skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I built an iOS app once for a Dutch audience. We used the device's language as the app's language, because that makes sense, right? It's the same with the preferred language in a browser, right?

Wrong; we got complaints from users that their app was in English instead of Dutch. Even though their device was set to English or another unsupported language.

We begrudgingly added an app specific language preference. I repeated this later on for a package shipping webapp where on the login screen (and elsewhere iirc?) you can select a language; it defaults to your browser's Accept-Language header, but allows the user to override it.

Lesson learned; Accept-Language is fine for the initial language, and if that header is not to be trusted, maybe IP / geolocation based. But always offer an easy way to set the language; you may be dealing with someone who doesn't live in the country of origin on a device / browser that isn't theirs.

Also remember that location, locale and language are three different concepts entirely.
If everyone gets a CB bank account then they will have a bank account.

For example, Australia has a banked population of 100%, as in, everyone needing one has a bank account. It's required for receiving government benefits.
How do you lift your car? usually that's the biggest challenge for DIYing
> Still, the value of a network of iDevices with "default on airtag tracking" is just so huge

What kind of value is that? We've been living very well without it for decades and it sounds like that tech is a very powerful enabler of stalkers while providing little value to the average person.

> Issues like this battery drain are of course unacceptable but I trust that that will be fixed by Apple.

How could you fix it? The concept of Airtags is to track every device at all times, which requires active cooperation (and battery usage) from said devices. You could poll devices less often, but the problem would still be here.
Indeed, people have reported having drawers full of Raspberry Pi’s, never to be touched again.
BMW Group posts strongest profits in 106-year history
Lol that is from lolita. Read the book aloud in a library.
>the whole company is three kids and an iguana

I missed this gem the first time I read this essay. Legitimately lol'ed when I reread just now.
While the statement might be true, none of these examples could be called common sense. It is specialized domain knowledge, perhaps the opposite of common sense from another perspective.
Same reason Russia is getting flak for invading and occupying territory (including, even, from Israel!) when Israel has illegally occupied the West Bank for decades with no consequences.

Western countries apply their moral principles differently to their allies.
We have different ordinaries.
> Do we really need organisations like Thawte to be a moral judge of what website deserves to be visited securely?

I'm not sure how you got to that question from Thawte establishing they can't legally do business with a given customer. There's lots of other providers, many of them domestic for that bank - there's nothing about them "deserving" secure connections.

One of the CAB rules for revocation seems to apply perfectly too:

> The CA is made aware that a Subscriber has violated one or more of its material obligations under the Subscriber Agreement or Terms of Use

I'm sure "legally can work with you" is one of conditions listed in those two. (Or will be soon)

Edit: I realised there's also a practical reason why the bank would want the revocation - if Thawte can't work with them anymore, they could have issues reporting a key compromise / triggering revocation themselves.
Rather, do you in the free World see what is being shown to you in the free World as the Truth? Are you 100% sure that you aren't being shown a filtered version of what is actually happening? You just believe you are in a free World and that all actors are acting, not out of self interests, but for the greater good?

Don't forget that it is the "free World" which allowed Bay of Pigs, invasion of Iraq, invasion of Afghanistan, invasion of Vietnam, invasion of Syria, invasion of Libya etc etc. 84 countries have been invaded by the so called "free World". Even Grenada wasn't spared (11th tiniest country in the World) with hardly any military. Bombed by USA. The Prime Minister of Grenada assassinated.

When you look at it, from this perspective, you begin to question who is the actual totalitarian here? How many countries have dictators invaded? We all talk about Mao killing millions in China. True. Not going to defend it. But do you question Churchill who deliberately, as a matter of written policy, caused the Bengal Famine which resulted in millions of Bengalis dying? When he was told that Bengalis are dying, Churchil asked "if Gandhi had died yet?". I don't see Churchil being compared to Hitler anywhere.

How about Regan? When the media questioned him about invasion of Grenada. That it was a flagrant violation of International Laws. That the UN General Assembly voted 108-9 against US invasion of Grenada. He famously said: "it didn't upset my breakfast at all".

So where is this "Free World"?

What use is a Democracy if you cannot stop an unjust War? What is the difference between your State and the so called "Totalitarian State"? Just that you can shout on the streets and register your protest? Is that the only difference? That won't get back millions of people who were killed by invasions from the so called "Free World".

I belong to this so called "Free World" too. Yet I won't shy away from admitting that we are bloody hypocrites. We preach to the World on morality but we have done the worst of the worst things known to mankind. So what moral standing do I have to say: "Russia bad"? Nothing at all. We have done even worse. History is a witness to it. We can't lie our way out of it.
Exactly my thought! Imagine the time spent on this..
500 microservices is less than I expected, assuming they're actually "micro". Stuff that comes up from the top of my mind: bandwidth estimation, best cache finding, rating, recommendations, kids experience, various aspects of user management, subscription management, analytics, ... - each of these could be multiple microservices. And that's just the user facing part. They also have corporate stuff, ingestion, ...
The way to that cyberpunk world that lives in collective imagination is to make electronics work in messy, dirty, wet environments, not try to shield them from it.
I'm pretty sure the environmentalists weren't arguing Europe should keep burning fossil fuels so long as they weren't extracted in Europe.
One thing I've noticed with age is the reduced interest in competing. When you're young, you want to know how you measure up to your peers, what your percentile ranking is, et cetera. When you're older, you realize that very few things actually worth doing fit into a competitive frame, because if something can be objectively evaluated, then it's probably already been done a million times.

I don't think chess players peak at 35 because they're losing their touch. I think they develop other interests; the ones who aren't going to be professionals realize it and downshift, and the truly elite ones achieve what they set out to do and move on to things they see as more interesting.

This is probably why the corporate thugs are so ageist. They know it's easy to pit people in their 20s against each other. Once people are older and have more perspective, it's hard to make them compete over scraps.
I think one point the author is missing is that none of the dystopian use cases described really depend on a CBDC (in fact, China had a lot of similar things prior to its digital yuan launch). It would only make them marginally easier to implement (which might still be relevant in democratic countries).

Another thing that's missing is the fact that 'No more need for banks' has very wide implications. It would mean that banks can no longer do lending as they do now, they would have to essentially ask for permission from the central bank every time before they make a loan (that's because bank lending isn't based on 'fractional reserve banking', contrary to what most econ 101's teach [1]).

[1] https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2019/12/20/Mon...
This law has existed in different variations since 2002. This law is often challenged at Israel's Supreme Court, but the racist parties usually can get a majority vote in the Parliament to "tweak it" every time to get a few more months/years out of it before getting challenged again. Similarly to how several US states change abortion/voting/gun laws all the time, trying to see if they can beat SCOTUS.

This law, by the way, is unconstitutional* for more reasons than just the race-based discrimination. It defines different criteria for "permitted spouse" by gender, and has exceptions for specific religions (e.g. Druze).

*Israel doesn't really have a constitution, but there are certain "core laws" that the Supreme Court decided in the '90s that it can use as a basis to strike down other laws passed by the Parliament.
Interesting, I do the opposite and add "reddit" to most of my searches.
This is a very interesting and thought provoking point of view (s/twitter.com/nitter.net/ to read it). I'd love to see a similar scathing breakdown of the economies of other countries, as well. I guess most of this systemic entrenchment of corruption is not unique to Russia or Mexico, but it happens elsewhere, in different degrees.
Why do you need to track doing and done if it is just you and mostly small tasks?
I think you misunderstood the protein concentration concerns. People are concerned about the ratio of calories from protein to calories from other macronutrients. In the case of beans like edamame, the concentration of fiber becomes relevant as well.

In contrast, chicken breast is nearly entirely calories from protein and very low fiber. Replacing some chicken breast with soy makes sense, but your fiber budget would cap out quickly and that would leave no room for other fiber rich foods like fruits and leafy green vegetables.
We see more and more similar laws being passed in recent years, laws that are blatantly discriminatory. This may raise the indignation of many people, but in my opinion, Israel is shooting itself in the foot by passing these laws, because it reinforces the argument that it is an apartheid regime. Israel is slowly losing its support in the free democratic world where people believe in the inalienable universal rights of individuals and are less and less willing to turn a blind eye to such institutionalized racism.
Global death toll of Covid-19 more than three times higher than expected?
0 23 star/2 star star insert_your_script_here.sh

i.e. runs every two days at 11pm. or am i mistaken?
Yes, that's exactly my experience.

Most people who install windows don't bother to set the locale correctly, so everyone ends up en-US.

So if you trust the Accept Language header, you'll get it wrong.
Or it's actually a tiny segment of their users.
Intresting of you to think that governments are capable of rolling them for everyone. It is a fluff and complete hype. The technology is solid but rolling it will be a pain.
As some one who loves sandwiches, I don't understand this article. Japan has some of the best baked goods in the world and milk bread is excellent, but the sandwiches are pretty awful and was one of the more difficult things to adjust to when I was home sick living there.

Subway is a legitimate contender if you want something besides a mediocre ham sandwich that all the restaurants serve or some meh cucumber sandwich from plastic wrap.

I personally don't know why anyone would go-to a conbini and choose a premade sandwich over an onigiri, one of the microwavable noodle dishes, or whatever hot food the conbini specializes in they serve at the front counter.

Lots of places around the world have a specific type of sandwich they are particularly good at, but if you're going to travel for a sandwich I would pick the north east corridor in the US as the best place to travel for sandwiches. New York is the most famous for the delis but pretty much anywhere down to Virginia has the best subs in general I have had around the world
don't go to weird sh*t to lose weight ...
Your body produces fat ... so decrease the consume of it
You have extra fat ... burn it out: walk, run, jump, exercise
Challenge your self... a healthy diet and some exercise for 3 months, check your goals every week
I hope you have read the guidelines from: [0]

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

As for the certificate. Looks like private platforms doing private platform things.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Liberals, you wanted globalization? I'm not going to pay the price for that.

You are literally arguing for globalization. You want free trade with Russia so you can buy cheap fuel.
> Yeah, invasions suck, but the war in Libya wasn't to seize Libya and integrate it into NATO. It was arguably enforcing, not violating, the rule-based order. At least NATO has a better argument for this invasion than Putin does for the invasion of Ukraine.

Nope. NATO has no argument here. You can't invade a Sovereign State, destroy it, put it into chaos and then say you did it because you are "enforcing rule-based order". That is bullshit. The rule-based order is simple: Every Sovereign State is Sovereign. How it handles its mess, politics is its own. You do not interfere in there unless the Government of that State calls for help. Here there was no call for help. The people were already fighting the civil war. It is for Libyans to decide who they want, what they want. Who are you, me or anyone else to decide on their behalf?

Either ways, NATO has no such mandate. If you can point me to an Article/Clause in NATO which says it can invade any Sovereign Country it chooses you can post it here. AFAIK, there is no such Article/Clause.

> People have a tendency to break things down to maximalist, black-and-white, us versus them terms. This view is convenient for debate when one is defending a position.

Which is exactly what the West is doing right now. Time to sit back and introspect.
It happened time and time again in history. See Christianity in the Roman Empire, for example, or at least half a dozen revolutions. Or the Balkans.

Oppressed people are not better because they are oppressed. They are still human and perfectly able to persecute others depending on the context.
I am sure everyone is learning from walled gardens.

Sure, there will be some impact of sanctions. But note that wealthy individuals will find a way.

EU or US is never going to ban UAE, Saudi Arabia or India from they list for trading with Russia. Note that Iran has been successfully exporting gas to India by opening accounts with state banks in India.

These are complex issues.

All these headlines in the West for PR and public consumption. Eventually, the average Western European is more bothered about their jobs. Sure they happily opened borders, but wait a month or two. One these Ukrainians apply for jobs the locals get annoyed. Example: In Germany, Syrians were welcomed with open arms, then eventually the tabloid news turned around once they settled.

Note that the average Russian (or Chinese or Indian) is poor. They do not care about what people in Western Europe think. They do business to better themselves (just like average American that helps quell uprising in UAE by developing software or working for NSO).
There have been cases of Israeli citizens marrying terrorists to get them into the country. Though this law is an overreaction. It's one thing to do background checks and impose a waiting period on Palestinian spouses, but a total ban is ridiculous.
Ok sure but in the meantime the point still stands: Netflix needs it, both they and consumers get value out of it and serving video at their scale to the number of devices they support is much harder than “use nginx”.

If the system that enables these companies should be dismantled or not is a completely different argument to “should this event bus exist”.
They're being blasted by the comment that you're replying to.
Thank you for the resource, especially for someone who launched their first LLC almost a year ago.

> Forming a corporation helps protect the founders from personal liability. If the corporation is sued, the assets of its founders are more likely to be protected.

Hmm... I guess this means that by forming a corporation, there's no guarantee that a founder's assets will be protected.
It is useful. Regardless of the virtue - or strong lack thereof - of the new law, the current headline here is misleading about what was actually passed.
Does not seem possible if you have a family (young kids, especially).
This law has nothing to do with intermarriage for Jews. That's effectively prohibited by other existing laws.

This law tries to prevent Muslims and Christians living in non-annexed occupied territories from marrying other Muslims and Christians living outside of Israel's effective control area.
Another one that pains me is Google Flight currency. It's always on the currency of the country I am. I have manually selected USD countless times and it always goes away.
Pockit is just one of the small parts needed to automate parts of your house. All your devices have to cooperate smoothly and this will require a standardized IoT API from manufacturers.
>It would only make them marginally easier to implement

If by "marginal" you mean "several orders of magnitude", then yes.
The outcry is right here, obviously,
So, 21% of Israel's population has restrictions on who they could marry all so that they can maintain a majority of the favored demographic.

This is apartheid.
you dont ... meditation helps your anxiety
Does this law also need a yearly reauthorization? The makeup of the Knesset doesn't seem to have radically changed since the law failed in July, anyone know how this try suddenly got an overwhelming majority?
I think it's one of those studies where they say they are testing for X but they are actually testing for Y. Not sure what Y could be. But I don't even live in the US or consume it's media, and could still figure out all of the examples I saw/listened.
The comment by Phill Hallam-Baker at the end of the article was the best part!
I think it’s just about making their lives miserable so they go live somewhere else.
Spending the money earned, too, takes time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_and_the_apartheid_analo...
Rebuttal from responsible professor deploying such systems:

- Do you trust your bank? (to never get hacked, go bankrupt, etc.)

- Do you trust Big Tech to run the global financial system? (search: "Google Cloud for banking" or read "Cloud Computing in Banking" by capgemini).

- Do you trust the government with critical infrastructure?

Central bank digital currency could indeed be evil. The way Delft University is building it gives more power to the people. Here in Europe the digital Euro is coming. We've done some open source Internet-deployment test, with live connection to the IBAN system[1].
[1] https://github.com/Tribler/trustchain-superapp#digital-euro
It's a reasonable way to live your life, but it's worth noting that most WiFi smart bulbs and switches can be liberated with a not-unreasonable amount of effort: https://blog.fosketts.net/2020/05/29/liberate-wi-fi-smart-bu...

Personally I benefit from being able to control the type of light and change it over the course of the day, and I've found a couple of uses for automatic switches which improve my life as well.

Point being, these things at least can be liberated from the IoT, where we all know what the S stands for.
The beauty of AD user profiles.
My 8-10% figure is quite conservative when compared with recent polling data. The Neo-Nazi movements are popular enough that Zelenskyy had to walk back his anti-Banderite rhetoric that was a decent part of his comedic act pre-2015-ish (I have only seen a few of his comedic specials from before that year so this timeframe is a rough guess).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Bandera#Attitudes_in_Uk...

>A poll conducted in early May 2021 by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation together with the Razumkov Centre's sociological service showed that 32% of citizens consider Stepan Bandera's activity as a historical figure to be positive for Ukraine, as many consider his activity negative; another 21% consider Bandera's activities as positive as they are negative. According to the poll, a positive attitude prevails in the western region of Ukraine (70%); in the central region of the state, 27% of respondents consider his activity positive, 27% consider his activity negative and 27% consider his activity both positive and negative; negative attitude prevails in the southern and eastern regions of Ukraine (54% and 48% of respondents consider his activity negative for Ukraine, respectively).

>Monuments dedicated to Stepan Bandera have been constructured in a number of western Ukrainian cities, including a statue in Lviv, as well as Staryi Uhryniv, Kolomyia, Drohobych, Zalishchyky, Mykytyntsi, Uzyn, Buchach, Hrabivka, Horodenka, Staryi Sambir, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Strusiv, Truskavets, Horishniy, Velykosilky, Sambir, Velyki Mosty, Skole, Turka, Zdolbuniv,Chortkiv, Sniatyn, and in such cities and villages as Berezhany, Boryslav, Chervonohrad, Dubliany, Kamianka-Buzka, Kremenets, Mostyska, Pidvolochysk, Seredniy Bereziv, Terebovlia, Verbiv, and Volia-Zaderevatska.

>In 2010 and 2011, Bandera was named an honorary citizen of a number of western Ukrainian cities, including Khust,Nadvirna, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Kolomyia, Dolyna,Varash, Lutsk, Chervonohrad, Terebovlia, Truskavets, Radekhiv, Sokal,Stebnyk, Zhovkva,Skole, Berezhany, Sambir,Boryslav, Brody, Stryi, and Morshyn.
I can't edit the above comment anymore, but I would like to add this: my point isn't really about Substack specifically; it's about the fact that it's difficult (impossible?) to be "content neutral", and pretending otherwise is a fallacy.

(And how is porn not speech? If you ban porn then you're not defending free speech in any meaningful manner.)
I know a lot of people who have had success maintaining fitness goals on a high protein diet, including people who struggle with obesity.

I'd say that latter case especially counts as a need.
Because either you're struggling for human progress doing research and building tech that empowers people, or you're struggling for profit building harmful tech for the common people. Apple is in the latter category (to be fair, most if not all hardware/software manufacturers are) and has shown time and time again that they were strongly opposed to consumer rights:

- pushing updates to slow down older iOS to "encourage" users to buy a new phone

- starting with the iPhone they didn't even sell official spare parts, and did all they could to make it hard to crack the phones open (proprietary screw, fuck that) to repair them

- lying to consumers about warranty laws, implying their products would be covered only 1y despite european regulations mandating 2y minimum

- getting into cushy mafia-like agreements with phone providers which inundated the market with "cheap" iPhones subsided by non-iPhone subscribers

- using proprietary connectors wherever they can (no ethernet? no jack? FUCK)

- by making it harder to use non-Apple-approved applications on MacOS and making it so applications can't even start when their "approval" server is down?!

- and so much more, just like with every other company

We need tech that empowers people. Private companies and Nation States are building a dystopian nightmare that's the exact opposite of that (we're in a cross-over fanfiction mixing Orwell and Huxley). Apple is certainly part of that.
The naive happy-go-lucky approach on this:

"The problem is not CBDC per se, it's how we use it".

As if people will be asked how its used, and as if once they've given an inch, the governments (and businesses explociting the same opportunities) wont take a mile...