skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. Out of all the provinces, territories, and federal immigration schemes, only Quebec still has an immigration by investment program, and they have changed it to make it super difficult. It's no longer enough to just have or invest large amounts of money. One has to score enough points from a selection grid, which for example requires B2-ish level in French. The language component alone disqualifies most of the people who benefited from the original program and the current prospective applicants.

https://www.quebec.ca/en/immigration/immigrate-business/inve...
I see the author links to his youtube playlist for his CMU Databases class. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXjaKScG3l0nu...

Are there any good recommendations for a lecture or series of lectures that go over Databases from a theoretical perspective but also do a practical survey of the various DB systems and technologies out there?
This controversy is mentioned at the conclusion of the article
> I’m a bit puzzled by that “But people are already doing it” argument. Yes, Mastodon traffic either is already or soon will be captured and filed permanently as in forever

Correct. This is something I and several others have been doing for some time now. We have a private search engine that covers most of the Mastodon fediverse (including widely defederated instances), and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

Eventually, we'll give this data to the Internet Archive or put it in a torrent or something. It includes a decent amount of now-deleted content too.

Really, it's no different to what others, e.g. Pushshift, are doing with other sites. Except there's no opt-out. Anything you've already said is almost certainly in our data set, and it's there permanently.

> That’s extremely hard to prevent but isn’t really the problem: The problem would be a public search engine that Gamergaters and Kiwifarmers use to hunt down vulnerable targets.

Also correct. A couple of KFers we know already have access to search the data we've collected. It points them towards interesting posts or accounts to archive. People say some pretty wild things when they think they're not being recorded for posterity!
Yes, because it’s free and easy to manage as part of Google Apps. It works well most of the time, although lacks a few of Zoom’s bells and whistles.
> I guess that was the line mode browser?

Seems you must be right and I did not "rc" since you had to supply the number of the link you wanted, rather than hit enter on it, lynx style :) Thanks for the reminder!
Reading that first case, just wow. Talk about mental gymnastics
Finished my 10mi run and relaxed the rest of the day! Not the greatest day but we work with what we have. Haha.
Except nobody plays or watches sports for the refs. They are a necessity because that’s been the only possible way to enforce rules.

I play a sport at a pretty competitive level and would love it if we didn’t have a human ref. Refs can be assholes and they make bad calls all the time. It can really ruin a game. Having a machine make the calls removes a lot of the bias (and genuine mistakes) in those calls.
The rails don't go in a straight line.
Building a tool for running secure enclaves called Enclaver (https://github.com/edgebitio/enclaver). There is a big opportunity for keeping data encrypted while running code against it within enclaves.

And a more secure software supply chain is possible with device attestation and cryptographic measurements of software.
This link will allow people to read it in the browser without subscription:

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Edit: Please let me know if it doesn't work
I don't see a problem where you do, it seems. Anyone is free to make or not make whatever they want, that they made the ecosystem is enough for me, I've already derived enough benefit from it through interoperability with Neovim as well as VSCode, they simply don't have to make anything else beyond that; even if they initially started and stopped working on a Python language server, that is their prerogative. The ecosystem is no less interoperable just because they made a proprietary language server instead.
it's an American turn of phrase, possibly related to the Tupac song "I Aint Mad At Cha." Casual sarcasm.

See also: "I wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crackers."
They would then need to bypass 3d secure aproval process OR use a website without in which case you get your money back just by calling. (note: instant notification for transactions on phone means you catch it fast)

You could use a bank with disposable one-time credit card numbers.

You could disable online payments and only enable then when you do transactions.

You could set up limits, say 100$ a month, after which transactions get denied unless you alter it. So you wont be incovenienced too much if you do need a card for netflix and other recurring payments.

There are so many ways electronic payments are more secure in new banks that care about this.
I did an internship at a plastics manufacturer and the shopping bags with tallow left a thin and acrid smoke in the air.
Easy to criticize, I know. But what about wheeled carts with wheels suitable for uneven terrain and a center rail to guide them?
Somewhat, yeah. Personally I'd like to let people define their own publishing "topics" and let people select which ones they want to follow.[1]

"Did you see X" is largely killed by algorithmic feeds though IMO, which makes it somewhat irrelevant for any full-scale heavily-used network. Facebook is a prime example - important updates frequently are not seen by many close friends, because Facebook chose to not show them. Assuming nobody knows anything specific has kinda become the norm, sadly.

[1]: Obviously many will not, but that's fine. By following them you just get an unfiltered stream. But many of my friends couldn't care less about what programming language of the week I'm looking at (because they're not techy), or what nearby events I'm going to (because they're 1000 miles away) and I'm very much the sort of person who will categorize that for them so they aren't flooded with things they won't be able to join in on.

Hashtags are kinda like a crappy in-band version of this, and I have yet to see a system embrace them for this purpose. They're basically always for public purposes, which is part of why you need to use a million near-identical ones to actually get good coverage.
Child Porn is a huge image problem that can only be solved by governments in the relevant jurisdictions. Search makes this image problem drastically worse.

Lots of discussion about what privacy means no discussion about the elephant in the room. Networks that make acceptable use a choose your own adventure for instance by allowing people to self host and set policy on their own server end up with some people using it for things that the rest of planet earth doesn't find acceptable. For instance I'm certain that common web frameworks and servers are used to promote things both odious and illegal but because that machinery is invisible to most users the blame accrues entirely to the criminal.

With Mastodon the branding makes it possible for the blame to accrue to Mastodon as opposed merely the criminal because people are more apt to understand Mastodon as an open source twitter as opposed to a tool like Apache. Whereas this problem accrues to Mastodon the tool is in no position to dictate how users use the tool the relevant governments are and if prosecution becomes common hiding illegal porn from prying eyes will be done by the users themselves. If Mastodon suggests not federating with servers in countries that don't handle this issue eg Japan then search will tend to show off less negative content and indeed countries can be shamed into handling such issues better.
> "raining buckets"

Really? Which part of the UK does that come from. Where I come from *Nort Wilts.) the related phrase would be "It's bucketing down!" but I've never heard anyone say "It's raining buckets!".
Looks interesting and almost the exact same idea, just a different industry.

I am worried about the data feed aspects, the stores aren't exactly going to enjoy this, since they are the ones making the majority of the profit in this situation (my brother works at a manufacturer on the other side of this, so I know roughly the margins involved).

I understand it though, who would enjoy something like this coming out when your price for a product can go from $45 to $9 in a day and you're still making profit off of it... ex of actual data: https://i.imgur.com/jYUDriD.jpg
Interesting. Worthless for the value proposition but visually interesting, to be honest.
I agree, G+ system was more explicit, and I preferred it. FB has done the usual modern thing of hiding features so that the less technical users don't worry about them. Perhaps cowardly; I think even someone struggling with tech (parents, grandparents..) would have learned G+ if it really took off.
Here is Derek from MPMD talking about one of those diabetes 2 drugs being used for weight loss by people like Elon Musk [1]

Sadly because celebrities are using these drugs I can forsee many people who are only a bit overweight taking this when just eating better and working out would be so much better for them.

[1] https://youtu.be/hcNTHLdH5QE
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Last year I was thinking about a FUSE filesystem that would help keep downloads directory more organized. But I think that maybe using fanotify or inotify could work better for it. Probably there exist something like it.

Other FS I had in mind that could be tied to the first idea is a naive online deduplication layer. This could help keeping Yocto build directories size under control.

Other idea (that would be useless for Yocto but useful for private files) is to add redundancy in terms of par2 files being created online.

I know that most of those ideas could be better served by more sophisticated filesystems, but I think on one side you can't always choose the filesystem you can use and on the other hand for archiving purposes the simplest things could be the best.
What are you using as learning material? I got Haskell Programming From First Principles as well as Category Theory For Programmers, they're both good resources.
Software projects fail in ways both big and small every day. By being over time or budget, to not accomplishing what it set out to do, to not being able to be sold.

When those products/projects inevitably don't deliver on some expectation, someone is going to ask why? It is pretty important when that happens the answer isn't "jamesbarney is an idiot".

Here's a subtle betrayal that can happen, it comes raise time, you've been busting your ass on something that is really beneficial for the project but doesn't help any of your KPIs. Is your boss going to go to bat for you pr are they just going to tell you how important your KPIs are and wish you better the luck next year.
The best way to test this theory of skewed negativity is to find a product you are pleased with, go on Amazon, and pull up all the low star reviews.

You would have never guessed just how wrong and loud comments can be.
I believe that a lot people are quite comfortable in being hilariously wrong, look at any modern political discourse, but the problem in my mind is that people aren't equally prepared to self-reflect and admit fault or reconsider a position.

At the same time though, I do find myself often times at work qualifying things with "I think" or similar phrasing, and I'm still not sure if I do it to avoid embarrassment or if it's to not come off as too arrogant. Maybe it's both.
It has to go around a corner, that I think explains why he didn't just use a cable.

It's a lot harder to go around a corner without some kind of guidance for the wheels.
You should consider those who ultimately actually pay you; your clients.
Perhaps initiating feedback from your clients may provide new ideas and impress your boss?
I have an open source video player for esports coaches that allows them to view video synced to all members of their team:

https://www.vodon.gg/

This year I'm going to move it from being an Electron app to online (and a PWA). I'm also going to introduce the ability to stream video from live matches (also capture it for later playback) as well as capture the events from the games themselves and connect that with some kind of data analysis tooling so you can ask questions like "What % of headshots were landed in the pistol round of my last three CS:GO matches".
I’m building a hostingplatform for fully managed Wordpress sites. By managed I mean both the WP install, but also plugins, themes and other customizations.

I have a customer who does marketing, SoMe, SEO and all that (as a small business for other small to medium businesses) but it turns out she spends a lot of time dealing with tech issues from WP sites (plugin update errors, other tech issues the hosting provider doesnt handle etc).

I’ve been a SW dev for 10+ years now and know very little about WP. But it has always seemed crazy to me how everyone in the “WP space” seems to be making changes directly in prod o_O. I know WP is mostly configuration management, but Im going to build a platform for hosting based on methods and best practices from “my world” (docker, blue/green deploy, multiple environments (eg for test), automated tests, etc).

WP wasnt exactly intended to be run this way but I want to build it as both a personal challenge, and to prove - at least to myself, that the current Leeroy Jenkins in Prod approach has a better alternative, and ofc because I have a customer willing to pay for the service. And to be able to provide GDPR compliant by design (WP) hosting (EU based).

Im using Hetzner Cloud for the servers.

Today I got a blue/green deploy setup working with docker-compose, nginx and wordpress images, in which WP updates are installed just by updating the docker image version, and the switch betweem active instance (blue/green) is a simple cmd.
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It’s a fine investment in a diversified portfolio because traditionally it was a hedge in both capital and monthly cash flow, and decoupled from other asset classes. It also offered freedom where you can make improvements to the land to increase the rate of growth. There were also non-monetary investments because your lifestyle choices had certain kinds of freedoms it offered (in exchange for giving up others)

So it’s definitely a good investment when it’s affordable. In current environments, it’s actually less of a good investment than how it used to be used (stable, inflation-protected hedge) because it’s more in the asset class of stock and intertwined with other asset classes. That’s good for you on the upswing (which is why you think it’s incompatible with affordability) but not so good on the downswing. Also high volatility and even rapid growth isn’t something most people look for in housing and housing-related costs. In other words, people now treat housing stock the same way as company stock which does make it incompatible with affordability but it’s traditional role is a hedge in your portfolio.
Sadly it seems that these drugs will be used for vanity without much regard for their safety.
I realize you're here with a single goal, but what content in the link is being "reproduced"?
Rain fits the bill for what you describe.

The RDA for calcium is about 1.2g per day and magnesium is about 420 mg. It's hard to think of a way that the 24 mg calcium (2% of RDA) in a cup of bottled water and 5 mg of magnesium (1.1% of RDA) could have any effect at all compared to the massive amount in food. I guess if you were marginal on your doses of those minerals it could add up, but I can't think of a way deionized or distilled water could actually be harmful.

Disclaimer: I drink reverse osmosis water every day with a ppm of about 8 compared to my tap which is 100 ppm. Rainwater varies but is probably about 8 ppm. :)
At my school, we had a disciplinary council composed of several students and several faculty members, which met monthly to handle any cases of academic misconduct. Confidentiality was expected and we were reminded of this fact at the beginning and end of every meeting.

The vast majority of cases were "simple cheating" (e.g. sharing answers during a test, collaborating when collaboration was specifically forbidden). Of these, a large percent were foreign exchange students, who explained the behavior as either a difference in the nature of education (individualist in the US vs collectivist in their home country) or a claimed misunderstanding of the instructions due to language barriers (despite reasonable TOEFL scores required to be admitted).

From talking with faculty who had served on the committee for longer than me, while those were occasionally the issue, more often than not students cheated for one of two reasons: 1) external pressure for them to get a good grade (e.g. parents paid tuition proportionally to GPA, or punished for poor grades), or 2) desire for credential over knowledge or apathy towards the education itself.
The explanation is quite disappointing: Using an alternative "might" be worse in few ways. OK, so where is the data, pros and cons comparison?
Beyond [[pseudonymity|Anonymity]], [[privacy]] comes in degrees. Depending on your topics, interlocutors, and threat model, you may find it worthy to be able to scale your privacy up or down in various circumstances (which doesn't make all methods foolproof, but in practice it seems to go a long way). For example, being able to turn off parts of your web presence while still leaving up other parts of or gateways to your public net presence may be useful.
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GP gave Palau, Micronesia, and the Marshall Islands as examples of territories the US allowed to become independent without trying to crush them economically or militarily, so your question seems... misplaced.
I'd be interested to know if the new market for "full spectrum hemp" in non-decriminalized states is also affecting the legal growers. Here in NC, you can go into stores all over the state and buy thc edibles for a very reasonable price. And I'm not even talking about the delta-8 stuff that was popular for a while (though that's around too). Basically a farm bill loophole has made it so that processing low-thc hemp and selling products made from that is very profitable, and it doesn't have the same tax burden of legal weed. Even real flower is available through a different loophole, and you can go to dab bars in cities like Nashville and buy concentrate from that loophole bud. I could see people who would otherwise travel across state lines for reputable product preferring the loophole stuff due to convenience and price.
Eugen Rochko, the developer of Mastodon had written about Search that if it comes it should be for the home timeline and own posts. It would help a little bit, at least you'd find old posts from people you follow.

It would suit some, but since this is federated, there are already instances with a search like qoto.org with a full-text search.

It's really odd that they made "no index" checkbox, but it's not cool to index. If they thought it is unpopular they should have made indexing opt-in not opt-out.

Going forward this will be instance specific thing, a lot of people want to be able to do searches.
I want to share a different experience.

1. I got my license in college, since my advisor was a big radio guy. I never really could get into it because it’s inherently social (you have to talk to people over the radio). That’s not to say people were unfriendly- everyone really was welcoming. I just never built a “sticky” social connection to it. I was young and didn’t really need more socializing while in school, and didn’t try to make it work...

2. The best trustworthy guide is a person IRL. But others have listed great online resources too.

The technical stuff is super fun and you could spend a lifetime playing with the cool equipment and fiddling with your setup. BUT if you don’t make a social connection and interact with others, it gets old. I keep my radio for emergency purposes (probably good enough reason alone to get into it), and because I see the appeal of it as a hobby, but I almost never use it.

There is a ton of events and things people do “in the community”. There are competitions of all sorts, and meetups, and radio-related things. I haven’t done any, but I also didn’t see much in other comments so I’m hoping people with more knowledge can share.

There’s also related tech like packet radio which is kinda like “dial up over radio”. That’s what the original article linked would most likely be used for. There are emergency prep groups, including completely digital tech that doesn’t use traditional radios like SFWEM and AREDN (basically an emergency mesh WiFi network using special frequencies and commercial equipment).

The test was easy to anyone with a technical background (electrical, not software). To everyone else it’s still pretty doable with studying and prep. I was in school studying electronics, but I think I studied for like 3 total hours for the test. It’s a mixture of topics ranging from regulation to antenna information. IMO the test gives you a good insight into part of the hobby. If you enjoy studying for it you’ll enjoy the technical stuff.

I haven’t picked up my radio in years. Every time I move, I think “surely the Bay Area has a lot of hams, this is a good time to try it out again” and then never get around it it.

YMMV and I don’t want to disparage or discourage anyone from trying it out. There’s a ton of cool things to do. It’s just a reminder that it’s social.