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Ok, i'm not defending this, but as i might have a bit more insight on how the EU actually work, i will share my limited knowledge.

The commission is the European executive power. It is a mostly unelected body.

The parliament is the one you vote for if you do vote during the european elections

The council is composed by representative of the head of state from the 27 countries.

Once a law is drafted by the European commission (i don't think they can have the idea themselve btw, they just help draft the proposition to try to make it pass through the european court, but i believe they are not the originators of the proposition. 90% sure i'd say), it can follow two procedures: either the ordinary (also called codecision procedure) or the special (consultation procedure). The second case rarely happen, and is limited right now to trade laws basically. So the law we're talking about will have to follow the ordinary procedure.

This procedure will set this law proposition in front of the parliament. The parliament will either accept or modify (cannot abandon the law that fast sadly). Then the european council will decide if they agree on the text. If they do not, they either reject it or they modify it (yes, i know) and send it to the parliament a second time. Once again review, modifications, and, if not enough support, rejection. This will certainly end the proposition here. If it is not rejected but simply modified, then the council will debate on this. Any government can choose to stop and/or reject the text at this point. I think there is one more step if the text isn't rejected yet but i'm not exactly sure what this step entails (i assume a special commission between the EU parliament and the countries that did not agree to the text/that push the text)

It is interesting to have this information, but keep indignation low. I don't believe this will pass step 3.
It's been around for a while but he's still active in the field (he recorded & analysed our bells a couple of years ago) and he's revamped the site fairly recently.
lol. No worries, Gabe.
Abortion is especially strange since a supermajority of Americans, across the political spectrum, of both genders, generally agree that some abortions should be permitted [1]. 70% want to keep the status quo. [2] It's even arguably a violation of the religious freedom of Jewish folks to ban abortion [3]. It's not forbidden by the Bible either - the Bible makes it clear that life begins 'at first breath' (Genesis 2:7) [4]. Super weird. [edit] Feels like the anti-abortion folks are the dog that caught the bus.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/05/06/about-six-i...

[2] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/where-americans-stand-o...

[3] https://www.businessinsider.com/abortion-bans-may-violate-je...

[4] https://ffrf.org/component/k2/item/26087-abortion-nontract#w...
This seems to be contrary to GDPR, and possibly might not fly for a country like -say- Germany.
These problems seem to be really solved now. They’ve already are in the field and none of those doomsday scenarios seem to be happening.

NiZn batteries are actually recyclable, where as LiFePO₄ batteries are not.
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Overt discrimination against straight white males? Mandated by investors through ESG contingent funding and pushed down the chain by C-suite executives who have attended mandatory "diversity" reeducation seminars (literal racial/gendered propaganda), implemented by (overwhelmingly female) degree mill graduates in HR who viciously suppress any dissent against this particular systemically sanctioned discrimination.

That would fit the bill for systemic racism/sexism and it isn't merely alleged like that of D&I proponents.
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RBG is being misquoted and misremembered a lot again in the past week or so. She publicly stated on many occasions that she thought Roe vs Wade was bad law. Now her name is being invoked to defend it.
Supergoop and kinship both make pretty great non toxic sunscreens.
There is a difference between having your data intercepted by statal agencies or by having it intercepted by private entities. The latter would be harder, in absolute terms, to justify.

(And still PSD2 has given private entities accesses to dashboards of financial details of individuals - some of us have not yet understood in which terms.)

Moreover, there is a matter of legal boundaries for each involved agent, and also a matter of a will for those legal boundaries to be actually enforced (as opposed to being expressed as an appeasing veneer).
NeXT was very expensive, and better, but not enough to bypass the price.

Sun was the same. Expensive, better, but better enough?

Apple is much the same. VR might take them, and Google down.
Archive link: https://archive.ph/wmCZC
Well said. If there's no true freedom of speech, we've lost everything.
The last two years offered already a glimpse... Now look at China. It's mind blowing. Poor people.
Cloud TPUs are the ultimate form of vendor lock-in. I vehemently oppose using it for anything truly critical.
Seems like there’s a typo in Pricing FAQ (emphasis mine):

> Additional usage costs are billing are also billed at the end of the month.
Aggregate counts are not private healthcare information when released in a way that limits reidentification. The Privacy Act (and HIPAA) allows for deidentified data to be shared broadly.

Anyway, prisoner gender is not healthcare data, it’s administrative data that describes prisoner population demographics.

I would agree with you if the request was for individual medical information on treatment or procedures or something.
It is disappointing to see this message as the basics of what the software is on their site (https://deno.land/):

Deno is a simple, modern and secure runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly that uses V8 and is built in Rust.

Only to have that immediately followed by really poor practice of suggesting this as the installation method:

curl -fsSL https://deno.land/install.sh | sh

This is not strictly related to Deno -- lots of software does this -- but if you're going to suggest your thing is more secure than the other guys' thing (which is implied by calling your thing secure), you shouldn't then be immediately throwing that credibility away.

Yes, the page offers a link to the "Releases" page at their github repository. However, anyone familiar with any kind of UX will understand immediately that this is effectively burying the link and subtly makes the statement that you don't really want to bother with that other way of doing things. They also don't provide a gzipped/bzipped tarball for the linux install but a zip file instead, adding an additional barrier/dependency.

I understand this is an area where security is losing the tug of war to ease of distribution/access but it pains me to see it on any project, let alone the potentially good ones.
There is another aspect to this - if you're working on a startup that will scale, if successful - not to FAANG scale, but let's say many millions of DAUs and thousands of QPS on the servers - you also want to build some kind of future proofing into your architecture.

And then begins the dance of balancing what we currently need (we have maybe 100K DAU and launched recently) and what we predict we might need if things go right. So you don't need to go full on K8S with some crazy sharded database and 50 microservices on day 1, but you also don't want a PHP/MySQL monolith if you're building something that works like, say, Twitter, because you'll have to scrap ALL of that under huge pressure if things start to take off.
Thanks for the further detail! I don't eat any processed foods. My diet is dals and pulses, fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. Breakfast is e.g. masoor dal, lunch is apples, mangos and strawberries with ground flax, then lobhiya, and dinner greens or broccoli, fermented veggies, onion and chana.
iTunes was awesome back when the fanciest thing it could do was audiobooks, and nobody had heard about podcasts.

I know quite a few Windows users (that did not own iPods) that converted to using iTunes to manage their music library. The alternative at that point was often Winamp, and they managed to mess up the good thing they had with Winamp 3.

Overall the library functionality, as well as the Rendezvous-based library sharing (made LAN parties into interesting ways to discover new music) made for a quite sweet deal, and the Windows version truly was good.

Stuff went downhill sometime post-iPhone, when it started to become a weird one stop shop for phone sync, backups, movies etc, but even then the odd cool thing was added, like coverflow, or the fairly nice UI where the album coverart’s edge color faded into the background of the listing.

Point being, iTunes wasn’t crap from day one, it was cool before it deteriorated into that.
I think one thing that can help is many businesses (we read about them on HN all the time) are "successful" and could be $1m, $10m, even $100m/yr - but they have to be pushed to $1b/year or more to satisfy the ICs.

Somehow to allow them to "exit" at 1/10/100 instead of trying for 1b or crash would be nice. But it would need a different type of "VC" partner.

One funding mechanism could be something akin to "guilds" - once you have a group of ten or so of these businesses "together" they could help fund additional ones. A "guild-like" setup (think Union of workers that owns a percentage of the companies, perhaps) could be used to fund new ones starting out.
How is this law supposed to work with text encryption? Write text, encrypt, copy to clipboard, paste into chat app? Will such encryption applications be prohibited? That seems unenforcable, these apps are everywhere, I've even written one with symmetric encryption myself.
The part that bothered me is that, as I recall, there was no actual margin call in the movie. I guess it all was done in advance of a margin call? I don't recall exactly.

Great movie though
people should stop idolizing others just because they are wealthy, some of these guys are straight up gordon gekko type sociopaths
It sounded like aggregate numbers were being requested, not names. (Though, the link is only one side of the story.) Assuming that is correct (that it is merely an aggregate count), does that not maintain medical privacy, while allowing public access to the information on how the state is running prisons?
He’s not right.

Lowering penalties makes it more acceptable to society. I think we do agree that allowing child abuse is a net negative for society.
why? (i'm only aware they mark up data mining and presentation of results)
There's a whole lot of cringe in this comment. The practical reasons for wanting this should be immediately obvious.
> does any of their actual constituency want it?

While one can technically argue that the EU Commission has constituency, it's worth noting that it's a few layers of abstraction away: Commissioners are typically people with industry background who are nominated by the "EU Council". The EU Council is in turn made up of state leaders. (The "EU Parliament" is a separate body that is actually elected by voters).

Lobbyists also have much more direct access to commissioners than any constituents ever would.

For some context, Thierry Breton is the current EU Commissioner for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, Defence Industry and Space, Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs. His background is running France Télécom & acquiring Xerox IT outsourcing. (He's also the former French Minister of Finance, but ministries are not elected positions in France).
In general "male" refers to sex, "men" to gender. While I agree the comment could be written more kindly, this comment was referring to biological sex, not gender identity.
Have you ever heard of the expression "comparing apples and oranges"?
I don't think your sex is "private healthcare information." How would sharing the total number of males in various facilities violate an individuals privacy rights? (sidebar: if you think you retain your right to privacy in prison... all I can say is you've clearly never been to prison :)

Regarding the right to privacy, what's your take on the privacy rights of the (female) women who are being physically forced to house & sleep in a cell with males?
That DA is the son of left wing terrorists.

The FBI refers to the Weather Underground organization as domestic terrorists. [1]

If you rob an armoured car and kill people for a terrorist organizations that sounds like being a terrorist to me.

But you have the right, along with the ACLU, to defend terrorists.
> Aggregate counts are not private healthcare information when released in a way that limits reidentification. The Privacy Act (and HIPAA) allows for deidentified data to be shared broadly.

Possibly, but you're almost assuredly looking at a sample of N=10 or fewer, so the answer would be "*" anyway.
Wait until you hear about how many feds that the DOJ won't confirm or deny were involved in jan 6.
Feels like a real game to me, I spent good 15 minutes trying to clear the remaining 2 blocks, which is supposedly an impossible state. Turns out when you hold space you randomly lose blocks to the void so you can shift it back to multiplies of 12s by reoding it, meta! I did get the satisfaction of winning the level i created myself by cleaning up the mess back to blank state manually.
While the performance/Watt is higher than modern hardware, what is the total resource-cost of buying a new mini-server? It might be relatively cheap money-wise, but we have yet to add in the long-term costs to all the gadgets we make. This old laptop is from 2013 and uses between 10-30W (highest when the screen is on).
Why would you use Windows XP on an Internet connected PC?
Tell me what I know about this rot?!
This has some merit currently - but far less so in the past.

NYC and The Bay area have always been expensive. But the difference 40-years ago was nowhere near as drastic as it is today.
Yes, and in the case of small N (which, like, is the case here), those are problematic to disclose!
Apple hasn’t put any effort into the iPod touch for the past few years. The last refresh was in May 2019, the previous one was in July 2015. The only effort there might have been is for someone to test the latest iOS on an iPod touch, which is a neglible amount of effort, especially for Apple.
Fair enough. At that scale it's different. My point is that many major companies were a productive team working with a monolith until it simply was not feasible.
'Bells' are pretty un-specific as far as specialization goes. The average person actually knows what a bell is. The PhD theses in mathematics are likely far less applicable and far more specific. Check out the titles on arxiv and let me know if you think any of these are less specific than 'bells'.

https://arxiv.org/list/math/new
> It wouldn't necessarily have resolved this situation, but they would have to at least typosquat both a user and crate identifier.

They’d need to typosquat the namespace identifier and then could use the same crate (and could easily do it for all crates from a namespace) - as a defense against typosquatting, namespacing seems kind of useless. A better defense would be to calculate the levenshtein distance a new crate has to existing crates and notify a human to make a decision about it - but that would (a) be computationally expensive and (b) require a human in the loop, which does not work well with a volunteer team such as the crates.io team.

Your best defense is making a (partial) mirror of crates.io and only add crates after a review that satisfies your security requirements.
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How does making mass surveillance more common lessen it's impact? To me, that's like saying making COVID more common will lessen it's impact.
> risk being accused being one of those nasties

"Risk"?! If in your environment that is part of survival, I encourage to reconsider the value of survival.

Edit: interesting that this post, disparaging social conformity that would bow to the demands of what is low, was soon hit by a sniper - such silence is consistent with what a side disagreeing on such principle could look like.
Thin self-hosting is coming soon :) We already have this working on the technical side, we just need to add more documentation before we can push it out.
I have seen it suggested to use one table per db to minimize lock contention and simplify backups/vacuums. Do you know if there really is nothing to lose with ATTACH spam? Any tradeoffs at all?
I'm still trying to understand how the iPod lived longer than MacOS pre-OSX.
How does Facebook have this magical power for which you provide no explanation? Of course, there is no such magical power. The trick works if you allow it, that is unless you block it with technical means. After all, you are still in control of your computer, so if you block the information they use to track you, they won't be able to track you. Thus, it is not sufficient reason to force the implementation of a dystopian surveillance machine.
The technical support yes, but the install base of NeXT users were fairly negligible comparatively.

The real trick was in transitioning the user base in a fairly smooth fashion, and then doing that twice more in the following decades.
Some ancient democracies did similar things. You should read about what the people who lived in them had to say.
Give it another decade and maybe something like the Analogue Pocket will come out. AnaloguePod?
Archived: https://archive.ph/4h9jE
It's using SSL, what's the real world concern here? Other than someone might get copy-paste happy and someday install something they don't want.
I mean, who can really blame them? Most of them only know the web in this centralized state [0], and most people older than them keep telling them how much progress, and how everything is so much better, with that "digital economy" revolving around a handful of fat unicorns.

So from their perspective, it's easy to see it as the natural progression where things should head even more.

[0] https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.htm...
Thank you for reminding me iPod Shuffle! Gosh, this was a crazy good thing. Now everything is in an (i)Phone... Shuffle was honestly the first mass-market wearable device that worked. I love not taking my phone on a longer runs/hikes, but I want my music. With 2022 Apple Shuffle I could have my Apple Music with me lightweight, but I cannot. Sure I could used Apple Watch for this, but I'm in Garmin ecosystem... sigh. Gimme my music without transferring MP3 files I can buy on Amazon or directly from the artist to my Garmin watch, so I could just run with my watch.

Or you know, Garmin, split-off your wearables division in separate company, Apple buys it, Apple takes some Garmin thingies into Apple Watch, create Apple Watch Pro based on Garmin Hardware and sports functions, add Apple software and we're golden. This is a business advice, if Garmin/Apple decide to do this, compensate me. /s
I live in the southeast and talk to a lot of right wing people. Nothing has really changed in my lifetime as far as right wing view points go. At least to the degree that I can't find anyone around me who supports the crazier stuff I see online.
That "strong" lobby is dangerously corrupt and currently bleeding membership because of it. They've also turned themselves into a form of religion and not capable of being a rational actor.
I agree; people are much more careful about splitting responsibilities and designing APIs between processes (REST, GraphQL, XML-RPC) than between code modules. Simply switching from a monolith to microservices makes them more thoughtful about the consequences of design.
That's a file server, maybe a Synology or a QNAP. There are some thunderbolt to PCI express boxes but it gets kind of hacky.
IIRC, FOIA does not grant you a right to personal information collected on citizens. The agencies have the right to redact that in whole or in part from the records sought. I don't deny your main concern about left wing issues potentially derailing the ACLU's chief mission, but that isn't the example I'd cite.
The almost exclusive focus on exit strategies makes VC advice mostly useless for many concepts, particularly those based around community or specializations. To even have a built-in exit strategy feels like the business plan equivalent of fast fashion, and that mindset is harmful to everyone except founders and investors. It really is absurd that there are so few resources available to startups with modest or long term plans, or those lacking the desire to minmax profit schemes at the expense of their customers.
I'm still trying to understand how the iPod lived longer than the MacOS pre-OSX.
No matter how nasty the reason was for the FOIA request - why should an organization who historically has defended free speech in most if not all circumstances going to such lengths to defeat it? What happened to defending the Westboro Baptist Church and skinheads re: freedom of speech?
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> Regarding the right to privacy, what's your take on the privacy rights of the (female) women who are being physically forced to house & sleep in a cell with males?

Any argument here about privacy is entirely independent of sex and gender. Prison is dehumanizing, address that. Don't be a transphobe.

Edit: There's a bunch of mistaken comments here assuming that this will protect women prisoners in some capacity. That's totally wrong! Women in prison are sexually assaulted, raped, and even impregnated by men all the time and have been for years. Those men are guards[0]. And this happens at a vastly higher rate per capita and overall than any assault by trans inmates. Anyone here with a legitimate interest in protecting women in prison would be attempting to address that harm, because it is far more dire for numerous reasons.

[0]: https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/the-rape-club-womens-priso...
> Is there any organization that carries that mantle now?

It depends on whether you're willing to support an organization which also cares about other rights too. If you can stomach the defense of property rights, ij.org and pacificlegal.org both defend free speech rights alongside other rights.
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This is what UBI is supposed to enable.

People think it allows people to be slackers and just sit around smoking weed and playing video games all day and otherwise be an unproductive member of society, and yes, there's some truth to that.

But there's also a lot of people that have the desire to create some cool and useful stuff, but are already burnt out by working 40 hours a week at a job they have to work at to pay the bills.

That fits me, as well. I've got two projects that are half-written and probably just need another 200 hours or so of work to release an MVP, but after looking at code all day, more code is the last thing I wanna do when I log off for the day.
The stipulation comes at the definition of what life is and what taking life away is. It’s a very difficult thing to define what life is, thus legally it is for lack of a better phrasing “a can of worms.” If you’re programming minded, you may see how such a definition is ambiguous and opens many attack vectors for interpretation. After seeing it this way, I began to understand why it’s so hotly contested.
The commission is unelected.

However, they don't write the proposal (i least i don't think so), they just review the proposal and help with the parts that would be striked down by EU court. Doesn't always work btw). I think that this have to come from either a citizen petition, a quarter of the nations, ECB or the parliament itself.
And microservices do NOT require an organized, cohesive team with good communication?

If anything, there is MORE communication.

And how many teams who do distributed systems really know what will happen if a critical service goes down? The system is down - same effect.