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> What if the executive starts censoring politically incompatible thoughts? Trump certainly tried or at least threatened to do so many times but it's nowhere near reality.

Is that a reference to his comments about libel laws?
> the judiciary, since 1800, has been very good at striking down governmental attempts to control speech

I'm not sure that's true. The record is mixed, afaik. For example, political repression of the left has been repeatedly allowed.

> Twitter-FBI "state-informed" moderation

AFAIK, the evidence amounted to very little or nothing happening in that regard?
I think it's just Chrome and Safari's mobile versions that "don't allow" text input. And they actually do allow it. But most users don't have a keyboard hooked up to their phones

The issue is that with mobile something has to pop up. So browsers need to make the decision between an onscreen keyboard or the built in pickers (this holds for color pickers as well)

If web developers don't want any of this, they could always just use `type="text"` instead of `type="date"`, but this leads to other accessibility issues and means you have to write a ton more code for proper validation
Germany has the legal concept of Mitbestimmung [1] and Betriebsverfassungsgesetz legislation [2]

US Laws = European common sense. You did stick us with the protestants after all :-)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codetermination_in_Germany

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Constitution_Act
The definition of working with people vs. working with things doesn't seem obvious to me. As a software engineer I am working a lot with my computer. Therefore I must be working with things! But... I am just as much working with my soft skills. Scrum retros, talking to stakeholders, discussions on design with fellow engineers, testing with end-users. Some days I don't spend even a minute working with "things".

I don't think the distinction of working with people vs working with things is clear enough to say wheter my job means I am doing the one or the other. So how could the participants in the study do the same? I'm assuming there are lots of occupations in this grey zone and even situations where in one company the same occupation is considered working with people while in another company it would be considered working with things.

I can see multiple issues the study runs into which would be interesting to see how/if it answers. A) Does it measure peoples perception of wheter they work with people or thing? B) Do the authors make their own interpretation of which occupations lands in which category? How do they then eliminate their own biases in what working with that occupation means? C) Did the authors observe the participants and make a judgement call based on their day-to-day activity? This would likely be the most accurate, but I can't imagine they did this because of the sheer cost of such an experiment.
This is vanilla android 13 with chrome 108. (IE – the newest ones)

Firefox and Samsung Browser are basically the same thing with different colour schemes.

Samsung managed to make the year seem even less tappable: https://imgur.com/a/2q4CiXk
Almost every date picker I've used is terrible. If you are reading this and are responsible for adding a datepicker, please, please, please do at least the following:

1. There should be a textbox allowing me to type a human-readable date/time (e.g. "monday 5pm" or "july 7, 2015").

2. The textbox should be selected and ready to type into as soon as the datepicker is opened

3. There should be a short list of previously-typed dates because often, for a given date in the UI, the same date is used multiple times in quick succession

4. There should be a typical month view with days of the week visible, in case I'm on mobile

5. The current date should be highlighted on the month view.

6. I should be able to pick the month and the year in at most two taps each (i.e. dropdown for each), no matter how far back in time I need to go.

Shameless plug: we recently implemented an exceptional date picker on momentcrm.com because of how frustrated we were with the default browser experience.
That's true, but in many cases where official registration is involved one tends to need to write out one's full name (the capitalisation of which then depends on the country of origin).
My point is that just punching Fascists doesn't stop them.

You have to engage with politics and the power structures.

You have to think and do hard work in building coalitions and power bases.

Gangs don't win power, they just get used by those who do.

Look up the SA and the Strasserists.
Bird scientists differ on the relative risk and benefits of feeding. Darryl Jones who is emeritus Griffith uni I think, has written on this in the Australian urban context: they don't get dependent, it is marginal benefit, they rear bigger clutches, pick food wisely. Not "never feed"

https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Feeding_the_Birds_at...

Darryl on research gate:

https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Darryl...
You could also do both and have the placeholder smoothly transition between being a placeholder vs being a label. Not to self-plug but here's an example I made myself

https://dontplaywithculi.netlify.app/readlater

(it doesn't do anything, just a UI experiment)
I keep a cobbled together version of something like this in my rc files. The ui mimics macOS’s pbcopy/pbpaste commands (it degrades gracefully on linux boxes too by falling back to xsel if available, and then to a tmp file for use on headless servers).

The special sauce is that you can put a server name from your ssh config on the end of a pbcopy or pbpaste command so you can do stuff like run `echo hello | pbcopy server2` on server1, after which doing `pbpaste` from server2 would print 'hello'. You can also do this in the other direction with pbpaste, eg from server2 you can run `pbpaste server1` and it'll print out the contents of server1's clipboard.

The current setup is a bit coupled to my rc files, but if there's interest would be glad to refactor a bit and toss it on github
Kuhnis rendering plant. I worked across the street from Novell at US Bureau of Reclamation.

https://www.deseret.com/2010/1/18/20365258/juab-county-anima...
“women tended to be more interested in working with ideas (versus data) than men in all but two countries (the Philippines and Poland),”

In Poland accounting is traditionally a female occupation. I know 0 male accountants and like 20 female ones.
Well, most of the measures in most of the European countries were ruled as unconstitutional: locked into our houses not being allowed to get out, curfews afterwards at night and so on (and of course all these rules were set in place by politicians that never respected any of them - and worse, a lot of them made money by importing and selling back to the state masks and other PPE equipment). Most of the people, even if they took the vaccines, but dared to say anything about forcing people to get them or commenting on the absurdity of police patrolling parks and stopping any groups of more than 3 people, forcing masks outside in cold weather (not even bothering to read the instructions on the box) were all labelled antivaxxers, corona deniers and right wing nazis. So a lot of people decided to shut up and let the new religion of “I believe in science” do their thing. But next time when a serious pandemic hits, the trust has already been eroded.
I get it: You think politics is for losers and you want to indulge your power fantasy.
Well, I take it you are not a vim user? :) There is no other reason to put Escape there. If I didn't use vim, I'd use the CapsLock key just for Control and not also for Escape.
There's a good recent analysis of the hospital stats vs vaccination rates over time, amongst other things. But remember, our defense against viruses includes having infected cells kill themselves, so damage is always widespread over the body after a serious viral infection, it's just that the heart and lungs can't take time off or ramp activity down sharply to recover, so they're extra vulnerable. People dying days after recovering from Spanish flu and returning to strenuous farm work was common, for example. Two such cases among my grandmother's 12 siblings.

You're right re 100% infection by now. I had the first two shots (and two infections, one before vaccines were available.) But I did skip the next two, since the bivalent wasn't available yet and evidence re boosting with the same old vaccine was thin. (Antibodies are an indicator not the whole story.) Now I'm scheduled for a bivalent shot. The first vaccine doesn't really help with the new strain, says a recent study. (Google pubmed and you can really dive into the papers, and know more than I about it pretty quickly.)
It probably makes sense that HN is where I read an article without knowing it was authored by a bot, but come on, man.

I’m fairly certain this breed of technology, despite being very impressive and in some cases truly wonderful, will do more damage to our society than good.

Shame on you, Sam.
Funny thing about work. It is usually something people dont want to do and this is why its incentivized with money.
But it’s not zero revenue. If you’re asking Alexa to play something on Amazon’s music app, they’re getting revenue from your music subscription. They just need to understand where the revenue is coming from and allocate it accordingly. For setting a timer, yeah, there’s no revenue, but people are also unlikely to pay for it, so maybe they could cut out that functionality.
FRN, the Free Radio Network
My standing desk listens (smart desk v2)
To other humans: This is a low-quality article, probably written by an AI or content farm, and not worth spending any time on.
The controversy of the dominant early deciphering school ignoring the phonetic approach of the linguist Knorozov https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Knorozov seems a very real and important episode in the decipherement saga. The context here is not the history of Mayan glyph deciphering but the role of utilizing local knowledge
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Who gave them the mandate to control information about Covid? Trump was president at the time and he certainly didn't.

And even granting, for the sake of argument, that someone within the government had that job, suppressing disagreement and debate is not the right way to do it.
Yes, but those flaws are not simply among the people these criticisms are leveled at.

Technocratic autocracy created the issues, but the response is typically "so add more technocratic autocracy".

It's not just those evil billionaires (read, people in the .1 percent whereas being on HN makes you highly likely to be in the 1%) manipulating society, it's Good, Honest, Educated professionals who are making incorrect or reactionary decisions regularly and doubling down when called on it.
I enjoyed attending in years past.

Between the years, some of the content was largely similar, which is understandable. But always really well put together.

Will miss the energy of those folks.
Re aristocracy, I only mean that change happens drop by drop even when the movement toward it is all but invisible, sometimes.
> The two current approaches are no/low code which has been around in some aspect for a while now

That has been around for at least thirty-five years. If it were going to lead anywhere, it would have, by now.

> and ai/ML generated code which is young.

I'm expecting more of a repeat than a difference.
> Welp, that's probably not what people thought about the WHO before Covid

That would be hopelessly naive then. We do not have a 'world government', every government has complete autonomy on how they deal with healthcare issues, something that I believed to be well known. That's why each government has their own ministry of health and their own way of dealing with health insurance, budgets and so on. The degree to which these things are organized is impressive but in the end if the WHO publishes a guideline you'd be stupid to ignore it but you can if you want. And plenty of countries did.

And no, it should not result in a decline of trust in the WHO who clearly advocated for moving as fast as possible while governments the world over with some very rare exceptions took a 'let's wait and see' approach. If anything it should reduce the confidence that you can solve global issues with local policies.
I was expecting this article to head for GCP always free tier not gmail. I guess both are expensive promises that can’t be taken back
Especially since PHP has its own web server for development.
Wow good to know, thanks so much. What a sorry state date pickers are in on mobile :(

Also wild how this post is singling out Safari when Android seems to somehow be even worse
Not needed for MacOS, there is already pbcopy and pbpaste.
It seems odd to oppression by religious conservatives in Pakistan to the American left.

> it boggles me that this is not a corner stone of the American Left

It is. Freedom of speech is not simple: When the powerful continually intimidate and harass the vulnerable into silence, the vulnerable do not have freedom of speech.

People like Musk advocate not freedom, but anarchy. Anarchy gives more power to the powerful, as protections of the vulnerable and their speech are removed. Look at Musk threatening people with online mobs, which are actively riled up and encouraged with these so-called votes, including calling people pedophiles.

Freedom of speech must be more than ten wolves and a sheep debating what's for dinner.
The possibility of good faith is enough to start a conversation. However, there is an inverse correlation of this probability, and how likely I will start a conversation, at least for me.
Thus begins the arms race
In Germany, anyone who didn’t agree with forcing people to get vaccinated and with lockdowns was considered a Covid denier. But in the end, once mask mandates were lifted and basically no one wears a mask any more, you see that a loud and aggressive minority was the one imposing the rules on everyone.
Since when would arbitrarily setting the default to the 80s and reducing the amount of needed clicks from 925 to 465 even be a suggestion?

We're actually expecting users to follow through on that?
Simple question: What do you think happens to cells which express the modified spike proteins?

Any answer that is not a variation on "They are destroyed." is incorrect.

You're changing the subject and copy-pasting canned "How to refute spike protein toxicity content online" stuff at me.
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> Much higher than the conscript armies of the 20th century - possibly as high as 13%

Considering it was as high as 80% of military aged men for Germany and France, with a few other countries in the 50-70% range, why do you think 13%, even if you mean from the whole population, is higher?
I implemented a well known curve simplification algorithm in Rust, and was pleasantly surprised how easy the interaction with Python was. For packaging, setuptools_rust was great, and I too used PyO3 for the bindings. I haven't tried Rumpy yet, but it looks interesting.
I mean, you're right -- but security and maintainability aside doesn't it feel odd to advocate against the use of a universal method and FOR the use of one of many hundreds of package managers for NIX operating systems that claims to have gotten it right?

Adding maintenance overhead to a FOSS project to support a package manager is one thing, adding support for every Flavor Of The Week package manager after that initial time investment is tougher, especially when the first one is no longer en vogue.

tl;dr : the thousands of ways to package data for NIX creates a situation in which hurts maintainability unless the package maintainer lucks into picking the one that their crowd wants for any length of time. Piping data from curl works just about anywhere, even if it's a huge security faux-pas waiting to happen.

semi-unrelated aside : it strikes me as humorous that people on that side of OS aisle have cared so much about pipes being a security issue for years and years, whereas on the MS side of things people still distribute (sometimes unsigned) binaries all over the place, from all over the place, by any random mary/joe. (not to say that that's not the case on the nix side, but it feels more commonplace in MS land, that's for sure.)
I think Facebook in 2010 just had a very good SNR because they didn't add algorithm generated crap to the feed which was basic and chronological.

Later they came with their timeline which omitted stuff I wanted to see (updates from my friends) and added stupid posts from randos. That's really what forced me off the platform. It broke the whole point of it.

Unfortunately Instagram is doing the same now with their TikTok style "suggested posts".
All you've got in terms of a response is FUD.
This can be further extended to show plot images if the author decides to render repl outputs in a separate terminal (or a tmux pane) instead of a vim window.
GPT2 spam. Lazy-ass bullshit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34146109
Victorians found their regency forbears hugely embarrassing because they admitted their affairs, and bastard offspring existed.

Ménage exist, and have done since time immemorial. Any combination of human experience encompasses them, in all their variety. My mother assured me we had two in our family tree in prior generations, one very English inside the political establishment, the other a kabbalistic mishmash of obsession with the number 3 and the consequences thereof.

All I'm saying is that you could reformulate this to be less gendered. But, it would not actually Alter anything in the real world, just as Victorian niceness didn't end regency naughtiness, in all its glory.

Perhaps I'm old. Regency old, looking at a new cohort define mores that suit themselves better than mine, and that's no bad thing, if it happened when Victoria acceded to the throne, then why not now?
In my web apps, I make dates text boxes that can handle inputs like “next Thursday”, “Monday at 5p”, etc by running the inputs through https://github.com/mojombo/chronic

I like the idea of inputs being able to make sense of as wide of a variety or formats as possible.

For number inputs I’d like to build into Rails something that can handle basic math expressions. For example, a person can enter “120 / 2” in an input and get 60. This is useful for expense apps where you need to expense half of something.

If folks are interested, I can open source these bits. I’d like to expand them as much as possible to handle an even wider variety of inputs.
User is spamming GPT garbage to HN. Fucking shameful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34146109
Those are just two points out of a long list of actions required in a society. I don't think it really adds that much weight to the argument, even though it is true.

To go back to your other comment:

> Why is that a problem, and if it was due to upbringing then why that would be a problem?

It would be a problem for upbringing as that is something adults have agency over. It's a bias that may not need to exist.

A great example of that is when women were highly represented in computer science as it was initially becoming a field of study, but later got pushed out by boys who'd had technical skills nurtured in them when they were young while the girls did not. Oversimplifying that a little bit, but most of us have experienced it or seen it in action.

Women in STEM is a supply issue that starts with parenting, and continues all the way along the pipeline, with schools, universities and peers all filtering girls out of the pipeline that puts butts in seats in tech roles, even though they're perfectly capable of the roles.
Wooo.

> dev environment had access to Production database backups stored in a manner that was easily decrypt-able

Say what you like about old dinosaur companies like banks, but when I worked in the IT department for a bank back in the early 2000s developers absolutely couldn't touch production systems, data or backups. Ever. They always has to go through ops even during major incidents.

Of course banks aren't immune to fuckups, but at least on paper they tend to have sound security policies.

Startups are great at moving fast because there are no guardrails. Like lemmings, corps, banks and government entities externalize their risk to the third party because they recognize the name and logo. "Should we go with SecureCompany(tm)?". "Yeah, everybody uses them".

It's great for startups. Without red tape and heavy policy your lean team can create products that the hamstrung bigcorp could only dream of (just don't look under the UI!). They slowly build their customer base, and when they're ready to IPO, they run through some security and process certification theatre, and the investors and a handful of executives can make billions.

Overall, both sides seem to be happy with the situation. Bigcorp gets to cut tech staff and outsource, and they have a convenient finger to point when the regulator asks questions. The SaaS apologises and maybe loses a customer or two, but based on stock prices after major issues like this in the past, nothing bad really happens.
> The hard part of building a CDN is to know when you need it. 99.9% of all websites with CDN do not need it.

What exactly leads you to believe you can tell what 99.9% of all websites need?

Unless you believe 99.9% of websites are only accessed by your upstairs neighbors, CDNs provide a couple of important business and operational advantages.

Just to illustrate how wrong and misguided your personal assumption is, CDNs are primarily used to cut down latency, which in accesses from other regions can easily go beyond 300ms. Unless you somehow think that it's ok for your users to be subjected to a bad user experience, a basic CDN service is all you need to employ to lower those latencies by an order of magnitude.
It did not begin as a guerrilla war, true; but the abject failure of that initial effort made it clear to Washington that the war had to continue as an irregular war without set front lines or attempts to directly take back New York or Boston. Guerrilla wars can have large battles, but do not have established, continuing and continuous front lines. Mao's troops now and then held large battles with the Japanese (and KMT), once by choice - but his armies nearly always fought as guerillas and were far more successful in that role.

Perhaps the American revolution isn't as obvious a case because the Brits tended to turtle a lot; not trying to demonstrate that they were in control of nearly the whole place and so providing a plethora of targets (unlike the Japanese, say.)
GPT AI garbage.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34146109
Even the Siege of Sarajevo (if you want to talk about a pure land siege excluding naval blockades) is 3 years and 10 months.
Several people in this thread have mentioned oat milk lattes as an apparently relevant piece of information to understand or rather legitimise their understanding of what’s happening in the tech sector.
Some of these are really great ideas! But I think they should be relegated to an external library or perhaps a web component. The issue here is this is the HTML datepicker. The picker itself isn't well-defined but things like being able to type in human-readable data/time and having it interpret that would likely conflict with the HTML standards already defined and be extremely difficult to define further. Not to mention you could only really do something like that on desktop and the issues pointed out in the post are dealing with mobile date pickers
Have you considered joining a VFW or other vet centric org?
I know a lot of vets who struggle with similar issues, some of them looking for physical work, some of them needing adrenaline, but finding out what they do might help you narrow it down. Nothing in civilian life will be the same as that so you need to be cognizant. Also, a lot of jobs involve sitting in front of a computer screen, alone. So whatever you do, you may want to bear that in mind, and accordingly choose your next path based on the physical aspect of the job. Hope you get it figured out, good luck.