skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's most concerning to me is that this is the Commission pushing this agenda. The European Council is already a mash-up of national populism of all kind, but the Commission is expected to be the (last) bastion of reason against this. Then, as we deep-dive into this {$favorite_swear_word}, we're going to replace deliberate warrants issued by judges for individual cases by general scanning, because A.I.? Really? — This kind of thinking may be the real threat in A.I., derailing reason itself in some kind of drunken illusion of omnipotence. It's like the military-industrial complex for the civil world.
The concept doesn't make sense. So if someone stops paying what? They quit sending security updates? No more feature updates isn't a big enough carrot to keep paying for many. No way they'll lock you out of your OS. Dubious reporting.
Not all values or value systems are equal. If after all attempts at discussion and persuasion fails, based on sound facts and data, what else would you expect to be done? It’s also unproductive to have to fight against failed value systems. You’ll always alienate people who are having their value systems challenged, as you’re challenging a core component of their identity. It’s a mental immune response. That does not make their values valid.
Along similar lines, see also "Improve your code by separating mechanism from policy" https://lambdaisland.com/blog/2022-03-10-mechanism-vs-policy

The connection between all three is to put the "pure" / "mechanism" / "functional" code in middle, and the "impure" / "policy" / "imperative" code on the outside. (The concepts are not identical, but there is substantial overlap.)

(There is also some overlap with John Ousterhout's A Philosophy of Software Design idea of "deep modules": don't put policy stuff, i.e. arbitrary decisions, inside the module.)
Similar, but nicer UI: https://ffmpeg.app
I kinda recall some comments by pcwalton about APIs that would ameliorate context-switching costs at the kernel level:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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Interesting ... I guess if you asked me to pick an "outlier" from this lineup, it would def be Hungary: Spain, Denmark, Hungary and Ireland
Not getting dragged into WW3, for one.
The data may be saved as jpegs of kitten and puppies. There is no law against animal child porn, at least not yet, so there are ways...
That's like asking "why are you not a criminal?" Some of us enjoy doing honest work for a living.

Unless you have drank from the kool aid and believe politics to be a force for good and change; in that case it'll be hard to convince you otherwise.
This is actually one of the least likely reasons.

As they teach in first-year medical school: "If you see hoof prints on the ground [in North America], think 'horse', not 'zebra'."
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The UN Risks Normalizing Internet Censorship
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1st half of thought was amazing, but I’m personally still an individualist and no, we should not all live out in the open unless we all unanimously choose to. That of course is impossible.
Leaving aside the fact that I don't know of any of the largest Web properties that use tainting: tainting, like any other type system property, doesn't mean much if the language isn't memory safe.
EFF doing something that pertains to their charter as it stood e.g. 10 years ago? I'm all for it.
There were formidable ethical questions, too. If clouds are used to cool the planet, what incentive is there to reduce greenhouse gas pollution?

Whatever the ambient temperature, I'm fond of breathing without pain and without drugs.

Maybe I'm weird. Or maybe other people have this same quirk and would like pollution levels to go down anyway.
The barrier to entry is so low, actual malicious developers could create thousands of accounts. Adding a human touch to all those closures would be untenable. They firet need to raise the bar. But then android loses its beginner friendliness.
Intelligent on which topics and subjects though? Successful politicians are highly intelligent socially (can work with different pulls, bring about compromise solutions, change their minds and ideologies quickly to suit changing situations, etc.) and may desire not just monetary rewards that the private sector could better provide but also seek fame, authority and a legacy. I believe there’s a lot more than we may recognize.
What would you write stories of in such a world? I think the human brain needs some amount of drama. Otherwise, it would get very very bored.
No you see giving users any agency over how your website is displayed is a bug and needs to be fixed. User agents be damned.
While I agree on on "it isn't Google", I totally disagree on "it's advertising".

No, that is too easy. There is a good reason to sell ads on your website to finance your project. This is totally okay. I'm happy to "consume" ads to finance a news site for example. I would even share some personal data to help the website to target the ads. Why not? Why should I rather give away "real money"? You cannot demand free stuff without giving something back. I mean, you can, maybe. But not every consumer can. And ads or online marketing in general, offers a good option to consume stuff that costs money.

The problem is that the whole system somehow perverted over the time, because everyone was trying to make money. The advertising system got sick and everything around polluted. And the real root cause is... et voila, applause, applause... some capitalistic process or at least the current human economic behavior. The internet offers good ways to earn money, so people will exploit this feature.
My back channel is electronic component suppliers that sell to the automotive industry. They and the auto makers are gearing up to produce only EV's in ten to fifteen years.

If you believe the cartoon version of economics peddled by economists you could believe that consumer choice means gas cars and trucks will still be around in 30 years. Truth is policy makers and the auto manufacturing have negotiated the 2025 as the end of fossil fueled vehicle production. It's a done deal and what the WSJ thinks, auto dealers and consumers want doesn't figure into it.
What you said was:

> How could we possibly know the such things as 'Nazi snatch squads' even existed

Now you’re pretending you were only questioning the imminence of the arrest as described in the article, rather than the existence of the Nazi snatch squads themselves. That’s dishonest.
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Have the electorate vote for who gets sent to represent them at the EU council.

The council isn't exactly a 'Cabinet' right now - in fact, the Commission is more like a Cabinet than the council. Electing a commissioner would be another option, but the head of the commission can reject them, so it's not under the control of the member state.
If you’re smart enough to make good money, you can ignore politics for the most part. These changes will offend your sense of justice but they won’t really harm you. On the other hand, if you try to change the system, it is highly likely to destroy your life. The rational decision is to stay out of politics and live comfortably. I think this is a highly effective feature of the global liberal-capitalist system: most people smart enough to win the game are smart enough not to play.
I'm not including some full Solutions Engineer / Customer Success Engineer kind of integration work on part of the vendor - I'm talking about, you go to the vendor's website, you see some feature you need (like SSO) is under "Contact Us" pricing, usually the barebones for that is $2k/month. This represents meeting with Sales for 15 minute calls a handful of times so they can qualify you, understand your usecase, present you with a quote for more than you need, then negotiate down.

Enterprise salespeople working in that segment understand you're small-fry and they'll kick you a small contract not because they're going to get rich off the commission but because they know that depending solely on whales is a high-risk approach that sooner or later gets them fired. Small contracts pad them out and provide more reliable monthly numbers as long as the sales process doesn't turn into a tarpit that isn't worth the money.
This has already happened several times in the US. People have been put in jail until they disclose the password for their phone or encrypted data.

Here is a list of countries compelled to reveal passwords to encrypted data by laws in force.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law
The barrier to switching to Linux is no longer present for anyone with basic IT knowledge, but Windows didn't get its market share by appealing to that demographic.

As long as Linux is not the default installed OS for off-the-shelf computers like Windows currently is, it won't be able to capture the lions' share of Windows' userbase. Unfortunately I don't think any Linux distribution has the commercial/litigation power to stand up to Microsoft on that aspect. Satya won't making heart gestures about Linux anymore the moment he realizes someone is actually coming to eat Microsoft's lunch.
They sure as hell didn't threaten to leave my country when our supreme court started slapping them with arbitrary fines for campaigning against internet censorship on their own websites. I find it difficult to believe they'd leave a country with a much stronger economy.
You wouldn't need to possess any encrypted data for chat, assuming you were okay with going without much of a chat history.
Something that baffles me about modern business is that Apple is far and away the most valuable company in the world, they’re phenomenally profitable, they’ve got an absolute mountain of cash, and they’ve done so by basically eschewing every page in the MBA playbook, and this has had no influence whatsoever on how the business world talks about proper business strategy.

They’re obsessive about quality, they treat design and customer experience as first class parts of the process, they invest heavily in long-term R&D, they have world leading support - they’ve basically done the opposite of what every financial analyst and business consultant in the world thinks is the right move, and as a result they’re worth more than Saudi-Aramco, and yet somehow every company out there is still sprinting in the exact opposite direction of how Apple operates.
they have a completely different paradigm. apple has a reviewer run the app and test it(with varying levels of competence). they also have a suite of static analysis checks to see if you are using any no-no apis or other things. they have a restrictive "does this thing solve a novel problem" to avoid 1000 flashlight apps.(which doesn't seem to work that well but it's been a while since I looked at it)

google operates on the pay 15$ and then you can submit any app and if people report you enough it gets removed and your account gets flagged. they might have some static analysis tools like the oop said. but in general apple is restrictive by default and google is permissive by default.
Security.

A lot of hardware devices pretty much implicitly trust the device on the other side of the data connection, because historically anyone able to run software on a machine also has physical access to the device. This resulted in devices accepting firmware updates over Bluetooth, for example, because how else would you update the firmware?

And now with protocols like Web Bluetooth, the only thing standing between between the average user and a random website completely owning their physical hardware devices is a single "I agree" permission popup.
A.I. will definitely be used to scan the data
That is a cool concept, but I do not think it has ever been realized in practice; which may indicate it is not even realizable.

A community might come close during good times, but once the fortunes turn there are always hunts for scapegoatsband witches. My 2c.
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People routinely solve quadratic assignment problems (perhaps not provably optimal, but finding good solutions within a small bound of optimality) where the search space is greater than 10^3000 [0], using relatively simple heuristics like simulated annealing.

[0] e.g. any of the QAPLIB instances in Goh et al. Proceedings of the 2022 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
Why not require a subscription and then still show ads to subscribers? It's what the leeches I mean shareholders must've wanted.
As a lowly person who only worked for Google for ~5years:

How in the world did that get approved?? Why was age of code not one of the first things bright up in one of the many design reviews that this went through. Utterly shocking.
If you are using explicit blocking, share data between threads and have not run into deadlocks then your application is trivial (which is great if it solves your problem).
6-7 years is a pretty reasonable amount to get out of a consumer electronic device. Hardware still makes large gains over that period of time and Apple doesn’t brick those old devices , you can still run them for years on out-of-service OS versions.

That’s just not equivalent to a Microsoft subscription fee, which presumably bricks the device as soon as you stop paying. Not to mention that I’m lucky if I get 3 years out of a stock windows machine that has whatever Lenovo surveillance tool running on it.
In my experience, keeping possibilities open has a cost. It’s like leaving a port open on a server just in case, or letting clients idle.

All resources, including my attention, are limited. We have to prune our gardens to create space for other things.
The community needs a language that isn't so extreme that is opinionated on what is zero cost and what is not. Golang sort of fits this bill as it has an opinionated take on this, but overall from my pov it's a bad opinion. No sum types, no namespaces, garbage collection.... I feel it's still the only other language that fills this space that isn't so OOP. It's a bad solution and it's popular because it's the only solution.

Anyway to get back to your point, I think this is why so many people complain. It's either go or rust and neither is ideal so one way to deal with the problem is attempting to shape rust into this ideal.

Right? Where can I find a language with no garbage collection, nice sum types and no over complicated async syntax? Where? Nowhere. This is what people want.
Making things look pretty is very good for your portfolio and career. But making things usable usually means ugly.

Thin scrollbars and window borders are pretty. Mobile buttons with only icons but no text are pretty. Hiding functionality is pretty.
No I hold plenty of discussions where no one has to confess to an ethnic cleansing. But only ones where neither participant has committed one.

> I stand by my statement that the accusation of ethnic cleansing is a hideous lie.

What does it mean "stand by" a statement that an assertion is a lie without attempting to refute the assertion? This is a nonsense action, it is nothing. I said I'm flexible about the vocabulary we use when we talk about what happened, so what happened? Why do so many palestinians live in gaza? How did they get there, under what conditions do they remain? Why aren't there more of them in other parts of israel?

I'm giving you an opportunity to describe it on your terms. So describe it.
$400k in the context of custom development, testing, and administration? That's cheap. And frankly this approach is much more appropriate than the alternatives of defense contractor pork, defective-by-design consumer "cloud", or having people manually do rounds and record numbers.

Also if you want to claim some high ground about not "wasting money", I don't know why you'd use an example of buying Chineseum from overpriced Amazon rather than getting it drop shipped.
From where I sit, you're making my point. An exaggerated emphasis on the complexity of a few "don't do that" rules, and the concern that blind obedience won't be forthcoming, is the malformed cause of helicopter parenting.

Additionally, "kids are actually allowed outside" isn't really proof that taking away bikes isn't helicopter parenting.

Look, I can't imagine we're going to agree here:

* I believe a child is given great disservice, if they don't have the option of doing risky things and

* I believe a child a abused, their development twisted, if they don't break the rules occasionally, and do a risky thing... while considering how to do it in a least risky way!

Put another way, if you seek to cut off all possibility that a child can get in over their head, or do a risky thing, one is helicopter parenting.
"Unaffected" isn't clear yet. The vast majority of MariaDB server commits come from employees of MariaDB Plc, the commercial entity described by the article. See https://mariadb.org/mariadb-contribution-statistics-june-202...
And while some argue that it's enough to put these features behind permission dialogs, browsers already have enough of those that many users will blaze through and approve anything that pops up in order to silence the noisy browser and make the page work as expected, which naturally has major implications.

That's not to say that WebUSB, WebBluetooth, etc shouldn't exist, but clearly putting everything behind dialogs doesn't scale and something better needs to be figured out.
iPhones are essentially the only smartphones with enough accessibility features to be used by the blind, I suggest you watch a video on it because it’s quite fascinating. What do you find anti accessible about the apple peripherals? I’ve also had some experience using VoiceOver and found it acceptable.
Values are axiomatic. How do you propose people compare them? Simply declaring their values Bad and our values Good isn’t helpful. Nobody thinks their own values are bad, and you can’t reason yourself or others into having different values.

What you can do is work towards rapprochement and working to find areas of common ground (even if your reasons are different), or at least being careful about tactics so you don’t generate counterreaction.
No love for F# ? The tooling is pretty dang good, all things considered.
That is very good news :)
> live in a world where everything is out in the open

the only outcome would be mass panic.

en plein air decision making has already been tried several times throughout history, it never worked as intended.

social networks are an experiment in that sense and have been weaponized against the people using them in a very short time.

secondly: that would not stop propaganda, which is the real problem, we would only know what people say they think, not what they really think.

also I am not really fine with everyone reading my messages, some things need to stay private to live peacefully and/or not harm other people's feelings.
Proving it will be very easy. Use the service, take a subsciption, send messaged or data, monitor traffic.
the way humans have cause massie species extinction isn't very natural, I agree control is useless, but we should rather fix the source issue, ban personal cars, swimming pools, planes, etc..
Yeah in retrospect it was very much the right call. Thanks Dad!
Maybe, but in Europe, you'll finish off your 33 or 50 centilitre beer in a sitting and possibly a few more.
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>Spam can be made an exception to net neutrality laws.

Sure, spam can be an exception. And so can fraud, and terrorism. And then so can piracy, and porn, and drug content. And once we're back into the exceptions for "immoral" content, the world is our oyster and nothing is off limits for the sake of the children.

For any neutrality to work it must be completely neutral with respect to 100% of content. If providers are not to be involved in regulating the content that goes over the wires they provide, that must be held to the furthest extent possible. Spam, piracy and everything else that society decides it doesn't like MUST be dealt with another way that is entirely divorced from requiring or allowing providers to get in the middle of it. Anything else isn't neutrality, it's just conveniently aligned with your current interests, which may or may not be a stable situation.
This is a class of problems known as scheduling. The Wikipedia page is a good place to start [0]. It focuses on task schedulers rather than message queues, but the same principles apply. For a deeper theoretical basis, Wiley has a good book [1]. Most undergrad curricula will have a module on this as well, so you can find info in most comp sci textbooks.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheduling_(computing)

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/97811189844...
I'm not sure that it makes sense to talk about a single "culture and mindset" being shared by all Native groups or the like, since they're going to have a whole lot of variation in cultural heritage, status etc. It would be interesting to know what Native groups, tribes, bands etc. you've been involved with.
Generally speaking, CPU decoding isn't that slow in the first place (compared to any kind of encoding), and hardware encoding is low-quality and lacking in options.

Hardware encoding is great for quickly getting a camera feed to disk at a non-professional quality level, but it's hard to imagine ever using it to do a re-encode of anything -- where you usually want to prioritize quality and a smaller size over encoding speed.
Try adding anything with quotes and multiple lines, and you'll quickly realize that YAML works better than JSON here.

JSON as-is has fewer types and some things are better realized with the JSONNET way than stock.
Here (in Russia) typically SMS is used as a second factor and you don't need an app. Requiring to install an app is basically requiring to buy a modern smartphone only to be able to log in.
Less verbose? Ha, far from it. Look at the tailwind examples. One div tag now has 6 or more classes attached
Look like an interesting approach to handling YAML.
Yeah, you see, it's a different kind of threat. Hamas is just the usual terrorists, from time to time they grow and get organized, and then we look surprised and outraged when they attack, and stump them out or use them in some proxy war. Don't worry, we have that under control.

With encryption, it's a whole another story. The danger is much greater. People may read hate speech or Putin's propaganda, and spread it on the Internet. This is a threat to democracy. Or even worse, they may communicate freely and share independent unsanctioned news. We don't yet have a tool for that, so we're working hard on it.
This can backfire too, as often people are just looking to rant/complain as a means of venting.

Eg someone's frustrated with some problem they're facing, to shift their attention from that they instead start ranting about an irrelevant problem elsewhere in the world. Then you go and shut them down by asking them why they care.

It's important to recognize that their anger being irrelevant towards the issue also means that there isn't much lost by letting them vent.
access denied, but i found these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Beam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_Blade
I'm not okay with that. I have every single message I've ever sent or received since I installed WhatsApp for the first time. Including legally important messages with my lawyers and other business contacts.