skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This has interesting implications for the events of the past 2 years in general given how little power any of the levels of Government had to prevent protests from interrupting their exercise of power and monopoly on force.

Part of why so many people disbelieve Covid is because there was massive protests worldwide. Yellow vests in France, Farmers in the Netherlands and india, BLM in USA. But most relevant...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%932020_Hong_Kong_pr...

China marched in and took over Hong Kong. They'll never have another free election. The coincidence that COVID leaked out of a lab at basically the same time is pretty improbable.
Amazing how you can take recent victories of liberties in certain places and then start judging other countries when they don't abide by them.

Give them time! Don't assassinate them for being who they have been for years upon years and how they still have not changed as much as you would be pleased.

Honestly, the world will start to see a backward shift on woke culture after the PR disaster that the far left wing administration in the US is becoming.
How well-versed are they in file systems, database schemas? Will they look at source code? Will they understand it? How will they determine what data came from where?
Sorry, but I disagree. Maybe in the 80s when developers were all yelling while coding :p Does this look like cobol to you?

type GUID_String is new String (1 .. 32)
with Dynamic_Predicate => (for all C of GUID_String => C in '0' .. '9' | 'a' .. 'f');

The only thing Ada has in common with cobol is that you can define decimal fixed point types (you specify the number of digits and a delta, which must be a power of 10) [1]

I usually use ordinary fixed point types:

type Axis_Position is delta 2.0 ** (-15) range -1.0 .. 1.0 - 2.0 ** (-15)
with Size => 16;

or (from wayland-ada [2]):

type Fixed is delta 2.0 ** (-8) range -(2.0 ** 23) .. +(2.0 ** 23 - 1.0)
with Small => 2.0 ** (-8),
Size => Integer'Size;

[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Types/delta#Di...
[2] https://github.com/onox/wayland-ada
The other thing is that the Wikipedia alone is more valuable content than probably the whole web of 25 years ago. And aside from their annual donation drive, junk free. And "X wikipedia" where X is the subject still works on Google, with the desired result at least in the first six or so.
Have you tried Excel on Wine? It may run faster there, if you're not also relying on the VM for added security
We are absolutely paying our people more, just gave everybody raises. But can’t get new people even when we offer more.
It's hard to argue against it when I see companies becoming more and more consumer hostile (cheap products that break in a year or after warranty is up, slow buggy software, incomplete game releases, ads crammed into every open space, FANG cornering their markets, dark patterns, etc.)
Didn't know either till then ;) But asking something like this after four different interviews, though. I was already pretty tired from the other interviews
I usually recommend picking an LTS ("long term support") release and finding tutorials about those to establish a baseline familiarity with the interface and features. LTSs won't change for as long as they're supported.

After that, Blender makes it easy to manage concurrent versions, so it's fine to just download and run additional versions if you're feature-chasing from a new tutorial or looking for a bug fix.

Blender is a lot of people's first modal, process oriented software, and it does require a different mindset than working in other tools where menus and windows are all available from one interface. I'd still argue the amount of conceptual mastery and memorization needed for each is basically the same.
That's... worse.
Exvention
What is "this is how Node does it" complacency you speak of?

Node has been talking about Fetch since at least 2018 _before_ Ryan even announced Deno. This is true for promises, ESModules etc. Ryan _attended those meetings_ in the Node collaborator summit.

Don't get me wrong I am thankful for Deno (and a contributor!) but:

- It's a lot easier to make changes when the project is new and you don't have a lot of users (which is great for Deno) whereas Node has a whole (huge) ecosystem to consider on every change.
- It's a lot easier to make changes with venture capital and funding to hire a bunch of people to work on it full time vs. a project with a "regular" MIT license where the code is owned by the community and not a company.

Those are not complaints about Deno, I like Deno (and not just Ryan, Lucas, Kit, Ben and the other people are nice and helpful and the project is really nice).

It's just to explain very little of Node's innovation is (at the moment) driven by Deno.
The Five Calendly Creeps: The Dos and mostly don'ts of meeting scheduling
Why do you think so? Isn't it much cheaper and easier on the environment to dismantle a bridge (that was probably built with that in mind) than to move an entire city of professionals+the infrastructure around them away to a more suitable place?
Thanks - that's awesome to hear! We're still early days and would love your feedback. Feel free to send me an email (james@oncircles.com).

It would have been a great idea to add a small price in the app store, as my core assumption was that people would not pay for a social networking app alone. Maybe I will change my assumption there. You don't need to answer this if uncomfortable doing so (or can send by email) but how much would you pay today to know the app is sustained ad-free?

Otherwise, we are fortunate to be funded by a single angel who gives us freedom to decide the path of the company. He invested with the recognition that the tides on privacy and social media are changing and that a more intimate, private social network would be a definite solution in the future (In his words, "the two most important parts of anyone's network are the closest circles and the fringes, so Circles focuses on the former").

Our next stop was to build a Circles designed interoperable chat that would allow you to send and receive messages to pretty much any major third party app. We would charge for this. However, right now we collect no individual data from our users and most user information is encrypted at rest, making it very hard for us to build any real ads mechanism.

In relation to group chats, there is a notable difference in how Circles are set up. In a group chat everything is shared to the group, and all the members are directly connected to each other because they are in that group. Circles in their current setup are closer to broadcast lists.
That would be because they and their friends are on only one of the two (welfare/corporate welfare) lists you mentioned.
It’s a historic bridge not in active use.
I really want only typewriter. All I need from that OS is an ability to run vim or emacs or maybe any other text editor, but vim and emacs I appreciate the most. I don't reject modern technologies but in the world of super-smart and all-mighty devices, I am looking for one machine to be as stupid as possible.
Hi - where is that "dog bits capitalist oppressor" from btw? Google only has this comment. While I've been developing "news/internet literacy" for decades, I found it insightful to focus not just on facts but the spin and intent of fact presentation. Would love to read more if you've got some thoughts/links :)
Blender 2.8 was released on July 30, 2019.
UI options or themes?
The "EU doing things" is not detached from your national government. In fact all EU legislation is being approved by your national government in the EU Council and the EU commission has to report there. (As well as the EU parliament, however the EU parliament is weak ...)

Edit: maybe as addition in the last point in parentheses: The EU parliament is purposely weak, as the EU is a union of states and the member state government want the power in the council and don't want to give up power.
I was actually inspired by your ts-sql project! Amazing work
According to all records on this, the reason he was not charged by Obama was that his administration was afraid the case would not hold up in court. If they felt differently, I don't see why the extradition request wouldn't have been made, whether he was still held up in the Ecuadorian embassy or not. After all, Ecuador and the US have had an extradition treaty since 1872 and all that the US had to do is pressure Ecuador and wait/influence them till a new government was in place.

It was Trump's administration that according to all information simply felt differently about the case entirely. This is why his Justice Department went forward.

>President Barack Obama’s Justice Department had extensive internal debates about whether to charge Assange amid concerns the case might not hold up in court and would be viewed as an attack on journalism by an administration already taking heat for leak prosecutions.

>

>But senior Trump administration officials seemed to make clear early on that they held a different view, dialing up the rhetoric on the anti-secrecy organization shortly after it made damaging disclosures about the CIA’s cyberespionage tools.

AP(1)

I mean if you have sources to the contrary, please share them. But all that was available so far doesn't really help your assumption there. Also, is this really surprising? Trump promised (but thankfully failed) to "open up Libel laws" after all.(2)

_____

(1) https://apnews.com/article/north-america-ap-top-news-barack-...

(2) https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpomete...
Millions of Google Analytics customers with suddenly blank histories going back (years?) will notice quite a bit, whole classes of employees basically just make charts about historical performance.

Attribution in advertising is something which can last months for some products, and it's doubtful that a large proportion of companies import from GA and will lose their ability to gauge current performance compared to the past.
> I'd end up in companies doing slimy stuff, I'd get low-balled on salary, I'd get bait-and-switched on my role.

It's somehow correlate, since one of the most potential client for recruiters are companies that hard to find employees. Though there are also companies that lack channel / networks to specific fields, it cannot be dismissed that the previous point still stand.
Well the cool thing about Western democracies is that nobody cares what you think about what they spend their money on.

And the folks hired to built that yacht (versus a home or a new company) are probably pretty happy to get the business.
This is a perfect example of why extreme wealth inequality is bad. It leads to sub-optimal uses of the economy, like this.
> what they are learning is based on complete misunderstanding of organic chemistry (which has not been updated with the modern understanding of physics)... so it is bound to drive anyone who tries to make sense of it crazy

This sounds like an extraordinary claim, especially since organic chemists work along physical chemists and chemical physicists who presumably have a strong modern understanding of physics. It would be better for an expert to chime in, but I don’t see the incentive where organic chemists would be content to let their field stay out-of-date.
Would they need to delete derived ML data as well?
Of course AWS is the mainframe in this analogy! It's a huge throughput- and reliability-optimized overhyped crazy expensive server that you hire someone else to run for you. It's designed the same way, with dedicated storage, compute and backplane servers. Even the discourse is the same to the 80s: "why we have to rent a $$$ monster when a $ commodity server outperforms it". How is this not obvious is beyond me.
Take my Vyvanse, go back to sleep for an hour, wake up almost already in code mode...
All right, meet me in the parking lot, I'll be driving my car at 5.6 mph and you can run into my car and see how you feel about that.
If you create a Twitter List and add users into it, they stay in the list even if/when they change their handles.

I used this approach to keep track of scammers a while back when Twitter DM scams were a thing amongst the circles I was following.
> How is it spying when the people are freely giving away their data?

The ruling has proved that no, people are not freely giving away their data. One of the infringing issues is that the system "Fails to properly request consent."
It's not a telemetry bug. It's a networking bug. Avoiding it basically comes down to being extremely lucky.
If there's one thing you can rely on, it's an Irish enforcement body doing sweet feckall. No wonder they like to use the Irish DPC!

The EU is our saving grace far too often.
I think they meant, building/owning a superyacht.
Despite using the same terms, they're distinct. You can be ethnically Jewish but not religiously Jewish and vice versa.

It would probably be more clear if there were separate terms for "I practice Judaism" and "I am descended from the Jewish ethnic group".
Location: London, UK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: TypeScript, AWS, Serverless, Terraform, whatever really

Résumé/CV: http://lukebarton.co.uk

Email: luke@lukebarton.co.uk

Hi, I'd preferably like a role where I can get involved in everything and contribute ideas in all areas, be it product or engineering. I've been a Principal Software Engineer at a insanely-paced startup that IPO'd last year. The sheer intensity beat me up a little and now I'm looking for something new, where things are going to be little less chaotic (shouldn't be hard).

I've been writing software professionally for 15 years. Languages/tools/things I don't know aren't a problem for me to pick up. I'm really comfortable designing systems involving tech and people. Nowadays I'm less interested in bashing out code for codes sake and more interested in crafting systems that seek the goals we want, and helping teams write only the software that's necessary.

Happy to hear from anyone who's got something I might be interested in :) Thanks
No, we're probably seeing the same as you.
>You were the one who claimed to be able to find anything on google

I did not in fact claim that. You are confusing me with someone else in this thread. I agree that some things are hard to find on google, but I reject the notion that anything with a financial element is fundamentally corrupt in terms of intention.
compared to coal, most are. but is it more env friendly than solar or wind? i think not.
All EU countries have a Data Protection Authority org, so yes the inspectors will have the capabilities to carry out these things.

Also this is not criminal law where someone is innocent until proven otherwise. Companies have to prove themselves that they comply with the law. Like food companies have to log cleaning to show they follow the food regulations, as one example.
There's an RPG that has this as part of the game mechanics:

Mage:The Ascension.

https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Consensus
I think the point was the millions spent on this boat could have been allocated instead to improving society, rather than a boat that will likely only get used once per year.
How do you guys do this? It's it just copying a bunch of database fields from one database to another?
Sometimes the Best Ideas Come from Outside Your Industry (2014)
I wonder if it's that or if it's also a case of marketing departments going wild with GTM and Segment and the like, literally throwing the kitchen sink in front of the user's experience in a desperate attempt to measure and drive 'engagement'.

I mean, if you take a news website like The Independent, there's not a chance in hell that a competent design and engineering team would sign off on all the bullshit that is dumped on top of the page. It's always added on at runtime.
I agree with you. It seems funny to me in a lot of these threads about new features that people complain about them, then when somebody recommends program "XYZ" they complain "but there hasn't been any updates in 2 years, it's obviously not good or not used and I don't want to get stuck using an obsolete package".

Can't win I guess.
Europe is obviously walking very slowly towards federalism without saying it too loudly.
These aren't supposed to be seen as ads, but they are ads. I've never heard "turn right at the public library," but I have heard "turn right at the tiny dunkin donuts across the street from the huge public library."
What's the operational difference between that and any language acquisition? If your implication is that we're entirely constructed from our influences and that therefore no part of us is original, it's very silly, very linear thinking. We're each unique assemblages of influences, and most of our utterances of any significant length are unique.

edit: neither of our comments have ever been written before.
I think the parent comment refers to how the cost of this vehicle could instead prevent around one hundred thousand deaths from maleria*, or uplift several entire communities out of poverty, or provide education to thousands of children, or some other societal good.

* if we assume ballpark $300-400 million cost of construction.
"No, your honor. They didn't consent. But I have corrected that."
I can't find any English language news about it, but Yahoo Japan are going to withdraw a bunch of services from Europe in April including webmail and news. They're citing GDPR costs.

Edit: Apparently it's been picked up since last time I looked: https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/1/22911965/yahoo-japan-europ...
It is funny how you accuse others of baby duck syndrome when you are the one that can't get over your imprint of having used other software and fail to adjust to using blender. Projecting, much?

Blender is difficult to learn. Maybe it is not the right tool for you. As I said it took me multiple attempts to learn properly myself. Acting like the blender UI is objectively bad just because it does not suit you is silly though.

The part about other software is especially silly considering that blender is exceptionally loved by its users. Something that commercial 3d software can not claim at all.
There were also side effects, i.e. many small banks closing because they were not 'worth' being saved. So what we saw was big banks getting an infusion, paying it back and finding themselves at the top of a more consolidated market thanks to the US Govt.

https://www.politico.com/news/agenda/2022/01/19/minority-own...
Are you claiming we don't know the primary impacts of those? Do we have good reason to believe they will change at year 50? My point is that we don't know primary impact even short distance out and we have reasonable evidence that the nature of our opponent is the problem, not the technology.
I think the killer feature for these separate tools is usually that you can easily do a right click -> "copy as curl" in the network inspector, then import it in Postman/Paw and then tweak parameters / add headers there. This is not really possible in the browser network tools.
I really struggled with it, during a time when I was reading many large or difficult books: Don Quixote, Moby Dick, The Quran. I like the idea of it, but couldn't get into it. I was perhaps considering the audio book instead as that might inject a bit more life into it.
So we need the ISS so we can use taxpayer money to fund billionaires to develop rockets to launch to the ISS?

See here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_reasoning

Where would we be without SpaceX? Pretty much where we are now --- struggling to find enough chips to build cars and Raspberry PIs.
I don't get this point of view. If you live in Russia, of all places, you'd likely want to avoid Yandex. On the other hand, for people from non-Russian countries Yandex is probably a better and safer choice than Google.
Hey! Love the landing page for StoryArk & thanks for the ideas!

Super similar concept. A few apps I've seen pop up in the space are Lalo (https://www.lalo.app/) and Waldo (https://waldophotos.com/).

Yes, we initially had it this way and it seems from this HN launch that's what users prefer! The feature is flagged so we can bring it back and will likely do so (having an opt-in as you've mentioned).

Would be great to connect and share learnings. If you'd like send me an email (james@oncircles.com).
If you run a company that violates the GDPR, you might get sued and have to pay some fines. This is a calculated risk taken by many executives.

If you then get a letter from the regulator stating that you were in violation, and have to delete some data, and you answer that you did, and signed it -- then you're likely up to criminal charges if that was a lie.

This is not a line most executives are comfortable with crossing.

If any subsequent GDPR shenanigans come up, and they found you intentionally lied to the regulators, you're in some deep shit.

There might or might not be auditors visiting you after the first letter. If you lie and are found out, your career is over, and you might wind up in prison.

It's not perfect for enforcing privacy, but it's much better than not having such a ruling.
> Most of the times "fact" wars or "culture" wars are just covert interest wars. Just ask yourself who benefits and how, pull from the string, and most "facts" will just dissolve on a carefully crafted narrative that has nothing to do with the truth and a lot to do with gaining or not losing some type of power.

No, I don't think it's that simple. Take the classic culture war issue: abortion. There's genuine, widespread, and deep opposition to it. The "covert interests" didn't manufacture that opposition, but they have latched onto it to help make unpopular policies (e.g. laissez faire economics, tax cuts for the rich) electorally viable.
We've moved on from Postman for our own APIs and are now including an integrated API Explorer into each new .NET v6+ App
https://docs.servicestack.net/api-explorer

As a consequence of our API Design we're also able to reuse our existing Typed APIs in gRPC services:
https://docs.servicestack.net/grpc
Very nice, thanks for sharing. I'll take a look.
Denmark must be capable of creating parallel universes then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Denmark#Land_value...
The problem isn't that there was a telemetry outage; the problem is that the telemetry outage caused a Firefox outage, which should not be a thing. Firefox needs to be more robust than that.
Thank you for the feedback!

I never had that on my rader. Just added support for keyboard. Should be online a few seconds.

Cheers, Kiru
Yahoo Japan is going dark in Europe, citing cost of complying with regulations
Does anyone have more context? Or a link to a video showing this issue? This Reddit thread only seems to have a screenshot (though I didn’t scour the entire comment section).

I’ve never seen this in the wild, and technically without a link I still haven’t seen it live at all. I’m wondering if the channel triggered some sort of anti-spam mechanism.

EDIT: The only source I can find is from screenshots of right-wing Twitter accounts suggesting something about YouTube censoring anti-vax protests: https://m.imgur.com/dh1kU1q Until someone can link to an actual video showing this issue, I’d approach this with an extremely high degree of skepticism.

EDIT 2: Appears to only apply to live streams from new accounts. Seems like a reasonable limitation to clamp down on the spread of copyrighted material rebroadcasting (people live streaming sports and such from throwaway accounts) and cryptocurrency scams.
Orwell’s Wallet: European electronic identity system