skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh you were talking about credit cards?

Well, that's another whole can of worms.

Virtually no retailer in Germany accepts credit cards because the fees are too high and price competition in Germany is pretty brutal (just for reference: Walmart, which steamrollered US retail had to retreat from the German market, in part because they simply couldn't compete).

So you are paying for these services, and yes, cost of living is higher in the UK, for example:

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries_resu...

Oh, and the terms imposed on retailers by credit card companies are pretty brutal, too. For example, they push most of the risk of fraud onto the retailer. If you think that doesn't matter: KAGI went out of business due to fraud.

https://tidbits.com/2016/08/04/kagi-shuts-down-after-falling...

So what's happening when the purchase is "taken off" your credit line is that the retailer gets hit, doubly, meaning they have to raise prices on everyone to stay in business (see higher cost of living above) or they go out of business (see KAGI example). German retailers don't want this and German consumers don't want this either.

And of course the credit card companies have managed to create a tax on the entire economy, essentially a rent-seeking/parasitic business model, while pushing all the cost and risk onto others (the general public and the retailers). Now if I were a credit card company, I'd be all "Yay!". As a consumer or a provider of products and services...not so much.

And again, the convenience, while shiny and cool, is at best trivial, and I would say offset by other conveniences such as haptic processing, fungibility, loanability ("Quick, can you loan me €50?", "Er, here's my card?").

And there is significant added complexity in the system, which can fail fairly dramatically. For example, when I was in living in the UK my UK card would not work just about every time I went abroad. "Fraud protection". Hah. I've had that happen a lot more than I ever had cash lost or stolen, and the consequences are more severe. The bank suggested I should contact them every time I went abroad. Excuse me? I need to ask my bank for permission to travel?

That's one thing that's also a very important lesson for software, particularly performance: in almost all cases, resilience is more important than (peak) performance. You really want to strive to avoid bad outcomes, not make the already good outcomes a few percent better. This is harder, but more worthwhile.

And of course the point of credit cards is to get you to spend money you don't have, which is also why eliminating that haptic feedback of money leaving your wallet was and is so important. And surprise, surprise, credit card debt is (shockingly) high at least in the US and the UK.

So don't get me started on credit cards :-)
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How long did it take until other people started complaining about the spam on list, and then someone sent 'unsubscribe' to the list? That's usually how these things went.

Your story makes me miss listserv. Doing @here on Slack just isn't the same.
Well, that's the prisoner's dilemma "defect" strategy. Works great one time round. Not so well in repeat games, as of course it means everyone pays more all the time.

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries_resu...
Maybe. But that’s also a race to the bottom. And it’s not like you need many developers to get stuff done. The right team and autonomy to choose their tools can be way more productive that a big team
JEP 323: Local-Variable Syntax for Lambda Parameters
Codename: Brucy in the Sky of Diamonds.
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You're conflating "machine learning" with "machine learning based on data you hoovered up indiscriminately from non-consenting third parties".

Want to use machine learning to analyze stock price movements? For self-driving cars? You're fine.

For an example, looking at kaggle's page of open competitions, only 2 of 19 use datasets that I suspect would run into consent issues (predicting home credit default risk, and predicting demand for classified ads).
If the advertisement is "Buy our static analysis tool. Catch bugs in your C programs", your argument considers the purchase equally as bad whether it catches 0 bugs or 100 critical CVEs.

Most people don't use static analysis tools, so without persuasion the purchase would never occur.
Maduro Diet… Next war start in south america?
Very bad idea. This might get your page flagged by anti virus scanners or even search engines.
But did throw enough money at the production company to keep it in production :-D
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And you could still read the books :)
I'm browsing without cookies and I can't.
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proof of work. used a lot in email anti-spam.
That's actually a very good question. My understanding is incomplete, but this is what I make of it:

What you suggest turns out to be impossible. The amount of energy that goes in and out must be identical. So this means:

* Either less goes in: The required mechanical effort to make the turbine turn goes down. It will have to dissipate the extra energy as heat and catch fire, or it will become less efficient, and have stronger winds behind it as less wind energy has been used.

* Or more goes out: The transparting cables are not perfect, they are a kind of very low resistor. They do convert electricity to heat. A short is an extreme example of this. In this case, a smaller version will happen: cables will get slightly hotter.

As I understand it, monitoring and balancing the electrical grid is a very complicated problem.

Recently, and discussed on hacker news, the opposite happened in Europe: Not enough power was available on the net because of political circumstances. All the generators had to push a little harder, so they all slowed down a tiny bit. Result was the 50HZ of the european grid went a very tiny bit down to 49.999...Hz, and some clocks lost 6 minutes of time as a result.
The title I supplied was " More research on potential adverse effects of fluoride is needed" and was taken from the paper. Not sure how the actual paper title appeared.
You italicized the wrong data here: "Personal data" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person"

Here's how to read it: "Personal data" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person"

The "any information relating to" part is exactly the "unique keys" that you seem to think are not covered. The uniqueness and mapping to a person is literally the problem.

And re: PII, seriously? You're upset because I didn't type out "Personal Data"—even though you knew exactly what I was referring to, as did everyone else? Fight bigger battles…
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Yes! I got interested in roleplay through Critical Role.

But also don't expect your first games to look anything like it; voice actors who've played the game a lot create a very different dynamic to many game groups.

The cast of Critical Role are incredible — Matthew Mercer is a brilliant Dungeon Master and also one of the most humble and likeable personalities I've watched online.

If you have time to watch his Q&A here it's well worth it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCBfJBf-t2Y. I've never seen anyone open up and speak candidly to the internet quite like he does. (Summary: the video starts as an open Q&A about Critical Role and D&D and evolves into a pouring-his-heart-out reflection on his upbringing, his life, and what others can learn from his story.)
I couldn't/didn't want to pass the privacy popup.

Are we really at the point where if one does't agree to all kinds of nasty ad crap he can't access a webpage..?
On a simple network, the extra energy is "absorbed" by the remaining hardware components (think: wired getting hotter, etc.), eventually resulting in failure due to operating at higher voltages or currents than designed for.

Most electricity networks have a "system operator" whose job is to keep electricity generated track electricity consumed very closely. (An organization, with many automated systems, not a single person).

In practice, on a large network, the most noticeable side effect would be AC frequency fluctuations. In a severe case of imbalance, sensors/switches on the network would disconnect part of the network to protect the underlying equipment (probably causing blackouts, if not cascading blackouts).

The operator predicts demand and tells each of the many electricity generators how much electricity to generate. Some types of generation are easier to ramp-up
o or throttle-down: for example, hydro and natural gas are very easy, while nuclear is not. Residential roof-based solar makes things complicated because it is now a new part of the system that is no longer under the operators control.

Some networks also have access to sinks of energy, the most common being pumped storage (usually in connection to a hydro facility), or even, industrial consumers who are willing to "ramp up" on demand.

On top of all this is usually a market layer (depending if the electricity generation is privatized or not). For example, in Ontario, the IESO (independent electricity system operator) asks for bids every 5 minutes from all the providers, and based on a modified dutch-auction, selects which providers are allowed to produce and sends them the corresponding instructions. Of course, taking into account various other technical requirements to decide who gets to power or not. In this kind of market, nuclear power, because it cannot throttle up or down, typically bids 0 or negative (because the actual price set is based on the last most expensive bid to get in). During some hours of the year, the market price of electricity is sometimes negative, because nuclear is the only bidder. In Ontario, the government phased out all coal production (yay, no more smog!), but... had to build a lot of new natural gas plants to be able to do the fast ramp-up/throttling the network requires on some days of the year. Most of the year, these plants sit idle.
Max Schrems
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Myself, I did scrapping of a classified ads site once, to have notifications when a particular product I was looking for showed up for sale.
The short answer is that they sell it to other countries/nations that can't produce energy that efficiently.
Honey bees seem to be misled by fluorescent colours, presumably as a result of the effect on UV wavelengths. Fluorescent materials shift UV light into the visible range so perhaps my jacket looks like a big hole in the vegetation, perhaps they think it is clear air and are then surprised to find something solid.
Charley Douglass and the mysterious “laff box”
Wait, Communism as in "a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state."? Or did you mean Stalinism?
Do Not Track (DNT)
Let me put it this way: if I found out this guy was using my IP address and machine config to do analytics and perform "security" checks, I'd report him to my regulator. Dead serious.

"Analytics" is not what his company is for, ergo, using my Personal Data to do analytics isn't okay. He sure as hell isn't doing it for my benefit. I'm also not hiring him for security, so the same reasoning applies: he doesn't get to store my IP address in his logs without asking.

And when I say "no" to his opt-in modal, he'll still have to provide me non-degraded service. The fact that he can do so is yet another indicator that the data collection is not a legitimate interest.
Worked great for us - we only used about 10 signs, but things like our son suddenly at the table refusing all food and waving randomly at the table - so we asked (rhetorically) 'fine! What do you want?' And he signed "water". After a swig he happily carried on eating. Also our daughter running up to us (11 months) and signing she wanted her diaper changed. Sure enough...

We have other friends with similar aged kids who's kids get incredibly frustrated when they cannot communicate something like that and just scream until the parents five then what they want.

Our kids did use it both differently, and different amounts, but it was a minor helpful extra for us.
Kekistan: a memes war for online freedom of speech
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The problem over the last few weeks is that people kept repeating the same falsehoods about GDPR over and over again. So the same correct information needed to be posted in response. In every one of these threads, for example, somebody posts about how regulators must issue warnings and that companies must be given a chance to correct any problems well before they are issued a fine. This is patently false, and it needed to be corrected wherever I saw it posted.

Everyone should have a chance to learn accurate facts about this nightmarish regulation, especially here on HN where we have many tech entrepreneurs. Most people don’t see every post on GDPR. For the record, I just searched for GDPR stories on here and it turns out I have commented on only a small percentage of the GDPR threads that have been submitted.
So can teachers. It's not as if the high performers in English class spent hours deliberately practicing grammar and vocabulary.
Data collection is also part of the regulations; only collecting the data they need. Tracking data they do not even use seems to me to be a clear violation.
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Slight self promotion, but Standard Ebooks has a few of the classics, and a few more of the classic fiction available as nicely formatted and accessible PD ebooks (epub, Kobo variant epub, and Kindle formats for each):

- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/benjamin-franklin/the-auto...

- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/marcus-aurelius/meditation...

- Don Quixote by Cervantes: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/miguel-de-cervantes-saaved...

- Pride and Predudice by Jane Austen: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jane-austen/pride-and-prej...

- Vanity Fair by William Thackeray: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/william-makepeace-thackera...

- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-dickens/david-copp...

- Washington Irving collection: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/washington-irving/the-sket...

- Father Goriot by Balzac: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/honore-de-balzac/father-go...

- The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/j-w-von-goethe/the-sorrows...

- Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/fyodor-dostoevsky/crime-an...

These are nearly always taken from the Gutenberg source transcriptions, but tidied up typographically and marked up using modern technologies. If you notice any problems with any of these we’ll happily take PRs!
The West is ill-prepared for the wave of “deep fakes” that AI could unleash
Please explain how anticheats are tracking people.
As someone who always wished for more X-Files until season 10 and 11 were released: Be careful what you wish for.
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Donate to cock.li, the best e-mail service in the entire omniverse
It turns out that people react irrationally when rare bad things happen to them; that is, they over-react, generally...
Buying Mattress Online Could Help You to Save Money
Now a day's online shopping is on the peak as it provides the products and services at the reasonable price due to the elimination of mediators like wholesalers, retailers and other agents.
People hardly prefer to visit the market to buy things especially large in size such as crockery, furniture, and mattresses, etc. Various brands have opened the online business to provide better facilities and use different kinds of promotional tools like coupons, discount and other seasonal offers towards their present and future customers. Where on the one side it saves your time in searching manually in the market, it protects your money by availing various kind of offers like providing discount, coupons, buy one get one offers, etc.
In case of mattresses also you may find millions of sites which are selling their mattresses with various kinds of schemes. Some are offering discount according to the season, and others are offering the money back challenge or buy one get one scheme etc. to attract more and more customers. Of all the plans, providing mattress coupons is the current scheme as it gives more benefits to the buyers as well as sellers.
What does mattress coupon mean?
Providing coupons with the mattress is one of the promotional tools used by the companies. When you purchase a mattress for the first time, the company will offer you a coupon so that you can save money on the next purchase of mattress by using these coupons but in the same company. Some codes used to write on these coupons, and every card has different codes. On the next purchase, you need to copy paste the code to get discount on the second purchase of the mattress. To know more about the mattress coupons and how it helps to save money, you can check out this page: https://sleepdelivered.com/mattress-coupons/
> litigious groups claim $9.3B

Incorrect. They are civil right groups, which filed complaints with the authorities. Even if the complaints were fully accepted and the offenders fined to the maximum possible amount the groups would not "earn" a cent.
What an absolutely wonderful little website
To fight fraud you can use some short-term temporary tracking without saving data for a long time, without linking cookies and IP to email or real name, without exchanging data with other companies (like Google), without buying or selling data to data brokers.

To show ads you don't have to report about all of your site visits to Facebook and Google.
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Citrine 0.7.12 has been released
From what trends I saw, the price of solar energy seems to go down much faster than the price of wind energy. Why does the research think that it's not possible to have much more solar installed by 2030?
No, response: "Cool, why don't you send all the e-mails you've received this year to the police, then?"
They still serve you Ads, it's just that the Ads won't be personalised for you.
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I don’t get it. If I need bakery, I search for it. In either general search engine or in local advertizing app that shows map locations and customer reviews. It’s not ‘80s anymore. I don’t need my local bakery, barbershop and meat market to pop up everywhere once I googled for steak types or haircuts. It is of no use to me; it is of use to those who want to oversell their product (which is average). Removing ads spam competition allows product competition for small products.

All the heat comes from those who want to push instead of provide. It is so obviously wrong.
Can you post your youtube channel.
It's the data protection authority that would make this judgement.
Privacy is a basic right with constitutional protection that many people fought and died for.

Showing bullshit ads isn’t.
> I decided to redirect all requests back to their own IP addresses.

I think this one is something to avoid. What happens if you have a false positive? You've just redirected one of your legitimate users to the attacker.
For the avoidance of doubt, this is not the official iproute2 repo.

This is the official one: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2.git
A curated list of awesome Android libraries
I prefer the U.S. Marines fire team version of a tech team: everybody codes, everybody looks out after everybody, you should be able to do your "boss's" job, it's critical to over-communicate, and ego has no place in a good team. Having said that, sometimes somebody has to make decisions. And somebody always has to go to meetings and report upstairs. Poor schmuck.
One day, 17th century philosophers will learn to recognize when they're doing Buddhism. ;-)
In the meanwhile, I was struggling to find a normal "asian" rice in Russia few months ago. Have not found a single store that sold IR8 like rice.
Which highlights the need for a neutral product-discovery tool.

Advertising makes most popular the products with a higher marketing budget, not necessarily the better ones. For example, search for "youtube downloader": at least the first ten results link to shady websites and apps which offer a crappy wrapper around youtube-dl, which is the ultimate youtube downloader but unknown by non-programmers. Even among wrappers, the clean versions are not as popular as the advertised and SEO'd crap.
Utmost care needs to be documented.
Batteries last longer when you don't use their full range, so if the grid can tap the first half it can get more recharge cycles than it owned a smaller battery, second you benifit if the grid goes down and some charge happens to be in the upper half. Making this a win / win.

Or if the odds of that are rather low, say 1/20 and the income is significant then you might gain benifits 95% of the time for 1/2 the cost of a 100% solution which is often a worthwhile tradeoff.
Looks like Netflix decided "Lost in space" would be their Sci Fi genre champion and that's it. It's likely with Amazon that Netflix would lose the previous seasons too as SciFy had some rights issue with non-cable/streaming/digital distribution and Amazon is likely to take these rights up.
Because if your business model is based on selling user data, it doesn't matter if you're a small startup, it absolutely is meant to target you.

If you aren't competent at responsibly handling personal data and you want to build a project or startup, pick one that doesn't handle personal data, or put in the effort to learn how to do things properly.
I think this is why it is very helpful to use tried and tested tools and tech stacks in an IT project, those with large ecosystems of libraries and communities of people who have solved similar problems in the real world in the past.

The "problem solving" risk is much lower as a result.
> Recently, and discussed on hacker news, the opposite happened in Europe

This news had an interesting discussion recently:

Continuing frequency deviation in the Continental European Power System (entsoe.eu)

478 points by Aissen 80 days ago | 323 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16535067

https://www.entsoe.eu/news-events/announcements/announcement...
Erm, could you not also just install a keylogger?
I've scraped content from sites with (and without) logins, for offline perusal when I was on a cruise.
We do not know if they have these projects because there is no definitive information about them. Even the people who do know may choose to sandbag and outright lie about it. And that's my point; it's ridiculous to judge whether something is a failure when the market has not had a chance to decide if it was a failure or not. At the end of the day, that's the only thing that matters.
The screens are restricted to showing protagonists doing, experiencing and talking, whereas books can ramble on forever about background.

Screen adaptations of background-rich books have three choices: simplify away the background, add new scenes engineered to convey background via protagonists, skip the background and let the viewer sink or swim on their own.

Readers who later watch an adaption are rarely happy with either option, but "simplify" is the worst. People new to the material rarely even notice "simplify", but fall into two very polarized camps for "engineer" and "skip". Just ask them about miniseries vs. Lynch Dune.

Personally, I love the feeling of only scratching the surface of a much deeper world, and I hate having everything spelled out in detail. As for The Expanse (TV only), I could have binged through ten seasons of life, death and intrigue in an industrialized collar system, could protomolecule ruined that, cancellation or not - guess I should read the first book for more of the good parts)
As I understand, you still can use cookies and IP addresses, but you should not keep them for long time and should not give those data to Google and Facebook. Do you really need to track user across all the Internet (like Google and Facebook do) and keep that data forever, buy and sell them to data brokers? Definitely not.

I don't want data about me to be someone's asset. I want an Internet shop to delete data about me as soon as possible after I made a purchase. That's why I want GDPR in my coutry too.
You’re right, I just used a ‘common’ term.