skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Caesar in his Bellum Gallicum -- the gauls had cities (that Caesar's army had to build siege engines to take) and kings. The regions had millions of people living there. In one tribe alone (Atuatici), Caesar, to punish them sold 53,000 people from a single tribe into slavery. This isn't the entire population, just what he could round up in a single town.

I don't think small tribes of wandering hunters with small farming plots can sustain that many people.
Caesar ran around and laid sieges to these things regularly during the Gaullic Wars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppidum
There is a tradition of data and metadata privacy based on Brandeis's "The Right to Privacy" from 1890. You are correct that this tradition is partly rooted in 4th amendment jurisprudence, but it has deeper foundations in English common law. Amy Gajda's Seek and Hide is an accessible introduction to the area if you are looking for a deeper dive into the subject.

Many of the landmark privacy-as-bodily-autonomy decisions are related to reproductive health, but there are others. McFall v. Shrimp is another important case in the area and concerns forced medical procedures rather than reproductive health: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McFall_v._Shimp The court found in that case that an individual could not be compelled to donate bone marrow, even though it was necessary for another to live, because that would violate "the sanctity of the individual."
I think the arguments in favour of tabs are pretty strong. But there are a couple of small issue:

- You can't have aligned tables of data / blocks of comments / etc. if group of lines containing the aligned text have different amounts of indentation.

- You can't place a fixed limit on line width (which many code formatting standards do, presumably to reduce horizontal scrolling and facilitate side-by-side diffs).
SEC chair delivering speech written by SEC lawyers, on the other hand... this == SEC
Is Trump EO not also a gun to bytedance head? Apple could choose to discontinue cloud services and setup backdoor to physical iDevices access which would have made their products not competitive, but they chose to play ball same way Bytedance did. It's both lawfare coercion. It's functionally the same - subborn domestic data within framework accessible by domestic legislation. As for defending either idea, I think it's fine, everyone watches out for their interest including putting guns to heads.
> Supposedly, Carr continues to run Trump's agenda,

Trump's most clever political tactic is to be a hypocrite and exceptionally effective liar: his agenda is always a superposition of contradictory claims. Even the GOP couldn't keep up and decided to forgo any semblance of a political platform for 2020 [1].

Despite the lies, there's a few consistent policy themes that emerged from his presidency. Notably, is a broad, across-the-board, blanket opposition to everything China. This includes decidedly not Chinese things, such as racism and condoning violence against Asian Americans [2] It also extends to economic opposition at all costs.

*Here* is the central truth behind Carr's statement. It's a continuation of the Republican party's current strong anti-Chinese policy.

[1] https://prod-cdn-static.gop.com/docs/Resolution_Platform_202...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/un-report-trump-seemingly-le...
The problem isn't hierarchy, it is how managers are thinking it gives them power over their subordinates (it does not), that they are better than their team because they have been promoted (they are not), and it is how subordinates are getting lazy pushing all important problems for the manager to decide because he is best person to make the decision (he is not).

The solution isn't easy but it starts with managers understanding how to work WITH their employees rather than how to direct them.

I have noticed a lot of managers treating their team as manager's personal resource to offload work to. The manager is the one attending all important meetings, discussing solutions with others. The manager thinks he is smart because he is the only person that understands the big picture when in fact he is responsible for this situation by restricting the flow of information to their team and by degrading their motivation so they aren't even trying.

People getting lazy does not mean they don't have potential -- they just might not be motivated to do better. Actually, in my experience, most people want to do good work and are capable to do so as long as they have been hired into right position. But they might not be getting rewarded for what they think is good work (even with something as simple as a kind word). Or they might not know what good work is (because nobody put effort into explaining it). Or they might not be getting work that sufficiently challenges them. Or they might feel they are not being trusted by their team, boss or the rest of organisation (which happens very easily when everything needs to be approved by their boss).

Much better model I have is that of gardener -- be vigilant about what your employees are doing, make sure they have everything they need to be productive, make sure you understand how they are staying motivated, take a close look and try to understand when something isn't working well but otherwise do not position yourself in the flow of work and let people grow and do their thing.

You can't build the above without trust. Trust is the first thing you need to work on.

You also probably need to hire people for their values rather than their knowledge. It is hard or impossible to build trust when people have different value systems.
ARM produces both architecture specifications and the designs for chips that implement those specifications.

Some companies license the architecture specification and design their own implementations, Apple being the leading example. They then pay TSMC to fabricate the chips for them.

Other companies license the implementations and pay to have them fabricated. The latter category varies in the level of customization they apply to the implementations they license, it's generally much less customized than the what those in the first category achieve.
I was just thinking about Syncplicity this morning, and found your comment. What a trip! Looking back, it feels like a completely different world. Hope you're well.

You're right about MSFT's long-term platform advantage. File sync is intimately related to filesystem internals, and NTFS is their walled garden - just the same as Office. We bet way harder on Google Docs but kind of missed the point there.
Except if the community at large doesn't like how a particular staker/validator is doing their job, the staker's assets can be burned in a hard fork that enjoys sufficient broad legitimacy. The capital can be outright destroyed. In contrast, there is no way a community in a proof of work system can burn a particular miners hardware if that miner becomes able to abuse the network. At most they could change the mining algo, but that wipes all miners out, and such a change can really only happen once.
I am aware of the official cover story. You appear to be unaware that it is a lie.

Look up the historical record. By what metric was the BTC chain allocated to the present by bitfinex? I'll give you a hint, hash power not only had nothing to do with it, it was explicitly said that it would be ignored in the announcement.

And reality flies in the face of what you just claimed, node operators had nothing to do with the metric. It's all just outright rigged.
Normally you expect the reverse migration, from SQLite3 to PG!
Another tool that bears on this idea is courgette [0], in that it operates on one of the intermediate representations of the final bundle in order to achieve better compression.

https://blog.chromium.org/2009/07/smaller-is-faster-and-safe...
Pentagon finds concerning vulnerabilities on blockchain
GitKraken + git cli works like a dreamteam. GitKraken for 80% of the interactions like staging lines, commiting, browsing the history. Git cli for the 20% long tail of special operations
Because addressing symptoms costs money that can then not be spent on the causes.

And, addressing symptoms does not actually put off catastrophe.
Who would fall for it?
The circuit diagrams above the control panels appear to be nonsensical...

Do they use some notation I'm unfamiliar with, or are they some 'artists impression' by a non-technical artist?

If the latter, I'm really disappointed. 80 year old steam systems and generators are understandable by anyone doing high school physics, and we really shouldn't be making museum pieces that have made-up nonsense to try and make things impossible to understand.
Virtually nobody cares about trade deals. They care about how much the people that govern them reflect their own values and concerns. India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan probably would have benefitted economically from being one country with one common market. But nobody wants that because Indians don’t want to be governed by Pakistanis and vice versa. Trade is a red herring.
Tensional twist-folding of sheets into multilayered scrolled yarns
The embedding features date from Windows 3.x era, and I think fully came to be with Office 97 or 2000, either of which was implemented fully as set of COM objects with OLE Automation interfaces and essentially embeddable in everything - if you deliver an application on Windows and can specify Office license in your requirements, suddenly you can do a lot more - for example, I've used programs that simply embedded Excel for data entry features, not just as "can import from specially prepared Excel sheets" but directly embedded Excel sheet editor in their GUI and stored Excel data streams internally to their document formats.
> Data collection and algorithmic manipulation

These to me are separate issues that should be discussed independently.

So for your post: Data Collection, Algorithmic Manipulation, and Fairness in the Marketplace
Pfizer has a copy, right?
The phone company is by law required to retain those messages, so you are being led astray if that is the excuse he produced.
yeah, i use tiktok a lot and i think about this all the time. it's so odd that this isn't the first thing people are discussing. imagine if the russian government sponsored a social media application, all we would be talking about was political meddling. it's almost exactly the same thing here.
And Ghislaine Maxwell gets only 20 years????
Well I think in general you have more personally to worry about from your own government (which can legally apply coercive force against you), vs. any foreign government, particularly an adversarial one, with no extradition treaty.

Which is not to say that your own government shouldn't worry about national security- maybe the ban on TikTok could be more targeted, for example members of the government and military should not use it.

Anyway I was thinking more about the spying, and not so much about the influencing.
Trump had a sale lined up, Biden won the election, and then Biden promptly canceled the sale[0]. It's a shame that Trump doesn't get more appreciation for his politically unpopular yet noble moves. Nobody was talking about China before Trump but you can be sure they were content to make fun of Trump for doing so[1].

[0]https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/10/tiktok-sale-to-walmart-oracl...

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDrfE9I8_hs
Yes - there's a difference between a company operating in a liberal democracy (the west broadly defined) with the restrictions that entails, and a company operating under control of the CCP without such restrictions or even rule of law. There are no companies independent of the state in China.

The real threat from TikTok is not so much the collection of information (though that's a problem) - it's the way the CCP can leverage it to tune influence without users noticing (silencing Hong Kong or Uyghur related information for example).

https://stratechery.com/2020/the-tiktok-war/
Most probably don’t look at the Sun. And TBH, if it would be a really great idea, I wouldn’t care about astronomy.
I guess its thinking of overpopulation as a phenomenological effect on the individual vs the global effect of all of us on the environment. Interesting point though, I had never thought of it in that way before. People all over the world are already living in Blade Runner levels of density.
Fortunately that is already evidently nil, in aggregate.
Obligatory https://xkcd.com/1597/
> It can do that, if you explicitly run it with the options to checkout a specific path.

Fair point. I've update my comment to clarify.

> But why would you do that if it's not what you want?

Because sometimes it is what you want. The point is, if you happen to do it when it's not what you want, you're hosed. So it is simply not true that "It is very hard to permanently lose work." It is, in fact, quite easy under certain not-uncommon circumstances.
sure, he could be sitting there right now thinking - after everything I've done for humanity why have I not been rewarded, why am I not rich?!
If the expectation is just hours worked, then you can't fulfill 2 (or more) full time jobs. But I'm not sure where that applies, outside of something mind-numbing like a call center.

Realistically, it's a technical field and there are a lot of very, very poor candidates out there who will fill the seat for 40 hours but completely fail on performance. And I think that's why nobody was judging performance based on hours of butt in seat.
Yes monopolistic regulations are 100percent hurdles. Now free market standards that people can choose (if they want more safety net), or personal standards, well they don't affect everyone so those are fine.
Conversely the EU needs to ban the FAANG companies
Keynote was made so that Steve Jobs could switch to making presentations on Mac instead of PC running late version of OpenSTEP, and faithfully replicated Concurrence which Jobs used on OpenSTEP.

It was made for Jobs' keynotes as its main goal
Because disaster comes on at the same rate as before, but now you are not doing anything about it.
This post disappeared from the front page pretty darn quick.
> let an adversary control the information flow to a huge portion of the population is beyond me.

Because most of the possible responses are various forms of censorship.
$9M in revenue in a year when many people had plenty of time to read? Oof.
It comes down to the person running the website has to care. That's it. It doesn't matter how simple it is if the person doesn't care.

In my own case, I've been running my own website for 24 years now [1]. The URLs I started out with have remained the same (although some have gone, and yes, I return 410 for those) and the technology hasn't changed much either (it was Apache 24 years ago, it's still Apache today; my blog engine [2] was a C-based CGI program, and it's still a C-based CGI program. The rest of the site is static, and there's no Javascript (except for one page). I can see it lasting at least six more years, and probably more. But I care.

[1] Started out on a physical server (an AMD 586) and a few years later on a virtual server.

[2] https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog
Am I misunderstanding your comment? Olive oil and coconut oil have terrible omega-6/omega-3 ratio, where as canola is pretty good.

https://www.cancerschmancer.org/articles/healthiest-cooking-...
Flip the situation around with a thought experiment:

How do I get a job within the EU Commission that will give me the opportunity to make millions for myself? Who do I need to "donate" to? Or do I need to become someone's obedient slave? How do I prove myself worthy?

Once in, what do I need to do to make as much money as possible for myself with zero negative consequences?
China banned almost all US social networks, this is fair play
There have been some attempts to capture sites that became the ghosts or disappeared completely. During the dotcom bubble through 2008, Steve Baldwin(co-author of Netslaves) had that as a side project.

https://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/

Our Incredible Journey still does this, with more snark and humor.

https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
>what's the point of having them in the first place,

to increase company size and keep more people in the world fed. without them, that money just goes into the CEO's pocket anyway.

>paying them more,

this i disagree with as well. Money should be way better allocated to the people keeping the company alive since everyones dinner depends on them.

But overall a company should hire as many people as it can afford. have them work from home and do almost nothing most of the time. pay them the least in the company.

Usually these discussions leave out what happens when people dont have jobs at all, which would happen to a lot of people if companies were run optimally and morons were fired. Do we let them die so that we can buy yachts? I dont think we should all die together if we cant save everyone, but I do think we should be working to maximize the number of "free loaders" our country can support and viewing that as a signal of strength.

I also believe if we remove all these people who are better off as free loaders from the workforce, that companies would become more productive overall, not less. There is this belief that everyone would just stop working if they didnt need to and nothing would get done. I dont buy it. Absolute worst case scenario we could have a draft and use the military to fill the gaps in the workforce lol
But in this case, it's working in society's favor. Banning TikTock is a good thing. We should then turn around and ban all of the social media platforms regardless of nationality that does any sort of harvesting/manipulation of the data that their users are sharing in any other form than to display that information in the expected ways for the site to have purpose. Any social platform doing things in the shadows with user's info directly input by them or scraped,tracked,inferred,gathered,etc should be banned from existence.
Seriously, probably faster than searching for the command you need to fix it with all the right options that if not set would amplify your issues
The good think is that EU is not holding you back from experiencing perfect democracy in Russia or China. Maybe you can become a poster boy/girl as a political refugee from rotten West there.
Agreed. The CBC story actually gets it right too: "A commissioner with the U.S. communications regulator is asking Apple and Google to consider banning TikTok from their app stores over data security concerns related to the Chinese-owned company."

But the headline misleadingly refers to Commissioner Carr as "U.S. communications regulator." One would normally think that this referred to the FCC (THE U.S. communications regulator), not just one of its commissioners.
Agree with everything here, and I'll also add that spam was a major problem for the simpler forums. It takes a lot of effort to combat, (at least until Google's recaptcha) and some forums stopped accepting new users from the public. Adding recaptcha requires a programmer, and not all forums have one. I joined one classic-style forum in the last 5 years and it required sending a email to the admin to add my account by hand. It also didn't have SSL...
> then those decisions need to be revisited, but he didn't say reversed

Lol, then I've got a bridge to sell you. Thomas dissented vociferously in both Lawrence and Obergefell, it's clear he wants to overturn them, not even he is trying to hide that fact. His Obergefell dissent was especially nauseating because he was trying to say how we was so "offended" that Loving was even construed to be analogous to Obergefell.

He's a typical "I've got mine, fuck you" conservative.
> It is mind-numbing that we made it this far without very serious consideration of this point.

Simple: because no one want(s/ed) to piss off China too much.

Effectively, the West has been at war with Russia and China for years now. Industrial espionage, rampant IP theft, frauds and forgery in supply chains that yield no intervention by the Chinese government, cyber attacks by actors at least supported if not outright financed and ordered by the governments, holding people hostage [1], undermining of democracy by financing and supporting far-right and separatist movements, undermining of free speech by extortion [2] or by threat campaigns [3], threatening and following through with sanctions on anyone willing to support Taiwan [4], the list is long and doesn't even include the crimes both nations have committed against humanity both domestically and on foreign soil.

But since China has managed to grab up a lot of the world's cheap production and the politically extremely well connected automotive industry has their largest growing market in China, politicians have long been way too silent on even calling China (and Russia) out, much less actually punish them in return or declare the official state of war that both countries completely deserve.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58687071

[2] https://globalnews.ca/news/7734158/china-pressure-activists-...

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-57647418

[4] https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1612407/latvian-mp-...
Thanks, I found it…
The last thing I want is to get another email list.

For me email is a big ball of stress, there is always a huge amount of spam to delete, even if I keep up on unsubscribing from lists and blocking addresses that send me spam.

When I am reading email I am generally trying to get some specific task done and having email newsletters get in the way means I'm going to skip over the newsletters and never read them.

What the world needs is an RSS reader which is like that Talking Heads song Psycho Killer: "See something once, why see it again?"
Should You Use AsyncIO for Your Next Python Web Application? – LAAC Technology
That's honestly not a bad idea, assuming it only applies to US stores.
This has been a popular topic for some time in the computer architecture space.

“ The End of the Road for General Purpose Processors & the Future of Computing - Prof. John L. Hennessy”

https://www.csail.mit.edu/news/end-road-general-purpose-proc...
It was more that leakage current (i.e. thermal issues) and velocity saturation suddenly becoming constraints on how much you could increase switching speed along with the difficulty of high frequency clock distribution. Your individual transistor switching speed is always going to be a lot faster than your clock speed because a pipeline stage has to be made up of many layers of transistors to get anything useful done (including latch the signal at the clock edge!) and each transistor will typically drive multiple others.

I was seriously considering being a chip engineer for a while and did my master's thesis on adder design.
I hope this isn't offensive, but that is a relatively "programmer" like way to respond. You rarely have 100%, airtight evidence of crimes. That is why the standard of proof is guilt beyond a reasonable doubt as determined by a jury.

I have my doubts that in the situation that you described that there would be interest and motivation to prosecute, but if that buddy had gone on to commit a felony, or this was a repeated offense, then they would use warrants, subpoenas, and other standard prosecutorial tools to try to find the cache, get electronic records, and compel witnesses to testify. As someone else noted, all that's required is falsifying the the purchase details (Abramski vs US).
What kind of hell prevented you from lashing out at this cruelty?
... minus the pig.
Ripcord: Alternative desktop chat client for Slack (and Discord)