skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given my experience reporting breaches to the ICO and seeing no tangible action even for an actor clearly operating in bad faith and brazenly ignoring the ICO's letters, a head-in-the-sand approach to GDPR compliance is unfortunately a very valid strategy.
Here's what is most likely true:

- There is no shortage of Korean to English (or Korean to French or Korean to German for that matter) translators in Korea (same applies to all popular languages where it makes business sense to have these translations)

- Translation falls in the category of jobs that is completely doable remotely

- A small fully remote team of people can produce high quality translations very efficiently

So, I don't believe that the problem is "translator shortage". It's a problem of organization and management or economics of it.
I wonder if the idea is to find and promote people who could in principle lead development of a new product, by making them develop a (toy) new product.
As a neo-classical liberal I must admit I still have to read the WoN. However, I have done a quite a lot of research to form my view of economics, which include summaries of the work of Adam Smith. I know already he was wrong about some of the things he believed in (Labor Theory Of Value) - hence the "neo". While I don't know if he actually criticized Capitalism, I find it quite irrelevant for two reasons.

- For a critique to be of any use you must propose a valid, better alternative. I have never heard of Adam Smith proposing any of that (but I might just be unaware of it).

- Even if he actually criticized Capitalism, concluding "hence Capitalism is bad" is the textbook form of the Appeal to Authority fallacy, unless you discuss his critique in a logical argument.

The only fair point of the article, in case that's true, would be that we shouldn't misrepresent his views.
According to Durov Telegram does not have servers in Russia.
Think Oumuamua. You're lucky to just arrive in the targeted solar system. There's no fuel for course correction let alone a deceleration burn to attempt orbit insertion around a rock. Would they even be able to supply enough fuel to insert into a solar orbit at a Neptune/Pluto like distance?
btw a fun read:

[PDF] https://web.archive.org/web/20160318223348/http://ccrg.rit.e...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

(ala Futurama "The engines don't move the ship at all. The ship stays where it is and the engines move the universe around it.")
> Why would a dishwasher need two people to deliver it in UK? Just one dude and a couple wheels is all I’ve seen needed in US.

Usually retailers will offer "room of choice" delivery in the UK for these sort of appliances, which means that the dishwasher will be delivered into the house which often requires a 2-person delivery. If you required an item such as a dishwasher to be delivered to a flat for instance, rather than just dropped off curbside outside a block of flats, that would typically require a 2-person delivery in the UK (See services such as DX 2-Man as an example of this type of operation).

Secondly, there is often a requirement for light assembly (i.e. simple installation, removal of packaging, plug in the appliance) which is usually a paid addition by the customer. As soon as you do this, it's often more effective to have all deliveries be 2-person rather than split up the delivery territories (although if you are going through a pallet network, depending on the item and service required, you may be able to split these).

If you don't need this and just want it dropping off outside the customers home (curbside delivery), the cost would usually be c£40 via a pallet network.
Yeah, heat pump and dryer can push you over, especially if you are in a colder climate. Miele makes a 115V/20A heat pump dryer that you might consider even if you go to 200A.
I think it depends a lot on where you live. I’m late-40's and in NYC, sort of a Never Never Land where people don't tend to settle into family life so much. Making friends isn't exactly easy, but it happens!
Russia defaulted on sovereign debt less than 30 years ago.
We're used to every "part' being downloadable at zero real cost.

It's hard to think about physical reality when that's how most of your life is.
I've always found it weird how little people prioritize life choices around their friends. Proximity/accessibility of friends is probably the single greatest priority I have when deciding where to live. I'm about to have my first kid, and I have no plans on changing that priority, with the minor exception of being near reasonably good schooling (which would surely also be a priority of my friends).
Looks cool, but let me offer one point of critique: the website is very sparse. Indeed, too sparse for me to hack in my e-mail and risk getting it into yet another newsletter loop.

I'd probably try to provide info on a few more benefits for the prospective user.
It is embarrassing that probably you are not aware on how ironic and stupid your comment is, since the web was started at CERN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_World_Wide_Web#...

so you might want to update your limited general knowledge or comment only on topics you really know what you are talking about. You see cookies because

1 the website wants to track you

2 the website ad-partners want to track you

3 the web developers are idiots and don't know that non-tracking cookies don't need a NAG popup

BTW GDPR is more then cookies, it is applied in real life too. Also it has benefits like forcing websites to implement a delete my account functionality too.
We've been hearing this since Hypercard. I'm too cynical now not to think every article written about the topic is done so purely for engagement.
Yeah I also already experimented with native Apps (Xamarin)... Maui is still on my list, a shame, that Linux is not officially supported.
Our cool season grass grows pretty fast and weekly is best. Plus it is better for the lawn to cut more frequently as it stresses the grass less.

There are a lot of things you can do to help bee populations. I can't imagine how you mow the lawn is that large of a factor considering the other things you can do.
I'd like to know this, too. They spoof caller id. When you try to ask them about anything that could be used against them, they hang up. I'd seriously like to know how he did this.
Because much of that is rose-tinted.

I tried playing GoldenEye again. I regret tarnishing those wonderful memories now.

Halo wasn't as bad, but still not great.
Inconsequential? Without cookies of this nature the surveillance economy would have had a harder time getting off the ground. We're just numbed to it now because we've been continuously assaulted for decades.
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No one cares if you minimize your own effort
My local London borough was short on cash last year, and while that was a shame, the fact that one of the things they cut down on was mowing the parks was fantastic. While I get some people want short grass in parks for e.g. ball games, I wish they'd keep leaving larger parts of the parks mowed less often - the parks had far more flowers and far more bees etc. than usual.
> I own a fairly big media in France and we have been covering the conflict [..]

Very interesting to hear things from this perspective. I assume it is non-mainstream? (I would ask for a link, but I cannot read French.)

> It also reminds me the Covid [..]

This has for sure made me more weary. Off-topic conspiracies today quickly become plausible theories tomorrow. I don't expect sources to be unbiased, but I do expect to be able to consider multiple perspectives.

> Last but not least, like any individual I do have biases of course. But I am very wary of people who also have biases but who might have hidden motives and skin in the game.

Who fact-checks the fact-checkers? A large unaccountable 'authority' deciding what information you may or may not consume is _exactly_ what we are trying to avoid. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

> That's why, I am also leaving DDG.

Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed DuckDuckGo for years. If there is some reversal or this change is somewhat moderate, I will consider staying with them. For now I am just considering alternatives.
> while nowadays it's considered good.

Is it? I mean, I'm sure some people think it's good, but since the early 20th century I do think rentier income has increasingly been viewed as parasitic. If anything, I'd have said that the view that people should make their income by working rather than having stuff is much more mainstream now than in Smith's time.
> Also, you should be able to create a new language in less than two years

This is the snark.
Non of the data platforms I use on a daily basis has Kubernetes. Neither will I accept this unwarranted complexity into any data platforms I work on.
In Austin Texas. I mow weekly during the growing season. We previously had lawn service and it was every 2 weeks. Once lockdowns happened I took this over. Mainly out of habit and a need to get some exercise, so it’s every Saturday morning. I have kids so maybe there is some correlation :)
I think it's pretty wild to say there was "no sharing of support or fun" when we see, like, 10 texts total between the two. One of the women literally lived with the other after her divorce. That seems pretty supportive.

All in all, this kind of incredibly dismissive comment doesn't add much but negativity to the discussion.
Laser powered solar sails have been around a while, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_propulsion

> Use of a laser-pushed lightsail was proposed initially by Marx in 1966, as a method of interstellar travel that would avoid extremely high mass ratios by not carrying fuel, and analyzed in detail by physicist Robert L. Forward in 1989
I am not in US
I am in my late 30ies and was recently thinking something like that about my 24 year old self... but sometimes I think, what if 3X-year old me is the one who's the idiot? Your brain has to go downhill at some point... judgment too, probably, even if the brain is not going downhill yet. How does one know it didn't start happening at 25/35/...?

Like, I was much more excited about tinkering with tech when I was 25. I know I was, I know it made me happy, I know that is what got me where I am now in terms of money/etc., but I can rarely summon these feelings now. That is clearly degradation, if I could swap some "wisdom" or whatever that I gained for enthusiasm I would do it.

What else has degraded?

Let's consider a more ambivalent one, I was excited when Facebook/etc. came out but I think TikTok/Snapchat etc. are stupid gimmicks... am I wiser, or just older and more boring?

Etc.
Looking from the other side, it's been decades now and we haven't seem much innovation on electric toothbrushes or beard trimmers. Except we're still stuck with a non replaceable design.

You'll see your flexible phone as the peak device for 5 years, then again will come the right to repair and battery issues.

Perhaps your point could be that there needs to be a process to get an exception from this law for a year or two if the committee wants to help some technically chalenging devices. But expecting all makers to do the right thing by themselves is unrealistic (and no, "voting with your wallet" doesn't help when a set of brand dominate a market and collude on the issue)
I think the bitterant is a pretty good idea, have any suggestions? Unfortunately he is very autistic, and instead of being sensory inputs avoiding he is very much into heavy sensory stimulation.

I remember once he ate some of my extremely spicy thai food, he hated it, was crying and rubbing his tongue. Walked around the room, walked back and tried to eat some more.
Lawn mowing is among the top most useless energy wasting human activities.
It's noisy (of course nobody syncs with neighbours to mow so you can be sure to hear mowing noise every day), polluting, and so fucking useless.
Actually,

I think the US is on a long campaign for regime change in Russia.

Part of baking that cake includes ingredients like destabilizing former soviet republics, weakening their borders, utilizing hostile NGOs in Russia, and in former soviet republics, and the economic warfare. Fomenting a coup in Ukraine was part of that plan.

Unfortunately, we've driven Russia rather straight into the arms to China, and set up the conditions for de-dollarization. Russia + China + Pakistan + Venezuela + North Korea + many others have now the means and motive to counterbalance and resist.

Russia invading Ukraine is merely seizing territory before it becomes weaponized against them in the form of an invasion staging ground. Given Russian gaps in incoming missile awareness, and the respective short distance to Moscow, they have reasons to be concerned about a hostile enemy on their border. Given Russian experience and nearness, they are likely to be incredibly scrappy as this is an existential threat to them.

The same with missiles in Cuba for us, and look what we did as a response?
> People you talk with semi regularly but don't have any sort of deep connection with.

Yes, these are the only relationships I have anymore. They may be the only kind I ever had, in retrospect.
Why would you want to save C?

C is already everywhere. And so unsafe, the sooner it dies, the better

What we should be saving is Pascal.
I could see a good argument for making an ivy league school with an enrollment of 100k, simply to break the ivy league elitist bullshit.

This complaint is about reaching one tenth the size of a good UC. (Berkeley: 41k, Davis: 35k, UCLA: 45k) Berkeley's student faculty ratio is 19:1, while the article is complaining about fluctuations between 7.1:1 and 7.5:1. Yes, larger facilities are needed to handle growth to UC size, but capping student population at 19th century levels even as population grows is its own kind of pathology.
> Kubernetes is a very flexible way to host microservices today

So are a gazillion other solutions that do no claim that they are essential for the future of data platforms.
Comments in the linked thread are what is annoying about nerd fights.

This is a good and necessary first step. Focusing on all the ways it could be circumvented isn't a rationale for not doing it, they are all just rationales for strengthening it.
Take it with a grain of salt, but: https://hbr.org/2018/07/research-the-average-age-of-a-succes...

This matches my personal anecdata as well. Locally there are a number of tech startups founded by people in their 20s, but the ones that have gotten significant traction have been older. Which, at 38, keeps me from being discouraged. I mostly love my current gig, but there's a pretty solid chance that it'll be the last employer/employee relationship for me for a while.
I put SSH on another port and only allow a list of ip ranges on the firewall. I don’t see the point of even allowing Russia and China to fill my logs.
I believe the implication is that a properly configured server isn't going to allow passwords, and fail2ban isn't much more than a log size reducer when passwords aren't allowed.
Hard to believe, but it is real: https://www.cityofrochester.gov/article.aspx?id=8589936029

I’ve lived in this house for 5 years now, and the first time it happened I couldn’t believe it myself.

You are right in that I incorrectly referred to it as a “blue law”. But it is an ordinance.
Your edit conveys a strong anti pattern, at least in the sense password managers are mostly used. The entire point is to not remember passwords. Hence the name LastPass, for example (“the last password you will have to remember” aka the master password). Hence also completely random, entirely impossible to learn passwords.

However! The passphrases are very useful for situations where the password also needs to be remembered and actually typed by hand on occasion. I have a single such case, my Active Directory work account. Need to login to Windows but also to various platforms in the browser.
You do know where you are, right?

This is more of an educational/for the sake of it project than anything else. Something that fits in perfectly here. It's not trying to attract 9-year-olds who scream insults about your mother down the mic at you.
Ok, so what was the holocaust?

Forced relocation? Mass killing? Both, and other things, so “cleansing”

Of who? Jews? Gypsies? Gays? Blacks? All of those, so not “religious” or “racial”. Instead, “ethnic”

Sadly, ethnic cleansing has happened repeatedly since (and before) then. It is the most precise, description that is not too narrow.

If we can’t name the crime, then how do we describe it or bring the guilty to justice?
It also increases angry letters from the HOA by 200%
Yes, inconsequential. As in, there are no tangible consequences to me (or likely anyone else) regardless of what option I select.
A lot of those are really general, I guess :)

That said, ability to go from vague complaint to both specific component and bird's eye view of the right cluster is great force multiplier for people.

As for delivering in more on-site bespoke situations, it might be worthwhile to be able to go down with minimal k3s or similar setup that can run inside single VM that you can provide as deployable OVA file to be imported into VMware or similar environments - as well as for building small on-site test environments, or even make a Chick-Fil-A style cluster out of three NUCs taped together and use it for dog&pony road trip, excuse me, sales demo ;)
You must not live in the US. I see it's a German company, they have much stronger laws governing how they operate. In the US, there are laws, but they are scantly enforced. "Buyer beware." Corruption is gonna crash the insurance industry before too long.
also Briar
Startups will soon follow suit, since GS is a major investor. It's sad that none of the infrastructure was improved during the isolation/quarantine periods, and now we're going back full force and wasting billions in wasted commute time.
California’s Ambitious High-Speed Rail at a Crossroads
But you should!
In the UK from most retailers this would be a 2 person delivery (and typically white goods form a large part of the volume of 2-man delivery networks).
Yes, and we all could understand say a 200 percent markup plus international shipping. And even more for a cheap part.

But they make it really hard to get the parts.

In 2010 my Fisher-Paykel dishwasher broke. I called the repair service.
They charged a little over $100 to tell me that it would cost DKK 6500 ($950) to replace the two broken water softener modules. I spent a long time time searching for a place to buy those modules. Eventually I found a place called Leeds Applicances (closed now) that would sell it to me for £68 + VAT + £20 shipping. I took me maybe 30 minutes to replace the modules, just a lot of connectors and tubes that had to be connected the same way.

Before that I had a dryer that started to make a horrible rattling sound. I refused to just replace the dryer and took it apart. I was some nylon wheel on the belt drive that was worn out. But no one was selling a replacement. I spent about a month complaining to the importer and in the end I went on my bicycle to the Zanussi importer in an industrial area outside Copenhagen and after waiting in their office for a long time I was allowed to buy this piece of nylon for $50. It probably cost less than $1 to produce and they had newer sold one to a consumer before.
Many cities in canada and US have laws that force you to cut your lawn. It is pure insanity but America has a weird fixation with lawn.

Good article / podcast on it

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/lawn-order/
I think so too. I always saw myself as kind of a dual backend software/infra engineer and from the sound of the position I would get a lot of experience working with the systems I'd be integrating as a backend SWE. I feel like I can be happy in both positions and maybe even gain more transferable skills than if I were a SWE. I may still try to apply for the SWE role instead to see if I can pick either one but I feel content with a SysEng role either way.
Take the batteries, get a safe, lock them up, and then put security screws or McDonalds toy triangle-head screws onto any device with removable batteries. For remotes, use superglue, and dissolve it with acetone every time you need to change them out. (Superglue the cover, not the batteries themselves.)

Make sure there is no way for your child to gain access to batteries of any kind. If upset, teaching boundaries is important or it will move on to running with scissors. Get something else safe to chew on.
Not mowing at all works even better
“don’t put words in my mouth”, i assume.
The article left me wondering whio the right person at the regulator is to contac to counter this (I'm a UK consumer)
I've worked with Microsoft PowerApps and evaluated Mendix, Outsystems, and ServiceNow.

Low code will certainly be a part of the fortune 500 landscape, similar to how BPM (Business Process Management) and other visual tools have been used for decades. They work best when processes are relatively simple, and just need a little bit of "glue" between pre-built systems. The users are often semi-technical, sometimes called "Technical Architect" or "Programmer/Analyst" and they often work directly with the final users to document and implement the requirements.

The issues I've seen with low code are:

1. Most users are unable to decompose their requirements into discrete steps - a Business Analyst is still needed to do this work. Low code can be useful here, but the BA role is usually extended to do the work. Vendors claim low-code reduces the need for this position, but it does not.

2. The resulting work flows are often quite brittle and hard to maintain. For example, it is often easier to rebuild a MS Power Automate flow from scratch than to substantially modify an existing one.

3. Technical debt is also very real for visual diagrams. There are little to no refactoring tools on these platforms, and even simple business flows can rapidly become hard to read and update (much harder than code in fact) As the process becomes more complex, code becomes much easier to maintain than these visual tools.

4. Visual flows are really pure procedural code - there no meaningful way to do object oriented or functional programming on these. This can rapidly lead to "spaghetti flows", the visual equivalent to "spaghetti code".

5. Speed and scale are still issues - all of these are slow and choke on even medium sized datasets. Tuning can be difficult because they often hide the underlying data system.

6. The platforms are very proprietary and very expensive. For that money, you can recruit and train several engineers on modern open web standards and frameworks and the long term team productivity will be much larger. If these platform were sufficient for scalable rapid general development, FANNG companies would be using them instead of paying expensive custom developers.

These tools can certainly be useful in some contexts, but I expect it to displace precisely zero software dev/engineering jobs in the long run. Visual tools have been tried and failed many times in the last 50 years.
To me, research in next generation computer languages is much more compelling.
> Reverse psychology

Seems to have been effective here on HN. It worked on me.
Container loaded with discarded lithium batteries catches fire enroute to port
It looks really nice, which is the point.