skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but Europe chose to ignore the 2014 invasion to keep the cheap fossil fuels running and to prevent any major escalation with a nuclear power over a mere peninsula. The hope also was 'Handel durch Wandel' - 'Change through trade'.

I can only speak for Germany, but the political discussions about Crimea and Eastern Ukraine did exist for years. However, the government and opposition parties were somewhat in Russias pockets - at the very least their election was dependend on many jobs in industries across different federal states which required cheap Russian gas. Also, the German East is still fairly connected to Russia on a cultural level and this is where you would find most German opponents against NATO these days. Communities directly affected include Lubmin in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern where Nord Stream 2 is landing as well as Schwedt/Oder with the decades old PCK oil refinery that is specialized to process Russian oil (not all oil is the same) and supplied most of the German North East with fuel.

Russia has certainly funded a lot of online trolling, political actors (AfD) and disinformation to achieve their goals. For example, they tried to actively prevent Germans from switching to American LNG / fracking gas. German Angst [1] is a pretty fertile ground for disinformation. It's also what drives opposition against nuclear power, more so than the more reasonable arguments regarding economics and prices.

Regarding gas, it's mostly about heat generation for industry and NOT electricity where it is a minor player [2]. Natural gas is mostly used for manufacturing and to a lesser scale for quick up/down scaling of electricity generation as support to the baseline.

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/germans-and-why-they-worry-about-germa...

[2] https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE
> The only “safe” comparable alternative is unsafe Rust which as the name suggests isn’t actually safe.

And for some applications, Rust isn't even an alternative. Not every chip is supported by LLVM.
Mastodon instances have certainly gained tons of new users...but, wait 'til some people learn that the fediverse has been around since ~2008, and the current numbers are far higher than *only "mastodon"*. For example, i'm seeing over 6 million accounts as captured before end of October: https://fediverse.party/en/fediverse/

Of course, on the fediverse, no one cares about adoption numbers. :-)
> Because everyone likes to use that LendingIterator example I would offer a bit non-trivial example
Are browsers not already complex enough?
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It's not quite as easy, but in a case like that I prefer to run the software in a VM using the version of Linux it was designed for.

Lets you keep "compile once, run forever" without crippling the rest of your software to support ancient or broken APIs.
Your second example is not how anyone here is recommending using an object to replace a switch. You've still got the function call, which is now redundant.

Here's how you'd actually do it:

type CountryCode =
| "CH"
| "US";

const countryNames: Record<CountryCode, string> = {
"CH": "Switzerland",
"US": "United States of America",
}

Your second example is way more complicated than your first, but this one is even easier to read (at least for me), and still provides all the same functionality and type safety (including exhaustiveness checking).
But how about a tall and light person and short and heavy person? The permutations are endless. Not arguing against testing, I think it's great to get more test dummies in the seat, but I don't know where/how one should draw the line.
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The problem is not the people who are proficient and enjoy the language. The problem is the people of the other kind who get told to do it for a living. I know the top level asbestos analogy (not mine) got shot down but let me try another. The problem is that we send both a trucker and cyclist to the freeway without any kind of protections for or against cyclist.
> Yes, more or less. I would be perfectly happy with a single red box at the top that says this feature sends the contents of your slide to Microsoft.

As a user I'd like the ability to opt-in/out of this. I much prefer a privacy policy that captures all of it for the app. Otherwise, I have red boxes showing up non-stop using most apps. Can you imagine the sheer number of red boxes you'd get for Netflix the first few times you use it!
Musk has openly stated that those without Twitter Blue will have their tweets substantially deprioritised and de-emphasised.[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/somebadideas/status/1588876465915166721?...
Not necessarily. Consultants were the first to go at my company.
People don't understand how e-mail works because the UX is so good. They understand it because it is ubiquitous and they are used to it. They don't expect anything else to work like that, because nothing else on the internet they use works like that. There is no UX to fix this. People just have to be taught that this is an option.
Please read things before you accuse.

To quote the beginning of the post:

This project demonstrates how OpenSea administrators can take any tokens minted on the OpenSea Shared Storefront. This is a previously-undocumented backdoor.
Part of the problem is that people in the US are hostile to the government actually doing anything using government employees instead of external contractors or consultants.
That doesn't mean they are right. This is a complex topic that I don't have time to write a thesis on at the moment. Some things to consider: cost cutting 2014-2019 enabled much higher profits when demand went through the roof, alternatives and substitutes, how is the price of OIL determined?, spot vs future, refinery capacity, how much of oil -> gasoline is vertically integrated, who oil producers sell to, who buys the oil, who distills it.

So who's doing the price gouging? Oil producers? Distillers? Gas stations? Everyone?

Are prices being gouged, or are there intricacies in this system which have compounding price effects on supply and demand hiccups?
The dummy's breasts don't seem to move in the video despite the impacts, I think they're probably made out of steel, or a very stiff rubber. I doubt they accurately simulate real breasts, I think they're on the dummy to convey femaleness.
Not quite.

For this to work well, all your apps need to run with not being able to do their own TLS, but to various (reasonable) reasons a lot of applications today do their own TLS.

You also don't want to add self-signed certificates, but grab the traffic _before_ it gets encrypted IMHO.

In some cases it's still quite viable, like if they dynamic link to OpenSSL (or similar) you could create a facade which allows grabbing traffic.

But things get problematic when it's statically compiled in and not open source.

Additionally there are quite a bunch of use-cases where the encryption is not TLS, like e.g. with some WebRTC applications it's not uncommon to have an encrypted channel we could access to a broker server but in that channel E2E encrypted messages are send e.g. using libsodium statically compiled in.
I suspect it's something like this: Company A owns some patents that it wants to troll with. They get entities B through Z to buy the patents and troll, with the contract saying that A gets a chunk of the winnings if they win. If they lose, B through Z are on the hook for expenses. So A gets to hide, first of all, and second gets insulated against financial losses, and third doesn't get tainted by a bunch of adverse legal rulings. (That is, think about how Prenda Law got tainted. If they came after you, you weren't going to settle, because you knew it was garbage. Well, in this setup, if B through F have been shown to be bogus, and G is suing you, you may settle rather than fight, because you don't realize it's all part of the same bogus collection of junk.)

As I said, that's what I suspect. The actual scam may be different.
This game appears to be extremely similar to an existing Roblox game: https://www.roblox.com/games/2768379856/3008-2-71

This Roblox version doesn't have weapons, but it's pretty fun, actually. Ask your kids -- they probably played it.
> I doubt any of this will ever be remedied.

What if you didn’t use PowerPoint?

Seems much simpler.

Also, maybe the data makes PowerPoint good? Or better?

Alternatives to PowerPoint: won’t all of the viable ones be hosted on the web?

What do you want? You can install PowerPoint 97. No one is stopping you.
Naively here, I just don't see why it should be hard to follow people on other instances--at least for public posts (which again naively I assume are most).
me neither, only been on for a few days. here's the public stream from the server I'm on server https://fosstodon.org/public

the "main" mastodon.social server is mostly unreachable, that would be at: https://mastodon.social/public
FWIW I'm really appreciating your comments. These are all models. I really enjoy hearing how others perceive things.
Oh, the humanity! When you CLICK THE SLIDE DESIGNER button it sends your slides to a Slide Designer service? What hath God wrought?
This post is dubious at best. It makes a “do your own research claim” without sharing anything concrete.

Yet, this plays into people’s own confirmation biases so it’s already being taken verbatim by people here.
You can visit any available instance and view their public feeds. For example, I use Fosstodon, so you visit the site[0] and click on "See what's happening" to preview the local feed, or navigate to the /public page.

It's up to the instance to expose the "Explore", "Local", and "Federated" feeds. Fosstodon only exposes the local one to unauthenticated users.

[0] https://fosstodon.org
Ah but we do! We test on GraalVM and OpenJDK! (heh)
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I think that as this becomes more prevalent as a society we are collectively getting better at acknowledging that people can change, especially from things long in the past. The issue is really when people get called out for things they have done in the past which is still a reflection of how they act today (they don't apologize for it, don't see anything wrong, etc.)

I had muted Klabnick on twitter some time ago because I thought he was being an asshole, and seeing something like this helps contextualize his behavior.
As long as I can google "how to do X with CSS" and I get a straight-foward answer (usually from css-tricks) I'm happy.
Similar things happen with vision BTW. When you start looking into it, what our eyes and ears and the connected parts of the brain actually do is pretty crazy. Our sensory systems are eventually consistent, and there are glitches, but amazingly it all mostly works.
> they had clearly telegraphed what the next season was going to be about (she’s going to bring everyone back, duh)

And that the brought-back people who (thanks to her learning/evolution into the Maker) are no longer forced on rails, are us, collective memory and all, squandering our apprehension of the gift of free will.
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> Note that public transports moving nearly empty doesn't waste much money: it's a common misconception.

Even if trains are VERY efficient they do not move at zero energy, nor they do not degrade while moving, nor their stations remains operational at no costs... Yes the capex is extreme BUT opex aren't better.

As a serious debate, not intended for sterile polemics, so please try to wipe all prejudice before skimming: https://www.easa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/dfu/uam-full-... what do you think?

Personally I think:

- with climate change cast urbanized areas need to change, perhaps not that drastically in the short term, but more and more frequently flooded areas need to be relocated and doing so in dense cities (let's say just NY with it's anti-floods protections skyrocketing costs) it's next to impossible. Given that infra needs to change, that's why we start pushing wireless satellite networks, small modular nuclear reactors, air short-range mobilities etc they are NOT economically sound, they are NOT safer, better than anything else, but once they exists they can operate in a changing world;

- with the green new deal it's clear that all existing buildings need to be demolished and rebuilt or abandoned, again not tomorrow, but let's say in 25 years terms. Rebuild a single-family home it's reasonably quick, cheap and easy. Rebuild a skyscraper it's another story;

- one thing it's clear: there is no real room for air-mobility in cities. AT MAXIMUM I can imaging intermodal stations where people arrive from outside and descend into a city public transport network witch leave a question open: those who live inside how can own something to go outside with their own means?

Try just to see advertisements: for instance here I see many about heat-pumps for heating homes typically depicted in snowy natural place, or to be fresh in summer, again in natural places. Even cars ads are in nature, even for most city-cars. Again that's means: artist can't imaging something nice in a modern city environment.

These are just few small breadcrumbs of examples why I'm convinced that in the future worlds cities will be sold as https://youtu.be/p-9X8Z2kJt8 while really be like https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/19/why-greeces-ex... to be used as factories/work camps for modern slaves where the development is done not for the well-being but just for moving workforce as needed, meat-based robots.

As a result: public transport is the sole option in dense cities and it's not done because it's nice but just a way to keep humans there to employ them.
> See the ACID properties of databases. [1]

But since this is "blockchain", is it more like... they weren't polling for the right confirmation/status/update from the blockchain network API thingie?
> That's an analogy, and we are talking about a programming language - not humans.

Is it your supposition that asbestos was banned for non-human reasons?

Or does this "logic" only work when convenient for your own defenses?
The reliance on contractors has continued to shift, and for the CA HSR project in question, at one point reached ridiculous levels:

https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-california-hi...

> Today, these consultants manage nearly every aspect of the job: They direct day-to-day construction work in the Central Valley and negotiate with farmers to buy land. They assess the geological conditions in the San Gabriel Mountains and estimate how many people will ride the future system. They produce tens of thousands of pages of reports and attend community meetings. They even oversee other consultants.

> But significant portions of this work have been flawed or mismanaged, according to records reviewed by The Times and interviews with dozens of people involved in the project. Despite repeated warnings since 2010 about weaknesses in its staffing, the rail authority believed it could reduce overall costs by relying on consultants and avoiding a large permanent workforce. But that strategy has failed to keep project costs from soaring. Ten years after voters approved it, the project is $44 billion over budget and 13 years behind schedule.

> When state rail authority employees go to their Sacramento headquarters, they work in offices rented by a consultant. When they turn on their computers, much of their data is stored on servers owned by consultants. The software they use to help manage the project is the property of a consultant.

> Given the enormity of building a 520-mile rail system, the 10-member rail authority team that existed in the early years amounted to a “cheer squad,” Kopp said.

> Several rail authority employees said in interviews that the audit correctly identified the confused relationship between state employees and consultants. In some cases, they said, state employees report to consultants, rather than the other way around.

---

Private public partnerships (PPPs or P3s) are also similarly overhyped. Done correctly they can shift financial risk, but investors are actually sophisticated and not dumb idiots, so they'll either raise their prices to deal with additional risk, or they'll walk away from a deal that turns really sour. https://www.constructiondive.com/news/joint-venture-walks-aw...
"move to the cloud" is a top strategic objective in my org

I have explained why it should not be, but Mgmt does not care.

Everyone's doing it. We NEED to do it.

I believe we are in a mix of FOMO, resume-driven development and empire-building.

Ok, I can tell that you want me to expand. Here goes:

Cloud may offer:

1) improved scalability (both horizontal and vertical)

2) improved availability

3) reduced cost

None of these are guaranteed and will require much expertise in both initial choice-making and continuing execution.

We don't really have that expertise.

Do you?
It's very difficult and fighting an uphill battle to get two totally independent wifi music receivers to together output a single stero signal split across them. I don't think even dedicated systems like Sonos support it. Run speaker wire around the room perimeter to an amp and you will be infinitely happier.
I'm unclear of the exact problem. Are you having a problem with powering two passive speakers from the same amplifier? Or you have two active speakers (each with its own internal amplifier and plug into the wall) and you have a problem with connecting a stereo music source to them?
Largely true, but worth noting that each state has its own speed limit. Vermont, for instance, sets the state non-highway speed limit at 50MPH, so you'll almost never find 55MPH undivided roads in that state. Colorado, on the other hand, has undivided roads with 65MPH speed limits. Much of the Midwest and the East Coast tend to set their limits at 55MPH, though.
The article is about Ada SPARK, and nVidia using it to develop their firmware today.
Wokeness has started to hurt the hand that feeds it.

Higher education is ripe for disruption. It is sad that a common-sense, science-based approach should feel like disruption.
It's not in JavaScript, but see Unifying Church and State: FP and OOP Together for another example of the "switch / named functions" (or "Wadler's Expression Problem") described in a pretty intuitive way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO5MD62dQbI
ITAR regulated information isn't only on the SIPR/High side.

From the perspective of Classified Data this SHOULD not be a problem, but I highlight the "SHOULD" because sometimes these barriers get crossed unintentionally. Mission briefings, etc. may accidentally leak info, and those are almost all PowerPoint.

For the ITAR data though, that's absolutely not only on isolated networks.
It’s entirely possible this will make cars safer for everyone
https://web.archive.org/web/20220000000000*/twitter.com/Tayl...

https://web.archive.org/web/20220000000000*/amren.com

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No reason or explanation given, or hint at who excluded it.
How to Extend Microsoft’s Ransomware Protections
Microsoft recently released a report, Cyber Signals, detailing recent trends in the ransomware sphere, most notably the rise of the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) economy. RaaS groups, instead of doing the attacking themselves, are selling the toolkits and information necessary for other criminals to perform successful attacks.
> I recently set up Windows and it requires SO many workarounds to keep your privacy. I recommend setting up OOSU10 before even connecting to the Internet to avoid the Telemetry and Windows sneakily installing helper apps related to your hardware (and I don't mean Drivers) without your consent or knowledge.

Seems an awful lot like

> sysadmining my laptop

Perhaps you meant to say "learning a new system involves a lot of mental effort". I get that sentiment and don't even disagree (the first quote is a part of what keeps me away from windows I don't want to sysadmin my windows install because I don't want to learn it).

I find switching to a different system (e.g. windows) makes everything feel hard because I have enough experience dealing with the little issues. With linux things that the stuff you declared "too much" is a 60-90s blip in my day due to familiarity, not a huge time-sink or rabbit hole. That familiarity means not just "I know what buttons to press" but also "I know where to look to know what buttons", "Consequences of pressing those buttons", "what are the red herrings when I go looking something up".

It's a different system with different patterns, thought models designed in, etc. Not that different from say, knowing C and trying to pick up an ML as a second languge - it's not that the patterns are bad or the language "isn't there", it's hard because it's a bunch of different concepts than you're brain is currently patterned for.
A personal archive is a right place, with some file-sharing service to share...
Yeah, absolutely. That's why I finished with "it's probably not great, but better than nothing".

And wealth definitely isn't going to fully save you from it -- the NY Times did a comparative piece on it a couple years ago: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/17/world/asia/in...
I don't think of nesting or calc as scripting like.

Animation control is where things start to get weird.
Since when is using SPARK an echo chamber?
I'm sympathetic to your view, but I worry where it leads us too. Is it people never questioning whether they're "on the right side" or doing the right thing? Some of the worst things I've seen done were done by people who thought they were doing good.
What is an edgelord?: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-is-an-edg...
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Let's be honest. Copy-Paste sucks on most mobile. And mobile is where most people are at, especially on social.
Then lets work to make it better! most of your mastodon stuff is open source. Reach out to the maintainer on Github and let them know :)

https://github.com/TheKinrar/instances
"That much" doesn't mean "none at all", you're doing a textbook strawman here.

I for instance don't care if my conversations are end-to-end encrypted, or if my financial transactions are anonymous. I do care if any random employee can just pull up my data, or if the company that's storing that data abuses its position and pushes ads in my face based on what date I have on their servers.

Common sense protection like payment method tokenization and SSL connections are the norm already, I don't want regression.

In the end, I meant that the privacy conversation should be moved into more concrete terms as an invasive ads discussion, not turned into something more abstract about which discussion is meaningless.