skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which government do you mean, or for what purpose?

The examples I can think of are:

- Covid apps, which makes sense because you can't quite do contact tracing using a website and people would trust some corporation less than a government. They're completely optional and it's temporary. The download count is less than a third of the population where I live (and I got it on both of my mobile devices so... extrapolate from there).

- Germany uses a proprietary app that requires Google/Apple services as replacement for emergency broadcasts. (In NL this is also being moved to mobile, but using broadcast SMS so not a special app.) Not sure if there are any official goals in terms of install rate, but nobody expects near 100% and it's not compulsory in any way. I'm honestly not quite sure what their goal is because I'd guess the install rate so far is a few percent and it's not being promoted at all.

A lot has to be done digitally, ask any grandma in the Netherlands what hoops she jumps through or has her kids do for her, but every time something new comes up, there is a lot of talk about keeping things accessible. Very few things are mobile-only (these "requires time-sensitive notifications" type apps mentioned above are the only ones I can think of), and only slightly more things don't have an offline fallback. So far, of course. I expect that we'll move more towards digital with (by 2050) a few help stations for the people stuck in the 2010s, but (de facto) compulsory closed source software that needs to be running on a body-worn device? Given the amount of discussion already surrounding the optional open source covid apps... I don't see that happening too soon in democratic countries.
Thanks for posting. I wonder if the author's conclusion would differ depending on the subject's relation to this type of incident? For example:

- You provide a service in this domain and are aware from the news that this is getting more common

- You provide a service in this domain and your customers tell you this is annoying them, and the story has amplified that issue, making things uncomfortable for you

- You perceive that you can provide specific value in this kind of situation, as someone who can change the dynamics of the issue with an intervention- or diagnostic-type product or service

- You see this news as a way to highlight the additional value of your offering, for example your industry group or union provides additional leverage by vetting or screening

Just some thoughts & questions as to interest, scope, and leverage outside that particular office.
A government-orchestrated pogrom would, obviously, be political violence. There is no government-orchestrated pogrom at issue in this story.
The Commies never do. Stalin was still "defending his revolution" in the late 30s long after all those millions had been murdered. That's the nature of their barbarous ideology.
Getting vaccinated, often because you are being coerced by your employer, does not imply support of vaccine mandates.
> If anyone has any videos of the protestors being attacked which would prompt leaders of other nations to condemn, please share. I am from South India, and police using batons/water canons/tear gas is a standard practice even for small protests.

In the old days, police would fire live ammo at protests. I remember reading about "XX number of people shot in police firing" growing up all the time. Indian police of old didn't fuck around; they had been taught by the Brits how to crack down, and crack down hard they did.
Unless I misunderstand what the motion text means, it did not force a vote on mandates but on whether to come up with a plan to do so!

> That, given that provinces are lifting COVID-19 restrictions and that Dr. Theresa Tam has said that all existing public health measures need to be "re-evaluated" so that we can "get back to some normalcy", the House call on the government to table a plan for the lifting of all federal mandates and restrictions, and to table that plan by February 28, 2022.
The basic problem for Mozilla is they poured a ton of effort into improving performance and marketed that heavily... and they basically didn't gain back share at all.
I’ve encountered this claim a number of times and since it is repeated without any evidence - I will offer the following rebuttal to this claim also without offering any evidence - In my opinion and experience this claim is nonsense and an attempt to gaslight developers, or to gate-keep.
I'll be in favour of throwing out card processors (who take low single-digit percentages of every transaction) after we've thrown out Apple and their 30%.
I'm vaccinated but I have no particular interest in forcing anyone else to be. And at this stage I'm not convinced that having a small percentage of the population unvaccinated will have a noticeable impact on transmission (or even that we should be worrying about transmission anymore).
Stuff like S-1 filings are complicated, slow and expensive. I'm prepared to believe there is a better way -- but someone has to tell me that better way actually is. So far, I'm not hearing much here.
Hell yeah - early 90s music was amazing!
> How do you think we eradicated Smallpox?

By quarantine and contact tracing, after vaccination failed.

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/end-smallpox

> Contrary to popular belief smallpox was not eradicated by mass vaccination. Though tried initially it proved difficult to implement in many countries and was abandoned in favour of surveillance-containment. This involved trained workers searching for cases, with rewards for those who found them. Cases and their contacts were then isolated; contacts were vaccinated. Interestingly this strategy incorporated elements of a system devised in 1778 by John Haygarth in Chester. The last natural case occurred in Somalia in 1977 and after exhaustive enquiries the 1980 WHO Assembly concluded that smallpox had been eradicated.

1902 letter about the Leicester, UK method that was later adopted elsewhere, https://ia601300.us.archive.org/28/items/b24765430/b24765430...

> I am far from saying that vaccination is a delusion, but the experience of Leicester during the past thirty years
has been unique, and shows that compulsory vaccination is not
essential for the effectual control of smallpox, for despite the neglect of vaccination, the authorities here have been successful in stamping out numerous outbreaks of smallpox, the deaths from the disease have been very few, and the expense involved, when compared with that in other well-vaccinated towns, has been trifling. Under these circumstances I have ventured to publish the following paper, read at the Congress of the Royal Institute of Public Health, held at Exeter, in August, which explains in detail what is known as the “Leicester system of dealing with smallpox.”
If mozilla could be written in Rust, maybe it will be the fastest and people love it? It got to be function based sale, nothing else. Free VPN with it, like Opera - that is why I use Opera event though it is limited in functionality.
Add more features which people can use it beyond browsing. Change some thing fundamentally!
Because these kinds of measure have never been abused, never, nope, not even once!
Maybe that's how it's going to go. Exposed face and unimpeded breathing only for the aristocracy.
> "making humanity multi planetary to avoid existential risk" being one of the major things we need to be doing right now

If not right now, then when? what should we wait for? space exploration is very hard. It takes very long time and huge investment to make any meaningful progress. Even if we start now it'd be a long time before a sustainable presence in Mars can be established.

It's also annoying to use space exploration as scapegoat for the lack of progress on Earth. You, being a HN visitor, is likely a tech savvy person who probably plays video games. Do you ever ask yourself if video games are a huge resource hog? and if we all stop playing games and devote our time and money to solve problems here on Earth, how much progress would we be able to make?
That was a nightmare.
There have been multiple arrests for hate crimes[1], and 11 people were arrested in an Alberta blockade due to their cache of firearms and willingness to use it against the RCMP.[2] The blockades may be costing the Canadian economy $1 billion every day [3]. If these protest are peaceful and about mandates, they should be protesting at provincial legislative buildings.

1- https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/hate-crimes-ottawa-protest

2- https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/coutts-protest-blocka...

3- https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/anarchism-convoy-column-don...
I think you misunderstand I don't do this with just the things I agree with. I do it with everything the government tries to do, regardless of the politician supporting it or my personal feelings on the subject.

For example the creation of the no fly list, red flag laws, drug laws, civil asset forfeiture, hate crime laws, etc.

Laws have a tendency to get divorced from the situation that created them over the many years but seldom are repealed when their original cause is gone.

As such it is often very likely that my political enemy or your political enemy will have the power of those laws.

This just like development one must always think of the edge cases and error path not just the happy path.
A recent poll indicated that most Canadians disagree with the protest on almost all matters[1] and that almost 3/4 of Canadians support vaccine passports. Not sure where you are getting your numbers.

Yes, you need to listen to your minorities but this is the tail wagging the dog.

[1] https://brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/analysis-majority...
Those vaccines were for diseases that were highly lethal, and also highly lethal to children (well, not varicella), and they had years of research behind their safety. Mass vaccination also effectively stopped transmission. Schools also allowed medical and religious exemptions, with California's recent removal of that option being very controversial.
Ask HN: Free Countries
I'm interested to hear to what extent a person can mind their own business in different countries without interference from the state (or their fellow citizens). I'm not asking about the merits, just curious where there is a strong concept of personal freedom. Thanks!
Cheaper hydrocarbons from CO2 direct air capture and sunlight
> Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he has invoked the Emergencies Act as a “last resort” to bolster the police response to convoy demonstrators and to “bring the situation fully under control.”

What was the "first resort"? Trudeau isn't even willing to speak with the protesters.

>There is still no indication Trudeau is willing to sit down or speak to convoy participants. He said he doesn’t regret describing those taking part with “unacceptable views” as a “fringe” in Canada[0]
[0] https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/pm-says-everything-on-the-ta...
I checked, they did.
OK. So, provide. Mandate providing.
This is reprehensible and further evidence of the systemic rot within all police forces.
My most eye opening leadership experience was last year. I was made tech lead of a small team, and asked to to accomplish something with a hard and somewhat unrealistic deadline.

It was a success, but it had nothing to do with me being an incredibly inspirational leader. Or being a brilliant developer - I don't think I actually contributed any code. It honestly wasn't much to do with me at all. I basically just set the stage for them to work effectively:

- I booted out all the non-coding people from our standup. The CIO in particular would waffle on, and it was draining everyones will to work (and possibly live).

- I ruthlessly pared down requirements. We had some written specs, and whenever there was a question about which way we should go I chose the one that either didn't involve us doing anything, or was easiest.

- I handled dealing with the stakeholders myself, and reported back to them the relevant info.

The end result was that they were the first dev team to deliver something on time in the history of that company. No one had to work any over time (demo was Friday mid-day, so I got clearance for them to leave early).

So yeah, the best project I ever lead, I barely 'lead'. I was a supporting player. I played interference. I made sure everyone left them the hell alone, that they had the information they needed, and told them that if it fucked up it was all my fault so relax (always blame the contractor).

And and they pretty much did it all by themselves. Turns out developers can develop if you trust them and get out of their way.
> 95%+ of the worlds almonds come from CA

Does this indicate that the climate required to grow an almond is found in very few places, CA being the top of the list? In that case, there really is no alternative to not growing it (apart from abandoning it, similar to the issue some people raise with growing meat in CA and its water requirements).
Indeed, how could I forget. "We care about your privacy".
> Like forcing people out of their job for refusing a vaccine?

Before vaccination was politicized in the US (bizarrely, I must say, through mechanisms that I find absolutely baffling), many jobs had mandatory vaccinations. Most healthcare setting have mandatory yearly flu vaccinations, for instance. The military has a whole plethora of mandatory vaccinations, including some pretty crazy ones. And of course schools, daycare, etc have forced vaccinations.

Suddenly it's a big issue. Ask yourself why.

And for what it's worth, I've been against mandates since omicron made it evident that they were no longer useful. I have zero tolerance for these protests, though, and would like to see them absolutely stomped.
Yep just peaceful mothers with strollers! https://youtu.be/cJECGZa2kug
Offline backups work ~now~ but it won’t be long until rootkits start corrupting data being pushed/pulled by backup servers.
Yes, multiple LEO connections allow different paths through the atmosphere some of which should avoid most of the cloud. Meanwhile geostationary orbits for example are all going to be in a narrow angle in the sky and therefore more vulnerable to local atmospheric interference.

Of note people where still able to use several satellite services.
There never was a "Disney Version" of TS2. The film that was almost lost was to be the theatrical version and it was done entirely at Pixar.
Well this is downright scary. Homebrew crypto implementations, what could go wrong... I expect we'll see an exploit to log in with any password soon enough :).
Iradesign.io is in there twice! :D
I believe you replied to the wrong comment. (Just a note for anyone who is confused.)
Yeah, but in most countries there is due process in front of a judge to do that.

You can't just have the executive decide they can do that using pure administrative action to seize property. Also, you generally also have to prove in a court of law there was a crime before you can do anything at all.

The US civilian asset forfeiture (and now in Canada too, it seems) are actually quite unique in that regard outside of maybe China (not sure even you can do that there anymore), and at most couple other dystopian very authoritarian nations.
The terms have become, or maybe always were, meaningless.
> It was reported that they were being attacked and beaten in India.

If by "they" you mean the cops, then yes.

See this, for instance: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/11-held-...
> Covid apps [...] They're completely optional and it's temporary

If wanting to enter a local business is "optional" and as the saying goes nothing is quite so permanent as a temporary government program.
Negative coverage is much easier to come by than positive coverage if you mostly consume legacy/corporate media on this issue. If you're interested in a deeper understanding of people who support this movement than you can gain from a few embedded tweets in an article or a reporter's attempt to summarize the motivations and backgrounds of a large group of people, here's a YouTube channel that has been doing extended live streams from the ground in Ottawa: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzGiDDKdphJ0GFvEd82WfYQ/vid...

The channel owner is a Canadian lawyer named Viva Frei. Frei's personal attitude toward the protests is broadly supportive, but the valuable thing about his coverage is that he speaks to anybody who is willing to talk to him as he wanders around the streets of Ottawa, including counter-protestors.

A livestream can never be a true replacement for being there in person, but this is the best that I've found. Coverage from other livestream channels is also easily available on YouTube.

It's very easy for lack of understanding to lead to distrust, fear, and hate. You can (and very well might) disagree with people after having heard them out, but you will almost certainly view them as more human, and is that not the central feature the empathetic mindset is supposed to be about?

If you have the time, I recommend making an effort to watch extended and unedited interviews with the people behind any protest movement you intend to form a strong opinion about (not just this one).

Remember that the literal definition of "prejudice" is something close to a "decision formed without due examination of the facts or arguments necessary to a just and impartial decision." [1] If you don't wish to be prejudiced, don't let yourself form a strong opinion without first having learned what people you think you disagree with have to say for themselves.

[1] https://www.etymonline.com/word/prejudice#etymonline_v_19410
Translation: "If it's for a Just Cause, then anything goes. If it's for a Unjust Cause, then we should arrest you at the slightest infraction of the law and punish you to the fullest extent of the law".
I am vaccinated and I oppose mandates. Who am I to tell others what to do?
Regardless

Hand your biometric to government it in their rights now, regarding how to use it. Warning to us all.
yes, they called them mostly peaceful protests in canada too - at least in canadian media, can't speak to polling canadians
The uncomfortable truth is that it’s the conservative party that is highlighting the discrimination, and only because it serves their ends.

Asian Americans are in an uncomfortable, lonely position with no way to even
“blend in”.
I'm a Mac user these days, before that, it was Windows with WSL, Notepad++, Windows Explorer and remote VS Code for bigger projects. I use the command line a lot, but some things are best done with a GUI. I'm not a fan of command line editors, for example, as screen readers don't always deal well with TUIs. They can be used, but they bring their own set of headaches which I just don't want to deal with.

Updates definitely affect your workflow, you need to be careful about what updates you install. This is less of a problem with coding-related tools, but definitely a nightmare when mobile apps are concerned, for example. Web apps are even worse, as you can't avoid updates that completely break accessibility. I've heard stories of people getting in big trouble because a web app that was critical for their job suddenly had a UI overhaul and stopped being accessible. OS updates can cause trouble, in fact, Windows constantly breaking things with their forced updates was one of the major reasons why I switched to Mac OS. It wasn't even accessibility-related, most of it was basic stuff like sound.
+1 to learning a little bit of Vim, but I'd say buffers aren't necessary to get a passable experience. At least for casual SSH purposes.

Never been able to get the hang of tmux though. I know it's super powerful but I feel like in constantly fighting it. Though even just screen for keeping multiple console sessions alive at a time is super helpful even if I only use one at a time.
This says nothing about whether Google has a range restriction effect. It just suggests that their HR doesn't know or care what range restriction is.

Google probably filters out low-GPA candidates based on their poor performance by other criteria. It doesn't mean GPA isn't predictive of how such candidates would perform at Google.

If this is untrue, let them bring out their parade of successful low-GPA engineers.
> How do you feel about paying for healthcare of people who are not vaccinated and need care to treat COVID?

I’m a vaccinated boosted physician and will continue to get boosted every 6 months. Mandates/coercion for medical treatment violate patient autonomy and medical ethics.

I am ok with those who aren’t vaccinated getting medical treatment. Same with flu, mmr, DTP, and other vaccines.

I’m ok with alcoholics, addicts, smokers, and the obese getting treatment. I’m ok with women getting pap smears and cervical cancer screening even if they don’t have gardisil. I’m ok with type 2 diabetics receiving insulin even if they did absolutely nothing to lower their A1C. What else is there? STD treatment? Coronary artery disease? Almost everything.

Many people have health problems that are directly related to their own personal decisions. And yes, they should get treatment.

Why has the world lost its fucking mind.
Can tell you this happened in my city. Anything not bolted down in your yard was getting stolen. Mayor gaslighting all of us saying the data doesn’t support a rise in property theft. The police had already publicly said they wouldn’t do any investigation for residential property loss under $10k, best you could do is report it and hope for recovery as piles of loot were periodically discovered. It caused a mild coordinated call on NextDoor for everyone to start reporting for the sake of the numbers but we knew we weren’t insane - we were living with it, and saw videos of it daily on NextDoor. In our town it’s calmed down quite a bit because it became an election issue, and looser bail policies were rescinded. Property crime still a problem though but nowhere near as bad. Here’s the basic law of the jungle - if you don’t have consequences for bad behavior, there will be more of it. Every city needs to decide where on the continuum they want to be, between Singapore and Liberia.
I think the ARM core on that is pretty weak even compared to the A64 (and certainly compared to the RK3399 of the PPP!). So while possible, I think it is pretty infeasible. That and I think everything is wired to the main CPU anyways.
Wow. I know this comment is old at this point, but this is an incredibly dangerous point of view.

Corruption is crime. Our ability to have a non-corrupt government depends in large part on the ability of our legal system to track the movement of money and detect corrruption. If you want to create an unstoppable superhighway to absolute government corruption, untraceable currency with perfect privacy is a wonderful way to do it.

People think privacy means "they'll never know I had that porn subscription or bought those legal recreational drugs." But the reality is more likely "they'll never know I took that bribe to deny that permit to that company's competitor."
Just as feature complete.
I think this is the paper I read about this a while ago.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7481300_Preferred_T...
> It has terrorized women, queer people and people of color on the streets.

Seriously? This smells like an attempt to paint the truckers as extreme right. Any quality sources for that claim?
Companies choose which EU countries they do or don’t want to do business in all the time.
(Arnold voice) "Get to the Gibson!"
And surprise surprise, no location-based pricing on their money site: https://slite.com/pricing. So employees must reduce their salary if they live in a cheap cost of living, but companies based on that same cheap cost of living (i.e. low income) area don't get a discount for their services.

In a post-Panama-Papers world, I don't blame individuals for optimizing like companies do. So good talent will live in Argentina and find a way to get a $200k+ salary, if that is what they are worth to someone. And why not, software is eating the world, afterall.