oriented programming was about, and I think this is another confirmation of that. I think that these days the connectors are JSON over HTTP, RPC and things like that. When a service exposes a JSON over HTTP API, I can use it from any programming language, from any program.

So "first class connectors", to me, would be something like a language describing how to interact with a service, and a code generator that takes that language and transform it into code in your language. For example, the aws-sdk-rust [1] says:

> The SDK is code generated from Smithy models that represent each AWS service. The code used to generate the SDK can be found in smithy-rs.

Here's a link to Smithy's homepage: https://awslabs.github.io/smithy/.

To me, Smithy with a code generator looks like a connector that would increase your productivity. But I'm not sure if we can call something that relies on code generation "first class". I'm not sure what "first class connectors" would look like either.

[1]: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-sdk-rust
Bad things come in threes: Apache reveals another Log4j bug
Webb Telescope Approaches Launch, with an Eye Toward Cosmic Origins
I absolutely hate the attitude towards privacy here. The street view example is just perfect: people require google to blur their building facade but the same people have no problem having their full name (incl. partners name), phone number and address on a publicly searchable online phonebook.

People constantly complain about the greedy tech companies collecting data where ever they can and proceed to complain about the strict privacy regulations in the EU in their next sentence. Forcing private individuals to put their full name and address into the imprint of their personal website, which often enough isn’t even run for profit, seems absolutely absurd and very publishing hostile.

To me it’s more and more starting to seem like people don’t actually care about their privacy, they just want to be against something.
> enforcement is a long way off, and unlikely to scale.

Companies want cookies because it gives them an expected economic profit. The expected profit minus the expected fine (risk of a fine times its expected size) is the expected net.

To make this equation result in a negative net you can both increase the risk of being fined, or the size of the expected fine. So first of all, there should be a few massive (As in company-ending) fines, and they shouldn't be for some unusual or extreme violation - they should be for common practices such as using a common cookie banner service that blatantly misinterprets the legal text.

Next, the scaling of the enforcement. It's difficult to scale, but considering how much money could actually be made from these fines, it does seem possible to have a massive self-funding organization do this.

Also, quite a few companies probably right now think something like "Well, without tracking ads we'd be out of business anyway and I don't see how we can change business model to subscriptions or similar, so let's just try to keep using dark patterns for as long as we can rather than just ceasing operations". To counter this, you'd need to add a factor to the equation that makes busineesses think "Ok, we should probably just get off the internet rather than use these dark patterns to keep margins". I'm not sure what would push the thinking in that direction, but probably personal legal responsibility rather than simply financial risk (i.e. risk of personal fines or prison for decisionmakers).
Infection also leads to immunization.

Both GB and SA had considerably higher incidence numbers over the last 12 months than most of the EU, with GB running a very successful vaccination program.

Particularly in SA researches estimate that almost anyone has had one or more infections in the last 24 months.
Meanwhile I do like reinventing the wheel. Or, more accurately, designing a wheel that fits my needs well.

Sure, I also use libraries for things that are just tedious, hard to get right or just some standard feature that's always used the same way. But you can overdo it.

Debugging my own code is annoying but doable. Debugging other people's code is a lot more tedious. Troubleshooting a mess of 1000 transitive dependencies because one package had version 10.0.6 instead of 10.0.5 and that caused an avalanche of breakage makes me reconsider my life choices.
I feel pretty confident that GM’s Onstar is primarily a service oriented for GMAC/ally so they can locate and limit speeds and unlock vehicles they hold title to but have not received payment for. Oh and sure they give you a big blue button to punch in case you have a flat tire, for peace of mind. They advertised the speed limiter capability “in case of a vehicle theft” and repo situation (driving a vehicle not paid for) isn’t too far removed from theft
GP's reasoning is probably: the only plausible way to detect human civilization (and not just our planet, which is already hard enough from a different star) is by it's radio signature, and the oldest radio emissions is from 100 years ago, give or take. Anyone standing outside of a sphere whose center is earth and radius is 100 light year hadn't been reached by our oldest detectable-from-space civilization artifacts yet.

It strikes me as a pretty intuitive arguemnt to make and true by default, to show it wrong you have to find or somehow plausibly argue for the existence of some physical medium or process that human civilization (or even earth life in general) emit or modulate in unique, detectable-from-space ways other than electromagnetic waves and that we have been doing this since before radio.
Reason No 26 to buy a Tesla - This feature makes it more difficult for it to be stolen.
weight and ergonomics are a big thing for me so im hoping this ends up being lightweight and easy to jump into. With my Index i experience a sortof "boot anxiety" where i dont feel like entering VR because of the startup delay and getting comfortable. It would be great to eliminate this as much as possible if the goal is to increase user adoption.

I like the detachable compute pack idea, and the AR mode looks up my alley
Sure, I find it easier to translate English to Swedish than the other way around I guess.

Though they are referring to your soon to be recycled cans and bottles when semi-agressively trying to steal them from you.
Many people do.
no one but you is an expert in your domain in your particular context.
close tickets like a madman, document everything.
>In comparison, GTK has bindings for a variety of languages including Rust.

Are those good bindings , or auto-generated or outdated ones ? I did not checked in a long time but I think only Python had decent bindings. I would avoid non-official bindings, those are most of the time garbage and you waste your time instead of focusing on your work.

I seen Qt in a lot of proprietary applications, including launchers for video games (the app that will let you setup a game configuration before launch) - I was surprised why a Windows only video game would not use the Windows APi directly, but it is obvious that Qt is better then whatever Windows has this days for c++ devs and game devs are not afraid of a bit of c++ or have some irrational disgust for Qt pre-procesor (I see this excuse all the time, we don't switch from GTK to Qt because of the qmake/moc I honestly prefer an honest explanation)
Hacked account --> hacker news

I bet is just google doing google things :)
Just a hunch, but did you have Facebook installed on an Android device? There's a nasty malware going around infecting older versions of Android (that don't receive security updates). It takes over your Facebook account, posts malicious links and spam to all your friends. Phone is sluggish as hell, but works.

Check if any of your friends have received malicious messages and links from your Facebook account.

The malware even manages to disable Google Play Protect. It's detected by Malwarebytes, but it returns after a restart.
Fun tidbit: in an attempt to remove 2FA so that we can login, I signed up a new account and associated her phone number with the new account in hope of removing it from the previous account. The method did infact remove the number, then we got a 2FA form on her account with a grand total of ZERO choice (an empty selection list on the popup). Note that her facebook profile was disabled to me before I try this, so I don't think this was the reason for the suspension.

And another thing that I still couldn't explain to this day: on the day of her losing access to the account, she received a garbage SMS which looks like Chinese, but it wasn't -- I asked a Chinese speaker, they said it read garbage. After copying it and changing encoding (from/to UTF-8/UTF-16 something, I can't remember the detail), turned out it was a 2FA sms text from FB. I have no idea how her phone turned it into garbage text.
And this means... ?
I really hard to compare UK and SA.

- average age 28 SA vs 40 UK

- a lot of immunocompromised people in SA (AIDS)

- UK has most of it immunity from vaccination which was mainly targeting AC2 receptor. It's possible that natural immunity or Sinovac (attenuated virus) has better protection than mRNA vaccines - not confirmed.

- SA is doing fewer tests.
I used cookies to remember the language of the site. In addition i used one free webfont and added a contact form. That alone required me to put 3 pages worth of "security policy" which I am now legally responsible for.
This whole mess could be avoided if the EU would ask/force the browser vendors to implement a single setting. Then they can simply ordain that web sites should follow that setting.

There are a bunch of details to work out (i.e. what should be the default setting, will this be an HTTP header or some API, what granularity, etc) but I'm sure the end result will be far more beneficial to society than a zillion companies each implementing their own cookie handling logic and researching their own compliance.

And I say this as a free market liberal who is skeptical of government intervention.
Michigan has certificates of need for hospital beds. Capacity is centrally planned (no doubt the incumbents are good friends with their regulators).

That's in addition to the games CMS plays with Medicare certification and funding.
Obviously, there is no objective wrong/right here, as only the future can tell. My subjective experience tells me, it will be that way.

There is no need to context-switch. Just accept Javascript as part of TypeScript, because it really is. The argument is clear: TypeScript drastically reduces the amount of errors you will be making when coding, and the amount of time you need to think about stuff that is really trivial.

The rule of thumb on how to do this is also simple: Keep your types simple, use them to make your life easier, not more complicated. If you cannot model something simply using types, don't try to do so, just use the dynamic typing escape hatch that Javascript provides.
Summary: a preliminary ruling from a German court says that you aren't allowed to collect GDPR consent using a US-affiliated service, even if the data never leaves the EU. Their argument is that because, as a US service, it is required under US law to share information in some situations where German law would prohibit it.

(Not a lawyer)
I'm sorry is your question really "what are cookies good for"? Many things I would imagine, we've been using them for decades for a reason.
Maybe that makes it even more important to repeatedly raise the possibility that this assumption is wrong.
I feel like if you could take an application compiled for Ubuntu 4.10 and run it on Ubuntu 21.10 without recompiling it or putting it in a VM then maybe this probably wouldn't be the case. Sadly we don't live in that world.
This is partially correct and honestly if your consulting agency wasn't upfront about this they're overcharging the business either today or down the road when the business comes back needing more.

Good service is ones that solve the problem in a reasonable time. Great services accomplish the same as good service but understand that the code, company and even the pipeline will evolve and either the client will need to reinvest themselves or externally again. They will communicate this with the limitations to the client.

There are only two types of clients I've seen more inline with the original statement, declining or flat company and both are only in the maintenance do not touch phase.
Setting aside corporate sovereignty, the US government also specializes in collecting personal data without consent, and pays private US companies to do so when privacy protection laws are passed by their leaders. It is not clear whether they have the political will to sign the GDPR or a reasonable equivalent into law, and very rich companies like Google and Verizon would spend their entire fortune suing to stop it block it, suspend it, and otherwise drag their feet in court for a decade.
> For example, your apartment's doorbell has to have your last name on it

Uh...whose last name would you put on that doorbell? Someone else's who doesn't live there?
> Remember, that hospital systems in pretty much all countries has collapsed.

This is just factually incorrect. This kind of fearmongering is helping nobody.
In a course I teach when the isolation measures started in my country we got 2 weeks in advance to turn everything from in-person classes to virtual "maybe for a month, and then we'll go back" (you can imagine how that turned out).

So during 2020 we moved into a model where we recorded the lectures for students to watch on their own time, and then they'd have a questions-only class (or so they were told). This turned out to get 80-90% of the students to actually view the material before class, and then they'd ask questions about what they didn't understand. On a few difficult topics, we ended up having yet another lecture (but focused on the parts they had trouble following).

On some occasions where they didn't engage with many questions (I think it was the first few classes under this model, which was novel to the students) we the teachers picked up on doing a quick recap and focusing on what we knew beforehand tends to be hard to understand, and engaged them in the class (questions, explain the concepts themselves, etc).

Here's my take: it takes a lot of effort to do this, from recording the material beforehand, to "lying" that the class will be questions-only for clearing up (and we know we'll end up explaining yet again if they don't bring questions), to actively engaging and changing the pace of the lectures/classes.

Because of all this effort, out of 5 different courses I teach, I only managed to pull this in 1, and we're still tweaking a lot of content to make it work better under this model. But we're planning to keep it even after the restrictions are gone (we're still not giving in-person classes at my university, in theory they'll be back for 2022).
With how much more contagious omicron is, I wonder what the odds are that future strains will come from it or an earlier strain? In particular, I assume there is some zero-sum competition going on between strains—if someone gets infected with Omicron it becomes very unlikely that they would later contract Delta—thus at a certain point Omicron is everywhere and less contagious strains largely die out? This has happened in the past with syphilis, for example.
I want the browser to not let any other party get more bits of entropy than I agree to. My ip is a few bits of entropy. Now I want my browser to give not-that-many-more bits of entropy to any remote server. If it allows a remote server to list my system fonts, render something on a canvas and read back the bytes,or do some audio mixing on my machine and read back low level results, then my browser has failed me. I want it to say "I'm not showing this webpage at all because it tried to read back a canvas".
it's Ukrainian specifics - all salaries are monthly because they could change more than once a year
Since when is this a Facebook support line? This account was created 6 days ago with the specific intention of getting Facebook support.
If you finance a car through a bank the bank owns the car, they have the title (US).
That's a false equivalence .

A jab isn't as evasive as surgery, it doesn't carry the same risks,costs,time etc
This entire thread is discussing the hypothetical where you could exchange your stock comp to cash. People upthread were claiming that the stock is more valuable, even though cash is exchangeable to stock without limitations, and the opposite is not true. You yourself said "virtually everyone would take the cash", so I take it that you agree with me.
What are good alternatives that also have useful incentivization mechanisms built in?

Every system that is lacking this is doomed.
This whole "won't someone think of the small businesses" shtick is so transparent. I don't want "my" local businesses tracking me any more than the non local ones. I don't want a fiercely competitive market of data leeches any more than five big ones. Big tech can and should still be felled once the bulk of the weeds are chopped.
sms can also be intercepted by folks who knows what they doing in the approximate location as the cell phone user. Cell phone/sms is NOT secure.
It is certainly true that it is hard to find any forest in Germany which is as untouched as untouched rain forest in South America. But somehow Germany manages now for centuries to use the forest for business and to retain a more or less constant amount of forest at the same time. I am not saying Germany couldn't do better, certainly it could. But I see the forest usage in Germany as quite good.

Around the city where I live, the forest is owned by something like a trust fund to the benefit of the citizen of the city. That exists since the 14th century in or another form. This forest is certainly not untouched but its owners are interested in its long-term development.
South Africa has 20,000/day cases which is about the same they had in July, yet they peak at 30 deaths/day vs 400 deaths/day in July. To estimate the fatality rate of a variant, you need to do it within the same population. At the current rate, Omicron is literally as deadly as influenza in South Africa [1] and, as the current wave passed its peak, it might be even less deadly than that.

PS: parent post is sarcastic

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/countries/southafrica/what/...
Google has invested in pullrequest and some engineers review for pull request

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/07/pullrequest-pulls-in-2-3m-...
If you have 230km trip, it is unlikely there'll be signs at beginning that indicate "turn left to go to specific place X". Similarly when you get to exit highway or turn to downtown, it'll say "Jarvis street exit" or "Exit 238", but if you're going to a random house on a random street in random part of random town, signs really may not be that helpful or specific.

So I may be going to 123 Brown street of Pleasantville, and to get there I need to take number of random roads in my town, get to highway 10, then take ramp to Highway 20 West (which at this point is actually going South, because highways are wiggly but need consistent naming), then take exit 303 "Alabama Street" to go to Atom road to drive 20km to take right on Williams Boulevard to get to town of Pleasantville and take 3 more streets to go to Brown Street.

(also, note that I've found signs in different places be oriented very differently; in parts of Europe, you'll frequently have sings that indicate which way to a selection of big neighbouring cities; I don't really see that in North America)
> people require google to blur their building facade but the same people have no problem having their full name (incl. partners name), phone number and address on a publicly searchable online phonebook

Wait...so people can decide which facts about their life they want to remain private and which they're fine with you knowing? I thought that was the whole idea of self-determination. Where's the catch?
OPs comment is deleted, so I can't see the paper.

Is there a reason to believe the risk of myocarditis will continue to rise with each booster?