skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The very idea of the EU is to move control away from democratically elected governments. It is designed to prevent democratic participation of its people. The one direct democratic structure, the European Parliament, is toothless, and being defanged, and the Commission is an organisation made up by politicians you want to get rid of at home (because of looming political scandals usually).

Can't get your dystopian policy through at home? Delegate it to Brussels, then publicly claim that 'it can't be helped, it's an EU directive', washing your hands in innocence.

I do understand why the British decided to leave. It was a crazy idea, it's incredibly damaging to their economy, but subjectively, I can understand them.
Don’t keep your eye on local in WH space, that won’t work! Eyes on DSCAN, I quit Eve almost a year ago, and the key I used for DSCAN still doesn’t work, I’ve pressed it so many times.
I don't know if there is a language barrier going on but I'm explicitly saying that Almere is not a walkable city (in most of the residents being able to rely on walking to complete most of their daily tasks). The majority of neighborhoods where people live are ~10 blocks wide stretches of identical row homes pretty spaced out around a town center without amenities in their neighborhood.

https://imgur.com/a/xgbRE15

There is a lack of necessary dynamic spaces that change in character throughout the day as people flow in and out that you look for in great urban areas. There is no real mix of residential, commercial, park, and event space that create a dynamic living environment.

We can keep going back and forth but it seems like you don't really understand the value of having an entire city be walkable, not the the city center. Because just having a walkable center is not a great urban city; it's the definition of poor planning reminiscent of suburbs all over the world.
Nearly every billionaire was born a millionaire.
Yes, you are lacking in imagination.

The ability to almost arbitrarily spy on people especially in a politicized environment is 'powerful'.

It's the 'most powerful thing'.

There are innumerable ways for a program like this to go wayward.

There are a few legit reasons for such things but 'proper oversight' is hard.
Off topic - for all the combustibles you have, I hope you have good ventilation and filtration.
It really sucks that our entire legal system is completely ineffective if someone is good enough at lying.
Yes Minister covers it well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahgjEjJkZks

Tell them you're going to have their messages scanned on behalf of the government and nobody wants it. Tell them you're going to introduce measures for online safety and to crack down on child abuse, and everybody wants it.

Unless you're pre-informed on the issues, whoever presents it to you can just pick the side that gets you to the answer they want.
In other words, it difficult to manufacture "stability" without a stable foundation.
I'm just tired, to be honest. Even if we prevent this exact law (proposal), a few years down the line there probably will be another attempt. And again, and again. Just like it happend with the mandatory data retention laws for ISPs.

I really try to stay optimistic on this topic, but it's really hard. :/
Tough call between them and the Lincoln Project.

I mean the fact that they can run a false flag in order to incite hatred towards a major political party, get caught, and get away with it with zero consequences is just mind-blowing.

See: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/30/lincoln-proj...
I disagree. If you are able to merge them you spent the work to originally have them split. So more work to start with microservices. It goes back to agile, the easy solution is have a monolith and figure out later how it can be well-split.
> benchmarks don't compare to zstd.

wget http://corpus.canterbury.ac.nz/resources/calgary.tar.gz
zcat calgary.tar.gz|time zstd -19|wc -c

902963 (=902.9KB, vs. 807.9KB for bzip3)

> "Better than bzip2" isn't exactly a convincing sales pitch

Sure, but nobody is pitching that. TFA does comapre to lzma (~xz), and claims bzip3 outperforms it quite handsomely in speed, while being competitive in compression ratio.
Could you please provide specific examples of how this current trend of wanting to outlaw hate speech, "disinformation", etc., applies to billionaires, rather than the common people?

"Free speech absolutism" is a nonsensical slur. There are sensible restrictions on the freedom of speech that have been engrained into American jurisprudence. There actually used to be more exceptions (for instance, anti-war speech was illegal during World War 1) but, to their credit, the political left pushed for expanding those rights.

But yes, we do take our free speech with religious seriousness. That is because many of our ancestors came here to escape religious persecution from Europe (and other places). We do not wish to return to the bad old days where our beliefs could again be criminalized.
Most in-person conversations today take place near internet-connected microphones (and more recently, integrated with smart-assistant technology specifically designed to collect your voice data).
Is reln a command to add a column of relative numbers to the left? Neat.
These are citizens private healthcare information. You shouldn't be able to foia this anymore than my medicare records. Citizens don't lose their right to privacy because they're in prison. Goodness.
Some good suggestions here! https://nextjs.org/docs/going-to-production
Maybe, but I made a decent amount of money (for me at least) and stopped because I had clearly just gotten lucky. I still have that money
Clippy: It looks like you're trying to make a GUI, would you like help with that?
Yeah, the places that go for "the great race for comp" is sort of what this question was trying to get at.
Definitions matter for laws. Switching in this context is not yard switching, as that is limited to the yard. It is only for actual trains switching tracks. The railroad often abuses the yard switching with stopped trains blocking intersections for long periods of time. That violates both the definition of switching (because yard switching is only done within a yard by definition and definition is what matters for legal statutes) and normal switching only applies "when the train is in motion" for the Idaho statute. Either way, call the number and complain. Malicious compliance has power.
There is work already going on in ClickHouse community to support dynamic columns - https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/23932
I'm a lifelong member of the ACLU. During all the years, I've disagreed with numerous things they have done and that they do presently, including this involvement in politics. However, there are few organizations doing the legal representation that they do on behalf of the poor and the marginalized, and for that I continue to support them. Insisting that an organization perfectly fit my personal preferences is a fool's errand. As with everything in life, I don't want to fall into the trap that perfect becomes the enemy of good. The ACLU ain't perfect, but it's certainly doing good work that IMHO merits my continued support.
I'm surprised the included library wasn't front of mind. Perhaps it is implied by comparing to golang.
Thank you for those links. I'm very glad to see them. I wish them all success. I really do think it is important to not concentrate food production.

That said, all 70 growers combined total less than 500 acres. It's a good start.

But it doesn't prove that California "desert" is the worst place to grow produce. What is the total yield of those 500 acres? What is the price per pound? How well do they compete in the market?

Again, I hope they compete well. But I know that the tomato in my back yard cost me 5x the one coming off the truck at the local grocer.
In addition to lobbying elected officials to legislate regulation that decreases our collective use, each of us can help shift culture so that we:

Eat less meat: growing all that roughage into a chunk of meat uses a lot of water.

Use our electronic devices for much longer before replacement: silicon processing, for one, uses a lot of water.

Shower less often: anecdata, but here you go: I haven't taken a shower for more than a month (except once briefly to rinse off with tap-cold water, no soap, after I cut my hair), using more-natural (baking soda, bacteria) deodorant (packaged in cardboard, no plastic) in "pits and privates". No, I haven't lost my sense of smell yet (as vaccinated against COVID-19 as I can be so far, and cautious--protecting my under-five child who has enough challenges as it is, and yeah, I'm concerned about lack of socialization with peers), and I don't like wearing smelly shirts (so I think I can tell when I stink). Diet plays a role (I'm practicing going longer without eating; helpful in many ways), as does amount of exercise--I'm not regularly working up a sweat (and there might be long-term consequences for that) but I am regularly moving throughout the day, and lifting "heavy objects" (my child).

It's past time we cut back on so many luxuries and stop living like the royalty we think we are (I think I'm aware of how good I have it, relatively, and am actively adjusting to living a healthy, fulfilling life on fewer resources--please start running this lifelong marathon with me).
For those looking for other civil liberties orgs you might look at

Institute for Justice - good project on adding some limits to civil asset forfeiture:

https://ij.org/issues/private-property/civil-forfeiture/

They were attorneys on the Timbs case (not ACLU) which they won at the Supreme Court. They've had lots of success in this in lower courts with some crazy cases.

ACLU used to do a lot to improve policing (ie, look at how line-ups are conducted etc). Some other groups taking that on - this is less about defunding / abolishing police and more about improving accuracy of policing (ie, still catch a murderer but do it in ways with less collateral damage / fewer false allegations).

I'm actually trying to explore the question of other groups as I've been an ACLU member since the 90's so just know so much more about them! I was drawn to some of their earlier policing work (I volunteered in some prisons) in particular because certain approaches just result in real problems in policing (project innocence helped prove I think many of the ACLU's earlier points here).

That said, I think no question a change with Romero. I might describe it as a change from a "civil liberty" type org to a more traditional "human rights" type org more along the lines of NAACP, Sierra Club etc? And a LOT more politically focused than in the past from a feeling standpoint? They do things like anti-trump ads etc. Historically they might have cheered some of the due process protections in Title IX, now they denounce them.

Internally worth noting that some efforts around free speech issues are seen as "white supremacist" - that may make it harder for folks there to take on classic campus type free speech issues just internally. Speech = violence type stuff.

DEI is a big push. They are doing interesting work around trying to push employers to take identity characteristics into account when making employment decisions, including numerical goals / targets which historically folks were cautious about. They have some good examples here, like reserving 50% of new hire slots for black workers only as still being in compliance with non-descrimination law as long as black workers are not equally represented etc.
I found it essentially impossible to read.

Great note/outline format, if I already know the key ideas/takeaways and where they are relative to each other, but really awful to follow reading it for the first time.
the "-stand" comes from the German word for "estate" in the medieval sense [1]. It's typically translated with small- and medium-sized enterprises, which is also the lingo used at EU level. As you said, it's a mass noun, so if you want to refer to an individual enterprise belonging to the "Mittelstand," you'd effectively use it as an adjective and speak of e.g. a Mittlestand firm.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estates_of_the_realm
That's exactly what negotiations and agreements are for. Nobody wants to cut emissions if the others are not chipping in too.

Paying taxes is annoying. Yet we need things like law enforcement or defense. So to make it happen, we agree on rules and then we enforce them on everyone. It wouldn't be possible if it was based on just altruism.

But we will never get there if leaders don't even admit it's a real thing happening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZq2L_49PBQ
Thanks. Thought it was short for Super PAC (https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/filing-pa...) first and found the whole thing confounding.
>Why the government would want to keep this secret is a good question

It's because if the public found out, it would be either be considered illegal or unethical or ultimately make them look bad. That's the general rule of why anyone in government keeps an action secret. Now consider how much stuff the government wants to keep secret.
But what about the drugs! And think about the children! And if you’re not doing anything wrong, you don’t have anything to hide!

In general a large portion of the electorate doesn’t actually care or can be swayed using the flimsiest of arguments.
I just put all my media in S3. Local minio and cloud (w/ presigned urls). Small web app to provide any organization required, with a URL handler to open VLC / music player app.
The whole point is that you don’t draw down the endowment. It’s a long term investment.
Not in my experience. The boat is a pretty active, highly dynamic place, you need a good grip, either on the boat to steady yourself, grabbing/working with lines (ropes) or working the winch handles. We wouldn't use it if it were greasy. EVERYBODY in the fleet uses coppertone sport spf 50. About six years ago I noticed that big box stores have started offering generic version in a similarly sized/shaped blue bottle, but can't confirm it's the exact same formula.

It might be greasy for the first 5 minutes while it dries/cures but after that you don't know it's there. We usually reapply every 3-4 hours as we're in direct sun for 5-8 hours typically
> I think that there is a need for a new social media platform, that shows opinions of both the sides in one single place and leave it for the audience to pick their side after making a learned decision.

Just curious: there are a host of such platforms out there, some open source, others not. A particularly well executed debate platform, IMHO, is Kialo [1] and there are others

[1] https://www.kialo.com/
I think the same thing, for the most part.

The issue is coming up with the text of a bill to actually vote on and finding a way to avoid laws that contradict each other unintentionally.
- Work laptop

- Personal laptop

- A mini desktop at home as NAS and media server

- A raspberry pi which runs Home Assistant

- I also have more specialized "computers": iPad, Nvidia TV Pro, PS4, PS5, phone, smart TV
It's interesting that the author refers to unspecified "partisan stances". Many of the political positions of the last year that have been described as partisan are actually globally regarded as human rights.

Human rights are nonpartisan. The ACLU has stuck to it's guns on that, despite the the overwhelmingly biased political climate.

I think it's silly that this thinly sourced hit-piece is on the front page of hacker news.
Definitely.

It is more akin to SEO spamming than black market spamming, though. They're polluting NPM in the same way SEO farms spam Google. It makes life difficult for everyone, but it's still a gray area in terms of legitimacy. Which is why nobody really talks about it.
> The EU is becoming a totalitarian regional government of elites.

"Becoming"? That's how it was designed. Well, not "totalitarian", exactly; it was designed to make sure that the member governments stayed tightly in charge. The EU Commission is composed of government appointees from the member governments, and is the most powerful EU institution. EU commissioners don't go rogue (not against the wishes of their own government; but they are infinitely corrupt).
I respect the Russian style of pushing leaders towards the front lines.

Russia doesn’t have an NCO rank system so they lack low level leadership at the tactical level. So they have more high level of leadership and need them closer to combat.

Centralized command with poor communications infrastructure in a war zone with advanced electronic warfare, gives you good reasons for why the Russian military is struggling.
Ask HN: Advice on Hiring an Assistant?
I run a small business and I'm totally swamped. I've outsourcing the standard stuff (bookkeeping, financial ops, most writing) but I'm still drowning in a lot of one-off tasks.

I've tried one virtual assistant service, but I've been underwhelmed with the help I've been getting (been through 2 candidates so far). I'm really trying to not expect too much, but it would be nice to not field a million questions on what seems like a straightforward task.

I'm open to the idea that I'm doing a bad job of formulating tasks, and that this is a skill I need to get better at, but has anyone found success with hiring an assistant? Local/virtual? What worked? How long does it take to have someone get your style? Do you know if its not a fit right away?

Any wisdom appreciated.
How exactly does the scaling work. Anyone remember Meteor? I wasted months of my life struggling with it, it scaled horribly.
Ted Nelson's vision and inventive genius helped create today's Internet. Englebart and the Augment Project at SRI made some of the vision real.
As I understood it Blake's Jerusalem didn't literally anticipate the
inhumanity of the northern mills (child labour etc - which the phrase
has since come to signify), but the orthodoxy of church, schools, law,
and halls of Apollonian indoctrination which he saw as obstacles to a
more fully human reality. He was, to use a term from Christopher
Hitchens, an anti-theist in the fullest sense, against all theisms
including those we would recognise today as "technological
orthodoxies". While also arguably the worlds first multi-media artist,
he eschewed the paper 'tygers' as Promethean follies. Rather prescient
I would say.
If you read his link, it states the request is for counts, not individual names.

1. A complete and accurate count of inmates who identify as transgender (gender identity differs from sex identified at birth) in the custody of the Washington Department of Corrections [please break this information down by location]

2. Number of inmates that have been transferred from a men’s facility to a women’s facility since January 01, 2021

3. Total number of male persons who identify as female, non-binary, or any other gender identity that are currently housed in a women’s facility

4. Number of inmates who have transferred from a women’s facility to a men’s facility from January 01, 2021 to March 18, 2021

5. Number of female persons who identify as male, non-binary or any other gender identity that are currently housed in a men’s facility
I think one myth that exists in both American culture and startups in particular is that you can "make it" if you just have the skills and the chutzpah.

Without some system that isn't inherently about 'move fast, big returns, oh and also it really helps if you're a young man with a Stanford connection and a way to get through the period of time where you have no income' then we get the technology that results from that. And the 'system' reflects a funding situation where big investors, often having 'good' missions (the LPs I mean) look to folks from SV VC to pattern-match their way into high returns.

If you are building a business and it's a "good business" that can be profitable early then great, but you will be stuck at scale (or in almost anything consumer-facing in tech) with only the companies willing to maximally exploit the systems that I think we know are extractive and unsustainable.

Like with most systems problems, it's hard to know what the 'answer' is- if you buy into this line of thinking- but I hope we'll start trying new ways to approach the problem, whether it's by putting some pressure on the LPs or by making it easier to crowdfund or by some more radical means...
create-react-app starts with 1506 deps:

$ npx create-react-app my-app
$ find my-app/node_modules -name package.json | wc -l
1506
Royalty and their kids, probably. Those people who just own land, collect rent, and are scared that one day people will realise that they don't need that ballast.
In other words, contemporaneous with the Chevy Corvair, and pre-dating most modern safety regulations.
As the saying goes: “When an Eve Player quits Eve and moves to Wow, the average IQ of both games goes up”. Incredible game, took up far to much of my time.
Show HN: TypeHub – A GitHub like platform to model open data specifications
HERE maps was one of the last to keep scales and was guaranteed to label a street if you zoomed in. But after looking at their web viewer, both features have been dropped.

Most "map" apps are more for exploring where gas/food/etc is so directions can be generated and less about being a useful map.
It's a clear liquid spray.
Unfortunately storage cost reduction has slowed / halted and we have no concrete information to suggest things will drastically improve. The new 22TB CMR HDD uses 10 Platter, i.e there is no increase in storage density per platter. NAND is similar as well with Multiple String stacking.
Neither Google nor Facebook has built concentration camps in the past. The same can not be said about state actors. Thus, private companies, especially those in some other country, are inherently more trustworthy than a local government body could ever be.
You can explicitly decline all you want, but that doesn't change the epistemological substance of the discussion.
> In the microservice world, you have only one microservice which went down, so most teams don't have to worry..

My experience has been that one service going down (or even running slowly) can lead to cascading failures where identifying the root cause is a slow painful process. I know that in a well designed system that doesn't happen, but that's the nature of all bugs, isn't it?
My sister lives about 100m from such a church tower (which has 5 300yr old bells). Its not really as intrusive as one might imagine..
even 4chan does not have literal free speech
It's interesting how EU regulators build good will through stunts like mandating USB-C or forcing open the App Store and GDPR protections and then turn around and do stuff like this.
It’s so much easier to navigate with Apple Maps (when it works). Hearing “turn right at the stop sign” or “go past these lights” is so much more helpful than “after 800m, turn right”
It shifted because the powers that be saw an actual unified, targeted movement aimed against the ultra rich (occupy), and got scared. So now, instead of fighting against the people who own the government, we are fighting each other based on skin color. So progressive!