skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you pay up front for a year? If you're just paying month to month, I don't understand teh concern, or the expectation for Coscto to 'cover'.

If you expected it to fail, it seems that going month to month would have been a better plan than expecting a third party to eat a loss at your gain.
It's quite a nice approach. It's practically optimizing the list of related websites to increase click through rates.
How to “hack” chrome
if you right click on somthing and then click on inspect than you can see the code that makes up the website and play around with it. (note: it only changes temporarily if you reload it will reset)
I originally was of your mindset as well (FB is in breach of compliance right now) but could not find any mention in the GDPR articles or recitals of "denial of access", "availability", etc. to back my views up. I would tend to agree with you if I could find a source for the stipulation in your 6th paragraph.
That sounds kind of like a known issue with scaled resolution on OSX. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like any progress has been made on it.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042
AI mimics brain codes for navigation
Why can't they charge you in data?

Because "In the EU, personal information cannot be conceived as a mere economic asset: according to
the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, the processing of personal data requires protection to ensure a person's enjoyment of the right to respect for private life and freedom of expression and association".

https://edps.europa.eu/sites/edp/files/publication/16-09-23_...
Right, I'm not talking about withdrawing from the market, I'm talking about remaining in the market and being allowed, as a private company providing a private service, to freely associate.

I have no qualms with a competitor starting up to serve those denied by Facebook, but let's not muddy the water by equivocating a monopoly as a result of anti-competitive practices with one that forms simply because nobody wants to use anything else.
> Applied Quantum CSS to render browser UI

I'm so excited about the future of Firefox. In addition to the above, OpenBSD is currently working on pledge support in FF. In a couple years FF could be simultaneously faster, more private and more secure than Chrome.
Guess.js: Libraries/tools for enabling data-driven user-experiences on the web
I was gonna submit a performance profile as a bug report, but the https://perf-html.io profiler doesn't work in FF60
Ask HN: Favourite products built with repairability and durability in mind?
As an antidote to many modern products that have built-in obsolescence, what are some of your favorite products and technologies that are built with longevity, repair-ability and durability in mind?

Examples include:

- Desktop computers (components are largely interchangeable, a good desktop will last decades)
- Bicycles (parts are easy to find online and mechanically they are simple enough to maintain yourself)
What is this threat model where if a government tries to freeze your assets having BTC stops everything bad? If a government is trying to freeze your assets you have a lot of other problems that are bigger than simply not having access to your bank account.
Google is banning Irish abortion referendum ads ahead of vote
I am not sure if losing Facebook access counts as losing any kind of "technology". They cannot block the use of their FOSS code in Europe, isn't?

I am not sure the impact of closing their offices in Europe, though I am sure their the most interesting work is done in USA.
Regardless who is technically at fault, the Firefox team is best placed to resolve the issue.

It kind of surprises me that this is an issue at all. I was under the impression a large number of FF devs use Macbooks.
I'm using xperia mini st15i, personally optimized ROM. Yet still, no industry comes no where close to heating and cooling.

Let's optimize the slowest functions not tiny percentages.
Wonder when we all get a criminality score.

- sped to work this morning + 200

- shoplifted as a child +100

- told the wife you went to help your brother really watched the game +25

- commented about Palantir on HN + 10,000
iOS and Android should filter EXIF before sharing
I started on Luigi and loved the simplicity of it (checkpointing completed tasks on the filesystem instead of a db), but the telemetry in the Airflow webui is more or less essential imho.
TL;DR
Pomodoro
Actually, because I was at the point where so much stuff was automated, and I had taskwarrior deciding just how much work to do every day...I had a lot of free time to do whatever I wanted to do.

Mostly I left because the pay was lousy and I had been doing it for almost a decade and a half. That was the final straw when I realized I couldn't ask for a raise because they weren't giving me enough work.
Don't eat so much, jesus fucking christ!
They are not, they invest that money but have different liquidity requirements so they can invest in longer term vehicles with higher yield
That one, WI2XER, has been heard, and seen on a spectrum analyzer.[1] They send their call sign in Morse code, send various test tones, and send what look like modem-type signals. 100 KW, so they will have no problem reaching Europe. Not much bandwidth, though, because they don't have enough spectrum space. Maybe a few hundred kilobits/second.

As a way to get info from markets faster, it's limited. You avoid some switching and path delays, but the data rate is slow, so it's only faster for short messages.

[1] http://i56578-swl.blogspot.com/2018/03/wi2xer-skycast-experi...
> These proposed "large fines" would still require regular people to deal with putative creditors and occasionally to defend themselves in court.

Wouldn't it be the opposite? It would be the creditors which would have to defend themselves in court. In my country, moral damages are nearly guaranteed in these cases, and the burden of proof is on the creditors to prove the debt is valid.
Stick with programming; you're better at that than anything else you'll choose to do.
What they are doing is, by definition, not hoarding their cash. TIPS are a form of investment usually classified as very-low risk (but correspondingly relatively low gains).
>AMD's AMD-V struggles with that too

are there any benchmarks to support this? a quick search on google yields nothing.
They're on the edge of having a large enough datacenter presence that, since they're already manufacturing their own CPUs that are conscious of perf/watt, building a server SKU for their own internal use might make sense.
You can play the 'work towards the next prestigious thing' game as long as you want but you will be happier the earlier you quit it.
todo.sh has a mobile app (paid) that syncs with the files produced by the command line tool using Dropbox.

Worked well when I wasn’t just using vimwiki.
I reported it and they know what the problem is but it got marked as no-priority. Everytime there’s a new release I check if it’s solved and move back to Safari. Every release there are people complaining about it. I know I have been for 2 years now, but it falls on deaf ears.
Shameless plug for https://www.rescuetime.com/ which is probably the single greatest productivity/focus-encouraging tool I've ever encountered... and all it really does is give you transparency into your own habits
One of the points of the GDPR is that you cannot make usage of your service contingent on giving up your privacy, unless your service very specifically requires the user to give up personal details in order to it to even function.

Strava is a good example, it does not work without GPS position, otherwise it cannot track your bike routes.

But Facebook does not require tracking to work. It does not require you to give them any personal details at all in order to work. It would work just fine even if everyone gave them fake emails, phone numbers, birth dates and even fake names. Thus they cannot make giving up privacy a requirement for using their service.

Besides that, this ToS update thing is absolutely not GDPR compliant. It does not list the things personal data will be used for. It hides the opt-out (to the face tracking) behind a dark pattern small "options" text and makes the default action opt-in. The list goes on.

This is simply an effort from FB to muddy the waters and sow doubt about opt-in and GDPR consequences.

They will have to provide proper GDPR opt-in screens come the 25th, or they will be fined for non-compliance.
Really torn between "sleep more" and "just start writing, but take a deep breath before hitting send/submit/post."
There is this myth that wealthy people are more savvy investors than ordinary folk. Sometimes they are but often not. They get scammed the most because that is where the money is.
yeah it's weird, first they encode numbers one to ten, then the information is in binary, then is pictographic, there's no key to split the sections by encoding, and the key at the beginning is not used.
I think ZFS has the easiest way to do this sort of thing:

# fallocate -l 256M disk.bin
# zpool create filepool /root/disk.bin
# zfs set mountpoint=/root/filepool filepool
# df -h /root/filepool
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
filepool 208M 0 208M 0% /root/filepool
There are diminishing returns to preparation: focus less on preparation (to include going to prestigious institutions and working for prestigious companies) and more on launching, learning, and iterating. This is true in business and a variety of other fields. As an add on: learn one programming language really well, and resist the urge to spend time learning new ones!
Do everything in college that you continuously said you were going to do but never did.
> Do mean that a government is less trustworthy than an independendent corporation? That a corporation will better look after the interests of its citizens than a government?

Quite frequently, yes to both questions. Choice is key and many often feel more empowered to individually choose their company than their government.
Cinemark came out with their own subscription service. Not the same type of deal as MoviePass but still, it made me decide to go with theirs over MoviePass. Sure it means I'm locked in to Cinemark only if I want to make use of it but I know my benefits of the sub won't change month to month.
Get a therapist and deal with your childhood issues as soon as possible, they will only grow with time.
Well, first, ads are not the problem, tracking is. Also, they can make money from tracking, but they have to convince people to consent - more like a donation than a payment.

But yes, the EU does get involved in plenty of business decisions, just like governments everywhere. Usually when an industry is misbehaving and violating what is established (e.g. by the ECHR) as the rights of individuals.
Let's not beat around the bush: the GDPR was created mostly because of Facebook. So if anyone is going to get the maximum penalty to be made an example of, it's going to be them.
> Exactly. And for full disclosure, Vlad used to work for Intel.

He did disclose that though, in the first article:

> Intel supplied us with an engineering sample of their Skylake based Purley platform back in August 2016, to give us time to evaluate it and optimize our software. As a former Intel Architect, who did a lot of work on Skylake (as well as Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge and Icelake), I really enjoy that.

(emphasis mine)
Square for Restaurants
Ctrl+F "dialect" makes my point.
> Right now we're not able to pull energy from Sun fast enough to power them (see all the global energy issues, fossil fuels, etc.)

Actually there are thousands of other things that take way more energy and pollute way more than cryptocurrency mining. In fact you can locate your miners anywhere, unlike, say, your shipping vessels. So there's an incentive to place the miners next to, say, hydrothermal plants.

Why aren't you fervently arguing for the other orders-of-magnitude-larger polluters to be replaced? Lord knows we have alternatives to them too.

By the way, do you know about Bitcoin's emission curve and what is going to happen to mining after bitcoins are no longer emitted?

> And even if we eventually could, cryptocurrencies would only grow to consume all available energy.

That's a lot of energy! Could you provide some kind of grounds for your opinion here?
Try a profile refresh
Is there a bunch of work going on from the team there in preparation for the Purism Librem 5, or is that mostly their efforts that happen to rely on your tech?
This answer makes the most sense, but is still sad
The Art of Unix Programming. It teaches the "why"s, not just the "how"s.
They use server class Xeons in their iMac Pro and Mac Pro lines - you don't have to build servers to use chips like that.
Fuck 'em, then. We functioned perfectly fine before FB started, and we will function perfectly fine after FB is gone.
I disagree. HODLing is a thing not primarily because hodlers believe in deflationary aspect of bitcoin, it’s because inflationary schedule is known beforehand and is not subject to change by bunch of central bankers and more importantly it’s the belief in that value will increase due to growing adoption.
Where can one sneak a peak of the redesign?
“Looking for jobs through employer reviews is becoming more popular, so buying Glassdoor not only grabs more users but also strengthens Recruit’s existing HR platform,” said Yushi Kawamoto, analyst at Haitong International Japaninvest KK. “Recruit is paying about seven times sales, which isn’t high. This will boost their competitiveness. So overall this is positive for Recruit.”
Yeah, well they know what the problem is but it fails to get a high enough priority to get solved: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1407536
Mark's attitude during the Cambridge Analytica issue very well reflected the fact that: Users are not going to stop using FB, so why bother much about bending the company rules, instead bend the users.
Hashicorp doesn't seem to like Google Cloud too much. I've been moving to Google Cloud Builder and it's Jinja and Python templates, which I happen to be a little familiar with...
A lot of the draw for Tidal is the lossless streams. That is a big deal for audiophile people, which you and your friends are not a part of.
> I'm pretty sure Facebook has the resources to have hired competent lawyers to advise them on that

You could say that about any of the resource-rich people and companies that have subsequently had their arse handed to them in court.
My guess is no one. The whole point was to apply the perf/watt gains you see in mobile SoCs to a larger die. Qualcomm wouldn't want to sell it to Samsung, just to see Exynos get better. Better to just destroy the project and write it off as a loss rather than help a competitor in your primary market.
Using strictly my interpretation of what I read above, if the person decides not to allow their information to be used by the service, the service is not allowed to deny them use. That's the part I think is an issue, and of course I may be misinterpreting.

I have purchased a house, and used a mortgage to do so. In getting that mortgage, I was presented with reams and reams of paper that I had to agree to and sign. The basic facts of the loan, however, were mandated by the government that they be disclosed to me in as simple and straightforward terms as possible. That mandate for disclosure should be sufficient for a person to decide to do business with a service, regardless of the nature of what is being transacted. If what I read here is accurate, it's akin to me saying "No, I won't sign any of this. Now give me my keys."
I agree that Facebook isn't really "technology" and that losing it would probably be a net positive. I am worried that Europe will set a precedent that will discourage internet technologies from doing business in Europe disconnecting them from the world.
No kidding. This is one reason I still prefer to use normal apps instead of web-apps: they can't just change it out from under you one day.
Sounds a lot like the Getting Things Done approach, which is a little culty as a community but has some reasonable advice. One of those nuggets is "touch it once," using the "four Ds" - Do, Delete, Delegate, Defer. I've been basically using it as an approach for a while and it's great when I stick to it.

It's not in opposition to using filters and such though afaik; all of my build/jira/notifications/updates/forum posts/etc email goes to various buckets and is immediately forgotten.
Show HN: A central place to know about your favorite Avengers. Works offline.
Don't be afraid to be more bold with some of life's decisions; often the risk is well worth the potential outcome.
There's a fine print that says:

> ¹Basic Tier instances experience a downtime and a full cache flush during scaling. Standard Tier instance experience very minimal downtime and loss of some unreplicated data during scaling operation. ²Applicable for GA release only.

Does that mean that right now there are no persistance options with this Managed Redis cluster? I have never tried to use Redis but I've been eyeing it for a while and the most confusing part is how it handles persistence.

Apparently there are ways to have Redis configured to be pretty durable as outlined here:

https://redis.io/topics/persistence

But it doesn't look like Google is supporting either RDB nor AOF with this managed service, they say RDB is coming though.

Doesn't it heavily limits the use cases for this product and relegate it to a cooler memcache?

This is not criticism, it's just curiosity on good use cases for this product.
I don’t think it’s largely abuse. Some of us wanted to go again with another group of friends. Example, I saw jumanji alone, liked it enough I brought some friends and watched it again. Star Wars was the same way. I’m fine with them removing it since I’m still getting way more from the service than I’m putting in, but I don’t want to be called an abuser for doing what their own terms said I could do.
Things like this make me very, very angry! So many missteps over the years. So many things bungled. So many dark patterns to fool users. Yet, where is the mass exodus of employees from Facebook? If you're still working in any company that Facebook owns in the technology or privacy or legal front, don't you realize what harm you're contributing to? And you're still ok with that? Don't you have a choice?

I'm appalled that thousands of people still work for this company by choice.
> But the catch is that the traffic outside the EU wouldn't be governed by GDPR

Luckily, that’s not how it works
It is not actually a vpn. It is a glorified /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 null route app. It doesn't send any traffic over any real VPN, so your worry isn't a thing.
Absolutely. The links even resolve on different devices, as long as you have access to the same mail accounts.
1. Mythical Man Month - obvious reasons

2. Deathmarch: The Complete Software Developer's Guide to Surviving 'Mission Impossible' Projects- also a classic.

3. Thinking fast and slow - a great introduction to biases that will affect your thinking in any project.

4. The Art of War - strategy and tactics for attacking any problem. My personal favorite translation is by Thomas Cleary.
CEO of leading cannatech company: Why Cannabis is not Ready for Blockchain
I'm not a big movie watcher but I definitely repeatedly consume other media. Music in particular, tv and print as well. If an album comes out that I like a lot, I'll often play it front to back a dozen of times in a week.
It's built on top of React.js. Check the source-code here: https://github.com/amitmerchant1990/pocket-avengers
To state the obvious, tobacco is far more harmful than you for pure nicotine, but pure nicotine is harmful too - just to a way lesser extent, whereas drugs like cannabis are (physically) completely harmless.

It's actually pretty shocking how not-bad-for-you weed is by comparison. I used to think smoking cigarettes was bad because you're inhaling smoke, but it turns out they're bad because you're inhaling a specific kind of pro-inflammatory, oxidative-damage-causing smoke. Whereas something about cannabis, whether it be the antioxidant effect or the different particle size, makes it actually ridiculously safe.

[Sorry if I was off topic, but I see a lot of misconceptions about tobacco vs nicotine vs cannabis in terms of relative harm)
Is it? If they hold personal data of EU citizens in a shadow profile they must allow a way to view and correct or delete it.

Head in sand like this approach will remain unacceptable to EU.
because it was awesome?
The European regulatory view is often 'outcomes based' rather than the American 'rules based'. What I mean is that in the European approach, you might follow the rules, but fail in the outcome or 'the spirit' of the law. In that case, you have still broken the law. If you allow a gross generalisation, European regulators point to perverse outcomes in the US where morality is subverted by the law as a reason why this approach is better. There is however a much higher compliance cost in the EU than in the US due to this approach.
A profile refresh is useless in this case.
Work is important, but it's not more important than relationships: you can always find another job, but you may never find a comparable partner.
I think the data must be actually necessary for the thing you're providing to the user. So if you're paying cash in exchange for data, that wouldn't be allowed, because you don't need someone's data in order to give them cash.
Again, it uses a VPN to route all traffic on the phone through the app, which sends no traffic anywhere outside of your phone (confirmed via my home firewall showing no traffic going out). It uses a VPN to simply route traffic through the app to null route bad destinations. Make sense?
You’ve pretty much described my usage of Netflix’ DVD rental plan and HBO streaming.
Being pedantic again, there are cases where more inside diameter is not better. Some chemicals are unstable and dangerous when concentrated into too much volume: by increasing the inside diameter you make them more likely to explode. (acetylene - C2H2 - is the only one I can think of where this could matter). On the same lines, if the pipe is subject to heat/flame there is another case where modern metals might be worse by allowing thinner walls.

Again, this is only pedantic. In the unlikely event that the above matters you need a professional engineer (a legal term) to specify the exact properties of the pipe.
The majority of Heise forum participants are wrong then.
Can you expand on that last sentence? Not that I’d disagree, I’m just curious about what specifically you’re referring to.

My team is currently underwater supporting a decades old system of batch ETL, where it’s a major challenge to understand dependencies between jobs, and therefore what to rerun when something fails. We’re exploring a move to streaming ETL (Kafka streams being the leading candidate) as a way of making the dependencies explicit: rather than having to rerun stored procs or Talend jobs that we depend on certain data, we run a fleet of 24/7 microservices that transform and move data downstream whenever it is available.
Live your own life, not someone else’s life.
Still no option to see all of the permissions an extension requires without digging through its source. :(

https://imgur.com/a/k4rk0

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1449698
Definitely just turn away 30-40% of your customers. Good idea for everyone. :)
There are some extensions that bring task dependencies to todo.txt. IMHO outlines are a quite natural extension of the original format that can be used for that without making things too complicated.
Question is, how do they know it’s abuse? I have a feeling they’re just using that as a catch all for all heavy users.
How to implement languages on the Erlang VM
> We don't really need bitcoin for anything though.

Why was Bitcoin invented; what problem does it solve?
I Tried to use Riot.im with a friend of mine, who's also a hacker and we couldn't figure out how to create a room for us to chat. We're probably too dumb for this.
Make fewer posts on social media about how you’re feeling at that moment in time