skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This whole thing is so sad. My mom lived her final days in fear as she was on chemo treatment and COVID would have been a death sentence to her. The state we live in is very anti-mask, and people were outright hostile to us when we would go out in public here. To a little old lady. With no hair. Who was obviously very sick. My daughter has an autoimmune disease that again puts her at very high risk. She likely will never be able to go out in public and live a normal life again is what we have been told. I am triple vac'd and would be even without these family stories. But I also believed in HIPPA and not treating people with AIDs differently and don't understand why now all of the sudden we must treat people differently based on their medical status. This is not who we are. Remember my body my choice? People wanting to deny medical care to other human beings is as un-understandable as the people harassing my cancer tricked mom for wearing a mask. Just stop for a second people, take a breath, and try to be human. Please get vaccinated. If not for you than for others who have family that love them. Try not to advocate condemning people to death because you don't like their like choices, if not for them then for the family that loves them and would be devastated by their loss. Take a second to undig your feet from your current position and start over, because this isn't working, and it's hurting us all. These are all actual human beings, some in fear for their life from a very real threat from a severe disease, some in fear for their civil rights that their ancestors fought for. I am not right, you are not right. We hold an opinion. That should NEVER lead to deaths for those we disagree with. You don't want a rushed experimental mRNA vaccine, get the Johnson and Johnson shot. It's basically the flu shot. You feel like AIDS patients shouldn't be discriminated against? Then don't require MEDICAL passports declaring people's medical status'. You feel like it's women's bodies they have a say, then don't require experimental vaccines approved in a rush to be put in other's bodies. Seriously people just slow down for one second, and always try to humanize the other, and look at other beliefs we hold and see how someone could hold the belief they have. Take a second today on this day of love and have some compassion. You are valuable, you are important, and your view is important. But people shouldn't die because of it if you can help prevent that. They too are valuable and important and loved.
I don't buy into their analysis of "tech exceptionalism" that sets up
a dichotomy between an unruly cavalier geekdom and a state that just
wants to protect its citizens. It avoids complexity and complicity at
all levels.

Technology has power because it's useful. It's useful to firms that
want to make piles of money. It's useful to governments who want to
spy and control. It's useful to people who _need_ next day delivery on
garden furniture. It's useful to people lost in the desert.

The problem is it's so damn useful we're ALL hopelessly addicted to it
and completely in denial of its harms and impending unravelling.

What I didn't read anywhere in this analysis was any talk of
empowering people. No mention of individual self-determination,
autonomy, investment in local and small scale technologies, positive
regulation _for_ peoples rights, or the basic right _not_ to be forced
to participate in an unsustainable technological project.

As Eisenstat and Gilman paint it - industry, state and people - that's
two wolves and a sheep arguing about what's for dinner, or as Junior
Murvin would say - Police and thieves in the street, scarin' the
nation... or as I call it, when the distribution of technological
power is 49.5% State, 49.5% Industry, 1% People - technofascism.
This is super, super tangential, but I know that certain word sounds have very similar associations across almost any culture; “mom”, for example, sounds soft and warm to basically anyone who hears it, while “flak” sounds violent or harsh.
> There are also lots of libraries but the quality of the documentation is often sub par.

One thing I think R does not get enough credit for is really strong enforcement of documentation. If you want to get a package in CRAN it is going to be more work to not document your library than to just document it correctly. As a result nearly every R package has very solid documentation, including a well formatted pdf manual, a series of "Vignettes" that show how to use the library, and excellent in-interpreter documentation.
I think you're right. I do misunderstand you. Do you oppose this vaccine mandate or the Emergencies Act?

Because you've indicated you oppose this vaccine mandate.

We're discussing a specific use of an already existing piece of legislation (Emergencies Act). There's no additional power granted here, the act was pre-existing, it's being applied.

You certainly may take issue with the fact the Emergencies Act could be used for nefarious purposes i.e. that the scope is too large. That's likely a valid concern. Sadly, most laws and legislations are open to interpretation and susceptible to abuse.

However, if this mandate were to be rolled back, the Emergencies Act isn't going anywhere. The Emergencies Acts is still sitting there available to future leaders.

Let's suppose you think a Covid vaccine mandate is a good thing, but you're ideologically opposed to it coming into force via an act that could be abused. Firstly, you're most certainly not on the same page as the majority of people opposing this mandate.

Secondly, what's your plan? Get rid of the Emergencies Act and come up with new legislation for a vaccine mandate, in record time, and with no holes in it, all the while people are unnecessarily dying, hospitals are unnecessarily overloaded and there's unnecessary economic damage... for ideological reasons?
I use Joplin at home and want to use it for taking notes at work. I love it.
It seems like you're responding to a different comment...

> $100m fines, chargebacks, compliance, transaction fees and the labor behind these are all fat that could be trimmed with DeFi.

Yes, I know. These are the things I like about regular finance and don't want to give up. All of those things are pro-consumer except the transaction fees.

DeFi has not demonstrated an ability to eliminate transaction fees or even to make them predictable or consistently low! It's the worst of both worlds.
RTFM: Read The F* Manual before asking questions
This looks like magic. Not sure how it generates native packages for multiple platforms without running on all of them.
Please see the first sentence of my comment again. Which country, which government? If I may say so, I doubt your word that this is an actual requirement anywhere in the world (let alone commonplace), considering the smartphone incidence among the elderly.
They are buying hot shitcoins on leverage.
The hypocrisy goes deeper.

Trudeau had been advocating via the WTO for the removal of farming subsidies & MSP for Indian Farmers for years at that point.[1]

If he had any semblance of moral consistency, then he would have been an ardent supporter of the farm bill.

[1] https://theprint.in/diplomacy/trudeau-backs-farmers-protest-...
> Trudeau is calling the whole protest illegal.

The whole protest has been illegal from the start (violating the highway traffic act)

> Last week they arrested an old man for merely honking his horn to show support.

Source? Either way, yes, there was an injunction granted specifically against honking horns.

> So, anyone attending a protest is joining an illegal activity...and can have their accounts frozen.

No, anyone attending this specific protest at this specific time when there is a provincial state of an emergency (and now the invoking of the federal emergencies act, which requires provincial assent) is joining an illegal activity, and anyone providing monetary support to said illegal activity may have their accounts frozen.

> There's no guarantee of due process in Canada's constitution?

There is indeed. The Emergencies Act is subject to the charter of rights and freedoms, section 7 of which covers legal rights[1] and section 1 of which lays out how these rights are subject to "such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society". It'll be up to the courts to decide after the fact whether these restrictions were demonstrably justified (hint: with the province declaring the protest illegal, declaring a state of emergency last week, and the protesters totally refusing to move: they will be found justified. Our court system is not nearly as politicized as our southern neighbours')

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and...
That's more or less what I'm trying to say, the little morsel of self esteem given to labourer, the sense of purpose and inclusion, comes tangled up in an insane and horrific ideology, if he wants to eat that morsel he needs to swallow the other part too. So the strategy isn't nonsense, it's nasty, but not nonsense. The human need for inclusion and self esteem is real, responding that need is real, the nonsense is the mythology in which that response is served.
Yes, because polio was killing kids rather than older people with health problems. Also, they shut down a lot of infrastructure (like swimming pools) to prevent transmission before a vaccine controlled the problem, similar to are lockdowns and mask mandates today p. And you know, I’d like life to go back to normal, it’s just a quick needle prick.
I would get very heavily into Inform / Interactive Fiction / Old School Text Adventures, for sure
Fair enough, if that's your view!

For me, this hypothetical is more a situation where we're talking about one's freedom to make choices that endanger those around them, in addition themselves. When the principal danger is to oneself I think restrictions are rarely justified, but when the consequences are borne by others, I think it's more justified. For example, when operating cars, we don't allow you to drink and drive, run red lights, or drive on the sidewalk, primarily because it creates at least as much risk for your neighbours as it does for yourself.
The "We are conditioned for round corners" was a bit far-fetched in terms of how it relates to design in my opinion. As the article asks the reader to think about its purpose, agreeing that there is a place for sharp edges.

I wouldn't let my child play with a fork, but I wouldn't let them eat their dinner with a ball either?
Not being able to earn a living is violence.
running seems less efficient because you get tired sooner
I'm "old", but I know that not every article about X has to be full history of X.
> Put the measures being protested directly up for a vote by the Canadian legislature (so they're not just executive actions), if they're not struck down the government should resign / do a no confidence vote

Wtf, you want them to vote, and if trudeau wins the vote, you want him to resign? Really a heads i win tails you lose sort of plan.

Besides,its a minority government, trudeau doesn't have to put it up for a vote, if he was going to lose, the opposition would put it to a vote.

And that's ignoring that 95% of what they are protesting isn't even federal juridsiction and has nothing to do with trudeau. He wouldn't be able to interfere if he wanted to.
Probably a mix of not having much to loose, trying to gather some good publicity and fear that the regulators would see them as some kind of "repeat offender" and punish them harder than Apple, Google et. al. if they dragged their feet.
I am one of those that share both sentiments so I am happy to explain.

It is better all software be democratized or decentralized which makes the responsibility to filter and ignore bad content fall on the individual or community who can maintain block lists all can override or can opt in or out of.

In a dictatorship or centralized technology however the responsibility falls to a central entity that removes all choice from you and even removes the ability to review the code they expect you to agree to run. Almost like making people sign legal agreements without reading them. By design a dictator implies they can and will always make better choices than anyone else. Dictators by design must be -perfect- to evade the due criticism for taking away free choice.

In a world run by software the method of governance for that software is of a similar level of importance as the governance of our countries.
Even for 2/6, the site says MVT was flat (0% change). But from what I have seen, policing has also taken a back seat during the pandemic especially for non-violent, non-urgent crimes.
Society will feel less free if all police are permitted to have the unregulated right to collect and indefinitely retain DNA from any source in a searchable database.

Society would feel more free if every police officer's DNA was stored in nationally searchable database and indefinitely retained.
Which OSes and devices have the best accessibility in your experience?
Is not OpenStack the best way to get cloud without using another Cloud Service(TM)?
1. this sounds awfully like to the "modern" definition of racism, which basically justifies any sort of action as long it's for the "marginalized" group.

2. What counts as "marginalized" here? I could plausibly make the argument that anti-vaxxers are marginalized because the government is cutting off their access to common services and threatening their livelihoods.
Trump Organization accountants disavow years of company financial statements
All you're doing here is arguing with yourself: you agree that the barrel of a gun is, in the final analysis, ultimately used to enforce both vaccine mandates and private contracts. Therefore an opposition to things being enforced at the barrel of a gun alone is an incoherent reason to oppose vaccine mandates and not private property.
I mean, if they can't get this very weak motion to pass,i highly doubt they would get one to kill mandates to pass.
Apple’s solution to Dutch App Store dispute just earned it another €5M fine
Sounds like basically every protest since the summer of 2020.
...Yeaaaaaah. that's jumping the shark for me. Give em' hell in that case, I suppose.

Taking a second look through the media coverage, I've gotta laugh though... To think that your Federal capital should be immune from a glorified sit in, and to go and make a big fluff about demanding to "take it back"

...Yet no moment of reflection in this is a symbolic gesture to the people of Ottawa on what the Federal mandates have taken from the protestors. It's like people are shouting completely past one another. It's one of the most sublime examples of dysfunction writ large I've lived through to date.

Sad that...
You're right, it would have been more helpful of me to find an example of a protest in Canada that blocked roads for more than a week, which would prove Trudeau's response is disproportionate by Canadian standards. I don't know of any example of that, or of judicial injunctions being violated for a week, so I accept your point.
It's "nearly identical" to an IEEE submission draft by a world renown cryptographer. While there could still be implementation issues, this isn't homebrew crypto.
I’ve been a lurker for many years, but felt I needed to make an account to counter you here.

What about X or Y is not a valid response to this argument. You can have no public opinion on antifa or BLM in another country to have the opinion that activity in your own community is not okay. We can compare this to BLM or antifa, but we can also compare BLM or antifa to the Arab spring or French revolution to say that they’re relatively peaceful too.

The fact is this entire thing has been horribly covered by the media.

There are a lot of groups and factions involved in the protest. The main leadership group is organized (and fundraised) by Canada Unity, and their original demands were to overthrow the democratically elected government to install themselves as government and rule through the senate and governer general. You can look that up in their original MOU on the way back machine.

The means of the protest was to park heavy equipment and harass the citizens of downtown Ottawa (via keeping them awake 24/7 with train horns, arguably a form of warfare) until the federal government capitulated to demands. This is essentially the “I’m not touching you, but my hand is directly in front of your face” form of harassment. Later that evolved into blocking border crossings, which is explicitly illegal and explicitly under the criminal code listed as not an acceptable form of protest.

The complications of this issue are confounded by the fact that more than half the donated funds are foreign funds to a protest that was deemed an illegal action.
is this an instance of insider trading? how else do they pick these stocks up otherwise?
> Sharp corners are easy to produce, requiring less tooling, and so look cheap.

An artifact of modernity, surely? Historically, tight, neat corners required large amounts of skill and the right tools to create, whereas there were many approaches to rounding-off an arbitrary corner or edge.
Safari or Brave

Brave is the most non-google chromium variant, kind of like a Firefox based on chromium, and safari is still a good browser on Mac
The article talks about that: Running is roughly the same energy/distance, but it's more energy/time because you cover more distance per time.
Add the Bloc Québécois to that percentage. They have also been supportive of the government's actions with regards to the pandemic.
> No significant destruction" is a good one, not just making a mess in the streets but when your movement starts actively destroying property, looting, etc

This one is also ripe for abuse - outside forces have been using agents provocateurs for centuries, often undercover cops.
Trudeau says he is not calling in the army, and besides that would be a provincial rsponsibility i think so it would be up to the premier.
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/anonymous-donations-to-convoy-as-...

> The top donation, $215,000, has a comment that says “processed but not recorded.” The next top donation, at $90,000, is listed as from Thomas M. Siebel. CTV News has reached out to the American billionaire by the same name but has not confirmed it is his donation.
That's half of it, they were also the support network. Prop internally; shield externally
Funny last week we removed all the rounded corners. We set a border css variable so all the border rules became

border-radius: var(--border-size);

We figured this way every 6 months or so we could switch between squares and rounded edges... This may provide little design pops to give a fresh feeling to users... we'll see so far it feels very fresh to me.
Yes, sorry for not mentioning it, but the reply button was not visible for some reason (possibly HN thought that it's a flamewar), hence the closest comment and the quote. :/
There are too many people making making similar comments to reply to all of them, so I'm going to make a top level response to all of them.

The truckers are NOT protesting against the vaccine itself, and if you believe that they are, I would highly encourage you to find different sources for news.

The truckers are protesting the idea that the government can force them to take the vaccine against their will.

I would hope that people could find some more common ground on this, since there is an almost identical debate happening around the idea of bodily autonomy:

Almost nobody, or functionally/practically nobody, is "pro abortion". People who are "pro choice" are saying that they don't believe the government should be able to force women to carry a child until birth, because they believe it violates their right to bodily autonomy.

The truckers are saying the same thing. They aren't "anti vaccine", they are against the government forcing them to take a vaccine, because they believe it violates their right to bodily autonomy.
You misremember:

The version control software market has evolved a lot since Bitbucket began in 2008. When we launched, centralized version control was the norm and we only supported Mercurial repos.

https://bitbucket.org/blog/sunsetting-mercurial-support-in-b...

Github was launched in April 2008 [1]. Bitbucket is harder to find, but was definitely around by June 2008 [2]. Mercurial vs git was definitely the defining difference between the two initially, though the Rails ecosystem exploding onto Github made a huge adoption difference. git being faster + built in support for rebasing was big was well.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160409191635/http://www.startl...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20110317200833/http://code.djang...
> was it only the 10% fringe farmers protesting? or the 90% majority of farmers?

Short of the hong-kong protests, I don't think there were any recent protests that has double-digit percent attendance numbers. For instance, wikipedia says that for the BLM protests, "between 15 million and 26 million people had participated at some point in the demonstrations in the United States, making the protests the largest in U.S. history". That means, the largest protest in the US only has between 4.6%-7.9% attendance.

edit: whoops forgot link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests
This point is wrong in relation to the story. They have some unknown DNA, and certainly they can go and stake out peoples houses and see it they throw out a cigarette but or however you get it. This seems reasonable, and if they are grabbing DNA off something a person threw away, they arguably wouldn't even need a warrant.

But if instead they run their unknown DNA though a database of rape victims to see if any of them was the criminal, they're not "just taking a sample", they are invading the privacy of vulnerable women on the off chance one of them is a criminal. And they are obviously deterring people from reporting future crimes in which they have to give their DNA. I don't believe I need to belabor this, the case in the story had nothing to do with how easy it might be to collect DNA from someone you've already identified
>False. I bet the vast majority of content available online is now (think of pics and short videos) created on smartphones.

Even if this isn't true, it's not a great point. Most people didn't use their home PCs to create content anyways, so the ability to create content more or less went to waste.
I thought the same exact thing. I feel like if anything, it obscures the implied relationship between B and C
A lot (all?) of design is signaling. You don't have a condition, you simply haven't been conditioned to reflexively shibboleth.
>It's also possible management didn't know what all you did. Or, you were running around like a headless chicken-not aligned with the company goals.

I was an outbound tech at an MSP. I was often not in the office, avoiding much of the drama.

I was hired originally because 3 people quit with no notice on the same friday. Between the time I was hired and fired. Many other people quit and they were very ineffective at hiring.

I was 1 of 2 networking capable techs. I was also constantly out for emergency after emergency. None of which I caused.

I actually live wrote a 4 day week at this place on r/sysadmin back in the day. I took the friday off because it was my birthday. In those 4 days I dealt with over 40 tickets, >25 of which were emergencies. At least half of these clients were clients I never worked on previously. On the friday the company phone was constantly ringing, i didnt pick up and even had an account manager come to my house. Of which he shouldn't know where I lived. Except he sat next to someone who did.

Out of ~30 sysadmins, 25 of which didnt last beyond 6 months. Everyone was fired or quit.