skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few columnists have noted this. Institutions like the police, parliament and the BBC are coasting on their previously-earned reputations.

I think the ornate Palace of Westminster gives the political class too much cover, and if they moved into a modernist structure it would be more fitting and reveal their brute disregard for anything virtuous.
Depends whether you factor in the CO2 certificates Tesla sells to ICE OEMs or not.
From what I am reading I am not sure. Some sources say they were brought in by the Mongol hordes, while others indeed say they were outcasts.

https://www.travellerstimes.org.uk/features/feature-roma-and...

This link claims that they were captured by the mongols and brought to europe where they were then enslaved, for instance, by romanians and by others.

Other sources indeed claim that they fled india as they were a lower caste and while initially allowed to live freely they were eventually enslaved.

I know for a fact that in Romania they were enslaved - there are articles in the Romanian media showing ads from the interwar period where roma slaves were sold on the open market. In some regions they were still slaves until the early 90s (they were called “sluga”).

The fact that we know little about their history and there are virtually no museums or places to learn about it is quite telling. Western europe for instance completely erases their history and uniqueness by conflating them with romanians.

All I can gather are sparse sources, but they all point to india, slavery, and loads and loads of historical abuse towards them.
> Their original name is from the Sanskrit word डोम (doma) and means a member of a Dalit caste of travelling musicians and dancers.

For those unaware, Dalits are "untouchables", the lowest Indian caste.
[01:41] So I'm really excited to talk to him about that we're gonna bring in folks who are working on things that are within the Thunderbird universe that are exciting and interesting that folks might not even suspect. I will share a little bit of a teaser in that we do have some initiatives within the team

[02:06] to do things that require a server and you know that make email better by leveraging not just what you can run on your machine, but what we can do for you.

[02:16] This is breaking news but Firefox Send is being reborn within the Thunderbird family.

[02:24] The… We have a way to schedule meetings with folks.

[02:30] All… many products that are out there and make that more automated for our users.
The design for the upvote count looks great!
It honestly feels a statistical inevitability. I highly recommend the book "The Discovery of India" by Jawaharlal Nehru [0] - I think it is a must read, for non-Indians and Indians (especially) alike. India, if anything, has been under-contributing to the world in last couple of centuries.

As an Indian, I feel both fear and cheer about the "Indian influence".

India has been a deeply hierarchical society for a millenniums, and people of Indian subcontinent (I like the term "Thaalis") still have this inertial, hierarchical mental holdover, conscious or otherwise. My hope is that instead of it manifesting[1][2], it is challenged and defeated in the long run. And 'the good parts' are utilised for the betterment of the world.

(Of course, it is never a one-way street, influence is dialectic. In many ways Thaali itself has been deeply influenced by the world. Not saying that's a good or a bad thing necessarily)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Discovery_of_India

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/02/google-...

[2]: https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/caste-...
> Even if you have full-on Stockholm syndrome in regard to advertisers data-mining your life to sell you garbage, who knows where else your data could be going? Considering the horrific epidemic of sexual abuse being abetted and covered up in the workplace, is it really too difficult to imagine malicious actors at Discord (or any other technology company) illegitimately accessing the data of their business' users and using it for stalking or other nefarious purposes?

Maybe the author could write something based in fact, rather than their dogmatic authoritarian fan fiction?

IRC isn't viable for the pretty simple and obvious reason - it lacks features users expect. It's telling that things like Signal and Telegram have built IRC-like services (large chat rooms) not on top of IRC.
zero chance. did anything happen in australia after they passed a very similar law? nope.

https://fee.org/articles/australia-s-unprecedented-encryptio...
Yeah absolutely! A local service that works well alongside a high speed intercity one would be greta, though may be better to build after the main route (don't want some small stations slowing down the main route build).

For the East/West corridor slower speed trains at the same stations allowing transfers would be preferable (cheaper and quicker to build, with minimal speed impact) to high speed rail.
As far as F#/OCaml goes, that's excellent.

(I'm convinced one of the reasons why Rust is so popular is because it's OCaml with a legible syntax.)
Unfortunately, there's a backlog in that green card category right now so the process would take several years based on current backlogs and processing times. There's no way to speed up the process unless she is experiencing asylum-related issues. And other than her getting sponsored for a work visa herself, there really aren't any other options.
Incompetence is easier to swallow than evil. Our leaders aren't stupid. They know what they are doing.
Yet, across both sides of morphogenesis and reproduction, some remarkably complex behaviour persists: food preferences, predatory and predator evading behaviours, mating, signalling for mating, epigenetic or not, so something cellular and mechanistically related to "memory" in a linguistic sense persists. How is this so?

The problem of english: we call it "memory" but it encompasses more than just overt neuronal knowledge acquisition, it includes the gut brain relationship and intracellular activity.

Maybe all the things I list are not in fact "memories" but then..
Some sources indicate they were captured from india by the mongols and then brought to europe only to be enslaved again. These people are seriously unfortunate.
Its a shadowy groupthink behavior that encompasses the european parliament, the eu member state government executive branches and the EU commission itself (as all must agree for EU wide legislation).

A cunning trick to spread responsibility widely so that you can not hold anybody to account.

I believe they call it democracy or some other such arcane and outdated term.
yes, it's almost certain at this point.
> Oracle’s recommendation is to perform Java LTS upgrades every 3 years.

I think now it is 2 years, because that's the span between LTS releases from Oracle.
> Who forced Apple to manufacturer iPhones in China?

> Nobody

Ironically correct: the absence of alternatives — nobody else could do it — is what forced them in the first place.

The recent pressure from the US government to "bring it home" is because the US government finally started to realise that was both true and bad (doesn't matter if Huawei was really spying, Washington believed they were); similarly for equivalent EU pressure.
Generally, that's not true. Evaluations must be based on work experience and terminal degree education as opposed to certifications.
These two comments, in a nutshell, perfectly exemplify the Europe vs USA mentality, socialism vs libertarianism. Top down oversight vs you need to protect yourself because no one will. If only you could draw a gun at these pesky websites! /s
I can't tell if this is a joke or not. Or what you are even joking about.
Most C libraries that are often called from python also have bindings for other languages and so at this point should be threadsafe, right? Also even GIL python supports threads so all these libraries will at least be reentrant safe already.

For libraries that are reentrant but not thread safe, it should be sufficient to just add a global lock wrapping every call, which is pretty close to what the GIL was doing anyway.

It seems to me that in many (most?) cases it should be relatively straightforward to make existing libraries work without the GIL (at the cost of parallelism). I guess the main issue will be for libraries that call back into the python runtime from the C side.
> (...) make sure to refence the Big boys you were close to but definitely not stealing from

Much as giving credit is important, this is unfortunately also how you end up with intro sections littered with references to the same ten papers everyone's read already just to back up some extremely vague/general statement.
Contemporary scholarship holds that at least a large portion of the Roma had already left India for Persia long before the Mongol invasion.
It's probably against their TOS, but you could always glom onto the search from https://hh.algolia.com

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The app development settlement was quite large: up to $25,000 per developer. I bet a lot of people here made a lot of money from that class action.
I wish it would affect the rest of the world, so everyone else could at least give our government a well-deserved kicking. I've not checked but I would be doubtful that Sir Keir's Labour will reverse this dreadful bill, but if they do that will be welcomed.
I have actually.

But see, it’s difficult to get them to open up. Many hide their identity as well as they can due to fear of abuse.

Confusing the criminal minority in their community with their culture is wrong. And i am suspecting you are making this confusion. Roma people are not what you think they are.
More generally, "booking a Ryanair flight might hold a nasty surprise".
Dear Lord, is that real? It surely would not be appropriate to compensate for bad performance in a Python app.
Correct. Unless you are super senior within an organization, you must be managing employees now and managing employees in the U.S. to have a chance at an EB1C green card.
AT&T but looking for any tool or service that provides this
Thanks for the thorough correction. I think I was making that assumption due to the semantics of the language, which suggests classes and methods being somewhat "bolted onto" a dict-based core. Unfortunately for me, it makes me all the more dissatisfied with the choice.
TL;DR of my personal experience on this: No, but you reach a point where it helps, then you reach a point to where it's needed to move up if you are not in a small company or a startup.

My experience is that I started coding when I was 10, went to college in 1987, dropped out of college in my second year due to poor life choices, then for a time did consulting as a small business IT consultant/information broker/web designer (still dealing with poor life choices). Then at 26 in 1996 I got my act together, joined a specialized software company of 6 people at $30k per year as a software engineer. They downsized and let off half the staff in 2001, and on 9/11/2001 I decided to accept a software engineer position I was looking at in a defense contracting company at around $50k. Fast forward 23 years with 3 companies later and I'm a Principal Software Engineer. I've recently been taking courses again at 1 or 2 per session, am within a year or so of getting my degree, and am making in the neighborhood of $170k salary. Probably around $200k total compensation. I've had to work twice as hard, and twice as long, to get the promotions that people with degrees got.

But if I had stuck it out I'd have graduated in 1991, just in time to join a startup before the dot-com bubble and likely have founded/funded my own startup by now, or be in a good spot in one of the FAANGs.

Also, I can't move up more without that degree. I could move to a startup, possibly as a VP of Engineering or CTO, but my wife and I have health issues that mean my wife is very risk-averse when it comes to health care coverage.

If I had it all over to do again, I'd probably stay in college and get the degree (if I could guarantee I'd meet my wife again, I got very lucky there). I'd advise anyone to stick it out, get your B.S., and get your Masters if you can. Ph.D. helps too, but not required, and it's a big investment.
Ill get the average facebook user (60+ y/o boomer) right on to identifying domain links and how to block them.
I understand and agree to your arguments, but I don't want to change EU.

> like a loose cannon for whatever innovative business might come up if you have your first hire to be "the lawyer who gives legal advice in context of EU regulation".

But loose cannon is better than no cannon.

Also, how about not doing what is forbidden? You don't need to show cookie banner if you don't store cookies that helps to follow your users. You don't need to follow PII storing rules if you don't store PII.

Look, yes this rules are hard to follow sometimes but thats exactly why we have it.

I don't want to every company in the world to store my info without my consent and without possibility to delete it.

Sorry, but companies should deal with it.
Christopher Nolan: Hollywood's Tory
Yes, because for decades or longer, meat has been associated with affluence and a higher standard of living. There is no country in the world without meat & dairy subsidies.

On a finite planet with 8 billion people, to feed everyone the "western diet," we would need 2-5 such planets. It's simply not longer possible.

https://xkcd.com/1338/

Veganism grows very fast, though. It's already starting to influence meat and dairy sales, enough to make some producers very nervous (wood milk ads, for example).

---

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao2GL3NAWQU

The Secret Reason We Eat Meat - Dr. Melanie Joy

https://www.plantproteins.co/vegan-plant-based-diet-statisti...

As many as 6% of U.S. consumers say they are vegan — a 6x (500%) increase compared to just 1% in 2014.

U.S. retail sales of plant-based foods have increased 11 percent from 2018 to 2019, hitting a plant-based market value to $4.5 billion.
One solution is CloudFlare Automatic IPv6 Gateway https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflares-automati...
Butter freezes very well. Stock up and you always have some.
I occasionally connect to IRC on an Apple SE over wifi using an original ethernet card and a raspberry pi. Fun project.
I guess they mean Colossus (1943) but debatable https://www.britannica.com/technology/Atanasoff-Berry-Comput...
So making and shipping a case of red bull costs them less than $5. Or maybe they tough it would help to drawn the sorrows?
> I get 3 reviewers and 3 completely different reasons to reject, often nonsensical

Could one problem with these kinds of reviews be that the reviewers have absolutely zero skin in the game? Like, you can write complete nonsense and nobody will blame you personally for it, you have no stake in the outcome of the submission/paper what so ever, and you're much more incentivized to come up with reasons to reject than to say "good enough". I realize the latter part can be good in theory, as it sets a high bar, but it also often feels like this goes awry when not kept in check somehow.
>European developer brain drain will continue with the brightest minds coming to America.

No need to deal with all the US emigration issues and challenges. US big-tech already have offices in Europe where European devs, scientists and researchers contribute to the prosperity of the US tech sector because they get paid more than at EU companies, while still getting to enjoy the benefits of living in Europe vs the US.
My initial argument was quite unclear, that's partially on me. I've edited it - it was an overly emotional response that was unclear about what I actually meant.

I'm aware that opposing radical solutions is in a way conserving the existing solution - and I'm using "solution" generally, I'm not implying that they're any good. I don't want to conserve the current system (though I'm in the UK, so it's less immediately relevant), but I don't want to rashly change it if it means not considering the consequences of those changes.

I've got my own perspective here - I was attacked at school and kicked in the head. A year and a half later, I've had a lot of recovery but it's still completely changed my life.

From my perspective, it was entirely preventable if schools were more willing to expel violent individuals (they had attacked my friend just days before). It may have been deterred if our justice system was less lenient towards under-18s (I was offered "restorative justice" - "talking it through" rings a bit hollow when you've spent the last 4 months off school, barely awake). There is no scenario where talking to him would have been beneficial to me, regardless of how controlled the surroundings were.

That's why this is the one political subject that I consistently talk about when it comes up on HN: It's one where there are a lot of strong emotions both ways, and I see a lot of sentiment that ignores the real human cost of allowing (particularly violent) criminals to continue their actions. There are a lot of strong emotions about radical solutions like abolishing prisons (and hampering schools ability to expell), and there are a lot of strong emotions dehumanising criminals (and treating expulsion as the solution to any problem). People are quick to recognise the harm that one of those positions causes, but rarely see that they're both harmful when done in excess.

So I also feel that it's easy for the average commenter to talk about how "conservative approaches just mean excess harm". From my perspective, overly rash, poorly-thought-out and poorly-implemented approaches also cause excess harm. I'd much prefer this tug-of-war about moving the overton window through extreme policies was put aside so that we can talk about more realistic solutions. And they don't need to be invented in isolation: The world is filled with alternative systems to learn from.

Ultimately putting forward suggestions like "simply abolish prison" is just going to make people dismiss you entirely, not become sympathetic to your cause.

As for why I'm speaking from a UK perspective on a US-centric thread: We tend to import your culture due to a shared language and a lot of shared culture, so in the long run what the US thinks, says, and does is very relevant to me.
For others reading, I just used https://www.theyworkforyou.com/ to write to my MP.
Romanis were enslaved in most of Europe for long periods of time. In Romania they were liberated in... 1861, I think.

Their history is super sad, yes.
I see. V=IR=0 means R can measure as 0, but they did measure small current. Presumably they know the voltage. That seems odd if they can’t measure the resistance accurately if their instrumentation is rated to measure that current.
Yes, it is different because nobody would be forced to run the interpreter without the GIL. Applications where race conditions are unacceptable can keep using the GIL build. Even the `--disable-gil` build can be forced to keep using the GIL.
It depends on exactly what you do when here but if it's work, then yes, strictly speaking, you need work authorization. (Years ago, this wasn't true and one could travel to the U.S. as a business visitor to conduct business on a limited basis if employed by an entity abroad.) The problem is that such a work visa (the E-3, for example) requires a company in the U.S. to act as the petitioner/employer.
Do you have any pointers to data (not anecdotes) on prevalence of these issues?
I am looking forward to it, but with different models that I don't think are quite there yet.

We have been trialing this with our support team for awhile and a lot of higher execs were ready to sign off and dump rather large sums on some models, but eventually we were able to convince them to delay; the bots are just too prone to convincing but wrong answers, and our buy-in from clients is way too polarized: either they uncritically believe the bot or they are overly skeptical of the bot.

the tech is very cool, but I don't think that the technology or humans are at a place yet where it's ready for full on use outside of very controlled situations. I could see it being very useful as an addition to search fields or to maybe monitor the user's search inputs/actions and based on what the user is looking up, show some context-aware prompts.

What I'd really like to see is a bot that is extremely skeptical and shows the user its skepticism in an unambiguous manner; classify the data and make an internal flag where if the bot's skepticism is above a certain threshold, it finds knowledge holders it's aware of to work through the bot's skepticism and never act on the information until the bot has lowered the skepticism value after checking.

right now my experience with the bots I've played with is that they either just shut down the conversation without advancing it or giving the user paths for research forward, or the bot confidently just pumps out any answer it makes that fits as a response for the given query, and I think we need the bots to show skepticism and explain to the user what this skepticism means. (i.e., the user should be alerted that the bot isn't confident on an answer, why the bot isn't confident, alternatives that the bot understands to be equally relevant or worth consideration.

it can still be polite, but the bots need to share when they're out of their league and work to correct it; I think people will actually appreciate it, and the bots are well suited to this position because they have no emotional stake in the game, so users can get as upset as they want that they don't have immediate disagreement, the bot won't change its position just because the user is upset.